The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

"Yes, it woke up a long time ago."

Upon hearing this, Fang Yun's lips curled into a mocking smile.

It's awake, but it's too scared to come out.

His chin was hanging on the flower-patterned neck.

An ordinary zongzi (sticky rice dumpling) would be so terrified upon sensing Zhongyuan Yin's presence that it would wet itself on the spot.

The zongzi inside the stone coffin roared a few times before, but then didn't come out of the coffin, even though Fang Yun couldn't understand the corpse's language.

but.

I can understand it to some extent.

The rice dumplings inside were either unwilling to work or begging for mercy; in short, they were afraid.

But Fang Yun had no intention of letting it go so easily.

A zongzi that can roar out corpse language is either raised in a blessed land or is a thousand-year-old zongzi.

Perfect, let him have some fun!

(The plot has been altered, please forgive any changes.)

Chapter 165 Two-Finger Probing the Cave, Astounding Everyone!

Reaching out towards the coffin lid, Fang Yun gave it a slight push, and his brows furrowed.

"Ok?"

The thing in that whistle coffin came out, but now it's locked up again!

There is only one possibility for this to happen.

That means it was a double coffin, with a stone coffin as the outer coffin and an inner bronze coffin with a lock.

In this situation, the only option is to open it from the inside out. Forcibly demolishing it would be time-consuming and might even trigger traps such as those containing toxic oil hidden in the mezzanine.

"Tsk... Well, I haven't used the two-finger probing technique before."

Fang Yun sighed twice in his heart, stretched out his right hand, pulled up his sleeve, and prepared to explore the coffin.

Just as Fang Yun extended his right hand, Qi Tiezui and Huo Sanniang both paled and looked at Zhang Qishan.

"Master, this...?"

Zhang Qishan nodded without speaking, his eyes narrowing as he looked at Fang Yun's right hand, his gaze sharp as torches.

Fang Yun's right hand has a long, slender, white index finger and middle finger that stand out from the other three fingers.

This skill is called "Double Finger Cave Exploration," also known as "Tomb Raider Finger."

However, this two-finger probing technique is not actually a true inheritance of the Faqiu sect; it is merely a secret technique that was widely circulated in the martial arts world in ancient times.

However, this secret technique requires cultivation from childhood and is extremely difficult. The best person in the martial arts world to use it is the Heavenly Official of the Tomb Raiders. Over time, this two-finger probing technique became known as the Tomb Raider Finger.

The Zhang family has a history of thousands of years, so naturally they have mastered the method of cultivating this secret technique. Every member of the Zhang family must practice this two-finger cave-finding technique in their childhood.

Although the skill levels vary, it's fair to say that almost everyone can do it.

Now that the lineage of the Celestial Official of the Tomb Raiders has been severed, only the Zhang family members in the martial arts world know how to use these two fingers to probe caves.

This is why Qi Tiezui and Huo Sanniang were both very surprised when they saw Fang Yun's right hand.

Because Zhang Qishan and his group of Zhang family guards all have this on their right hands.

This is the thinking of the people in the Nine Gates: if they encounter someone whose right index and middle fingers are exceptionally long and fair, and who can use two fingers to probe holes, then that person is undoubtedly a member of the Zhang family.

Zhang Qishan was filled with doubt.

Although Fang Yun was a tomb raider and shared the same origin as the tomb raider, the tomb raider lineage had been cut off for hundreds of years and no descendants had been left.

Logically speaking, Fang Yun... is very likely a member of the Zhang family.

With this in mind, Zhang Qishan made up his mind.

After we've dealt with this ghost car, we must find Fang Yun and get to the bottom of this.

In previous years... quite a few people escaped from the Zhang family in Northeast China, and Fang Yun might have been one of them.

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

Before long, Fang Yun finished the preparations, stretched his wrists, and then reached towards the slit of the stone coffin.

The stone opening at the whistle has already been opened; once the stone is removed, the second coffin can be accessed.

boom...

He took the stone out and threw it directly on the ground.

Looking towards the sentry post, it was indeed the Bronze Hall inside.

Like the stone outer coffin, a slit was cut into the coffin lid.

Looking into the sentry post, it was pitch black inside, filled with black sewage. Because the post was narrow, Fang Yun couldn't see anything else.

"Little thing...you can't hide now, can you?"

Fang Yun raised the corner of his mouth and directly plunged his right hand into the bronze outer coffin, probing inside.

"hiss..."

Upon seeing this scene, Qi Tiezui shuddered and exclaimed in amazement.

"What courage! No wonder you're a tomb raider!"

Ordinary people wouldn't even dare to open a coffin with a whistle on it.

Those who dared to explore the coffin would certainly prepare tools beforehand, ready to cut off their arms to save their lives at any time.

They'd never seen anyone reach directly into the whistle coffin before!

Hearing her man praised, Hua was in high spirits. She raised her chin and said proudly:

"What's a whistle coffin? You haven't seen anything far more powerful."

"When we were at the tomb of King Xian, Fang Yun even broke through the corpse cave. As for the zombies, unless you are at the level of a zombie king, you can't even withstand one of his attacks."

"A corpse cave?!"

Upon hearing this, Qi Tiezui exclaimed in surprise, and even Zhang Qishan and the others' expressions changed drastically.

The Corpse Cave is an ancient taboo; how can it be broken?

"Click..."

"Roar..."

Just as everyone was about to ask Hua a question, they heard a roar coming from inside the stone coffin.

The roar was extremely loud, and it even carried a hint of anger.

Before that roar, there seemed to be a sound of bones cracking, so everyone quickly regained their composure and focused their attention on Fang Yun.

Fang Yun remained calm, his right shoulder swaying slightly as he groped around inside the coffin.

He had indeed touched something inside the coffin earlier.

The thing did indeed wake up, and even managed to grab him.

But the coffin was too small, and the thing couldn't straighten up or exert any force.

The black-painted arms had barely grabbed him when he snapped them in half. Now, the zombie could only swat at him with its arms, like scratching an itch.

When Fang Yun felt the texture of the rice dumpling's skin, he was also very puzzled.

This zongzi is definitely not young; it must be older than the Corpse King of Ping Mountain, but its body is extremely fragile.

Although it was a mummified corpse, its physical strength was not much stronger than that of an ordinary small zombie. It was as if it had never absorbed the earth's energy. Its corpse hand broke easily and did not carry any corpse poison.

After the corpse's hand was broken, the zombie was furious and roared repeatedly, slapping Fang Yun with its broken hands, but Fang Yun ignored it completely.

Hearing the roars, everyone except Fang Yun and Hua showed shock on their faces.

The roar of the rice dumpling was so loud that the stone coffin shook even more violently. Anyone who wasn't deaf and blind could tell that there was a conscious rice dumpling lying inside.

But Fang Yun calmly faced the rice dumplings, slowly groping around inside the coffin, without any worry about being bitten or grabbed by the rice dumplings inside.

Putting everything else aside, his sheer courage alone makes him a natural-born tomb raider.

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

The coffin was quite large, but apart from a rice dumpling and some black, sticky liquid, there was nothing inside.

It is estimated that the funerary objects inside have already been removed by Riku himself.

Therefore, Fang Yun stopped delaying and began to gather all the coffin locks.

"found it!"

After feeling around inside the coffin for about ten seconds, Fang Yun found a rusty and loose mechanical part.

The coffin lock was a rotating wheel. After it turned once, a 'click' sound was heard, followed by a vibration from the coffin.

The coffin lid was also propped up by the machine, and with a slight upward bounce, it separated the entire coffin lid from the coffin body.

"Oh!"