Global Exploration: Starting from Decrypting Chernobyl

216: Tomb of the sea of ​​sand! Master San explores the way!”What?”

”This is deep underground, beneath a cliff. Where would quicksand come from?”

”Are you kidding me?”

Fatty looked at Wu Xie in shock, asking in disbelief.

”Damn it...”

Wu Xie’s brows furrowed when he heard Fatty’s question.

After muttering a curse.

He snatched the flashlight from Wang Meng’s hand and shone it towards the wall not far away.

Under the flashlight’s beam, a large hole in the nearby wall was frantically seeping fine, grayish-yellow sand.

If one didn’t look closely... the sand looked just like water.

It was slowly flowing out into the entire tunnel.

”...”

”Shit!”

Fatty’s hair stood on end when he saw the scene illuminated by Wu Xie’s light.

He shrieked at Wu Tian and Zhang Meng beside him.

”Brother Tian!”

”Sister Meng!”

”Quick!”

”Let’s get out of here, this is quicksand!”

”Shit!”

Fatty grabbed his backpack from the ground, as well as the weapon he had just picked up that could harm Chang You.

He ducked his head, intending to drag Wu Tian and Zhang Meng away from there.

He mumbled as he went.

”People can run, but a thief doesn’t leave empty-handed!”

”This weapon...”

”It’s our reward for our hard work!”

”Let’s go!”

”This is no place to linger!”

”...”

Suddenly!

”No!”

Wu Tian, with a resolute tone, pulled back Fatty, who was about to leave, his eyes sparkling as he slowly spoke to the people around him.

”This is quicksand, that’s right!”

”But...”

”Do you know what quicksand represents?”

”...”

Wu Xie was stunned.

Then, looking at Wu Tian’s expression, a bold guess formed in his mind.

”Boss Wu...”

”Are you saying that within this quicksand... there’s a tomb?”

”...”

”That’s right!”

”Heh heh...”

Wu Tian turned to look at Wu Xie and chuckled, a look of appreciation flashing in his eyes.

”Brother Wu Xie has explored many tombs and has studied ancient tombs, so you must know that from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, people were already building this kind of tomb. The name of this type of tomb is ’sand-accumulated tomb’!”

Wu Tian continued quickly.

”It is composed of four layers: the top cover stone, the attached top stone, the waist stone, and the bottom stone. The tomb chamber is located between the waist stone and the bottom stone, and...”

Wu Tian narrowed his eyes and said.

”Above all these layers, above the fine sand of the top cover stone, there is also a false tomb with a false coffin inside!”

”Used to confuse tomb raiders!”

”Therefore...”

Wu Tian pointed to the large hole in front of them, which was frantically seeping fine sand into the tunnel, and stated with certainty.

”Inside this...”

”There must be a large-scale, extremely high-grade tomb!”

”You should know that the Spring and Autumn period was an era of ritual!”

”The specifications and rituals were extremely high. If people who died in later generations adopted the burial style of the Spring and Autumn period, what does that represent...”

Wu Tian chuckled.

”I don’t need to say more, do I?”

”...”

Everyone was stunned.

Immediately, everyone’s eyes flickered with more or less greed.

Some coveted eternal life.

While others... coveted gold and silver treasures!

Only Huo Nanfeng frowned slightly and asked Wu Tian worriedly.

”But...”

”Boss Wu, even if a peerless grand tomb is hidden behind this quicksand, even if there are countless gold and silver treasures in this tomb, and even the secret of eternal life is hidden!”

”But!”

”How do we get through this thick quicksand?”

”You should know...”

”In a situation where all sides are hard rock walls, falling into quicksand is a death sentence!”

”...”

Huo Nanfeng’s words made everyone’s hearts skip a beat.

Yes!

Even if there were countless treasures beneath this quicksand, and eternal life that could drive people mad!

So what?

If they couldn’t get it alive... wouldn’t it all be an illusion?

”...”

”This... actually isn’t difficult!”

Wu Tian looked at Huo Nanfeng and smiled slightly, replying softly.

”Not difficult?!”

Huo Nanfeng’s brows furrowed slightly.

He looked at Wu Tian and asked with a serious expression.

”Boss Wu!”

”This kind of quicksand tomb is the most despair-inducing tomb for people in our line of work. What makes you so confident that it’s not difficult?”

”Our families have lost many people since we started tomb raiding!”

”If what you say isn’t difficult doesn’t convince us!”

”I think...”

Huo Nanfeng glanced at Zhao Wu, Chen Jie, and Wu Xie, then said to Wu Tian.

