Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

Wang Pangzi didn't care whether the three of them were disgusted by him or not, and continued to fiddle with his hair in a seductive manner in front of the stone tablet.

Not knowing which angle to turn to, Fatty Wang stared intently at a certain spot on the stone tablet and suddenly shouted.

"I did it, Fatty!"

This shout, sounding like the call of a high-ranking official from the previous dynasty, drew Wu Xie's attention.

Wang Pangzi dared not make any other moves, his eyes fixed on that spot, frantically waving in Wuxie's direction.

Wu Xie cautiously moved closer to Fatty Wang.

"See that spot? It's right there..."

Unfortunately, Wu Xie didn't see anything from that spot.

It's obvious that this angle is particularly tricky; even the slightest deviation will cause the image to disappear.

Seeing this, Fatty Wang no longer expected Wuxie to see it, and only roughly pointed out the direction reflected from the stone tablet.

Wu Xie followed the directions given by Fatty Wang and found a mechanism there. He pressed it, and a stone door slowly opened.

"It's done! It's found it!!!" Wu Xie shouted excitedly.

Wang Pangzi, who hadn't dared to make any other moves, finally breathed a sigh of relief and left his spot in front of the stone tablet to check it out.

"Little Li was right, isn't he? Even a forced connection is still a connection, isn't it?"

As he spoke, Fatty Wang raised his hand and gently stroked Wu Xie's body with his delicate, orchid-like fingers.

The thought of being free of evil gave me goosebumps.

"You fatso, we've found the way, hurry up and change these clothes, they're an eyesore."

"Tch, you don't know how to appreciate things."

Fatty Wang was still a little unsatisfied, so he wiggled his fat buttocks seductively before reluctantly changing back into his original clothes.

Sure enough, Ah Li was right to tell this fat guy the method; she really couldn't do it herself...

"Hey buddy, shall we go in now?"

The path has been found, and the next step is to continue forward. However, Wu Xie still consulted Zhang Qiling's opinion.

Zhang Qiling looked at Su Li.

"Wait a moment, it'll be ready soon."

Before moving on, Zurich needed to verify one more thing.

After leaving the three of them at the entrance of the passage, Su Li returned to the stone tablet and took out the jade compass that she hadn't used in a long time.

"Wow, as expected of Xiao Li, even this compass is made of jade! Is it sturdy?" Fatty Wang looked at the compass in Su Li's hand, his mouth watering.

Whether it's sturdy or not doesn't matter; it looks quite expensive, Wu Xie thought to himself.

However, some ritual implements are not sturdy enough.

Su Li held a compass that was gradually glowing with a light green light in one hand, while rapidly making hand seals with the other.

A mysterious and profound aura filled the entire bottom of the pool.

A pale green light spread out, and mysterious runes filled the entire space.

Countless mysterious characters transform and combine to form various arrays, and these arrays are interconnected, forming even more complex graphics and texts.

The scene, resembling a large-scale special effects performance, left the group speechless, even Zhang Qiling's eyes widened slightly.

This must be the biggest spectacle since Zuli transformed into a dragon with his bare hands last time.

As the array diagram continued to change, the three of them saw other scenes besides the array patterns.

The scene, seemingly sped up a hundredfold, began to unfold rapidly before them.

At first, there were phantoms dressed in the clothes of ancient laborers building some kind of structure.

Once the structure was completed, it became clear that this was the bottom space of the pool where they were now, although there was no water yet.

Then the space began to be filled by seawater, drained, filled, drained...

The constant cycle is the passage of time and the changing of the years.

After an unknown amount of time, and after the water was drained once more, a group of illusory figures descended the steps above the space...

After the timeline reached this point, Su Li changed the hand seals in her hands, and the fast-forward speed also slowed down.

Wu Xie recognized them immediately; there were two familiar figures among the group of people coming down.

One was my third uncle when he was young, and the other...

It's Zhang Qiling, who's right next to me.

He really... shows no signs of aging; you can't tell at all that he's from the same generation as Third Uncle.

The group of phantoms explored and argued in this space, as the formation was silent, making it seem as if they were watching an immersive pantomime.

After the entire team left, Zuli increased his speed again.

After Wu Sansheng's team left, other teams must have entered this underwater tomb one after another. Two teams have been here, and Su Li has reconstructed them all.

until……

I saw Wu Sansheng again...

No longer the young Wu Sansheng, but the Wu Sansheng Wu Xie knew now, with another person with him... Pan Zi, Wu Sansheng's most loyal subordinate.

Wu Sansheng brought Pan Zi here and easily found the passage...

However, this passage is different from where they are now.

After finding the passage, Wu Sansheng did not leave immediately, but instead took out a bunch of tools and started fiddling with the stone tablet.

I don't know how long he fussed over it, but after one last flamboyant display in front of the stone tablet to confirm it, he finally left satisfied...

The scene abruptly ended there. Su Li made a hand seal again, and the illusory array in the space trembled before slowly disappearing.

Wu Xie was somewhat confused, and also felt a surge of inexplicable anger. He didn't know what Wu Sansheng had done, but he had a gut feeling that Wu Sansheng's actions were related to him.

And then there's this route, which is completely opposite to the one Wu Sansheng took...

"Ah Li, what, what exactly happened?" Wu Xie asked in a hoarse voice.

Su Li knew this was a big blow to Wu Xie, but she still told the truth.

"Your old man altered the mechanism, turning the door of life into the door of death."

"What?" Fatty Wang exclaimed first.

Even someone who knows nothing about Qimen Dunjia, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams would know it's a dead end just by hearing the name. How much more so for underground workers like them, how could they not know what it represents?

"So all that tinkering around has led me to my doom! That Wu Sansheng is utterly despicable!!!! Damn it..."

Fatty Wang cursed, then suddenly realized what he'd said and looked at Wu Xie a little embarrassedly. "Little Innocent Fatty wasn't targeting you, Fatty was just saying it offhand..."

Wu Xie didn't react to Wang Pangzi's curses; only one concept remained in his mind...

Wu Sansheng descended into the underwater tomb, altered the array mechanisms, pointed out a dead end, then pretended to disappear and specifically asked that he come to find him...

So this is a dead end...

It was prepared for him...

The realization that his closest relative had gone to such lengths to kill him here chilled Wu Xie to the bone.

"He actually went to such lengths to kill me?"

Zuli: ? ? ? ? ? Huh? ? ?

Wu Xiaogou's usually bright eyes were now filled with the pain of being betrayed by his loved ones, as if he was about to cry at any moment.

“No, not at all…” Su Li comforted him. “He just wants to ruin you.”

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