The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

Upon hearing Lao Yang's shout, Wu Xie immediately reacted, leaping back to the side of the stalagmite in a few steps. With a powerful jump, he leaped onto the rope, and the immense impact caused the rope to yank downwards, causing the stalagmite to emit a cracking sound that sent chills down one's spine.

Before Wu Xie could even get a firm grip, Liang Shiye jumped down as well, instantly stretching the rope by more than ten centimeters, reaching its limit.

Wu Xie heard a very ominous sound, and then with a snap, the rope, which was said to be the strongest in the world, finally broke in two.

Sure enough, the rope with a diameter of eight millimeters was indeed unable to support the weight of three people. Fortunately, Fang Yun did not come over; otherwise, the rope would probably have broken long ago.

With a crisp sound, the knot on the bronze tree was snapped!

The group swung through the air like on a swing, tracing an arc before crashing heavily against the rock wall. The impact nearly killed them.

Old Yang, who was at the bottom, was hit the hardest. He lost his grip on the rope and slid straight down. Fortunately, in his panic, he managed to grab onto a crack in the rock on the cliff edge and barely managed to steady himself. Wu Xie and Master Liang were not much better off. Wu Xie felt like his head was rotten.

He figured that the man had probably hit the rock face and gotten a cut, and blood was flowing down his face. The clerk was hanging there vertically, unable to exert any strength in his hands. The rope kept slipping in his hands, and he slid down in a flash. Luckily, there was Old Yang below, so he didn't fall.

The stalagmite above continued to make cracking sounds, as if it was about to break at any moment. Wu Xie quickly reacted, grabbed a stalactite nearby, and jumped up. He then pulled Liang Shiye over as well, and Liang Shiye was so frightened that his pants felt a little wet.

Liang Shiye looked up and said thank you. He had only said that one sentence when suddenly, a mask shot down from above without warning and stuck to Liang Shiye's face. In that brief moment, Wu Xie seemed to see several crab-leg-like claws sticking out from under the mask.

Master Liang let out a scream and tried to pull the mask off, but it was too late. The mask was already completely on. Master Liang desperately tried to tear off the mask that instilled fear in people, but the mask seemed to grow out of his face. No matter how much Master Liang pulled, the mask remained firmly stuck to his face.

Seeing this, Wu Xie wanted to rush over to help, but Liang Shiye seemed to have gone mad, rushing around recklessly. Before Wu Xie could even get half a step closer, Liang Shiye knocked him away.

Wu Xie could only grab the rope again and slide towards Lao Yang, barely managing to stabilize himself.

Wu Xie looked down at the dark, bottomless abyss below and muttered to himself. He was just about to go and help Master Liang again when he looked up and saw a black shadow the size of a hand descend from the sky and grab Wu Xie's face.

Wu Xie suddenly felt everything go black, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He only felt several hairy, disgusting things desperately trying to burrow into his mouth.

Chapter 342 Masks Like a Tide!

In a panic, Wu Xie could only use one hand to tightly grip the crevice in the rock, while using the other hand to forcefully pry open the eerie mask. At the same time, he gritted his teeth, determined not to give the hairy, disgusting thing any chance. Unexpectedly, the mask came off by itself after Wu Xie only pried it once, and Wu Xie quickly threw the mask away.

Unfortunately, the mask landed right on Old Yang's butt. Old Yang cursed and slammed it down with the butt of his gun.

Wu Xie had just breathed a sigh of relief when, to his surprise, four or five more dragon-like creatures jumped up and landed next to him and Lao Yang. This startled Wu Xie, who instinctively raised his hand and fired four shots.

Unfortunately, what use were those four shots? After those four or five Chi Gu, more than a dozen more Chi Gu emerged. Wu Xie and Lao Yang could only retreat downwards. At this moment, all that could be heard were wailing screams. Looking up again, they saw that Master Liang was suffering terribly, his body covered in Chi Gu.

He screamed and struggled desperately, trying to swat the dragon worms off his body. Unfortunately, for every dragon worm that Liang Shiye swated off, more dragon worms would crawl tightly onto him.

Wu Xie retreated while firing until all the bullets in his pistol were gone, but unfortunately, the situation did not change at all.

Like a tidal wave, the Chi Gu swarmed towards Wu Xie and Lao Yang from both sides. Upon closer inspection, the surrounding rock walls were already covered with these creatures, wriggling together.

