Chapter 276: Quicksand Pit
“Don’t think about it, I’ll go first!”
With that, Taotie was about to risk his life.
Seeing Taotie’s actions, Tom quickly grabbed Taotie’s arm: “Taotie, don’t be impulsive. Now is not the time to be brave!”
Taotie turned to look at Tom: “Why not?”
Tom pulled Taotie back.
He kept Taotie at a safe distance from the sand pit in front of him before explaining, “If this is an ordinary sand pit, it’s nothing. What I’m most afraid of is that it’s a specially made quicksand pit.”
Tom said his concerns with a serious expression.
“Quicksand pit?”
Taotie was stunned, then his expression changed.
“You’ve been in a tomb raiding gang, you must know better than me how terrifying quicksand pits are in ancient tombs.”
Seeing the change in Taotie’s expression, Tom asked.
Taotie nodded: “I was impulsive.”
“What is a quicksand pit?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked and asked curiously.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s question, Tom looked at Taotie.
He used his eyes to signal Taotie, the expert, to explain.
“Quicksand pits are a kind of anti-theft measure in ancient tombs, but the construction process is complicated, and the manpower and material resources consumed are also very huge. Therefore, they only occasionally appear in the tombs of some wealthy and powerful dynasties’ royal nobles.”
“When I used to hang out with tomb raiders, I encountered a quicksand pit in a Tang Dynasty vassal’s tomb. At that time, the old tomb raider was forcibly kidnapped by a group of underworld forces. He was holding back his anger and deliberately didn’t remind those people.”
“At that time, there were more than ten people in that group. After seeing the quicksand pit, the old tomb raider knew what it was. He deliberately didn’t say anything and pretended to have twisted his foot, asking me to carry him on my back, deliberately walking behind.”
“Those people thought we were slow and thought it was just a simple sand pit, so they didn’t wait for us and directly organized people to cross the sand pit.”
“As a result, something went wrong.”
“At that time, the leader of that group was quite cautious. He was afraid that there was a trap in the sand pit, so he specially used ropes to string all their people together, crossing the sand pit in a line. But he didn’t expect that being clever would backfire.”
“That quicksand pit was very cleverly made. The sand pit was covered with thin wooden boards. A person of normal weight would be fine crossing it alone. But a group of people crossing together would break it directly. The first few people who crossed were fine, but when the whole team stood on the quicksand pit, the wooden boards broke directly. The team of more than ten people, starting from the middle, all fell into the quicksand. Only the four people at the beginning and end who were on the shore were not affected.”
“Originally, with these four people pulling, they might have been able to rescue the people. But the old tomb raider was cunning. He was waiting for this moment.”
“As soon as something happened, the old tomb raider jumped up like an old monkey, stepped on my shoulder, and pounced on the tomb raiders who were still alive. He kicked the two people who hadn’t fallen into the sand pit down, and also used a gun to injure the two people who had already crossed. He also broke the rope. After doing these things, the old tomb raider pulled me and ran away.”
“More than ten people who fell into the quicksand pit all sank. None of them came up. The two people who were injured by the old tomb raider also died in the tomb because they didn’t have the old tomb raider to lead them out.”
“About half a month later, the old tomb raider set up a new team and came to this Tang Dynasty tomb. When passing by the quicksand pit, he bragged to us. That’s when I found out that this old cunning guy had planned it all along.”
Taotie vividly told Fang Xiaocao and the others about his childhood experience with the quicksand pit.
Taotie’s story wasn’t very vivid, but it still stunned Fang Xiaocao, her little mouth wide open.
“This quicksand pit is so dangerous?”
Fang Xiaocao looked at the sand pit in front of her in surprise and doubt, subconsciously taking a few steps back, afraid of falling into it.
“Then what method did the old tomb raider use to cross the quicksand pit when you went there the second time?”
Tom was quick-witted and immediately captured the useful information in Taotie’s story. He hurriedly asked.
Taotie smiled mysteriously: “We flew over!”
“Huh?”
Hearing Taotie’s words, Fang Xiaocao was stunned.
“Flew over?”
“How did you fly?”
Fang Xiaocao asked stupidly.
“Could it be that tomb raiders are all martial arts masters?”
Fang Xiaocao muttered to herself.
Tom and Hummingbird also stared at Taotie in disbelief when they heard his answer.
They couldn’t imagine a group of tomb raiders flying over the quicksand pit.
This…
It’s unscientific!
They had been in the underworld for so long.
They had also seen so-called light-foot experts, but they were just agile, fast, jumped high, and leaped far. They had nothing to do with flying. And practicing light-foot kung fu was very difficult. It was impossible for tomb raiders to be light-foot kung fu masters, right?
Seeing Fang Xiaocao and the others staring at him blankly, Taotie smiled “hehe”: “We really flew over, but not very high.”
Fang Xiaocao came back to her senses from the initial shock, rolled her eyes at Taotie, and said angrily, “Hurry up and say it, stop beating around the bush!”
As she spoke, Fang Xiaocao clenched her small fist and waved it at Taotie as a threat.
As if to say: Are you going to talk?
If you don’t talk, I’m going to beat you up!
“Aiya~”
“What are you doing~”
“Don’t be so anxious~”
Taotie showed his macho man’s exclusive coquettish expression.
Fang Xiaocao shuddered.
Taotie’s macho man’s coquettish expression, even though Fang Xiaocao had seen it many times, was still unbearable!
Every time she saw it, she felt a chill.
Goosebumps all over her body.
“Please, stop acting up.”
“I really can’t stand your macho man’s coquettish expression.”
Fang Xiaocao bowed to Taotie.
“Hehe~”
Taotie grinned mischievously.
“What I mean by flying over is not the kind of flying you’re thinking of. We used tools to fly over.”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s increasingly unkind eyes, Taotie stopped beating around the bush and confessed honestly.
“Tools?”
“What tools?”
“Can’t you just say it all at once?”
Fang Xiaocao glared at Taotie and said fiercely.
“Flying claws!”
“We used flying claws to cross!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s malicious expression, Taotie shuddered and hurriedly said.
“I see!”
Fang Xiaocao looked enlightened.
Tom and Hummingbird next to her had the same expression as Fang Xiaocao.
Fang Xiaocao and the others were no strangers to flying claws. They knew what they were used for.
Flying claws were an indispensable theft tool for old-time thieves.
To climb over high walls and sneak into the mansions of rich people, thieves relied on flying claws as helpers. In ancient times, flying claws were also used as capture tools to catch horse bandits and criminals riding horses. They could hook their shoulders with a throw, catching them accurately.
