Chapter 274: Oil in the Lamp
Tom’s words were shocking.
Not only was Taotie dumbfounded!
Fang Xiaocao and Hummingbird were also stunned on the spot.
“Third Brother?”
“Third Sister-in-law?”
“White Elephant and Komodo Dragon?”
Hummingbird blinked and asked curiously.
Fang Xiaocao: “!!!”
“Has Hummingbird also turned bad?”
Fang Xiaocao muttered.
Fang Xiaocao said that this one had turned bad and that one had turned bad, but she never reflected on why she understood everything in seconds…
“That’s right!”
“Third Brother was the one I admired the most before!”
“Now, I have to add Taotie!”
Tom said matter-of-factly.
Hearing Tom’s words, Taotie’s eyes darkened, and he almost collapsed on the spot.
“Ahem!”
“Let’s hurry up and enter the general’s tomb!”
Seeing that Taotie’s eyes were red and he was about to go berserk, Fang Xiaocao hurriedly changed the subject.
Continuing to dwell on this topic would easily lead to trouble.
If Taotie and Tom started fighting, she and Hummingbird wouldn’t be able to stop them.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, Tom looked at the candles behind the stone door. The candles were burning vigorously, and the flames were jumping, as if dancing happily.
“Yes!”
“We can go in now!”
Tom nodded in agreement.
“Taotie!”
Seeing that Taotie was still on the verge of berserk, Fang Xiaocao called out to Taotie.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s voice, the scarlet in Taotie’s eyes faded a little, and he regained his clarity.
Taotie looked at Fang Xiaocao: “Princess, what are your orders?”
Fang Xiaocao could hear a trace of suppressed anger in Taotie’s tone.
“Protect me closely!”
“Let Tom lead the way!”
“Is that okay?”
Fang Xiaocao said with a smile.
Taotie was obviously angry now.
He wasn’t suitable for leading the way.
Anger would affect a person’s thinking and judgment.
Taotie was already reckless, and being influenced by anger would be even worse.
Who knew if he would step on some trap for fun?
Taotie nodded: “No problem!”
“That’s good!”
Fang Xiaocao was relieved that Taotie didn’t insist on exploring the way.
“Tom, I’ll leave it to you!”
Fang Xiaocao said to Tom.
“Okay!”
“No problem, I’ll explore the way!”
Tom nodded with a smile.
“Hummingbird, you provide cover in the middle.”
“If Tom encounters trouble, you provide support.”
Fang Xiaocao assigned tasks to Hummingbird.
“Okay, Princess!”
Hummingbird nodded in response.
“Let’s go!”
Fang Xiaocao waved her little hand and shouted loudly.
Tom took the lead, went through the door gap, picked up the candle on the ground, extinguished it, put it back in his backpack, and began the work of exploring the way.
Fang Xiaocao and the others also went through the door gap one by one and entered the second stone door in the general’s tomb.
What they saw was still a tomb passage.
Unlike the previous tomb passage, this tomb passage had pairs of lamps on the stone walls on both sides.
Fang Xiaocao leaned closer and took a look. The lamps were made of metal. Judging from the green rust on them, they should be made of bronze.
Fang Xiaocao tiptoed and glanced into the lamp. She was surprised to find that there was a thin layer of transparent and viscous lamp oil in the lamp.
“Huh?”
“There’s lamp oil in the lamp!”
Fang Xiaocao couldn’t help but exclaim.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s exclamation, Tom and the others also looked over. Their attention was focused on guarding against the traps and hidden weapons that might exist in the tomb passage.
They didn’t pay attention to the lamps on both sides at all.
Looking at the almost transparent lamp oil in the lamps.
Fang Xiaocao felt very surprised.
She took out a match and wanted to try lighting it.
“Princess, don’t!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s action, Tom was shocked.
He hurriedly stopped Fang Xiaocao.
Hummingbird, who was closest to Fang Xiaocao, reacted quickly.
She grabbed Fang Xiaocao and knocked the match out of Fang Xiaocao’s hand.
Fang Xiaocao was confused and didn’t know what was going on.
She looked at Tom with some confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
“Is the lamp oil poisonous?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked and asked confusedly.
“Something like that!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s foolish action being stopped by Hummingbird, Tom breathed a sigh of relief.
“Princess, you must not touch the things in this ancient tomb, especially these decorations.”
Tom walked over quickly and said.
“Why?”
Fang Xiaocao asked curiously.
Fang Xiaocao felt that it was just a lamp.
What danger could it be?
She was just curious why the lamp oil in the lamp hadn’t dried up for thousands of years.
And these lamp oils were actually transparent.
Did ancient people have such advanced refining technology?
What kind of oil was this?
It smelled like sea fish.
Looking at Fang Xiaocao’s eyes, Tom shook his head helplessly and explained, “Princess, during the construction of the ancient tomb, if traps and hidden weapons were installed, decorations and floor tiles were often chosen as the activation switches. For example, these lamps, maybe one of them is connected to some trap, and these lamp oils, when setting up anti-theft traps, often mix poisonous gas or hallucinogens into the lamp oil.”
“If tomb raiders enter the tomb and light these lamps, they may release poisonous gas or hallucinogens, or they may trigger some traps.”
After listening to Tom’s explanation, Fang Xiaocao’s face changed, and she hurriedly took a few steps back, away from the lamps.
“That was close!”
“I almost killed everyone!”
Fang Xiaocao said with lingering fear.
“Princess, and also, don’t run around by yourself, please. Be sure to pay attention to the floor I stepped on, to prevent stepping on hidden traps in the floor.”
Tom continued to remind her.
Fang Xiaocao nodded: “Yes!”
“Don’t worry, I know.”
“But what are these lamp oils made of?”
“Why haven’t they dried up for so long?”
“And they’re almost transparent, it’s really amazing.”
Fang Xiaocao asked the question she had been curious about.
“This…”
Hearing the question raised by Fang Xiaocao, Tom’s expression froze, and he said awkwardly, “I don’t know either…”
Not being able to satisfy her curiosity, Fang Xiaocao was a little disappointed: “Okay…”
Taotie, who was beside her, smiled “hehe” and said triumphantly, “I know this!”
“You know?”
Fang Xiaocao was stunned and asked back.
Tom also looked at Taotie curiously.
It was completely unexpected that Taotie would know. Taotie, the blockhead, didn’t look like a genius at all, but rather a complete idiot. How could he know this?
“Hehe~”
Looking at Fang Xiaocao and Tom’s confused faces, as if they didn’t believe him, Taotie chuckled: “Don’t look down on people, okay? Can’t I know something?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked, feeling that it was also true.
She couldn’t look at Taotie with colored glasses.
Taotie was just reckless, not stupid.
