Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

After listening to a long string of words, Zhang Qilin summarized the gist of it: his son Henian wanted to take all the gold and silver treasures from the tomb, and also wanted Zhang Qilin's help, ostensibly to train his beast-strength space's ability to store things. He also said he couldn't fit any more because he would need to put someone in, and that he was afraid that person would spend his money...

Well... how should I put it...

The people inside haven't been released, so they probably can't come out to spend money...

Zhang Qilin could only sigh. After all, having known Qin Henian for so long, he knew that Qin Henian was rich. But being rich was one thing, but he would still earn and take what he wanted without hesitation.

Zhang Qilin thought that since the items were just sitting there anyway, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to take a little... so he nodded and agreed to Qin Henian's request.

"Yay! Little Qilin, don't worry, your grandfather will definitely leave you some betrothal money!!!"

As soon as Qin Henian finished speaking, he flipped his long sleeve, and a long, moon-shaped earring appeared in the air above his palm. The earring emitted a faint blue light, which focused into a blue circle black hole. As Qin Henian waved his sleeve again, the stars in the blue circle black hole began to rotate, and a huge suction force began to plunder the treasures in the tomb. As more and more treasures were sucked in, a bloody gash appeared on Qin Henian's palm. It didn't drip blood, but it looked quite creepy.

As the gold nuggets melted into his body, Qin Henian initially felt quite good. However, perhaps because he had accumulated too many gold nuggets over the past thousand years, he felt as if his "arms" and wings were turning into gold, and he also felt a sense of heaviness. He quickly waved his hand to stop collecting more things, and his pretty little face turned to Zhang Qilin with earnest eyes.

I can't keep up with this, but surely Little Qilin can?

Zhang Qilin didn't know how he had come to understand this meaning, so he could only breathe more heavily and sigh inwardly.

His hands didn't stop moving either. Following the inherited memories in his mind, he raised his hand and touched his shoulder. A streak of light flashed by, and the other objects in the tomb that hadn't been put away yet shrank into the air and burrowed into Zhang Qilin's shoulder. They disappeared as soon as they touched the light.

"You two! Are you even human?"

Just then, Ah Ning, who was standing to the side, came to her senses. Her previously blank expression snapped back to reality, and she exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing A Ning's question, Qin Henian turned his head, blinked and stared at her for a while, then slowly opened his mouth with a smile.

"No~"

"They're really not human, huh? Hehe..."

The hushed voice echoed eerily in the tomb. Ah Ning instinctively shivered, but then she thought, "A person is a person. They're standing right in front of me, how could they not be? They've known each other for quite some time; it's probably some kind of magic trick..."

Oh dear! I almost fell for it! I have no idea where they learned this trick.

Having figured it out, Ah Ning rolled her eyes at Qin Henian, turned her head away, and indicated that she didn't want to talk to anyone and just wanted to leave this awful place!

Meanwhile, Qin Henian, who was standing to the side, noticed the changing expressions and gazes on A Ning's face. He didn't offer any explanation, just waiting for his little darling to finish collecting the money and take him out to have some fun!

rustling sounds...

rustling...

As time passed, the tomb chamber became spacious after a few minutes. The places where the ornaments, antiques, and gold were originally in the tomb chamber were now empty. Without these treasures, the tomb chamber was "brand new" and empty, with only a few gold bricks on the ground that had not been taken back.

"Alright, keep these gold bricks for your Zhang family as a memento. Now let's find the government office and get out of here!"

As Qin Henian spoke, he began to formally scan the tomb chamber with his gaze.

The tomb chamber was large and now empty. Unlit ancient oil lamps hung high on the wall, each with a different carved pattern, which the three of them could see clearly when they shone their flashlights on them.

Zhang Qilin scanned each lamp, his face expressionless. He knew the mechanism wasn't in the lamps; the light made the mechanism in the stone wall clearly visible. Without hesitation, Zhang Qilin walked to a wall, lightly touching the ground with his toes, and scrambled up it like a spider, steadily climbing without any sign of falling. Then, like an arrow released from a bow, he crawled around the wall twice, stopping shortly after, and began rubbing his fingers together... Click! A mechanism clicked, and a stone door emerged from the wall, revealing a passageway about 80-90 centimeters away.

Just then, Zhang Qilin returned to the ground, looking at Qin Henian as if to say that the mechanism was activated and it was time to leave.

"Little Qilin, why don't you grow a few more legs? Maybe you really could get married to the Spider Girl!"

Meeting Zhang Qilin's gaze, Qin Henian smiled jokingly.

However, Zhang Qilin felt extremely uncomfortable upon hearing these words. He had no intention of marrying a spider or anything like that. Even if he wasn't human now, he still wouldn't want to marry a spider. Wouldn't it be better to marry He Nian directly?

As Zhang Qilin thought this to himself, his gaze softened even more when he looked at Qin Henian. Yes! Why didn't he just marry the person he loved? His inherited memories told Zhang Qilin that if you like someone, you should pursue them...

"do not want!"

"The spider is ugly!"

You look good!

Zhang Qilin rejected Qin Henian's suggestion and silently added the last three words in his mind.

"Alright, alright! Legs do take up space!"

Qin Henian thought about it and also felt that spiders were inappropriate, so he stopped talking about it, turned his attention to the newly opened stone door, and took the lead in moving towards the stone door.

Upon arriving at the stone gate, the three had just stepped into the new tomb chamber when the stone gate slammed shut behind them with a loud "bang," plunging them into darkness. The three then began to wave their flashlights around.

A light flickering once is fine, but after a few flickers, it's not so pleasant.

"what!"

Ah Ning suddenly screamed, and Qin Henian and Zhang Qilin reacted quickly by looking in Ah Ning's direction.

Before Ah Ning stood an armored, mummified corpse, its back hunched. The corpse was motionless, but its body was covered with countless white-brown worms. Although these worms were small, they were numerous and disgusting, making it quite frightening to look at.

No wonder Ah Ning suddenly screamed.

"What...what is all this stuff! Ugh...it stinks...my head hurts..."

Looking at the rotting corpse in front of her, Ah Ning felt nauseous and couldn't help but take two steps back, her face turning ashen as she clutched her chest and began to dry heave...

"These are carrion beetles. They usually live by attaching themselves to corpses, and they especially like to grow on ancient corpses because they like to stay in places where iron artifacts are buried!"

"Be careful, these things kill people by using a slightly corrosive, sticky substance on the skin!"

Zhang Qilin explained the dangers of the carrion beetles in one breath, and A Ning listened so intently that her legs twitched and she quickly moved far away. Qin Henian and Zhang Qilin stood a little further away, but they weren't particularly afraid, since these little guys didn't dare to approach them.

"Alright, stop wasting time. Be careful when you use your flashlights. They're not going to move anyway; they're probably guards left here by someone from the Zhang family!"

Qin Henian also disliked slimy creatures, finding them too disgusting, and quickly urged the two people next to him to retreat.