Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

At night, everyone lit a fire next to the tent and sat around it to eat and rest.

In such a remote place, there are too many things to bring with you, so you can only eat simple food, such as compressed biscuits.

Wu Sansheng and his friends ate dry compressed biscuits and drank water, watching Zhang Hanyan take out all kinds of food from her backpack.

It would have been fine if it was just bread and fruit, but when they saw her take out a vacuum-compressed roast chicken, they completely lost their composure.

"Are you here camping? Bringing so much food? Is that not all there is food in your bag?"

Wu Xie looked at the zipped-up backpack she had put aside, his big eyes full of curiosity.

"No, compressed biscuits have no nutrition. I can't eat too much, so I brought some of everything."

Wu Xie and the others all looked at Zhang Qiling who was sitting next to them, and sighed in their hearts, what a good life!

Zhang Qiling seemed to be unaware of everyone's gazes. He just stared at Zhang Hanyan who was tidying up things. He was already accustomed to her behavior.

It's not that they haven't gone out together in the past few years. No matter where they go, as long as it's time for dinner, she can always take out a lot of food from her bag.

Zhang Hanyan opened the packaging of the roast chicken, skewered the chicken on a washed bamboo pole, and rotated it over the fire.

The aroma of roast chicken gradually spread, making the people who were eating compressed biscuits feel hungry.

This roast chicken is a ready-made product that can be eaten directly after being heated. In order to achieve the best taste, Zhang Hanyan also specially roasted the skin of the roast chicken to make it golden and crispy.

She pulled off a chicken leg and handed it to Zhang Qiling, "Eat it quickly. Eating it cold is bad for your stomach."

"Hmm." Zhang Qiling took the chicken leg, took a light bite and chewed it slowly under the envious gazes of everyone.

Zhang Hanyan tore off another chicken leg and ate it herself, and handed the rest along with the bamboo pole to Wu Xie opposite her.

Wu Xie looked at the chicken in front of him in disbelief, "For us?"

She nodded. "Well, this roast chicken is very big. The drumsticks are enough for us. You can eat these."

Da Kui took the bamboo pole before Wu Xie, "Haha, thank you, little sister. Third Master, I'll give you a big piece. Little Third Master, this is yours."

Da Kui's call of "little sister" almost made Wu Sanxing, who knew the inside story, choke to death on his own saliva.

He looked at the cheerful Da Kui with a look of disdain on his face.

Da Kui was handing chicken to Pan Zi. When he saw something wrong in Wu Sanxing's eyes, he thought he had done something wrong and the smile on his face froze.

"Master San? Why are you looking at me like that? Did I... do something wrong?"

Wu Sansheng rolled his eyes at him, not wanting to see his silly look anymore. "No, eat yours!"

Zhang Hanyan looked at Wu Sansheng's face which was as black as the bottom of a pot, took a light bite of the chicken, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.

"Eating roasted chicken in this deep forest is really unique. Thank you, Xiao..."

Wu Xie paused, looked at Zhang Hanyan's face, and estimated her age in his mind to avoid the embarrassment of calling the wrong person.

The more he looked at her, he felt that Zhang Hanyan should be younger than him, looking to be only about twenty-one or twenty-two.

To be on the safe side, he still asked hesitantly, "Well, I see that you seem younger than me, what should I call you?"

His words made Wu Sanxing look as if he had seen a ghost, but after looking carefully at Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling's faces, he soon felt relieved.

Judging from their looks, anyone would think they are only in their twenties. Who would have thought that they looked like this more than ten years ago?

"My name is Zhang Hanyan, his name is Zhang Qiling, you can call him whatever you want."

"You have the same last name? Are you brother and sister? You don't look alike? One looks like dad and the other looks like mom?"

"No, we are just from the same clan, with the same surname."

Wu Xie nodded in understanding, "So that's how it is. However, your family has good genes and you look good."

Zhang Hanyan smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

Wu Sansheng handed the photocopied silk map to Zhang Qiling and said, "Brother, where should we start digging?"

Zhang Qiling pointed to a point on the map and said, "Here, according to the layout, this is the place for sacrifice. The burial objects are all on the altar."

Wu Sansheng walked to the place he pointed, squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil and smelled it, "Pan Zi, dig a few shovels first and see."

"Okay, Third Master."

Pan Zi and Da Kui swiftly took out the Luoyang shovel from their backpacks, assembled it, and shoveled down. When the steel pipe reached the thirteenth section, Wu Sansheng made a gesture for them to stop.

After the thing was pulled out, the soil in the bottom shovel was very moist and a conspicuous red, as if it was soaked in blood.

Everyone's face changed when they saw the color of the soil.

"Uncle San, why is this soil so red?" Wu Xie said as he was about to reach out to touch it, but was slapped away by Wu Sansheng.

He frowned as he looked at the soil being pulled up, and said in a deep voice, "Dig! Dig it up first!"

While they were digging the hole, Zhang Hanyan looked calmly at a small hill in front of them. Behind the hill was the entrance that led directly to the tomb chamber.

Three shovels dug together, and soon a downward tunnel was dug out. Da Kui in the tunnel touched a piece of wall and shouted, "It's done!"

Wu Sanxing went in first, Pan Zi protected Wu Xie and also entered the tunnel, and Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling went in last.

As soon as they arrived, they saw Da Kui in the front, ready to use the shovel in his hand to pry open the brick wall blocking them.

"Don't touch anything!" Zhang Qiling shouted softly, and walked over quickly to hold Da Kui's hand.

He stretched out two fingers and slowly felt around the crack in the brick wall. After touching one of the bricks, he exerted force with both fingers and pulled the brick out of the wall.

"There is an anti-theft mezzanine behind the brick wall. You can only take it out from the outside, you can't push it in or break it."

He took out the bricks one by one until the dark red wax wall behind them was revealed. He then stopped and turned to walk to Zhang Hanyan.

"This is vanadic acid, which was used in alchemy in ancient times. If you had smashed the wall just now, the vanadic acid would have poured all over your body and burned you to ashes."

Zhang Hanyan took out a tube from his backpack and threw it to Pan Zi, pointing to the wax wall. "Dig a vertical shaft and use the tube to put the alum acid into the shaft."

Pan Zi did as he was told. Along the way, everyone saw their abilities and did not question their words.

When the red wax wall turned white and there was no trace of vanadic acid left, Wu Sansheng signaled Pan Zi and Da Kui to break down the brick wall.