Tomb Raiding: The Bloodline of Dragons and Snakes, Starting from the Kunlun Divine Palace

Zhang Qiling shook his head.

"No?" Wu Xie was taken aback.

Why didn't you ask? Weren't you curious at the time?

"I'm still curious about it now, but I never had the chance."

"No chance? Why?" Wu Xie asked, puzzled.

"Because your third uncle saw us and ran away. We all chased after him, but we couldn't catch him."

"At that time, your third uncle took the opportunity to hide in a secret door."

Upon hearing Zhang Qiling's words, Wu Xie seemed to have been struck by a blow.

Why did Uncle San run away? Is he like Ah Ning is now?

Are they also trying to slip away from everyone to do those shady things? And what the young man said is completely different from what the third uncle said.

Uncle San said that he smelled a fragrance in the tomb and then fell asleep. When he woke up, he found that all his teammates were gone.

Later, by a twist of fate, he arrived at the coffin made of Phoebe zhennan wood and was startled by what was inside.

While fleeing, they fell into a spring. They were then swept into the sea by the whirlpool inside the spring, where they were rescued by nearby fishermen.

But the young man said that his third uncle was pretending to be asleep and was deliberately avoiding them. Who is lying?

As Wu Xie pondered, he suddenly realized something. At the same time, his face turned pale.

It's possible that her third uncle really was lying. She had personally witnessed just how powerful the person lying in the golden nanmu coffin was.

Although Uncle San was experienced, he was still just an ordinary person. If he really encountered that strange corpse with twelve limbs, how could he possibly escape?

"Wu Xie, what's wrong?" Wu Tianjiao began to feel sorry for Wu Xie.

....... ....... .......

Wu Xie snapped out of his daze and shook his head. "I'm fine. Brother, please continue. What happened next? After my third uncle escaped, did you go looking for him again?"

The young man shook his head.

“I had a feeling that your third uncle was very familiar with this underwater tomb, not like it was his first time here, but rather like he had been here many times.”

"If he wants to act alone, none of us can catch him."

"There was a lady in our group at the time, her name was Chen Wenjin. Chen Wenjin was imitating the movements your third uncle was making, and that's how we found the life gate."

"We arrived at a secret chamber, where we encountered the Forbidden Woman. After experiencing a perilous ordeal, we reached the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top."

"After arriving at the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds, we saw a scene that looked like a fairyland."

"Whole logs of Phoebe zhennan wood, and whole luminous pearls."

“Wu Xie, your guess was correct. The owner of this underwater tomb is Wang Zanghai. We also found some oil paintings in the tomb.”

"The oil painting depicts a large snow-capped mountain, but that snow-capped mountain is actually a tomb, and that tomb is the real heavenly palace on the cloud."

However, that snow-capped mountain is now completely covered by heavy snow, making it virtually impossible to find.

The guy stopped talking after a while.

"Hey bro, what's wrong? Why did you stop talking?"

Wu Xie asked anxiously, "Secondly..."

Chapter 166: The Fat Man Strikes a Pretentious Move, Seeking a Way Out

Zhang Qiling looked at Wu Xie, "Are you really going to continue listening?"

Wu Xie felt a sudden surge of tension, knowing that what was about to happen was very likely related to his third uncle. Despite his nervousness, he nodded.

"While we were looking at the murals, Huo Ling suddenly noticed that Wu Sansheng had half his face showing. We all split up to chase after him, but then we smelled the bone fragrance of the Forbidden Woman, and then we all fainted."

“I covered my mouth and nose and chased after him, but he hit me on the head with a club and I fell into the spring. When I woke up again, I was in the hospital. I have been suffering from amnesia ever since that incident. I can hardly remember anything from twenty years ago. Only today have I been able to recall some fragmented memories. As for where the others went, you'll have to ask your third uncle.”

Wu Xie took two steps back. "Impossible, absolutely impossible, this can't be true. My third uncle isn't that kind of person. Brother Tian and Little Brother are lying to me, right?"

Wu Tianjiao shook his head; what the young man said was probably true.

However, this does not prove that Wu Sansheng was a bad person, based on Wu Tianjiao's understanding of "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles".

The reason Wu Sansheng did this twenty years ago was that he considered Xiao Ge to be one of the organization's members.

In order to successfully complete his plan, Wu Sansheng naturally had to find ways to get rid of Xiao Ge.

"Wu Xie, do you remember the scroll of gold silk you took out from the Seven Star Lu Palace? It's fake," Xiao Ge said in a cool voice.

Wu Xie nodded. "I know it's fake. My third uncle said you switched it."

