The Civil Servant's Job is to Raise The Furries!-Chapter 182 - 181: Layers of Mechanisms

Professor Mo hesitated: "But the burial chamber needs protection, these remaining artifacts..."

"Professor, you and Mr. Lou stay to protect the site."

Xu Ying decisively said, "The three of us will chase the tomb raiders."

She pointed to the fruit bats hanging upside down overhead: "My friends will lead the way."

The fruit bats’ sense of smell is dozens of times better than humans, someone on the other side is injured and there’s a bloody scent, the bats can find them immediately.

[Leave it to us!]

The bats excitedly flapped their wings, this was their chance to perform in front of their "patrons"!

"Go!"

Xu Ying waved her hand, and a dozen fruit bats instantly soared into the air, deftly weaving through the narrow tomb passages.

She followed closely, the powerful flashlight in her hand casting flickering shadows on the damp walls.

After walking roughly a hundred steps.

The bat swarm suddenly became agitated, emitting urgent squeaks. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Xu Ying listened intently for a moment: "They say... they smell gunpowder."

This means those three are panicking and might forcibly blast a way out of the tomb.

Chen Su and Qi Xiao simultaneously quickened their pace.

Turning a corner, the scene before them made them gasp——

Three shadows were busily working by the east side wall of the side burial chamber, one with a blood-stained bandage wrapped around his arm.

Dynamite and detonators were scattered on the ground.

The three tomb raiders noticed Xu Ying and the others, instantly becoming tense.

One of them had a large rip in his left pant leg, even bandaged, it was bleeding profusely, likely cut by something sharp.

Beside him stood a middle-aged man wearing a black dust mask, who now looked at Xu Ying and the others with venomous eyes.

Xu Ying found him familiar, he was the man who had entered the tomb with the skinny guy in the baseball cap this morning.

At this moment, he was the calmest of the three tomb raiders.

He gripped a lighter in one hand and the fuse of the explosives in the other, coldly threatening: "Don’t come any closer, one more step and we’ll blow this place up, if worse comes to worst, we’ll all perish together."

"You won’t get anything, this Han Tomb will be ruined too."

Xu Ying gently patted her pocket, the revenge-seeking scorpion tail slipped out, informing its companions it had found the guy who burned them!

Chen Su slowly raised his gun, its dark barrel pointed straight at the black mask, his voice stern: "Confess for leniency, resist for severity. Surrender now, and you might get a lighter sentence."

The black mask scoffed coldly at this, a trace of sarcasm flashing in his eyes.

"Organizers of tomb raiding operations, repeatedly stealing and damaging precious artifacts, causing severe damage to cultural relics, these are all aggravating circumstances, starts at ten years."

Chen Su continued, his voice echoing in the dim tomb chamber, "Besides, you’ve raided more than just this tomb, involved in cross-border artifact trafficking, a life sentence would be lenient."

The corners of the black mask twisted into a sinister smile: "Then what’s there to discuss? He suddenly raised the detonator in his hand, how about we see whether your bullet is faster or my explosives?"

"You don’t have any firefighting equipment now, once I set this blaze—"

His finger hovered above the button, "We all go to hell together!"

Instantly, the air in the tomb chamber froze, tension ready to explode.

The black mask coldly spoke, wholly unaware of the whip-tailed scorpions quietly emerging from crevices in the rock wall, their thin tails silently swaying in the shadows, poised to strike.

Xu Ying’s gaze flickered, deliberately softening her tone to divert his attention to herself: "Then what do you want us to do?"

"I want..." The black mask just started speaking when the whip-tailed scorpions suddenly attacked!

Several streams of venom shot forth like arrows, accurately soaking his hand on the fuse, while the splashing venom splattered on him and his comrades’ faces and bodies.

"Ah—!" The three immediately screamed, their exposed skin visibly reddening, swelling, and becoming ulcerous, the burning pain causing them to stagger back.

The black mask didn’t truly want to die, he just wanted to use the detonator to bargain with the police.

At this moment, the pain from the burning venom made him release the detonator.

The detonator fell to the ground, pushed away by the scorpions.

They had no intention of becoming roasted scorpion snacks!

"Stop!"

Xu Ying ordered in a low voice, and the whip-tailed scorpions immediately halted, stooping back into the rock crevices.

In a flash, Chen Su and Qi Xiao had bravely acted!

Qi Xiao sprung forth like a tiger unleashed, punching the nearest man’s chest with fierce and domineering force, sending him flying and crashing hard against the rock wall!

Chen Su then ghost-like appeared beside another man, his hand slicing swiftly towards the man’s neck side, the action crisp and decisive, the man didn’t even grunt before collapsing to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, all three were subdued!

Their bulging backpacks and heavy waist-mounted items indicated they had scavenged numerous artifacts, just hadn’t managed to smuggle them out yet.

Xu Ying prodded one man’s shoulder with a retractable rod: "Where are the stolen goods hidden?" The three shut their mouths tightly, their eyes flickering, a dead pig not fearing boiling water expression.

"Not talking?"

Xu Ying chuckled lightly, tapping the side of the backpack, a few pitch-black spiders and blood-red centipedes immediately scattered, disappearing into the shadows of the tomb.

These little guys, like trained scouts, burrowed into every crevice in no time.

A quarter of an hour later, a large wolf spider first returned, its furry legs gently tapped Xu Ying’s palm.

Spiders rely on stealth hunting, their sounds easily reveal positions, so they prefer vibrations and chemical signals to communicate information.

Xu Ying’s advanced Beast Language skill played a crucial role with these silent little animals.

Upon hearing the wolf spider’s report, Xu Ying’s eyes flashed with light: "Follow me."

In front of the west wall, she precisely pressed a seemingly ordinary rock.

With the mechanism’s muffled click, a secret door slowly opened.

Qi Xiao raised the powerful flashlight, the beam cutting through swirling dust, revealing an intricate Han Dynasty mechanism lock.

"That’s a typical Jingjue Kingdom mechanism lock."

Qi Xiao illuminated the patterns on the mechanism with the flashlight, "You need to rotate the compass to a specific position to unlock it. These tomb raiders must have reset the code."

The three’s faces turned ashen with cold sweat on their foreheads.

They never expected these seemingly ordinary young people to understand 2,000-year-old mechanisms so well.

The black mask was still negotiating: "If I tell you the code now, will you reduce my sentence?"

"Too late, no need."

Xu Ying was already crouching.

A tiny jumping spider lay on her fingertip, its slender legs tracing complex trajectories.

Her fingers danced, the compass emitting crisp clicks as it moved. When the final mechanism fell into place, the stone door to the hidden room thunderously opened——