Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

"Go ahead! We have come this far, why turn back? I have never heard of a bow that has been shot coming back." At this moment, someone in the crowd shouted this sentence, the voice was neither loud nor soft, but it was clearly heard by everyone. However, this sentence that seemed full of threats and provocations did not scare everyone away, but instead ignited the greedy desires that had been hidden deep in their hearts for a long time.

Xie Yuchen, who was standing in front of the crowd, frowned slightly. He knew the person who spoke very well. Without thinking too much, he knew that apart from the Wang family who were like rats in the gutter and were obsessed with the secrets of the Zhang family's ancient building, who else could be so eager to break into this mysterious ancient tomb?

Xie Yuchen did not turn back to look for the person who shouted, but said coldly: "I came here to worship my ancestors. As for why you are here, I believe you all know it clearly in your hearts." As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head suddenly, and scanned the people behind him with a sharp gaze.

"Humph, there are indeed countless rare treasures hidden in the Zhang family's ancestral tomb, but whether you can get them and how much you can get depends entirely on your own abilities. However..." At this point, Xie Yuchen paused for a moment, a barely perceptible sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he continued: "As for whether you will still be alive to enjoy these treasures after obtaining them, that is another matter. After all, the dangers of this underground world are no joke, and you may die here if you are not careful."

Hearing this, there was a commotion in the crowd, and someone shouted disdainfully: "This is not under the jurisdiction of your Xie family! Who among us here has not experienced many battles, and who hasn't killed a person? Could it be that you, the head of the Xie family, can't bear to part with those treasures, so you deliberately made up this story to scare us, and want to prevent us from going in to search for treasures?"

Xie Yuchen looked at the group of ignorant guys in front of him with an expressionless face, and sneered in his heart. Since they were so stubborn, why should he waste his breath to stop them? Anyway, his goal had been achieved.

At this time, Wang Pangzi, who was standing by, seemed careless and like a rough man without any schemes, but in fact, his heart was as clear as a mirror. At this moment, he keenly noticed some clues: Huo Xiangu and the team led by Qiu Dekao, who was named Xia, seemed to have a mysterious power hidden. In addition to the three parties present, there was probably another force. And this force was most likely the group of people whose traces were discovered when they just entered the cave.

Wu Xie also felt that something was wrong, but his strong curiosity drove him to continue exploring and uncover the truth behind it. Therefore, he subconsciously chose to ignore all those unreasonable places.

Just as Wu Xie was about to step forward, Fatty Wang was quick to grab him and said in a low voice, "You're so naive. I'm always worried. I always feel like there's something wrong here. Why don't we retreat first? It won't be too late to come back when we're ready."

Wu Xie knew that there must be something shady going on here, but now that things have come to this point, if he asked to leave now, it would obviously be impossible to achieve. So, he took a deep breath and said to Fatty Wang beside him: "Fatty, since someone is secretly hiding in our team, it means that we are now in a dilemma and have no way out!"

Hearing this, Fatty Wang was immediately frightened and turned pale. He widened his eyes and asked in a trembling voice, "Could it be... could it be that?"

Wu Xie nodded with an extremely serious expression, lowered his voice and continued to analyze: "From the current situation, they took great pains to lead us to this place, and there is absolutely no way they would let us give up halfway and go back home. So, now we have no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward to the end! Follow Xiaohua closely, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope to get out of this hellhole alive. If we leave halfway, it is hard to say whether it is our people or our souls that escape safely!"

After hearing this, Fatty Wang gnashed his teeth in anger, spat fiercely on the ground, and cursed: "This group of conscienceless bastards deserve to be cut into pieces. I must be so unlucky in my eight lifetimes to have encountered such a bad thing!"

Xie Yuchen glanced at the crowd and saw that everyone wanted to continue moving forward and exploring, so he said loudly: "Since you are all so determined to keep going, then to deal with this mechanism next, I'm afraid we'll have to rely on your concerted efforts and manpower!" After speaking, he pointed to the jade platform not far away that was emitting a mysterious light.

It turned out that just now, the Zhang family had used dead objects to test the function of this jade table. They carefully took out a bag of self-heating rice, gently placed it on the table, and then reached out to touch the mechanism. In an instant, the table slowly sank, and when it rose again, the self-heating rice originally placed on it disappeared without a trace. However, when someone activated the mechanism again, the bag of self-heating rice reappeared on the table like a magic trick, but surprisingly, the outer layer of the self-heating rice was now covered with a thick layer of resin-like substance.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the jade table and the self-heating rice covered with resin on the table. For a moment, the scene fell into silence, and everyone's face showed hesitation and hesitation. No one was willing to be the first person to stand up. Finally, someone in the crowd stammered: "This... What should we do?"

Xie Yuchen glanced at the expressions of the crowd and said, "This is the method. The mechanism on the stone door is probably where the stone platform descends, but there is only this one way to get down. I have sent someone, so is it your turn to solve the mechanism?"

