I just broke up with my boyfriend and then I transmigrated into the world of "The Lost Tomb&quo

"There's a bell sound," the young man said.

Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment, then quickly squatted down and sealed the bell on his ankle with tape.

"Where did that bell come from?" the fat man asked. "This place is getting weirder and weirder."

"Let's hurry up and leave!" Wu Xie felt a little scared when he heard the fat man say that, and urged him to leave quickly.

The group quickened their pace, and they soon reached the cave entrance. The fat man saw something glittering ahead: "Look, isn't that a tree?"

"Tree? Where did this tree come from?" Wuxie asked.

"Who cares where it came from? Let's go up and see for ourselves."

The group saw the cave entrance and the tree, a coral tree, its entire body crystal clear. However, according to Wu Xie's assessment, the tree was worthless. The fat man looked somewhat disappointed: "I thought it was a golden tree. This dilapidated tomb is too poor!"

There were about forty bells tied to the tree. Wu Xie looked at one of the bells and said, "Could it be this bell that was ringing just now? I feel like I've seen this bell somewhere before!"

"It looks like the bell from the Lu King's Palace!" Wu Xie remembered that the bell in the Lu King's tomb was exactly the same as this one.

"What? Are you kidding me? How come a bell from before the Warring States period is here? Could it be that Wang Zanghai was a tomb raider?" The fat man seemed to have discovered something incredible.

Wang Zanghai? Ling Xiao glanced at the fat man, wondering to himself: When did they find out this was Wang Zanghai's grave? It makes sense, the young man remembered what happened twenty years ago, plus the notes Wu Sansheng found, they were probably talking about it when he couldn't hear.

"Very likely! Nobody knows what he did in his early years, and his family has been masters of feng shui for generations. If he were to rob a tomb, he would be more than capable," the young man thought to himself.

Wu Xie sighed and said, "This woman must have touched this bell to become like this. This bell has a hallucinogenic effect. With so many bells here, plus the hollow coral, it's enough to give her a hard time." He then said to Xiao Ge, "I suppose this is what caused your amnesia twenty years ago." Xiao Ge nodded upon hearing this.

Wu Xie added, "There's not much time left before the tide goes out, we need to find a way out quickly!" The young man and the fat man both nodded.

Ling Xiao glanced at A Ning, then whispered in her ear, "Alright, stop pretending, or it won't be fun anymore." A Ning still didn't make a move.

"Lingzi, you wouldn't happen to have your eye on this woman, would you? She's in this state, and you're still whispering in her ear!" Wu Xie said. He couldn't understand it. Could Ling Xiao really be interested in her? Wiping someone's face and whispering in their ear—this woman is pretty, but she's not a good person. Qin Feng is also handsome, but he's wicked too. Oh no, could Ling Xiao like this type of woman? No way! He absolutely couldn't watch Ling Xiao fall into such a depravity!

"Lingzi, don't forget how that woman treated me! She's no good."

"Yeah, Lingzi, if you like this style, I'll go out and find it for you. Last time in Hangzhou, more than a dozen rich young ladies asked me for your contact information!"

Ling Xiao ignored them and instead said loudly, "Miss Aning, I've given you a chance. If you don't wake up after three counts, I will kill you."

Wu Xie and Fatty were stunned. What was going on? Didn't they like each other? The younger brother also wanted to know what Ling Xiao was up to.

"One"

"three"

Ling Xiao delivered a side kick, and A Ning instinctively blocked it with her arm. She knew Ling Xiao was serious; he was going all out. If she hadn't blocked it, she really would have died…

"Damn it, you're really faking it, you woman!" the fat man cursed.

Aning stopped pretending and said angrily, "Who counts three numbers without counting the middle number!"

Ling Xiao nodded: "It's my fault, I'll definitely do it next time. But now that you're awake, you should come with us to find a way out."

"Why?"

Ling Xiao smiled and said, "Miss Aning, please recognize the situation. Do you have a choice?"

Aning gritted her teeth. She, Aning, had always been able to bend and stretch. Now, with four against one, it was very disadvantageous for her. Moreover, she really needed these people to take her out of the tomb: "Fine, let's go." Aning shook her head and thus, 'forced', went with them to find the exit.

Combining his knowledge with the structure of the tomb, Wu Xie said, "There are no other exits here, but we should be able to dig a tunnel from here." He then turned to Ling Xiao and asked, "Can your grappling hook reach the top?"

Ling Xiao looked at the top of the tomb: "That's possible, but it would be best to make two foot holes, otherwise I'm afraid there won't be enough when we're tying the rope."

Upon hearing this, the fat man took the initiative. He was rather disappointed with the tomb, but fortunately he had obtained a few luminous pearls. He used all his strength to chisel at the golden nanmu pillar next to him, but unfortunately, he managed to chip off a piece of the golden nanmu wood from the pillar.

"Damn it! This thing is so hard!"

