Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

Zhang Qilin softly uttered three words. He wanted to know why, why Qin Henian had taken so long to wake up...

He had only fallen into the water; even Fatty Wang, a human, woke up before him.

"Um...I'm afraid of water, you understand?"

"Let me catch my breath, I'm a little hungry."

Qin Henian didn't hide anything from his son's questions. He was a bird, and a fire-type bird at that, so it was perfectly normal for him to be afraid of water!

When he was a child, he was bullied by the Bifang of his own clan. Once, he was soaked in the water and choked on several mouthfuls of water. His feathers were all wet and he couldn't lift his head or wings. He couldn't move, fly, or swim. Fortunately, he was pulled out by an elder of his clan and was able to catch his breath. However, his clan was a group with weak kinship ties. It was already a blessing that they were able to save his life. Afterward, he had to endure the coldness of his body, the heaviness of his feathers, and the reaction to water. He was too young at that time, and that incident left a deep shadow on him. Later, he basically just wandered around the lake. He used magic and fishing rods to catch fish. He never expected to be so unlucky this time and be swept away by a waterspout.

My body triggered a self-shutting reaction, which is why I was unconscious for so long...

"Coo coo coo..."

The growling of his stomach sounded again. Qin Henian felt two gazes on him, and his cheeks quickly turned crimson. He hurriedly and shakily raised his stiff hand and waved it.

Two large snakeskins were laid on the jade mine, on which were placed a black, roasted "black spider" and several large pieces of dried python meat, as well as some chicken-crested snake carcasses sprinkled with seasoning.

"Little Qilin, eat!"

Qin Henian forced an awkward smile, pointed to the "food" on the ground, and tried to move it out of Zhang Qilin's arms to eat.

The next moment, a strong arm wrapped around his waist, and a cold voice rang out.

"it is good!"

Zhang Qilin's left arm reacted quickly, and the moment he sensed the person beneath him trying to move, he pulled the person back, resting the person's head on his chin. His expression remained unchanged as he nodded in agreement.

Wang Pangzi, who had witnessed the entire interaction between his brothers, was completely bewildered, but even more bewildered were the insects and snakes on the ground...

These things... they're poisonous, he can't eat them, right? Right, right...?

That bright red pheasant's neck...that charred, bluish-black spider looks extremely venomous...

"He Nian! Are you kidding me? Fatty can eat this?"

Fatty Wang's face turned pale, then even paler. If he remembered correctly, these were all poisonous. He didn't want to be kneeling before the King of Hell at the tender age of thirty...

"Fatty, you definitely can't eat these insects and snakes! They're extremely poisonous to humans, and those seasonings are my homemade poison packets—one bite and you're dead!"

"Humans can't eat this, but you can eat python meat slices. The two pythons in the Queen Mother of the West's palace only have venomous fangs; their meat isn't poisonous. I'll separate them for you. Be careful and eat some snake meat. We'll have a big meal after we get out!!!"

Qin Henian silently touched a spider on the dried spider, quickly stuffed it into his mouth, and crunched it!

After regaining some strength, Qin Henian held a feather between his fingers, peeled away some of the poisonous meat, and selected a few pieces of non-poisonous jerky to give to Fatty Wang.

Time passed by, and after filling their stomachs, Qin Henian and the other two regained their strength and energy, and began to search for a way out of the mine.

The mine was small, only a dozen cubic meters, and there were some greenish stones inside the rock walls.

"This place looks like a sealed-off area. Are we going to have to swim up to get out? This is the bottom of a lake!"

As Fatty Wang searched for the mechanism, he felt a chill in his heart. He had observed for so long and searched many places.

"This jade mine is a strange type of mineral. It should be said that it has been affected by something and mutated. If we want to get out, we should find the weak point in the jade mine, pry it open, and drill out!"

"This kind of jade mine is easy to pry open, one pry and you've made a hole, but it grows very quickly. Sometimes, by the time you've finished prying out the hole, the mine has already grown back, which makes it a bit troublesome to get out!"

Qin Henian has a keen eye; he has seen a lot of things in the human world over the past thousand years and knows a little about everything.

"Growth rate? These things can even grow back together on their own?"

Fatty Wang said he'd never heard of such a thing, but since there are already rice dumplings in the world, what's a restored mine compared to that...?

blah blah blah!

Suddenly, the sound of a mechanism being pressed echoed in the mine. Qin Henian and Fatty Wang turned their heads and bodies and saw that Zhang Qilin's hand seemed to be on the jade mine wall. The mechanism made a sound as the "treasure-making finger" was pressed.

Then came a rumbling sound... A square jade mine on the left side of the stone wall rapidly moved upwards and overlapped, opening up a jade mine passage more than two or three meters high.

"Wow, what luck! I've been searching for this mechanism for ages and couldn't find it, but you found it in no time. You truly are the backbone of our Iron Triangle!"

When Fatty Wang saw that there was a way out, his eyes lit up and he strode inside.

Seeing this, Qin Henian followed them inside, with Zhang Qilin bringing up the rear.

On Giethoorn Lake, the newly set up camp was completely surrounded by a group of men dressed in black vests. Originally, each member of the mixed Chinese and foreign team had two people in front of them, each holding a gun, and the dark entrances were pointed at each member of the team.

Inside the largest tent in the camp, the two sides were facing off at that moment.

"Mr. Wu brought a lot of people! Don't you Chinese have a saying, 'A friend comes from afar'?"

At this moment, a foreigner sitting in a chair, with white hair, wrinkled features, and wearing a waistcoat and suit, stared intently at the visitor who had just barged into his tent.

He also handed a cup of covered tea to the other person along the table.

The aroma of tea is enticing, and the tea leaves are a pale yellow color. Each tea leaf is plump and swollen in the water.

Wu Erbai sat up straight, his fingertips touching the tea, his eyes filled with hostility.

"Junshan Silver Needle"

"Pity."

What's a pity? As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Dekao's face stiffened. If he could, he wouldn't want to deal with Wu Erbai on the other side either, but now his camp had been blocked, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and talk to the person on the other side.

"It's no pity. I'm honored that Mr. Wu could come. I just don't know what advice Mr. Wu has for me?"

Qiu Dekao got straight to the point, wanting to get rid of the person opposite him as soon as possible.

"Guidance? There's nothing to guide you on. It's just that I, Wu, simply want to cause you some trouble."

Wu Erbai showed no respect to Qiu Dekao, the man opposite him. Behind him stood Wu Xiejie, Yu Chen, and Hei Xiazi. Outside the tent, Erjing was guarding the camp. It could be said that he was just waiting for the technicians outside to use high-tech probes to detect the lake and send back a message.

"How dare you talk to my boss like that!"

Qiu Dekao also had people on his side. Behind him stood A Ning and his newly promoted team leader, who was also a woman. At this moment, this woman heard her boss being criticized and, with a bad expression, she looked at Wu Erbai and immediately started to criticize him!