Suddenly, that eerie and unpredictable sound rang in everyone's ears, giving them a headache. Now, even if they were distracted for a moment, several Chi Gu would leap up and pounce straight at their faces without pouncing anywhere else. If they were not careful, they would be hit.

There was nothing they could do but retreat downwards. But how could they possibly outrun these strange creatures? They were quickly surrounded. Wu Xie was already feeling hopeless when Lao Yang fired his gun.

The sound of the shot was indeed loud enough. After that shot, Old Yang swept away a large area of ​​the dragon-like creatures above the two men's heads, and the nearest few masks were also shattered by the bullet. The fragments fell from the two men's heads like snowflakes.

Just as Wu Xie was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the blank rock wall that Lao Yang had blasted open with his slap was immediately covered by the surging Chi Gu from behind.

Seeing that the paddle was no longer effective, Lao Yang quickly covered his head with his clothes.

"Old Wu, don't hesitate now. I'll cover you. You quickly cover your mouth and grab the torch from above."

Old Yang shouted.

When Wu Xie looked up, he saw that the torch was still stuck on a protruding rock wall that he had found on the spot. There were indeed no Chi Gu around it. Obviously, these strange things were afraid of fire. However, the distance between the torch and the torch was full of Chi Gu, densely packed, and there was no place to put his foot down.

“Old Yang, this won’t work. There’s no way to do it. There are so many Chi Gu on this road. I don’t even have a place to put my feet. I can’t climb up at all.”

Wu Xie sighed.

"Well, I really have no other choice! I'll just have to take a gamble! I'm just really unlucky this time. Last time I came here, I didn't see any of these things at all. This time, I don't know where all these strange things came from. It's really getting more and more annoying."

Old Yang said helplessly.

Wu Xie trembled as he looked at these things. These Chi Gu didn't actually have strong attack power; their only advantage was their large number. Moreover, these things were protected by very hard masks, so it was difficult to kill them with a single blow using normal methods.

What we see here are just the ones that survived from thousands of years ago. It's hard to imagine how many of these things the ancients created in their madness to protect this bronze tree.

Old Yang shook off the dragon-like creature clinging to him once more and crawled toward Wu Xie. But just as he looked up at Wu Xie, Old Yang suddenly froze.

"Damn it, Lao Wu, what's wrong with you?"

"What's going on? Why are you spacing out? Be careful."

Wu Xie was stunned when he saw Lao Yang. In that instant, several masks fell onto Lao Yang's shoulders and were about to crawl onto his face.

Startled by the shout, Old Yang hurriedly brushed the dragon-like creature off his shoulder and said, "Old Wu, didn't you notice anything wrong? This doesn't make sense."

"What's wrong? Don't speak in a cryptic way at a time like this, just spit it out."

Wu Xie said impatiently.

“Look at yourself. Why don’t you have any masks on? Why don’t these things crawl onto you? What do you think about this… how should I put it?”

Old Yang said with some frustration.

Wu Xie looked down and was so frightened that he cried out. He then looked at Liang Shiye and Lao Yang, who were covered in Chi Gu, which they could not shake off no matter what method they used.

Wu Xie himself really didn't have a single one. He immediately started to recall, and from the moment he arrived until now, apart from the one that scratched his face, there really wasn't a single Chi Gu crawling up his body.

In the midst of the chaos and extreme tension, I hadn't noticed anything amiss, only thinking it was just good luck. But now, according to what Old Yang said, something does seem a bit off.

Wu (Wang Qian's) Xie quickly looked around and found that although the Chi Gu were also crawling towards him, they would suddenly change direction and crawl away to other places as soon as they got close to him, about a meter away. It seemed that these things were as afraid of him as they were of fire.

"This is really strange, what's going on?"

Wu Xie thought to himself, puzzled.

At this moment, Wu Xie's courage grew, and he tentatively raised his hand to grab the mask closest to him. Unexpectedly, before his hand could even touch it, the entire swarm of Chi Gu had already retreated frantically backward with a whoosh.

"Damn, you're really something else, Lao Wu! That was an amazing move! Is there something on your hands? Take a look, it might be our only way to escape."

Old Yang exclaimed in surprise!

Chapter 343 Wu Xie's Blood!

Wu Xie quickly looked at his hands, which, apart from the bloodstains and dirt from the injury, had nothing else on them.

"This is really strange. What are these things afraid of about me? Could it be that they possess me through some selective means? No, I remember Zhang Qi also repelled the corpse beetles. Could it be blood? No way! Why would these chilling things be afraid of the blood of an ordinary person like me? This doesn't make sense!"

