The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 413 - 315: The Living (2)
This person is quite lucky; he was hit by anesthesia poison, so despite being pricked with so many needles, he doesn’t feel much pain.
The second wave of needles went in, and the ’patient’ showed signs of obvious improvement. His tongue was the first to recover, leading me to estimate that the anesthesia started from his feet and gradually weakened as it moved upwards, which left him enough consciousness to climb out and escape.
His tongue recovered first, conveniently allowing us to unravel his identity and the mystery of why he appeared in the Ancient City.
He said his surname is Gu, and he is part of Miss Tang’s team. We finally encountered a ’full and unharmed’ survivor, who relayed their experiences to us.
Just as we had speculated earlier, the way Miss Tang formed a team was rather casual, like grasping at straws in desperation.
She searched for adventure experts online, on forums, and in various groups.
The process was quite convoluted, but ultimately she finalized a group of people. Gu, this person, was someone Miss Tang found in the adventure group.
Additionally, there were three other people she hired from other groups, besides these three, another batch of people joined their team.
Originally Miss Tang gathered a team online, but due to the addition of another batch, she reduced her numbers, leaving only four people.
In essence, the other batch was a complete team, strictly speaking, the four of them joined this team.
Of course, their statement was ’cooperation,’ initially, Brother Gu thought the other side was unwilling to split, which is common when a team is fixed, with mutual understanding and high trust, they naturally don’t want to be scattered.
The general idea was either you hire a whole team, or not hire anyone.
But once they entered the Death Zone, Brother Gu discovered this team was quite unusual; they were somewhat too exclusionary.
Moreover, the leader of that team was also the leader of this operation; Miss Tang’s words didn’t carry much weight. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
The three marginal members had no right to speak; even if they spoke, they were treated as air.
Initially, the three were very dissatisfied, but then they found out that as long as they listened to that team’s orders and acted with them, the Death Zone wasn’t that dangerous.
They even smoothly found the Ancient City without losing a single person.
In wilderness survival, one relies on strength; their capabilities were far inferior, so naturally, they learned to keep quiet.
They thought reaching the Ancient City would make them safe, as the wilderness was the most dangerous area, unbeknownst to them, the Ancient City was where their nightmare began.
Some of the ’crises’ he described were ones I’ve encountered; although that mysterious team wasn’t like me, impervious to swords, bullets, and unharmed by steam or boiling.
Yet they had their own methods of coping, Brother Gu said he noticed something unusual about that team after encountering these dangers.
For instance, one person clearly stepped into a pit full of bugs, and upon pulling out his leg, it was covered in insects, yet he seemed utterly unfazed by the pain.
The team medic treated the bugs for him; Brother Gu wanted to look but was stopped and told not to meddle.
Once done, that person acted as if nothing happened, walking without a hint of discomfort in his leg.
Someone had exceptional pain tolerance; just this matter alone wasn’t enough to arouse Brother Gu’s suspicion about that team.
Later, someone stepped into a ’sulfuric acid pit,’ the entire sole of the shoe was dissolved, yet the person didn’t utter a sound, then the team medic treated the wound, made him a prosthetic foot, and he continued marching as if it was just his shoe that melted, not his foot.
Brother Gu’s doubts deepened; he even felt they might not be human.
He recalled during their desert journey, that team hardly drank water, ate food, and at night sat in a circle motionless, it was unclear if they were asleep or awake.
Listening to his description of that team, I glanced at Chen Qinghan; how do those people he described resemble me so closely?
But before Brother Gu finished speaking, he was too curious, worried that if the opponents were really not human, how would it turn out afterwards?
So he discussed with two others about probing the truth behind that team.
They didn’t inform Miss Tang, as they noticed she was a complete outsider, who had never even touched the fringes of adventure before.
She was completely unaware of how many strange creatures existed in this world.
Moreover, Miss Tang trusted that team wholeheartedly; they feared if she knew, it would spoil things, so they didn’t tell her.
"What happened next?" Wang Le, deeply intrigued, he and Huang Zaijiang loved hearing these tales, seeing Brother Gu pause, they quickly asked.
