Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1073 - 570

Chapter 1073: 570

Having confirmed these two key locations, Sean Knight and his team retreated.

The next day, team members methodically sifted through sand and selected valuable goods.

Sean promised 10,000 US dollars, and that sum was dispersed that day. However, many team members still gave Sean their domestic bank account numbers, preferring to have the money converted into RMB and deposited in their accounts.

For Sean, meeting this request was easily accomplished—his funds in his domestic account had barely been touched.

With the promise of money as motivation, and the excellent supply of food provided daily without mandatory work—if it was too hot, they wouldn’t need to work—everyone was very satisfied.

In the end, Elijah Hastings came to Sean with a straightforward request, suggesting they shift work to early morning and evening, totaling over ten hours each day.

"Boss, we can’t drag this out any longer. At this rate, when are we going to finish?" Although they were paid by the day, Sean’s excessive generosity made the team members feel somewhat embarrassed.

Moreover, working in the desert was tedious, and they were eager to finish up and return to places with oases.

So Sean agreed to this suggestion, and progress on the work sped up significantly.

"Boss, it feels like we’ve finally reached the bottom of this quicksand." Looking at the surface of the quicksand, now covered with about half a meter of sand, Douglas Cooper exclaimed, "I thought it was a bottomless pit!"

Elijah Hastings teased him, "What, did you also expect a beautiful mouse spirit to be waiting for you down there?"

"What do you mean? Oh! Even if it were so, I wouldn’t mind a mouse spirit," Douglas Cooper quipped back, laughing, "After all, her brother is the Sea-covering Great Sage, a formidable figure!"

"Alright, you win, I’m defeated by you." Elijah Hastings gestured with open hands, "You’re never one to fear the cold or strange."

"What’s there to fear?" Douglas Cooper said nonchalantly, "Look at ’The Legend of the White Snake,’ ’Ghost,’ ’Mojin: The Worm Valley,’ and ’Brokeback Mountain,’ our precursors and friends abroad have already set examples!"

"Just keep spouting nonsense!"

Several people chuckled as they walked back to the construction site.

Inside the tent, Sean spoke to Elijah and the others:

"I’m planning to explore the pyramid tomorrow. Help me keep an eye on the periphery; if you see any beetles coming in, let me know."

Today, when Sean was scouting around the pyramid, he realized that his "Sky Eye" gave no warning, indicating there wasn’t any great danger.

"Boss, how can you go alone? Better we wait until the clearing is done and dismantle the pyramid, then we all go in together!" Elijah urged.

"Exactly, at the very least, you should take us with you," Douglas Cooper also chimed in.

"No, if there’s danger inside, I can take care of myself but not you guys," Sean shook his head, "But I don’t think there’s much danger inside."

Sean’s intuition was sharp, and since he said so, Elijah and others didn’t have much else to say.

The second day, Sean, carrying a small backpack, arrived at the pyramid.

Whether you call Sean stingy or just not wanting to cause a commotion, in any case, he felt it was better not to let too many people know about the contents inside.

If they were to dig too many items out, Sean feared they might be able to retrieve them but not take them away safely.

He had experienced situations like this in New York, so he definitely wouldn’t overestimate those capitalists’ moral standards.

Or rather, they might have no standards at all.

As long as it made them money, whether it’s testing vaccines on children in Africa, stealing special genetic material from Asian blood types, colluding with schools to test genetically modified food on children, causing fires in the Pacific Ocean, burning civilian houses, and then preventing rescue to acquire land cheaply, and so on.

It’s no less than leading beasts to devour humans.

"Boss, be careful!" Lincoln Harrington reminded him as he descended.

Sean nodded and climbed into the big cave.

Inside the cave were traces of snakes, but those near the entrance had dried up.

Activating his Sky Eye, Sean discovered that the farther he went, the more humid the air became.

Which makes sense as snakes can’t survive in excessively dry climates either.

Even snakes on the surface of the desert need to cover themselves with sand to forage—they wouldn’t run around on the sand during a scorching day, no matter how much they like the warmth.

The pyramid’s inner corridor was about one and a half meters high and one meter wide, requiring one to bend down to move forward.

The passage first led downward with stairs, then went straight for about five or six meters, and ended with a vertical shaft.

There were more passages ahead, but from his vantage point, Sean could see they were also closed off.

Looking down the shaft, he noted that it was roughly five or six meters deep, with a width of about one meter around the opening.

After dropping a glow stick down, he saw that the bottom was dry, without any water or silt.

But he could feel the humidity rising.

Using the stone walls for leverage, he slowly made his way down.

Reaching the bottom, Sean found a corridor-like passage that continued sloping downward.

According to his memory, this corridor was now heading toward the outskirts of the city.

Holding a high-power flashlight, Sean illuminated the way ahead while keeping his Sky Eye activated, yet within his line of sight, he detected no danger.

The corridor ended at a stone chamber with a tightly shut front gate.

At the entrance of the stone chamber stood two warrior statues, each two meters tall, holding rusted curved knives.

Scanning with Sky Eye, Sean determined there were no mechanisms inside these warrior statues.

In other words, they wouldn’t move or swing their curved knives at him.

Sean moved to push the stone door; though it was heavy, he managed to open it.

Upon pushing the stone door, Sean saw something that was unexpected yet made sense.

It was a tomb chamber.

In the center of the tomb chamber was a stone coffin—with a golden statue of a woman lying on top, around whom a golden snake coiled.

In the corners of the chamber stood four upright stone sarcophagi, tapering from wide at the top to narrow at the bottom, typical Mummy Stone Coffins.

Around the central sarcophagus were many burial objects—mostly gold products.

For instance, a golden scepter, a complete set of a Golden Mask, a full set of gold and gemstone jewelry, a golden scorpion half a meter long, among others, all incredibly exquisite items.

And then, Sean felt a strong aura of lethal intent permeating this tomb chamber!