The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 334 - 278: I Am the Captain
The second person to arrive was Liang Ruidong, 29 years old. It’s said he was taught by some reclusive master, possessing real Kung Fu skills that you can only see in martial arts films.
I’ve encountered characters like him before, Lu Xiaodao being one of them.
However, his personality isn’t aloof; although he’s not handsome, his smile is quite sunny.
The last to arrive was another female member of the team. They called her Lilith; no one used her real name.
What she’s called is just a code name, and I’m not interested in digging deeper to find out her full name. Once everyone was here, we started the meeting.
Joining the rescue operation gave us the right to understand the specific details of Chen Qinghan’s action and report back the information to the higher-ups at regular intervals.
The leader of the Sakura Organization, Sanpo, has confessed that they were instructed to complete a plan called ’Chenzhou.’
But he insisted that he had never seen the person instructing them, or he hadn’t seen her true face, only contacted through the internet and phone. That person provided them with funds and technical support, and they followed orders.
However, Chen Qinghan’s team acted a bit prematurely, as the final coordinates had not been sent to Sanpo yet, so he still didn’t know where exactly to find ’Chenzhou.’
If we can’t catch the hidden mastermind supporting Sanpo, she could always find another collaborator, since she holds the coordinates and seems particularly wealthy.
Therefore, we must quickly identify the mastermind and destroy the information she has.
The content of our meeting focused on planning the itinerary, determining the route and departure time, and locating where Chen Qinghan’s team went missing.
Based on the current situation, it’s very likely that Chen Qinghan’s team found the ancient tomb and already went down.
So, we only need to find the entrance to the ancient tomb to locate them.
The logistics colleagues arranged for us a guide who could speak Mandarin. In recent years, more and more Huaxia tourists have been visiting the Nilo Country, so some local guides have become fluent in Mandarin.
After planning the itinerary and setting the departure time, the team members went back to their rooms to rest. I took out the map again and stared at it for a while.
Over the millennia, the area marked on the map had once housed a small town.
Nanduo was injured while on a mission, near the small town, and happened to be rescued by a young nobleman out hunting. She recuperated in the town for half a month. Once healed, she went back, leaving her heart behind.
Not long after Nanduo secretly returned to meet her lover, Zhaosi learned about it. The young nobleman subsequently died suddenly, and when Nanduo attempted to attend his funeral, Zhaosi severely injured her.
In the clan, there were two rumors about Nanduo’s fate: one said she was eaten by wild animals in the wilderness; the other said she crawled to the nobleman’s town, and the two were buried together.
Because the latter rumor seemed too far-fetched, hardly anyone believed it; it was taken as a fanciful tale made up by gossipmongers.
The mission Nanduo was on when she came here was to find a Stone of Immortality. Perhaps I know more insider information than others because a subordinate of mine was in the same ’batch’ as Nanduo, and they were close enough to share secrets.
Nanduo told my subordinate that she suspected the Stone of Immortality was in that small town, being the heirloom of the nobleman, but she couldn’t bear to steal his family’s treasure, causing him sadness and grief, so she told Zhaosi she hadn’t found it.
The gemstone was originally supposed to be passed from father to son, but since the nobleman left no descendants before dying, rumors said his mother buried the gem with him.
Indeed, the Stone of Immortality is said to grant eternal life, a reliable piece of information our clan obtained from our ancestors’ tomb. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
Long ago, countless rare treasures were scattered across the world. While they may seem unscientific to modern people, their scientific level actually exceeds that of today, and thus cannot be studied or understood by people now.
Where they came from—natural or artificial—is also something our clan is interested in and has been tirelessly pursuing. Regrettably, internal conflicts have severely hampered many exploration projects.
So, I have a bold hypothesis: if the Stone of Immortality was indeed buried with the nobleman, he might still be alive.
As for whether this Stone of Immortality can keep a person alive without eating or drinking, I’m uncertain. We will know the truth once we open the grave.
Our team includes an expert in Ancient Nile Country script, named Cheng Xuelin. He’s our translator and, should the person indeed be alive, they would speak the ancient Nile language, necessitating someone to communicate.