”We probably can’t follow you this time!”

”...”

After Huo Nanfeng said these words to Wu Tian.

Everyone fell silent.

It was inevitable that there would be priceless items in this quicksand tomb, and it was also inevitable that there would be the secret of eternal life!

But... the danger and the slim chance of survival were also inevitable!

In the face of life!

They couldn’t afford to be careless!

”...”

”Heh heh heh...”

”You’re hesitating?”

”I’m not hesitating, Boss Wu...”

”I’m in!”

Suddenly!

Just as everyone was still frowning, weighing the pros and cons in their hearts... a sinister, hoarse voice sounded not far from them.

Then... came the sound of shoes scuffing on the quicksand on the ground.

”Shasha...”

”Sha!”

”...”

Everyone was startled, then they all turned their heads and looked at the person walking towards them from not far away.

”Hmm?”

”You are...”

”Third Master Xie?!”

Suddenly!

A subordinate of the Li Family shone his flashlight, and when he saw a person completely covered in a black robe under the flashlight’s beam... his brows raised.

He immediately exclaimed.

”Third Master Xie?”

Following the flashlight’s beam, Huo Nanfeng asked the latter with a somewhat displeased expression.

”You finally decided to show up?”

”Heh heh...”

Huo Nanfeng said disdainfully.

”Were you lost in this tunnel just now?”

”...”

Huo Nanfeng’s words were full of insult. There was only one path in this tunnel, so how could he get lost?

But... Third Master Xie actually agreed!

”Heh heh...”

”Everyone, I’m really sorry...”

”Just now!”

”I really did encounter a ghost wall!”

”But I could hear your shouts and screams, oh my...”

At this point!

Third Master Xie even put on an act, clutching his chest with a look of deep distress.

”Don’t even mention it!”

”Hearing your sounds of desperate fighting, my heart ached!”

”I just wanted to rush out of the ghost wall as quickly as possible!”

”Well...”

”After all that, I just got out!”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

Fatty chuckled disdainfully.

”You really came out just in time. We’re all done, and you only show up when something good happens!”

”I guess that ghost wall that trapped you was probably trying to protect you, right?”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

”Brother Fatty, what kind of talk is that!”

”Although I was indeed late!”

”But...”

Third Master Xie looked at everyone and smiled slightly with his hoarse throat.

He said.

”At least I see that you’re all fine, so I’m relieved!”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

Fatty chuckled softly.

He looked at Third Master Xie with cold eyes and sneered, cursing.

”Old bastard!”

”...”

Third Master Xie seemed not to have heard him, still chuckling at everyone, but beneath the black robe... no one knew what kind of expression he wore!

”Oh?”

Suddenly!

Just as everyone looked at Third Master Xie with hostility and disdain.

Wu Tian suddenly spoke.

”You said...”

”You’re not afraid of this quicksand layer, and you want to venture in with me?”

”...”

Third Master Xie was stunned.

Then he nodded without hesitation.

”Yes!”

”Boss Wu!”

”Heh heh...”

”Can’t others see clearly, but can’t I?”

”Boss Wu, your strength is incredibly formidable, what is there to be afraid of when following you?”

”Besides!”

Third Master Xie’s hoarse voice once again emerged from beneath the black robe.

”Whether it’s treasures or the secret of eternal life, they’re all in here!”

”I, Third Master Xie, have already entered, how can there be a reason to enter a treasure mountain and return empty-handed?”

”Heh heh...”

”Boss Wu!”

”Since they don’t dare, then...”

”Shall the two of us venture in?”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

Listening to Third Master Xie’s words, Wu Tian merely chuckled and did not immediately reply to Third Master Xie, but instead turned his gaze to the other families beside him.

He smiled and asked everyone.

”How about it?”

”Third Master Xie has the courage to go, but you don’t?”

”I’ll give you three more minutes to think!”

”If you’re going, take a step forward!”

”If not, stay where you are!”

”I...”

Wu Tian smiled faintly.

”Won’t force you!”

”Alright!”

”You choose yourselves!”

”...”

”This...”

As Wu Tian’s words fell, the patriarchs of the remaining families gathered together and began discussing whether or not to follow Wu Tian into the tomb.

”Little Third Master Wu, what are you thinking?”

”This tomb...”

”Are you planning to go down?”

Huo Nanfeng frowned and asked Wu Xie, who had the fewest people.

”...”

”Me?”

Wu Xie pointed to his nose.

After pondering for a few seconds... he slowly shook his head.

”I don’t have that plan for now. Boss Wu is very strong, but his strength might not be able to protect all of us.”

