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

Wu Jizong took the wooden box from Wu Laogou, touched it, and exclaimed with delight.

"This is a three-layer Luban lock. It is said that this technique has been lost for a long time. I didn't expect to find it in this tomb."

"Luban lock?"

Su Chen quickly asked, "Can it be opened?"

Hearing this, Wu Laogou and his second brother couldn't help but laugh. "Hehe, Brother Su, you've come to the right person. My father's lock-picking skills are second to none in Changsha City!"

Snapped!

Before he could finish speaking, Wu Jizong slapped Wu Laogou on the head.

"Go away, you never watch your mouth."

He glared at Wu Laogou and his second brother before turning to Su Chen to explain.

“I used to learn a few tricks from an old tomb raider, specializing in cracking the mechanisms inside tombs.”

As he spoke, Wu Jizong's hands kept moving. He pressed the wooden box containing the silver ingot repeatedly, and the box opened automatically, revealing its contents.

The contents of the wooden box were very simple, containing only a yellowed silk book.

The term "silk" is actually a general term for silk fabrics.

During the Warring States period, there was no paper; if you wanted to write, you could only write on bamboo slips or silk fabrics.

However, silk fabrics were expensive, and although they were lightweight and easy to carry, even nobles could not afford them.

Therefore, during the Warring States period, most books were recorded on bamboo slips. Silk manuscripts were only used for extremely important matters.

As for the silk scroll inside the wooden box, Su Chen

It's obvious without even guessing that it was the same one that Wu Laogou was later tricked out of by Qiu Dekao.

The silk scroll is written in many insect and bird seal script characters, which are roughly records about the Seven Star Lu Palace of King Lu Shang.

The group then searched inside the coffin for a while and found several jade discs and a bronze sword with inscriptions.

Wu Jizong's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say, "These are all good things. In a good time, any one of these items could be exchanged for a mansion in the capital."

It's possible when times are good, but now we're in a period of chaos, and the price of antiques is plummeting.

In addition, the price has been even lower due to the famine in the south in the past two years.

Fortunately, Su Chen didn't care about these things. His biggest goal in coming to the Blood Corpse Tomb of Biaozi Ridge was to complete the mission.

As for valuable items, it would be great if they were discovered, but it wouldn't matter if they weren't.

Thinking of this, Su Chen smiled faintly and said, "Brother Wu, let's save these good things for when we get back. Let's hurry back to the surface."

Although Su Chen reminded them this time, the Wu family did not disturb the corpse beetle king inside the insect eggs.

However, the tomb is filled with too much yin energy, and the longer one stays there, the more likely an accident will occur.

Su Chen planned to backfill the soil as soon as possible before the sun completely set.

"Alright, let's go up now."

Wu Jizong nodded with a smile.

We didn't find anything good at the fox camp's altar before; the few bronze masks were useless. Now that we've found these treasures, the trip wasn't in vain.

Back on the ground, Wu Jizong and the others breathed in the fresh air deeply.

Old Wu slumped to the ground, laughing as he said to his grandfather, "Grandpa, you have no idea what happened down there... there were four corpse beetle king eggs down there!"

Upon hearing the words "Corpse Beetle King," Old Wu, who had been puffing on his pipe, instantly changed his expression.

He frowned and immediately began to ask more detailed questions.

After Wu Jizong recounted the whole story, Old Wu turned to Su Chen and asked in a deep voice, "Is that really the Corpse Beetle King down there?"

"Old man, it's definitely true, at least 90% certain!"

Upon hearing this, Old Wu looked anxious and paced back and forth.

Su Chen was a little confused and quickly asked, "Grandpa, I told Xiao San'er to stop. We didn't disturb the corpse beetle king inside the eggs, so it's fine!"

To everyone's surprise, Old Wu sighed and shook his head, saying, "When I was young, I went to Hebei with the elders in my family to set up a cooking business. I once saw the Corpse Beetle King. That time, the Wu, Jie, and Huo families joined together to set up a cooking business, and more than two hundred people went. However, because of the Corpse Beetle King's summoning of the Corpse Beetle Dynasty, only more than twenty of the two hundred people returned... Ninety percent of them died in that Tang Dynasty tomb in Hebei."

