Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

[Congratulations, host, on completing the beginner's mission!]

[The reward has been sent to your system space. Please check your account!]

[The Longevity Family Mission Released!]

[Please lead your family members to excavate the Blood Corpse Tomb at Biaozi Ridge. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with a bronze treasure chest!]

A series of system notifications made Su Chen beam with joy.

After planning for several days and going through a lot of twists and turns, I finally completed the beginner's task.

However, upon seeing the new task issued by the system, Su Chen's face darkened.

The Blood Corpse Tomb—that was the infamous tomb that nearly wiped out the entire Wu family.

Even a formidable figure like Zhang Qilin suffered considerable injuries when facing the blood corpse.

Letting him lead a bunch of clueless and ignorant tribesmen is like sending them to the blood zombies for snacks!

Thinking of this, Su Chen frowned.

Seeing this, Su Ling'er asked curiously, "Brother Chen, what's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing!"

Su Chen shook his head, temporarily putting aside the Blood Corpse Tomb mission and focusing his attention on the coffin.

He pondered for a moment, then instructed Su Yitian and Xiao Hu: "Xiao Tian and Xiao Hu, turn over the bones in the coffin and see if you can find any rare artifacts or treasures!"

Just as Su Chen focused his attention on the system, the zombie inside the coffin gradually turned to ashes due to the sunlight, leaving only a pile of bone powder.

Su Yitian quickly agreed, and without any hesitation, he jumped into the coffin and began rummaging through the pile of bone powder with his hands.

Others, such as Su Renzhao and Su Ling'er, wandered around the tomb, hoping to find some more valuable items.

After searching for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Su Renzhao shook his head and said disappointedly, "There are only coins, nothing else."

However, at that moment, the two people inside the coffin suddenly shouted with joy.

"There's a treasure here!"

Su Yitian straightened up from inside the coffin, holding a jade cicada about the size of half a thumb in his hand.

This jade cicada is entirely red, as if it were soaked in blood.

Su Yitian wiped the Blood Jade Cicada off his clothes, removing the ashes from its surface.

Then, he presented it to Su Chen like a precious treasure.

Su Chen took the jade cicada and examined it carefully. Under the sunlight, the jade cicada shone brightly!

Although he didn't know much about gemstones, he knew that this blood jade cicada must be very valuable.

Thinking of this, Su Chen smiled and said, "Alright, with this Blood Jade Cicada, this trip to Lishan is worthwhile!"

Su Renzhao breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

They followed Su Chen to become tomb raiders and endured tremendous pressure.

They not only used the money meant for grain to buy weapons, but also took away half of the tribe's stored grain.

If we could get our hands on some valuable goods and exchange them for money to buy grain, that would be great!

But if they can't get their hands on the treasure, the people in the tribe will definitely cause a ruckus.

At this moment, Su Yihu stood up from the coffin with some frustration, his face showing defeat. He said, "Brother Chen, Fourth Uncle, I've searched the coffin seven or eight times, but there's nothing else there."

Hearing this, Su Chen couldn't help but smile and comforted him, "It's alright. This tomb isn't very large; it's probably a burial tomb for a feudal lord. It's normal that there aren't many treasures!"

Furthermore, based on the ancient coins found in the tomb, Su Chen could roughly deduce that the tomb's occupant likely belonged to the Spring and Autumn or Warring States period.

At that time, the elaborate burial style of later generations had not yet been formed, and if there were no bronzes among the burial goods, there were not many valuable items.

Clearly, the tomb owner didn't like bronzes much, as there wasn't a single one in the tomb.

Seeing that the tomb had been thoroughly searched inside and out by everyone, Su Chen said, "Alright, that's enough. Let's fill the pit back in and then head to Changsha City."

Su Chen had a full two hundred dollars stored in his system space.

He had already decided that he would use at least half of those two hundred dollars to buy a few Mauser pistols.

Use the rest to buy grain!

Oh, and there's meat too!

During this time, he was so bored that he had to buy chicken, duck, fish and meat to treat himself and his people!

As for where the money came from, it's simple. It was the money from selling the jade cicada!

Having made up his mind, Su Chen called the others to leave the tomb chamber and began to backfill the tomb with bricks and soil.

Su Yihu looked puzzled and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Chen, there's hardly anyone here, is it necessary to fill in the soil?"

Su Chen shook his head, his expression serious, and said, "Do you think there's only one tomb here?"

"besides?"

"Not only is there one, but it's also a burial complex, which is very likely the legendary tomb of the King Li! This is the tomb of a feudal king, and even if we can't find it now, we can't leave it to others."

Upon hearing this, Su Yihu and the others suddenly realized what was going on!

Yes, we can't let this huge tomb, which we finally found with great difficulty, fall into the wrong hands.

So, the two young men, Su Yihu and Su Yitian, swung their shovels so hard they almost flew through the air.

What should have been a task that took more than an hour was completed in just half an hour, and all the soil covering the site was put back in place.

Then tamp it down with your feet, and you can hardly see any traces of digging.

If it rains twice more, all the traces will be buried.

Just as Su Chen said, there must be a large tomb here, and it must be the tomb of a king or nobleman!

Unfortunately, Su Chen currently lacks the experience and knowledge to raid tombs, and has no way of finding the location of the great tomb.

More importantly, if even a secondary tomb has a green zombie, one can't even imagine what's inside the main tomb!

After careful consideration, Su Chen decided to backfill the soil and leave it for future excavation.

After cleaning up all the traces, Su Chen announced that they would return home.

This time, they went directly to Changsha City to sell their treasures and buy muskets and grain.

Once everything is ready, we'll return to Sujia Village.

Black-backed Old Six naturally had no objections and silently followed behind Su Chen and the others.

After what had just happened, especially seeing Blackback Six cut off the zombie's head, Su Ling'er and the others' resentment vanished, and they even felt a bit more accepting of him.

Of the three, Su Yitian was the most lively.

On the way back to the city, he glanced at Black-Backed Sixth Brother's Guanshan Knife and asked with a smile, "By the way, brother, we still don't know your name!"

Black-backed Old Six was taken aback, and after a moment of confusion, he lowered his head and said, "Just call me Old Knife!"

Among the Nine Gates, neither Qi Tiezui, known for his uncanny ability to predict the future, nor Zhang Qishan, with his extraordinary powers, knew the real name of Black-backed Old Six.

He is a mysterious figure, a maverick who is always accompanied by a knife.

As for Black-backed Sixth Brother, that's just his nickname.

There's actually a strange story behind this nickname!

If history hadn't changed, Black-backed Old Six would have spent a few years in Changsha City, learning the methods of tomb raiders and joining the other members of the Nine Gates in tomb raiding.

Once, he entered the tomb chamber without feeling anything, but when he came out of the tomb, he felt as if someone had put their arm around his back, and he couldn't shake it off no matter what he did.

Even more bizarrely, after this incident, a large black spot appeared on his back.

That's how the nickname "Black-backed Old Six" came about.

In other words, the current Black-backed Sixth Brother is not yet the real Black-backed Sixth Brother because he hasn't met the ghost who gave him the black mark yet!

It's a crossover...

Closer to home!