The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 386 - 306: Amber Man

The people in the ambers are all naked, and it’s impossible to tell if they were rich or poor in life, but using amber to make coffins suggests that, unless this material was cheaper than wood in their eyes, they must have been wealthy in life.

I roughly counted, at least a hundred pieces of amber are arranged in this hall, and there’s nothing else here.

Chen Qinghan inspected each one; Mike asked what he was looking for, as these bodies have been dead for a long time and are without clothes, making it nearly impossible to determine their identities or find any written records.

Mike speculated that this entire building was a cemetery, and the sign must have fallen during the earthquake and is buried under some rock.

He said that there were ancient cultures that liked to use caves as tombs, where entire families were buried in the same cave, and perhaps the residents of the Ancient City had similar customs.

During the earthquake, the rock tomb in the cave fell into an underground fissure and was miraculously preserved.

Chen Qinghan didn’t express an opinion, probably because he didn’t agree with Mike, and indeed, there were many ways the ancients conducted burials, any one of the coffins would be priceless today, and using amber to make a coffin was considered the most luxurious.

Even obtaining so much amber would have been difficult, and putting people into it would have been a technical task, but as I looked for a while, I didn’t find any seams on the whole piece of amber.

If it was formed naturally... then the process would have been extremely complex and time-consuming, encasing the body in resin to fossilize it would be impossible without advanced counterfeiting technology; how many years would that have taken?

"There’s a door here." I didn’t pay much attention to the Amber Man, passed through the hall, and found another door on the other side.

I pushed it twice, and it didn’t open. I glanced back at Chen Qinghan and Mike; they responded and glanced this way before lowering their heads to continue working.

I mainly focused on Mike, seeing that he wasn’t paying attention to me, I secretly used Karmic Fire to burn a few small holes in the door, then braced my hands against the door and gave it a strong push.

The bar outside the door snapped, and thanks to those small holes, as soon as the door opened, I saw two skeletons scattered on the ground beside it.

The clothes on the corpses seemed to be armor, and beside the white bones were two swords, already rusted beyond recognition.

There were no rubble or other architectural remnants around the skeletons, so it didn’t seem like they were crushed to death. The corridor outside was just a bit dusty, actually quite clean, with no extra weapons on or around the bodies, so they were either poisoned or died of hunger and thirst.

I looked down the hallway in front of me and mimicked a few bird calls, "Coo coo coo coo..."

The sound traveled far, and if, as Mike said, this was the tomb of Ancient City’s ancestors, then why was the crypt connected to the Life Spring?

We know the Life Spring can reanimate corpses, placing a heap of dead bodies next to it with a connecting passageway definitely wasn’t intended to be a ’feng shui treasure land’ to sell the cemetery at a high price.

After checking all the pieces of amber, Chen Qinghan walked over. I leaned against the door, feeling bored and wanting to play on my phone.

"One body is missing," Chen Qinghan said. "The amber shows no signs of violent destruction."

He meant that if it wasn’t an empty piece of amber placed there initially, then the body inside must have escaped.

With no signs of violent destruction inside or out, in an extreme sense, the way the corpse disappeared must be extraordinarily unusual.

Mike was initially scraping amber with a knife to take some samples out, as his task upon coming in included information collection and sample acquisition.

But the moment I looked away, he suddenly raised his gun and fired at a particular spot, where there was nothing at all.

He fired a string of bullets and then retreated to a piece of amber. Chen Qinghan asked him what was wrong, and he said there was someone just now.

He said it was a person, not a thing or an animal, so what he saw should have been a human figure.

But neither I nor Chen Qinghan saw a person; Mike quickly ran over to join us.

Chen Qinghan asked what kind of person he saw, and Mike said it was a teenage girl who suddenly laughed beside him.

Not just laughing, but jumping up to pounce on him, so he opened fire, but the bullets hit nothing, there was nothing there.

Mike’s face was pale, and he said he might already be hallucinating. Last time they came in, hallucinations began on the return trip.

He believed the area’s influence on the human brain takes time to become effective, so as we walked along, regardless of what we saw, he hadn’t doubted its authenticity.

But the recent appearance of the figure changed Mike’s mind; he said Doctor Du had mentioned this place was adjusting evolution, and maybe the power to induce hallucinations was also evolving, shortening the time it takes to take effect.