”On the contrary...”

”I’m more inclined to let Boss Wu take Third Master Xie down to check first!”

”If there really are no problems...”

”Then we’ll talk about what’s next!”

”...”

Huo Nanfeng nodded slightly.

He was quite satisfied with Wu Xie’s answer.

Then he turned his head.

He looked at Chen Jie and asked.

”And you?”

”What are you thinking?”

”...”

”Me, huh...”

Chen Jie scratched his head upon hearing this.

Then he looked at Wu Xie beside him.

”Actually...”

”My thoughts are the same as Little Third Master’s. Boss Wu is indeed formidable, but we only have one life, and people have been dying along the way. So, for the sake of these brothers behind me...”

”I also want to wait and see!”

”Let’s see what happens when Boss Wu takes Third Master Xie down.”

”Heh heh...”

Chen Jie scratched his head.

”Eternal life?”

”Compared to that, I’d rather survive now!”

”...”

”Mmm!”

Zhao Wu didn’t wait for Huo Nanfeng to ask him, he just nodded directly at the latter.

He said with a smile.

”Then don’t ask me, what else is there to say!”

”Since everyone’s opinion is not to follow for now!”

”Then I won’t follow either!”

”Heh heh...”

”Let’s observe first!”

”Let’s see how Brother Tian and Third Master Xie fare this time. If it’s feasible, we have more people, and it won’t be too late to follow then!”

”If something goes wrong...”

Zhao Wu glanced at Wu Tian not far away.

He chuckled.

”We’ll be outside to provide support!”

”...”

”Alright!”

”Then alright!”

”No problem!”

”It’s decided then!”

”...”

”Have you all discussed it?”

Just as everyone reached a consensus, Wu Tian smiled slightly at them and asked softly.

”Mmm!”

Huo Nanfeng turned his head.

He looked at Wu Tian and nodded.

”It’s decided!”

”We still feel that the risks outweigh the rewards, so...”

”We’ve decided not to go in!”

”We’ll stay outside.”

”Boss Wu, you should still take Third Master Xie in. If there are any problems, we can provide support from outside!”

”...”

”Alright!”

Wu Tian nodded, not at all surprised in his heart.

He turned around freely and smiled slightly at Third Master Xie.

”Then there’s no other way, Third Master Xie!”

”This tomb...”

”It seems we’ll have to go down together, the two of us!”

”Heh heh...”

”You don’t have any objections, do you?”

”...”

”No objections!”

”Of course not!”

”What objections could I have?”

”Heh heh...” Third Master Xie chuckled hoarsely, then continued speaking to Wu Tian.

”With you by my side protecting me, what do I have to be afraid of?”

”Go!”

”Let’s just go straight down!”

”It’s just quicksand, isn’t it?”

”Heh heh...” Third Master Xie said with an arrogant laugh.

”Just do it!”

”...”

”Alright!”

Wu Tian nodded.

Then he smiled slightly at Third Master Xie, turned around, and reached out to Fatty, saying, ”Hurry up!”

”Don’t you have any sense?”

”Didn’t you hear?”

”Third Master Xie wants to go down into the sand pit with us!”

”Quick!”

”Get that rope out for me!”

”...”

”Oh?”

Fatty was startled, his expression a little confused as he looked at Wu Tian.

”Hey!”

Wu Tian frowned.

He directly reached out and waved at Fatty again.

”Rope!”

”What are you ’oh’-ing about, give me the rope!”

”Hurry up!”

”...”

”Oh, oh!”

Fatty nodded, then suddenly understood and reached into the bag behind him, pulling out a titanium alloy rope. After tugging on it, he handed it directly to Wu Tian.

”Brother Tian!”

”Titanium alloy rope, absolutely safe and secure!”

”Alright!”

Wu Tian nodded in satisfaction.

Then he took the rope and went to Third Master Xie’s side.

”...”

”This...”

”What does this mean?”

Third Master Xie was confused, looking at the rope in Wu Tian’s hand, somewhat unsure what the latter meant.

”What do I mean?”

”It’s simple!”

Wu Tian chuckled.

He took the rope and began tying a sailor’s knot around Third Master Xie’s waist.

Third Master Xie looked at Wu Tian, who was continuously wrapping the rope around him, and was instantly confused.

He tried to stop the latter while asking Wu Tian somewhat fearfully, ”Wait!”

”Wait a minute!”

”Brother Tian!”

”Explain to me, why are you tying a rope?”

”What exactly does this mean?”

”...”

”Oh!”

