Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 192 Redefining the Test of the Waters

Once inside the passage, the space is still quite large, enough for at least two or three people to move around quite easily.

Even though the searchlights overhead couldn't reach far, they could still illuminate the general area around us.

Moreover, as Yan Huai guessed, after the entrance to the passage was closed, the river water was isolated from the outside, and the flow of water in the passage that actually led to the water burial chamber was slowing down.

Until the rushing river water sank from their heads to their ankles...

Yan Huai and Zhang Qiling stood in the passage, and after confirming that the other's situation and the interior of the passage were all correct, they continued to walk side by side into the depths.

About two minutes later, the passage began to slope and became slippery. At the end, there was a familiar patch of darkness, somewhat similar to the layer of tarnish floating on the river.

As a passageway for transporting coffins, this place might have been empty before it was completed, but who knows now? At least, the Turritopsis dohrnii from the Seven Stars mission hasn't been seen yet.

"Be careful."

Yan Huai, with his mouth full of breathing tube, made a muffled sound that reached Zhang Qiling's ears—the passage was closed year-round, the oxygen was thin, and the smell was somewhat strange, so the two of them did not easily remove their equipment for the time being.

Just as Yan Huai was about to go down the sloping passage, Zhang Qiling reached out and grabbed him.

"Hmm?" What's wrong?

"There is something."

Zhang Qiling's gaze fell on one spot, but the searchlight beams were slightly offset, clearly to avoid disturbing something with the light.

Yan Huai, on the other hand, was more direct (without any sense of propriety). He turned his head following Zhang Qiling's gaze, and the overhead light fell directly on a bluish-green tentacle, startling it so much that it instantly shrank back into the passage wall.

What is that thing?

It's thin, with some bristly tentacles; it feels like I've seen it somewhere before...

"Hehe~ You didn't know, did you! Come here! This is a jellyfish's foot~"

The voice of the man in black glasses suddenly rang in Yan Huai's mind, reminding him of the jellyfish tentacle he had seen before. But wasn't that tentacle white? This green... oh, it's the green algae on the wall.

Yan Huai looked at the green substance on Zhang Qiling's diving suit gloves and was speechless for a moment.

Previously, I needed time to recover from the memories, and I was unwilling to face them. In addition, my focus was on the Wang family, so I didn't think too much about why the jellyfish's tentacles appeared in the outside world. Now that I see them again in this passage, it can't be a coincidence.

Thinking of this, Yan Huai was about to turn around and tell Zhang Qiling his guess, but then the guy suddenly took out a rope from his space, along with half of the taimen that had been split in two earlier.

What is this going to do?

Yan Huai stared blankly as Zhang Qiling tied the rope to the tail of the half-taimen, then took two steps back...

call out--

My flesh!!!

Yan Huai's eyes widened suddenly, his gaze following the taimen that swept overhead before disappearing into the darkness diagonally below with a whoosh. Er Kang's hand froze in mid-air...

Zhang Qiling glanced at Yan Huai, who was frozen in place and didn't react for a long time, and suddenly understood his thoughts in a strange way.

"There's still a lot left." So don't be reluctant to part with it.

Yan Huai's heart was pounding... He didn't want to speak to Zhang Qiling for even a second!

Time's up—oh well, that meat probably wouldn't even taste good anyway...

(Azure Dragon's Little Classroom begins: Yan Huai loves to eat fish, all kinds of fish. He has a large appetite and is very possessive of his food. Moreover, as the patriarch of the Azure Dragon clan, Yan Huai's biological instincts allow him to know which meats taste delicious, so this "not necessarily" statement is largely unreliable.)

After a brief moment of sulking, Yan Huai realized that Zhang Qiling had his reasons for doing so.

If that tentacle really was the jellyfish Yan Huai was looking for, then why would Yan Huai need to release it if its tentacles could already extend? Given its timid and hesitant demeanor, either it's playing dumb to outmaneuver others, or there's a more powerful entity in the tomb imprisoning or driving it away...

Therefore, this tactic is called "testing the waters," where the target is Yan Huai's food, and the target is the road ahead.

Sure enough, not long after, the rope binding half of the bloody taimen in Zhang Qiling's hand suddenly tightened, the force of which was far greater than expected.

The two realized something was wrong at the same time. Yan Huai quickly stepped forward and used his back to block Zhang Qiling, who was leaning forward, so that he could use the leverage to stabilize himself. His free hands then landed on the rope and gradually applied force to test the other end.

"Conserve your energy, don't use all your strength."

However, as time went on, the two quickly realized that what was inside was definitely not something that could be easily overcome by human strength. At least so far, that thing probably hadn't used its full strength either, yet they had already moved forward more than ten centimeters from their original position.

Further ahead, you'll enter a sloping section of the passage, where there will be even less foothold.

We need to force this thing to show itself first, or at least find out what it is. Otherwise, rushing in will only put both of us in a passive or even dangerous position.

Thinking of this, Yan Huai slightly bent his right leg, gripped the rope tightly with both arms, and released the maximum force he could exert from his body.

In that instant, their forward movement came to a halt, and they even felt as if they were being pulled back.

It was on the verge of collapse, turning into an ordinary hemp rope...

Zhang Qiling was slightly surprised. Even though he had witnessed Yan Huai carrying coffin boards with his bare hands and lifting huge stones with his bare hands, he had never experienced it as directly as he did now.

Qi Yu clearly told him that Yan Huai is still in a weak period... Does it have some misunderstanding about the word "weak"?