NFBE Chapter 225
Chapter 225
"The six-winged centipede is very strong!"
Just as the fat man was lamenting that the six-winged centipede was all talk and no action, Zhang Qilin suddenly blurted out this remark.
"what?"
"Brother, are you implying that Brother Zhang Hao is stronger, much stronger than the Six-Winged Centipede, which is why he was able to kill the Six-Winged Centipede instantly?" Zhang Qilin was usually taciturn and rarely praised others. Although he didn't say it explicitly, his implication was undoubtedly that he was praising Zhang Hao's prowess.
This is truly unprecedented.
Zhang Qilin walked to one of the broken sections of the six-winged centipede's corpse, poked it a few times with his black gold ancient knife, and a jet-black, egg-sized round bead rolled out from it.
He picked up the bead and handed it to Zhang Hao: "You killed the six-winged centipede, so this inner core should rightfully be yours."
"Thank you."
Zhang Hao smiled as he accepted the inner core and put it in his pocket.
The six-winged centipede's inner core was just a special item, and he did not choose to fuse with it.
Based on his understanding of the six-winged centipede, fusing the inner core would at most grant him abilities like detoxification.
His own Qilin blood's detoxification ability was already more than enough, so he might as well save his fusion attempts to fuse with something more useful.
After the brief incident with the six-winged centipede, the group continued their exploration of the ancient tomb.
After passing through the tomb chamber and entering the passageway, we had only gone a short distance when we were blocked by a stone wall.
The fat man stepped forward and tapped on the stone wall, then said, "What was your Zhang family ancestor thinking? Why did he build this wall with rubble without using anything to hold it together? Isn't it easy to tear down?"
"Fatty, look up at your head."
The fat man looked up and exclaimed in shock when he saw it clearly: "Holy crap, there's no crossbeam! If we remove any one of the stones, this stone wall will collapse instantly and bury us alive!"
"Uncle, what do we do now?"
In the past, when encountering such traps in tombs, the only way to get around them was to dig a tunnel from the side. However, Wu Tianzhen knew that with Zhang Hao's skills, there was no need to go through such trouble, so he asked.
Zhang Hao smiled slightly: "Just go straight there, pull out one rock, and I'll take care of the rest."
Wu Tianzhen and Fatty's eyes lit up when they heard this.
That's certainly a good idea. Of course, no one else could use this method; only someone as strong as an ox like Zhang Hao could do it.
After all, the entire stone wall weighs at least several thousand kilograms, and the world record is no more than two thousand kilograms.
If it were someone else, they wouldn't have been able to withstand the pressure; they would likely have been buried alive by the rubble.
Zhang Hao walked up to the stone wall, picked out one of the larger pebbles, and kicked it.
With a "bang," the piece of gravel was kicked away, revealing a hole just big enough for one person to crawl through.
Before the rubble wall collapsed, he flashed past and used his hands to hold up the falling stones like a pillar supporting the sky.
"Everyone, hurry over there."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately crawled through the hole and ran away. After everyone else had passed, Zhang Hao slipped past.
After he had run a dozen meters away, he heard a loud "boom" behind him. When he turned around, he saw that the rubble wall had collapsed.
From the moment he entered the ancient tomb, Zhang Hao felt a sense of familiarity with all the traps and mechanisms inside; they were the most dangerous traps found in other large tombs.
If he hadn't come today, even if Zhang Qilin wanted to get through, it wouldn't have been so easy.
The Zhang family ancestors set up this test, and only by passing it could they obtain more information about the gods.
This shows how terrifying the enemy was; without sufficient strength, one didn't even have the right to know anything.
Of course, their purpose in doing this was to protect future generations.
Otherwise, the more you know, the more dangerous it becomes if you lack the strength.
Zhang Hao was extremely curious about what that god was and why it needed the bodies of the Zhang and Wu families. There must be a shocking secret behind it.
The only way to find out this secret is to continue exploring and complete the test left by the Zhang family ancestors.
The passageway abruptly ended behind a wall of rubble, and Zhang Hao and his companions walked forward for about ten meters before reaching the edge of a cliff.
Looking down, Zhang Hao saw a vast ancient city below, covering an area of at least ten square kilometers.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have imagined that there was such a huge underground space beneath Misty Village?
"Bang!" The fat man fired a flashbang into the darkness, and the dazzling white light emitted by the flashbang instantly illuminated the pitch-black cave as if it were daytime.
Wu Tianzhen and Fatty were stunned into silence when they saw the city below.
"No, really? Who builds an ancient tomb that looks just like a real ancient city?"
"This is incredible! How did they manage to keep such a large cave from collapsing?"
Zhang Hao noticed that Zhang Qilin looked unusually shocked after seeing the city below the cliff, so he asked, "Brother, did you remember something?"
"Everything here, from the style of the buildings to the layout, is exactly the same as the Zhang family in Changbai Mountain, Northeast China!"
"Zhang family?"
Zhang Hao pointed to a towering building in the center of the city, standing out like a crane among chickens: "Isn't that the Zhang Family Ancient Building?"
"That's right, just like the ancient building in Changbai Mountain."
The Zhang Family Ancient Building is the Zhang family's secret location, filled with deadly traps, especially the top floor room, which can only be entered by the Zhang family patriarch carrying the Soul-Stabilizing Bell.
Today, not only has a group of buildings similar to those in Changbai Mountain in Northeast China appeared in this cave, but even the Zhang Family Ancient Building has also appeared here.
Could the city below be the place where the Zhang family used to live?
"Let's go down and check the situation."
"Ok!"
The fat man responded, put down his backpack, took out a climbing rope, secured one end to the cliff, put on a safety buckle, and then quickly descended down the rope.
The cliff wasn't more than twenty or thirty meters high, and it was pitch black below, so the fat man wasn't afraid of heights.
Five minutes later, all four of them successfully descended to the bottom of the cliff and then headed towards the city gate.
Before long, the group approached the ancient city.
There is a moat outside the city wall, and the water in it has not dried up.
There should have been a bridge connecting the city to the moat, but the city has been abandoned for who knows how many years, and the bridge connecting to the other side of the moat has long since disappeared.
Left with no other option, the group jumped into the river and swam to the other side.
As soon as everyone jumped into the river, countless black, inverted triangular heads emerged from the surface. They gathered together like a pack of hungry wolves and swam quickly toward Zhang Hao and his companions.
"Holy crap, what is that?!"