Chapter 212

Tianzhen and Fatty exchanged a glance, neither understanding why the head of the Blood Corpse could attract the Dragon Lice.

But judging by Zhang Tianshi's expression, he seemed quite certain.

At this moment they heard Zhang Tianshi say: "This person cut off the Blood Corpse's head, probably for the thing inside the skull."

"But I don't know whether he actually knew that thing was extremely dangerous?"

"If this person had no assessment of the danger, then we're the ones in danger."

After speaking, Zhang Tianshi told the two of them: "Go, find everyone and bring them back."

"The Dragon Lice in this ancient tomb will only grow more numerous. If we don't gather together, the end for all of us is being devoured."

Tianzhen and Fatty were already terrified; at this moment the two of them were treating Zhang Tianshi as their lifeline.

Whatever Zhang Tianshi said went, almost without question!

Fatty's earlier suspicions of Zhang Tianshi were also tossed to the back of his mind.

Fatty, who always knew which way the wind blew, now understood only one principle: whoever can protect him is a god!

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News that the archaeological team had encountered such a major incident and been hit by the Dragon Lice in the tomb passage also made the headlines of major outlets.

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By the time Zhang Lin opened the livestream now, Zhang Tianshi had already found most of the people.

The number of people currently missing is three. Zhang Tianshi had gone back and forth through the tomb chambers several times alone, even jumping down into traps to search.

Still, he hadn't been able to find those three people!

They had simply vanished, as if right inside the tomb passage.

But the current map of this Lu Lu Shangwang tomb is actually not large.

Apart from the main tomb chamber with the Northern Dipper Suspicious Coffin Array, there's also the Blood Corpse tomb chamber.

The tomb passage linking them in the middle is quite long, but there aren't really any overly intricate branching paths.

If even someone of Zhang Tianshi's standing has searched the existing map thoroughly and still hasn't found those three people,

then there's only one possibility — they entered the hidden passage the archaeological team has been looking for!

After Zhang Tianshi voiced this guess, Professor Chen also nodded in agreement.

"It's very likely that while they were running, they accidentally triggered a mechanism."

"If that's the case, then we still need to look for the mechanism's entrance."

After Professor Chen finished speaking, he asked, somewhat puzzled, how Zhang Tianshi had driven away the Dragon Lice.

"Tianshi, how did these thousands upon thousands of Dragon Lice disappear?"

"When we were running with the special forces unit, we tried both gunfire and fire."

"That could only make them retreat briefly, but a lot of these things seemed to fear death no more than anything."

"The moment the flames got a little smaller, they'd bunch up into a ball and charge at us."

Fatty and Tianzhen, hearing this, both felt a stir in their hearts and looked toward Zhang Tianshi.

Only the two of them now knew that the reason the Dragon Lice had fled was Zhang Tianshi's blood at work.

Even now, the wound on his left hand was still seeping blood!

There was nothing for it — human blood clots on its own.

To save people and drive away the Dragon Lice, Zhang Tianshi had to keep reopening the clotted wound.

The gory scene made both Tianzhen and Fatty cry out that they couldn't stand it.

But Zhang Tianshi didn't so much as furrow a brow.

It was as if he couldn't feel the pain at all!

The two of them had also gone from their initial suspicion and wariness of Zhang Tianshi to a different, complicated emotion.

Like right now, when Professor Chen was asking Zhang Tianshi how he'd driven away the Dragon Lice.

Even though the two of them both knew the reason, they tacitly chose to keep their mouths shut.

In Fatty's words: if the Tianshi wants to talk, he'll talk on his own — what's it to us to open our mouths?

Zhang Tianshi, however, said: "Mount Wudang has some insect-repelling medicines, but I didn't bring much."

"So, it's best if everyone doesn't wander off — staying together is better."

Zhang Lin, watching this scene in the livestream, smiled knowingly.

Because when Zhang Tianshi was saving people earlier, Fatty and Tianzhen had been following right behind him the whole time.

So Zhang Lin guessed these two had long since discovered the Tianshi's secret.

Yet both chose to keep silent. It seemed that even if the trajectory of some things began to deviate from the very start,

in the end it would still turn toward a certain direction.

Take, for example, the friendship of this trio!

It was forged through tomb-raiding expeditions just like this, time after time.

The bonds between people are wondrous — even when at the very beginning they suspected each other intensely,

sometimes a single act on the other's part can completely change one's view!

Look at Tianzhen and Fatty now, sticking close to Zhang Tianshi and refusing to leave his side.

It's clear these three will be hard to separate from here on out.

Just as Zhang Lin was lost in thought, he suddenly heard an archaeology team member in the livestream cry out.

"Help! Something's wrapped around my leg!"

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