The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 340 - 280: The Empty Coffin

This coffin has no nails, it’s just a lid, like the lid of a cookie box.

There are two pillows inside, meaning there are two corpses. If they wake up at the same time, pushing open the lid together wouldn’t be difficult.

Judging by the thickness of the dust on the door handle, we can rule out the owner faking death. With such a thick layer of dust in a well-sealed space, it must have been years.

No one can fake death for a hundred years; that’s not faking death, that’s resurrection.

"Captain... Captain!!!" Cheng Xuelin’s voice was tense and fearful, yet he kept it very low.

"What’s wrong?" I walked to the door and looked down.

"Something’s coming up from below!" Cheng Xuelin shouted, pinching his throat.

"You go back to the passageway." I shouted to Cheng Xuelin without lowering my voice.

From my position, I could see spots of red light in the deep well, like fireflies gathering and ascending.

But they were certainly not fireflies; they were a terrifying swarm of scorpions from the desert.

Cheng Xuelin was very obedient and immediately retreated back into the passageway, but I knew it wasn’t safe there; the scorpions wouldn’t come up for no reason.

Since they came, they wouldn’t spare any living person. I needed to find a hiding place for Cheng Xuelin.

"Captain, come down, be careful!" Cheng Xuelin shouted worriedly, clinging to the entrance of the passage, peeking out to watch.

I quickly climbed down the wooden hut, returning to the halfway step. By then, the scorpion army in the well was almost at the wellhead.

Turns out the spots of red light were their glowing organs on their heads. It was the first time I had seen scorpions wearing ’miner’s lamps,’ but now wasn’t the time to marvel at new species. I pushed Cheng Xuelin and ran back.

We ran back to the passage we had ascended, and in the trap zone, I stepped on a tile, and the adjacent wall flipped, revealing rows of spikes.

These spikes could be launched, but before they could be, I burned them away with Karmic Fire, leaving only the bases and the flipping mechanism.

Cheng Xuelin followed behind me. As he came over, I had just finished burning and pulled him into the flipping wall.

The wall reset, leaving not a gap, and according to past experience, many creatures didn’t want to bother me and would consider me nonexistent.

But these Red Lantern Scorpions could sense my presence and relentlessly pursued me.

After running for a while, I even felt they were coming for me.

I couldn’t run towards Lilith and the others, I could only circle around in the passageway, and after running for a while and finding I couldn’t shake them off, I found a small space to hide in.

The Red Lantern Scorpions poured into the passageway, spreading like a black carpet, or like flowing black water, with red glowing algae drifting on top.

This Underworld, undisturbed for millennia, fostered countless dark creatures, impossible to quantify.

Burning them would just waste my energy. About half an hour later, the scorpion swarm went quiet. I crawled out of the pitfall I was hiding in; the spike boards below had been burned away, so hiding there was relatively safe.

I looked around and saw no trace of the scorpion swarm, so I returned to where Cheng Xuelin was hidden, stepped on the mechanism, and released him from the flipping wall.

"Where did they go? Could Old Zhao and the others be in danger?" Cheng Xuelin asked worriedly as soon as he came out.

"Don’t they have experience handling this situation?"

"They do, but... with the same danger, no matter how many times they face it, people can still die."

Cheng Xuelin’s tone sounded rather helpless. I had already looked at the main tomb chamber, so it was time to go back and see how Liang Ruidong’s tunnel digging was going.

"Let’s go, let’s go back and see if they’re still alive."

"Captain, are you still upset about their taking sides? Sigh... I know they shouldn’t have done that, but it’s because they don’t understand you. When we return, I’ll—"

"You better keep quiet. I don’t need them to submit to me. There’s no need." They’re just strangers temporarily working together, and when the task ends, we go our separate ways. There’s no need to forge a working relationship.

There’s no direct interaction between the archives and the field operatives; the summary reports they write and the documents they collect are reviewed from above and then organized by clerks and sent for archiving. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Cheng Xuelin was obviously disappointed, but he didn’t say any more. We followed the original route back to the entrance, and Qian Yu was surprised to see us.

To be precise, he was surprised that the two of us returned unharmed.

According to his prediction, the passage was full of traps, and even if we survived, we would be battered.