Wu Xie went to help him, and Ling Xiao glanced at A Ning, who then started chiseling as well. Xiao Ge also joined in, while Ling Xiao watched them chisel. It wasn't that he didn't want to help; he simply lacked the strength, and his wound hadn't healed yet…

Ah Ning chiseled for a while and then suddenly realized, why should she listen to that guy like that? Oh well, she was involved anyway. But when she turned her head and saw that guy eating beef jerky and watching them chisel, she got angry: "Hey! We're chiseling the exit here, why are you just sitting there!"

"Don't talk about Lingzi like that, he's injured!" Wu Xie defended him.

"Me!" For the first time, Ah Ning was speechless!

It took the group more than two hours to dig two foot holes. Ling Xiao checked the distance and said, "That's about right!"

He switched the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella to grappling hook mode, stepped into the foot hole, and swung the grappling hook up. He came down, Fatty climbed up, Wu Xie, A Ning, and Xiao Ge also climbed up, and Ling Xiao was at the very back.

The fat man climbed to the top and used his tools to vigorously chisel away at the white clay. A large chunk of the clay fell off, revealing the blue bricks behind it, where molten iron had been poured.

Wu Xie touched it and said, "There are at least seven layers of this structure."

"What should we do then?" The fat man tried to smash it with all his might, but found that he couldn't break it at all. "How about we follow the example of the ancients? How about grinding an iron pestle into a needle?"

"The tide will recede in 20 minutes. By the time you finish grinding us down, we'll all be long gone."

"Do you have any explosives in your bags?" Ah Ning asked impatiently as they kept getting off-topic and rambling on.

Several people shook their heads. The fat man said, "We don't have any explosives. If this road is really impassable, we'll have to turn back!"

Ling Xiao asked A Ning, "How did you get here?"

Fatty and Wuxie's eyes lit up instantly. Yes, Aning took a different path from them. They could go back the way Aning came from!

Ah Ning shook her head: "I don't know either. Qin Feng pushed a door through to me, and that's how I got here! But when I looked for the door again, it was gone!"

"By the way, where's Qin Feng?" A Ning asked.

“She’s dead,” Ling Xiao replied. He was certain that A Ning wasn’t telling the whole truth! But she really had no way to escape, otherwise, given her personality, she would have run away long ago.

Aning didn't ask any more questions, after all, it was perfectly normal for someone to die while going into a tomb.

The young man said, "I think I know somewhere where there are explosives." Then he nodded to Ling Xiao, indicating that he wanted to go down. Ling Xiao then lowered the rope, and the young man jumped down as well. After a while, the group saw the young man carrying a snake-tailed, human-bodied creature back up.

"Why is it a corpse?" the fat man asked.

“I suspect there’s a mechanism inside that corpse, triggered by the Eight Treasures Rotary Wheel, which will cause the corpse to explode! If the corpse is disrespected, the bomb will detonate!” Wu Xie said.

"How did he know?" the fat man asked again.

"He just said he seemed to know, which means he touched it 20 years ago, but he wasn't sure."

Ling Xiao was helping the young man tie up the mummified corpse below. Ling Xiao said, "You guys come down first, I have a plan!"

"What idea do you have?" the young man asked him.

"I have duct tape, the super strong kind!" Ling Xiao explained. The duct tape was for wrapping ankles; it was waterproof and strong. The young man was stunned, clearly not expecting anyone to bring duct tape when going into a tomb.

After the others came down, Ling Xiao carefully carried the mummified corpse up. Once at the top, Ling Xiao wrapped a rope around himself to make sure he wouldn't fall. He then wrapped the mummified corpse with tape, kicked off the pillar, and carried himself to the dome. He carefully stuck the corpse on it, repeating the process several times.

Actually, he didn't have to go through all this trouble. He could have just had everyone pass the message to Fatty and have Fatty tie them to the pillar. But he didn't trust A-Ning; that woman wished everyone were dead.

When the fat man saw that it was a human head and a snake body, he tried to pull Wuxie down to kneel.

Wu Xie asked, "What are you doing?"

"That thing has already passed away and transformed into a snake. I heard that it is very powerful, so you should quickly worship it."

Wu Xie wanted to slap him, but he didn't. He just rolled his eyes at him.

Ling Xiao also climbed down, and the group moved close together. They pulled off the grappling hooks attached to the Thousand Chance Umbrella, switched the umbrella to shield mode, and had everyone tie the ropes together and huddle under the shield to wait for the tide to recede.

"Don't you guys have any confidence either?" The fat man looked a little flustered.

Wu Xie wasn't sure either, but he still said, "Now the arrow is on the string and we have no choice but to release it!"

"You said it won't explode later, do you have any other countermeasures?"

"No, it will explode!" Ling Xiao said decisively. "If it doesn't explode, I still have some food here."

His words reassured the fat man somewhat: "Then there's not enough food for the five of us, is there?"

