The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 149: Exhausted Minds Talk More

Beauty Snake once saw a team suddenly appear outside the city. Perhaps the situation Meng Qingyu encountered was the same as that team, being directly transported to the Gate of Lost.

We don’t know what they experienced during this process, but Zhou and the others have some injuries that aren’t new; some have even started to scab.

So, after they separated from us, they must have encountered other dangers.

It’s easy to get lost in the jungle and hard to remember the paths. Lu Xiaodao finding the place where he collected antidote materials is actually quite difficult.

How to remember where you picked mushrooms or pulled wild grass in such a vast jungle?

I originally suggested he didn’t have to return to that collection point; maybe there are poisonous mushrooms and toxic grass elsewhere.

But Lu Xiaodao insisted on going to that place. Every ring on the island has different characteristics of plants and animals. In other words, the poisonous mushrooms here won’t grow elsewhere.

After all, this concerns human life, so we can’t be careless.

I thought about it and agreed. We only have one life; words can be spoken carelessly, but you can’t eat poison carelessly.

Lu Xiaodao’s memory is very good. Although our footprints left in the forest could no longer be found, he can still find our way back.

The dangers were the same, just passing through again. With just the two of us, our pace was actually quite fast.

It only took one-third of the time to find the place where he picked mushrooms.

At that time, I really didn’t notice that the place where he picked mushrooms was near a swamp.

Back then, when everyone was attacked by giant earthworms, we all scattered and fled, and no one noticed what he was doing.

No one would think about it at that time, who would pick mushrooms while escaping for their life?!

If you ran a bit slower, you might be swallowed by the giant earthworm, so Lu Xiaodao’s courage and determination are unmatched.

And the place where he picked toxic grass was by the river where we camped. The toxic grass grew just by the river; he only went to the river to wash his face. No one paid attention for that short while.

The places where he collected materials were all places we had been to, and he never left the group in between. This route was recorded in the diary by a friend of Professor Liu, said to be the safest route.

Lu Xiaodao’s sneaky collection of materials only made me admire his ability to secretly achieve his goals, but another idea vaguely appeared in my mind.

Could it be that Professor Liu’s friend was so lucky to walk on the safest route the moment they arrived on the island?

The places where Lu Xiaodao collected antidote materials were scattered at the nodes of this safe route. Could this be a coincidence?

No, someone had already walked this path, and definitely more than once. This so-called safest route was not discovered by Professor Liu’s friend; the most likely explanation is that they had route information.

A previous group who entered discovered this safe route and found the toxic grass that poisoned Lu Xiaodao and the others along the way. If it had not been experimented with before, how would Meng Qingyu know that after eating this toxic grass, before it acts, it appeared the same as a normal person?

From Lu Xiaodao and his group’s situation, the activation period of this toxin is at least ten days to half a month, or even longer.

And those people must have tried many antidote methods, eventually finding that the antidote materials were on this route.

As long as you follow the route, you can collect both the poison and the antidote.

And someone successfully brought the poison and antidote out, meaning more than one person escaped from the Sea of Sunken Ships.

Thinking of it this way, I suddenly started to suspect that Beauty Snake might not be the first to discover that White Jade City is a trap.

But Meng Qingyu’s boss still sent batches of people here, why?

No treasure, no so-called key, what benefit does ’Shield’ get from all this fuss?

"?" When all the materials were gathered, Lu Xiaodao looked at me with a questioning gaze.

I realized I had just been lost in thought and said, "Sorry, I was thinking about what exactly is hidden on this island."

He Su also said not to let them get the key, meaning there’s a key on this island, or there was a key and it’s already been taken.

In the team going into the city, I didn’t see Bi Shi and He Su. Zhou said they said they couldn’t walk anymore halfway and refused to continue.

The leader tried to persuade them, but they insisted on staying, and Meng Qingyu didn’t stop them.

These two didn’t follow the main group, stayed behind alone. Could it be that He Su knew of a special place on the island they didn’t want others to know, so they left the group halfway?

This is a significant possibility. To others, it seemed they were physically exhausted and stayed behind to die.

But from what I know of them, they won’t wait to die, and they certainly won’t die. Deliberately separating from the group must mean there’s something up.

Perhaps because we’re covered in monster blood, all the small animals in the jungle that were eager to feast on us stayed put.

After Lu Xiaodao gathered the antidote materials, it was already several days later when we returned to White Jade City.

No matter how fast, you still have to take one step at a time. Before returning to the Gate of Lost, I checked the time, calculated it so we wouldn’t return at night.

Because several days had passed, we didn’t know if the monster blood on us was still effective. Lu Xiaodao, exhausted from the journey, didn’t have the strength for another round of fighting.

He only had the strength to walk now; he couldn’t even use Qinggong, having nearly sacrificed all of his rest time hoping to get the antidote to the team leader quickly.

I didn’t quite understand, he and the leader were in a temporary team; before Meng Qingyu appeared, they didn’t know each other.

For someone he’d just met, he was so willing to help. Without any hidden agenda, he must really be a person of great loyalty and devotion.

"There are two hours until daybreak, you can sleep for a while." We hid in a large tree in the jungle. I squatted on a thick branch, leaving the nest-like position between the branches for Lu Xiaodao.

He curled up inside and could sleep peacefully. For now, no animals were around.

Lu Xiaodao curled up and mumbled something about ’you won’t pocket it.’

Pocket what? The money on that card? I laughed to myself, looking at the jungle outside, wondering if he thought everyone was as loyal as him?

When a person reaches the peak of exhaustion without enough rest, they become like Lu Xiaodao!

When it was light out, I called him to get up, saying it was time to go.

He stayed in there for a while without moving, his eyes full of red veins, looking at me with embarrassed awkwardness.

His muscles were sore, stiff, feeling as though he couldn’t lift his arms or legs... I understood.

I carried Lu Xiaodao down the tree, most of his muscles were in protest, but his mouth was fine. He asked out of curiosity who I was.

Crawling and battling through the jungle, for days and nights without sleep, I remained full of energy, to his shock.

"Do you believe in superheroes in this world?" I answered his question with another question.