Tomb Raiding: All Things Merge, Starting with 400x Strength

Panzi used an entrenching tool to push the body aside and found an old-fashioned cell phone underneath.

He picked it up and examined it, finding only a mysterious, encrypted phone number inside, with no other clues.

"Bang!"

Just then, a sound suddenly came from the left lateral ventricle.

"who is it!"

Uncle Wu turned his gun around and aimed it at the source of the sound from the side chamber.

After making a sound, there was complete silence from the other side.

Uncle Wu exchanged glances with Pan Zi and Da Kui, and then the three of them slowly approached the side chamber from three different directions.

When they got closer, they found that there was nothing there except a pile of bottles and jars.

"Third Master, look! There's a tomb robber's hole over there!"

Panzi walked around a pottery jar that was about half a person's height and found a circular hole behind it, with a lot of soil scattered on one side.

Uncle Wu picked up some dirt from the ground and rubbed it in his hands: "The dirt is still damp. The tunnel must have been just dug. It seems that not only did someone come in before us, but someone else followed right after us."

"Rumble..."

Just then, the sound of machinery turning suddenly came from the tomb.

Immediately afterwards, the jade door at the entrance closed automatically with a "bang," and a heavy stone slab fell down above it.

"Oh no, the Dragon-Slaying Stone has fallen, and we're all trapped in the tomb."

Da Kui exclaimed in surprise.

Uncle Wu slapped Da Kui on the back of the head: "What's the point of having such a brain? What's inside it? So what if the entrance is sealed? Is this tunnel just for show?"

Since the tomb raiders were able to reach this tomb chamber, it must be connected to other places.

Therefore, no one panicked when they saw the Dragon-Slaying Stone fall.

"Xiao Hao, Tianzhen, come here."

Uncle Wu beckoned Zhang Hao and Wu Tianzhen over and instructed them, "Panzi and I are going into the tomb to check the situation. You two wait here. I'll have Panzi come back and let you know if there's no danger."

After giving his instructions, he took Panzi and crawled into the tomb, gradually disappearing from sight.

About ten minutes later, Panzi's voice came from the tunnel.

"Xiao Hao, Third Master, there's no danger inside, you can come in too."

Upon hearing Pan Zi's call, Zhang Hao, Wu Tianzhen, Da Kui, and Zhang Qilin, who remained in the tomb chamber, entered the tomb robber's tunnel one after another.

Twenty minutes later, the group was still inside the tunnel when Zhang Hao noticed something was wrong.

"Panzi, did you and Third Brother go to the other end of the tunnel just now?"

"Yes, the other end of the tomb robber's tunnel leads to another tomb chamber."

"That's strange. It only took us about ten minutes to go back and forth, but it's been more than twenty minutes since we entered the tunnel and we still haven't come out."

After Zhang Hao reminded them, the others also realized that the journey, which should only take a few minutes one way, had taken them more than twenty minutes and they still hadn't finished.

"Have we encountered the Suspended Staircase again?"

Pan Zi asked uncertainly.

Zhang Hao shook his head: "Impossible. They came here to rob tombs. Why would they set up traps in the tomb to protect themselves?"

"Why is this happening? Is it like being trapped in a maze?"

Zhang Hao casually picked up a handful of soil and rubbed it in his hand. It was dry and hard, not at all like a recently dug tomb tunnel. Instead, it looked like a tomb tunnel that had existed for hundreds or even thousands of years.

"Something must have happened along the way, and the path we're on now is not the same one we took before."

"Why is this happening?"

Panzi didn't understand what had happened. It was clearly the same entrance, and there had never been any forks in the road. So why did they take the wrong path? It all made no sense.

Zhang Hao shook his head; he didn't understand what had happened either.

"What should we do then? Should we go back now?"

Although he didn't understand why, Pan Zi knew that Zhang Hao was right. The current tomb raiding tunnel was definitely not the same one that he and Uncle Wu had climbed together at the beginning.

They're stuck in the middle of the tunnel, unable to move forward or backward, and can't make up their minds.

"Go through the tunnel and keep going. As long as it's open, we can get out."

The others thought it made sense; if they went back now, they would be trapped in the tomb anyway, so they might as well go along the tomb robber's tunnel and move forward.

After making his decision, Pan Zi turned around and continued along the tunnel, with the others following behind him.

After another ten minutes or so, we reached the end of the tunnel.

After exiting the tomb robber's tunnel, there was a small tomb chamber outside.

What's puzzling is that the tomb robber's hole was located at the top of the tomb chamber, and the place where the group came out of the hole was more than two meters above the ground.

From this vantage point, the interior of the tomb is clearly visible.

At this time, the tomb chamber was filled with palm-sized corpse beetles, leaving no place to step.

A fat man was jumping around in the swarm of corpse beetles, stepping on them one after another.

The popping sounds continued.

Meanwhile, many corpse beetles had already crawled up his feet onto his body, biting open a wound and burrowing inside.

"Uncle, if this continues, he'll be bitten to death by the corpse beetles! Let's save him!"

"Young Master, the other party's origins are unknown. We should refrain from meddling to avoid unnecessary trouble."

If two groups of people appear in a tomb, it means they are in a competitive relationship, and what happens inside the tomb will remain unknown to the outside world.

There are many cases of people killing and robbing for profit, but Pan Zi made the best choice.

"Tianzhen is right, we can't just stand by and watch someone die."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Hao jumped down.

Zhang Hao had already guessed the identity of the person in the tomb chamber below by looking at his physique.

If I'm not mistaken, it should be the fat guy.

Aside from his sharp tongue, he's a decent person in other aspects. He's quite capable, loyal, and willing to sacrifice his life for his friends.

If we save him now, he will definitely remember this kindness and treat the person who saved him with utmost loyalty.

Zhang Hao thought that he always needed a few trustworthy people around him to handle things.

The fat guy is a good choice because we know him well.

Moreover, they had to pass through this tomb chamber and deal with these corpse beetles anyway; rescuing the fat man was just a side effect.

"Who are you? You were doing just fine up there, why did you jump down? Don't you want to live anymore?!"

When the fat man saw Zhang Haoming jump down despite knowing the tomb was full of corpse beetles, he couldn't help but curse.

"You fatso, how dare you talk like that! Xiao Hao jumped down to save you!"

Pan Zi was unwilling to save the fat man in the first place, and now that Zhang Hao had gone down and the fat man was still being rude, he was also speaking rudely to him.

"How can we save so many corpse beetles? And more are swarming over. Jumping down now is suicide. You should hurry up and get back up. Don't just throw your life away."

The fat man used his body to drive away the corpse beetles, clearing a path for Zhang Hao to escape.

Zhang Hao smiled. Fatty was indeed a good person; even in such a dangerous situation, he didn't harm others to save his own life.

Such a person certainly deserves to be saved.

He took out a dagger and cut a gash in his palm, then with a flick of his wrist, blood splattered around him.

The moment the blood splattered, the corpse beetles fled in panic, as if they had seen something terrifying.

The swarm of corpse beetles that were moving into the tomb chamber also turned around and disappeared without a trace, as if they had smelled something terrifying.

In just a few breaths, the tomb chamber, which was originally teeming with corpse beetles, was reduced to a few scattered beetles, along with the corpses of corpse beetles scattered on the ground.

The fat man was stunned by what he saw.

"Am I dreaming? How can someone drive away tens of thousands of corpse beetles with just a few drops of blood?"