Tomb Raiding: My Family's Last Clan Chief is Little Brother

Chapter 27 Golden Phoebe
“It is indeed a mechanism, and it’s quite simple.” The young man got up and walked to the stone door, touched the door frame, and said, “To give a simple example, if there were originally two floors, and you came out of the second floor and entered the elevator, and someone built another floor below the first floor, then the original second floor becomes the third floor, and the original first floor becomes the second floor. It’s similar to the principle of an elevator.”

The fat man became more and more confused. "What do you mean by first or second floor? I've ridden elevators before, it can't be that complicated."

Zhang Wuxun clicked his tongue. "Why don't you change your reference point? If it's not an elevator that's moving, but a building, and you compare the passageway to an elevator, then the coffin chamber is moving up and down or left and right. Do you understand now?"

The example given by the young man was really bad, no wonder the fat man couldn't understand it, but for Wu Xiaoxie, who majored in architecture, it was a piece of cake to understand it.

"Oh!" The fat man finally understood. "You mean there's a large mechanism outside the tomb we're in that can be moved. When we were in the passageway, the mechanism activated and moved the room that contained our equipment away, right?"

Zhang Wuxun gave a thumbs up, "Correct answer."

The fat man scratched his head, laughing and cursing, "Damn, it's that simple! I thought there was some big mystery involved."

Wu Xiaoxie suddenly said, "If that's the case, the side chambers in ancient tombs are always symmetrical. Logically speaking, there should be a room opposite us as well."

As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge, seeking their opinions.

Zhang Wuxun and Xiao Ge exchanged a glance and walked into the passageway together. They carefully searched the white marble wall opposite, but found nothing.

Back in the side room, the fat man was getting impatient. He yawned and said, "No matter what, we have to get out of here first. We don't even know where the way out is. If we stay in this godforsaken place, I'll starve to death sooner or later."

Seeing that they all looked listless, Zhang Wuxun took out a few more energy gels and threw them to them.

The fat man looked at it and said, "Why is it candied hawthorn flavor again? It's so sour."

"It's good enough to have something to eat." Zhang Wuxun rolled his eyes at him. "I bought ten whole boxes of it wholesale."

Wu Xiaoxie, with an energy gel in his mouth, looked up at the treasure peak and frowned, saying, "Actually... it's not like there's no way to get out."

The fat man immediately became interested. "How so?"

Wu Xiaoxie pointed to the top of the tomb and said, "In order to accommodate this mechanism, the tomb must have a very high ceiling. In that case, it will not be too far from the seabed. If all else fails, we can dig up directly. During low tide, as long as the sand on top doesn't collapse, we have a good chance of getting out."

The idea was wonderful, but reality was harsh.

The fat man poured cold water on our reality: "We didn't bring any tools when we came in. There are only whole stone bricks on top. What are we going to use to dig? Are we going to dig with our bare paws? I'm not a groundhog."

"You don't know this, do you?" Wu Xiaoxie said with a little pride, "The sunken ship is buried in the underwater tomb. Most of the bricks are hollow. They can be pressed but not smashed. If we find a few metal objects, we can definitely make a hole by smashing them a little."

Upon hearing this, the fat man perked up. "Why bother looking for metal? I have a gun. Let's hit it with the butt of the gun. If that doesn't work, we'll find something to smash. There must be some bronze artifacts buried in the main tomb chamber."

Without further ado, the group returned to the passageway.

"Holy crap?" the fat man exclaimed. "This is just too weird!"

Where the white marble wall had been, a jade door had appeared, and inside was a huge coffin made of golden nanmu wood.

"Wow, this is top-quality material. The owner inside must be incredibly wealthy and powerful; there must be plenty of good stuff inside." The fat man rubbed his hands together, looking eager to try it out.

Zhang Wuxun was a little disappointed when he missed catching the little rice dumpling before, but now that a good one has suddenly appeared, he can't help but get excited.

He glanced at the fat man and said, "Whoever gets it keeps it."

After saying that, the two rushed into the jade gate at great speed.

Wu Xiaoxie, who was lagging behind, cursed, "Pah, you two are really money-grubbing." The fat man observed the wooden coffin with his eyes and muttered to himself, "People die for money and birds die for food. Life is just something that you can lose. At worst, I'll be a hero again in forty years. But if the money is gone, then it's really gone."

Wu Xiaoxie was stunned. What the hell? That makes so much sense... what a load of rubbish!

That fatso almost really fooled me into becoming crippled.

Wu Xiaoxie was annoyed for a few seconds, then decided to put those thoughts aside and began to observe the wooden coffin.

"do not move!"

The young man suddenly spoke up to stop him, his expression serious.

"This is a coffin for raising corpses."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wuxun turned the flashlight to its maximum beam, gestured with his chin towards the coffin, and looked at the young man, "Shall you do it or should I?"

"Let me do it."

After the young man finished speaking, he pulled out his military knife and inserted it directly into the seam of the coffin, slowly sliding it along the gap, seemingly looking for some kind of mechanism.

The fat man thought he was going to open the coffin and almost jumped up in a panic, "Slow down, slow down! You Southern School people are really unreliable. You don't even check the fortune before opening the coffin."

As he spoke, he ran to the corner behind the coffin, pulled out a candle, lit it with a lighter, and muttered, "This guy looks pretty honest, but I didn't expect him to be even more eager than Fatty when he saw the coffin, tsk tsk... Holy crap?!"

The fat man suddenly raised his voice, and his shout nearly startled everyone.

Zhang Wuxun clearly felt Wu Xiaoxie shudder behind him, his voice trembling, "Damn it, Fatty, what are you yelling about? Don't you know you're scaring people? You're terrifying!"

Zhang Wuxun patted him on the shoulder, walked over to the fat man, and looked at the ground. He was so shocked that he gasped.

Goodness, no wonder the system blurred out this lump on the ground when it transmitted the story to him.

That cat died in such a damn ugly way.

Its eye sockets were sunken and black, and it was bleeding from all seven orifices. Its two eyes stared straight at people. Its head was hanging by a thread, almost detached. The messy wounds on its body covered its black fur. Its mouth was wide open, revealing a row of fangs. It was sinister and made people feel very uncomfortable.

Wu Xiaoxie peeked out, wanting to see too, but Zhang Wu grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back, saying, "Don't look, it'll hurt your eyes, and you'll die a horrible death."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xiaoxie immediately shrank back and abandoned the idea.

The fat man cursed, kicked the dead cat away to make room, and then lit the candle.

Wu Xiaoxie was so angry when he saw this that he cursed, "Damn it, we don't have much air left, and you're lighting candles, are you going to your own grave in advance?"

The fat man rolled his eyes. "We don't steal gold when the rooster crows and the lamp goes out. That's our Northern School's rule. At worst, I'll just take a few less puffs. It won't kill you."

Seeing that the two little chicks were about to fight, Zhang Wuxun quickly broke them up.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. We've already pried open Brother's coffin lid," Zhang Wuxun said.

With a click, the mechanism was broken.

(End of this chapter)