The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 151: What Kind of Conditions? You’re Not Even Eating Meat Anymore
Zhou triggered the trap and broke his leg, but fortunately, his life was saved.
At the same time, they discovered an entrance at the bottom of that wall. Meng Qingyu, who had been extremely disappointed, immediately sent two people down upon seeing the entrance.
After going down, those two said there was a spiraling staircase leading downwards.
They didn’t have many people left, and Meng Qingyu didn’t want to sacrifice more of her team, so she didn’t rashly let the two go explore.
She heeded the leader’s advice to return to the house to discuss a plan. Zhou was carried back, and Qinghan set his bone and bandaged him.
They believed Old Shi must have gone down. Although they didn’t know how he knew there was space under the secret room, there were neither his body nor traces of a fight and blood at the trap or entrance, indicating he was most likely still alive.
Meng Qingyu then divided the exploration into two attempts, sending people down to probe a small section each time to ensure their safety.
They only finished exploring the stairs this morning, and everyone went down except for the injured Zhou.
"Didn’t anyone stay to look after the injured?" I picked up the dagger Zhou had thrown and handed it back to him. It was the only weapon he had left, but it hardly made a difference as he had no combat ability now.
"Professor Chen wanted to stay, but Meng Qingyu didn’t allow it, saying he was the trap expert and had to accompany them." Zhou said this with a puzzled expression, looked at me, and asked, "Isn’t Professor Chen a teacher?"
It seems Meng Qingyu noticed something and began to suspect Qinghan’s identity.
I nodded and said, "Yes, he’s a teacher but with a little hobby for adventure."
Zhou acknowledged with an ’oh’ and then asked, "What about you? Are you really an Outsider Expert?"
I replied decisively, "Of course, hidden from the world for years, re-emerging now, but always finding trouble, it’s annoying."
Zhou bowed his head and, after a moment of silence, said, "Can you take us out?"
Hence the saying that the Heavenly Maiden Clan are a bunch of aloof, cold-blooded war fanatics, such a question would never cross our minds.
I pondered how I should answer him. If I gave the usual response from my clan, of not interfering, what if I impulsively ended up helping them again?
If I used the common human response and said yes, I feared I might abandon them without hesitation during a crisis.
"I’ll do my best." I knew this answer sounded ambiguous, but it was my most truthful response.
Zhou seemed a bit pleased hearing this, perhaps he was already braced for ’bad news’.
"Professor Chen said, as long as I hold on until you return, I’ll be safe." Zhou looked very young; his role was the team medic, but he seemed like a high schooler, and everyone on the team called him Zhou, indicating he was indeed young.
Now, he looked at me with hopeful eyes, like a child eager for a weekend trip to the amusement park.
What nonsense did Qinghan promise while I was away?!
"Hmm, with me here, no monster can get in." I replied with a smile, yet speaking contrary to my true feelings.
Leaving a wounded man and an invalid here, I couldn’t follow Meng Qingyu and the others into the underground passage.
The first day the main team was away, I lay on the rooftop gazing at the sky, picking wild fruits for the two mouths inside the house at mealtime.
The second day without the main team, I started to feel bored, mostly because I couldn’t play with my phone, and there was no internet, making me a bit irritable.
On the third day without the main team, I dragged back two bear-like creatures, dissecting them in the house opposite, intestines flying everywhere.
By the fourth and fifth day... the monsters within White Jade City became my prey, and I couldn’t go without killing a hundred or so daily, or I’d feel uneasy.
Until on the night of the seventh day, the city’s monsters fled out of the city with their families, into the vast forest beyond, fearing that at night, a few of their children would be missing.
Perhaps they had begun using me to scare their children: misbehave, and the hairy two-legged beast would come eat you.
And it wasn’t just the city’s monsters afraid of me; the two lads in the house looked at me with a mix of respect and fear, dry-heaving whenever I came back with meat.
"Kids, guess what’s for dinner tonight?" I enthusiastically opened the door one evening.
"As long as it’s not meat, anything is fine!" Zhou’s eyes were firmly fixed on my hand hidden behind my back.
"Tch~ This kid, what times we’re in, and still picky about meat." I squinted, smiling as I walked into the house.
"Big sis, granny, I’m begging you, let us eat some greens, we’re about to wipe out the monsters in this city!" Zhou pleaded with hands clasped in an exaggerated manner.
"Nonsense, a litter of them can have four or five at least, or two minimum, how could they go extinct?" I slowly approached Zhou and Lu Xiaodao, intending to surprise them.
"Can we stop eating the cubs? I feel like I won’t be able to face babies in the future..." Zhou spoke with a pained expression.
"Hey, I’m doing you a favor, all right? The large ones either eat people, monsters, or carrion, their meat would surely disgust you. The cubs haven’t eaten people yet, their meat is tender, grilling them sizzles—"
"Ugh~"
"Mmm..."
"Do you have to be so ungrateful?" I raised an eyebrow, glaring at the two of them. Honestly, they weren’t being pretentious; it was a reflex, beyond their control.
Seeing they were genuinely pitiful, I tossed the wild herbs and fruits I picked into their laps.
"Alright, alright, an unmarried man and woman alone in a room, hearing retching all day, not a pleasant impression, easy to misunderstand."
As Zhou caught sight of the wild fruits in his arms, his eyes brimmed with tears, and a large nasal bubble nearly burst out.
"Do you want to go find them?" Lu Xiaodao’s expression wasn’t as varied as Zhou’s, but his wolfish eating showed he shared Zhou’s attitude towards food.
"No, once Zhou’s leg can move, I’ll take you both off the island."
"No way, I have to wait for Fang and the others to come out, cough..." Zhou hastily spoke, nearly choking on a fruit pit.
"I can take care of him. Besides, the monsters have left the city, you should go." Lu Xiaodao uncharacteristically spoke such a long sentence.
Lu Xiaodao’s fever subsided, and after a week of rest, Zhou had long taken the antidote seven days ago, surviving the ’stiff phase’; overall, the two were in good condition.
"Oh, still here?" An unwelcome voice drifted in from outside the window.
A head appeared outside the window hole, Bi Shi had arrived unknown to us, without a sound.
"Oh my, aren’t you dead?" I feigned surprise, opening my eyes wide, staring at Bi Shi outside the window.
"Miss Wang?" Zhou was genuinely shocked, like seeing Godzilla, his entire body tensed, trembling slightly.
"It’s me, I’m not dead, here to claim a life!" Bi Shi grinned maliciously as she slowly crawled into the house through the window hole.
