The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 210 - 211: Found 1 Shoe

My interrogation time was shorter than Captain Jack’s, I was released back to the tent after half an hour.

The last question the leader in white asked me was whether I was worried about Professor Chen’s safety.

I said of course, if you’re willing, I’d like to go find him because it’s time for our appointment and he should have returned.

The leader in white said nothing, just waved for the ’Welder’ to take me away.

I returned to the main tent, feeling like a student who just left the exam hall, putting aside all previous questions, and took out a phone to watch a movie. I borrowed some crew member’s phone, which had a gunfight movie stored on it, the plot was clichéd and boring, but it was lively.

Everything said in this tent was monitored by the leader in white, so there was almost no communication between me and the team leader.

Bi Shi was also taken for questioning, and when she came back, her face was particularly sour, as if she had been frustrated with the leader in white.

Among the people Meng Qingyu brought, only the team leader was taken for questioning, Lu Xiaodao, Guan Hai, and Cong Zhibo were not called.

Of course, Cong Zhibo and He Su are similar, even a blessed polygraph wouldn’t be able to test the two of them.

This night passed just like that, Captain Jack remained unconscious, his crew were sleepless all night, while our side snored loudly because the ’Welder’s’ methods of killing a chicken to scare the monkey were very effective, no matter how discontented the crew were, no one dared to get up and make noise.

In the middle of the night, I saw someone among the crew secretly wipe their tears. I used the phone to edit a memo titled - On the Importance of Psychological Resilience in Facing Extreme Environments.

While editing the status of our team members, I thought carefully, the team leader and the three of them had given their last words, indicating that they already had an ’inevitable’ awareness.

Or it could be fatigue, mental and physical exhaustion, although they didn’t say anything, their faces were all expressing one sentence: get on with it, hurry, I’m tired.

This expression is something I occasionally see on the face of tomb robbers, they are exhausted from messing around inside the tomb, completely unable to get out, out of ammunition, no way to survive, they would come to the side of my coffin, attempting to bury themselves at my hand.

Laughable, I’m not a professional killer, when encountering tomb robbers like this, I would point to the wall for them to see the sign: Turn left to exit, there’s a mechanism, touch it and you’re dead!

Isn’t it simple to seek death in an ancient tomb? Three steps a trap, five steps a pitfall, if the professional habit is severe, encountering a mechanism they would instinctively dismantle, stepping on a trap their body would naturally dodge; then there’s still the option of hanging, a set step, thousands of years of real people verification, this trick guarantees death.

In the dead of night, I heard Chen Qinghan using bird calls to tell us he was safe, then I let the water ball go out.

The water ball came to the island with Bi Shi, and after entering the tent, it hugged my leg, continuing its role as a leg attachment.

Bi Shi just happened to quietly tell me the content of her questioning, although we couldn’t talk, she edited the content using a tablet brought from the fishing boat, while I stole glances beside her. The font was very small, the angle tricky, the camera in the tent probably couldn’t capture what she wrote. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

I had the water ball copy the keywords written on the tablet to Chen Qinghan.

It didn’t need to actually learn to write in a foreign language, just mimicking would suffice.

The water ball slipped out of the tent, didn’t encounter any trouble, and only came back after a while, typing two letters ’OK’ on Bi Shi’s tablet.

The camp is very safe; there wasn’t the kind of biological attack on the tent that Meng Qingyu mentioned, but I did hear movement on the beach, the sound seemed to be blocked by something outside the tent and only retreated around three or four in the morning.

A new day arrives, we’re still alive, but for the crew, this means another day of anxiety and fear.

The leader in white sent people into the jungle early in the morning, yesterday he asked me what I came to the island to get, I said it was the treasure Bi Shi hid away, an antique music box estimated to be thousands of years old, we agreed to come to retrieve it, she would pay us a reward.

The leader in white asked for the hiding place, I shrugged it off, saying she told Chen Qinghan the location and I’m only responsible for keeping watch.

Bi Shi and I didn’t plan earlier, the leader in white also asked her the same question, she responded saying near the swamp, I said I didn’t know, which didn’t constitute a conflict.

In the morning, the leader in white sent people into the jungle, the weapons they had were incredibly violent, one shot could turn a tree as thick as a barrel into sawdust, making me feel as though they were holding not guns, but microwave ovens.

If this shot were fired on a person, it would instantly turn them into minced meat.

The ’Welder’ carrying the ’microwave oven’ went into the jungle, acting roughly and directly like their weapons, encountering obstacles and attacks, all crushed.

The clothes they were wearing should not only be combat uniforms but also have an isolation function; poisonous plants and insects in the jungle couldn’t penetrate these clothes to touch their body.

The squad Meng Qingyu was leading was just a ragtag group of cannon fodder, these ’Welders’ were the regular army of Shield.

They were busy until noon before they returned, saying they’d found something near the swamp.

They picked up a shoe on the edge of the swamp, there was blood on the shoe, the jungle is damp, the blood didn’t dry very fast, but the stain had already oxidized and changed color, indicating it wasn’t just recently stained on.

When ’Electric Welder’ was reporting holding the shoe, they said it wasn’t human blood, the leader in white called me to recognize if this shoe was Chen Qinghan’s.

Looking at the blood-stained shoe, I covered my mouth, trying to recall how characters in those tragic movies performed, uh, expressed the loss of a loved one.

"It’s his." I decided to portray extreme grief in a profound and restrained manner, starting off with a casual tone and expressionless face, as if refusing to believe Chen Qinghan had met a bad end, but taking two steps suddenly collapsing.

The team leader, moved by my portrayal of grief to the point of fainting, came forward to support me and helped me back to the tent.

The water ball did its job well, it successfully conveyed the message Bi Shi wrote, telling Chen Qinghan the treasure was buried at the swamp.

Chen Qinghan’s shoe appearing by the swamp also indirectly proves it’s indeed Bi Shi’s treasure burying place, he had an unavoidable reason to go there.

Otherwise, for someone who had entered the jungle once, they would definitely have avoided the dangerous swamp, wouldn’t have gone there seeking death.

The swamp monster we encountered might not be just one, but as long as there are animals, if they want to continue the lineage, there must be at least one male and one female. If they are hermaphroditic, it’s even easier, no need to display, no need to date, they can have offspring right at home.

Chen Qinghan may have dripped unknown creature’s blood on his own shoe, possibly trying to fake an appearance of him having met a bad end.

If he didn’t ’die’, the leader in white would certainly send more people to look for him.

The act is complete, whether they believe it or not, is left to fate.

The leader in white didn’t make a statement, he arranged for people to examine what kind of creature’s blood was on the shoe.

I feel he wasn’t very interested in the music box we mentioned, their goal coming onto the island might be the Pandora’s Heart he mentioned.

I don’t know how Shield plans to deal with us. Conducting interrogations and lie detection indicates they want to understand some things, now that they understood them, why not take action to kill us to silence everything?