Chapter 342: Unethical Plus One
In a remote mechanism room in the tomb, Hei Xia Zi was leaning against the wall, holding a piece of bone in his hand and grinding it on the ground with a grunt.
Next to them were Wilson and his three teammates squatting in the corner smoking.
Half an hour ago, their group was separated by a mechanism used by the grave keeper hiding in the tomb passage because their team was too long.
Most of the mechanisms in this tomb are one-way, and the activation mechanisms are complex and changeable, and they are interconnected. If you are not familiar with the layout of the mechanisms, it is easy for people to design them to split the team.
Hei Xia Zi and his friends were chased by the group of gravekeepers all the way here. They were set up in a trap when they were not paying attention and are now locked in a secret room. The only exit requires a matching key to open.
Originally, things like making keys should be within Hei Xia Zi's business scope, and it should be very simple.
But there happened to be a huge magnet installed on the roof of this tomb. As soon as they entered, their backpacks, including knives and flashlights, were sucked to the top of the tomb.
At that height, coupled with the smooth walls all around, not only was it not possible to get it down, even how to touch it was a problem.
In desperation, Hei Xia Zi could only choose to use local materials and set his sights on the skeletons of those who had been trapped and died here and were scattered on the ground.
He randomly picked a lucky bone and while testing the structure inside the lock, he ground the bone into the shape he wanted.
Wilson finished the last cigarette in his hand, threw the butt casually on the ground, and looked up at the dim surroundings.
Thinking of his now missing fiancée, his teammates who suffered casualties, his employer who was somewhat polite but not very polite, and those outsider partners who seemed unreliable, he felt that his career had encountered huge challenges.
He sighed somewhat sadly and spoke to Hei Xia Zi in a poor accent with some sadness.
"Mr. Black Blind, I know there's an old saying among flower growers about grinding an iron rod into a needle, but we're short of time now.
How long will it take for your key to be made? I am very worried about my dear Nina. Although she looks fierce at ordinary times, she must be scared after being away from me for such a long time.
Hei Xia Zi rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses. He didn't want to pay attention to this guy who was still showing off his affection. He didn't even look at him and casually said something perfunctory.
"It's almost there. My two brothers are still powerless, but I'm not worried. Everyone in your team is armed with guns, so why should you worry?"
That woman named "Nina" has biceps bigger than Zhang Hailou's. Judging from her body size, she can easily knock out a Wuxie with one punch. Is there anything we need to worry about?
When he first encountered the flattery, he hadn't realized that this foreigner with thick eyebrows and big eyes was actually a love-brained person.
After hearing what Hei Xia Zi said, Wilson immediately shook his head, and the worry on his face increased instead of decreased.
“No, no, no, this is different.”
Hei Xia Zi only lost his brother, but he lost his wife!
The gravekeepers chasing them were numerous, familiar with the terrain, and holding old-fashioned hunting rifles, which posed a great threat to them.
Nina was the only beautiful woman in their team. Thinking of those scary-looking, extremely ugly gravekeepers who were neither human nor ghost, Wilson was really worried about what would happen to his fiancée.
Hei Xia Zi finally found a suitable key after a long time of grinding. When he was about to open the lock, he turned around and saw Wilson with a skull in front of him, hitting it rhythmically with a white thigh bone.
After a subtle silence for a moment, Hei Xia Zi asked hesitantly.
"What are you doing?"
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I heard that you flower farmers have a custom of beating wooden fish to pray for blessings, which can bless your relatives and friends with peace and health."
Wilson's expression at this moment was extremely innocent. The 1.9-meter-tall man squatting there actually had a sense of fragility like a little white flower.
Hei Xia Zi took a deep breath and wiped his face, unable to bear to look. He felt that it was true that as people lived longer, they could see everything.
As the knocking sounds came, he seemed to be able to see rows of small words floating out from the skull that was being knocked.
Add one for being wicked, add one for being wicked, add one for being wicked, add one for one...
"Alright, let's go. I've pretty much figured out the tunnel mechanisms here. Let's see where everyone else is being held and try to reunite first."
Hei Xia Zi used a king bomb to set up four traps. He played hide-and-seek with the grave keepers in the tomb passage with great difficulty. By the way, he also found the main tomb chamber. Unfortunately, the dynasty bloodline and the key to open the tomb chamber were not in their hands.
Hei Xia Zi, who was being chased like a dog, kept cursing at Zhang Qiling, who had not come to pick them up yet, and Zhang Hailou, who had run away with Wuxie and no one knew where he was.
Why did he always have this strange feeling that everyone else was slacking off while he was the only one working seriously?
And now Zhang Hailou and Fatty Wuxie, who the blind man thought were slacking off, were being pinned down and tied to the altar by these gravekeepers...
Most of the people who came in were caught and tied up by the gravekeeper who had planned it in advance.
The moment Shunsuke Yamamoto was captured, he demonstrated the fine traditions of his country.
Not only did he kneel down very quickly, but when the gravekeeper wanted to capture them for sacrifice to comfort the disturbed tomb owner, he turned around and pushed out Wuxie and the other two who had helped him when he was in danger.
It was also at this time that Wuxie and his friends discovered that the sparsely populated village where they had rested before was also part of the gravekeeper's power.
No wonder they noticed something was wrong with the people in that small village earlier. They jumped directly in front of the guards.
When being chased by the gravekeepers, Wuxie discovered that there were many "people" in the team that crawled on all fours, looking like humans but also like monsters. He was frightened at first.
Later, when I was kidnapped together with Zhang Hailou, we discussed it and finally figured out what was going on.
This group of tomb keepers should be the diehards left over from the Maurya Royal Family. They have been guarding this grand sacrificial tomb for so many years.
Because these people live in remote areas and are isolated from the outside world all year round, they can only intermarry.
Without the blessing and protection of special bloodlines, these people all have some defects, and can even be divided into three levels: generally ugly, extremely ugly, and not like a human.
Those who were relatively normal were assigned to live in small villages, responsible for informing outsiders when they came. Those born with crooked eyes, crooked mouths, deformed hands and feet had to live in tombs from childhood, raised as tomb beasts.
Before Wuxie could feel any pity for those people, the next second he saw the leader trying to drag the three of them over and kill them as sacrifices, and instantly all his pity disappeared.
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