There are quite a few people present who can crack the mechanism, but everyone with a discerning eye knows that if they go down and come up again, they will be dead. This is a one-time deal, and no one wants to die.

"Master Xie, since you have already sent people, why don't you just be a good person and let your people crack the mechanism below? This way we don't have to grope around underground on our own, right?" The Wang family members hiding in the crowd naturally wanted to fish in troubled waters.

Xie Yuchen was so angry at the shameless words that he laughed, "Why? I have contributed both manpower and money, do you intend to sit back and reap the benefits without any effort? If I had known this would happen, I should not have brought you in from the beginning. After all, I am only here to worship the ancestors on behalf of my father. Lighting incense, burning gold ingots, and kowtowing twice at the entrance of the cave is considered worship."

At this time, someone else spoke up, "If that's the case, why did Patriarch Xie go through so much trouble to go through so much trouble? It's just that he doesn't want outsiders like us to share your treasures."

"That's right, since Patriarch Xie doesn't want to share the treasure, then he shouldn't have agreed to bring us in in the first place!"

Huo Xiangu is not one of those fools who have never seen a battlefield. She is definitely not an ordinary person to be able to take over the position of the head of the Huo family from her third aunt Huo Jinxi. Now, she has also realized that there are its people in her team, and they are definitely not a minority.

Xia, a woman, was able to take the leading position among the male mercenaries, so she was definitely not a naive person. Fortunately, apart from a few people with bad intentions, there was really no one else in her team.

Huo Xiangu's sharp eyes were like two burning flames, instantly locked onto the person who had just spoken, as if she had a pair of golden eyes that could see through everything. She gently waved her jade hand, and her trusted subordinates beside her moved as quickly as the wind, and in the blink of an eye, they firmly grabbed the man and dragged him in front of everyone.

"You bold lunatic! Who do you think you are? How dare you talk nonsense here! Don't you know your own weight? How dare you speak nonsense in front of us? Are you so bold as to be so ignorant, or has God lent you 500 years of life that you are so ignorant that you dare to say such stupid words?" Huo Xian Gu's eyes were wide open, her eyebrows were raised, and she scolded angrily.

At this time, the man who was pressed to the ground and kneeled, although his face was full of fear, there was no fluctuation in his eyes, and even a hint of imperceptible provocation was revealed. "Master, this action of mine is entirely out of loyalty! I have seen it all along the way. Xie Yuchen is just a young boy who dares to bully you. I really can't stand it!" This person pretended to be calm and defended himself, trying to absolve himself of the blame.

However, how could Huo Xian Gu easily believe his words? She stared coldly at the unrepentant guy in front of her and said sarcastically: "Humph! What a good guy to fight for me! Who do you think you are? How dare you claim to be my close friend and come to help me out? Do you think that I live too comfortably and smoothly on weekdays, so you come here to create some trouble for me?"

Xie Yuchen did not speak, and Huo Xiangu naturally knew what to do, "Master Xie, aren't we still missing someone to open the mechanism under the stone platform? There is a ready-made one here, so there is no need to look for someone else, right?"

Xie Yuchen looked the man on the ground up and down, "Huo Xian Gu, have your brain and age shrunk together? This man is so disobedient to me, and I still let him open the mechanism? Aren't you afraid that he will surround us?"

Huo Xian Gu was so choked by Xie Yuchen's words that she couldn't speak, but she had to make a statement. After all, she still had to rely on Xie Yuchen for the rest of her life.

Xie Yuchen suddenly changed the subject, "But this stone platform looks pretty big, it should be able to accommodate two people. Why don't I send someone to take him down with me? If he survives to come up, I won't bother with him about what happened just now. If he doesn't come up, then that's his fate."

Huo Xian Gu naturally knew what Xie Yu Chen meant. If this man went down, he would not be alive whether he came up or not. However, Huo Xian Gu really could not think of any other way to calm Xie Yu Chen's anger, so he nodded and agreed.

Xie Yuchen casually pointed to one of the people he brought with him and whispered a few words in his ear. After the man nodded, he pulled over the Huo family members who had their hands and feet tied, and laid them side by side on the stone platform.

Everyone watched the two people disappear from the stage, while Xie Yuchen picked up his water cup and moistened his lips slowly.

The waiting time always seemed so long that Wu Xie and the others always felt as if a century had passed, but when they looked at their watches, it was only five minutes.

Finally, the moment the stone platform came up again attracted everyone's attention. A huge resin on the stone platform wrapped around Xie Yuchen, and everyone knew the fate of the Huo family member.

The Zhang family quickly rescued the person wrapped in resin from inside. After they recovered, they looked at Xie Yuchen. After getting Xie Yuchen's approval, two people came and took the person out of the cave.

The mural on the stone gate reappeared at the location where another member of the Zhang family opened the stone gate after Zhang Hainan.

As the last stone door opened, greed was revealed in the eyes of the Huo family members, while some of them had greed on their faces but fanaticism in their eyes.