The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 150: Injured Left Behind

Lu Xiaodao was silent for a few seconds, "I believed when I was a kid."

Which means he doesn’t believe anymore. He answered my question seriously, and I responded just as seriously, "Better to believe it than not. It’s right in front of us, not far away!"

Lu Xiaodao was silent again, then said, "Is Chen your kryptonite?"

"Pah! I’m stronger than the TV Superman, 360 degrees with no weak points."

"Oh, I see you listen to him a lot." Lu Xiaodao’s tone was actually a bit disappointed.

Suddenly, I felt that I wasn’t carrying an adult man, but a little boy full of dreams of superheroes.

A hero without a weakness wouldn’t be human, right...

"Hmm, actually... kind of." I reluctantly acknowledged Chen Qinghan’s kryptonite status.

Lu Xiaodao noticed, and I immediately reflected. Looking back, I realized I do listen to Chen Qinghan quite a bit.

Someone as domineering and tough as me, how could I be so obedient to a righteous hero? It was disgraceful!

But the reason I listen to him isn’t because I’m afraid of him. He’s just too logical, and very loyal to me. We’re comrades... paired up, and he’s my team leader. Thinking it over this carefully, listening to him isn’t wrong, is it?

"You’re not a couple." Lu Xiaodao was particularly talkative today, a bit unlike him.

"Colleagues." At this point, pretending to be a couple was no longer necessary, so I candidly admitted it.

"More than that." Lu Xiaodao said firmly, "A partner you can entrust your life to."

"Pretty much."

"That’s nice." Lu Xiaodao’s tone wasn’t quite right, and right after saying this, his head dropped onto my shoulder.

His face was against my neck, burning hot. I quickly laid him down because he was so dirty, and his face was covered with grime. I hadn’t noticed his face was flushed with fever.

After wiping away the blood clots and mud, I saw the abnormal redness on his face.

A high fever in the wild is no small matter. I’ve seen many tomb robbers die in tombs because of it.

Fortunately, the jungle is different from ancient tombs. There are no herbs in tombs, but there are wild herbs in the jungle. The leaders are survival experts; they must have a way to treat Lu Xiaodao.

Thinking of this, I carried Lu Xiaodao back to the city as quickly as possible.

We’ve been gone for several days, and Chen Qinghan and the rest have no idea what happened.

Returning to the house where everyone stayed, only Zhou was inside.

A wooden splint was tied around his leg, and the moment he saw us, he threw a dagger towards the door.

I dodged to the side, and he paused before saying, "It’s you!"

Then he exhaled, still shaken, "Good thing it didn’t hit."

His nerves were clearly on edge; that reflex was purely a conditioned response.

Alone as the only injured person in the house, hearing footsteps approaching, his tension was understandable.

"What happened to your leg? Where are the others?" I put Lu Xiaodao on the ground, "Quickly, check him out; he’s got a high fever."

"They went down, to the underground city." Zhou supported himself on one leg, moving over to Lu Xiaodao.

Zhou is the team medic; with him, there’s hope for Lu Xiaodao. I stepped aside to give him space to examine the patient.

Zhou pulled out a waist pack from his pocket, inside were small packets of medicine in waterproof bags.

It turned out that while escaping, he carried the essential medicines on him.

I handed over the antidote materials Lu Xiaodao collected to Zhou, telling him the proportions Lu Xiaodao used.

After Lu Xiaodao took the medicine and his condition stabilized, Zhou and I started talking about what happened over the past few days.

After we left, Beauty Snake and Meng Qingyu returned not long after. Beauty Snake just took Meng Qingyu to see a place.

After seeing it, they immediately returned. When Meng Qingyu heard we went out to find food, she wasn’t suspicious. By evening, when we still hadn’t returned, Chen Qinghan, Professor Liu, and the leader put on a show of ’anxiously searching for people.’

They insisted on continuing to search, saying if they couldn’t find us in one day, they’d search for two days, and naturally, Meng Qingyu was the first to oppose it.

She said she couldn’t let the actions for two people delay her plan.

The place Beauty Snake showed her was the secret room under the palace throne, which was the ’Treasure Room’ that Old Shi and the others were looking for.

But inside was empty, with nothing at all. After seeing it with his own eyes, Old Shi was completely deflated, slumped in a corner, ignoring everyone.

The next morning, they found that Old Shi had disappeared. He said he went out to relieve himself, but he didn’t return for half a day.

They searched all over the city for him. Those creatures returned to their lairs after losing a target.

They used my trick to fool the creatures, making it safer to move around these few days.

I asked Zhou about what happened to his leg.

Zhou said it started from when they were searching for Old Shi. I never knew Zhou was such a talkative person.

The story goes, as they were searching for Old Shi. Although Meng Qingyu used Old Shi’s team as cannon fodder, at this stage, having one more person meant more strength.

Lu Xiaodao’s disappearance made Meng Qingyu quite distressed because Lu Xiaodao was a master, useful in many places.

But without him, even if sending more people outside the city, Meng Qingyu wouldn’t agree.

As for me, she’d prefer for me to disappear quickly, even if I saved Professor Liu and preserved the living map for her, she wouldn’t thank me.

After Old Shi disappeared, Meng Qingyu only agreed to search inside the city, never outside.

Fortunately, Old Shi didn’t leave the city. Based on the footprints he left, they found the palace secret room.

For some reason, Old Shi ran into the secret room alone, and his footprints disappeared inside.

There was only entry, no exit. Meng Qingyu asked Beauty Snake what was going on.

Beauty Snake said she didn’t know either. When her team arrived, they saw an empty secret room.

Some of her teammates couldn’t bear the shock and ran outside mentally broken, only to be hunted down by creatures.

If you want something too much, when it turns out it never existed, it’s indeed hard to accept psychologically.

Especially after experiencing so many terrifying and dangerous events, nerves would become tense and fragile.

During this time, the empty secret room was the last straw that broke the camel’s back.

Old Shi was originally the same; everyone thought he was so impacted he couldn’t recover.

But he secretly went back to the secret room and then disappeared.

"We... we never thought that room would have..." Zhou suddenly stopped talking.

"Have what?" I pressed.

"Something that confuses people. I heard Old Shi’s voice saying he was behind a wall, telling us to push the wall. It triggered a mechanism. If Professor Chen hadn’t reacted quickly, I would’ve lost more than a leg."

"Didn’t Beauty Snake and others check for mechanisms when they entered the secret room?"

"They checked, there were none. Isn’t that strange!"

Not strange, if it’s the same spot, a wall of bricks or small stone slabs that can move can hide trigger panels for mechanisms.

Simply put, the first person couldn’t press it down, and after a while, the second person pressed it down.