The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

Otherwise, Qi Tiezui would have been trampled to death by the twenty-odd people behind him.

..........................

The group rested in the cave for ten minutes to replenish their food and water before continuing their journey.

After exiting the cave, the group entered a new mine tunnel.

After walking a few steps along the mine tunnel, the scene before my eyes suddenly changed.

This mine tunnel connects to a bottomless pit, like a circular abyss.

However, a stone path leads up to the rock walls surrounding this large cave.

The stone path spirals downwards, circling the bottomless abyss in concentric circles.

The entire bottomless abyss, with its spiraling mine tunnels, looks as if it were created by a giant screw.

Chapter 194 The Hidden Cave!

1001671055

"Ugh, I can't take it anymore!"

"When will this mine tunnel ever end?"

"Why did those miners have to go around the tunnel when they were digging it? Couldn't they just dig straight down?"

On the spiral mine tunnel, Qi Tiezui plopped down on the stone steps, looking completely exhausted.

They've been walking for half an hour since they entered the spiral mine tunnel.

However, they still couldn't see where the end of the mine tunnel was.

After walking for half an hour, he was already starting to feel the strain.

Seeing that Qi Tiezui was struggling, Fang Yun, the leader, also stopped and laughed:

"This is how the mine should be opened."

"Master Fang, you actually know a thing or two about mining?" Qi Tiezui was taken aback, then laughed. "Could it be experience you gained from digging tunnels?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Yun chuckled and pointed to the abyss in the center of the spiral mine tunnel.

"Mines, mines, of course, are for extracting minerals."

“This kind of spiral mine tunnel is very difficult to dig because the weight of the walls is hard to estimate and the requirements for soil quality are very high. If the soil here is even a little loose, this spiral mine tunnel will collapse.”

"The reason why they went to such great lengths to dig out this spiral mine tunnel must be for mining. The location of this abyss should have originally been a vertical ore vein. The miners dug out a spiral mine tunnel in order to mine the ore."

"Brother Fang is right."

Zhang Qishan echoed this sentiment and patted Qi Tiezui on the shoulder.

"Moreover, according to records, this mine was extremely large."

"The path we've traveled is perhaps less than a tenth of the entire mine."

“Ri himself isn’t stupid. After buying this mine, he naturally wouldn’t forget to dig out the veins in it.”

"That's what they say, but we can't just keep going like this."

Qi Tiezui sighed, somewhat helplessly, "We've been walking for so long, and we haven't even seen the bottom of the cave. When will this end?"

Hearing Qi Tiezui's words, Zhang Qishan nodded thoughtfully.

We really can't just keep going like this.

He was somewhat worried about the situation in Changsha and wanted to find out what was going on in the mine as soon as possible so he could return to the city.

After a moment of contemplation, Zhang Qishan turned his gaze to Fang Yun.

The tomb raiders are skilled at finding auspicious burial sites and celestial positions; perhaps they can find a suitable location to dig a tunnel here.

Even just chiseling a hole in the wall would be better than walking aimlessly like this.

Seeing Zhang Qishan's expression, Fang Yun understood what he meant and shook his head.

"Once inside the mine, the compass stopped working and could not be used for positioning."

"Moreover, this place is deep underground, with nothing to compare it to, so it is impossible to determine the burial site directly."

"But there's no need to worry too much. Every road has an end. No matter how deep this mine is, it can't possibly be ten thousand meters deep, can it?"

He remembered clearly that going down this spiral mine tunnel would lead to the tomb.

We haven't seen the end of the mine tunnel yet simply because we haven't gone deep enough.

That's how spiral mine tunnels are; you feel like you've gone around several times, but in reality, the straight-line distance has only descended by about ten meters.

"We had no choice but to keep going."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qishan nodded, and his anxiety subsided.

Fang Yun is right; as long as there is a road, there will always be an end.

Because the spiral mine tunnel has limited load-bearing capacity, the miners would never have turned back from bottom to top when transporting ore.

There must be other passages beneath this spiral mine tunnel!

"Okay, I'll go then, but I need to rest for a while and have some water first."

Seeing that Fang Yun and Zhang Qishan had both decided to continue, Qi Tiezui sighed and resigned himself to his fate.

"Eighth Master..."

Huo Sanniang handed Qi Tiezui a water jug ​​and sighed helplessly:

"You really should work out more."

"No, I'm not cut out for that. I prefer to make a living with my mouth."

Qi Tiezui took a sip of water and waved his hands repeatedly.

He was a renowned fortune teller in Changsha, known for his sharp tongue, and was simply not cut out for tomb raiding.

Finding graves is fine with him, but going down into graves is going to kill him.

If it weren't for the fact that this mining matter was so serious, he wouldn't have wanted to come this time.

Qi Tiezui was also aware that he had slowed down the team's pace, and he felt somewhat embarrassed.

He only drank some water and rested for two minutes before standing up from the stone steps.

So, the group perked up and continued down the spiral mine tunnel.

.......................

"Stop."

Nearly half an hour later, Fang Yun waved to signal everyone to stop.

Not far in front of him, a gap of about three meters appeared in the spiral mine tunnel.

After that gap, only a section of the mine tunnel about two or three meters long remained; the rest of the tunnel had completely collapsed.

Qi Tiezui walked in the middle of the group, peeked out, and when he saw the spiral mine tunnel ahead had collapsed, a smile instantly appeared on his face, and he became energetic.

· ·········Request flowers· ···

"No way?"

"This is probably fate. Shall we go back?"

"This mine tunnel was deliberately collapsed!"

Zhang Qishan's expression tightened after carefully scanning the broken mine tunnel.

"It must have been Ri himself who did it, which means we didn't go the wrong way. There must be something wrong at the end of the spiral mine tunnel!"

"Master, why don't we go back the way we came and clear out the blocked tomb passage?" Huo Sanniang suggested, frowning.

"That's not necessary!"

At this moment, Fang Yun smiled faintly, then suddenly jumped forward, landing directly on the only mine tunnel in front of him where he could land.

Seeing this, everyone turned their gaze to Fang Yun, looking puzzled.

..... ..... 0

Fang Yun smiled meaningfully, and with one step, disappeared from everyone's sight.

From their perspective, Fang Yun looked as if he had been swallowed up by the wall.

"There's an entrance!"

A glint flashed in Zhang Qishan's eyes, and he jumped directly onto the mine tunnel.

Sure enough, after jumping onto the mine tunnel, he saw a hole in the mountain wall next to him.

They hadn't seen the cave entrance earlier because the mine was dimly lit, and their eyes were focused on their feet and directly in front of them, which is why they missed the rock wall.

And this intact mine tunnel under our feet was specifically designed for us to stand on!

This also means that something very important remains in the cave.

Otherwise, Riku himself wouldn't have made a point of leaving this place as a base.

There's a hole here.