Wu Tian continued to forcefully tie the rope around Third Master Xie while smiling and saying to him, ”Isn’t this simple?”

”It’s easy to get stuck in the sand, so I’m tying you up to ensure your safety, isn’t that right?”

”...”

”Oh...”

Third Master Xie finally understood after hearing this.

He nodded.

”Oh...”

But then... Third Master Xie saw Wu Tian holding the other end of the rope in his own hand, looking at him expectantly as if he were holding a dog leash.

Suddenly, he felt something was wrong again.

”No!”

”Boss Wu!”

”I can understand that you’re tying me up to ensure my safety, but if we’re going down together, shouldn’t you tie all of us together?”

”...”

”Oh!”

Wu Tian frowned at him.

He explained with a smile, ”How can we tie ourselves together?”

”If we’re all tied together and one person has an accident, wouldn’t the rest of us be finished?”

”Oh oh...”

Third Master Xie nodded.

Although what Wu Tian said made a lot of sense, he still felt that something was slightly off.

Then... while Third Master Xie was in a daze.

Wu Tian took out a sticky explosive from the bag behind Fatty.

He casually shoved it into Third Master Xie’s arms.

”This is explosive!”

”It’s fixed-point, powerful, not highly diffusive, mainly for penetration!”

”Once you find the fake tomb, you stick this explosive on it.”

”Then you tug the rope, and we’ll pull you back!”

”Oh...”

Third Master Xie nodded again.

He took the explosive from Wu Tian’s hand, somewhat bewildered.

Then... Wu Tian said righteously, ”And...”

”Who said I was going down with you?”

”You go down yourself!”

”Do you still want to bring us along?”

”...”

”What?!”

Third Master Xie was instantly bewildered, and then a strong sense of unease filled his heart.

He couldn’t help but ask Wu Tian urgently, ”What do you mean?”

”I’m going down, and you guys...”

”Aren’t going down?”

”...”

”Ah!”

Wu Tian nodded seriously.

He said to Third Master Xie as if it were a matter of course, ”Is there a problem?”

”I just asked who was willing to go down and scout!”

”They all refused, only you were willing to go!”

”What’s wrong?”

Wu Tian frowned.

”Are you backing out now?”

”That’s not good, is it?”

”...”

”Damn it!”

Third Master Xie immediately cursed.

His eyes beneath the black robe were wide open.

He yelled loudly at Wu Tian, ”Scouting, my ass?!”

”I’m definitely not going to scout!”

”Damn it!”

”Untie me!”

”Untie me!”

”I’m not going!”

”...”

Wu Tian immediately scratched his ear and said impatiently to him, ”Alright!”

”Why are you yelling so loudly?”

”It’s just scouting, isn’t it?”

”No one’s going to die!”

”Sacrifice yourself for the sake of all of us!”

”When things are done, you’ll get your share of the benefits!”

Third Master Xie: ... ”What...”

”What do you mean I’ll get my share of the benefits?”

”Huh?”

”This is a suicide mission!”

”I’m not doing it!”

”Whoever wants to do it can do it!”

”It has nothing to do with me!”

”Untie me!”

”Untie me, I’m not doing it anyway!”

”...”

Listening to Third Master Xie’s loud shouts, Fatty, standing next to Wu Tian, gave a cold laugh.

He reached out and pulled out the axe from his waist, still stained with Chang You’s blood, and pressed it against Third Master Xie’s neck, who was struggling violently. He sneered at him, ”Just for deserting us earlier, we could kill you on the spot!”

”Do you think...”

”Do you still have the right to choose?”

”...”

Third Master Xie’s eyes widened.

He forced himself to explain, ”That...”

”That was because I was caught in a ghost wall!”

”It wasn’t that I deliberately didn’t come!”

”Don’t wrongly accuse me!”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

Wu Tian gave a cold laugh.

He reached out and lifted the black robe from Third Master Xie’s head, then lightly slapped him a few times on his pale and gloomy face.

He smiled chillingly, ”We’re all adults; we know what’s what.”

”Now this matter is right in front of you. Think carefully...”

”Do you have a choice?”

”...”

Upon hearing this, Third Master Xie’s expression immediately turned cold.

His triangular eyes were filled with a gloomy look.

Gritting his teeth!

After much deliberation.

He finally said to Wu Tian through gritted teeth, ”I can go down!”

”But you probably only have one sticky explosive, right? If I die... you won’t be able to get in either!”

”So!”

”I can do this!”

”But...”

Third Master Xie looked at Wu Tian, his eyes bloodshot, and said to him, ”You have to guarantee my life!”

