The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

"You don't need to ask me any more questions. Even if you do, I won't tell you what you want to know. Take this back and find someone with good judgment; they'll naturally get what you want to know."

Fang Yun said calmly.

Wu Xie watched as he saw that he couldn't get any information about the object from Fang Yun.

There was no other way but to put the items in my backpack.

He bowed and left the antique shop.

Just as Wu Xie left the antique shop, Fang Yun slowly opened his eyes and looked out the door.

"The snake-browed bronze fish, an interesting thing."

After finishing his own words, Fang Yun closed his eyes to rest.

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Inside the hotel.

"Third Uncle, it's not that I'm not giving you face, but tell me, how much can this thing sell for? No matter how high its gold content is, it's only worth this much. I'm only giving you this price because we're old friends. If you take it outside, do you think anyone will even look at it?"

"That's what they said on the other end of the phone."

"Alright, alright, let's do it this way. I'll have someone deliver this to your shop today. Just get the cash ready. Consider it my third brother taking a loss and letting you get away with it."

Uncle Wu said helplessly.

Uncle Wu hung up the phone casually, still cursing the fat man's unscrupulous behavior in his heart.

Just then, Wu Xie pushed open the door and walked in.

"How was it, Wu Xie? Did you gain anything from this trip? Fang Yun mysteriously invited you to see something. What is it? Describe it to me."

When Uncle Wu saw Wu Xie return, he immediately asked.

"That thing is hard to describe; it's strangely shaped. Why don't you take a look for yourself, Uncle?"

As Wu Xie spoke, he took the items out of the Purple Gold Treasure Box from his backpack and placed them on the table.

When Uncle Wu saw the object, his eyes widened like copper bells, and he stared intently at the object on the table.

"Did Fang Yun give you this? Where did he get it from? Why did he let you take it?"

Uncle Wu asked hurriedly.

Having no other choice, Wu Xie could only tell his Uncle Wu San about his experience at the antique shop that day.

Uncle Wu was quite surprised after hearing this.

"Third Uncle, this thing looks like a mid-to-high-end craftsmanship item at best. It doesn't have much value. I feel that its value is far less than that of the box made of purple gold."

Wu Xie said.

"You're right, this thing may seem worthless to you, but some antiques' value lies not in the item itself, but in its archaeological value. If you handed this over to the national archaeological team, it would be priceless to them. However, there's absolutely no way you can make a fortune off this..."

Uncle Wu said.

Wu Xie noticed that his third uncle's expression was a bit off, and sensed that his third uncle was hiding something from him.

"Third Uncle, I'm the one who made this. Fang Yun said it's mine now. If you don't tell me its true origin, I won't give it to you. At worst, I'll just go to an antique shop and sell it for some money."

Wu Xie said indifferently.

Uncle Wu was helpless to stop Wu Xie from being so obsessed.

"That happened many years ago. I can't tell you exactly when. I can only tell you that this object is called the Snake-Eyed Bronze Fish. Its appearance in the tomb of King Lu Shang was purely a coincidence. Much of its information was burned to ashes in a fire long ago. Even if you wanted to investigate, you would not find a single clue."

Uncle Wu sighed.

When Wu Xie heard his third uncle say this, he understood that his third uncle was telling him the name of the object.

Wu Xie was a little annoyed that he hadn't been told anything else.

He kept pressing Uncle Wu for answers.

Uncle Wu was also extremely annoyed by this brat.

The sudden appearance of this thing in front of him had already made Uncle Wu a little flustered.

Unable to withstand Wu Xie's persistent questioning, Uncle Wu had no choice but to tell Wu Xie part of the truth from back then.

"In my early years, I wasn't doing tomb raiding; I was an archaeologist. But my work was different from that of ordinary archaeologists. Our team focused on exploring ancient tombs with very unusual burial customs."

"Buries have always been a part of human civilization from ancient times to the present. The tombs of each era indicate the rise and fall of that era and record all the history of that era. It can be said that ancient tombs are witnesses to the rise and fall of an era."

"Ancient tombs are an indispensable part of human heritage, but some ancient tombs are unusual."

