Chapter 177 - 177 An Abundance of Women's Gold Hairpins! Is this a Princess's Tomb? (3)

177 An Abundance of Women’s Gold Hairpins! Is this a Princess’s Tomb? (3)

To Luo Feng’s surprise, there were 15 dots in total.

He wandered around from corner to corner, putting up a show as he did so. Before long, he arrived at the location of one of the dots, which did not seem to be indicate any sort of herbal medicine.

Delighted by this, Luo Feng immediately started digging. After digging for a few minutes, he found a super energy drink!

Of course, while to Luo Feng’s eyes, it seemed to be an energy drink, but to any other observer, all they saw was a piece of rock!

“Did he dig up another rock?”

“Luo’s lifelong nemesis: rocks!”

“Have you all noticed that Luo always digs up rocks with this shape?”

“Yeah, it looks sorta like a cube.”

“I suggest stopping digging here on the outskirts and heading deeper into the mountain!”

“Yeah, at this rate, when will this expedition end?”

Luo Feng chuckled, “Your attitude is wrong. Treasure hunting requires patience, you cannot be too hasty! It is like appreciating a woman, you gotta do it inch by inch!”

Warning from the administrator!

Luo Feng: “…”

Although he was a bit speechless, Luo Feng knew better and quickly shut his mouth. If it were not for his current status as a top streamer, he would probably have been banned at that very moment.

Ding!

You have found a super energy drink.

You picked up 2 energy drinks!

Wow!

He had found seven or eight bottles in a row. Luo Feng felt like he had dug up a vending machine.

Ding!

[ You have dug up a Master Driver Skill Manual! ]

[ Click to learn! Obtain enviable driving skills, even reaching the level of a driving god! ]

Huh?

Old driver?

A driving god?

Am I overthinking this?

This really is a useless skill book.

My driving skills are already plenty good!

As for the remaining treasure markers, they turned out to be various herbal medicines. After a morning of digging, Luo Feng had exhausted all 15 markers without finding anything valuable.

“Let us take a break and eat something before we continue!” Luo Feng suggested and they all sat down under a large tree.

After resting for more than an hour, they continued deeper into the mountain around 2:30 PM. Once they were out of the range of their first scan, Luo Feng initiated another scan. After waiting for a few minutes, the system had only found 7 treasure markers.

Luo Feng quickly discovered the first treasure marker.

[ Ding! Centipedes! Worth 3,000 yuan! ]

What the hell?

Can a centipede be this expensive?

Luo Feng was quite surprised. He had never heard of a 3,000 yuan centipede before in his entire life. He quickly started digging around and uncovered soil and rocks to find some decomposing bodies lying silently in the dirt. It turned out to be the centipedes’ nest, and they were enjoying their feast. However, due to Luo Feng’s disturbance, the centipedes began to flee in all directions.

“F*ck! Don’t dig that up! It’s disgusting!”

“Centipedes are my secret phobia!”

“I cannot stand looking at this disgusting mass of creatures! Bury it back!”

Upon digging up the centipede nest, Luo Feng’s viewers drowned him in a wave of complaints, claiming that his latest find was disgusting and vile.

“Hehe, these are good stuff, particularly for their use in traditional Chinese medicine!”

Despite this, Luo Feng did not bother to catch the centipedes and instead headed towards the next treasure marker. After going through all the latest dots, he discovered items such as matsutake mushrooms, honey, wild mountain tea, and gastrodia. Altogether, their value did not even reach 100,000 yuan.

Luo Feng was calm. It was normal not to locate anything valuable at the start, as he had experienced several times by now. Plus, if he were to locate something valuable right away, it would be too fake.

“The sky is getting dark!”

“Guess I’ll just initiate a level 1 scan and scan the area right in front of me! Got to conserve my Reputation Points!”

“I’ll just perform an advanced scan tomorrow!”

Luo Feng glanced at the sky and triggered a level 1 scan.

Surprisingly, he had located 2 dots.

Upon locating the treasure spot, Luo Feng made a peculiar discovery – it was not any sort of medicinal herb.

His interest was piqued immediately.

Suddenly invigorated, he began digging vigorously and with great enthusiasm.

As he excavated, a small pit almost half a meter deep formed, but there was still no sign of anything.

“It’s buried quite deep, huh?” Luo Feng wondered.

Since he had already dug half a meter deep, any chance that the treasure had indicated a plant was as good as gone.

His curiosity was once again aroused.

A few minutes later…

Ding!

[ Jewelry! Era: Ming dynasty! Price: 55,000! ]

What the!

Jewelry?

An antique?

Luo Feng was thrilled.

As he had suspected, items buried deep underground had a high chance of being antiques.

However, his first thought was, since he had dug up an antique, could this place be an ancient tomb?

