Arc 3.3 Xiao Yao

"Go on!"

Xiao Yao and his other three companions along with the group of seemingly "professional" tomb raider bandits walked along the dimly lit cave.

After arranging the original's memories with the current situation, Xiao Yao finally realized the situation they were in.

It was the usual tomb-raiding day for them.

As skilled youths of the same generation, they were on their usual tomb-raiding activity.

But, who would have thought that during their raid they would come across each other on the same tomb entrance?

After a series of bickering and tumbling down the road, they were finally on their way to find the Lost City that was accidentally discovered by our female lead using the map that she had found in the General's tomb.

Of course, as fellow leads, the FL, ML, and SML went together.

As for Xiao Yao, an arrogant want to get famous young master by riding other people's coattails also tag along on the journey.

Luckily for him, the others let a burden such as him tag along due to his persistence and not taking no for an answer.

Xiao Yao was literally a bug, a leech that won't come off no matter what they do. So, in the end, they just let him follow them.

They can't do anything to him anyway, so why not coconut?

Anyways, the people following him were all experts in tomb raiding so it's not a loss to them.

But what the group didn't know is that they were not the only ones searching for the Lost City. There is also another group after the Lost City's treasures.

Going back to their current situation, Xiao Yao and the three of them were caught by the bandits killing almost all of their people.

Luckily, the others got separated from them so not all of their comrades died.

There is still a way out of their situation once their comrades find them.

"...tell us! Come on! How do we cross the lake!"

"Ah! I-I really don't know!"

Leng MianMian who was grabbed by her collar shrieked like a maiden being raped by a bandit. She kept on shaking her head frantically, tears already falling from her doe eyes.

"What the hell are you doing?! She said she doesn---!"

"Shut up or else I'll blow your brains out!"

"Fei Chen."

Seeing that the other was serious, Chen Qiao who is more rational than the two protagonists combined grabbed Fei Chen back trying to calm both sides.

But it seems that it will be hard seeing that both sides are against each other.

"B-Brother Fei...."

Leng MianMian who was still grabbed by her collar looked at Fei Chen with tear streaked eyes.

The sight was so heartwrenching for the male lead, he was about to punch the other guy holding his beloved but Chen Qiao didn't allow for that to happen.

"Fei Chen, don't make the situation worse." Chen Qiao warned.

"But MianMian...."

"Don't worry, he won't kill us... not yet."

Chen Qiao stared at Fei Chen's eyes. His eyes were filled with nervousness but he still remained calm in such a situation.

His title as the strongest candidate is really not for show.

"Aish!"

Fei Chen pushed Chen Qiao and growled at the man holding Leng MianMian but did not take any action. He knew well what their current situation is like.

One wrong move and they might all die.

He can only look as the man yelled at the crying Leng MianMian. His fist was tight, eyes red as he stared the man down wanting to bite his head off.

"I really don't know!! I don't know!!!"

Leng MianMian looked as if she was about to have a mental breakdown because of being yelled at and frightened by the man.

If only she could, her soul would already be seen out of her body.

Xiao Yao who was watching the drama looked around the cave. It was spacious, mostly dim and damp.

The lake was not that big but it was deep.

There were some scary light-emitting species swimming under the water.

A while ago, when they first arrived there, a brave man tested the depth of the water and never came back.

In short, those light-emitting cute razored sharp piranhas in the water ate the man alive with no bones left.

It was really quite a sight when they saw the screaming hysterical drowning man being dragged under the water by the man-eating fishes until nothing was seen of him.

No one expected him to be a literal fish food.

Seeing what happened to the man, the tomb bandits grew anxious about how they would be able to cross the lake safely.

After following them for some time and almost being able to enter the Lost City, with just a lake in between them, the tomb bandits would definitely not retreat without gaining a thing!

Knowing that Leng MianMian has the map of the Lost City, all the bandit's attention was on her.

When a crisis arise, they pressured her into thinking of a solution to cross the damn lake.

"Enough! I said let go of her!"

Fei Chen who could no longer hold himself in punched the man yelling at Leng MianMian hard in the face.

He was not even satisfied with just that and punch him in the gut making the other puke blood.

He would have continued punching the man if only the other bandits did not react and pulled him away from the said man and pointed a gun at his head.

"Fuck! This kid, your dead!"

The man who was punched to the ground looked at Fei Chen viciously, he took out a gun from his holster and aimed it at Fei Chen about to fire.

"Come on, brother. Are you about to kill him? Why don't you just throw him on the lake and let those strange fishes feast on him? That would be a gruesome death."

Xiao Yao folded his hands and nod at the man with a smug smile. He was definitely not caring about the ML's life even a bit.

"Xiao Yao, what are you saying?!"

Chen Qiao almost ran over Xiao Yao and shake him hard for giving such a gruesome idea to the bandit.

What if they really throw Fei Chen into the lake? He will die. Painfully!

"Xiao Yao, you cruel man! How could you say that to Brother Fei? Why don't you die instead of him? It would be much better if you die!" Leng MianMian screamed viciously.

"Yeah. Why don't we just all die here? We're all going to die anyway, why not die now? Don't you agree, Brother Bandit?" Xiao Yao said looking at the bandit.

"Stop your nonsense!"

"It's not nonsense. Anyway, we will die, why not choose the way we die than anticipating how we will die? This way, we will not have any grudges when we die when they push us or maybe escape faster than us when we encounter something weird inside the tomb. Don't you agree?"

"What the hell are you saying? If you want to die then die alone!" Leng MianMian screamed.

"Yes. Yes. You are right. Sadly, you will be the first to die before me if you still won't have any idea on how to make these big brothers cross the lake safely."

Saying so, this effectively shut Leng MianMian's mouth and ended the fight of words between them.

"What your companion said is right. If you still don't have any idea how we would be able to safely cross the lake, you will be the first to be fed to those man-eating fishes!"