Chapter 70: It’s Clearly A Four-person Tomb Raider Team, But Only Fatty Has No Bloodline..
Thinking of this, Wu Xie seemed to grab a lifesaver: “Mute Bottle, can you confirm Xie Lianhuan is dead?”
Zhang Qiling frowned and looked back at him: “I don’t know. Since leaving the sanatorium, I haven’t been in contact with anyone else, and I don’t know how they’ve all been. Remembering who was on the expedition team only happened after entering the tomb. So I don’t know about Xie Lianhuan’s death.”
“.Alright.” Wu Xie was a bit disappointed, secretly thinking that after getting out, he’d first run over to Second Uncle’s place to confirm Xie Lianhuan’s death, and by the way ask who could look so much like his Third Uncle.
Zhang Qiling suddenly paused: “You’re asking about this—do you think Xie Lianhuan didn’t really die?”
Wu Xie nodded fiercely: “My Third Uncle didn’t remember anything about you before either. He only discovered it was you when reorganizing the expedition team materials. So I think my Third Uncle doesn’t have much to do with all this. He came down this time to seek the truth, just like you. In my speculation, to do everything in your memory, there should be someone who looks just like my Third Uncle. So I suspect Xie Lianhuan—he looks the most like my Third Uncle out of everyone. If you can confirm that Xie Lianhuan back then was really Xie Lianhuan, then inside the tomb, there really exists a third person who looks almost exactly like my Third Uncle and Xie Lianhuan!”
Zhang Qiling suddenly looked at Wu Xie, frowning at him for several seconds before nodding: “I can confirm that was Xie Lianhuan. He was always with us. If your Third Uncle really passed out right after entering the tomb back then, then inside the tomb at that time, there really was a third person!”
Lin Yan watched Zhang Qiling’s series of vivid and lifelike expressions—keep making it up, keep going, see if he buys it! But his last sentence did seem real. Could there really have been a third person inside the tomb back then? Ever since A Ning appeared, the plot has changed too much. He didn’t remember much originally, and now he’s even more uncertain.
The group was immersed in the chilling horror brought by this truth when Fatty suddenly interrupted them: “Hey, I’m not trying to interrupt your speculation about some truth from twenty years ago, but don’t you guys feel a bit itchy?”
He reached back to scratch his back. Only then did Wu Xie behind him see clearly that there was some white fur scattered on his back!
He retreated sharply until he bumped into Lin Yan, then tremblingly pointed at Fatty’s back: “Fatty… you, you’re damn turning into a zombie! You really weren’t grabbed by that little zombie?”
Zhang Qiling turned around and saw that under the flashlight, there was also some white fur on Fatty’s front, right at the places where the skin was broken from wounds. His eyes narrowed as he thought of something, and he quickly looked at Lin Yan and Wu Xie—mainly Wu Xie: “Quick, check yourselves! It’s the lotus flower arrow from the corridor. The arrowhead is poisonous!”
Fatty cursed loudly: “Damn it, I knew this tomb owner wasn’t up to any good! He probably wants to turn us into zombies to guard his tomb forever!”
Reminded by Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie panicked too and frantically checked the broken skin wounds on his body. He hadn’t noticed before Fatty mentioned it, but now he felt the wounds itching terribly!
Upon checking, the wounds were only slightly red, probably just a bit inflamed, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at Lin Yan. If he remembered right, Lin Yan had several wounds too: “How about you, are you okay?”
Lin Yan shook his head. It seemed that besides Zhang Qiling’s kirin blood and the half kirin bloodline Wu Xie got from swallowing the kirin gall, his blood was also effective against this stuff! He just didn’t know how effective. But judging from how his blood helped Zhang Qiling recover, maybe they were about equal? So among the four of them, Fatty was the only ordinary person with no special bloodline!
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but look at Fatty, who was scratching all over his body, with sympathetic eyes: Sigh, teaming up with us cheaters must be tough on you! Wait, no—why did he say he was a cheater too? He was clearly just an unlucky ordinary guy who’d been forcibly stuffed with a bunch of stuff!
Alright, if he could withstand the poison of the lotus flower arrow, he didn’t seem like an ordinary person anymore! Shouldn’t he recognize reality sooner?
At that moment, Zhang Qiling saw that both of them were fine. His eyes flickered slightly, as if confirming something, then he spoke: “It’s not a big deal, just a bit of corpse poison. Rub some stuff on it and it’ll be fine.”
Fatty turned to look at him, surprised: “There’s really something that can cure it? What is it? Give Fatty Ye some quick!”
Zhang Qiling glanced toward Lin Yan with his eyes.
Lin Yan: .
Got it! Bloodletting, right? I’m familiar with this! So he resignedly cut a small opening on his hand and dripped blood onto Fatty’s wounds. Fatty felt a heart-piercing pain at the wound for an instant, but it only lasted a very short time. Then it felt warm and cozy, like soaking in warm water.
He held still without fleeing, moaning comfortably: “Ouch, young comrade, what is this stuff of yours? It’s so miraculous! The effect is immediate! How about giving Fatty Ye some to take with me? It’ll definitely come in handy on future tomb raids!”
Lin Yan snorted coldly and glared at him: “Keep dreaming!”
Want to use him as a long-term blood bag? Keep dreaming! Zhang Qiling was someone he couldn’t beat! If one day he could beat him, heh, then Zhang Qiling would have to beg him instead!
Fatty turned back and saw the wound on Lin Yan’s hand, instantly shocked: “What, young comrade, your blood is this magical too?” He pointed at Zhang Qiling: “This Xiaoge’s blood can even repel corpse beetles, fine, but your blood can draw out poison?” He glanced at the unharmed Wu Xie and exclaimed: “No way his blood is special too!”
Wu Xie shook his head in confusion: “I don’t know. Maybe when Lin Yan was treating my wounds back then, some blood got on me?”
Zhang Qiling secretly glanced at Fatty, not expecting his intuition to be so sharp. What he thought was right—Wu Xie ate the kirin gall, so he really was special! But… Wu Xie shouldn’t know about this yet!
After resting for several minutes, Fatty barely recovered. As they neared the cave entrance, Zhang Qiling suddenly turned off the flashlight and made a silencing gesture to them.
“What’s wrong?” After a moment of silence, there was no movement outside. Wu Xie knew Lin Yan had good hearing, so he secretly nudged his hand and mouthed the question—luckily, there was some faint light at the cave entrance for some reason, so they could barely make out each other’s faces.
Lin Yan listened intently and shook his head at him—he hadn’t heard anything either, so it must be that Zhang Qiling discovered something.
Just as they were starting to get impatient waiting, Wu Xie suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. He sniffed and leaned close, asking Lin Yan in a low voice: “Did you smell any scent?”
Zhang Qiling glanced at them but didn’t stop them.
Lin Yan had smelled it too, but couldn’t tell where the fragrance was coming from. Fatty up front hadn’t reacted, so maybe—thinking this, he signaled to Wu Xie, and the two slowly turned their gazes to the back—
“Holy shit, ghost!”
Help, I can’t hold it anymore!
