Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

Chen Yibai had anticipated that Yan Xuefei would change her mind at the last minute, so he simply shrugged and spread his hands, indicating that he didn't care.

In any case, Chen Yibai was not afraid that Yan Xuefei would abandon him after she went up and block the entrance.

If she really dares to do that, the final payment will be much more than just 150 million.

Another crucial point is that climbing up through this tunnel is definitely not as easy as you might imagine...

After obtaining Chen Yibai's consent, Yan Xuefei immediately grabbed some shovels and tools from beside the three mummies and began climbing up the tunnel in the cliff face of the cave.

Fortunately, these three predecessors left behind some climbing tools. Although more than a hundred years have passed, they are still usable and are much better than climbing with bare hands.

After climbing to the entrance of the tomb, Yan Xuefei looked at the one-meter-wide hole in front of her, hesitated briefly, and then crawled straight in.

The rock layer of this tomb robber's tunnel was only about a meter deep, and it was probably blasted open with gunpowder.

After passing through the rock layer, the soil layer above is not straight up and down, but turns and slopes upward at a ninety-degree angle.

The tunnels are dug at an angle, which is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than vertical tunnels, but this type of tunnel allows people to climb up on their own in case of emergency.

These are all experiences shared by seasoned tomb raiders.

However, due to the passage of time, most of the upward-sloping tomb hole has been filled with loess and gravel.

Seeing this, Yan Xuefei could only take the iron shovel and carefully start digging along the traces of the tomb robber's hole.

Tomb raiders always dig tunnels from bottom to top.

This process, digging from the bottom up, is not only physically demanding, but also requires constant vigilance to prevent the top layer of soil from suddenly collapsing in large areas.

In addition, the tunnel was narrow and cramped. Yan Xuefei curled up inside like a digger. After digging for only a few minutes, her whole body ached and her neck was sore. Moreover, the soil had a putrid smell. The higher she dug, the stronger the stench became, just like digging a sewer.

As the stench grew stronger, Yan Xuefei shoveled down again and felt as if the shovel had touched something soft. When she dug it open, she found a black, rotten human head, its face covered in rotting flesh, its expression twisted and its mouth wide open, looking down at Yan Xuefei.

"what……"

Yan Xuefei was so frightened that she let out a scream, her legs, which were supporting her on the tunnel, went weak and she almost fell down.

There was even a dead body buried in this tomb-raiding tunnel. Judging from the degree of decomposition on his face, he must have died only a few years ago. He was most likely a tomb raider who suffocated in the tunnel because of his poor skills.

Although Yan Xuefei was brave, a rotting corpse wasn't scary at all. The problem was that it was right in front of her face. Just now, the shovel had hit the corpse's face, shaving off half of its head. It was smelly and disgusting.

So Yan Xuefei regretted it a little; she should have let Chen Yibai come up first.

Upon realizing this, Yan Xuefei suddenly understood. She had suggested going first, and Chen Yibai had readily agreed. He must have known about this beforehand!

What a cunning man!

Yan Xuefei couldn't stand the pungent, rotten smell inside the tunnel and wanted to go down and let Chen Yibai take her place.

But upon further reflection, if Chen Yibai went up and then blocked the entrance to the tunnel, wouldn't he be doomed?

Thinking back to that sword strike, he was absolutely capable of doing something like that!

Just to be on the safe side, Yan Xuefei had no choice but to grit her teeth, tear off a piece of cloth from her clothes and tie it to her nose, and continue digging upwards with the shovel.

Meanwhile, Chen Yibai below was puzzled when he heard Yan Xuefei's scream coming from inside the tunnel.

Not long after, as the soil gushed down from the tomb, a large black figure fell down and crashed heavily to the ground with a thud, his head hitting the rock on the ground like a watermelon smashing to pieces.

Chen Yibai thought it was Yan Xuefei who had fallen, and that she must be dead.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a rotting corpse, dressed in clothes from the 1980s.

It seems that more than one group of tomb raiders visited this tunnel; they were probably inexperienced and half-baked, and they suffocated inside.

No wonder I heard Yan Xuefei screaming in the tunnel earlier.

Just as Chen Yibai was about to raise his head, another rotting corpse fell out of the tomb.

There was more than one corpse in the tomb robber's hole?

Not just one, but many!

Yan Xuefei had finally managed to dig out the rotting corpse from the tomb raider's tunnel and slid down its slope. Before she could even catch her breath, she saw that there were still corpses above. She was completely stunned and even cursed inwardly, "Are all these tomb raiders idiots? They actually got wiped out in the tunnel! They're not as skilled as their opponents, yet they still came out to raid tombs. They deserve to die here!"

There was no other way; this was the only way up. Yan Xuefei had no choice but to grit her teeth, suppress her nausea, and continue digging upwards!

Chen Yibai saw from below that rotting corpses kept falling down from the hole above, like dumplings being dropped into a pot; a total of six corpses fell down.

I can't even imagine what it must have been like when six tomb raiders were trapped and died in the tomb.

What does it mean that Yan Xuefei would encounter something like this?

This shows she's really lucky...

After digging out six corpses in a row, Yan Xuefei's physical strength, endurance, and mental state had almost completely reached their limits.

And with another shovel strike, the yellow earth and gravel overhead suddenly collapsed with a 'boom'.

Yan Xuefei was startled and quickly braced herself against the wall of the tunnel with her legs to support her body and avoid being crushed.

Fortunately, not much soil collapsed from above, and after the soil collapsed, a beam of light shone in.

Yan Xuefei looked up in surprise and saw a clear blue sky and peaceful clouds!

"It's connected...it's connected..."

Yan Xuefei looked up at the sky above her head. Her hard work, which she had been gritting her teeth over, had finally paid off. She was so excited that she almost cried. She quickly climbed out of the tunnel in one go.

After climbing out of the tunnel, Yan Xuefei immediately looked around.

The surrounding area was overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and surrounded by mountains in the distance. It was clear that this place was still deep in the Qinling Mountains, and it should not be too far from the tomb raider's tunnel from which they had come down.

Da da da……

At this moment, Yan Xuefei heard the sound of helicopters not far away. She turned her head and saw several military helicopters flying low towards her.

Don't stay here for long!

Yan Xuefei was covered in mud and smelled of death; she was in a terrible state.

Yan Xuefei originally wanted to fill the hole again, but upon further reflection, she realized that even if she did fill it, Chen Yibai could dig it open again.

So he simply ignored everything and headed straight for the exit from the mountain, his figure disappearing into the dense bushes...