Chapter 182: Many Tricks
Professor Mo hesitated and said, "But the tomb needs to be protected. These remaining cultural relics..."
"Professor, you and Mr. Lou stay here to protect the scene."
Xu Ying said decisively, "The three of us will go after the tomb robbers."
She pointed to the fruit bats hanging upside down above her head. "My friends will lead the way."
Fruit bats have a sense of smell dozens of times stronger than humans. If someone on the other side is injured and there is a smell of blood, the fruit bats can find it immediately.
[Leave it to us!]
The fruit bats flapped their wings excitedly. This was their chance to show off in front of their “breadwinners”!
"Walk!"
With a wave of Xu Ying's hand, more than a dozen fruit bats immediately took off into the air and moved flexibly in the narrow tomb passage.
She followed closely behind, the powerful flashlight in her hand casting flickering shadows on the damp wall.
After walking about a hundred steps.
The group of fruit bats suddenly became agitated, making rapid squeaking sounds.
Xu Ying listened intently for a moment: "They said they smelled gunpowder."
This means that the three people are in a panic and may have to forcibly blast a way out of the tomb.
Chen Su and Qi Xiao quickened their pace at the same time.
After turning a corner, the scene before them made them gasp—
Three dark shadows were busy working beside the east wall of the side tomb chamber, one of them had a bloody bandage wrapped around his arm.
Explosives and detonators were scattered on the ground.
The three tomb robbers became nervous immediately when they discovered Xu Ying and his companions.
One of them had a big hole in his left leg pants. Even though it was bandaged, he still bled a lot. He must have been scratched by a sharp object.
Next to him stood a middle-aged man wearing a black dust mask, looking at Xu Ying and the other two with a vicious look.
Xu Ying felt that this man looked familiar. He was the man who went to the tomb with the thin man in the baseball cap this morning.
At the moment, he is the calmest among the three tomb robbers.
He held a lighter in one hand and the fuse of the gunpowder in the other, and threatened coldly, "Don't come over here. If you take another step, we'll blow this place up. At worst, we'll both perish."
"You will gain nothing, and this Han tomb will be destroyed."
Xu Ying patted her pocket lightly, and the whip-tail scorpion that had been seeking revenge slipped out of her pocket and went to inform her companions to find the guy who had burned them!
Chen Su slowly raised the gun in his hand, pointing the black muzzle directly at the black mask, and said in a cold voice: "Confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be treated severely. If you surrender now, you can still strive for a lighter sentence."
The man in the black mask sneered coldly when he heard this, and a hint of sarcasm flashed in his eyes.
"Those who organized and orchestrated the looting of ancient tombs, repeatedly excavated and stole precious cultural relics, and caused serious damage to them, are aggravating circumstances and will be sentenced to a minimum of ten years."
Chen Su continued, his voice echoing in the dark tomb, "What's more, you've robbed more than just this tomb, and you're also involved in the transnational trafficking of cultural relics. Life imprisonment is a light sentence."
The corner of the black-masked man's mouth curled up in a ferocious arc: "Then what else is there to talk about? He suddenly raised the detonator in his hand and said, why don't we compare it and see which is faster, your bullet or my speed in detonating the explosives?"
"You don't have any fire-fighting equipment at hand. If I put out this fire—"
His finger hovered over the button. "Everyone go to hell!"
The air in the tomb froze instantly, and the tense atmosphere was about to explode.
The man in the black mask was speaking in a cold voice, completely unaware that several whip-tail scorpions had quietly crawled out from the crevices of the rock wall, their long, slender tails swaying silently in the shadows, ready to strike.
Xu Ying's eyes flickered slightly, and she softened her tone to draw his attention to herself: "Then what do you want us to do?"
"I want..." Just as the man in the black mask opened his mouth, the whip-tailed scorpion on the rock wall suddenly attacked!
Several streams of venom shot out like arrows, accurately wetting the fuse in his hand, and at the same time, the splashing venom splashed on his and his accomplices' faces and bodies.
"Ah--!" The three of them screamed in pain. Their exposed skin became red, swollen, and ulcerated at a speed visible to the naked eye. The burning pain made them stagger back.
The man in the black mask didn't really want to die, he just wanted to exchange the detonator for conditions with the police.
At this moment, the pain of the venom burning his hands made him release the detonator.
The detonator fell to the ground and was pushed open by the scorpion.
They don't want to become roasted scorpions!
"stop!"
Xu Ying gave a low shout, and the whip-tail scorpion immediately withdrew and hid back in the crevice of the rock.
In a flash, Chen Su and Qi Xiao took action!
Qi Xiao's body was like a tiger out of the cage, punching the nearest man in the chest with such powerful force that the opponent was knocked back and hit hard against the rock wall!
Chen Su flashed to the side of the other person like a ghost, and slashed at the other person's neck with his knife. His movements were quick and decisive, and the man fell to the ground without even a groan.
In the blink of an eye, all three were subdued!
The three men had bulging backpacks and heavy pendants around their waists, which showed that they had looted quite a few cultural relics, but had not had time to ship them out.
Xu Ying poked one of them on the shoulder with a telescopic pole: "Where is the stolen goods hidden?" The three men kept their mouths tightly shut, their eyes flickering, looking like dead pigs that were not afraid of boiling water.
“Don’t tell?”
Xu Ying chuckled and patted the side of his backpack. Several pitch-black spiders and blood-red centipedes immediately scattered and disappeared into the shadows of the tomb.
These little guys were like well-trained scouts, and they got into every crevice in the blink of an eye.
A quarter of an hour later, a huge wolf spider returned first, and its furry feet tapped lightly on Xu Ying's palm.
Spiders rely on stealth to hunt, and sound can easily reveal their location, so they rely more on vibrations and chemical signals to communicate information.
Xu Ying's advanced animal language played a key role in dealing with these silent little animals.
After listening to the information reported by Wolf Spider, Xu Ying's eyes flashed: "Follow me."
In front of the west rock wall, she accurately pressed down a seemingly ordinary stone.
With the muffled sound of the mechanism being activated, a secret door slowly opened.
Qi Xiao raised a high-intensity flashlight, and the beam of light penetrated the dense dust, revealing an exquisite Han Dynasty mechanism lock.
"This is a typical Jingjue State machine lock."
Qi Xiao used his flashlight to shine the pattern on the mechanism. "You need to turn the compass to a specific direction to open it. These tomb robbers must have reset the code."
The three of them turned pale when they heard this, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.
They never imagined that these seemingly ordinary young people knew so much about the mechanism from two thousand years ago.
The man in the black mask was still negotiating: "If I tell you the password now, can you help me get a reduced sentence?"
"It's too late. It's not necessary."
Xu Ying had already squatted down.
A tiny jumping spider was lying on her fingertips, its long, slender legs making complex movements.
Her fingers flew, and the compass made crisp clicking sounds as she moved. When the last mechanism returned to its position, the stone door of the dark room burst open.
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