Wu Xie was filled with doubt.

At this moment, Old Yang, who was standing to the side, could no longer withstand the attack of these Chi Gu. Wu Xie subconsciously reached out to Old Yang, and something unexpected happened. The Chi Gu attached to Old Yang fled as quickly as insects encountering insecticide. The current situation was exactly the same as when Zhang Qi drove away the corpse beetles back then.

"No way, they're giving me so much face? They just told me to leave and I was just driven away like that."

Wu Xie was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.

"Wait a minute, something seems off."

Wu Xie quickly grabbed Lao Yang, who was standing to the side.

As Wu Xie spoke, he raised his hand and crawled a few steps toward Liang Shiye, who was almost stopped convulsing. Even though it was just a few steps, the Chi Gu in that place receded like the tide, and the orderly wriggling sound suddenly became extremely noisy.

Old Yang stared at Wu Xie in disbelief, as if he were looking at a monster. Wu Xie ignored Old Yang and quickly climbed up, placing his hand on Liang Shiye's face. Suddenly, the mask loosened.

Wu Xie immediately grabbed it and ripped it off completely, also pulling out a sticky, tongue-like thing. Liang Shiye was already on the verge of death.

As soon as the thing was pulled out of his throat, Master Liang immediately vomited.

Wu Xie hadn't expected the Chi Gu in his hand to struggle so violently, almost slipping out of his grasp. Moreover, the tongue-like thing was extremely disgusting, so Wu Xie had no choice but to smash it hard against the rock, getting his hand covered in sticky liquid.

At this moment, the Chi Gu around them had dissipated, but it hadn't gone far. Instead, it formed a huge encirclement around them, constantly shrinking. Old Yang quickly took back the torch (bjbd) and swept it around, forcing the Chi Gu back a little. At this moment, Master Liang coughed twice, seemingly having saved his life.

Old Yang retrieved the water bottle and took back the remaining rope. However, the remaining equipment and food were still in the tree, so they would have to rely on Fang Yun. Wu Xie poured water into his hand and moistened Liang Shiye's lips slightly. Liang Shiye had finally escaped death and survived. When he saw Wu Xie, he couldn't help but shed tears.

Wu Xie figured that Liang Shiye was probably a little too tense.

"Old Yang, don't be nervous anymore. We have fire now, so these masks won't cover us all. At most, they'll just trap us here. You have to relax. Master Liang over here is already a bit neurotic. You absolutely can't let anything happen to you."

Wu Xie quickly tried to persuade him.

Old Yang finally came to his senses and saw that the Chi Gu was indeed no longer approaching. He breathed a sigh of relief and placed the torch in the middle of the group to prevent the Chi Gu from getting any closer.

"Damn it, Lao Wu, I think you're the one who's been hiding things from me. What's going on with you? When did you become so awesome? If you had used this skill earlier, we wouldn't have had to swing over here. We would have had a smooth ride on the Bronze Tree."

Old Yang quickly asked.

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? I don't even know what's going on myself. I thought I was dreaming."

Wu Xie shook his head.

“You were the first one to arrive. Did you come into contact with anything unusual along the way? Think back carefully. I feel that you encountered something that countered these masks, but you were just unaware of it.”

Old Yang continued.

"Along the way, if there's anything I touched, they should have touched it too. If there's anything they didn't touch, it's the blood in my palm just now, but that's impossible. If my blood were that powerful, it wouldn't have been ruined so badly by the trip to the Lu Palace and the underwater tomb. Could it be Fang Yun's or Zhang Qi's blood from back then? That can't possibly still be useful now, right? Isn't that a bit too powerful?"

Wu Xie's mind was filled with doubt again. He shook his head and muttered to himself.

Liang Shiye had finally recovered after a while. Hearing Wu Xie and Lao Yang discussing something, he quickly came over and asked what was going on.

“Master Liang, you didn’t see it just now! You were surrounded by those swarms of dragon-like insects, and your life was hanging by a thread. In the blink of an eye, Old Wu simply reached out and rescued you from danger. That was quite a feat.”

Old Yang said with a smile.

"Well... Mr. Wu, have you ever eaten something that looks like scales, about the size of a palm, and is black in color?"

After thinking for a moment, Master Liang looked at Wu Xie and asked.

"If you put it that way, I really don't recall it. I don't think I've ever eaten something this big before. What's wrong, Master Liang? Did you think of something?"

Wu Xie asked in surprise.