I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 291 - 287 Eighteen Stone Coffins
Chapter 291: Chapter 287: Eighteen Stone Coffins
Chapter 291 -287: Eighteen Stone Coffins
Seeing that Fang Xiaocao had no objections, Hummingbird and Taotie had even fewer, all being smart, naturally understood that Taotie’s analysis was correct, taking the hidden room route was safer and more suited for them.
“Since there are no objections, let Taotie, who knows the ancient tomb mechanisms best, lead the way. I’ll follow with Hummingbird in the middle, Tom, you cover our back. Although I’m not worried about being pursued, it’s always good to be cautious. We’re not afraid of the ten thousand, just the ‘just in case.’ The necessary traps can’t be omitted.”
“This hidden door, and that one too, leave some Tricky Thunders or something. Just in case we have pursuers discover the door, we’ll also get a signal and maybe deal with some of the pursuers.”
Fang Xiaocao, rarely showing his intelligence online, took the initiative to step up and make the deployment of actions.
“Yes!”
Taotie and the others answered in unison.
Tom was even more greatly relieved; he was very satisfied with Fang Xiaocao’s deployment.
From when Fang Xiaocao began deploying, the smile never left Tom’s face.
For Tom, he wasn’t afraid of Fang Xiaocao making deployment errors, but was afraid that Fang Xiaocao wouldn’t dare to take the initiative to deploy.
He wasn’t worried about errors.
Didn’t he still have this fool of a military advisor?
With errors, he could correct them in time.
If Fang Xiaocao didn’t take the initiative to stand up and speak.
When would he ever be able to train?
As it turned out, Fang Xiaocao’s deployment, to Tom’s surprise, satisfied him completely. There were no loopholes, everything was considered, even the possibility of pursuers, he thought to cover the rear and set traps.
Tom was very satisfied, looking at Fang Xiaocao with the eyes of a proud father.
“Then let’s set out!”
Fang Xiaocao said with a smile.
Tom and the others nodded their heads. Taotie, spear on the lead, walked into the open hidden door first.
Hummingbird protected Fang Xiaocao, walking behind Taotie, while Tom picked up his backpack, taking out a few Sprite Ball Bombs, and behind that closed hidden door, set up a series of chain mines.
Once set, Tom stood up.
He just picked up his backpack, walked into the open hidden door.
Tom kicked the iron sword that was blocking the door to one side, strained to close the hidden door.
This time, Tom didn’t set Tricky Thunder behind the door. Instead, he looked around and realized it was still a hidden room while Taotie had already led Fang Xiaocao and Hummingbird to another hidden door and left the room.
Tom looked around, this hidden room was full of traces of the lives of those pesky monkeys.
There were even some dead monkey bodies.
Tom took out a fishing line from his backpack.
He casually strung a few Sprite Ball Bombs, setting them in front of the third hidden door, then finally closed the door.
Tom analyzed that the chances of this string of bombs being triggered should be pitifully small.
The ones who could follow them were mercenaries and Assassins.
Having been fooled once, they would surely be wary.
And won’t be fooled again.
Tom slung his backpack over his shoulder, observing the environment behind the hidden door. This time, it wasn’t a hidden room, but a long corridor; Fang Xiaocao and the others were at one end, waiting for him. Seeing Tom enter the corridor, Taotie waved at him and continued forward with Fang Xiaocao and Hummingbird, turning a corner and disappearing from sight.
Tom looked at the corridor; there was no condition to set up more Tricky Thunders. Setting them up would have been a waste;
they wouldn’t be triggered anyway.
Tom stopped setting Tricky Thunders, packed up his backpack,
shouldered his bag, and followed the corridor back.
As Tom followed the corridor, turning a corner,
he was startled.
It was a revelation—a sudden brightening of the landscape.
This place turned out to be a tomb chamber.
The chamber was full of various forms of warriors.
Clearly, it was a pit similar to the terracotta warriors’ tomb.
Tom was startled by these stone warriors, momentarily thinking he had encountered enemies.
After confirming they were all clay warriors, Tom finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Tom, over here!”
As Tom was looking for traces of Fang Xiaocao and the others, Fang Xiaocao’s voice came from the left.
Tom looked in the direction of the voice and saw Fang Xiaocao and the others standing on a high platform, waving at him.
Tom gave a slight smile and walked over.
Getting on the high platform, he was immediately dumbfounded.
On the platform, there were actually coffins placed.
To be precise, they were stone coffins.
There were a total of eighteen stone coffins, lined up on this high platform.
And beneath this platform, there were hundreds of Taoyongs.
“What’s happening here?”
Tom asked, puzzled.
“Bugi Island!”
Fang Xiaocao shook her head.
Tom cracked a slight smile, looking at the Taotie.
He wanted to ask the Taotie about it.
But he saw that Taotie was squatting on the ground, intensely studying something.
Seeing how earnestly the Taotie was observing, Tom gave up on asking.
He wanted to reach out and touch the coffins.
But Fang Xiaocao grabbed his hand abruptly.
Tom was startled and looked at her, puzzled.
“Taotie said not to touch them,”
“There might be traps.”
Fang Xiaocao said with a smile as she relayed Taotie’s words.
Tom nodded, showing he understood.
He withdrew his hand and, along with Fang Xiaocao and Hummingbird, stood obediently in front of the coffins, being punished by waiting for the Taotie.
Taotie clapped his hands and stood up from the ground.
Seeing Taotie’s action, the attention of Fang Xiaocao and the others swiftly focused on him.
“Taotie, what have you figured out?”
After standing as a punishment for a long time, Fang Xiaocao was already impatient. Seeing Taotie hadn’t spoken yet, she took the initiative to ask.
“This is a burial pit for accompaniment, and the Taoyongs below were built from living people, guards of the tomb owner, and the eighteen stone coffins above are the owner’s trusted aides.”
“These eighteen individuals were veteran soldiers who survived battles with the tomb owner. After the tomb owner died, they voluntarily followed him in death.”
“Alive, they laid themselves in the coffins…”
Taotie answered in a low voice.
“Laid alive in the coffins?”
“Isn’t that being buried alive?”
Fang Xiaocao exclaimed.
“Yes, that’s right.”
“It’s written up there that if someone comes tomb raiding and disturbs the tomb owner’s rest, these eighteen trusted aides will rise from their coffins and lead the guards to execute the tomb robbers.”
Taotie said with a chuckle.
“Wang Defa?”
Startled by Taotie’s words, Fang Xiaocao jumped in shock beside Hummingbird.
“Not… ”
“Can the dead actually crawl out of their coffins?”
“Does it have to be this horrifying?”
Fang Xiaocao’s voice trembled with fear.
“Are they really going to crawl out?”
Fang Xiaocao asked weakly.
Taotie chuckled naughtily, “That is hard to say.”
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“In the world of tomb raiding, it’s known that sticky rice dumplings do exist. The more violently someone died, the more likely they turn into a sticky rice dumpling to attack people.”
“Speaking of which, I once saw a sticky rice dumpling.”
“That sticky rice dumpling was ferocious, but it couldn’t take a hit.”
“I chopped its head off with one stroke of my blade,”
Taotie said with a wicked smile, vividly describing the event.
Upon hearing Taotie’s words, Fang Xiaocao’s expression froze.
“You…”
“You idiot, don’t scare me…”
Fang Xiaocao was nearly crying from fear.
