"Hehe... #@￥#@￥... " Li Guaizi seemed to be talking to himself.
Chen Ke approached, preparing to listen intently, but unexpectedly Li Guaizi suddenly turned his head, a gold nugget still in his mouth, his bright eyes shining like two large light bulbs in the dim tomb.
He took the gold nugget out of his mouth, his face beaming with barely suppressed excitement: "Hehe, it's real gold!"
Chen Ke silently loosened his grip on the shovel with his left hand, and said sternly, "Are you stupid? You think you can just put anything from the tomb in your mouth and bite it?"
Li Guaizi only realized what was happening after Chen Keyi reminded him, and quickly spat twice, saying, "I, I was just excited to see a gold nugget."
When Chen Ke went up to take a look, he saw that there was indeed a large pile of gold nuggets.
He glanced around and saw no coffin of the tomb owner. It was probably not the main burial chamber, but it was also probably not a side chamber where burial goods were placed, because apart from the pile of gold nuggets, there were no other burial goods here.
The placement of these gold nuggets here is truly peculiar, as if... the tomb owner deliberately placed them here.
"Hey! Isn't there a monument here?" Li Guaizi suddenly exclaimed.
Chen Ke immediately squatted down to examine it, and sure enough, it was a stone tablet.
But this is neither the tomb entrance nor the main burial chamber, so even the epitaph shouldn't be placed here.
"What...what is written here? I can't read either."
Chen Ke had Li Guaizi bring the oil lamp closer and read aloud word by word: "The tomb may be reopened, but youth will never return... Gentlemen, take your gold and leave. Do not disturb."
Li Guaizi glanced at Chen Ke, "What do you mean?"
Chen Ke straightened up. "It means the tomb owner wants you to take this gold and leave, and not to go back into the tomb and disturb him."
Li Guaizi: "No way, we're already here." They can't just give up so easily; the tomb's owner is clearly wealthy.
Chen Ke looked at Li Guaizi and said, "This is actually a warning to tomb raiders that if they go any further, the tomb owner will not be so polite."
Li Guaizi: "...Well, let's take the gold and leave. This is enough for us to live a good life. Also, let's not disturb the tomb owner's rest."
Chen Ke nodded. "Alright, you stay here, I'll go take a look."
Li Guaizi was taken aback.
"No, no, the tomb owner is going to be rude to you and you still dare to go?"
Chen Ke: "He said he wouldn't be polite to tomb raiders, but I'm not one, so I just went in to take a look." After saying that, he started groping around.
Soon they discovered an inconspicuous hidden door. With a push, the door opened just wide enough for a person to pass through.
Just as they were about to go inside, Li Guaizi followed closely behind.
"what?"
Li Guaizi swallowed nervously, "I...I'll go take a look too..."
Chen Ke: ""
I originally planned to go in myself, scan the burial goods with the system, and then come out, but after all that talking, Li Guaizi still insisted on going. I should have known better than to waste my breath.
Go through the crack in the door, pass through a passageway, and you'll reach another tomb chamber.
Throughout the journey, Li Guaizi clung nervously to Chen Ke's back, fearing that the tomb owner might be using some hidden weapons or traps to entertain him.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly.
Upon reaching the main burial chamber, the enormous coffin stood in the very center. Li Guaizi raised an oil lamp and shone it upon it.
"Gasp!" He gasped in surprise.
"I knew the person buried here must have been a respectable person in life, but I never imagined he was this respectable! My goodness, so many burial goods!"
Chen Ke was also somewhat surprised.
Besides the coffin, the main burial chamber was filled with a dazzling array of exquisite burial objects.
Pottery, porcelain, and lacquerware were all available, as were countless bamboo slips and books, and exquisitely crafted trinkets, stone carvings, and bronze statues were casually placed on the ground.
Meanwhile, the gold, silver, jade, and gemstones that people have always coveted are piled up in boxes in the corner.
Chen Ke selected a few exquisite porcelain items to scan, but left the rest untouched.
Li Guaizi was dazzled by the burial goods in front of him, looking around as if he didn't know where to start.
"I'm leaving," Chen Ke said softly.
Li Guaizi looked at him in disbelief: "No... we're already here, and judging from the situation, the tomb owner doesn't seem to have any objections to us coming in."
“In this day and age, even if you take these things out, it will be hard to sell them. If the price is too high, no one will buy them; if the price is too low, we won’t be happy. It’s better to just take the gold out and live a carefree life.” Chen Ke thought that he couldn’t very well tell Li Guaizi that in this day and age, only foreigners generally buy our antiques, and that if we sold them, it would be equivalent to selling out the country, right?
Then wouldn't he become a Bodhisattva bathed in holy light in this tomb?
It's estimated that Li Guaizi would immediately shovel at this bodhisattva, since those who are not of our kind are bound to have different intentions.
After listening to Chen Ke's somewhat plausible bluff, Li Guaizi nodded thoughtfully, then his eyes suddenly lit up as if he had figured something out. "That's right! It's you, Chen Ke! Let's take the gold out and spend it first, then come back in to get more—oh, not take, we'll borrow it. We'll come back in to borrow it." This way, they won't attract attention by taking too much stuff out at once!
Speechless, Chen Ke turned and walked back. "Do you think the tomb owner is a sucker?"
Li Guaizi followed reluctantly, bowing respectfully to the tomb owner as he did so, muttering to himself, "The tomb owner was a respectable person in life, he certainly wouldn't care about such trivial matters."
"The person you're talking about is a great philanthropist, not a respectable person."
"Oh, they're all pretty much the same..."
The two walked back, exchanging a few words here and there. They had talked a lot of nonsense but still hadn't left the passageway, and it seemed like they were walking further and further away.
Li Guaizi immediately pressed close to Chen Ke's back again, "...Chen, Chen Ke, what's going on?"
Chen Ke also noticed something was wrong, so he simply stopped walking.
"Have we encountered... a ghost wall?" Li Guaizi's voice began to tremble.
Chen Ke shone the oil lamp onto the surrounding walls and said calmly, "No."
"How do you know it isn't? We were in the main burial chamber in less than a minute when we came in, but we've been walking for so long and still haven't gotten out. What else could this be but being trapped in a maze?"
Chen Ke touched the still damp wall, looked at the neat shovel marks on the wall, and said to Li Guaizi with some helplessness, "Because we walked into a hole that someone else had dug."
"Who dug such a big hole?" Li Guaizi was shocked. He immediately leaned under the light and saw neat steel shovel marks. It really was a hole that had just been dug.
"It's over, judging by this, the other side has quite a few people." Li Guaizi looked at Chen Ke with tears in his eyes, "...It's over, we can't keep our things. They've dug such a big hole, they probably have to carry out even the coffin of the tomb owner."
Chen Ke frowned and thought for a moment, then told Li Guaizi to wait there while he went over to check the situation.
"Then you can sneak a peek and come back. If that doesn't work, we'll take as much stuff as we can with us."
Chen Ke nodded and left.
Li Guaizi originally thought that Chen Ke would take some time to leave, but he didn't expect him to return so soon.
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