Song Tiantian smiled sweetly at Xu Hua.
Xu Hua suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Uncle Xu, you said we'd come..."
Now that he was here, these four words grabbed Xu Hua like magic, making him dare not escape.
Of course, it could also be because Song Tiantian refused to leave.
In order to ensure Song Tiantian's safety, Xu Hua cleared his throat and glanced at the drone in Song Tiantian's hand. He felt that he couldn't lose his image at this moment, otherwise the whole Internet would be filled with his black history in the future.
When he thought of this, Xu Hua suddenly understood why there was the term "idol burden". It simply could not accurately describe his current mood.
In this way, Xu Hua, who had the burden of being an idol, was pulled by Song Tiantian towards the tunnel ahead.
At this moment, a squeaking sound was heard from the front again.
This made the hairs on the back of Xu Hua's neck stand up. In order to avoid facing a creature like a mouse, Xu Hua couldn't help but look towards Song Tiantian with a final struggle: "...Tiantian, there might be a golden monkey in the front. Shouldn't we go in?"
"No, that's not the sound of a golden monkey." Song Tiantian said firmly.
"But even if there are rats in the tunnel, it's pointless for us to go in," Xu Hua advised. "Besides, it's getting late now. Nan Nan and your Uncle Bai are still waiting for us in the cave. Why don't we go back first?"
"But I always feel that something is happening ahead." Song Tiantian still refused to give up.
As she spoke, Song Tiantian looked at Xu Hua, thinking of something else: "Uncle Xu, are you afraid of mice?"
"Oh, what a joke! I'm afraid of mice?" Xu Hua retorted quickly without thinking.
This also proves Xu Hua's guilty conscience.
Just when Song Tiantian was still half-believing and half-doubting, the audience in the live broadcast room had already seen through everything.
[Xu Ge denied it so quickly, he must be feeling guilty!]
[Wow, I didn't expect Brother Xu to be so cool on the outside, but actually be a little terrified of mice!]
[I didn’t expect this reversal either.]
[Pfft… Seeing Brother Xu suddenly reminded me of my dad, a hunky gym-goer who got scared by the rats in his hometown and hid behind my 5’6” tall mom…]
[So, even though the soldier looks a bit 18-year-old, he might actually be a soldier who is afraid of mice?]
【Hahaha, I get this cuteness! 】
Xu Hua, who didn't realize that his stubborn rebuttal had exposed his inner thoughts, was still trying to prove that he was not afraid of mice. He walked forward with his chest puffed out and somewhat stiff steps.
Just as they were about to approach the location where the sound came from, two golden monkeys suddenly rushed out from the front and were playing.
This unexpected change made Xu Hua breathe a sigh of relief. "Tiantian, see, I told you that the sound up front was a golden monkey."
"But..." Song Tiantian wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Xu Hua: "It's almost five o'clock now, let's go down quickly."
As soon as these words fell, Bai Shangye's positive voice came from the drone that had been following him: "Brother Xu, when you come down, remember not to forget the monkey wine!"
"Yes, yes, yes, Brother Xu, please bring down some monkey wine. It's so cold now, we need some wine to warm our bodies!" Lin Heyue's voice also came up hurriedly.
Lou Yiqiang, who was following closely, shouted at the drone, "Brother Xu, we've been blown by the wind in the cave and are almost catching a cold. We're just waiting for this drink to keep us alive! So you must not forget it."
"These brats!" Xu Hua cursed with a smile. When he was about to say something else, he heard a loud crash coming from the tunnel in front of him, followed by the sound of falling rocks.
Upon hearing this, Xu Hua subconsciously protected Song Tiantian behind him and looked forward vigilantly.
Then, they saw a group of strange-looking round stones rolling towards them from the tunnel in front of them like a football.
Behind this stone, a little golden monkey ran over happily and kicked the stone, causing the round stone to roll everywhere.
Xu Hua breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was a stone and a golden monkey. But at this moment, Song Tiantian poked her head out from behind him and looked hesitantly at the stone on the ground that was kicked around by the golden monkey. "Is this a pangolin?"
I don’t know if it was because Song Tiantian recognized it, but this “stone” that was unfortunately caught by the golden monkey and kicked like a ball made a few faint squeaking sounds.
This voice made Song Tiantian's eyes light up immediately: "Yes, that's the voice."
The little girl looked at Xu Hua hurriedly: "Uncle Xu, the sound I just heard was made by it."
Xu Hua looked at the "stone" that the golden monkey was still kicking like a ball with a look of shock on his face: "So... this isn't a stone, but a pangolin?"
