The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 230 - 231: The Island Exploded

This thing should be the island itself, or rather, the cornerstone of the island. It originally lay dormant underground, with the jungle and hills as its hair. Now ’Shield’ has cleverly shaved it bald, naturally it would ’leap up’ and hold the barber accountable.

Professor Liu once said that many of the plants and animals on the island are prehistoric species, possibly even from the same era as dinosaurs. They have formed an independent evolutionary circle in this closed environment.

The island is so ancient, so the giant beast serving as the island’s foundation should also be a prehistoric creature. Without it, the island would undoubtedly sink into the sea. Such a massive creature couldn’t have burrowed under the island later.

As big as the island is, so is it, including the area beneath our feet that was originally sea bottom, which is also part of its body.

Then I saw a scene I had never even seen in movies. The island’s peak suddenly split into four, turning into four things resembling the smokestacks of chemical plants. They bent ninety degrees towards the directions of the incoming missiles, as if four people simultaneously lowered their heads to look at a target on the sea.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Four piercing sounds flew over our heads, and I saw four submarines, like four black dates, pulled out of the water by a terrifyingly strong suction and swallowed directly.

In my eyes, it was as if four large smokestacks were swallowing four submarines, and it seemed so easy and simple, as if those submarines were plastic toys.

I’ve seen sea giants that can swallow fishing boats, but never something so domineering, sucking submarines as if sucking jelly.

"Let’s get out of here." Qinghan seemed to sense something and pulled me up to run.

We jumped back into the sea and swam desperately towards the distance, trying to escape the range of the island as much as possible.

Before long, the sound of muffled explosions drowned out the thunder in the sky. This time we felt a force pushing the sea water outwards.

We were caught in the sea water, pushed by the shockwave to the afar, our strength was utterly insignificant compared to this force, unable to control our bodies, like dry twigs fallen into a river, floating up and down in the water.

After some time, the surrounding seawater finally calmed down. I surfaced again, searching for the others.

Bi Shi must be with He Su; she had tied He Su to her back, they wouldn’t be separated no matter how they were tossed around.

"Old Bi—Chen?" The sea rose and fell, obstructing my view so I could only call their names.

Suddenly, I saw something white floating on the sea not far away and hurriedly swam towards it.

As I got closer, I was delighted. It was a somewhat deformed speedboat. Several areas of the metal hull were warped, and the cockpit was destroyed, but the bottom of the boat was intact.

As long as the bottom doesn’t leak and the submerged part of the hull is intact, it’s fine.

Last night the submarines shelled the beach and flipped the speedboats they arrived on. If we had a speedboat, we wouldn’t have to spend a day on the cliff.

I didn’t expect there’d still be one that hadn’t sunk, pushed out by the waves. Although it couldn’t be driven, staying on it was better than being soaked in the sea.

I climbed onto the speedboat, and my black robe immediately dried. Its material was very special, probably impossible to find in modern times.

The owner of that green skeleton had a very high position in the sect. While I wrung my hair, I looked around and loudly called out Bi Shi’s and Qinghan Chen’s names.

"Drenched to death, over here!" Bi Shi’s complaint came from a distance. She waved her arms so I could see her position.

There were no paddles on the boat, so I had to jump back into the sea and swim towards them to help her throw the still unconscious He Su onto the boat.

"Hey, so heavy, oh right, where’s Professor Chen?" Bi Shi kicked He Su venting her frustration, then looked around.

"Oh no!" I had been shouting for Qinghan Chen but got no response. Could it be he’s still thinking of suicide?

I stood up and shouted several more times, but still got no reply.

"An Xi, are you still bothered by what happened back then..." Bi Shi softened her tone when she saw me quiet down, turned her back to me, and spoke, but stopped halfway.

"Hmm? What happened back then?" I turned around and looked at her, puzzled. I was just tired of shouting and didn’t want her to mock me for sticking my tongue out, so I turned my back to her, but she seemed to have misunderstood.

"I saw a video about PTSD, psychological issues shouldn’t be ignored, seeking mental guidance doesn’t mean you’re crazy."

It’s funny how things turn out, I was the one who suggested she watch anti-depression videos back in her tomb. She was all resistant then, now she’s advising me."""

"Idiot, what trauma? What trauma do I have? Don’t overthink, quickly help me call out." I rolled my eyes at her, there was something only I knew, and none of them knew, not even those old enemies of mine. I could guess which event she thought was the trauma, probably when all my soldiers were killed in a battle, but she misunderstood that event entirely.

Splash—

Before I shouted Qinghan Chen’s name again, he appeared in front of me.

Only he was loaded onto a ’basket’ on the back of a big crab, and the white-haired Sea Demon I ’alms-gave’ last time was conveying a ’message’—I found this person, is it yours?

"Yes, yes, yes, thank you so much!" I wanted to hug the Sea Demon, but it was sitting on the back of the crab, so I couldn’t reach it. I could only clasp my hands in a gesture of gratitude.

It said it had encountered a great thing when it came out to scavenge: it heard a noise, followed by lots of food floating in the sea. As it picked and moved, it eventually found a person.

It said it remembered this person’s scent. That day in the fishing boat restaurant, through the door, it smelled the scent of living humans inside, and one person’s scent was so special that it remembered it after one whiff.

No wonder when it entered the corridor, it went straight to the restaurant door, it had smelled human scent earlier.

I currently had nothing to give it, so I could only verbally express my thanks several times, but it didn’t mind because today it was already fortunate enough.

I estimated its so-called food was various seafood blasted off in the explosion of the island giant beast, pushed over here by the shockwave and waves just like us.

The Sea Demon was attracted by the explosion sound and food, it said there was a force blocking it before that it couldn’t come over, today it simply came out to watch and have a snack, unexpectedly the force vanished and let it find lots of food.

It generously gave me a piece of dessert, I didn’t want to refuse its good intentions so I accepted.

I moved Qinghan Chen onto the boat, and the Sea Demon bid us farewell, saying it had to continue gathering food.

Bi Shi looked at the intestine of some unknown creature that it gave us and said with schadenfreude, "Enjoy your dessert."