Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1124 - 587: Does the Mechanism from 3000 Years Ago Still Work?_3

Chapter 1124: Chapter 587: Does the Mechanism from 3000 Years Ago Still Work?_3

"Start digging and see," Sean Knight said, "If we can’t unearth anything by this point, then we’ll go back and call for the pump."

In terms of the actual value of the items below, there really "wasn’t" much money (considered against Sean Knight’s current net worth, it was probably only a few to a hundred million dollars).

But these were cultural relics from ancient times, which made their value very high.

Especially some jade ware and goldware that bore marks that looked familiar, Sean Knight couldn’t wait to recover these items and have them studied by experts.

Leng Ru Bing watched with an inquisitive gaze as Elijah Hastings and the others dug at the location Sean Knight had indicated.

Could it be that Sean Knight really was knowledgeable in fengshui and able to read the terrain, as the rumors had it?

Otherwise, how could he be so sure of the new location to excavate?

If they really did find something from this spot, then Leng Ru Bing would be sure that Sean Knight indeed had some abilities unknown to others that the treasure hunters had deduced!

When the newly excavated location was dug a little more than a meter deep, water started seeping out.

This time, however, the seepage was much less significant, the hole wasn’t big—just about one and a half meters in diameter.

The team members wanted to expand the pit, but Sean Knight stopped them.

If they expanded it further, they would draw the nearby water flow over and the spot would be ruined.

They dug more than two meters deep, and the diameter of the pit had shrunk to one meter.

Only one person could fit to continue digging the hole, and the person below was now out of sight.

"Stand farther away from the hole," instructed Sean Knight, "and clean the soil that’s dug up. The soil here is too soft; don’t collapse the pit."

Everyone watched anxiously as Elijah Hastings worked in the hole.

"There’s something here!" Elijah Hastings suddenly yelled from below. "It seems to be a... jade slab!"

Sean Knight carefully approached the edge of the hole, and as soon as Elijah Hastings saw him, he tossed the jade slab up.

Sean Knight caught the jade slab and examined it closely.

The slab was about ten centimeters tall and twenty centimeters wide, with a thickness of two centimeters.

By current standards, the jade quality of the slab was ordinary, just normal jadeite.

But what excited Sean Knight was that the slab shone with five characters resembling Oracle Bone Script!

After that, one after another, Elijah Hastings pulled items from the hole and threw them up.

Many items were mixed with silt and mud, and the people above were splattered with mud, but no one minded.

Surprised exclamations arose one after another, making everyone forget everything else.

What astonished everyone was that these items were all valuable artifacts.

Leng Ru Bing was amazed at Sean Knight’s precise "spotting" of the location!

"There are a total of sixty-seven items—twenty-nine are jade ware, thirty-seven are goldware, and one is Bronze ware, though it’s severely corroded."

The action team reported back to Sean Knight in the end.

The items were neatly arranged at a location five or six meters from the large pit.

What Sean Knight cared about, however, was Elijah Hastings:

"Step firmly... Be careful!"

Sean’s Sky Eye had been open all along, and by now, he could already distinctly see the surrounding soil starting to collapse due to the underground water soaking.

"Quick, come up, it’s dangerous!" Sean Knight suddenly rushed to the side of the team member who was pulling Elijah Hastings up with the pole of a Luoyang shovel.

Using all his strength, he yanked the pole upwards with a fierce motion!

At the same time, he shouted, "Hold on tight!"

Elijah Hastings clutched the handle of the Luoyang shovel tightly and then felt himself lifted into the air, flung out of the hollow place!

Just as he was about to exit the pit, he clearly felt something scrape against the bottom of his foot!

And everyone around could see that the large pit that had just been excavated collapsed directly!

The soil around, unbeknownst to them, had become unusually soft, collapsing and burying the entire pit!

Sean Knight, like casting a fishing rod, flung Elijah Hastings out!

Even a second later, Elijah Hastings could have been buried alive in the pit!

And Sean Knight himself, after flinging Elijah Hastings out, immediately pushed the team member who helped pull Elijah and also leaped backward, avoiding the collapsing ground.

The collapse continued around them, and Sean Knight and his team kept retreating.

This collapsing pit connected with the water pit they dug earlier, eventually affecting an area of seven or eight meters.

Even several items that the team members had unearthed fell into it.

Sean Knight led Elijah Hastings and the others to retreat quickly, thankfully without any casualties.

Aside from Sean Knight, everyone present broke out in a cold sweat!

If it weren’t for Sean Knight’s quick warning, everyone might have fallen in!

By then, how many would have survived was uncertain!

The place had now become marshland, and Sean Knight stopped the team members who wanted to salvage the few objects that had fallen in, saying:

"Stop looking, it’s not easy to salvage there. Safety first! Let’s pack our things and move away from this area."

Now they roughly understood how those treasure hunters had all been wiped out.

It was just unclear whether this terrain was deliberately chosen by those ancient humans or had slowly formed over time.

They wrapped the objects retrieved from the pit with soft paper, packed them into bags, some members gathered their backpacks, and quickly relocated.

Nobody dared to stay long in such a place.

Guided by Sean Knight, they came to a place in the jungle where the trees were sparse, next to a small hill.

This little hill was half stone, half soil, with some shrubbery growing on it. The soil quality seemed quite firm.

"We’re setting up camp here today," Sean Knight said. "It’s a good harvest, we won’t work this afternoon. Let’s clean up these jade and gold items and sort out those with inscriptions."

Naturally, everyone agreed with Sean Knight’s arrangement and began setting up tents according to the layout of the hill.

Although they carried dry food in their backpacks, Elijah Hastings and the others were still accustomed to hunting in the jungle, hoping to improve their meals.

By dinner time, Sean Knight and his team had picked out seventeen pieces of sacrificial objects with inscriptions, finding thirty-seven character-like inscriptions on them.

Sean Knight photographed these inscriptions one by one.

He planned to send them to experts at the Xinjiang Museum upon their return to see what they could discover.

The meat from a young deer became the staple food for Sean Knight and his team’s dinner.

Roasted venison, braised venison in brown sauce, and soup.

Together with the fruit picked from the jungle, this dinner was quite sumptuous.

Elijah Hastings arranged for the action team members to take turns on watch.

At midnight, wild animals, attracted by the firelight and aroma, came over and were driven away by the action team members.

At dawn, in the darkest time, three pairs of eyes in the jungle stared through the tree leaves at the camp.

Only when the sky was about to lighten did these three pairs of eyes quietly vanish.

At this moment, inside the tent, Sean Knight suddenly sat up. He sensed that danger was about to descend!