Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower
Chapter 593: The Snake that Appeared out of Nowhere

Chapter 593: Chapter 593: The Snake that Appeared out of Nowhere

With this cluster of flames providing light, the dim tomb chamber became as bright as daylight.

It was a sunken space, consisting of one chamber and two antechambers, about three meters below the ground level, with the main tomb chamber in the middle and two side chambers on either side.

Descending the stairs led to a small hall, followed by the tomb entrance of one chamber and two antechambers.

The inside of the tomb was very quiet, without the slightest sign of movement.

The two of them wandered around the area, puzzled for a long time.

In the end, the three-meter-long tomb corridor staircase was smooth and even, and the doors to the tomb chambers were tightly closed; they didn’t find any of the snake nests or holes they had imagined.

The cluster of snakes seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

If they hadn’t actually killed the snakes, they might have suspected it was all a hallucination.

Bai Junjun found it extremely strange.

"Could it be that the Minister of Rites deliberately placed snake eggs near the staircase?"

It wouldn’t be too much to set up a mechanism at the entrance of the tomb to prevent grave robbers; after all, the mausoleum of the King of Zhongshan even had a boa as a Tomb Guardian Beast!

After three years, the snake eggs in the tomb hatched into green snakes, and the green snakes continued to give birth to more green snakes, never-ending from generation to generation.

But the Minister of Rites forgot about it himself, so when he opened the tomb, he scared himself half to death.

The two’s speculation made the Minister of Rites’ eyes widen.

"How could that be possible! Not every snake can be a Tomb Guardian Beast! Ordinary snakes occupying a tomb will only bring misfortune to the descendants; how could I do such a thing!"

"..." Bai Junjun fell silent.

If it wasn’t the Minister of Rites who had set a trap, then was it possible the tomb had been opened by someone, and snakes had gotten in through the cracks?

"Impossible, I come here every year during Qingming and Chongyang to sweep the tombs, and there’s never been anything out of the ordinary."

The Minister of Rites still shook his head.

For a moment, it became an unsolvable conundrum.

However, by this time the snakes had been thoroughly eradicated, and after Bai Junjun and Li Wenli checked several times to ensure there were no abnormalities in the tomb, the Minister of Rites finally mustered the courage to proceed.

As for his wife and son, the Minister of Rites asked them to stay at Pine Wind Pavilion for the time being, and not come over yet.

So the two of them waited for news on that side, accompanied by Xiao Chan and others.

The Minister of Rites took tentative steps as he once again approached his father’s grave.

Aside from the few green snakes that Bai Junjun had nailed down on the path, there were no more signs of green snakes on the ground.

"They ran off just now," Bai Junjun said nonchalantly, pointing towards the distant bushes.

The Minister of Rites nervously swallowed, "They won’t come back, will they?"

"Don’t worry, since you’ve paid, I will make sure to take care of it for you," Bai Junjun assured him, nodding firmly and then patting the small pouch he carried: "I have snake-repelling herbal medicine, they won’t dare to come back."

"That’s good, that’s good," the Minister of Rites sighed with relief, but in the next second, he pointed inside the tomb.

"Are you sure there are no snakes inside?"

"..." Bai Junjun.

"..." Li Wenli.

Although they reassured him repeatedly that there were no problems, the Minister of Rites still insisted that Li Wenli and Bai Junjun accompany him inside; indeed, it was clean and completely free of snakes.

"This is really bizarre. Where on earth did these snakes come from?" The Minister of Rites was as confused as a monk who was clueless.

Traditionally, if there were snakes in a tomb, it either wasn’t sealed properly, or the snakes had burrowed in.

Yet neither of these reasons applied here, and yet so many snakes appeared out of thin air, with a number no less than three to five hundred. This was truly inconceivable.

"Could it be that my ancestors are hinting at something?"

The Minister of Rites was full of question marks in his mind, turning to metaphysical thoughts as science offered no explanations.

Bai Junjun couldn’t help but laugh; this Minister of Rites was really amusing.