[{"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-84":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the Tomb-Raiding Storyteller, Expose 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},2162664,3627,"Chapter 84: The Miao girl is full of passion","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-84",84,"\u003Cp>Hearing the exclamation from the front, Fatty couldn't care less about storytelling and immediately pulled Tianzhen along to squeeze forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Upon reaching the end of the tomb passage, they indeed discovered a massive jade door with a large hole dug into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Beside the jade door stood two statues, looking like a pair of hungry ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>One held a ghost claw in its hand, and the other held a seal, its entire body pitch black.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fatty felt a jolt in his heart upon seeing these strange sculptures.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Then, when he turned his head to look elsewhere, he suddenly caught the expression on Master Zhang’s face!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Master Zhang was staring at the hungry ghost statue, his eyes flickering, as if the appearance of this thing was within his expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ever since Fatty saw Master Zhang’s small reaction, he began observing him intentionally or otherwise.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now that he discovered Master Zhang’s anomaly, Fatty immediately kept his composure, wanting to see what Master Zhang would say.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tianzhen also squeezed over at this moment and was baffled upon seeing the sculptures.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Fatty, you’ve studied the history of sculpture at least, take a look at these statues?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fatty’s head swelled at the request.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The history of sculpture I took as an elective was foreign sculpture history! It was all just to look at naked people!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"I was told there would be real-life models to demonstrate, but who knew it was always big burly men every single time!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"For Fatty here, those few months were a real eyesore!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing Fatty getting more and more off-track, Tianzhen quickly interrupted him, saying: \"Alright, alright, if you can’t tell, then forget it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, Fatty leaned in and whispered: \"I can’t tell, but that Master Zhang definitely can!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tianzhen looked at Fatty upon hearing this, \"How do you know?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ha! Fatty’s eyes are sharp, that’s how! Just looking at his expression, I know he knows.\" As Fatty spoke, he gestured with his chin toward Master Zhang.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Master Zhang seemed to sense the movement and turned to look at the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Both of them shut their mouths and smiled in unison, looking like thieves with guilty consciences.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Master Zhang ignored them and instead turned to continue speaking to Professor Chen: \"Professor, I haven't seen these hungry ghost statues much either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"The Hungry Ghost Realm is one of the six realms of Buddhism; we in the Daoist school speak of the five realms, not the six.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Therefore, I don’t quite understand the meaning of such sculptures.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Professor Chen nodded upon hearing this; as an archaeology expert himself, he couldn't understand the meaning of these sculptures either.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now that he had asked the Daoist Master and he didn't know either, Professor Chen decided not to linger.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He had the archaeology team take photos of the sculptures to keep as image records.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this time, Tianzhen asked: \"Professor Chen, since this door has already been blown open, does that mean someone has been in here before?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Professor Chen nodded, \"That possibility cannot be ruled out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The tens of millions of friends in the archaeology livestream began guessing who had entered the ancient tomb before the archaeology team.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Could this be some folk archaeology expert?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Damn, could it be Chen Pi?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Who is Chen Pi?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Talking nonsense, Chen Pi is over ninety years old, can he still go down into a tomb?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Isn't it possible? After all, the old man was still hanging upside down in the Mirror Palace when he was over sixty!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Damn, who exactly is Chen Pi?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Could it be someone from the Wu family? Didn't the Wu family discover these Warring States silk books first?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[That’s impossible! Old Dog Wu only got the silk books recently before they were swindled away by Americans; if it were anyone, it would be the Americans!]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Who the hell is this Old Dog Wu?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[I think the possibility of it being Americans is higher; after all, the archaeology team only got rubbings of the silk books, and that was over a decade later.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[Damn, if it really is the Americans, then haven't the things in this ancient tomb already been stolen clean?]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The guesses of the netizens were also Professor Chen’s worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When he saw that large hole, Professor Chen was afraid that the national team had arrived too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the things inside had all been stolen by the Americans, the loss to the country would be immense!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, while some archaeology team members were taking photos of the hungry ghost statues, Professor Chen led the remaining people through the jade door and into the tomb chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, Fatty again sneakily said to Tianzhen: \"Do you know where Master Zhang’s eyes were focused when he looked at that hungry ghost statue?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Tianzhen was completely confused, \"Where?