The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 336 - 279: Unyielding Defiance

Even though foreigners wouldn’t consider Yin Yang and the Five Elements when building tombs, they would reference constellations to align the ancient tombs on the ground with the stars in the sky.

However, our method of finding tombs clearly breaks the norm, involving ’live detection,’ dropping directly into the tomb, saving a lot of trouble.

Ten minutes later, Liang Ruidong reported through the communicator that it was safe inside the tomb and instructed us to go down as well.

I left the local guide behind and led the rest of the people to slide down the ground hole.

The breach Liang Ruidong mentioned earlier was on the east side of the pyramid tomb, at one of the corners of the tower’s point. Perhaps due to age, the stones had decayed, and the bottom corner had collapsed, creating an opening.

After we slid down, we landed in the gap between the mountain and the pyramid. This space couldn’t accommodate too many people, so those who slid down had to immediately crawl through the breach to make room for the ones behind.

Qian Yu had already inspected it, and the main structure of this area was still quite stable and wouldn’t collapse any time soon.

Generally, the interior of a pyramid is divided into three areas: the main tomb chamber, the queen’s chamber, and the underground chamber. However, the tomb owner we’re looking for didn’t marry, so there shouldn’t be a queen’s chamber.

The good news is that the place we entered was adjacent to a passageway. The bad news is that there are too many passageways, greatly differing from other pyramids. Liang Ruidong sent his message so quickly because he hadn’t ventured deeper inside.

"There are no marks left by Chen and his team here. Could we be mistaken?" Zhao Zhenghua checked all potential marking spots and returned to the group after completing his search.

"It’s also possible they made a mistake. They only found the tomb entrance and didn’t confirm the tomb owner’s identity," Cheng Xuelin said.

Indeed, the last piece of information from Chen Qinghan and his team was that they were preparing to enter the tomb. After entering, they lost contact with the outside world, so it’s still unknown if they went into the correct ancient tomb.

In normal pyramids, the main tomb chamber is located in the middle of the tower. However, the one we entered is clearly an abnormal pyramid, with the passageways constructed in a maze-like fashion, extending both upward and downward, making the space more chaotic.

"He’s right, so we need to find the main tomb chamber to confirm," I said.

"But we’re here to rescue people, and we should find Qinghan and his team first, then come back to verify," Lilith immediately objected.

Her gaze at me clearly carried... blame?

The others exchanged glances, seeming troubled. Their attitude was subtle, as if they didn’t want to offend either side, so they remained silent, offering no opinions.

"You haven’t seen the main tomb chamber, so how do you know they didn’t enter this tomb? From the photos, they took the main entrance, while we might have used a side or emergency entrance. Not finding marks here doesn’t mean anything."

"That’s just your hypothesis. What if it delays rescuing them?" Lilith asked.

"I’ll return that question to you unchanged."

Neither of us intended to back down. Zhao Zhenghua was adjusting the communicator, and timely said, "It seems we’ve lost contact with the outside."

The communicator only emitted static, unable to receive any signal. Cheng Xuelin, Qian Yu, and the team doctor Li Du quickly turned on their communicators upon hearing this.

The result was that all the communicators malfunctioned, with none able to connect to the outside world.

Every individual’s satellite watch was included as well, with signals completely cut off. Everyone now realized that we might be experiencing the same situation as Chen Qinghan and his team.

"Come quickly and look!" Qian Yu, in an attempt to find a signal, held up his watch and went to the breach we came through, trying to climb to a spot closer to the ground to look for a signal.

But now he hurried back, urgently calling us to go out and take a look.

We went to the breach, looked outside, and saw no sign of the ground hole we descended from. Only a smooth mountain surface remained, and the ground hole had disappeared.

"This is impossible..." Cheng Xuelin said in amazement.

"Could someone have discovered us and sealed the hole?" Li Du guessed.

"There’s not enough time; we just came down a few minutes ago," Qian Yu replied.

They were discussing this fervently, but I was secretly delighted because, thanks to memory recall, I already remembered why the Snow Mountain Tomb recovers on its own.

It stems from a ’life’ form our tribe excavated from the ancestral tomb. This thing lacks intelligence but possesses memory, akin to the notion that goldfish have a memory of only seven seconds. They can mix with other substances, such as being poured into a paper cup alongside sand, waiting to fully integrate. After combining, if poured out again, the scattered sand will quickly reassemble into the shape of the paper cup.