Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Keng!

The moment the bronze-armored corpse leaped more than three meters high and crashed straight down.

Chen Yibai reacted with lightning speed, coordinating his hand and eye movements to the extreme. He suddenly dodged and slashed the bronze-armored corpse with his sword.

click!

The bronze sword struck the bronze armor, producing a piercing metallic clang and sparks flying. Chen Yibai's bronze sword was shattered into four or five pieces that flew out of his hand.

At the same time, it also made Chen Yibai's arm feel sore and numb.

The bronze-armored corpse missed its target, crashing heavily into the pile of bones, scattering bone fragments everywhere.

"Damn it, is this the quality?"

Looking at the bronze sword in his hand that had instantly shrunk from four feet to one foot, Chen Yibai cursed the unscrupulous merchant in his heart. This bronze must not be pure! Otherwise, it wouldn't be so brittle!

"Hululu..."

The bronze-armored corpse, which had crawled out of the pile of bones again, seemed to be completely enraged. Its snoring from its jade-covered face became even deeper, and its eyes became even more sinister and ferocious. It pounced on Chen Yibai once more.

Because the distance was relatively short this time, the bronze-armored corpse did not jump, but its speed was still extremely ferocious.

Fortunately, Chen Yibai had considerable combat experience. He remained calm in the face of danger, kept a clear head, and quickly dodged back and forth, avoiding several lunges from the bronze-armored corpse.

But this kind of dodging is certainly not a long-term solution.

The bronze-armored corpse has a hundred chances to make a mistake, but Chen Yibai only needs to make one mistake to be dead.

Moreover, given Chen Yibai's current physical condition, he can't possibly last much longer.

Therefore, we must use our energy for a counterattack.

They just kept dodging; it was only a matter of whether they died sooner or later.

But when it comes to counterattacking, the bronze-armored corpse is wearing a set of heavily protected bronze armor, and even its face is covered with a jade mask. With only a broken bronze sword in its hand, which is still a foot long, it is impossible to attack.

Therefore, we must first remove the protective bronze armor from the bronze-armored corpse.

Through a series of dodges, Chen Yibai quickly discerned the complete structure of the bronze armor worn by the bronze-armored corpse.

This is a tightly connected set of bronze armor, consisting of nine parts from the bronze boots to the bronze helmet. The joints are flexible, yet no connecting buckles can be seen.

To be precise, it's not that the connector is invisible, but rather that it's deliberately hidden somewhere.

But where could it be hidden?

"Jade covered face!"

Chen Yibai suddenly remembered the jade mask worn on the face of the bronze-armored corpse.

Perhaps the buckles from the armor removal are hidden under the jade mask!

However, getting close enough to remove the jade mask from the bronze-armored corpse's face is by no means an easy task.

Not to mention how difficult it is to get close, the bronze-armored corpse is nearly three meters tall, and you can barely reach its face even if you stretch out your hand.

But even though it's difficult, we can only take a chance and see what happens.

"Qiu Jing, do me a favor! Here!"

Chen Yibai quickly circled behind the bronze-armored corpse again, and at the same time took out a dark object from a small bag and threw it at Qiu Jing.

Qiu Jing had just managed to stand up from the pile of bones, enduring the pain. When she heard that she was asked to help, her first thought was, "I'm injured like this, how can I possibly help you?"

However, seeing Chen Yibai throw something at her, Qiu Jing quickly reached out and caught it.

Looking down, I saw it was a carpenter's inkwell box.

The other end of the ink line was held in Chen Yibai's hand, and the distance between the two of them was just enough to form a straight line.

"Lock the joystick and tighten the cable!"

Qiu Jing heard Chen Yibai shout again and quickly did as he said.

At the same time, the bronze-armored corpse lunged at Chen Yibai, its abdomen slamming into the ink line, producing a hissing sound and a plume of black smoke.

Ink line paired with black dog blood, a perfect counter to zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).

Although the ink line is not enough to trap a zombie of the jumping corpse level, and this zombie is also wearing copper armor for protection, the ink line can still suppress evil spirits and cause some superficial injuries or scare them.

The bronze-armored corpse was indeed startled when it hit the ink line, staggering backward and almost falling over.

"The opportunity has come!"

Chen Yibai was overjoyed and quickly pulled the ink line to go around the back of the bronze-armored corpse.

If we can find a way to take down the bronze-armored corpse, we'll have a chance to remove the jade mask from his face.

But to Chen Yibai's surprise, the bronze-armored corpse suddenly turned its head towards Qiu Jing.

"Finish!"

Chen Yibai's heart skipped a beat. This bronze-armored corpse had actually developed its own consciousness and turned its attack target to Qiu Jing, who was holding the inkwell box. Its massive body charged straight towards Qiu Jing.

It’s over! It’s over! It’s over!

Things changed too quickly, and Chen Yibai had no way to restrain the bronze-armored corpse.

Qiu Jing still had injuries on her legs; she was certain to die.

Even Qiu Jing herself felt that the pair of sinister eyes under the bronze-armored corpse's jade-covered face were about to devour her. There was no way to resist, so she subconsciously took a step back.

With an unconscious leg-lifting motion, Qiu Jing aggravated the injury on her calf, causing her to fall to the ground in pain.

click!

As Qiu Jing sat down, she broke some bone, causing the original pile of bones to collapse and create a large pit.

Qiu Jing's body lurched to the side as the bone pit collapsed, narrowly avoiding the lunging bronze-armored corpse. The bronze-armored corpse not only missed its target but also lost its footing and fell heavily into the bone pit.

What an absurd coincidence!

Are there people that even the King of Hell won't take?

Would you call this...being lucky?

But now is not the time to think about that.

Chen Yibai looked at the bronze-armored corpse that had slipped and fallen into the pit of bones. This was a great opportunity!

Before the bronze-armored corpse could even get up, Chen Yibai lunged forward, his one-foot bronze sword plunging precisely into the gap of the jade mask covering the corpse's face.

Then, with a sudden, forceful pry, it broke open.

click!

Chen Yibai pried the entire jade mask off his face with half a bronze sword.

Looking under the jade mask, there was a face with its skin peeled off, like a large lump of black, rotting flesh hanging on the skull, with two eyeballs stuffed into the eye sockets, making it look extremely terrifying and horrifying.

Chen Yibai didn't have time to study these things.

Because after the jade mask was pried off, Chen Yibai immediately saw the armor removal buckle that was used to secure the bronze helmet hidden under the jade mask.

On the inner right side of the left cheek, there is a not very precise ring, but it is hidden very well. You can't find it at all unless you pry off the jade mask.

"Hululu..."

The bronze-armored corpse, its jade mask pried off, let out a low, angry roar. Although its face was expressionless, its black, rotting flesh was clearly trembling.

Chen Yibai finally understood why this thing made a 'purring' sound: it didn't have a nose...

Just as the bronze-armored corpse got up to counterattack Chen Yibai.

Chen Yibai acted quickly, inserting half of the bronze sword into the armor-removing buckle inside the bronze helmet of the bronze-armored corpse, and removed the bronze helmet from the corpse's head first.

In fact, if Chen Yibai had seized the opportunity, he could have stabbed the bronze-armored corpse in the face with his sword.

However, Chen Yibai was unsure of the effect of this sword strike.

If the sword doesn't inflict a fatal wound on the bronze-armored corpse, then the opportunity for this strike will be wasted, and it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity again.

Therefore, Chen Yibai decided to play it safe and first remove the armor from the bronze-armored corpse step by step.