The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 137: Don’t Take Random Medicine

"But..." Professor Liu’s mood remained low, "where could they go?"

We know the cave was surrounded by those large trees, leaving their attack range meant escaping the cave area. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Now there’s no one on the trees or on the ground, as if they vanished into thin air.

But from my experience, no matter how bizarre things seem, there must be a reason behind it.

Just like magic, it looks incredible, but there’s always a trick to it, only hidden by the magician.

Professor Liu is determined to protect his two students, and with both disappearing, he’s momentarily panicked, we can’t expect him to make rational judgments.

Qinghan borrowed Professor Liu’s shovel, starting to dig from where the footprints disappeared, scraping off a layer of soil to reveal a smooth stone path beneath.

The path to the ’city center’ wasn’t cut off, it could still lead us forward, this shouldn’t be the endpoint of our journey.

Qinghan examined the ground around the footprints again, there was no path in the jungle, only rampant plants, the ground covered with bizarre flowers and grasses, eerie yet beautiful.

If someone passed through, they would definitely step on them, Qinghan said he just wanted to confirm if there were any other ’disappearance points’.

"A danger zone every five kilometers," Professor Liu suddenly spoke.

"Mm, it’s like a mechanism, changing for every five kilometers." Qinghan understood what Professor Liu meant and ’translated’ it into a way I could understand.

Professor Liu meant that the entire island was a circle, with invisible territory boundaries within the jungle, which watch over the island’s central area in circular forms.

The species of flora and fauna within each ring were different, possibly to prevent them from killing each other, so there were safe zones between the ring areas.

Actually, as long as you grasp the characteristics of all the flora and fauna, it’s possible to let them grow and reproduce according to their own will, forming their own ecological chains.

It would just be a huge project, and there are too many variables in the process, difficult to control, unless someone is watching over and making constant adjustments.

Or...

I looked at the stone path Chen Qinghan dug up, remembering that corrosion-resistant bridge over the underground river.

"Little Fu, give it a try." Qinghan extended his index finger, making a circle gesture, meaning the surroundings.

He knows my skills very well, he’s asking me to see if I can ’hear’ anything.

The jungle was dense, filled with small animals, just without any peculiar sounds.

Why are there no large beasts on the island? I now realized this question.

Even if there were no tigers or bears, there should be wolves or wild boars or something, right?

I lightly shook my head, Qinghan wasn’t disappointed, without finding Guan Hai and Cong Zhibo, Professor Liu wouldn’t leave, Lu Xiaodao hadn’t spoken either, but he didn’t seem intent on leaving.

He needed Meng Qingyu’s antidote, obviously hoping to find her.

I didn’t care, if Bi Shi and He Su were lost, they were just lost, I didn’t want to find them.

Professor Liu had already told me how to leave the Sea of Sunken Ships, I could run off with Qinghan right now.

But leaving now would be a bit unscrupulous, since we promised Professor Liu to help bring things out, at least we should go to the destination and see what’s going on before deciding.

Besides, Qinghan would never give up on rescuing people, there’s no way he would leave while others’ lives were still uncertain.

Once Professor Liu’s emotions calmed a bit, he discussed the possibilities of everyone’s disappearance with Qinghan.

I squatted to the side listening, and as I listened, I became sleepy, there was no place to sleep in the jungle, or rather, no safe place to sleep.

I had to endure the drowsiness, glancing over unintentionally to see Lu Xiaodao using a flying knife to pry the bark off a tree.

"What are you doing?" I walked over, wanting to see if he discovered something.

"Looking for something." Although Lu Xiaodao spoke little, he wouldn’t ignore people, as long as you spoke to him first, even a word or syllable, he’d respond.

"Be careful." The trees in the jungle were more ferocious than lions and tigers, peeling off their bark was quite dangerous.

"Mm." Lu Xiaodao responded, continuing to peel the tree with his knife.

I didn’t want to listen to Qinghan and Professor Liu’s ’reasoning’, the two of them scrutinizing the details of Meng Qingyu and others’ disappearance felt like listening to a detective novel, putting me to sleep.

So I squatted next to Lu Xiaodao, watching him peel the bark, he carved out a small pit in the tree trunk, and transparent tree sap seeped out.

He dabbed some with a small twig, bringing it to his nose to smell, I stayed silent, just watching him do this, like observing those tomb robbers tampering with mechanisms in the tomb.

He pulled out two black leaves and a colorful mushroom from his chest pocket, stuffing them into the hole on the tree, crushing them with his knife, mixing them with the sap.

"Antidote." He whispered, "Give it a try."

After speaking, he lowered his head to sip the unknown liquid from the tree hole, my eyes widened in surprise, not for anything else, but for his courage.

He said to try, meaning he wasn’t sure if this was an antidote, the black leaves and the colorful mushroom looked poisonous, and yet he dared to drink it directly, this sip could kill him!

"What are you doing?" Professor Liu discovered his actions, but before he could step over, Lu Xiaodao had already swallowed the ’antidote’.

"He’s testing the antidote." I finished for Lu Xiaodao, automatically stepping back two steps, giving space to Professor Liu.

Professor Liu leaned closer to the tree pit, seeing the pile of presumed toxic ’ingredients’, his expression turned as dark as a pot’s bottom.

"Who told you to try recklessly? Do you not value your life?" Professor Liu agitatedly waved his arms, his emotions, which had been barely stable, fell apart again.

"It’s fine." Lu Xiaodao’s reaction starkly contrasted with Professor Liu, he seemed indifferent to his own life or death.

I’ve seen many people’s expressions when facing death, among them was Lu Xiaodao’s type, disregarding life and death with vacant eyes.

To them, living or dying wasn’t the most important thing, it could even be said it’s the least important thing.

In that case, why did he experiment on himself, testing an antidote?

"Do you want Yaoyao to become an orphan?" Professor Liu grabbed Lu Xiaodao by the collar, shaking him back and forth, tears glistening in his eyes.

Lu Xiaodao still wore a blank expression, like an unfeeling and senseless wooden man.

Professor Liu, angry, pushed him, luckily Chen Qinghan came over to intervene, catching Lu Xiaodao who fell backward.

Professor Liu sensed something was wrong, hurriedly asked Lu Xiaodao what happened, but Lu Xiaodao didn’t respond.

Chen Qinghan checked his eyes and pulse; his eyes didn’t blink, as if frozen in place.

Chen Qinghan said Lu Xiaodao’s heartbeat was irregular, only thirty beats per minute, sudden bradycardia, definitely from him experimenting recklessly with the medicine.