Book 3: Chapter 19: Octagonal Sandalwood Coffin

Book 3: Chapter 19: Octagonal Sandalwood Coffin

Based on her way of speaking, I could guess that Shen Qianjue was a girl who came from an educated background and went to a decent university. It was absolutely impossible that someone with this kind of experience would put lipstick on cultural relics. No matter what she was doing now, this kind of educational experience would definitely leave her with a strong sense of awe as soon as she saw such relics.

But her partner was different. Shen Qianjue didn't disclose the name of her partner, but it was easy to guess from her narrative that this person was the one who had used lipstick to play a prank. At that time, this partner put forward a suggestion to Shen Qianjuewhen Old Bing and the others were focused on digging the grave robbers' tunnel, they should directly poison their drinking water. You needed to be hydrated when doing a lot of physical activity, so Old Bing and his team could be poisoned within two hours.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The poison theyd use would take effect after dawn, at which point the grave robbers' tunnel should be complete. Shen Qianjue and her partner could step over the bodies, go down into the tomb, take whatever they wanted, and then leave.

Shen Qianjue strongly disagreed, but at this time, her partner showed a particularly distressed expression. Shen Qianjue immediately had a bad feeling. Sure enough, her partner looked at her and said, "Oh, I didn't think youd disagree. I gave them the medicine a few days ago."

Shen Qianjue flew into a rage. It turned out that every time her partner went to eavesdrop on Old Bings team, she secretly put slow-acting poison into their water without telling her.

"But you don't have to worry. My poison gives you a quickif very painfuldeath," her partner comforted her while painting her nails.

Im just here to learn, Shen Qianjue thought to herself. I dont want to bear the weight of someones death for the rest of my life. At this time, she completely broke down and urged her partner to save those people. Her partner told her that the detoxification method for this kind of poison required a few treatment courses, which were very complicated. It was impossible to produce a passive detoxification effect in their drinking water. The only thing they could do now was pretend to be doctors and treat them whenever they showed signs of being poisoned.

Of course, it wouldnt take a fool to know what was going on if two female doctors suddenly appeared out of thin air when Old Bing and his team were poisoned and said that they were very familiar with these mysterious poisoning symptoms and just happened to have medicine.

Shen Qianjue debated with herself at that time, but in the end, her integrity overcame all evil thoughts and she made a decision: she would take her partner to apologize and find a reason for Old Bing and his team to cooperate so that they could detoxify first. Her female partner was silent for a while before saying, "Fine, Ill do as you say."

Shen Qianjue came back to her senses at this time. She thought of how Old Bing and his team had disappeared and became very worried that they had all succumbed to the poison and died. She immediately asked her partner to accompany her to find them, but the other woman turned on a flashlight and pointed it at one of the tables on the second level. "Look. Theyre over there."

When Shen Qianjue followed the source of light, she saw Old Bing and his team sitting awkwardly in front of a stone table in the dark. None of them had turned on their lights, no one was speaking, and their bodies were as stiff as the ceramic figurines. Its over, she thought to herself. Theyre all dead. But at this time, they smelled a strange scent that was filling the air around Old Bing.

The two women leaned over cautiously. Shen Qianjue found that there werent any gems in the dishes on Old Bings table but strange black stones that looked just like black sarcomas. The whole table was covered in them. There was also a sign next to it that had the name of this food written on it.

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TN Notes:

(1) Not actually a wall made of diamonds. Its a vertical, reinforced load-bearing wall in a tomb. Some people call it an impregnable wall. Its made from a special, man-made soil. I was only finding some limited info on baidu but someone wrote an article about tombs here and it mentions a Diamond Wall.

(2) The raw said wax but I thought balm was better (I was thinking of the Egyptians embalming meat using a special balm/resin from this article here).

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FYI, there won't be an update tomorrow or Sunday. We're throwing my mom a birthday party down at the lake and we all pitched in for a margarita machine for her present so I may not be sober the entire weekend lol.

On a more serious note, I know we're 1300+ posts in (wow) but do you want me to change all the "Little Brother" references to "Xiaoge"? Nobody's complained so far (thank you), but I was reading some DMBJ fanfiction and everyone uses Xiaoge. It would obviously take me a while to implement it on the site but I don't think it would be too hard to fix it on the pdfs since I can just use the "replace all" function. Just let me know what you all think. If you don't care, awesome. If you do want it changed, god help me hahahaha. (Sidenote, you fanfiction writers are AWESOME. I'm one of the jerks that don't comment but I love your works anyways) ( `) Til next week~~