The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

The main issue is that upgrading one's bloodline takes an unknown amount of time.

He didn't want to suddenly collapse again and disrupt the subsequent progress.

After all, his current strength is more than enough to easily deal with this ancient tomb.

After shifting his attention away from his bloodline, Fang Yun began to observe his surroundings.

This is a tomb.

However, this is just the entrance area, a doorway.

In mass burial tombs, there are many such doorways and entrances, and the main acupoints of the eight extraordinary meridians are all present.

The entrance hall here is domed, looking like a small oval tower.

The surrounding walls are covered with numerous holes, inside which are carved star charts of the 108 Heavenly and Earthly Stars.

On the ground, there are still a lot of broken tiles and bricks scattered around; these waste materials originally came from the top of the tower.

"wrong!"

Fang Yun was about to take a step when he suddenly stopped.

There's something wrong with those discarded bricks and tiles!

If it fell during the excavation of the tower's top, then the point of impact should have been in the center.

These waste materials were scattered over a great distance, covering most of the ground.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that some of the bluestone bricks under the waste materials are sunken.

There's a hidden mechanism inside this entryway!

"The Red Mansion!"

Fang Yun was suddenly stunned, realizing the trickery involved.

After Er Yuehong's ancestors entered the mine, they had no way to escape and it seems that they left behind a lot of mazes and traps in the tomb.

That was meant to be used against Riku himself.

"No wonder... the tomb owner wouldn't have left a trap at the entrance."

Fang Yun raised an eyebrow, his eyes narrowed, and he carefully scanned his surroundings.

With just one scan, the location of the mechanism was immediately apparent.

On the way to the next tomb passage, a large number of silk threads were suspended in the air.

Those threads are not much thicker than a hair, and they are coated with a secret light-absorbing powder, making them hard to see unless you look closely.

Countless threads intertwined, extending from the waste materials and tying themselves to the star-patterned carvings all around.

Whenever someone steps on one of the sunken bluestone bricks or touches a silk thread, the machine will be activated.

These threads were all stretched very tightly, and the mechanism connecting them should be a series of arrow traps, which he had seen many times before.

After determining the problem in the entrance hall, Fang Yun looked up and whispered to the people above the well.

"Get down, everyone."

"Go down slowly. There are traps on the ground. Don't move after you get down."

Hearing Fang Yun's words, Zhang Qishan and the others breathed a sigh of relief and began to descend one after another.

However, they moved much slower, afraid of triggering the mechanism.

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

Before long, everyone went down into the entrance hall.

A dozen or so oil lamps were lit, instantly dispelling the darkness in the entryway.

Previously, some of the mechanical threads that were difficult to see were now fully exposed to everyone's view.

Because Fang Yun had warned them beforehand, everyone stood still and dared not move.

"Is this a specially made steel wire?"

"This doesn't belong to the tomb owner. Could it have been left behind by Kotori?"

Looking at the dense mass of silk threads in front of him, Qi Tiezui shuddered.

If you're not careful, you could get infected on the spot.

"Eighth Master, how could Riku himself have such good skills?"

Huo Sanniang rolled her eyes at Qi Tiezui and said helplessly, "This should be the Narcissus Arrow Formation from the Second Master's residence, which uses phosphorus-coated steel wire."

"Look at these steel wires, if you connect them, don't they form a circle that looks like a daffodil?"

Upon hearing Huo Sanniang's words, Qi Tiezui's expression immediately hardened.

"Narcissus arrows...that's a deadly thing."

"According to the Second Master's family rules, this Narcissus Arrow can only be set when one encounters a fellow traveler with dark hands in the tomb."

"It seems this is intended to be used against Riku himself."

That day at the Red Mansion, Er Yuehong told him about the connection between the Red Mansion and the mine.

The first group of people from the Hong family to enter the mine were led by Er Yuehong's uncle.

Six skilled workers, each with over twenty years of experience, went down into the mine together, but none of them made it out alive.

Later, more people from the Hong family came to search, but in the end only one person survived and brought back some information about the tomb to the clan.

It was precisely because of this that Er Yuehong knew how to counteract the Blood Poison Grass.

While Qi Tiezui and Huo Sanniang were speculating, Fang Yun had already avoided the mechanical threads and reached the entrance to Tomb 547.

“You can’t step on those bricks, and you can’t touch those hanging threads.”

"Go one by one, don't rush."

Fang Yun turned around, pointed to the location of the mechanism, and waved to the crowd.

Seeing this, Zhang Qishan looked at Huo Sanniang and Qi Tiezui.

"Third Sister, Eighth Master, let's explore the tomb first."

"Whatever is hidden in this tomb, we must find out the truth this time."

After saying that, Zhang Qishan took a step forward, dodging the silk threads as he approached the tomb passage.

"The Buddha is still the same; he remains calm even if the sky falls."

Seeing Zhang Qishan's decisive and efficient manner, Qi Tiezui sighed in admiration.

Among the Nine Gates, Zhang Qishan is definitely the most composed.

"Ah."

"Eighth Master, you must proceed with caution. If you fall victim to this..."

Huo Sanniang chuckled lightly, left a sentence behind, and followed Zhang Qishan's steps.

Qi Tiezui's face darkened, and he felt his legs begin to tremble.

Looking at the tangled mess of threads in front of him, he suddenly took a step back and grabbed Zhang's hand.

"Lieutenant Zhang, let me go with you!"

"If you trust me in August, then follow me."

Lieutenant Zhang replied with a smile.

"Sigh, I should have left with Buddha."

When Zhang the adjutant smiled, Qi Tiezui's heart skipped a beat, and his face turned bitter.

Although Zhang was a polite and kind person, he always felt that there was something strange about Zhang's smile.

He had seen Deputy Zhang take action before.

This guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing; he always likes to scare him.

Chapter 192 Divine Seal Suppresses Corpse Moth!

After exiting the entrance hall, the group entered the tomb passage.

After walking about a hundred meters along the tomb passage, the group stopped.

The tomb passage ahead was sealed off, covered with countless rocks and stones. Looking through the gaps, the blocked passage was at least ten meters long.

However, it's not that there's no way out.

On the right side of the tomb passage, there is an opening about three meters high.

There are traces of artificial excavation at the entrance, so it should be a mine shaft.

Surprisingly, the mine shaft in front of us was filled with a dense swarm of corpse moth silk, and the deeper we went into the mine, the more corpse moth silk there was.

Deep inside the mine, several corpse moths were still fluttering and dancing.

At first glance, it does resemble the Spider Cave, except the spiders have been replaced by corpse moths.

"My God, it's poisonous moths again..."