My lord, hold me tight! (Quick Transmigration)
21. Young man, let me protect you! (Tomb Raider Episode 1)
Suddenly, someone approached the tent where she was.
"Xiao Leng, do you want to come out and get something to eat?" A male voice came from outside the tent, the voice carrying a hint of vicissitude.
"..." Su Nuan did not answer rashly, as she had not yet received the original owner's memories.
"Professor Gao, this young lady isn't appreciative, so don't try to win her over!" A hoarse male voice scoffed, revealing his disdain and dissatisfaction with the original owner of this body.
The person outside the tent ignored the man, waited outside for a while, and left when she still didn't answer.
Su Nuan then relaxed and lay in the tent to receive the original owner's memories and plot.
The original owner of this body was named Leng Nuan, and she was a tomb raider. However, she didn't actually plunder tombs; she was hired to protect newcomers in tombs for a fee. The original owner was aloof and taciturn, but she was also very skilled, so she had an excellent reputation among those in the industry.
Although the original owner had been "traversing beneath bones" for eight years, she was still quite young, exactly twenty-five. As for why this young girl entered this line of work at such a young age, there's a story behind it. Those in the industry only know that after taking some small tomb jobs in the first few years of her career, she only took jobs for large, dangerous ancient tombs, seemingly searching for something.
Yes, the original owner was searching, but not for things; he was searching for people. The original owner's parents were both experts in history and archaeology. Eighteen years ago, the government secretly dispatched a scientific research and archaeological team to conduct research in the mountains of a remote village. Half a month later, the team discovered a large underground tomb. After some geological exploration, they found the location of the tomb and entered through the "door." However, the entire research team disappeared after entering the underground tomb, and no news ever came back.
After the national scientific expedition team had been inactive for more than a month, the team was immediately dispatched to investigate whether they had encountered any danger.
When the exploration team arrived, all that was left were empty tents and the professional equipment provided by the government, which remained intact. The research team seemed to have vanished into thin air.
The survey team then went to the location of the tomb reported by the expedition team to search for it. Strangely, they did not find the so-called underground tomb at the tomb entrance landmark reported by the expedition team.
The team had no choice but to search the surrounding area. After staying there for half a month, they still couldn't find any trace of them. In the end, they had to return and report to the state: the entire scientific expedition team had been killed and their bodies were nowhere to be found.
The original owner's parents were members of that scientific expedition team. Their death made her an orphan, and she was raised by her grandfather from a young age.
Her grandfather was a top tomb raider in his youth and a well-known figure in the area. However, his son chose to study archaeology and looked down on his tomb raider father, which naturally led to a breakdown in their relationship.
After this incident, my grandfather tried to find out more, but with little success. Back then, the country did a good job of maintaining secrecy, and after the incident, all relevant documents were destroyed to prevent anyone from searching for this strange place. The disappearance of the entire expedition team remains an unsolved mystery.
As the old man grew older, he told her about her parents when she was old enough to understand. The girl secretly resolved to find the place her parents had gone. So the original owner's grandfather let her have her way and passed on all his skills to her. However, he forbade the girl from doing the dirty work of tomb raiding and only allowed her to go down into tombs with others. That's how Leng Nuan ended up doing what she is doing now.
This time, the original owner of this body, along with Professor Gao who had politely inquired about her earlier, arrived at a mysterious and dangerous underground tomb. Her mission was to protect two people, who happened to be the male and female protagonists.
This underground tomb is the same one that caused the scientific expedition team to mysteriously disappear eighteen years ago. When the original owner found her parents' remains inside, she broke down on the spot. Although she knew in her heart that her parents had already passed away, seeing them in person brought her a different kind of complicated feeling.
As a result, the original owner was in a daze, and the tomb was full of traps and extremely dangerous. In the end, the original owner was caught off guard and fell into a trap, and never came out of the tomb again.
The plot of this world is much simpler: a cute romance between a young boy and girl. The male lead, Cai Yan, is Professor Gao's apprentice, while the female lead is Professor Gao's daughter, Gao Mengmeng. They encounter such a dangerous tomb on their first adventure. Originally a team of seven, only four survived. Professor Gao inhaled toxic gas in the tomb and was hospitalized shortly after. The hospital was helpless against the poison, and Professor Gao could only wait to die.
The male and female protagonists experienced life and death together in the tomb, confirming their feelings for each other. Professor Gao's death allowed them to slowly emerge from the shadow of grief through mutual comfort and encouragement. Then, the tomb raiding thriller transformed into a sweet romance, with the two loving each other for a lifetime.
Leng Nuan has now followed Professor Gao's team on a long journey to the vicinity of the underground tomb and set up camp, preparing to search for the tomb's location the next day.
This Professor Gao is also an archaeology expert. In the story, he has been researching the mystery of the disappearance of the scientific expedition team eighteen years ago.
He overheard from a friend in the archaeology field that there was an extremely dangerous tomb here, which might be the origin of the incident. So he immediately packed his bags, gathered a team and set off. His apprentice and daughter insisted on joining, so he had to hire Leng Nuan to protect them.
Leng Nuan pulled the tent open a crack, revealing six people sitting around the fire talking.
A man in his fifties, dressed in an old-fashioned robe and sitting with his eyes slightly squinted, is a figure in the trade—Master Zhang. It is said that his ancestors were personally appointed "tomb raiders" and he is well-versed in feng shui. Sitting next to him is a plump man in his thirties, Fatty Shi. The man talking to Professor Gao is dressed in modern Taoist attire, lean, with small eyes that exude a mean and cunning air. His two small mustaches twitch as he speaks. He is the man who expressed his dissatisfaction to her earlier; he is Old Li.
On the other side sat two teenagers, Cai Yan and Gao Mengmeng, exuding an incongruous youthful energy, playfully bickering. Gao Mengmeng had large, bright eyes that curved into crescent shapes when she stood up, making her indescribably cute. Cai Yan, on the other hand, was casually dressed in a hoodie, his hair a little messy, his bangs a bit long, slightly obscuring his eyes. His eyelids were half-closed, and he looked sleepy as he listened to Gao Mengmeng speak, probably because the long journey had left him without much rest.
Cai Yan seemed to sense something, rubbed his eyes, and turned to look at the tent where Leng Nuan was. The tent was still tightly closed and there was no movement.
Phew, what happened to the cute boy? How come he has such a keen sense of perception?
"Yancai, what are you looking at?" Gao Mengmeng followed his gaze. "Waaah~ Xiaonuan won't come out to play with us, she's so heartless, sob sob..."
“…Mengmeng, that’s enough!” Cai Yan looked at Gao Mengmeng beside him, who was clutching her heart like a fairy, and sighed in exasperation.
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