The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 266 - 255: Old Zongzi’s Path to Wealth (Part 3)

"You didn’t." Galaxy didn’t even look at him, seriously carving the wood in her hands.

Wang Datou breathed a sigh of relief, Liu Laonian started crying again. The young man finished transferring money but didn’t leave, he reached out to Wang Datou and said, "Return the item to me."

Wang Datou looked around, shook his head in frustration, "It’s not with me, someone named Leng snatched it away."

The young man was furious, cursing him for a while. I roughly figured out their relationship. The young man from the Dong family hired people to renovate the old house, and when Wang Datou and Liu Laonian were breaking the wall, they discovered a box hidden inside.

They thought the box contained money hidden by the ancestors of the Dong family. Upon opening it, it was a copper key and a sheepskin map.

Although there was no treasure, they believed it was a treasure map and the copper key could open the treasure door.

If it wasn’t a treasure, why would the ancestors of the Dong family hide it in the wall? Who would hide junk in such a secretive place?

The two were tempted by greed, but coincidentally were caught by the young man from the Dong family. They ran away with the box and didn’t dare return home.

Greedy but not smart. They could have given the box to the young man, earn his trust, and later steal it back at another time. Or, mask themselves, sneak into the house, harm the person in secret, and escape with the box... No, no, that’s too evil. I’ve promised to reform myself, be a law-abiding good citizen!

In any case, they brazenly stole someone’s item in broad daylight, chased by the young man all the way. It was quite a dramatic pursuit that led them here in the end.

The young man wanted the key because the map was useless now; the location marked on the map was this tomb.

Perhaps the young man was a descendant of the tomb owner, but due to family changes, the person knowing the tomb details hid the clues without leaving verbal instructions, resulting in descendants not knowing about it anymore.

Galaxy had lived in the tomb for 800 years, while the box was buried in the wall likely no more than a hundred years ago, so the Dong family’s box-hiding habit might have continued for several generations.

Maybe the last person who hid the box didn’t even know where the clues inside would lead.

I heard such stories from the Tomb Robber. Reality is often more bizarre and twisted than fiction, history leaves too many blanks, big ones in the world, small ones in a family, there are just too many empty spaces.

But who knows, one day the descendants might find that missing piece of the puzzle and reveal the whole truth.

I looked at Galaxy. If the young man was the tomb owner’s descendant, how would she account for squatting in his family’s property for so many years?

She didn’t even lift her eyelid, waited for the young man to finish cursing, then calmly said, "Your... ancestor became a spirit, I cremated him for you, no need to thank me."

The young man let out a string of meaningless murmurs from his throat. I figure he didn’t know what to say at the moment.

"Madam Zongzi, your mana is boundless, please save me, I don’t want to die..." Liu Laonian crawled to the workbench side, intending to kowtow to Galaxy, only to be forcibly stood up straight by two wooden puppets that grabbed his ears.

"I told you, it’s hopeless." Galaxy really had some patience with them, willing to explain repeatedly without getting angry.

When they decided to enter the tomb for treasure, they should have been prepared for death. Ancient tombs are risky, if poisoned, timely treatment is hard to come by.

Yet, Liu Laonian seemed fine, apart from snot bubbles, no symptoms of poisoning were visible.

Liu Laonian wiped his tears, collapsed on the ground dejectedly, turned into a real Laonian. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

If I were him, I’d rush out of the tomb now to the nearest hospital for a full blood test, maybe they could salvage a bit.

But neither he nor Wang Datou showed any intention to leave. Wang Datou looked around, picked a spot without toys to sit, his face full of dejection.

The young man from the Dong family finished cursing Wang Datou and went to look at the murals. Afterward, he inspected everyone in the tomb chamber one by one. He had already cursed the two thieves, dared not offend Galaxy, and when his gaze passed by me, didn’t stop for a second, clearly avoiding me, finally resting his eyes on Chen Qinghan.

"You, um, cough, do you know the way out?" The young man asked particularly politely.

"I do, but I have things to do, can’t take you out now."

"Do you... know her?" The young man dared not look directly at Galaxy, only ’pointed’ at her with the corner of his eye.

"Never met before, I brought a friend for therapy." When he said ’friend,’ Chen Qinghan also ’pointed’ at me with his eyes.