Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 1135 - 591: Such a Waste! These Cannibals_2

Chapter 1135: Chapter 591: Such a Waste! These Cannibals_2

The door to the stone chamber had been damaged, and the interior was not spacious, adorned with exquisite reliefs on the walls.

However, at this moment, the reliefs were smudged with stains, and the chamber was littered with human excrement—centuries-old human excrement.

The original contents of the stone house were surely plundered by those who later usurped it, turning it into a restroom.

Combining the situation in this room, it was clear that those people met with a bad end as well, eventually succumbing to the poison of scorpions.

There was a back room in the stone house; Sean Knight pried open the loosely mortared stone door and entered the chamber.

Fortunately, the excrement had turned to ash by now, Sean pried open the stone slab floor, then another layer of stone slab, revealing the chamber below.

This should be the real warehouse.

There were no mechanisms, no bugs—In such an environment, the bugs either fled or were already dead.

Inside the chamber below, there were golden statues on display—but through Sean’s "Sky Eye," these statues were hollow.

It seems this Maya city was all show and no substance, with not so much in the way of gold products.

Nine statues, representing humans and various animals. In the middle on the stone platform, there was a round jade Bi—clearly, this Bi was of the mutton fat jade level, incredibly smooth!

Obviously, this was a complete set of sacrificial implements.

But why would a Maya city use jade at the top tier of sacrificial utensils?

Sean collected the golden statues, each about half a meter high, into his spatial realm, and then held the jade Bi in his hand.

The jade Bi measured approximately 25 centimeters in diameter, with neat protrusions on the surface and six characters carved in two rows on the back.

Sean couldn’t understand the meaning of these characters.

He’d find an expert when he got back!

Pocketing the jade Bi, Sean walked out of the filthy stone house.

Sean only glanced at the next stone door and didn’t open it.

Behind it were the facilities originally used to breed scorpions, now reduced to empty shells. The various facilities designed to mimic the wild and allow scorpions to hibernate were already in ruins; the scorpion exoskeletons were quite large, and there were many sizes. However, most of them had been burned, indicating the scorpions also paid a hefty price.

Behind the third stone door were coffins containing bones in disarray, which Sean deduced to be the work of the people who moved in centuries ago.

Those people really didn’t even spare the dead!

Not wanting to disturb the eternal rest of the souls who passed away a millennium ago, Sean moved on to the fourth door.

Behind the fourth stone door, there was something that greatly surprised him.

It was an empty chamber, not very large, roughly three meters square.

And there in the room, leaning against the wall, was a rough tree stump over a meter high that had been cut many years ago.

However, this piece of wood had astonishingly sprouted two thin branches!

What was this?

Sean had never seen such a tree before. He examined the wood closely; with the help of "Sky Eye," he could tell that the wood had been cut down for at least a thousand years, perhaps even longer.

Normally, such a long passage of time would have decomposed the wood, leaving nothing.

Even if the quality of the wood prevented it from decaying, it certainly shouldn’t be sprouting new branches, right?

Sean had seen tree stumps sprout new branches before. In his childhood, when a poplar tree in his home courtyard was cut down and placed against the wall to dry, branches would sprout from the tree, reaching half a meter long.

But that was shortly after being cut down, and the wood was not fully dried out.

What was the situation now?

After another inspection with "Sky Eye," Sean found that apart from this tree stump, there was nothing else in the stone chamber and no danger, so he pried open the door and entered.

When opening the door just now, Sean sensed an exceptionally fresh breath of air coming from the chamber, as if there were a unique energy field within.

Once inside, he felt as though he was a fish entering water, greedily breathing in the air here!

The closer he got to the tree stump, the clearer this sensation became!

Novels of the fantasy genre started to play out in Sean’s mind—could this possibly be the legendary Tree of Life?

Of course, that was nonsense.

But the energy field of this tree stump was indeed powerful!

Soon, Sean realized his hand was resting on the tree stump—undoubtedly, it contained a strong aura of life energy.

It was no wonder that sprouts were emerging at this time!

Looking through the stump with "Sky Eye," he discovered that at the central core of the stump, there was a jade-like substance radiating energy.

Scanning with "Sky Eye," Sean realized that just behind the wall adjacent to the stump was the outside of the pyramid!

And that stone wall was only 30 centimeters thick at that!

Outside this wall, ants less than two meters long were crawling upward.

Further away, several warriors from the Cannibal Tribe were peering around—and beyond that, nothing more could be seen.

This was actually an exit!

Sean got excited, he waved his hand to collect the tree stump, and after further inspection, he noticed that the ants had already climbed half a meter more—meaning after a while, no ants would be outside this wall!

He understood suddenly; this was the side of the collapsed half of the pyramid, which was why there was such a thin exit.

Carefully avoiding the route where the ants crawled, he removed a not-too-large stone, then sealed it back, leaving just a small gap.