Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1130 - 589: Shocking Encounter with the Cannibal Tribe!_3

Chapter 1130: Chapter 589: Shocking Encounter with the Cannibal Tribe!_3

Several team members began to move the tents, and after Leng Ru Bing was carried into the tent, the other tents surrounded it.

A few men then began to discuss the alert plan for later.

Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings, lightly equipped with their personal goods, disappeared into the jungle.

The team members watched their retreating figures, their eyes filled with complex emotions—boss, you’re truly different!

"Look, this is left by those people." Not long after entering the jungle, Sean Knight slowed down and said, plucking a bloodstained leaf, "More than one was hit by bullets!"

Not only was there blood on the ground, but also several discarded arrows. It seemed that those people had left hastily, not having time to tidy up.

"Let’s follow them!" Elijah Hastings hadn’t engaged in combat in the jungle like this for a long time, and the rush of adrenaline was making him excited, "Those guys shouldn’t be far!"

The two of them quickly followed the trail. Though the opposition was trying to clear their tracks, to the two of them, there were too many slip-ups, including some traces intended to mislead them elsewhere, which were blatantly obvious and thus ignored.

"Be careful!" Passing through a thick area of shrubbery and big trees, Sean Knight suddenly pulled Elijah back, "There’s an ambush!"

Elijah retreated as instructed, while Sean slowly crouched down and parted the shrubbery to reveal a finely-stretched rattan.

"Retreat," Sean said to Elijah, "Beyond ten meters!"

Elijah retreated as ordered, his confidence in Sean unwavering.

Seeing that Elijah had retreated to a safe distance, Sean pulled out the hunting knife strapped to his leg and swiftly cut the rattan.

Almost instantly, Sean violently threw himself to one side.

A wooden board, two meters square, swung down from a big tree right in front of them, studded with dozens of sharpened wood thorns!

If Sean hadn’t pulled Elijah away just now, the wooden board would have hit them, and even if it hadn’t killed them, it would have left them severely wounded!

Elijah broke out in a cold sweat.

"I guess we’ve already entered the periphery of their camp, otherwise there wouldn’t be such ambush mechanisms," Sean said as he grasped the swaying wooden board to still it before telling Elijah:

"We need to be cautious from here on out."

Elijah nodded, following Sean as they slowly moved forward.

The boss had keener eyesight and was more likely to spot danger; Elijah wouldn’t try to take the lead at this time.

"Stop!" They hadn’t walked more than a few dozen steps before Sean signaled again.

He squatted down and yanked away the grass and shrubbery in front of him, revealing a deep pit one and a half meters square.

Being over two meters deep, its interior was sinisterly lined with dozens of upward jutting wood thorns!

"Let’s go," Sean moved forward once more.

When Sean stopped again, they were already fifty meters farther.

"Look over there," Sean suddenly whispered, gesturing toward the base of a big tree to Elijah.

"Bones?" With sharp eyes, Elijah spotted an earth platform with numerous bones arranged on it.

"Yes. However...those are human bones!" Sean’s face turned cold, "Look at the marks...burned by fire, cuts from a knife, and teeth marks—this is a Cannibal Tribe!"

"So, we don’t need to hold back, right?" Elijah became excited once again.

"Right," Sean didn’t approach the collection of bones that seemed to be used for sacrifices but instead led Elijah in another direction.

After progressing about 500 meters, Sean stopped and whispered:

"This looks like the ruin site of an ancient city... Look around..."

Daylight had arrived, and although the sun was not yet out, their vision could now reach farther.

In the not-so-dense jungle, remnants of broken walls occasionally became visible.

Elijah nodded, puzzled; there was actually a sizable ancient city within the jungle!

However, thinking of the ancient Maya cities, which too were discovered in jungles, he was reassured.

But Sean saw deeper—he was amazed to discover that this wasn’t just one ancient city but perhaps three, or three layers. The oldest city was buried deep under the soil, and later people had built a city on top of it.

That city too had been abandoned, and the architectural remains now visible were from the third time it was built.

This reminded Sean of the millennium-old cities like Luoyang and Chang’an City, with one layer compressing another, countless layers deep.

Onward they went.

The further in they went, the more preserved the buildings inside seemed to be.

The ancient city’s ruin site was scattered over a large area, with significant gaps between each clearly identifiable building—the distance was several tens of meters.

From the initial half-meter-tall broken walls to later, the appearance of an earth platform over a meter high, and even further, the sight of half a stone house.

By the time the sun had risen, Sean and Elijah saw that the buildings ahead now featured stone pillars and terraces akin to Maya pyramids, layer upon layer.

Further in the jungle, shapes of humans were now apparent!

"We must be near their stronghold," Sean whispered to Elijah behind a stone platform:

"Attacking in the daytime is to our advantage. Let’s go in later and strike. If we can clear them out, we’ll do so; if not, we’ll just harass them for a while. Remember, safety first!"

"Got it!"

The two men checked the guns in their hands again and then, using the shadows cast by the jungle, crept toward that direction!

A few minutes later, they reached the periphery of the Cannibal Village and heard many people shouting in a language they couldn’t understand; amidst the unintelligible yelling, they occasionally heard familiar-sounding screams!

Sean surveyed the surroundings and then climbed up a big tree.

From there, he saw a group of tribal residents gathered around a building enclosed by incomplete stone pillars, the settlement of the Cannibal Tribe.

In the space about the size of half a football field, more than ten straw huts were constructed.

A fire burned in the middle, around which several injured tribal residents were laid on big tree leaves, facing the flames.

These individuals were roughly one and a half meters tall, lean and dark-skinned, with only tree leaves covering their vital parts, and although their hair was short, their eyes gleamed with ferocity.

At that moment, a man in the tribe wielding a stone knife powerfully hacked at the neck of someone tied to a stone pillar!