Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

Chapter 240 The Palace of the Queen Mother of the West... collapsed?

"The Palace of the Queen Mother of the West?"

Upon hearing this, Fatty Wang grabbed Zhang Qiling's hand and smelled it. "It really does smell like that stinky sewer in the Queen Mother of the West's palace."

“Something’s not right. Something must have happened inside.” Xie Yuchen looked at the ground, which was slowly seeping water out, and turned his gaze toward the direction of the Queen Mother of the West’s Palace.

"What happened? It's so far away." Fatty Wang gazed into the distance, sensing that something was amiss.

However, even without other interfering factors, it would have taken them almost a day to get out from where they are now. What kind of commotion inside could affect such a long distance?

"I'll go and discuss it with them. For safety's sake, we should evacuate this area first."

The quicksand pit is spreading as water seeps in, and it's not far from the camp, so it's best to get them to evacuate as soon as possible.

After all, if this sand dune can suddenly sink, there's no guarantee that something similar might happen in other places.

"Then I'll go inside with the blind man and see what's wrong," Su Li said, casually summoning 'Light Song'.

Wu Xie returned from the edge of the sandpit, holding a small, transparent, soft-shelled insect in his hand—the same kind of small creature they had seen in the waterways of the Queen Mother of the West's Palace.

It's confirmed: the depression in the sand dune is indeed related to the interior.

It's really strange. They've gone through so many ancient tombs that should have been destroyed in one go without any problems, so why is it that the Queen Mother of the West Palace, which shouldn't have been within the range of Wuxie's "tombs always explode" buff, has run into trouble?

"Am I really that weird?" Without any prompting from her companions, she started questioning her own existence.

Doubting life is useless. Zhang Qiling reached out and pulled Wu Xie, who was trying to shut himself off, over. "Unravel the chain."

The puppy eom instantly regained full health. Right, he had to personally keep an eye on Jie Lianhuan and prevent that old fox from escaping in the chaos.

It wasn't that he didn't trust the soldiers' abilities, but he didn't believe that old fox could behave himself. This was a carefully selected hard-working ox that he and Xiaohua had prepared for the Xie family, and they couldn't let him get away.

Solution: The Old Ox's Chain Reaction: ...

With a flash of light from the sword, Hei Xiazi finally got to experience the sword flight he had been longing for. If there hadn't been a large group of people below, he would have loved to let out a few shouts to express his joy.

The lush rainforest lies beneath my feet, its shadows looming in the night, like a ferocious beast buried deep in the desert.

Areas that would be time-consuming and laborious to traverse by human means are covered in just a few minutes after switching to flight mode.

Black Bear felt the flying sword beneath his feet was stable. Before he could even enjoy the thrill of speed, they had already stopped above a deep pit.

The pitch-black night had no impact on the bear's vision; in fact, it made him see even more clearly.

After scanning the surrounding ruins and comparing them with the dilapidated remains, Hei Xiazi came to a conclusion.

"The Palace of the Queen Mother of the West... has collapsed?"

"Judging from this, it should be... right?" Su Li controlled the flying sword to get closer and saw a black rock formation resembling an island emerging from the murky mud. Some jade-like parts could also be seen between the rocks.

The material looks like the same as what they saw on the meteorite around the throne. "To be precise, it looks like the meteorite collapsed."

Judging from the area covered by the meteorite they saw in the underground waterway, this extraterrestrial object clearly occupies a large area and may very well encompass the entire underground palace of the Queen Mother of the West.

At this moment, the meteorite suddenly collapsed for unknown reasons, so the underground palace below was probably about to collapse as well.

Did the collapsed underground palace affect the underground water veins below, causing changes in the water veins and thus affecting the desert area surrounding the rainforest?

Isn't this having a bit too far-reaching an impact?

Even if it were due to the influence of the water veins, it shouldn't be enough to carry away the tiny, transparent insects unique to the underground palace.

"Was this part in the original storyline???"

Su Li carefully reviewed her memories, then decisively shook her head. This was one of the few buildings that could survive under Xiao Tianzhen's hands...

Oh... not anymore...

Even the Seven Star Lu Palace is luckier than it.

“Little Ali, do you think there’s a possibility…” Hei Xiazi put one arm around Su Li’s shoulder and stroked his chin with the other as if he was thinking.

"The Queen Mother of the West used the energy in the meteorite for her own purposes and used special methods to keep the meteorite in that position."

"We sold the Queen Mother of the West's consciousness inside the meteorite, and the meteorite, losing its support, began to fall..."

Su Li tilted her head in thought, gesturing for him to continue.

"Then there's that snake mother who digs holes all over the underground world like an earthworm. With such a huge body, none of the underground palaces are big enough for her to turn over. How could she live there for thousands of years?"

It's probably hollowed out the entire underside of the rainforest.

Now it has been sent to another world to shine, and the meteorite has collapsed, pressing down on the already interconnected waterways created by the snakes...

Does this make some sense?

Su Li nodded thoughtfully, about to say that made sense, when she heard...

With a loud "boom," the slowly descending meteorite suddenly collapsed, causing a large section of the ruins that had not been affected to also collapse.

"Whoa!!! It seems the blind man was right, the bottom has definitely been hollowed out by that snake mother."

"Hollowed out" and stuff? It's a snake, why are you talking about it like a worm hollowing out a tree? Su Li felt a chill run down her spine, rubbed her arms in disgust, and shivered.

Having figured out what had happened in the rainforest, the two stopped lingering, turned their swords around, and headed towards the camp.

On their way back, they also saw that other parts of the rainforest were experiencing a chain reaction, with areas beginning to collapse.

Goodness, the area of ​​effect seems to be even greater than Wu Xie's power in the story.

Back near the camp, they landed behind a small sand dune. When the two ran back to the group, the camp was almost ready to be packed up and loaded onto the vehicles in preparation for departure.

I have to say, the regular army is just different. Their efficiency is like it's on double speed, absolutely amazing!

Following the contractual connection, Su Li opened the back door of an SUV and looked up to meet the gaze of Xie Lianhuan's old, stepmother-like face.

unlucky……

"Hey~ what's this guy doing in the car too?" Black Bear also poked his head over.

Pan Zi sat awkwardly in the driver's seat, with Fatty Wang in the passenger seat and Zhang Qiling, Wu Xie, and Xie Lianhuan in the back.

When Wu Xie, who was sitting in the middle, heard Hei Xiazi's question, he raised his hand expressionlessly, and Jie Lianhuan was also pulled up with one hand by his action.

Only then did they notice that the two men's hands were handcuffed together.

At once……

"The young man was right. We just broke camp here, and this guy and our Da Pan are already almost touching the car."

As he spoke, Fatty Wang patted Panzi on the shoulder, smiling warmly.