There must be something wrong with me-Chapter 114 - 74: Return [Fate Entry Reward] (5.6K)

"Go!"

At the moment Zhang Feng was supported by him, he grabbed the front of his shirt with his left hand, gave a sudden pull, and with the aid of his strength got up. Once fully standing, he changed his grip to a palm, pushing him far away.

Swish!

Zhang Feng immediately swung his right hand upwards, slashing with the blade facing up.

The rat couldn’t dodge in time, and the rock wall above was too high, so it seemed to crash its neck straight into the blade. With a ’chi’ sound, a large gash opened on the left side.

Simultaneously, Zhang Feng sidestepped backwards to evade its lunging paw.

Bang—

It crashed to the ground, blood gushing from its neck as it struggled to get up again.

Zhang Feng sliced through its wound with one more strike, decisively severing its head, before looking at Brother Peng, who was still trembling on the ground.

"Just now..."

Zhang Feng wanted to say there was no need to worry about me earlier.

But on second thought, if it weren’t for Brother Peng, he wouldn’t have been able to stand up immediately after the fall and face the rat.

This would have led to more power consumption and less efficiency compared to the clean strike just now.

’Such people are rare, clearly frightened yet still forcing themselves to help me.’

Zhang Feng shook his head in his heart, stepped forward a few steps, and pulled him up,

"Brother Peng, thanks.

But still, you don’t need to worry about me because, often, the battle situation is ever-changing.

You help me, and it really does help me.

But I might not be able to take care of you."

"But I can’t just not care about you, right?" Brother Peng, very sincerely, spoke words that were rarely heard,

"Friends are meant to help each other."

"True." Zhang Feng couldn’t help but smile at Brother Peng’s response, "I can’t guarantee anything else, but for you, I will definitely get us out of here."

"Out together." Brother Peng grinned, "Once I get back, I’m done with traveling. I just want to live a good life..."

"Stop it." Zhang Feng shook his head and looked at the others who had followed them inside.

"You guys... are you alright?" They looked at the rat’s corpse, then at Zhang Feng and Brother Peng.

Zhang Feng pointed outside, "You guys continue to keep watch outside, light up the farthest distance.

If any rats come, notify me immediately."

"Alright!" They responded in unison, continuing to stay at the entrance.

Zhang Feng looked up again, "Brother Peng, help me with the light."

After saying that, Zhang Feng started climbing again.

...

Rustle—

Stones rolled down.

This time, Zhang Feng smoothly reached the previous location.

Once he finally flipped over to the top.

He saw this was a stone platform of more than ten square meters, with obvious man-made traces.

But there was no manual, and nothing else.

Zhang Feng glanced around and noticed something like a stone basin at the edge.

Walking over to take a look inside, there was a prominently raised stone with gaps around it.

It looked like a mechanism.

Zhang Feng became interested, first pressing it, but it didn’t go down.

Then he twisted it.

Clatter, the adjacent chains started moving, but due to rust, they hadn’t jittered long before a ’crack’ sound, and they broke.

Yet, where the chains had been attached, there was a whirring sound.

Zhang Feng looked over, it was the previous small cave entrance.

And the large stone beside it, after losing the chain’s hold, was like a big gate mechanism, slowly opening.

Only it didn’t open outward; it tipped inward like it was falling down.

"What’s happening?" Seeing a large stone move, Brother Peng shone more light on it.

"What’s that noise?"

Outside, Brother Liu and others, hearing the loud noise, also rushed in one after another.

Then they saw after a portion of rock wall on either side of the entrance detached, with a ’crash,’ it fell directly, revealing a tunnel behind.

"This is a mechanism!" Old Xing was quite excited seeing the scene, as if witnessing some wonderful mechanism from folklore come to life.

But it was actually just a big iron chain tethered to a boulder.

However, just this dark environment and the bizarre creatures.

Made this simple mechanism appear mysterious and eerie.

At least everyone was awed looking at the stone door and then at Zhang Feng, who climbed down after.

This impact of extraordinary experience, coupled with the terrifying rat no longer present, made them momentarily forget they were in danger.

Perhaps, people who love adventure and travel have bigger hearts.

"Little Brother Zhang! You can decipher mechanisms?"

Old Xing looked at Zhang Feng with excitement, "Can you read the mountains and waters of Feng Shui? With skills like yours, able to easily kill a monster, are you a tomb raider?"

"..." Hearing this title, Zhang Feng paused, looked at Old Xing, and then at the others.

They were also looking at him with surprise and curiosity.

"I do know a bit of Feng Shui Daoist skill." Zhang Feng didn’t bother concealing, "I studied Yin-Yang medical theories before, and that touched on these somewhat.

But this door, really isn’t all that mystical."

Zhang Feng walked to the tunnel entrance to take a peek inside.

"Eh?" Brother Peng walked over and shone a light inside, discovering a hole a meter into the tunnel.

"It connects to the main tunnel." Old Xing shone the light through the small hole outside, finding it illuminated into the main tunnel.

Zhang Feng looked at the small hole, then at the tunnel, and suddenly said,

"I have a guess, do you guys think this stone behind might be the nest of these rats?

This small hole is their entrance, or maybe a passage they slowly dug out, and this stone door is the main path?

Did someone herd them in or seal them inside before?"

"A nest?"

"Are you saying it’s full of monsters behind there?"

"Then the place where we fell and those tunnels, were they also dug by them?"

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