[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n":3,"chapter-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-20":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, The Tomb-Raiding Storyteller: Exposing the Old Nine Gates from the Start",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2160013,3627,"Chapter 20","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-20",20,"\u003Cp>This belongs to the capital playstyle of modern people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eyes of families like the Zhao family, the Old Nine Gates' way is long outdated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Young Master Zhao didn't come because he was interested in the Old Nine Gates, but because he was interested in Zhang Lin himself!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin also understood that the Zhao family's archaeological team probably has a big operation coming up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They accidentally discovered Zhang Lin's existence and wanted to see if Zhang Lin was worth investing in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Zhao family is bound to be disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin even rejected the official archaeological team; how could he agree to join a private family's archaeological team?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Zhang Lin said: \"Whether I can actually do this Eight Formation Book Diagram or not, it's not up to me to say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, I don't need to prove it to everyone. After all, I'm just a storyteller.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can only tell everyone that the route the archaeological team parsed based on the silk manuscript rubbing is correct!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buzz—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Zhang Lin finished speaking, there was a lot of discussion below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was equivalent to telling everyone that Zhang Lin knows the Eight Formation Book Diagram; otherwise, how could he be so sure that the archaeological team's route is correct?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, before the storytelling even began, the venue was already heated up to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The audience was all very excited, feeling that they had earned it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just at this moment, someone suddenly shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heaven, Mr. Zhang is right, the archaeological team has found traces of the ancient tomb!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…….\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing someone exclaim, almost everyone took out their phones at the same time to watch the movements of the archaeological team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't matter if they looked; they were almost all scared by the scene on the livestream!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw the archaeological team's boat traveling in a pitch-black, gloomy water cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above their heads were stalactites that had formed over tens of millions of years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things like stalactites need light to show their beauty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once in a pitch-black environment, they can transform into thousands of terrifying images.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as a person's imagination is rich enough, these stalactites can even turn into alien monsters!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even through the screen, the audience felt the scene was terrifying, let alone the archaeological team members who were in it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Wang Pangzi had already shrunk behind Tianzhen, staring straight ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't dare to look at the surrounding stones at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tianzhen, this thing is too terrifying; my heart can't take it, Lord Pang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Tianzhen, however, had been observing the full view of the water cave with great interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had originally taken geology as an elective, so he was very interested in this kind of natural landscape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all of this stopped after the archaeological team bypassed a rock wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the ghostly will-o'-the-wisps floating in front of them, everyone was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those in the archaeological team were also considered well-informed and immediately reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There should be many corpses in front, which is why there would be a phosphorus fire reaction!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the audience listening to the story in Sanqing Garden started to exclaim, the archaeological team had already approached the place where the corpses were piled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the thousands of skeletons piled up on the beach of the water cave, it had been many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This method of piling up corpses was very much like how the ancients dealt with the craftsmen who built the ancient tomb, or it was a sacrifice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, people with relatively high status didn't want the location to be leaked after the tomb was built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they would kill all the craftsmen who participated in the construction!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some were directly suffocated in the ancient tomb, while others were concentrated in one place and executed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding such a large pile of corpses meant that there was a high possibility of a large tomb nearby!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the listener who accidentally opened the livestream exclaimed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, everyone went to pay attention to the progress of the archaeological team, and no one had the heart to listen to the story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin wasn't in a hurry either, but was drinking tea leisurely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yin Yin Nanfeng on the second floor also opened the livestream and glanced at Zhang Lin by the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said with some surprise: \"The archaeological team stole his business, but he's not in a hurry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan said thoughtfully: \"It's not that he's not in a hurry, but that it's unnecessary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at how this storyteller knows everything, maybe he already knew what the archaeological team would encounter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Yin Yin Nanfeng looked at Zhang Yueshan with a look of astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really know how to alarm people. He hasn't even been to the scene, yet he knows everything. Do you really think he knows the affairs of the world without leaving his house?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Yueshan didn't refute, nor did he care about the livestream, just staring at Zhang Lin below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the archaeological team had already discovered two crystal coffins embedded in the steep mountain wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that the position was too high, and they couldn't see clearly at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Chen was also seeing this form of burial for the first time and excitedly asked people to shine a high-powered flashlight to see more clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the light of the flashlight hit one of the crystal coffins, Wu Tianzhen suddenly discovered that the coffin was empty!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, everyone's hair stood on end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone immediately illuminated the other coffin, and it was clear that there was a shadow inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This could only mean that something had run out of that empty coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Chen reacted very quickly. After studying the piled-up corpses, he knew that this corpse cave had no archaeological value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that they had encountered such a weird thing, he immediately called everyone to get on the boat and leave here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as everyone returned to the boat and Pangzi was still panting, he suddenly heard a sound in the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he leaned his head to look at the water surface, a black shadow flew toward his face at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianzhen behind him was quick-witted and pulled Pangzi back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that pitch-black shadow also jumped onto the boat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, everyone saw an ugly-looking insect with four rows of sharp teeth in its mouth rolling on the deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This insect was at least the size of a human head, and after coming out of the water, it let out a piercing \"squeak, squeak, squeak\" scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The special forces accompanying the archaeological team reacted very quickly, and a dagger was inserted into the back of the insect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The insect felt the pain, and the scream became even more intense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pangzi looked at the sharp teeth in the insect's mouth, and his face turned green with fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy crap! What kind of ghost thing is this? If Lord Pang had been bitten, half my face would be gone!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the biologist in the team said: \"This seems to be something like a diving beetle, but I have never seen one grown to this size!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the scream of the diving beetle nailed to the boat echoed in the water cave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone immediately felt that there was more and more movement in the water, and it seemed that many things were gathering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biologist's face changed and he said: \"Not good, its scream will attract companions. Let's leave here quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone immediately prepared to row the boat away, but at this time Tianzhen widened his eyes and looked at the beach they had just left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the thousands of skeletons and the jumping phosphorus fire, a white shadow was standing there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to be a woman in a white dress with disheveled hair!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin heard the audience below exclaiming and knew that the archaeological team had encountered a tough character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Little Brother was not in Sanqing Garden now and should have already sneaked into the archaeological team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he wanted this archaeological operation to continue, he would definitely take action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason Zhang Lin was so sure was that he knew there was no one in the national archaeological team who could solve the Eight Formation Book Diagram.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the archaeological team suddenly announced that they had deciphered the content of the rubbing and changed the archaeological route because of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could only be that the Little Brother took action. This should also be his way of sneaking into the archaeological team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pretending to be a learned and talented private archaeological expert!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this was too simple for the mysterious Zhang family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, seeing this scene, Professor Chen immediately turned to ask a bald middle-aged man in the team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Celestial Master Zhang, what should we do?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1481,"2026-06-16T21:03:36.166Z","2026-06-16T22:03:03.495Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","58b09a419e0a75f9281faf19dc12ff06465d3534505f013ebf57226d98d4cd1e","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-21","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-19",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--cover.jpg"]