I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 275 - 271 Generals Tomb

Chapter 275: Chapter 271 General’s Tomb

Chapter 275: Chapter 271 General’s Tomb

After resting for a while, Fang Xiaocao felt her energy had recovered quite a bit. She stood up, stretched her limbs, and made sure she could continue on before she spoke, “I’ve rested enough, let’s continue on our way.”

Upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, Tom and his two companions immediately got up. They had been ready to move on for a while and didn’t actually need a rest, they were merely waiting for Xiaocao.

“Tom, you lead the way,”

Xiaocao instructed Tom.

Tom nodded and took on the role of pathfinder.

Hummingbird and Taotie walked beside Xiaocao, serving as guards.

Tom led Xiaocao and the others through the winding cave, walking nearly three kilometers. Although the road was rough, fortunately, they met no danger.

“According to the map, we are about to officially enter the treasure zone,” Tom said, putting away the device. “I suspect the so-called treasure area is actually the burial chambers we discussed earlier.”

Tom stated solemnly.

“This treasure map must have been based on that ancient tomb; the real treasure is not the burial offerings of the tomb, but rather, someone has used the main chamber of the tomb as a Treasure Cave,”

he said gravely.

“Hearing you say that, now I suspect that this treasure map was drawn by some Tomb Robber,”

Taotie said, raising an eyebrow and chuckling.

Xiaocao gave Taotie a stern look—always joking, but Taotie was quick-witted.

However, Xiaocao had to admit,

this time, Taotie was quite right.

After hearing Tom’s analysis, Xiaocao also felt that this treasure map was left by a Tomb Robber.

The Tomb Robber who drew this treasure map had looted this ancient tomb and, due to some accident, hadn’t been able to take the treasure with them, managing only to escape, later leaving behind this map.

It might also be possible that after robbing this tomb, the Tomb Robber ran into trouble outside. Thinking the tomb was sufficiently safe and secretive, they moved their collected antique treasures all here.

Fearing they couldn’t escape their troubles and come back for these treasures, they left behind the treasure map.

Regardless of which it was, Xiaocao felt that the treasures here were probably out of her reach now.

The treasure has most likely ended up in the hands of that mysterious Pawnshop because, as Tom said, just by looking at those bodies, one could tell the Pawnshop had been entrenched here for a very long time. Since they even converted the burial pits to dump bodies, it wouldn’t make sense if they knew there was an ancient grand tomb here and didn’t try their luck.

Entering the treasure mountain empty-handed and returning empty-handed isn’t the style of those underworld characters.

“Tom, let’s enter the tomb,”

Xiaocao instructed Tom.

“Whether there’s treasure or not, since we are here, it makes no sense not to take a look,”

Xiaocao said with a smile.

Tom nodded: “Yes!”

“Princess Your Highness makes a good point, it’d be regrettable not to take a look,”

“Follow me!”

Tom called out, leading the way to the correct path marked on the treasure map.

Xiaocao and her three companions hurried to keep up.

Their destination was near, and emotions were running high,

and they were also nervous!

Everyone was guessing whether the treasure was still there.

Xiaocao fantasized about striking it rich if the treasure was still there.

Following the cave for a thousand meters, the scenery before them suddenly changed. The naturally formed cave path showed many signs of human alteration and refurbishment.

The rock walls on both sides also began to show many ancient murals, somewhat eroded by time.

Although the murals were blurry, they faintly depicted the life events of the tomb’s owner, Xiaocao guessed that the tomb’s owner must have been an ancient General.

He was very brave and skilled in battle, almost every mural depicted him charging across the battlefield, with many scenes where he decapitated enemies in massive fights and presented the heads to the ruler.

When Xiaocao followed the corridor to its end, the murals also came to an end.

The final two murals depicted the General dying in battle, his body being returned wrapped in horsehide, and the ruler personally mourning him and granting him posthumous honors.

“Which era’s Supreme General is this?”

“From life to death, he battled for the nation.”

Fang Xiaocao murmured to herself.

Tom blinked and looked toward Taotie.

“Taotie, do you know who this is?”

Upon hearing this, Taotie chuckled softly.

“Old Tom, you’re asking the right person. I’m quite knowledgeable about history, but there’s still something I don’t understand.”

As he spoke, Taotie burst into laughter.

Tom was taken aback and didn’t comprehend what Taotie meant.

“He said he doesn’t know!”

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Unable to bear it any longer, Hummingbird spoke up to explain to Tom.

Tom looked at Taotie with a speechless glare.

He felt an urge to “bam bam” punch Taotie a couple of times.

“Princess Your Highness, do you know who the owner of this tomb is?”

Tom looked at Fang Xiaocao, curiously asking.

Fang Xiaocao shook her head: “I don’t know either, but judging by the murals, the carved attire should be from a general of the Tang or Song period.”

“Beyond that, I can’t tell.”

Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, Tom felt somewhat disappointed.

He was still very curious about the history of China.

Fang Xiaocao looked up, gazing at the two stone gates in front of her.

She guessed that these must be the doors to the tomb.

“Taotie, Tom, both of you try to see if you can push open the tomb door.”

Fang Xiaocao instructed Taotie and Tom.

She could tell that the heavy stone gates probably hadn’t been opened for a long time.

Perhaps the treasure inside was still there.

“Yes!”

Upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s command, Taotie and Tom simultaneously responded, walked up to the tomb door, placed their hands on the dust-covered stone gate, and began to exert force.

As the two exerted force continuously, the stone gate made a “crack” friction noise, moved slightly, but didn’t even create a single gap to be opened.

“Princess Your Highness, it’s not working, we can’t push it!”

Tom exhaled and sighed.

“Both of you push one gate and try!”

“Hummingbird, go and help them!”

Fang Xiaocao looked at the scratch marks left on the ground by the stone gate moving and spoke decisively.

Seeing the thickness and weight of the stone gate, pushing just one, which probably weighed thousands of pounds, was more realistic than pushing both gates together.

“Okay!”

The three of them responded and gathered in front of one stone gate, counting “one, two, three” together, they began to push with all their might.

As the three continued to exert force, the thick stone gate made a deep “rumbling” noise and began to shift slowly inward.

Seeing this scene, Fang Xiaocao’s heart lifted with joy.

There’s a way!

Being able to move it was good!

Even if they couldn’t open it in one go, pushing a few more times would always create a gap wide enough for them to pass through.