But as he looked around, he felt that it was not a suitable location for building a tomb at.

Although Dalong Mountain was vast, in terms of ancient feng shui, it was unlikely to harbor any significant tombs.

Without hesitation,

Luo Feng continued digging, and before long, he unearthed the jewelry – a cloud-patterned ancient hairpin.

Its design was quite ordinary, but it was made of gold.

In ancient times, only wealthy merchants’ mistresses could afford gold hairpins.

“Hey guys, listen up! I’ve finally dug up something good!” Luo Feng said, as he placed the item within the camera’s view.

Several of the wealthy heirs gathered around him.

“Hmm, gold jewelry?”

“Was it thrown away by tourists?”

“What are you talking about? It must be an antique from ancient times!”

The young heirs speculated, while Luo Feng wiped the dirt off the item and said, “Hehe, it’s from the Ming dynasty. What would modern people be doing with gold hairpins?”

“The Ming dynasty? Which means this is an antique?”

“Wow, has the host discovered another ancient tomb?”

“Really? Old Luo is going to get rich again!”

“Is this his second ancient tomb?”

Luo Feng did not waste time on idle chatter. He handed the item to Brother An and walked about 10 meters forward before digging again. He grabbed some mud and said, “Based on the soil composition, there should be no ancient tomb here. The hairpin probably fell here by accident!”

“The soil structure can be deceptive, don’t be so hasty!” one viewer complained.

“How about you not question the host’s expertise?” another retorted.

“Then where did the hairpin come from without a tomb? Was it really an accident?”

Luo Feng did not answer.

He was not certain either.

The only possibility was that someone during the Ming dynasty had ventured into the mountains and lost the hairpin here.

Then, hundreds of years later, over half a meter of soil had accumulated on top of it.

Ding!

[ Ming dynasty jewelry! Value: 89,000! ]

Luo Feng immediately started digging.

In no time, he held another gold hairpin in his hand.

It was slightly bent and adorned with a peony design. It was quite exquisite.

“Another gold hairpin?”

“Indeed!”

“Old Luo, could there be an ancient tomb below?” Zhang Shunyong asked excitedly.

Both hairpins were obviously hair accessories for ancient women.

However, one was single-pronged, while the other was double-pronged.

“It seems to be made of solid gold, but its value is quite average!”

“At most, it’s only worth tens of thousands of yuan!” Luo Feng said irritably, “Moreover, its design is for common use, not for nobles or royalty!”

In ancient times, there were clear distinctions in the jewelry used by commoners and those from the court.

Once could make out the owner’s status just by glancing at the ornament used.

For instance, thousands of years later, when people unearthed Ferraris and minivans, the future archaeologists could tell that the minivan owners were poorer that the ones who owned Ferraris.

Luo Feng found a higher vantage point and looked at the two treasure spots…

They’re rather far apart.

Could they have been left behind by tomb raiders?

But even if it were an ancient tomb, the system should have detected it, right? It has a depth range of ten meters…

Perhaps the tomb is located outside the scanning area?

Luo Feng was puzzled.

It was getting late, and he originally planned to rest, but curiosity gnawed at him.

He asked the others if they wanted to keep digging for a while.

No one objected.

So they continued.

“Activate a level 3 scan!”

Luo Feng went for an advanced scan and discovered 7 treasure markers.

[ Energy drink! ]

…

[ Jewelry, value: 30,000! ]

…

[ Energy drink! ]

Within an hour, Luo Feng had unearthed three items.

Wow!

And among them, was another piece of jewelry.

Luo Feng had a growing suspicion that these items were not found on a coincidence.

There had to be an explanation for their appearance in such close proximity.

It was highly probable that tomb raiders had lost them on their way out of an ancient tomb, and that Luo Feng simply had not detected the tomb yet.

Moreover, these antiques were mostly buried under half a meter of soil.

This indicated that if they were indeed lost by tomb raiders, they were ancient tomb raiders, or else the soil layer would not be so thick, as over time, items dropped on the surface would be covered up by soil.

“An ancient tomb! There must be an ancient tomb!”

“This tomb seems to be huge! These three pieces of jewelry are all separate?”

“Are they all jewelry? Could it be the tomb of a princess?”

“You had my curiosity, but now, you have my attention! Checking out a female corpse wouldn’t be bad!”

“Can Old Luo still make a profit from it?”

“Wow!”

In the next half an hour, Luo Feng dug up yet another item.

[ Jade! Dynasty: Late Yuan dynasty! Value: 68,000! ]

Luo Feng stared at the yet-to-be unearthed treasure in the pit beneath him. It was jade from the Yuan dynasty?

He was baffled.

What was going on in these mountains?

Why were there items from both the Ming and Yuan dynasties?

What could this mean?