Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 16 Entering the Tomb

"It's all fine now, isn't it?"

As Yan Huai approached, he heard Da Kui mutter something. He sighed inwardly, relieved that nothing had happened: "There is an anti-theft interlayer on the inside of this stone brick. Once the stone brick is squeezed inward and the interlayer is broken, the contents inside will pour out. If it's a little hard, you might turn into a puddle of rotten water on the spot. If it's a little light, you won't be left with a single piece of good skin."

Da Kui was so frightened by Yan Huai's words that his face turned pale. He trembled and took several steps away, his lips trembling, unable to speak for a long time.

The others weren't much better off. Da Pan took a step back with a blank face. However, Yan Huai felt that Wu Sansheng and his nephew looked a bit strange. Besides their instinctive fear, it seemed like they also felt a bit regretful.

Just as the air fell silent, Da Pan came to his senses and asked, "So we can't move this stone wall? How are we going to get in?"

"Take the stone bricks out."

Yan Huai was stunned when he heard this. He turned to look at Zhang Qiling who was speaking, but Da Pan interrupted him before he could speak.

"There isn't even a crack in these stone bricks, how could you possibly take them out!"

"Tsk, what are you yelling about! Since Brother has spoken, he naturally has his way." Wu Sansheng frowned and stepped forward, slapping Da Pan on the back of the head. Then, he gestured with his chin at Zhang Qiling, "Brother, you do it! Be careful!"

Zhang Qiling nodded and raised his right hand. Just as he was about to touch the stone brick, his wrist was suddenly grabbed by Yan Huai beside him.

Meeting Zhang Qiling's questioning gaze, Yan Huai felt inexplicably uncomfortable. He pursed his lips and said, "These stone bricks are laid so tightly that moving one affects the whole thing. How can I help you?"

Zhang Qiling seemed surprised by Yan Huai's words. He softened his expression and said, "No need."

Then, perhaps feeling that those two words were too stiff, Zhang Qiling looked at Yan Huai and added, "It's nothing!"

Yan Huai lowered his eyes and nodded, slowly releasing Zhang Qiling's wrist. He took a step back, but not far, just in case something happened and he could pull Zhang Qiling away in time. However...

Yan Huai unconsciously rubbed his hands together behind his back. He felt that all that digging was for nothing. The itching he had finally managed to suppress in his hands surged back up the moment he touched Zhang Qiling, and it even felt a little numb.

On the other side, unlike Yan Huai's inner turmoil, Zhang Qiling's hands were very steady. With his two unusually long fingers, he quickly found a brick by feeling along the crack in the brick. Everyone saw him suddenly exert force, and his two fingers went straight into the crack and pulled out the brick.

Yan Huai was dumbfounded. His gaze followed Zhang Qiling's two slender, beautiful, and seemingly harmless fingers. After a short while, the fingers were hidden away, and the owner of those fingers was now standing in front of him.

"catheter."

"Huh?" What is a catheter?

Zhang Qiling looked up, seemingly speechless. He didn't say anything more, but reached out and grabbed the bag on Yan Huai's back, pulling out a plastic tube with a needle attached.

Da Pan and Da Kui had already dug a vertical well about five meters deep next to the brick wall. Zhang Qiling walked over and put the end of the tube without the needle into the well. After heating the other end red-hot, he poked it into the wax wall after removing the stone bricks.

The next moment, a stream of red, viscous liquid flowed out through the conduit and poured into the depths of the vertical well...

"It really is alum acid."

Suddenly, Wu Sansheng blurted out something out of the blue. Yan Huai, who had already realized what was happening, heard it, turned to look at Wu Sansheng, and asked in his mind, "What is alum acid?"

"Alum acid, like concentrated sulfuric acid, is highly corrosive and oxidizing. The system recommends that the host stay away from it as much as possible."

"Oh..." Yan Huai looked at the soft, squishy hose that had been heated by alum acid, and the faint white smoke rising from the well. He quietly took a step back, so no one would see.

"What about Qi Ling's finger? What happened to that?"

The system sighed helplessly. It was obvious that when Da Pan and Da Kui were digging the vertical well, its host hadn't listened to Wu Sanxing's explanation to Wu Xie: "Besides possessing the bloodline of the Qilin, the Zhang family also has a deep connection with the Faqiu sect. Zhang Qiling, the last patriarch of the Zhang family, was the successor of the Faqiu Zhonglang General. His index and middle fingers are the Faqiu fingers, which are used to explore caves and find tombs and solve the mechanisms of tombs. The characteristic is that the Faqiu fingers are more resilient and slender than ordinary people's fingers."

Yan Huai understood. He glanced at Zhang Qiling's hand holding the catheter, pursed his lips, and gradually scratched at the sheath of the branding knife strapped to his back...

After a few minutes, the wax wall inside the stone bricks turned from red to white, and the alum acid finally finished flowing out.

"Okay."

At Zhang Qiling's signal, Yan Huai quickly stepped forward and took over the task of moving bricks. Soon, he dug out a hole large enough for one person to pass through.

Wu Sansheng raised his hand and threw two tinderboxes into the cave, instantly illuminating the not-so-large tomb passageway.

All the people could see was a simple and heavy arched tomb door standing solemnly at the end of the passageway, which was only about ten meters long. The ground was paved with blue stone and jade bricks, and there were eight eternal lamps hanging on the walls on both sides, but judging from their appearance, they must have been extinguished for a long time.

Wu Sansheng looked behind him, smiled at the group, and said, "Since that's the case, then I won't stand on ceremony!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Sansheng stepped into the passageway, and Wu Xie, seeing his third uncle go in, naturally followed suit.

Da Pan and Da Kui, who were slightly behind, exchanged glances and entered one after the other, leaving only Yan Huai and Zhang Qiling outside the cave.

"I'll cover the rear."

You go first!

Yan Huai glanced helplessly at Zhang Qiling. Seeing his attitude of "if you can keep going, then stay," he had no choice but to compromise. After all, his hands were really about to break down, so it didn't matter who was behind him!

When everyone reached the tomb entrance, Wu Sansheng and Da Pan were already standing on the stone statues on both sides of the passageway. They looked at each other, reached out at the same time, and soon touched the door-opening mechanism in the mouth of the stone statue.

With a click, the sound of gears turning came from inside the tomb door, and the tomb door opened.

However, this time was different because the eternal lamps on both sides of the equally long passageway lit up on their own when they encountered oxygen, and after everyone had slowly entered, the tomb door mechanism restarted and closed.

"Holy crap!" Wu Xie was walking in the middle section. By the time he heard the sound and ran over, the tomb door was already sealed shut, just like the stone brick wall before.

"Nephew, can you calm down? A Warring States period tomb this large should at least be associated with a feudal lord! If that's the case, then there must be escape routes left by the craftsmen who built the tomb, or at the very least, ventilation shafts! You won't be trapped here, let's go!"

Wu Sansheng was already used to Wu Xie's overreaction. He waved to Wu Xie and thought to himself, "This kid still needs more practice!"