At this point, Wu Xie no longer considered Xiao Ge an outsider; otherwise, he wouldn't have spoken to him so frankly.

They might be killed to silence them.

"I switched it?" Zhang Qiling sneered.

"Didn't you ever suspect your third uncle?"

"Think carefully about what your third uncle has been doing recently. Aren't there many things that are hard to explain?"

Wu Tianjiao looked at Xiao Ge, then at Wu Xie. He was starting to get confused. At first, Wu Tianjiao had assumed Xiao Ge had reached some kind of cooperation agreement with Wu Sansheng.

Wu Sansheng was afraid that something might happen to Wu Xie, so he sent him to protect him.

But now, why is this guy constantly smearing Wu Sansheng? What's going on here? Even if what he says is true.

There's another explanation that doesn't make sense.

If Xiao Ge wasn't here to protect Wu Xie, then what was his purpose in coming here?

Is it merely a return to familiar places? A search for memories from the past?

Wu Tianjiao felt that things were definitely not that simple.

If the guy really just wants to find his memories from back then.

Why did he come at this particular time of year? With his abilities, finding the exact location of the underwater tomb in the Xisha Islands shouldn't be difficult for him.

In short, the plot of "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" is incredibly complex and mind-bending; the more you know about the entire story, the more complex it becomes. Of course, there might be another reason why Xiao Ge would try to frame Wu Sansheng.

They just wanted Wu Xie to continue investigating.

Given Wu Xie's feelings for Wu Sansheng, he couldn't possibly believe that his third uncle had done all this. Knowing Wu Xie's personality, he would investigate relentlessly until he uncovered the truth.

However, all of this was merely Wu Tianjiao's personal speculation; perhaps there was another possibility. The fat man beside him remained silent throughout. The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat somber.

The fat man's eyes darted around, then he walked to the stone tablet and imitated how a woman dresses up.

They started striking poses.

"Fatty, what are you doing?"

"Looking for the Gate of Life, Fatty also wants to take a look inside the Heavenly Palace. Didn't Brother say that we can find the Gate of Life by disguising ourselves as women?"

Wu Tianjiao was speechless.

However, he also knew that the fat man was just trying to liven things up. Don't let the fat man's usual carefree attitude fool you; he's actually quite perceptive. Anyone who can survive in this line of work is a serious person.

Looking at the entire Tomb Raider Chronicles, Wu Xie is probably the only character who is so simple-minded and willing to unconditionally trust others.

While reading The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, Wu Tianjiao sometimes felt that what the author, Third Uncle, wrote was not about grave robbing, but about human nature.

"Hey Fatty, can you please stop embarrassing your master? Didn't the young man just say that he wasn't pretending to be a woman, but adjusting his posture to find the location of the life gate through the image?"

"You're making that babbling sound like a sissy. I almost threw up the food I ate this morning because of you."

Wu Tianjiao looked disgusted; the way the fat man dressed as a woman was truly unbearable to watch.

Of course, besides genuinely finding it unbearable to look at, his main reason for saying all this was, like the fat man, to liven up the gloomy atmosphere.

"Brother Tian, ​​you're exaggerating a bit. Do you know that when I was skinny, I was a pretty boy? Although I've gained a little weight, my foundation is still pretty good, right? I think the moves I just did were quite beautiful."

Sighed.

It's such a pity I can't be a woman in this life.

Wu Tianjiao nearly vomited upon hearing the fat man's words. What kind of misunderstanding did he have about himself to say such a thing? However, while the fat man might have some misconceptions about his appearance, his movements were all perfectly executed.

A moment later, there was a "click" sound, the kind of sound that comes from a mechanism being triggered. Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of chains being pulled.

This proves that the fat man's seemingly comical actions were actually effective.

He eventually opened the so-called gate to the "Heavenly Palace on the Clouds".

With the gate opened, Wu Tianjiao and the other three's attention was instantly diverted.

Even Wu Xie, at this moment, no longer dwelled on what his third uncle had done twenty years ago, or whether the disappearance of Huo Ling, Chen Wenjin, and their group back then was related to him.

"Let's go in quickly. This door to life can only be open for a short time; it might close again at any time," Wu Tianjiao said.

Then the group of four walked into the Heavenly Palace Gate.

They discovered that the further they went in, the narrower the road became.

In the end, even getting through to one person became difficult.

"Damn it, is this really the road to the Heavenly Palace? Who are you kidding? Even a dog couldn't squeeze through this narrow path. Brother Tian, ​​have we gone to the wrong place? The one that just opened wasn't the Gate of Life, could it be the Gate of Death?"

The fat man was already quite large and heavy, so to be honest, walking through such a narrow, dark passage was really too much of a challenge for him.