Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 854 Even Stones Can Be Exploded into Oil

"Leader...leader—"

Just then, everyone heard Wang Yueban's trembling, terrified voice.

Everyone turned around at once, pointing their guns at Wang Yueban. All the powerful flashlights shone on him, and they saw an indescribable face: a white face, two red eyes as big as light bulbs, and a sharp triangular beak that looked like an owl from a distance.

However, it was very large, with huge claws gripping the frame of a bronze chariot and horse figurine, staring intently at Wang Yueban without blinking.

"Human-faced owl——"

Having seen the murals and been informed about their origins, the group immediately recognized the tomb guardian beast of the Wan Nu King.

At the same time, everyone shone their powerful flashlights around to check, and sure enough, dozens of human-faced owls were standing all over the beams of the main hall, staring intently at them with their blood-red, bulbous eyes.

Now I understand why the gunfight broke out in the main hall; it probably wasn't about killing each other.

"Prepare--"

Gao Dongxu knew how these creatures attacked, and he had told everyone that their favorite thing to do was to grab their prey, fly it high into the air, throw it down to its death, and then slowly devour it.

The best time to deal with them is before they take flight. Their speed and agility in the air mean that even shooting at them with a gun might not pose a threat.

Everyone slowly raised their assault rifles, each searching for and locking onto a target, waiting for Gao Dongxu's order.

At this moment, Wang Yueban, who had raised his AK, was sweating profusely as he stared intently at the human-faced owl three meters away from him.

“Fire—”

"Da da da da da-"

All the guns spat fire, and bullets poured out.

"what--"

The owl's face suddenly contorted and twisted, opening its enormous mouth at an extremely exaggerated angle, revealing a mouthful of two-inch-long sharp teeth.

"Go to hell—die!"

Wang Yueban aimed at the owl's wide-open mouth, frantically pulled on the trigger, and fired all his bullets into the owl's enormous mouth while shouting.

The upper half of the owl's head was shattered by the bullet, and green liquid splashed everywhere, soaking Wang Yueban and filling the air with an extremely unpleasant smell.

At the same time, the targets that everyone had locked onto were all hit and fell from the sky. However, there were still too many human-faced owls. At least half of them had already taken flight, nimbly dodging bullets in the air while looking for an opportunity to attack.

Back to back—

Aning immediately gave tactical instructions: everyone raised their assault rifles and fired at the human-faced owls flying around in the air. They quickly gathered around Gao Dongxu, with the three of them back to back to prevent the human-faced owls from launching sneak attacks.

Gao Dongxu, on the other hand, unleashed his divine sense and used his AK74 to fire bursts, injuring the wing of a human-faced owl.

"boom--"

The human-faced owl screamed and fell onto the floor tiles of the main hall. Gao Dongxu strode forward, ignoring the human-faced owl's hideous and terrifying mouth and sharp teeth, and kicked it in the head.

The human-faced owl immediately shut its mouth, collapsed to the ground, and fainted. At this moment, the human-faced owl, which was still flying and dodging in the air, seemed to realize the power of Gao Dongxu and his group, and immediately scattered and fled.

Everyone remained cautiously on guard, while Gao Dongxu, who had already confirmed safety with his divine sense, took out a sash and rope from his spatial storage. Without hesitation, he stepped forward, grabbed the beak of the human-faced owl he had kicked unconscious, first tied it tightly with the sash, and then used the rope to bind its beak and two thick claws.

"Are you going to capture it and keep it as a pet?" Su Nan saw Gao Dongxu's series of actions, her lips twitched, and she looked at the hideous and terrifying human-faced owl with some disgust, and said coquettishly.

"This is a mythical creature recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. If I take one out alive, not only could I sell it for an astronomical price, but even if I just found a house, put it inside, and charged 100 yuan per person for admission, tell me, how much money could I make?"

Gao Dongxu smiled and pulled out a canvas bag with a drawstring. He asked Fugui and Erpang to help him put the human-faced owl into the bag, while raising his eyebrows and teasing everyone.

Upon hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up at first, then they all shook their heads with wry smiles.

The reason I shook my head was because this business was indeed an excellent one, but it wasn't one that just anyone could do.

"Ahem, boss, this kind of business is only something you can do; others don't have the capability..." Wang Yueban said with a wry smile.

"Haha..." Gao Dongxu couldn't help but chuckle, looking at everyone and saying, "Just kidding, I caught this one alive so I could hand it over to the country."

"Alright, go and drag all the owl corpses over and gather them together."

Everyone immediately nodded and got to work, gathering up all the slain owl corpses.

Gao Dongxu looked at the dozen or so relatively intact corpses, while the rest were all corpses without half a head. He went forward and turned the corpses over, shining a flashlight on the abdomen of each one.

While everyone was puzzled and confused, Gao Dongxu smiled and said, "Found it," and then reached out to pluck feathers. Soon, Gao Dongxu had plucked a feather from each of the thirty-one human-faced owl corpses.

Gao Dongxu, holding a pile of feathers, smiled at everyone and said, "Everyone gets one, one feather each!"