”...”

”Mm!”

”Alright!”

Wu Tian nodded faintly.

”I’ll try my best!”

Third Master Xie: ... ”Screech...”

As he spoke, Wu Tian tightened the rope again, then pulled a simple gas mask from Fatty’s backpack.

He handed it to Third Master Xie.

He said to him, ”Don’t worry, I won’t let you die so easily!”

”First, tear off your clothes, wrap them into four layers over your mouth and nose, and then put on the gas mask!”

”This way...”

”You’ll survive longer in the sand sea below!”

”Heh heh...”

Wu Tian smiled slightly.

He kicked him in the butt, sending him directly to the mouth of the hole where sand was constantly flowing.

He said to him faintly, ”Good luck!”

Third Master Xie: ... He turned his head and looked at the indifferent expressions of Wu Tian and the other two, then looked at the rest of the Nine Gates members, who also seemed unconcerned. Third Master Xie gritted his teeth.

He tore his clothes into strips, folded them into four layers, and tied them over his mouth and nose.

Then he put on the gas mask Wu Tian had given him.

He turned his head to look at Chang You, who lay dead beside the hole, a cruel and relieved smile still on his face.

Third Master Xie took a deep breath.

Gritting his teeth, clenching his fists.

He lowered his head and plunged directly into the sea of sand.

”Swish...”

”Swish!”

Third Master Xie was slender and not very tall!

He was perfectly suited for moving through the sand!

At this moment... even though Third Master Xie’s body had already entered the sea of sand.

The sand in this sea was not flowing quickly; in fact, it hadn’t increased much compared to earlier!

”...”

”Alright!”

Wu Tian chuckled, reached out and tied the other end of the rope directly around his waist, clapped his hands, and smiled at everyone.

”There’s no problem now!”

”We’ll just...”

”Wait for Third Master Xie to place the explosive!”

”...”

”Uh...”

Huo Nanfeng frowned.

”It’s not anything else, just one thing: aren’t you afraid that Third Master Xie will go in with the only explosive, fail to complete the mission, and then die inside?”

”Or give false information!”

”Just throw the explosive in randomly, then tug the rope, and have you pull him out!”

”This way...”

Huo Nanfeng frowned.

”Wouldn’t we have no chance at all?”

”...”

”Heh heh...”

Wu Tian smiled slightly.

He gestured mysteriously to Fatty beside him.

Fatty understood.

He immediately took off the backpack he was carrying, unzipped it.

He revealed the seven or eight remaining explosives inside the bag to everyone.

He said to everyone with a mischievous grin, ”How can you not have a backup plan when dealing with someone like this?”

”Look!”

Fatty pointed to the plastic explosives in the backpack.

”We’ve made seven or eight backup plans!”

”He can play however he wants!”

”At worst...”

Fatty’s eyes darted around, and he said cruelly, ”He can go back in after he comes out!”

Huo Nanfeng: ... Wu Xie: ... ”...”

... ”I can’t take it anymore!”

”Why, despite such a creepy and terrifying environment, and such a tense and exciting situation, can I still not help but laugh out loud?”

”Damn it!”

”My Brother Tian’s move is a bit like killing a pig by digging out its heart!”

”...”

”Isn’t that right?”

”Sigh!”

”Although this Third Master Xie is truly a scoundrel, I really feel a little sorry for him now!”

”However...”

”To be honest!”

”This Third Master Xie will probably just casually throw the plastic explosive into the sand sea, then tug the rope, and have Brother Tian pull him out!”

”...”

”What if he pulls it out?”

”Once he’s out, my Brother Tian will just shove another bomb into his arms, and he’ll have to go back in, won’t he?”

”...”

”Pfft!”

”Brother upstairs, stop talking, I’m literally laughing out loud!”

”I can literally picture it in my mind, okay?”

”Hahaha!”

”Going in again after coming out, is that even possible?”

”Third Master Xie: I’m still afraid of ghosts, but ghosts haven’t harmed me at all. I’m not afraid of people, but people have left me bruised and battered!”

”Hahahaha...”

”Upstairs is a genius!”

”...”

”However...”

”Speaking of this sand sea tomb, can any expert explain what it means?”

”I don’t understand it?”

”Building a tomb in the sand, wouldn’t the tomb... collapse?”

”What about floods, geological movements!”

”What about all sorts of problems!”

”In the sand...”

”Can you really build a tomb?”

”...”

”Hey!”

”I happen to be an expert in this area. I’ve studied many ancient tombs, and I truly have a lot of insight into this sand sea tomb!”

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