"Yeah," Song Tiantian nodded hurriedly.
[Pangolin? But it really looks like a round rock!]
[This is about the pangolin's camouflage, but this is indeed a pangolin, and it is the Chinese pangolin, a first-class protected species listed in the "National List of Key Protected Wildlife."]
[Hiss, doesn't that mean this is a beast that will be in prison forever?]
[Based on this theory, wouldn't the golden monkey that kicked the pangolin like a ball be arrested and jailed?]
"That won't do. Golden monkeys are protected species. At most, they're just two imprisoned animals playing together."
[Pfft… Wanna play with that pangolin? I don't think that pangolin wants to play, does he?]
After Xu Hua knew the true identity of this "stone", he certainly couldn't let the golden monkey continue to play with it. Otherwise, if something happened to the pangolin, although he wouldn't be imprisoned for life, he would definitely have to write a self-criticism report.
In order to avoid having to write a report, Xu Hua quickly stopped the golden monkey who wanted to continue rolling the stone.
When the golden monkey was picked up by Xu Hua, it thought Xu Hua wanted to play with it, and pointed at the "football" on the ground and called out happily.
The "football" that was originally pretending to be dead, after hearing its "playmate" being taken away, secretly poked its pointed head out from one end of the "football" and looked around carefully.
After seeing the golden monkey being controlled by Xu Hua, the little guy reacted very quickly.
It quickly rolled its head back up and began to roll towards the side of the tunnel. When it touched the rock wall, its slender head popped out and began to scratch the rock wall. After a while, a small hole was dug out in the originally intact tunnel, and it was still expanding rapidly.
Seeing this, Xu Hua couldn't help but look towards the tunnels that stretched in all directions around him with some suspicion: "No way, all the tunnels here were dug by it, right?"
After saying this, Xu Hua refuted himself: "Impossible. How big is this pangolin? If it really dug the tunnel, how many years would it have taken?"
Just as he finished speaking, Song Tiantian said thoughtfully, "Is it possible that the whole family dug it?"
"A family?" Xu Hua, holding the golden monkey, looked at Song Tiantian with some confusion.
Song Tiantian blinked and pointed forward.
Xu Hua's gaze moved in the direction he was looking.
Then, he saw that in the tunnel where the pangolin had just rolled through, there were a few pairs of bright little eyes vaguely looking towards him.
When they saw the look in their eyes, the little creatures quickly retracted their heads.
Xu Hua looked at the several spherical objects that suddenly appeared, and suddenly he understood: "Wow, this really is a family."
[Are there so many pangolins? ]
[Tiantian...just now you said that these tunnels might have been dug by their entire family...is that really possible?]
"I know pangolins are amazing at digging, but with so many tunnels, even if several pangolins were working together, how long would it take?"
[Wait, pangolins, ancient tombs, and tunnels—all of these are connected together. Don't you think there should be some connection?]
【Now that I mention it, it seems like something is really not right. 】
[Hey, I think I heard from my grandfather's generation that tomb raiders in ancient times liked to raise pangolins. Is there a connection?]
[Yes, pangolins are great at digging holes. It would definitely be easier to rob tombs with them than to dig them yourself!]
[Based on this argument, doesn't it mean that the ancient tomb here has likely been visited by tomb robbers?]
"That's impossible. Aren't there still so many bronze artifacts in the tomb passage that Brother Xu and his team opened this morning? If it had been robbed, how could these things still be there?"
So what's with these pangolins and the tunnel? They can't possibly be kept for fun by the golden monkeys.
While the audience was speculating about how these pangolins came to be, Xu Hua also thought about the possibility that the pangolins had robbed the tomb. At this thought, Xu Hua's face couldn't help but change: "Could it be tomb robbers?"
"Tomb robbers?" Song Tiantian looked up at Xu Hua curiously. "Isn't this a pangolin? How does it have anything to do with tomb robbers?"
"Because tomb robbers used to raise pangolins to dig passages into tombs." As he spoke, Xu Hua looked at the tunnels around him and said, "Maybe these tunnels were dug by tomb robbers who asked pangolins to dig them."
Hearing this, Song Tiantian couldn't help but gasp: "Then this tomb robber has been digging for hundreds of years?"
"Hundreds of years?" Xu Hua felt something was wrong and looked at Song Tiantian.
"Yes." Song Tiantian nodded, "Some of the tunnels here have existed for hundreds of years."
As she spoke, Song Tiantian couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect these tomb robbers to be so loyal. They actually dug for such a long time just to rob a tomb and didn't give up."
Xu Hua's mouth twitched, and he felt that this topic could not continue.
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