Bronze Basin

  5 Bronze Tripods

  If it weren't for the military boots on his feet, Ji Yaozu would have thought this person was the missing Er Dang. The Japanese soldier, who no longer had lips, revealed a mouthful of white teeth and walked step by step towards Ji Yaozu, as if asking to be saved, but also as if it were just a conditioned reflex.

  Ji Yaozu couldn't care less about this disgusting guy, and with a flash of movement, he dodged him. At the same time, he pulled out his slingshot from his waist and grabbed three iron pellets from his belt. These iron pellets were something Ji Yaozu had practiced with since childhood, and when used with the slingshot, they could hit their mark every single time. Even if he just threw them by hand, relying solely on his arm strength, they would still be able to kill someone within ten steps. So, those ordinary little rascals were not even worth looking at in his eyes.

  And this iron pellet is specially used to hit the acupuncture points, where the human body is the weakest, it will be hit there, eyes, mouth, neck, abdomen, and ***, are all within its range. Now Ji Yaozu has already put the iron pellet on the rubber piece of the slingshot, and at the same time pulled the rubber band to its limit, aiming at the dark tomb path and walked past.

  There were still a few unburned matches in front of him, which could barely light up for him. After walking tens of meters, he saw another Japanese soldier lying on the ground, his gun thrown to the ground, his whole body torn apart, and blood flowing over his feet, the smell of blood grew stronger.

  Ji Yaozu was worried about Er Dang's safety, and after walking so far without seeing his body, he wondered if he had been taken away by the black corpse. But what would a black corpse want with a live person? Could it still eat human flesh? With these thoughts in mind, Ji Yaozu quickened his pace.

  At this time, he heard a rustling sound, the iron chain dragging on the ground reappeared, and there was also a strange "giggle" sound coming out, as if someone was talking. Ji Yaozu didn't care about anything else, and his hand that was pulling the bowstring relaxed, only to hear a "whooshing" sound, three iron pellets flew out and disappeared into the darkness in front of him. Before he could take out another pellet, he saw a dark figure rushing towards him.

  Ji Yaozu instinctively reacted and dodged to the side, while the black figure also stomped out the fire starter on the ground. The tomb passage immediately returned to darkness. In this situation, Ji Yaozu knew he couldn't fight back anymore. He was probably already done for. It would be better to leave quickly. At this point, he even hoped to die at Song Jing's hands rather than in this dark tomb passage.

  Then he spotted the sunlight that had been cast on the hole he had dug earlier and immediately ran over, but before he took two steps, he bumped into something, causing his slingshot to fly out of his hand. At this moment, the black shadow appeared in front of Ji Yaozu again, and with the faint sunlight behind it, Ji Yaozu saw that this person was indeed Er Dang, whom he had been searching for. It seemed that he hadn't died after all, and he was even holding onto some strange object.

  "Second brother, it's me, Ya Zou. You're fine, right? Let's get out of here quickly!" Ji Yaozou immediately stood up and reached out to grab Er Dang, but he felt a chill run down his arm and onto the top of his head, causing his scalp to tingle. The person in front of him was not Er Dang.

  To be precise, he shouldn't be considered a living being, but rather an undead creature who has been reanimated. Reanimation is actually just a myth, similar to the viral infections in zombie games, and in Chinese tombs, those jiangshi aside from having some toxicity themselves, generally won't transmit their zombie-like state to tomb raiders, but there are exceptions, some specially cursed jiangshi will gain this ability due to mutations caused by the underground environment.

  To put it simply, there is a kind of gas in the chest of a corpse. This gas is like the so-called "cultivation" that ordinary people talk about, and it's a kind of corpse energy. If this corpse energy can enter your body, it will immediately paralyze your central nervous system, making you become a stupid and numb person who can only control their actions according to the energy in their brain. So even though they seem to be able to move and run around, it's all just a result of nerve stimulation.

  However, the corpses that possess this ability are extremely rare, and only ancient corpses from dynasties over a thousand years ago have the possibility of triggering it. The corpses from the past hundred years do not have this ability, but coincidentally, Jiyaozu encountered such a contagious black corpse today, and Er Dang has already been controlled by this aura.

  Er Dun rushed over again, and Ji Yaozu dodged once more. His movements were slow, but despite only having a faint light, Ji Yaozu's skills had been honed since childhood, and he had explored several tombs before. Just by listening to the sounds, he could judge the internal structure and mechanisms of the tomb, so it was even easier for him to deal with Er Dun's slow attacks.

  Ji Yaozu dodged to the side, immediately running towards the location of the pit, and at the same time, he also heard the sound of footsteps chasing behind him. Suddenly, after passing by the dismembered Japanese soldier, Er Dang seemed to have tripped and fallen, and the thing in his hand was also flung out, directly hitting Ji Yaozu's back and knocking him to the ground.

  However, Ji Yaozu was also extremely quick to react and immediately got back up on his feet. It was only then that he saw the object that had just hit him was a bronze artifact, resembling a large pot with two handles on either side and a round bottom, similar to an enormous double-eared teacup. Meanwhile, Er Dang, having lost this object, fell to the ground and couldn't get up again. The black energy on his body began to seep out once more, creeping towards the bronze teacup in front of Ji Yaozu.

  That black air must be the ghost of this thing, Ji Yaozu hooked his left foot and picked up the teacup with his left hand, but he didn't expect it to be extremely heavy. Before the black air could catch up, he had already run towards that pit.

  That Japanese soldier with half his skin torn off was still spinning around, as if no one had pulled him up to the pit, so Jiyaozu lightly kicked him with his body, and the black air that had been chasing him down directly crashed into the guy's arms, only to hear a scream, but Jiyaozu didn't have time to look back, he jumped onto the pit in one swift motion, while Matsuiye pulled him to the ground.

  This run really used up all of Ji Yaozu's strength, don't look at the short time, being able to retreat completely is a must-have for solid kung fu and extremely fast reaction, otherwise it would be like those two Japanese soldiers who were skinned alive.

  "This is Xing Hou's Zun!" said Song Jinye, holding up the thing that Ji Yaozu had retrieved from underground.