Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

"Wu Xie!"

Just then, Zhang Qilin and Hei Xiazi noticed something was off about the group.

As soon as Wu Xie and his companion Wu Xiaosi entered the passage, they saw the murals densely carved on both sides of the passage.

The two became more and more engrossed in their gaze, their eyes growing increasingly unfocused. Just as Zhang Qilin and Hei Xiazi sensed something was amiss, they began calling for reinforcements one by one.

"Wu Xiaosi! Xiaosi! What's wrong with you! If you don't wake up, your boss won't pay you..."

Standing in front of Wu Xiaosi, who looked like a statue, Black Bear was shouting exaggeratedly, his hand on the man's shoulder and shaking him. But no matter how many times Black Bear shouted, the man wouldn't wake up. This time, even a fool would know that there was something wrong with the murals in the passageway where they were standing.

Hei Xiazi turned to look at his old partner.

"Dude, these murals are quite interesting!"

Black Bear smirked, raised his hand to push up his sunglasses, and turned to stare intently at the murals around him.

The murals carved in the tomb passage were all painted with a background of colorful clouds and mist. On them, two rows of lifelike ancient women floated, each wearing different clothes and carrying a small sedan chair with a curtain carved with blooming epiphyllum flowers. The sedan chair was covered with gorgeous decorations and soft gauze. On the chair, a beautiful woman wearing a Han-style brocade dress with epiphyllum flowers embroidered on it, with her hair in a hanging bun and adorned with beautiful and delicate hairpins, lay on her side. Her face was half covered by the gauze curtain, revealing only a beautiful almond-shaped eye, as if she was looking at the outside world through the mural.

Other parts of the tomb walls are also carved with the woman's various actions and expressions, but without exception, half of her face is covered, and her exposed eyes seem to be stealing one's soul.

"It's an illusion!"

Zhang Qilin and Hei Xiazi had sensed something was wrong earlier, but neither of them were captivated by the murals on the wall. Now it seems that the main purpose of this passage is to use illusions to confuse people's minds.

In the mist... Wu Xie felt as if he were sitting on a canopy bed in an antique bedroom. The curtains blocked out the light in the room, but Wu Xie could clearly feel a gaze fixed on him from outside the curtains.

"Your Excellency, it is getting late. Let me help you to rest."

"Your Excellency, please open your eyes and look at me!"

"Your Excellency, why are you ignoring me? Have I done something wrong?"

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister..."

The woman's voice was soft and melodious as she called out to the motionless man sitting on the bed through the bed curtains, her gaze fixed on him as if she wanted to see right through him.

Wu Xie, who was being called repeatedly, was initially a little confused, not realizing that the woman outside the bed curtains was calling him. But as the voices fell, Wu Xie realized that she was probably calling him. The fact that the woman outside the bed curtains didn't move after all that calling indicated a big problem.

The other party is probably not a good person! He might be dead the moment he reacts... Wu Xie remembered looking at murals in the tomb passage before, so he's either been kidnapped or caught in a trap! He's entered an illusion!!

Wu Xie firmly believed in his heart that it was the latter, because he didn't think they could be kidnapped even under the protection of the three big shots, Xiao Ge, Xia Zi, and He Nian!

Well, Wu Xie had blind confidence in the three of them!

"What kind of demon are you! Reveal yourself at once!"

After confirming that he had entered the illusion, Wu Xie's personality completely changed, and he started quoting "Taoist sayings"!

However, just as Wu Xie finished speaking, the woman outside the bed curtains seemed to have been freed from some kind of restriction. Her footsteps clattered as she quickly pounced on Wu Xie, who was sitting on the bed! In that critical moment, Wu Xie felt a chill on his forehead. Then, his thoughts were shattered, and his puppy-dog eyes blinked as he stared blankly at the chest in front of him. He looked up and felt something flowing down his forehead.

He reached out and wiped his hand, leaving a trail of bright red blood on his fingertips before dripping down. Wu Xie suddenly turned his head and stared at Zhang Qilin's hand, a smirk playing on his lips.

"Brother! You saved me again! How's your wound? Did you cut your palm again this time? Let me see how deep it is!"

Wu Xie chattered on and on about Zhang Qilin, whose palm was still bleeding.

Zhang Qilin, adhering to the principle of not wasting any blood, smeared the blood from his palms onto the foreheads of the others. After seeing their eyes clear up, he walked over to Qin Henian, raised his hand, and seemed to have a wronged expression on his expressionless face. Although Qin Henian didn't quite see it, sensing the low mood around him, he still took out bandages and iodine from his bag and resignedly began to help bandage the wounds.

Meanwhile, Wu Xiaogou, who was being ignored, appeared fine on the surface, but inwardly he was cursing... Who on earth corrupted their little brother?!

Huhu~

Qin Henian lowered his head and gently blew on Zhang Qilin's wound, carrying the blessing buff of Bifang's breath, to comfort the Qilin cub.

Seeing this, Black Bear secretly gritted his teeth.

You mute Zhang! You're full of wicked schemes! Trying to attract your precious Henian with that pretty boy act! You can't judge a book by its cover, can you? Good looks don't make you special! He's blind, but he's not bad either!

Zhang Qilin felt betrayed by Hei Xiazi's words and glanced at Hei Xiazi sideways as if sensing something, a slight smirk playing on his lips, seemingly a provocation from an angle visible to Hei Xiazi.

"Does it hurt a lot, little Qilin?"

"You're so stupid! It's just an illusion, couldn't you have slapped them a few more times?"

"When someone is in pain, they will naturally wake up!"

Qin Henian usually focused on conditioning the bodies of the two cubs, and Zhang Qilin even more so. Just now, the other party suddenly cut his palm, and the skillful movement showed that he had done it many times. Qin Henian felt a slight bitterness in his heart. This was the first time he had seen a beast that would harm itself to save others. In the place where he used to live, all the beasts were thick-skinned and tough, and such "selflessness" was rare.

"wrong!"

Zhang Qilin felt a sweet warmth in his heart as Qin Henian nagged him, and he also uttered an "acknowledgment" of his mistake.

"Alright, you should admit your mistake and correct it. Be careful next time!"

It's still a cub! It's still a cub! It's still a cub!

Qin Henian silently repeated three times to himself that it was still a cub, and then stopped worrying about it.

He had just suddenly sensed the Qilin blood in the air and flashed here. He hadn't told Wu Xie and the others about the door he and Fatty had observed on the other side. Fatty seemed to have mentioned that the door had a mechanism. Pan Zi and the others were just a few steps away from the entrance of the tomb passage, not far away. Qin Henian quickly told them about his and Fatty's discovery, and Wu Xie decided that everyone should go and take a look.

(P.S. Begging for book recommendations...)