The others were puzzled, but anything that Gao Dongxu valued so much must be extraordinary, so they decided to take it first.

"Boss, is this a treasure?" Wang Yueban made no attempt to hide his greedy nature, looking at the black feather in his hand and asking shamelessly.

The others also curiously examined the feathers in their hands, then looked at Gao Dongxu, who had a smile on his face.

"This feather was said to be priceless in ancient times, truly worth more than ten thousand taels of gold."

It is said that Song Dynasty flower and bird paintings were digitally created, with each feather requiring 72 rendering processes to present intricate and complex patterns. The texture of the Song Dynasty flower and bird feathers was based on the feather texture of the human-faced owl.

"But that's not the most precious thing. Its most precious and magical function is said to be that the edges of the feathers near its heart have serrated silver-white patterns. These patterns have the function of 'evil sensors,' able to sense changes in the aura of those with evil intentions, causing the feathers to tighten involuntarily," Gao Dongxu explained to everyone with a smile.

"I rely on-"

“Is this true…?”

"This is a real treasure!"

After hearing Gao Dongxu's explanation, everyone showed a shocked expression, their eyes shining, and they used flashlights to examine the feathers in their hands carefully.

"Alright, here's everything. You can take your time to appreciate and enjoy it when you get back. Now it's time to get down to business. Let's check our equipment and continue our exploration." Gao Dongxu laughed. "By the way, be careful of the Man-faced Owls' sneak attacks. They're a very vengeful bunch of vicious birds."

"clear--"

Everyone responded in unison, and then carefully placed the feathers close to their bodies. As for Gao Dongxu's women, they were naturally given to him to store in his spatial storage.

Yang Xueli looked at the spot where the pile of human-faced owl corpses had disappeared with a very complicated expression, and subconsciously looked at Gao Dongxu.

Feeling the strange gaze, Gao Dongxu turned his head and saw Yang Xueli's odd look. He raised an eyebrow and revealed a wicked smile, putting his finger to his lips and making a shushing gesture once again.

Yang Xueli's heart pounded wildly. Seemingly afraid that Gao Dongxu, the big devil, would misunderstand, she hurriedly forced a smile, blinked, and nodded.

"Let's go——"

After resting, Gao Dongxu smiled at Wu Xie and Wang Yueban and said, "Please, you two, continue to let fate guide us on our path—"

Wu Xie and Wang Yueban were both amused and exasperated, but they were increasingly convinced that Gao Dongxu's talk of destiny's guidance was indeed somewhat true.

Others, who initially found it skeptical and amusing, gradually came to believe in the so-called mystical forces of fate.

Along the way, whenever there seemed to be no way out, they would always stumble upon the perfect path and, without any major danger, escape the trap of the fake burial tomb on Wang Zanghai's Little Sacred Mountain and eventually arrive at the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top of the Three Sacred Mountains.

As for Wu Xie and Wang Yueban, who acted as guides, it's hard to find any other explanation if there wasn't some mystical element involved.

Led by Wu Xie and Fatty Wang with great enthusiasm, the group quickly passed through the first main hall.

However, as the group followed the sacred path toward the Yansheng Hall and arrived at a twenty-arched white marble bridge, they were somewhat dumbfounded.

The moat is bottomless, and there is a three- or four-meter-long break in the white marble bridge that requires a running start to jump over.

"Imperial Mausoleum Boundary Marker?" Wu Xie frowned and read aloud as he looked at the stone tablet that had been erected.

"What's wrong?" Fatty Wang asked.

"The so-called imperial tomb boundary marker can be said to be the true dividing line between the human world and the underworld. Because even the tomb guardians cannot enter the area beyond the 'imperial tomb boundary marker.' I have a very ominous feeling..." Wu Xie said, frowning as he looked at the palace complex in the distance.

"A bad feeling? It's alright. With the leader here, what are you afraid of? Even bad luck will turn into good fortune. Am I right, leader?" Fatty Wang immediately looked at Gao Dongxu, who was following behind the two men, with a big smile on his face.

"I guarantee you two will leave here alive and kicking," Gao Dongxu said to Wu Xie with a smile.

"Hehe, with your words, we brothers are relieved. Alright, Tianzhen, stop dawdling, I'll jump over first—" Fatty Wang had great faith in Gao Dongxu's abilities and promises. So without the slightest hesitation, he took a few steps back, ran, accelerated, and jumped over.

Wu Xie believed it too, so after nodding to Gao Dongxu, he began to back away, preparing to run and jump over the broken bridge.

Although Gao Dongxu had already sensed the owl circling in the air, preparing to ambush them, he did not warn it.

Just as Wu Xie steadied himself and suddenly accelerated into the air, he heard Pan Zi's startled cry: "Third Master, watch out above—"

At this moment, he had already leaped high into the air and jumped towards the opposite bank. He subconsciously looked back and saw Wu Xie, who called him Pan Zi, suddenly see a huge black shadow swooping down. Huge claws grabbed his shoulders in mid-air, flapped their wings to create a strong wind, and pulled him into the air.

"what--"

(End of this chapter)