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Chapter 251 The Underwater Tomb! Making money is the priority!

“The techniques passed down by people who build ancient tombs in each era are different. Everyone builds ancient tombs in their own way. This part of the technology is mastered by a very small number of people. For example, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is known to almost everyone in the world.”

"But if you delve deeper, even if I draw a floor plan of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum for you, you still won't be able to tell which way is north, south, east, or west once you're inside. That's the ingenuity of the people who built the tomb. You can't tell if you don't carefully observe and walk through it."

“You have no idea how the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was built. Ancient tombs built on such a large scale are extremely rare in the world. Your third uncle naturally did not have the opportunity to participate in the excavation of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor until that year.”

According to my third uncle's description.

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Until 1984, near the Xisha Islands, archaeological team members unexpectedly discovered an underwater tomb.

As for the age of the tomb and the identity of its occupant, there is no way of knowing.

This ancient tomb was discovered by chance when the thieves were blowing up the ship; there were at least dozens of explosion points around it.

The surrounding seabed was almost a complete mess, filled with remnants left after the explosion.

Archaeologists discovered that the earthen mound of the ancient tomb had been completely blasted away, and there were several obvious signs of collapse on the outer tomb walls.

Unfortunately, the archaeological team was unable to enter the ancient tomb at the time; they could only make rough calculations based on the situation on site.

This ancient tomb must have been built on a huge ship, and the ship was scuttled to sink the tomb to the bottom of the sea so that it would not be disturbed by later generations.

The tomb owner, who possessed such formidable resources to construct such a luxurious ancient tomb, must have been a person of great renown.

Uncle San was among the third group of archaeologists summoned to discuss how to enter the ancient tomb.

At the time, opinions varied widely, but no substantial progress was made.

Things seemed to have reached a stalemate.

At this critical juncture, Uncle San's words made perfect sense to those in power.

So he carefully cleaned the outer area according to his third uncle's method, and to his surprise, it was just as his third uncle had said.

There is another layer of sealed soil inside, so it is highly likely that there was air inside the ancient tomb.

If that's the case, then as Uncle San said, there must be an opening for air to escape inside.

The project took more than three months before the archaeologists discovered the vent that the third uncle had deduced.

It was a crack that could only accommodate one person at a time, and the archaeologists risked their lives to crawl into this passage.

They found the Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish only in this dark passage, and brought it up with them.

When this item was brought out, none of the people had ever seen such a uniquely shaped artifact before.

For a time, no one had a good idea of ​​what to do, but then the situation changed.

The group had no choice but to abandon this extremely rare underwater tomb and restore everything to its original state.

They hastily left, and all the information they had about the ancient tomb was placed in a museum.

Just a few years ago, the indoor museum suffered a major fire that burned everything to the ground.

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That's all the information Wu Xie got from his third uncle; his third uncle was unwilling to mention anything more.

After telling Wu Xie all this, Uncle San hurriedly left, instructing Wu Xie not to follow him.

In fact, Uncle Wu had not fully told Wu Xie some secrets.

There are some things that Uncle Three doesn't want Wu Xie to get too involved in, ever since Wu Xie took out the Snake-Eyebrow Bronze Fish.

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Uncle Wu's memories from back then were like a long-sealed box being opened.

Uncle Wu has an old photo from back then, which shows his group of archaeologists who went to explore the underwater tomb.

One of them looked exactly like Zhang Qi.

After his third uncle left, Wu Xie didn't think about many things anymore.

Aside from eating, drinking, and soaking my feet every day in the hotel, there weren't many other entertainment options.

This trip to Lu Shangwang's tomb has left a considerable shadow in Wu Xie's heart.

After all, Wu Xie didn't want to experience something like this a second time.

It wasn't until the hotel receptionist called Wu Xie and told him that he already owed more than 10,000 yuan that things changed.

Wu Xie then realized that he and Pan Zi had already spent quite a bit of time in the hotel.

However, the most urgent task is to pay off the debt first. Wu Xie glanced at the gold-threaded jade coffin cover left by his third uncle.