Chapter 13: The Treasure-Seeking Fat Man

Zhang Wuxun had prepared in advance before pressing the mechanism, and the hole wasn’t opened right beneath his feet.

Silently lighting two candles in his heart for Fatty Ye, Zhang Wuxun grasped his dagger and jumped in.

Smack—he stepped on something unknown. Shining his flashlight downward, a chill ran down his spine.

“Damn it, how are there so many corpse beetles here?”

In that instant, he regretted it deeply; it would have been better to crawl on the surface.

Fatty Wang cursed and waved his wolf-eye flashlight like a club, smashing every ugly corpse beetle he struck. “Zhang Muyu, you damn bastard, you’ve screwed Fatty Ye over.”

It turned out that when Fatty Ye had fallen just now, he landed directly in a pile of corpse beetles; his hefty backside had crushed several of them instantly.

The corpse beetles were startled and retreated at first, but after recovering, they fiercely chased Fatty Ye, biting him relentlessly.

“Damn it, Muyu! Is that you?”

Suddenly, Xiao Tianzhen’s voice came from the front. Zhang Wuxun peeked ahead and saw him and Panzi surrounded by corpse beetles, barely holding on.

“It’s me!” Zhang Wuxun called back, grabbing Fatty Ye and running toward them.

Strangely, the corpse beetles that confronted Zhang Wuxun suddenly slammed on the brakes and turned to bite Fatty Ye instead, creating a strange vacuum zone around Zhang Wuxun.

His mood was mixed—relieved that Xiao Tianzhen was found, but worried about the overwhelming number of corpse beetles here.

Though Zhang Wuxun’s unique physique made him immune to bites, to the corpse beetles, Xiao Tianzhen and the others were like succulent braised meat.

“Shit…” Zhang Wuxun swore, quickly clearing the corpse beetles around Wu Xiaoxie. “This place is basically a corpse beetle nest. Xiao Tianzhen, your luck is just unbelievable.”

Wu Xiaoxie cursed as well. “Cut the crap and think of a way out. If we delay any longer, we’re all dead.”

Fatty Ye was too focused on the front to care about the cluster on his back, while Panzi was worse off—he had been protecting Xiao Tianzhen and was bitten all over, looking like a bloody gourd.

“Panzi, get out of the way!” Zhang Wuxun quickly unscrewed a small steel vial and threw it behind Panzi.

The vial hit the ground, spilling a colorless liquid.

Instantly, the air temperature plummeted. Within three seconds of contact with the liquid, the corpse beetles lost vitality, freezing solid. Those clinging to the ground were killed on the spot.

“Well done!” Panzi slashed the corpse beetles off himself and praised.

Zhang Wuxun took out another vial, repeated the process behind Fatty Ye, freezing another batch.

The remaining corpse beetles instinctively retreated toward their previous positions.

The group finally caught a breath.

“Hurry, this stuff won’t last long. We need to find a way out quickly,” Zhang Wuxun said, helping Panzi clear the corpse beetles off him.

Wu Xiaoxie pointed ahead. “I remember there’s an opening over there to climbI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.