I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 280 - 276 Quicksand Pit
Chapter 280: Chapter 276 Quicksand Pit
Chapter 280 -276 Quicksand Pit
“Don’t even think about it, I’ll go first!”
With that, Taotie was ready to risk his life.
Seeing Taotie’s movement, Tom reacted quickly, grabbed Taotie’s arm, “Taotie, don’t be reckless; now isn’t the time to show off!”
Taotie turned his head to look at Tom: “Why can’t I?”
Tom pulled Taotie back,
keeping him at a safe distance from the sandy pit ahead before he began to explain, “If this were just an ordinary sand pit, it wouldn’t be a big deal. What I’m most afraid of is that this is a specially designed quicksand pit.”
Tom expressed his concerns with a serious tone.
“Quicksand Pit?”
Taotie was taken aback and instantly changed color.
“Having been with a tomb raiding gang, you must understand better than I how terrifying quicksand pits in ancient tombs can be.”
Seeing the change in Taotie’s expression, Tom asked.
Taotie nodded: “I was impulsive.”
“What’s a quicksand pit?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked and asked, puzzled.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s question, Tom looked at Taotie,
signaling with his eyes for Taotie to explain.
“Quicksand pits are a kind of anti-theft measure in ancient tombs, but the engineering involved is complicated, requiring a lot of manpower and material resources, so they only occasionally appear in the tombs of royalty and nobles of rich and powerful dynasties.”
“Once, when I was grubbing with the tomb robbers, we encountered a quicksand pit in the tomb of a Tang Dynasty prince. At that time, the old tomb robber in charge had been forcibly brought by a group from the underworld, resentful and deliberately kept quiet about the pit.”
“At the time, that group came with more than a dozen people. When they saw the quicksand pit, the old tomb robber knew what it was but kept silent, pretending to have sprained his ankle and asking me to carry him, intentionally staying at the back.”
“Those people, annoyed by our slow pace, thought it was just a simple sand pit. They didn’t wait for us and started to cross the pit.”
“And that’s when the trouble started.”
“The group’s leader was quite cautious, afraid of trickery within the sand pit. He specifically tied their members together with a rope, forming a line to cross the pit, but little did he know, cleverness could backfire.”
“The quicksand pit was cleverly made, covered with a thin wooden board. Normally, one person of average weight passing over wouldn’t trigger it, but a group would cause it to break immediately. The first few people crossed over fine, but once the entire team stood on the quicksand pit, the board snapped. The whole group, starting from the middle, plunged into the quicksand, leaving only the first and last four people on land safe.”
“Normally, those four could have possibly pulled the others out, but that old tomb robber was sly; he was just waiting for this moment.”
“As soon as trouble arose, the old tomb robber, like an old monkey, leaped up, stepping on my shoulders, lunged at the other living tomb robbers, kicked two who hadn’t yet fallen into the pit down, and with a gun, he injured the two who had already crossed, also severing the rope. After doing all this, the old tomb robber pulled me along and we took off running.”
“The dozen or so people who fell into the quicksand pit all sank in; none resurfaced. The two injured by the old tomb robber, lacking his lead, couldn’t make it out of the Tang Tomb and died inside the tomb.”
“About half a month later, the old tomb robber returned with a new group to the Tang Tomb. When we passed the quicksand pit, he boasted to us about his clever plan; that’s when I learned that this old rascal had it all figured out from the start.”
Taotie spoke with spit flying, narrating his childhood experience with the quicksand pit to Fang Xiaocao and the others.
While Taotie’s story wasn’t vividly told, it left Fang Xiaocao stunned, mouth agape.
“Is the quicksand pit that dangerous?”
Fang Xiaocao looked at the sand pit in front of her, incredulously, unconsciously stepping back a few paces, fearing she might fall in.
“Then the second time you went, how did the old tomb robber cross the quicksand pit?”
Tom, with his quick thinking, immediately caught the useful information in Taotie’s story and eagerly asked.
Taotie smiled mysteriously: “Flew over it!”
“Ah ha?”
Upon hearing Taotie’s words, Fang Xiaocao was dumbfounded.
“Flew over it?”
“How did you fly?”
Fang Xiaocao asked naively.
“Could it be that all tomb robbers are martial arts experts?”
Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself in secret.
Tom and Hummingbird, hearing Taotie’s reply, also gaped at Taotie in disbelief.
The two of them also couldn’t help but imagine the scene of a bunch of tomb robbers flying across the Quicksand Pit.
This…
It’s unscientific!
In the underworld, after having mingled for so long.
They had seen so-called masters of Light Body Skill, but they were just nimble, fast, could jump high, and leap far; flying was another matter entirely. Besides, mastering Light Body Skill was extremely difficult. It couldn’t be that every tomb robber was a master of Light Body Skill, could it?
Seeing Fang Xiaocao and the others staring blankly at him, Taotie “hehe” chuckled and said, “It’s true that we flew across, just not very high.”
Snapped out of her initial shock, Fang Xiaocao gave Taotie a disdainful glance and said impatiently, “Out with it, stop holding back!”
With that, Fang Xiaocao clenched her small fist and waved it at Taotie in a threatening gesture.
It was as if she was saying, “Are you going to talk or not?”
If you don’t, this lady will give you a beating!
“Aiyaa~”
“What are you doing~”
“Don’t be so eager~”
Taotie put on his signature expression of a tough guy acting coquettishly.
Fang Xiaocao shuddered.
Even though Fang Xiaocao had seen Taotie’s tough guy coquettish look many times, she could never bear it!
Every time she saw it, she got the chills.
Goosebumps fell all over the place.
“Please, stop your trickery.”
“I really can’t stand that tough guy act of yours.”
Fang Xiaocao offered Taotie a bow.
“Hehe~”
Taotie let out a sly chuckle.
“When I said we flew over, it wasn’t the flying on level ground as you’re thinking; we used tools to fly across.”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s increasingly unfriendly gaze, Taotie ceased to hold back and confessed honestly.
“Tools?”
“What tools?”
“Can’t you just say it all at once?”
Fang Xiaocao glared at Taotie and spoke fiercely.
“Flying Claw!”
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“We used Flying Claws to get across!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s menacing expression, Taotie quickly blurted it out.
“So that’s how it was!”
Fang Xiaocao revealed an expression of sudden realization.
Tom and Hummingbird at the side showed the same expression as Fang Xiaocao.
Flying Claws were something Fang Xiaocao and the others were familiar with; they knew its use.
The Flying Claw was an indispensable tool for Flying Thieves in the olden days.
For scaling high walls, sneaking into wealthy houses, Flying Thieves relied on Flying Claws as their accomplices. In ancient times, Flying Claws were also used as tools to capture Horse Bandits and criminals, flung to hook shoulders, capturing targets with precision.
