The tomb raider before me appeared to have died a tragic death, yet wore a smile on his face. Such a way to die was simply unbelievable.

But then, upon further reflection, I suddenly understood.

I said, "Could this tomb raider have gone insane before he died, like those tomb raiders we encountered earlier, laughing like a madman, and that's why his companions killed him?"

Old Wei immediately nodded and said, "Very likely. Otherwise, there's no way he'd be smiling as he died."

Hu Wazi also said, "Exactly! His skull was smashed, yet he could still laugh? He must have gone mad!"

As we spoke, Xiao Liang discovered two more tomb raider corpses not far away. They had also died from blunt force trauma to the head, and they too wore strange smiles on their faces as they died.

Looking at these "smiling in their graves" corpses, I felt a chill run down my spine!

For a moment, I didn't want to look for the Crystal Palace anymore. I just wanted to turn around and go back. Whoever wants the Crystal Palace can have it, whoever wants to capture Liu Huangshu can do it!

The more I chickened out, the more afraid I became.

The fear in my heart started to grow.

Standing in this tomb chamber, I felt a gloomy atmosphere all around, as if a pair of eyes were secretly watching me, making the hairs on my body stand on end.

Suddenly, just as we were about to continue on our way, I felt that in the corner of my eye, I saw the corpse on the ground move slightly.

"Holy crap! Holy crap!"

I shouted in fright.

Xiao Liang was startled by my shout and quickly turned to look at me, asking, "Chen Rongsheng, what's wrong?"

Old Wei and Hu Wazi also turned around and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you yelling?"

I pointed at the corpse on the ground and said, "I saw that corpse move just now."

Old Wei laughed when he heard this, shaking his head and saying, "Xiao Chen, you must be mistaken. These corpses are all cold, and their limbs are stiff. How could they move?"

Hu Wazi also patted me on the shoulder with a chuckle and said, "Brother-in-law, don't scare yourself. Relax, I've got your back."

As soon as he finished speaking, the tomb raider's corpse twitched violently again!

This time, it wasn't just me, even Hu Wazi and Old Wei saw it clearly. The two of them also shouted, "Holy crap!"

Without another word, Hu Wazi instinctively kicked the tomb raider's head, yelling, "You dare to reanimate? You dare to reanimate?"

The tomb raider, whether he wasn't completely dead or had been resurrected, actually raised his hands and flailed in the air, trying to fight Hu Wazi.

Fortunately, Hu Wazi took the initiative and kicked the tomb raider's skull to pieces, finally silencing him.

But at the same time as this corpse "reanimated," the other two corpses also began to stir. Old Wei and the other Xiaoling Guards were terrified. They immediately drew their weapons and unloaded a volley of bullets into the two corpses.

The sound of gunfire echoed in the empty tomb chamber, making our ears ring, but the two corpses were subdued and showed no further signs of reanimation.

After such a commotion, everyone was frightened.

Especially Xiao Liang, whose pretty face was pale and her lips were bloodless.

She ran over to me in a few steps and asked, "Chen Rongsheng, what's going on? Weren't these tomb raiders already dead? How could they still move?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know either."

After saying that, I looked at the old man leading the way. I felt that if anyone present could explain what was happening, it would probably be him.

But the old man was also vague. When he saw me looking at him, he could only shake his head and say, "Little brother, to be honest with you, the things in this ancient tomb are too powerful for me to explain. If you ask me why they reanimated, I can only say I don't know, I really don't know..."

I looked into his eyes and knew he wasn't lying to me.

Although he had lived in this ancient tomb for decades, he hadn't been able to figure out all of its mysteries.

The truth behind this would have to be investigated by us.

After finally dealing with the three tomb raider corpses, we continued forward.

The tomb chamber in front of us was still a suite, with the outer chamber we were just in and another, more spacious chamber inside.

Passing through the passage, we arrived at the second tomb chamber. As soon as we entered, I saw another corpse lying on the ground.

With the experience we had just had, I didn't dare to act rashly this time. I kept a certain distance from the corpse and let Old Wei and Hu Wazi, the two brothers with stronger combat abilities, go over to take a look first.

Old Wei shined his flashlight over, and as the light swept across, he suddenly exclaimed, "Holy crap!"

I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "This isn't a tomb raider, it's an ancient corpse!"

When I heard this, I quickly went over to take a look, and sure enough, it was an ancient corpse.

The remains before me were shriveled and unrecognizable, basically just skin and bones. His body was wrapped in layers of brownish-yellow burial cloth, revealing only his head and half of his chest.

I took a quick look at his facial features and saw that the most distinctive feature was a pair of eyeballs protruding from his eye sockets. This was clearly the "vertical eyes" recorded in historical books. Of course, I didn't know if he was born that way or if his eyeballs were protruding because the corpse had been immersed in water for many years.

In addition, the skin on this person's neck and chest also showed a pathological change. His skin was dark black and covered with dense wrinkles. From a distance, it looked like he had scales.

It immediately reminded me of the remains we encountered in the ancient Shu tomb in Duck River, the ones that the corpse driver Mr. Liao drove out. The similarity between these two sets of remains was very high, almost identical.

I quickly asked the old man leading the way, "Old man, where did these remains come from? Have you seen them before?"

The old man shook his head decisively and said, "This is the first time I've seen them too. I've never seen them before. I guess they were dug out of the coffin? Weren't there tomb raiders who came in? I think they did it!"

Hearing this, I quickly searched the entire tomb chamber and soon found something similar to a coffin in the middle of the chamber.

It was a section of log, a very thick log.

The log was about three meters long and more than one meter in diameter. It should have been cut directly from a tree, and a slit had been carved out in the middle of the trunk.

Combining this with the situation in the Duck River tomb, where the ancient Shu king buried himself directly in the tree trunk, I strongly suspected that this was the coffin that contained the corpse.

I pointed to the section of log and said to Old Wei, Hu Wazi, and the others, "These ancient remains were probably dug out of this log."