Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

"Not eat you? What value do you have if you're dead?"

Qin Henian has no dietary restrictions. He can eat any kind of snake, whether it's alive or dead. Of course, he has to check whether the dead ones are tasty or edible before making a decision.

However, the above requirements apply to situations other than being made into a Gu (a type of poison/venomous creature)...

"I'm very useful. My body is a fusion of corpse poison and Gu poison. If you need it, I can give you some of my venom!"

Although the Flash Scale Serpent Gu is now a snake corpse, its consciousness remains. Even after so many years, it still remembers the pain of being stuffed into a male corpse before it died.

"Snake venom? What would I do with your snake venom? We're natural enemies. Do you think I'd be afraid of your measly snake venom?"

Qin Henian curled his lip, realizing after listening for so long that this snake venom was completely useless! He might as well just eat it and see what it tasted like…

As he pondered this, Qin Henian extended his claws. The smooth, cool, and sticky texture of the snake gu touched his hand. Instantly, the snake's body twisted into a circle, spinning continuously. Its head and mouth opened wide, revealing fangs, and its eyes coldly and warily stared at the person holding it.

Hiss! (Let me go!)

The snake venom struggled in his hand. Qin Henian's pupils suddenly dilated and contracted, his mouth gaped open, and he gripped the snake's head, lowering his head to bite down...

Click, click, click…

The sound of bones and flesh tearing echoed in the tomb, and a rusty, metallic smell began to spread.

Gudong!

Black Bear swallowed hard. He knew about their habit of eating other beasts. After all, sometimes when he was working hard, he would eat anything. In addition, he had eaten snake gall and dried spiders that Qin Henian had personally brought out before. To be honest, Black Bear had probably abandoned his human body and was now quite calm about eating other beasts.

Seeing people eating it raw was a little unsettling, but my mouth just kept "flying" open...

"Is it...delicious, Henian!"

Black Bear stared without blinking as he spoke.

"Hmm... crunchy... not bad, but the blood isn't very good, it smells a bit too fishy."

Next time you encounter this situation, you might as well just throw it away. Meat without the nourishment of fresh blood isn't flavorful.

Qin Henian silently thought to himself, and halfway through the meal, he began to prepare to pack up the valuables in the tomb.

Maintaining so many subordinates is incredibly expensive! Even though he's rich, incredibly wealthy, who cares about having a little more?

I should have asked Zhao Zheng before if the national treasury was still intact.

As Qin Henian turned his head, Hei Xiazi was met with a beautiful face. The face had big eyes, long eyelashes, and a cute blinking expression.

His cheeks were chubby, and his lips were bright red, but the only thing that ruined this beautiful scene was the section of snake tail that Qin Henian hadn't finished sucking on right next to his mouth. The sizzling, multicolored black tail kept swaying and curling, looking like a slow-motion, horrifying movie cassette tape.

"Eat up!"

It's scary to walk out like that!

Black Bear smelled the toxins in the air and thought about the time. They had been inside for a while, and he estimated that Dumb Zhang and Wu Xie would be arriving soon. Out of politeness to make money, he wanted to quickly loot another place and then keep an eye on his cheap apprentice Wu Xie and his group.

"Okay, then I'll hurry up."

Slurp... Qin Henian answered while inhaling, sucking the half of the snake tail that was sticking out of his mouth into his mouth in one gulp, chewing it a few times.

But in his heart he wondered if Black Bear also wanted to taste the snake gu, but was too embarrassed to say so, so Black Bear beat him to it. Besides, there was only one snake in this side room, and if Black Bear ate it, there wouldn't be any left.

He'd better eat faster, or he'll tempt the "kid" here.

After Qin Henian finished eating, two dark figures quickly appeared and disappeared in the tomb, looting everything of value.

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In the lush forest, sunlight filtered through the branches and leaves, dappling the ground like beams of light. The daytime breeze swayed everything around them, and the "rustling, pattering" footsteps echoed through the woods until they reached a low hill.

"Is this the place, buddy?"

Wu, with his bag slung across his shoulder, wiped the sweat from his face. He stopped and took in his surroundings. Seeing that Zhang Qilin, who was leading the way, had stopped, he asked a question.

"Well, we're here!"

Zhang Qilin nodded, then turned his gaze to Huo Youxue, who was in charge of the team.

Zhang Qilin was a man of few words, while Huo Youxue was quick to understand; with a wave of her hand, she made everyone stop, some grabbing tools, others observing the surroundings, and still others setting up camp…

Huo Jincheng and Huo Jintong stepped forward and walked to Huo Youxue's side.

"This is it. Let's change our equipment, pack some supplies, rest for a bit, and then hurry inside."

"We've wasted too much time in the desert this time; it's best to finish this quickly."

Huo Jincheng is intelligent, skilled in combat, and cunning. Once he enters the tomb, the plan is to find an excuse to separate his men. Whoever gets something distinctive first can leave. The first one to return will always have plenty of supporters, thus achieving his goal of coming here.

"Alright! You guys go and pack your supplies first. In half an hour, thirty minutes, I'll have someone dig a tunnel down."

Of the three, Huo Youxue brought the most people and was also the most skilled in tomb raiding. So, naturally, the physical labor was done by the team with the most people, who called on the other two teams to add some people to dig the tunnel.

While the young masters and ladies of the Huo family were talking, Wu Xie, Jie Yuchen, Zhang Qiling, and Fatty Wang also gathered together. Since they were already there, and since they knew each other, no one objected to them resting and getting together.

“Xiaohua, there’s something wrong with the team doctor in Xue’s team! And the people in Huo Jincheng and Huo Jintong’s teams, I always have a bad feeling about them.”

No wonder that every time his third uncle went tomb raiding before, either only he and Panzi came back, or only he himself came back. This time, Wu Xie finally understood something.

As soon as the group gathered, Wu Xie couldn't wait to share his observations from the past two days, his brow furrowed as he tried to give everyone a heads-up.

"These three teams have serious problems, not only because the Huo siblings and their cronies were brought along, but also because their cronies were not necessarily replaced. It's possible that Huo Jincheng and Huo Jintong, the brothers, might have been replaced as well!"

Xie Yuchen's observation was even more astute than Wu Xie's. Since there were few of their own people in the team, they might as well let them stay here and spend the desert time with them.

However, since the Huo siblings were descendants of the Nine Gates, Xie Yuchen still didn't want any of them to have been switched out.

"Are those human skin masks really that easy to make? Are these people really that well-infiltrated...?"

Listening to his childhood friend's analysis, Wu Xie muttered to himself. But Wu Xie himself knew that even he couldn't distinguish between Xiao Hua and Xiu Xiu at the foot massage parlor, let alone the other staff members, whether he'd seen them before or not…

"Sigh! How naive! I didn't mean to discourage you at this time, but even though we're far apart, we still need to be careful what we say!"

"Master Hua spoke very softly just now, so others couldn't hear it, but your mouth can't control the volume accurately. Let's practice a bit more before we talk again!"

Wang Pangzi was a meticulous person. Although he and his brothers had taken a few steps into the woods to prevent their conversation from being overheard, and with the double protection of Zhang Qilin and Xie Yuchen, who were both highly skilled in martial arts, as the saying goes, "If you don't want others to know, don't do it in the first place."

Furthermore, Fatty Wang wanted to remind Wu Xie that face-changing wasn't just about human skin masks; there was also the foreign plastic surgery his sister Yun Cai had shown him, which apparently included something called gender reassignment surgery…