The group had not gone far underwater before they spotted an obvious looters' tunnel.
The tunnel lay at the bottom of a deep pit blasted open by explosives. Wu Xie and the others studied the opening for a while, exchanged a few hand signals, nodded to one another, and swam inside.
Tiga Clone was placed in the middle. It was not that they particularly wanted to protect him; they simply did not trust him at the front or the rear, leaving the middle as the only option.
As they followed the looters' tunnel into the burial passage, the Underwater Tomb architecture Tiga Clone had been anticipating finally appeared.
The human-faced reliefs on the walls of the passage remained clearly visible despite centuries of seawater erosion. Their unusual style and poses made Tiga Clone stop repeatedly to admire them, and his leisurely manner left the already-tense Wu Xie rather speechless.
Come on, we're already inside the tomb!
Not every tomb contained all sorts of strange things, but this one had clearly been constructed with immense effort. Its owner could not possibly have neglected to set up traps or other anti-theft measures and simply welcomed everyone in to explore.
Wu Xie kept his guard up, carefully observing his surroundings, until he finally noticed something odd about the wall reliefs.
As they ventured deeper, the faces in the reliefs seemed to be slowly opening their eyes. And besides that...
Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish?!
At the sight of something on one of the human-faced reliefs, Wu Xie could not help crying out, releasing a string of bubbles as he hurried over to inspect it.
It really was a Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish! And there were three of them, linked head to tail in a ring above the face relief.
Poke—
"Ah!!!"
Still stunned, Wu Xie was