The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 19: Which Engine Is the Best

If I’m not mistaken, the ’big guy’ the Water Monster mentioned should be the power source of this tomb.

Boss Lu found it but didn’t know how to stop it, after all, no one can dismantle an operating engine.

Initially ditching Qinghan might have been a test of how much he knew about this tomb.

If Qinghan knew nothing about this tomb, he couldn’t possibly walk out of the maze passage, making his life and death insignificant.

Once he walks out of the maze passage correctly, it means he understands this tomb.

Of course, there’s also the possibility that Miss Scream cried so hard in the passageway that they accidentally discovered the way out.

But that probability is too small, and Qinghan doesn’t seem like someone who survives by luck.

Boom——

My mind suddenly felt a vibration, then the entire cave shook a few times, the snakes went crazy again, they scattered and fled in panic, slithering and crawling away in all directions.

Some force shattered their thousands-of-years’ persistence, they no longer cared about the treasure trove, just their own lives.

More precisely, they suddenly devolved from ’intelligent’ snakes into ordinary crawling creatures.

Something must have happened in the treasure trove!

Ka-chak～

The metallic door suddenly loosened, the machine gun barrels retracted, the door was dismantled and thrown aside.

"Hurry! It’s about to explode any moment now——" Boss Lu’s voice sounded a bit exasperated.

I climbed back onto the stone wall, hiding in the darkness, watching Boss Lu’s people withdraw from the treasure trove.

They abandoned bulky equipment, only taking backpacks and weapons, clustering around Boss Lu as they ran out.

I heard the sound of plastic barrels being kicked over, along with the exclamations of Wen Jing and Shunfeng.

Just as I was about to jump down to go assist Qinghan, a light shone on my face.

Boss Lu discovered me!

"That’s her, she attacked me." The person pointing at me was the guard I had strangled before.

"A Leng Family member... interesting, grab her!" At Boss Lu’s command, her subordinates immediately sprang into action, pulling out a jet-fishing-net gun and approaching me.

I wasn’t about to hang around with her, I jumped off the stone wall and rolled into the treasure trove.

Image be damned, I still got caught in the net at this speed, luckily I’m stronger than the net thrower, dragging the net line as I rolled into the treasure trove.

The person pulling the net staggered, those beside him were too late to help.

I executed an eighteen-roll maneuver on the spot but was pinned down halfway through, Qinghan’s voice came from above:

"Little Fu, don’t move, this net tightens the more you struggle."

I stayed prone, turning my head to the side, Wen Jing, Shunfeng, and Miss Scream stood with nooses around their necks, standing on several tentacles, with three overturned plastic barrels beside them.

Qinghan ran over and cut the ropes above their heads, the Water Monster retracted its tentacles, and the three of them finally landed safely.

After rescuing them, Qinghan returned to my side, first trying to cut the net with a dagger, but found it wouldn’t cut, then attempted to burn it, with no success.

I heard him mutter, saying vinegar was needed, but where could one find vinegar in an ancient tomb?

Without vinegar, the net couldn’t be opened; Qinghan checked his watch, told Shunfeng to carry his bag too, and carried me as the group quickly left the treasure trove.

During this, Miss Scream voiced dissatisfaction, saying she was carried by Wen Jing when she fainted, and that as the leader, Qinghan shouldn’t handle this kind of task.

In other words, she didn’t want Qinghan carrying me.

I didn’t care as long as I wasn’t dropped; even Shunfeng carrying me would suffice, but Qinghan insisted on carrying me, making Miss Scream so angry steam was practically coming out of her head.

I had one last look at the ’big guy’, standing in the center of the treasure trove like a giant upright eye, its pupil spinning continuously, blood-red in color.

Apart from that, the surrounding walls were studded with countless beads, similar to the one the big snake found under Miss Scream.

That bead must have been pried off and taken away by someone, I suspect it might have been the person who drowned in the lake.

He betrayed Boss Lu, tried to run with the bead, but something happened, the bead fell on the bank, he drowned in the lake, then was turned into preserved meat by the Water Monster.

The beads embedded in the wall, the groove resembling an eye as well, the bead being the pupil part.

So in the treasure trove, there was only one big eye accompanied by many small eyes, nothing else.

I’ve watched some archaeological videos, whether looted or intact, the tomb owner at least once had a rich array of burial goods.

Looking at myself, the main tomb chamber was empty, the coffin stripped bare, finally finding a ’treasure trove’, with only big eyes glaring at small eyes.

Thinking back, all my valuable possessions were ’sent’ in by successive generations of tomb robbers, were they robbing tombs or offering comfort?

Looking at the present, after all the fuss, no treasure was found, but at least I acquired a fishing net, impenetrable to knives and guns, impervious to water and fire, indeed a collectible treasure.

Qinghan carried me out of the treasure trove. With Boss Lu looking so anxious just now, I thought the ’big eye’ would explode soon, but we ran for two miles without hearing an explosion, so I couldn’t help saying, "That thing doesn’t seem to have exploded."

"It won’t explode now; this is our only chance to get out." Qinghan put me down; by this time we had already run back to the lakeside.

The Water Monster had been following us; when I asked it to take us back, it immediately jumped into the water, reverting to its ’fatty’ form.

Boss Lu and her crew were always ahead of us, her teammates were well-trained, running faster than we were, and by the time we returned to the lake shore, they were already out of sight.

And our side’s members, due to exhaustion, had to rest at the shore for a while.

Qinghan used this opportunity to explain to me that he ran because he feared that Boss Lu would realize and come back to block us.

He was very clear that if he did as Boss Lu said, they would all be killed once the task was accomplished.

So he deliberately reversed the power source, misleading Boss Lu into thinking that reversing the power source would cause an explosion.

This way, she had no time to deal with Qinghan and company, forcibly escaping the treasure trove with her team.

"The power source reversing will cause all the mechanisms in the tomb to operate in reverse, even opening closed tomb doors, but reversing will completely damage the power source, and when it depletes, the energy structure disintegrates, and the whole tomb will collapse."

"Didn’t you come down here for it?"

"That depends on the situation. If it falls into Boss Lu’s hands, it would be better for it to disappear."

"You just don’t know how to adapt, what’s the harm in letting her take the power source, my dad has many subordinates, we could just take it back after getting out."

"Miss Cheng, did the rope deafen your ears? Professor Chen just said, once Boss Lu gets the stuff, she’ll eliminate us all, get out? As ghosts, to give Chairman Cheng a dream?" Wen Jing’s tone was full of gunpowder, he was now a die-hard fan of Qinghan, with zero tolerance for Miss Scream’s brainless remarks.