The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 257 - 252: Still Able to Tell Friend from Foe_3

"Eh? Why has it stopped?" The carving ends here, but it makes sense; afterward, they all slept, and there was no snake to carve what happened after they fell asleep.

After seeing all the carved content, I realized I read a lot of irrelevant stuff. Only the last mysterious creature was a bit interesting. The Big-headed Bird, Headless Bird, and Miner never appeared in the murals, so feeding the greedy snake might be something that creature instructed them to do.

The hands of that creature in the carvings haven’t broken off. The carvings are like a four-panel comic, well-crafted, and the content is easy to understand.

Then, there was a thud, and the Bull Demon King’s head fell to the ground, blood sprayed from its cavity, and the body collapsed afterward.

Qinghan flipped off the wall carving and landed back on the ground. He shook his sword, blood flew off, and the blade was clean without a speck of dust.

"Where are we?" Qinghan sheathed his sword and came over to crouch in front of me.

"You don’t remember?" I felt weak all over, unable to stand up, still leaning against the stone platform without moving.

"We went into a cave and encountered a bird with a human body, then what?" Qinghan asked seriously.

"Then we fell down its vertical shaft for transporting living people, floated along the river to the greedy snake’s lair, and had a big fight with them. You just defeated the final boss."

"What’s wrong with you?"

"I’ve been using the Karmic Fire’s frequency a bit too high, now I’m drained and can’t stand up."

"What’s wrong with your face?"

"Ah? Oh, it’s nothing, you bit me when you were out of your mind."

"No, I mean your face..." He hesitated, then spoke, "It’s green."

"What? What’s green? Who’s green?" I struggled to lift my hand to touch my face, the bite marks were gone, but I couldn’t feel anything unusual otherwise.

But now I noticed, my hand was green, from my hand to my arm, and when I looked at my barefoot, it was green too; obviously, my entire body was green now, just like a Shrek monster.

I suddenly thought of the green light, feeling this was something I couldn’t hide any longer; it must be the green energy within me causing trouble.

Qinghan returned to normal, like someone waking from a drunken stupor, just missing some memories after the fall, which was better; I didn’t want to recall the moment he scared me like a marmot call.

"Chen, let me tell you... On the Shell Ship, I might have eaten something bad~"

Qinghan looked at me confusedly; I quickly explained the context, saying I unintentionally absorbed the green light energy controlling the fake Meng Qingyu. Later I found out I could use it, but it doesn’t fuse with the Karmic Fire.

Cong Zhibo was an example; after drinking my blood, he turned into a spotted ball, distinctly divided between red and green.

My current situation should be the decline of Karmic Fire and the rise of green light, breaking the balance between the two forces, turning me into a Shrek.

"You didn’t turn red with just the Karmic Fire," Qinghan pointed out the loophole in my words. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"Well... the Karmic Fire has a self-awareness, can control itself, maybe that’s why..." I wasn’t quite sure myself, never faced this kind of situation before.

"Anywhere else you’re uncomfortable?"

"No. Just my face feels a bit itchy." I scratched my cheeks.

"Your cheeks are red."

"..." Green skin, red cheeks, what kind of Halloween makeup is this?

"Don’t use Karmic Fire anymore, maybe your friends know how to recover; let’s find her."

"They’re not my friends."

"They will be now."

"Your thoughts are dangerous, you know that? They’re all monsters who kill without hesitation and eat without seasoning!"

"I know how you used to get along, but times have changed, you’ve changed, so relationships can change too."

"Hmph." I didn’t have high hopes for Qinghan’s ’prophecy’; I’m used to the relationships of mutual exploitation, not easy to change just because one says so.

Qinghan heard that the vertical shaft is hard to climb, also agreed to wait for Xiao Changfeng to bring people over, not worried about anything else, just concerned they might discover my connection with the Rock Miner.

I reassured him, the Rock Miner ran away after we killed the Big-headed Bird. They live underground like fish in water, after the Big-headed Bird died, their leader told me they’d rescue their hostage comrades and then flee far away.

At the time, all my thoughts were on Qinghan, so I didn’t pay attention to the message it conveyed.

Regarding the greedy snake, Qinghan’s expression darkened, he stood up with his sword, told me to rest here, while he went to clean up.

I vaguely heard him chasing the greedy snake outside the corridor, then returning to search room by room, slaughtering all the hidden greedy snakes.

He came back saying he found survivors in several stone chambers, still breathing, but uncertain how long they would last.