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fatty quickly pointed to the hungry ghost’s hand; in that hand, it was holding a seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This led Tianzhen to take an extra look when he passed by the statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But he didn't find anything special about that seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It just didn't look like a conventional seal shape, and the carvings on it were also a bit strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was just that the seal wasn't large, and it was pitch black, so it wasn't very clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, if Master Zhang was really staring at that seal, he likely knew what this thing was!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Influenced by Fatty, Tianzhen also felt more and more that Master Zhang seemed to have many secrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After following Professor Chen into the tomb chamber, everyone discovered that there were many coffins in the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the lids of the coffins were all covered, looking as if they were intact!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Group: 371729119\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Seeing this scene, Professor Chen’s heart suddenly settled a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the coffins hadn't been moved, it meant the things inside hadn't been stolen.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because people who enter ancient tombs with the purpose of theft wouldn't have such high standards.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They wouldn't put the coffins back after taking the items!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Professor Chen had led teams in rescue excavations of some looted ancient tombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Those were the dirty deeds of people who refused to accept national archaeological regulations, refused to report their itineraries, and refused to hand over archaeological finds according to their importance!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Such people tended to keep everything in the ancient tomb for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They only had money in their hearts, not the big picture.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was as if the cultural gaps of the Xia Kingdom had nothing to do with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Many precious cultural relics that could have filled cultural voids flowed into the market this way and eventually entered overseas!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The destructiveness of the ancient tombs looted by these people was quite significant.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sometimes the tomb owner’s corpse was even dragged out and exposed in the wilderness by them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just because such people who don't follow the rules exist, many people feel that folk archaeology shouldn't be encouraged.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But in terms of the losses brought by folk archaeology versus the contributions made, the country still tends to want to find ancient culture faster and in greater quantities.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thereby re-establishing the cultural confidence of the Xia Kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now seeing that the coffins hadn't been damaged, Professor Chen could at least determine that lawbreakers hadn't entered this ancient tomb first.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After Tianzhen and Fatty entered, they could tell at a glance that these coffins seemed to be arranged in some kind of order, not very neatly or regularly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fatty kept an eye out and counted, discovering there were exactly seven coffins!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>And the coffins themselves were also very exquisite, not only having a large number of carved patterns, but they also seemed to have some kind of inscription carved on them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Professor Chen shone his flashlight and studied them for a long time, but unfortunately, he couldn't understand a single word.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This kind of inscription didn't look like the writing of any dynasty in the Xia Kingdom; it had a bit of an exotic flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But Professor Chen knew that inscriptions were most helpful in determining the identity of the tomb owner.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Since he couldn't understand it, he immediately had people take photos of the inscriptions and send them back to the National Institute of Archaeology.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He had the experts at the National Institute of Archaeology decipher them quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At the same time, he also posted a sample image in the livestream for the netizens to identify.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There is no shortage of all kinds of masters among the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Sometimes things that experts don't understand happen to be in a field that a certain master is skilled in.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>For example, once the Institute of Archaeology was excavating an ancient tomb from the Qin Dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were a few lines of small characters carved in the tomb passage, and they didn't use the script of the Central Plains at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It also didn't seem to be the writing of any ethnic minority.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The National Institute of Archaeology posted the content images online, and eventually, it was deciphered by a folk master.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He told the experts at the Institute of Archaeology that this was a special script used by a special profession.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This profession was the pigment mixer for the ancient royal family, specifically responsible for mixing various colors of pigments for the royal family to use in architecture, painting, tie-dyeing, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This script was the mixers' own private writing.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They used a script that others couldn't understand to name the rare colors they mixed!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That’s right, color was a luxury item in ancient times!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In an era without chemical synthetics, colorful hues were extremely hard to come by.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, the pigment mixers recorded the names and mixing methods of the rare colors they found using a script only they could understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The purpose was to prevent leaks!\u003C\u002Fp>",1627,"2026-06-16T21:55:26.381Z","2026-06-17T08:57:16.085Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","874505f53fffe45f023302df02645100932f75206e4e7fa6382f74eb24ec4ecd","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-85","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-83",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--cover.jpg"]