"Let's try to eat less, exercise more, and sleep less!" Wu Xie said.

"Don't worry, even if we don't have enough food, we still have Miss Aning, right?" Ling Xiao said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Aning asked.

"I think Miss Aning must have brought food, right? Or you must have another way out. If not, I think someone as kind as Miss Aning wouldn't want us to die in this tomb, would she?"

A chill ran down A Ning's spine. Her sixth sense told her that Ling Xiao definitely didn't mean that. This guy was just too strange, like a lunatic, wiping her face and then threatening her! She decided to stay away from him from now on; who knew when he'd suddenly go crazy! He's really insane!

At this moment, the fat man said, "I really don't know if those tapes are secure?"

He glanced at the mummified corpse and noticed something was wrong; the corpse was starting to shed its skin. "Look at that mummified corpse! There's something wrong with it! I told you we should say goodbye! But you wouldn't listen."

The group looked at the mummified corpse and found that the tape was still intact on it, but the corpse was starting to bleed. The young man knew something was wrong and shouted, "Block it!" He then threw a dagger onto the mechanism on the mummified corpse.

With a loud 'bang,' Ling Xiao felt his ears go numb for those few seconds. How he wished he hadn't suffered the backlash until now... He wished he had gone deaf so early...

The iron bars were all blown apart, leaving a hole half a meter in diameter through which seawater rushed in. The golden nanmu pillar was also blown apart, and a beam on top of it cracked open.

The fat man said nervously, "Won't it fall down?"

Wu Xie comforted him, saying, "No, as long as there's no earthquake, everything will be fine."

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground began to shake. Within seconds, the water had submerged everyone. Wu Xie cursed himself for being a jinx. The group swam out of the hole, but A Ning got stuck. When Ling Xiao went to check, he found that her wetsuit was caught on the hole. Ling Xiao tore the hooked fabric off, but A Ning seemed to have a cramp. Ling Xiao could only pull A Ning up with him.

Wu Xie spotted the boatman's ship, and the group boarded it, but the boatman and his crew were nowhere to be seen.

"Where is the captain? Could he have encountered the coastal defenses and been taken away?" Wu Xie asked.

"That's really strange, it's still warm." The fat man touched the teacup and said, then picked up the radio and made a few more calls.

They did say, "Please move the ships to the safe harbor."

Wu Xie and Fatty were still arguing about who should drive the boat. Ling Xiao handed a towel to A Ning and Xiao Ge each. A Ning had choked on water several times and hadn't recovered yet. Ling Xiao then took the towel to the cockpit and said, "Take a rest. I'll drive in a bit."

"Lingzi, you can even sail a boat? That's great! But you have to be careful, there are a lot of reefs here," Wuxie said.

"Okay, don't worry! I'm going to take a shower, I'll be quick!"

When Ling Xiao came out of the shower, he saw Xiao Ge massaging A Ning's wrists. Wu Xie and Fatty had already changed their clothes and were asleep on the chairs. Ling Xiao shook his head, covered them with blankets, and started the boat.

He didn't look well. The bandage on his wound had been changed, but the bleeding hadn't stopped, and it seemed to be getting inflamed.

The young man came to see him that night and asked if he needed to take turns. Ling Xiao told the young man to go and rest, and to come and relieve him the next morning. The young man went back to rest. Strangely, A Ning actually went over and poured him a glass of water. Ling Xiao didn't quite understand what it meant. Was she trying to be nice to him?

The next morning, the deliveryman came to relieve him, and Ling Xiao went to rest for a while. He took out the sleeping pills in his hand and wondered whether he should go to sleep, but he was afraid that something might happen, so he gave up. He then thought about how to spend the rest of the year.

At noon, Fatty came to call him for lunch. Fatty cooked a fish head hotpot. Wu Xie said, "Isn't this the fish that the boat captain wanted to sell to the hotel? Not bad, Fatty."

The fat man's hands were busy, and he was quickly preparing the fish: "I've been thinking about this fish for a long time. I'll have to try my cooking later!"

Wu Xie praised the fat man's cooking skills: "It's so delicious, Fatty, I really admire you!" Even Xiao Ge and A Ning ate quite a lot, but only Ling Xiao drank a bowl of soup.

"Is it not to your liking?" the fat man asked Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao shook his head: "No, it's delicious. I want to drink some soup to warm my stomach first."

The fat man suddenly remembered the medical records he had seen in the tomb, and then looked at the chili peppers he had just put in: "Don't drink it anymore, I'll go make you something non-spicy."

"It's okay, I'm all better now, so I don't need to watch what I eat or worry. I'm just a little sleepy and don't have much of an appetite. I'll take a nap and rest for a while and I'll feel better."

The fat man could only nod after hearing this. When everyone had almost finished eating, Ling Xiao took out the Thousand Chance Umbrella and gave it to Wu Xie: "Wu Xie, happy birthday, this is for you."