Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1125 - 588 Is This "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" Move Still Effective?

Chapter 1125: Chapter 588 Is This "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" Move Still Effective?

Daybreak arrived, and the people inside the tents got up simultaneously, packed their belongings, washed up, and ate.

What surprised Sean Knight again was that Leng Ru Bing wasn’t the type of girl who wouldn’t so much as dip her hands in spring water. Although she wasn’t very good at making breakfast, she gathered firewood, fetched water, and picked wild vegetables without falling behind.

While having breakfast, the night watchmen discussed the events of the night:

"Overall, the jungle is quite quiet, but during the night watch, I always felt like something was watching us."

"I felt the same, however, I didn’t discover anything."

Sean Knight pondered thoughtfully.

"Later, let’s not act alone, everyone should stick together," Elijah Hastings said, "We don’t know what’s in this jungle, but danger is everywhere, and we can’t afford to vanish like those treasure hunters."

"Alright, after breakfast, we’ll all head to the east side of these hills together," Sean Knight pointed and said, "The terrain over there is relatively flat and the vegetation is sparse, so there must be something underneath."

That settled the matter.

After eating, they packed up their things, extinguished the fire, and the group, armed with tools, headed toward the east side of the hills.

Through Sean Knight’s Sky Eye, he could see different layers of soil beneath these flat grounds, with the foundations of dwellings, earth platforms, sacrificial pits, surrounding walls, and various other relics scattered throughout.

There were quite a few scattered artifacts, but most of them were daily necessities, with an occasional piece of pottery, bone ware, and even stone ware!

In one of the sacrificial pits, buried were hundreds of pieces of goldware, jade ware, and a small amount of bronze ware.

In such an environment, the corrosion on the bronze ware was extremely severe.

Sean Knight carefully observed that sacrificial pit—the previous collapse incident had made him cautious.

Then, he spotted a clue—underneath those exquisite artifacts in the sacrificial pit, there was a thin board. And below the board was a huge void!

The void was about five or six meters deep, with dozens of sharp stones, each over two meters long, sticking upwards!

This was clearly a lethal trap!

Judging by the board’s bearing capacity, Sean Knight guessed that if left undisturbed, in a few hundred years, everything on top would tumble down.

Sean Knight hesitated, but when he saw the carvings with characters in the pit through the sky eye, he made up his mind.

Dig!

Leng Ru Bing also found a spot, and she jogged over here.

Watching her step over the location of the sacrificial pit, Sean Knight broke into a sweat: It was just a lightweight girl—if a burly man were to stomp heavily a few times on that pit, he might fall right through!

"...Boss, I think we could give digging there a try," said Leng Ru Bing, now holding a Luoyang shovel, borrowed from another team member.

As her expertise was slightly better, Sean Knight just went along with it.

Sean Knight looked at the location Leng Ru Bing pointed to, where underneath lay a sacrificial highterrace.

On the highterrace, there was a rare, half-meter tall, square bronze shelf. Something should have rested on top of it originally, but it was now gone.

He nodded and said,

"Find Elijah, have him send two people to dig with you."

Hearing Sean Knight’s words, Leng Ru Bing was half excited and half disappointed.

Being told to lead a digging meant there was likely something under the spot she indicated.

But she wasn’t assigned to dig exclusively there, which meant Sean Knight probably had a better location in mind.

Leng Ru Bing hesitated.

Should she follow Sean Knight to experience a new pit, or stick with her own decision?

Eventually, Leng Ru Bing couldn’t resist the temptation of unearthing something valuable herself, so she took two people from Elijah and began to dig.

"Boss, what are we doing?" Elijah came up and asked.

"Here," Sean Knight, holding a Luoyang shovel, drew a large circle, "start clearing the soil from here down, but be very careful. There could be traps below. Only one person can go inside the circle at a time..."

With Sean Knight’s words, Elijah became more cautious, gathered the remaining team members, and gave them serious instructions before starting to dig around the circle Sean Knight had marked.

This time, Sean Knight didn’t dare to go anywhere else, standing outside the circle, opening his sky eye, and watching carefully.

He feared an underground mishap that could trap people, which would cause a lot of trouble!

The soil was carefully shoveled away layer by layer, and the team members inside the circle were also rotating, being very careful when entering and exiting.

Although it was safe, everyone had heard of their boss’s remarkable feats, and at this moment, obeying was better than not.

Over there, Leng Ru Bing, after confirming a digging plan, also started to shovel soil with two team members.

The soil in the forest land was relatively loose, and they quickly shoveled away the 30 centimeters of humus on top, exposing the relatively hard red soil beneath.

Leng Ru Bing knew that just below this hard layer of soil, less than 20 centimeters thick, lay the man-made earth platform she was looking for.

Soon, the hard soil was cleared, and as she saw the underlayer of soil turning somewhat grey-white again, Leng Ru Bing cried out in surprise,

"Found it!"

Her shovel had struck something solid. As she brushed away the loose soil, she saw the corner of a bronze ware, now turned green with rust.

Her exclamation made the two team members stop their work to peek over, and it also made a few team members near Sean Knight turn their heads.

"We need to step up our game," Sean Knight said, laughing, "They’ve already found something. We can’t fall behind."