Chapter 283: Taotie: Tom, I’m Here to Get You
Watching Taotie quickly run back the way they came, Fang Xiaocao sighed helplessly and sat down where she had just been lying.
Without Taotie by her side, Fang Xiaocao didn’t dare to move around, afraid of accidentally triggering a trap. She was sure there were no traps where she had just been lying.
Hummingbird stood beside her, keeping her company.
Before leaving, Taotie had specifically told her to keep an eye on Fang Xiaocao. If anything happened, Taotie would come back and question Hummingbird.
That iron-headed Taotie was a straight man who didn’t understand how to cherish women, and Hummingbird didn’t want to be dealt with by Taotie for no reason.
After leaving Fang Xiaocao, Taotie had no more worries.
A distance of a dozen meters was just a few seconds’ run.
Soon, Taotie saw the huge pit.
Taotie estimated it to be about nine meters wide.
It was only about a meter less than the ten-meter pit the old tomb raider had seen, which was already terrifying.
Taotie stood at the edge of the pit, looking down, searching for Tom’s trail.
Soon, Taotie saw the grappling hook rope.
Looking down along the grappling hook rope, he saw Tom hanging upside down, using a black short knife to saw through the long spear shafts.
Seeing this, Taotie smiled.
“I knew it, the wicked live for a thousand years!”
“Tom definitely won’t have any problems.”
Taotie chuckled to himself.
He took out his terminal and sent a message to Fang Xiaocao.
[Taotie: Princess, don’t worry. Tom is not dead. He’s trying to get out of trouble. I’m going to give him a hand, and we’ll be back soon!]
After reporting that they were safe to Fang Xiaocao, Taotie put away his terminal, stood at the edge of the pit, looked around, and saw that there weren’t many long spears at the edge of the pit. He could go down from here and find a foothold.
After confirming that he could land safely, Taotie didn’t hesitate. He took off Tom’s backpack, found Tom’s grappling hook among a pile of bombs.
Taotie aimed the grappling hook launcher at the beam above his head and pressed the launch button.
With a “whoosh,” the grappling hook shot out.
Amidst a shower of sparks, it firmly grabbed the beam.
Taotie connected the grappling hook rope to his tactical belt, grabbed the rope, and slowly slid down into the pit.
After landing safely, Taotie untied the rope from his tactical belt and pulled out his dagger.
Although the chances of finding living creatures in this kind of pit were slim, Taotie didn’t dare to take it lightly. What if there were any living creatures?
Ancient tombs were very strange.
There was a saying, “Caution is the parent of safety!”
You only have one life, so being careful is never wrong.
Taotie grabbed a long spear and applied force.
Then, Taotie was overjoyed.
There was a way to move it!
“Hehe~”
Taotie smiled mischievously.
“In ancient times, Lu Zhishen uprooted a willow tree, and now there’s me, Taotie, pulling out long spears to save someone.”
Taotie muttered, put the dagger in his mouth, let out a low roar, and exerted force with his arms.
The long spear, deeply embedded in the ground, was pulled out by Taotie.
“What a good spear!”
Looking at the two-meter-long spear with a dark glow in his hand, Taotie couldn’t help but cheer.
He tested the blade of the spearhead. Although it had been in the pit for hundreds of years, the blade was still extremely sharp. The material was no worse than his black technology machete, and Taotie was very satisfied.
He secretly decided to take a few spearheads out and, when he returned to the Blacklist, have the equipment customization department connect them to telescopic metal spear shafts to use as his regular equipment.
It would definitely be better than a machete!
At that time, with a machete in one hand and a long spear in the other, he would be unstoppable!
Taotie shook the long spear with force, and the spear shaft was very flexible, trembling three times with Taotie’s strength.
Taotie was even more satisfied.
The only flaw was that it was a bit too long.
A two-meter-long spear was difficult to wield in the tomb passage.
Taotie brandished the long spear and looked at the forest of long spears in front of him. His eyes flashed with cold light, and the muscles in his arms bulged instantly, wriggling like little mice running.
“Ha!”
Taotie let out a low roar and swung the long spear with all his might.
The long spear swept through the forest of long spears with a whistling wind, like a sweeping army.
With a “crack,” the forest of long spears in front of Taotie instantly fell to the ground, but the long spear in his hand also broke.
Taotie grinned and put the broken spear on the ground. He stepped on the broken spear shaft connected to the spearhead, picked up the spearhead, and put it in the pocket of the magazine pouch on his waist.
As for the magazine…
It had long been emptied and thrown away.
Taotie followed suit and picked up a dozen spearheads before stopping, still wanting more.
It wasn’t that Taotie didn’t want to take more, but he only had a few magazine pouches on him.
Tom’s backpack was full of explosives.
Taotie didn’t dare to put too many in, afraid of setting off the bombs.
Taotie pulled out another long spear and used the sweeping army move again, sweeping towards the forest of long spears in front of him.
Taotie wanted to clear a path to pick up Tom.
After clearing a path of about three or four meters, Taotie stopped and moved his limbs.
Even Taotie, the brute, was exhausted. He had broken many long spears to clear this three- or four-meter path.
Taotie sat on the ground, resting for a while.
“Tom, I’m here to get you!”
He shouted towards Tom’s side.
“Huh?”
Tom, who was trying to saw through the wooden pole, paused, shook his head, and stared around with bloodshot eyes: “Strange, am I hallucinating?”
“Why do I hear Taotie’s voice?”
Tom muttered, grabbed the grappling hook rope, and turned his body back, trying to relieve the discomfort of his brain being congested from hanging upside down for a long time.
Taotie sat on the ground, listening intently.
After a long time, he didn’t hear Tom’s reply.
Taotie scratched his head and got up from the ground.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, “Tom?”
“Are you still alive?”
“I’m here to get you!”
“If you’re alive, make a sound!”
Tom, who had just turned around and was about to take a break, heard it clearly this time.
“Taotie is really here?”
Tom blinked and muttered in confusion.
“Taotie, where the hell are you?”
Surprised, Tom channeled his inner Li Yunlong and swore.
Hearing Tom’s reply, Taotie was happy.
“I’m over here!”
Taotie pulled out a long spear, held it high above his head, and waved it to signal Tom.
“Stop waving, I see you!”
Seeing the long spear, Tom shouted.
“Tom, stop sawing wood.”
“You’re not a carpenter!”
“Just wait, I’ll clear a path to get you!”
Taotie shouted loudly.
Then, Taotie immediately started working.
He raised his hand and used the sweeping army move.
He casually threw away the broken long spear in his hand, pulled out another long spear, and continued to use the sweeping army move.
