Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1126 - 588 Is This "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" Tactic Still Effective?_2

Chapter 1126: Chapter 588 Is This "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" Tactic Still Effective?_2

This one statement had roused them from the somewhat deflated spirit.

Seeing the reaction of the team members, Leng Ru Bing felt a bit proud deep down, Her overnight research had proven to be useful.

Excited, Leng Ru Bing sped up the excavation process, and Sean Knight and his team did the same.

The sacrificial pit was about one meter seventy-eight from the ground. They had now excavated about a meter—the spot marked by Sean Knight was relatively large, making it a bit more troublesome to dig.

More than two hours later, Leng Ru Bing’s side had uncovered half of the bronze shelf, and Sean Knight’s team finally reached the upper edge of the sacrificial pit.

If it wasn’t for the items found at the dig site marked by Sean Knight yesterday, those team members might have lost their confidence by now.

"We found something!" A team member down below suddenly shouted, holding up a golden mask.

The mask bore slanted giant eyes and vertical stripes on the forehead, which seemed vaguely familiar to Sean Knight—was it not very similar to a bronze mask from one of the piles!

"Don’t get excited, be careful!" Elijah Hastings immediately reminded, "Who knows what else might be underneath, don’t fall into a trap!"

The team member immediately became cautious and carefully handed up the mask.

"Don’t dig out anything yet," Sean Knight instructed from above, "Shovel out a set of steps up and down the side. Let’s get started from up here too!"

Hewing a set of stairs out of the pit was much easier than excavating a big hole. It took only about ten minutes to construct a seven-step staircase. With one person per step, items could be passed up one by one.

At the top, Sean Knight began arranging the items handed to him by Elijah Hastings.

At this point, Leng Ru Bing and two other team members saw the harvest from Sean’s side, and naturally, they felt envious.

The two team members managed to restrain themselves, as after all, their assigned mission was to follow Leng Ru Bing and dig out items.

But Leng Ru Bing couldn’t help herself and putting down her shovel, she ran over to look at the jade tube in Sean Knight’s hand.

"Boss, this..."

"Should be another sacrificial pit," Sean Knight said as he cleaned the soil from the jade tube, then carefully placed it on flat ground before turning to receive a golden animal figurine, "This pit seems to be even larger than the original one."

"Incredible!" Leng Ru Bing genuinely praised, "Boss, your treasure hunting ability is seriously unmatched by the average person!"

Sean Knight just smiled without a word.

Leng Ru Bing wasn’t one of their own, so why bother telling her so much? The reason why he agreed to let her join was that she had previously provided many correct and even some useful pieces of information that couldn’t be shared.

So, when she initiated the request to follow, Sean simply went with the flow and agreed.

But there was more that couldn’t be said.

Seeing that Sean Knight was not engaging in conversation, Leng Ru Bing felt a bit disappointed but also understood her current position and therefore kept silent, turning back to dig up her own bronze wares.

One sacrificial implement after another was passed up, quickly filling a large area.

As the pit grew larger, Sean Knight took the opportunity to remind them:

"Give a shout when you’re almost at the bottom, and be sure not to step on any of those sacrificial implements..."

"Don’t worry, boss, we’ll make sure these items remain undamaged..." the team member below responded.

"Nonsense!" Elijah Hastings interrupted sharply, "You think the boss is worried about the sacrificial implements? He’s concerned about your safety! There might be traps underneath...be careful!"

The team member’s face turned red with embarrassment, yet his heart warmed.

However, some team members didn’t take it to heart.

From reading too many tomb-robbing novels like "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and "The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles," they knew about the mechanisms in the big domestic tombs.

They had assumed that foreign tombs would have them too, but they didn’t expect just a big pit of soil!

In that previous pit, the only snare was a marsh created by underground water, so what else could this pit contain?

Besides, now that they had stairs, and they had dug the pit wide at the top and narrow at the bottom as a safeguard against any further soil collapse, what kind of ambush could there be?

Of course, these thoughts went unvoiced; they were just not taken seriously internally.

When the last jade plate for sacrificial use was brought up, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

At that moment, as the team members relaxed, Elijah Hastings said, laughing:

"Do you think there’s no trap here? Just watch!"

His sharp eyes had already detected that the layer at the bottom of the sacrificial pit was out of the ordinary. Coupled with Sean Knight’s earlier warning, he had his suspicions.

Signaling the other team members to move up, Elijah Hastings took the Luoyang Shovel and cautiously probed, quickly finding the edge of the layer and lifting it.

Then, they saw a big, dark hole below!

"Turn on the flashlight and shine it down," Elijah Hastings had already seen what was beneath, but the other team members didn’t have his eyesight, so he reminded them.

The team member at the top immediately took out a high-powered flashlight from his backpack and shone it down.

When they saw the dozens of densely packed sharp stone spikes, everyone was stunned!

The hollow place at the bottom was about one and a half meters in diameter—if one were to fall down there, wouldn’t they be skewered?

So close!

The team members involuntarily gasped in shock!

No matter how skillful they were, a sudden fall would likely mean they couldn’t climb back out.

Now remembering Sean Knight’s earlier words, the team members all felt secretly fortunate; without Sean’s warning, some of them might have really suffered!