Upon hearing this, Su Chen was surprised. He had almost forgotten that the Corpse Beetle King could control swarms of corpse beetles. However…

"But sir, there aren't any corpse beetles in this tomb. Surely there shouldn't be a corpse beetle swarm?"

"Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens!"

At this point, Old Wu seemed to remember something and quickly said to Wu Jizong and Old Dog, "Quickly, before it gets completely dark, fill the burial mound back in!"

Wu Jizong and his two sons all felt that the old man was worrying unnecessarily.

The Corpse Beetle King is sealed inside its eggs, and no one has touched it. What problems could possibly arise...?

However, they couldn't disobey the old foreman and had no choice but to follow his instructions and put the tomb bricks back in one by one.

Seeing this, Su Chen and Black-backed Old Six also went up to help.

Filling the hole was much easier than digging it. Five people worked together and filled it completely in less than an hour, before the sun had completely set.

At this moment, Old Wu took a puff of his pipe, sighed, and explained, "Don't think I'm a nuisance. For people in our line of work, being cautious is never a bad thing. If it weren't so dangerous to travel through the mountains at night, I would have taken you all back tonight."

Su Chen didn't think the old headman was being nosy; anything could happen inside the tomb.

This Blood Corpse Tomb was the site that nearly wiped out the Wu family.

No amount of caution is too much.

With the sun about to set, Wu Jizong and his two sons gathered some firewood and found an open space nearby to pitch their tents and camp.

The group ate dry rations again, but this time they boiled water and soaked the rations in it, so they weren't too hard to swallow.

After finishing his meal, Wu Jizong cleaned up the treasures in the tomb a bit, and then found Su Chen and said he wanted to divide the treasures among himself.

However Su Chen

After thinking for a moment, he casually said, "I'll take the jade tortoise from the altar, and the treasures in this tomb are yours. How about it?"

Wu Jizong was stunned when he heard the sound!

The jade turtle may be considered a treasure, but it is a harmful treasure.

In contrast, he still preferred the valuable items that could be sold for money.

Since he wasn't in charge of the Wu family yet, he had no choice but to find Old Master Wu and, when no one was around, bring up Su Chen's suggestion.

Old Wu, the foreman, was a shrewd old man. He didn't know the value of the jade turtle, but he could guess that it was probably worth much more than all these treasures.

The truly valuable items in this Warring States period tomb are the four eggs of the Corpse Beetle King.

However, both the jade turtle and the corpse beetle king's eggs are things that can easily harm both the user and others. Without some skill, one simply cannot handle them.

Thinking of this, Old Man Wu slowly shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Jizong, what do you think?"

Wu Jizong thought for a moment and said, "Dad, that jade tortoise can transform into a fox demon, it must be an extraordinary treasure! I always feel like we're getting a bit of a loss!"

"deficit?"

Old Wu snorted lightly and asked in return, "That jade turtle, do you know how to use it?"

"Um... my son doesn't know how."

Wu Jizong paused for a moment, then replied with a hint of helplessness.

"That settles it. Even if they gave you the jade turtle, you wouldn't be able to handle it. Don't even think about things that aren't yours to touch. Besides, there are even better treasures than the jade turtle in this Warring States tomb, but can you take them?"

"Father, are you talking about the Corpse Beetle King's eggs?"

"Yes, the Corpse Beetle King's eggs are worth a fortune, but we don't have the ability to control them. If we actually get our hands on them, it will only harm us."

Old Wu nodded and gave Wu Jizong a couple of pointers before saying, "If he doesn't want it, we can't refuse. When we get back and sell the treasure, we should send him a copy as well."

"Oh, you want to send one more?"

"stupid!"

Seeing that Wu Jizong was still somewhat reluctant, Old Wu immediately tapped him on the head twice with his pipe.

"They are descendants of the Tomb Raiders and have the ability to control jade turtles. Before long, they will definitely have a place in Changsha City, and may even surpass our Wu family. Right now, their Su Family Village is still inconspicuous. It's always better to help them in their time of need than to add to their existing success!"