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

"Damn it, Fatty, look at the candle flame!"

Wu Tianzhen pointed at the candle and exclaimed loudly, "According to Fatty, if the color of the candle flame changes, it means there is danger and the coffin cannot be opened."

"Wow, this is the first time Fatty has encountered a situation like this. It seems there is indeed danger. Just to be on the safe side, let's observe for a while longer."

Zhang Hao smiled when he heard this. The fat man had spoken with great conviction at first, saying that the coffin could not be opened once the candles changed color.

Now that there's a real situation, he says he needs to observe first, which shows he still can't bear to part with the treasure in the coffin.

But this is fine too. He was going to open the coffin anyway, regardless of whether there was any danger or not, so this way we can avoid having to explain it later.

He walked over, picked up the candle from the ground, blew on the flame, and the candle went out instantly.

"No need to observe anymore. What danger could be in the coffin? It's just traps, mechanisms, or zombies. Are we, a few living people, afraid of a dead person?"

The fat man was already somewhat regretting lighting the candles.

The coffin was made of top-grade golden nanmu wood, and the burial goods inside were even more valuable. How could they give up the opportunity to retrieve the treasure just because of a candle?

As soon as Zhang Hao opened his mouth, the fat man nodded repeatedly in agreement.

“That’s right. Brother Zhang Hao is so powerful, what can’t he handle? Let’s not waste any more time and just open the coffin.”

After the fat man finished speaking, he took out an entrenching tool and walked to the coffin to prepare to open it.

He first inserted an entrenching tool into the gap between the coffin and the lid, and then pressed down hard on the handle of the entrenching tool.

With a loud "bang," the coffin lid separated from the coffin.

"Wow..."

The moment the coffin was opened, a stream of black water gushed out from it.

"Holy crap, what the hell is this?!"

The fat man hurriedly retreated to avoid the black water.

"Look, there seems to be something moving in the water!"

Wu Tianzhen pointed at the black water and said.

Zhang Hao glanced at it and saw many black spheres the size of soybeans in the black water. After the spheres surged out of the coffin with the black water, they quickly cracked open, and tiny black fish emerged from them.

"It's fish! That's so strange. I've never heard of anyone keeping fish in a coffin."

The fat man looked at the small fish in the dark water with a puzzled expression.

“Take a closer look, these are not ordinary fish, they all have two snake-like eyebrows.”

Zhang Hao recognized the origin of these fish at a glance; they were snake-browed bronze fish.

Only after Zhang Hao pointed it out did the others notice the unusual behavior of the small fish.

"It even has eyebrows! This fish is so peculiar!"

"This is a snake-browed bronze fish, which comes from a small river outside the ancient bronze capital city."

Besides Zhang Hao, Wu Tianzhen also recognized the Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish, saying that he had seen it in the notes of the Wu family patriarch.

Besides their peculiar appearance, the snake-browed bronze fish has another special ability: like a video recorder, it can store everything it sees.

Zhang Hao was startled upon hearing this; yet another object capable of storing memories had appeared.

The snake-browed bronze fish certainly didn't appear in the shipwreck tomb for no reason; their appearance must be related to the god who sought immortality.

Zhang Hao and the others watched from the side until the black water stopped flowing out of the coffin before they stepped forward and moved the coffin lid open.

The coffin was filled with pitch-black water, and a corpse twisted like a pretzel was submerged in the water.

The fat man poked at the corpse with his entrenching tool and exclaimed, "Holy crap, what kind of monster is this? It has twelve grannies!"

"Could the tomb's occupant be a monster?"

Wu Tianzhen, Yi Sa, and Ding Yudie were immediately curious and went forward to investigate.

"He not only has twelve grandmothers, but also twelve hands. Could he be several corpses sewn together?"

As Yi Sa spoke, she instructed the fat man to turn the body over so that it could be observed.

When the body was turned over, there were no signs of stitching, indicating that the body was originally in this state.

"Fatty, get the body out."

"Alright, Brother Zhang Hao."

The fat man had already checked the tomb chamber when he lit the candles. In addition to the coffin, there was also a black cat corpse in the corner of the tomb chamber.

The appearance of a black cat in a tomb is considered very unlucky, as it signifies the resurrection of a corpse.

Zhang Hao remembered that the white-haired drought demon should be inside the ancient corpse's stomach. He had been paying attention to the ancient corpse's stomach, but there was no reaction.

The white-haired drought demon was very important to him, so he decided to use the black cat's corpse to provoke it and make it come out as soon as possible.

The ancient corpse was tall, and because it had been soaking in water for a long time, its body was slippery and difficult to support.

The fat man couldn't lift it by himself, so Ding Yudie stepped forward to help.

Zhang Hao smiled. It seemed that Ding Yudie was a person who kept her promises; she had lost the bet and was now under his command.

Now, people will proactively offer help without you having to ask.

Fatty and Ding Yudie worked together to pull the body out of the coffin.

After the body was pulled out, its condition became clearer. It was over 2.5 meters tall, had twelve hands and twelve nipples, and looked like a centipede.

The fat man pulled the body out, then took off his helmet and used it as a ladle to scoop out the black water from the coffin, ladle by ladle.

"Brother Zhang Hao, I found something under the coffin when I was retrieving the body just now."

"Oh, what is it?"

"It looks like some text, but I couldn't make it out clearly."

As he spoke, the fat man diligently scooped the black water out of the coffin.

During this time, Zhang Hao quietly threw the black cat's corpse under the ancient corpse.

"Brother Zhang Hao, there really are writings at the bottom of the coffin."

After the black water was scooped out of the coffin, the stone tablet at the bottom was revealed.

The shipwreck tomb dates back to the Ming Dynasty, and the inscriptions on the stone tablet are not very old, so Wu Tianzhen's translation is unnecessary and others can understand the general meaning.

Just as everyone was studying the stone tablet, the ancient corpse on the ground suddenly stirred.

Her belly began to rise and fall.

Suddenly my belly bulged upwards, stretching my entire belly until it became as thin and transparent as a balloon about to burst.

What was supporting the woman's belly was a hairy, white hand.