Solving Middle Age Crisis by Intelligence System-Chapter 407 - 267: Do You Know Something (Three-in-One)

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Northern Mongolia, after more than an hour of silence, the sound of movement finally came from the tomb tunnel.

Qi Yun extinguished his cigarette butt, patted his backside, and got up from the ground.

At the tomb entrance, Director Hua was the first to crouch and walk out, followed closely by Captain Wu and the man with the goatee.

Seeing that all these people returned safely, Qi Yun let out a long sigh of relief.

After the man with the goatee was escorted away by the officers, Qi Yun asked Captain Wu, "Have you confirmed it?"

Captain Wu nodded solemnly, "They’re all dead. I have to report this immediately."

Qi Yun said no more, watching the other party walk away to make a call.

"Give me a cigarette." Director Hua extended two fingers towards Qi Yun, continuing, "After going down and taking a look, I can now basically confirm that below is Chebei’s tomb."

Qi Yun took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and personally lit it for the other.

Director Hua took a couple of puffs, slowly exhaled smoke rings, and muttered while frowning, "But the structure of this tomb is a bit strange, something doesn’t seem quite right."

Qi Yun accompanied him with a cigarette, echoing, "What’s not right?"

Director Hua pondered for a while, "The height difference between the main burial chamber and other areas is too significant."

"And there’s another point that puzzles me. Although there are rumors that Chebei might be the illegitimate son of Genghis Khan, he was just a Hundred Households Chief. Even if he had the status of Genghis Khan’s son, the defense level of this tomb shouldn’t be this high."

"The outer rammed earth layer’s thickness and the numerous mechanisms inside the tomb, compared to the specifications of the burial items, are a bit too well-guarded."

Qi Yun hadn’t gone down to see for himself and didn’t know what the specific situation was below, but just listening to the other’s description, it seemed something was off.

"So, what do you propose?"

Director Hua took a few quick puffs, extinguished the cigarette butt, "I suspect that under this current tomb, there might be another tomb hidden!"

Qi Yun nearly dropped his cigarette to the ground, "Another tomb below?"

He turned his head to glance at the tomb entrance as if he could see through the dark passage to the depths below, "Are you saying... this current Chebei tomb is just a decoy?"

"Very likely!" Director Hua nodded, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp, "The rammed earth layer beneath the main burial chamber is suspicious. I specifically checked when I went down earlier; the green bricks under the coffin are half a foot thicker than around, and when knocked, they sound hollow, not like solid rammed earth."

"Moreover, the floor bricks there are darker in color, and the vermilion embedded in the seams hasn’t oxidized, as if they were repaired later."

"But... all this is just my speculation. For specifics, a thorough survey is needed."

After hearing this, Qi Yun also unconsciously nodded. The coordinates given by the system couldn’t be wrong. The artifacts the tomb raiders, led by the man with the goatee, took didn’t include that mirror. Could the mirror be hidden in another tomb?

"But with so many dead below, it’s likely that above will now order the area to be sealed off. We might not have the chance to investigate..." Director Hua sighed again, adding.

Qi Yun was also somewhat helpless, as more than ten people died in one incident, and they were all foreigners, the matter surely wouldn’t be minor.

Although those guys were illegally tomb raiding domestically, it’s one thing to catch people, it’s another when people are dead...

After all, diplomatic implications must be considered.

"Can we go in and take a look before the lockdown order comes?" Qi Yun tentatively asked.

Director Hua stared at him for a moment, not answering the question but instead asked, "Tell me the truth, do you know something?"

Qi Yun met the other’s gaze, took a puff of his cigarette, and finally nodded, "Yes, I know there’s a mirror here, and I came for that very thing."