Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

In the darkness, twenty-eight dark lines of light shone from a beautiful stone gate, arranged in the order of the twenty-eight constellations, forming a "beautiful" dark halo of light.

"This door is solid, so we can't get in. The mechanism shouldn't be here, but the light from the Twenty-Eight Mansions is quite interesting."

The flashlight beam was just slightly dimmer than the other lights, so the twenty-eight halos were very noticeable on the stone gate.

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A slender, fair hand held another flashlight and turned the beam of light in the opposite direction of the stone gate. The halo of light that was originally imprinted on the stone gate was reversed, so the shadow fell on the ground far in front of the stone gate.

A clear image was etched in the open space in front of the stone gate. Twenty-eight shadows seemed to overlap on the ground in the distance, leaving only a single shadow circle. The distance between this shadow circle, the stone gate, and the Silver River all seemed to be centered.

This was something Qin Henian discovered after observing the entire situation. His golden pupils could see through the walls and through the halo on the ground. He saw channels about the thickness of a finger, not deep, only about two centimeters deep. There were a total of seventeen small channels. At different locations in each channel was a long, freely movable stone, which seemed to be the control part of some kind of mechanism.

"Blind man, go and pry up that stone slab under the shadow!"

Having spotted the location of the control mechanism, Qin Henian naturally took out two hundred yuan from his pocket, stuffed it into the chest pocket of Hei Xiazi's shirt, and gave the order.

"Alright! The blind man will go right now!"

Money can make a blind man turn the millstone, and so can a wife.

Click! Click! Click...

To test the waters first, Hei Xiazi reached out and moved three stones in three ditches by one "position," thus triggering the three mechanisms.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

boom! boom! boom!

Click...

Three different sounds, at varying volumes, emanated from the air waves outside the stone gate.

As the three mechanisms sounded, stones, flying arrows, and a passage a few steps diagonally in front of the stone gate opened simultaneously.

Qin Henian's ears twitched, his robes fluttered, and with a swift kick of his back leg, he turned and deflected a flying arrow aimed at him. Then, before the stone could hit him, a cluster of blue-purple flames appeared out of thin air, melting away the stone flying towards him...

Black Bear, standing beside him, also nimbly spun around a few times, drawing his dagger from his waist and precisely parrying everything that was attacking him. In the gaps, a cluster of golden flames appeared at his fingertips, and Black Bear's body temperature instantly rose, isolating him from everything that wanted to attack him.

"He Nian, over there!"

Incidentally, Hei Xiazi even had time to raise his hand and point to the passage that had emerged from the ground, indicating that he should go down.

The sound of footsteps mingled as Qin Henian and Hei Xiazi entered the square passage on the ground. They then discovered that the passage was vertically downwards. Both of them could see that there was a flat area below the passage. With their good agility, they jumped down directly.

Upon landing, it was clear that the air inside the tomb was not good, and the dust was very thick.

Achoo! Achoo! Achoo…

"You blind bastard! Get out of here! The dust in here is so thick, I can't stand this!"

Because Qin Henian jumped so fast, he didn't think about wearing a mask or anything. As soon as he landed, he was choked by a mouthful of ash, which got stuck in his throat and made him cough uncomfortably.

Hei Xiazi also noticed Qin Henian's situation, raised his hand and patted his big head, he had also forgotten about the dust in the ancient tomb.

Sure enough! When you have your wife on your mind, you tend to forget things easily!

"Come on, honey, don't panic. I have a mask here, let me put it on you!"

With a rustling sound, Hei Xiazi reached into his bag while talking. When he found something familiar, he decisively pulled out two items, tore open the packaging, pulled open the two ears, and lifted the blue mask to put it on Qin Henian's face.

However, just then, as Hei Xiazi raised his hand to gesture the mask towards Qin Henian's face, he noticed a problem.

His wife's face is so small, it seems the ear loops on her mask are a bit too big, she needs to tie them up.

"Hurry up! This tomb is quite large. We need to go in and loot it first, and also set up some traps. If Wu Xie and the others aren't fast enough, we definitely won't make it in time!"

When Qin Henian saw Hei Xiazi holding a mask and about to put it on him, he was about to stick his face out when he noticed that the other person had taken the mask back. He urged him impatiently.

"Hey honey, don't rush me, I'll make you a rope and put it on you right away!"

As Hei Xiazi started tying knots in the mask straps, he explained things while also trying to gain some verbal advantage.

After they had armed themselves, they looked at each other, pulled out a number of tools for setting up traps, and began to observe their surroundings.

This is a small side chamber, not very spacious, with few burial objects, only a somewhat aged black coffin in the center. At a glance, the white bones inside are partially exposed.

Clearly, there was nothing in this tomb chamber, so the two didn't linger. After Hei Xiazi had observed the entire tomb chamber, they marked the wall where they found the mechanism, set up a small long-wire crossbow mechanism in each of the four corners of the tomb chamber, and then opened the passage to the next tomb chamber and slipped away.

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On the other side of the rainforest, black raven feathers and limbs lay scattered on the ground, along with several human skeletons and some messy footprints on a patch of grass in the forest.

Along a stream in the distance, a dozen tents had already been set up. The largest tent at the head was yellow, and the atmosphere inside was quite tense.

"We've lost so many people this time, why are we even going into that damned tomb? Let's just go back, we haven't found the place yet anyway."

Huo Jintong was an impatient man. Before he came, he thought this tomb raiding trip would be easy. As long as he brought enough capable people with him, he was sure to succeed. Who would have thought that he would suffer so much as soon as he entered the desert? Several of his scouts were lost in the desert, and they didn't even know if they were alive or dead. Entering the oasis rainforest was even more dangerous. Not to mention the strange black camels that chased people, he couldn't even handle those black crows they had just encountered. They were also very powerful. Who knew if there were other strange creatures in this forest? Wasn't it just courting death for a rich second-generation like him, who was usually arrogant and useless?

I should have known better than to listen to his grandfather's foul mouth!

Ask Huo Jintong how she feels now! Regret! Extreme regret!

"Jintong! We're already in the rainforest; it's too late to turn back!"

Besides, he was already here, so he wouldn't be willing to leave without taking something.

Huo Jincheng began to advise Huo Jintong, the most indecisive and, of course, the most incompetent among them! If he weren't surnamed Huo, he would have abandoned her and left her to fend for herself eight hundred years ago…