The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 168: Lop-Eared Cats

There’s no way to take this seriously; everything is a matter of luck and coincidence. If you insist on saying something, it’s fate!

Who would have thought we’d only have a few of us left, and two of them are students with no experience in dealing with such events.

Beauty Snake definitely wanted to harm us, and there were plenty of ways she could think of. Qinghan had to stay in the control room and couldn’t leave; the team leader was at the stairwell ready to support Bi Shi and me.

I held the heart that was no longer warm, comforting the team leader and Guan Hai, "It’s fine, no one could predict this, let’s not hold a criticism meeting here, think of a way back."

Bi Shi winked at me, but I didn’t understand what she meant.

I placed Beauty Snake’s heart into the large hole in the mummy’s chest, but those wire-like things seemed to know it was dead and showed no reaction.

The hope in the team leader and Guan Hai’s eyes extinguished the instant they saw the heart didn’t start.

"It’s alright, there are still animals in the Undersea City, we can keep trying." I noticed both of them were in a very dangerous state; if they couldn’t see hope soon, they might plunge into despair and take extreme paths!

Even though the team leader had extensive jungle survival experience, he was used to ’normal’ jungles, ’normal’ animals, and ’normal’ people.

After a series of extraordinary stimu...lations, he clearly couldn’t handle it anymore, and being in the abyssal depths heightened the despair.

"Right, I saw it too, there are animals outside the city." Bi Shi uncharacteristically didn’t undermine me.

"You stay and watch them, don’t let them commit suicide." I was uneasy about giving such an important task to Bi Shi, but there was no one else to rely on.

I had already placed the water bottle in the control room, and Bi Shi ’escorted’ the team leader and Guan Hai back to the cabin.

Amidst the chaos, I forgot about the third set of footsteps. Only when I walked back to the stairs leading to the Undersea City alone did I remember that the third set of footsteps was gone.

I checked the stairs for footprints, thought maybe we heard wrong, and let it go.

Putting that matter aside, I quickly returned to the Undersea City to catch small animals.

The creatures hiding in the mushroom forest were small, about the size of cats or rabbits, similar in appearance. However, even if their hearts could be used, they probably wouldn’t be enough to get us back to the island.

I dove into the mushroom forest, unleashing my Demon King nature, and caught six lop-eared cats in succession.

These creatures are a composite of lop-eared rabbits and Garfield cats, with a fondness for mushrooms, and would certainly appeal to girls in the outside world.

Perhaps being free from human capture for too long and having no other creatures in the Undersea City, aside from the dormant giant beasts, they had no predators. So the lop-eared cats were easy to catch: plump and sluggish.

They’re likely to survive from the sea civilization, mostly because giant beasts have no interest in them. They’re not at risk of extinction due to our presence.

I returned to the Shell Ship carrying six lop-eared cats and habitually checked if Beauty Snake’s corpse was still by the waterway.

I then discovered the body was missing, having only checked out of habit, not expecting her to disappear.

So I hurried back to the cabin; clearly many people had died in the Undersea City, yet there were no corpses. Could the thing that cleans up corpses still be functioning?!

Bi Shi and the team leader couldn’t possibly have moved Beauty Snake’s body, and when I walked into the control room seeing the team leader and Guan Hai sitting peacefully, I finally relaxed.

Qinghan’s condition was even worse than before; I was well aware of his strength. When he completely lost control, the vine rope wouldn’t hold him.

The room wouldn’t contain him either. Bi Shi came to take the lop-eared cats off my back, whispering, "They don’t have much time left."

The team leader and Guan Hai seemed fine physically, despite poor spirits, so the ’they’ Bi Shi referred to clearly meant Qinghan and Cong Zhibo.

"That one is beyond saving, as for the other... why don’t you try... you know what I mean!" Bi Shi sneered.

She glanced towards Cong Zhibo’s room when she said one was beyond saving and towards Qinghan’s room when suggesting to try. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"I don’t get it, stop speaking in riddles, just spit it out!" At this point, I had no patience for her guessing games.

"Hmph... fine, I’ll be direct. How did He Su recover? You could follow the model, after all, it is your slave."

"Pah~ it’s my colleague. Take it, go open it up!" I handed all six lop-eared cats to Bi Shi, "Don’t kill them all, try one heart first."

"Got it."

As Bi Shi took the wobbling lop-eared cats to the fishing room, I checked that the team leader and Guan Hai, resting quietly in the control room, seemed emotionally stable and then slipped into Qinghan’s room.

As Bi Shi mentioned, Cong Zhibo was already festering and oozing, with deep holes rotting through his body; his breathing was more out than in. The toxins had likely spread to his internal organs, and even if we turned back immediately, it would be nearly an hour’s journey to the island.

Whether Zhou could cure him is another matter; he can’t last that long.

In no time, Qinghan would also become a living corpse. I began seriously considering Bi Shi’s proposal.

Both Bi Shi and I had the Recovery Ability, but thinking of her past dung-like form made me instantly dismiss borrowing her energy.

I understood her meaning; she wanted me to share some energy with Qinghan.

Easy to say, she could give to He Su as they were the same species, but could cow blood sustain a rabbit?

I gazed at Qinghan’s dark eyes and the black spots on his arms, took a deep breath, and opened my memory search function once again.

Gene fusion?

Blood exchange?

Success rate?

Zero... zero... zero results!

Resolutely, I turned and walked into Cong Zhibo’s room.

"Miss Leng, what are you doing?" Guan Hai might have seen me pacing outside the control room and came out to see.

"Ah... Cong Zhibo looks like he won’t make it." I said while making up a lie in my mind.

"Hmm." Guan Hai’s eyes dimmed, but he still agreed with me.

I thought he would get angry at my bluntness, like shouting at me, no! He won’t die!

His reaction surprised me somewhat, but what I said was true.

"I have two Immortal Pills!"

"?"

"Back in the days of roaming the martial world, an old Taoist priest gave them to me after I saved his life as a token of gratitude."

"Can they save them?"

"I don’t know. To be honest, I’ve always thought that old Taoist was a fraud. What he called Immortal Pills were just hawthorn balls with painkillers, maybe with some added vitamins at best." This wasn’t a lie I made up; an old Taoist once entered my tomb with the Tomb Raider and confessed to his use of vitamins A to G as Immortal Pills.

"Perhaps it’s real?" Hope rekindled in Guan Hai’s eyes.

"What if they’re not? I didn’t dare bring them out earlier for fear of killing them."

"Do we have another way? Miss Leng, give it a shot, trying is better than watching them... gone."

"Then... should we try it?"