I Received Messages From Future Self!-Chapter 278 - 274 Oil in the Lamp
Chapter 278: Chapter 274: Oil in the Lamp
Chapter 278: Chapter 274: Oil in the Lamp
Tom couldn’t speak without astonishing everyone, determined not to stop until death.
It wasn’t just Taotie whose jaw dropped in shock!
By their side, Fang Xiaocao and Hummingbird, were also stunned to a complete halt.
“Brother Three?”
“Sister-in-law?”
“White Elephant and Komodo Giant Lizard?”
Hummingbird blinked, asking in confusion.
Fang Xiaocao: “!!!”
“Has Hummingbird gone bad too?”
Fang Xiaocao muttered.
Fang Xiaocao would say this one had gone bad, that one had gone bad, but never reflected on why she understood it all instantly…
“Exactly!”
“Before, Brother Three was the one I admired the most!”
“Now, I need to add Taotie to that list!”
Tom stated matter-of-factly.
Upon hearing Tom’s words, Taotie nearly passed out right there and then.
“Ahem!”
“Let’s hurry into the General’s Tomb!”
Seeing Taotie’s eyes redden, on the verge of losing control, Fang Xiaocao quickly changed the subject.
Dwelling on this topic could lead to trouble.
If Taotie and Tom started fighting, she and Hummingbird wouldn’t be able to hold them back.
Upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, Tom looked at the candles beyond the stone gate which burned brightly, their flames dancing as if celebrating.
“Hmm!”
“We can go in now!”
Tom nodded in agreement.
“Taotie!”
Seeing that Taotie was still on the edge of a rampage, Fang Xiaocao called out to him.
Upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s voice, Taotie’s severe redness subsided somewhat, regaining clarity.
Taotie looked towards Fang Xiaocao, “Princess Your Highness, do you have any orders?”
Fang Xiaocao could hear a slight suppressed anger in Taotie’s tone.
“You stay close to me!”
“Let Tom lead the way!”
“Is that alright?”
Fang Xiaocao said with a smile.
Given Taotie’s visible anger,
he wasn’t suitable for leading the way.
Anger could affect a person’s thinking and judgment.
Taotie was already a tiger, and being influenced by anger,
who knows if he might accidentally trigger something.
Taotie nodded, “No problem!”
“That’s great!”
Taotie didn’t insist on scouting ahead, which made Fang Xiaocao breathe a sigh of relief.
“Tom, it’s up to you!”
Fang Xiaocao said to Tom.
“Alright!”
“No problem, I’ll scout ahead!”
Tom smiled and nodded.
“Hummingbird, you stay in the middle and provide support.”
“If Tom runs into trouble, you come to the rescue.”
Fang Xiaocao assigned another task to Hummingbird.
“Alright, Princess Your Highness!”
Hummingbird nodded in response.
“Let’s go!”
Fang Xiaocao waved her hand with a high shout.
Tom took the lead, sneaked through the crack in the door into the Stone Gate, picked up a candle from the ground, snuffed it out, and packed it back into his bag, taking on the role of scout pioneer.
Fang Xiaocao and the other two also slipped through the crack, entering the General’s Tomb through the second stone gate.
They faced yet another tomb corridor.
Unlike the previous corridor, this one had walls lined with pairs of lanterns.
Fang Xiaocao moved closer for a better look, the lanterns made entirely of metal, and by the green rust on them, they seemed to be cast in bronze.
Fang Xiaocao tiptoed and peeked inside the lantern, astonished to find a thin layer of clear, sticky kerosene still left within.
“Huh?”
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“There’s still kerosene in the lamp!”
Fang Xiaocao couldn’t help exclaiming.
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s shout, Tom and his two companions also looked over, their attention fixated on potentially dangerous hidden weapons in the corridor of the tomb.
They had not bothered to inspect the lamps on either side.
Looking at the nearly transparent kerosene in the lamp,
Fang Xiaocao felt very surprised.
She took out a match and wanted to try lighting it.
“Princess Your Highness, don’t!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s action, Tom was greatly alarmed.
He quickly spoke out to stop Fang Xiaocao’s action.
Hummingbird, who was closest to Fang Xiaocao,
reacted quickly, grabbing Fang Xiaocao in a flash.
In the process, he knocked the match from Fang Xiaocao’s hand.
Fang Xiaocao was completely baffled, not understanding what had happened.
She looked at Tom with confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
“Does kerosene bite people?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked and asked naively.
“Pretty much!”
Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s clueless action and Hummingbird’s prevention, Tom heaved a sigh of relief.
“Princess Your Highness, you must not touch anything carelessly in this ancient tomb, especially these decorations.”
Tom quickly walked over and said.
“Why not?”
Fang Xiaocao asked curiously.
Fang Xiaocao thought, it’s just a lamp after all.
What could be dangerous?
She was merely curious about why the kerosene in the lamp hadn’t dried out after all these years.
And why was this kerosene transparent?
Did the ancients have such advanced refining technology?
What exactly is this oil?
It smelled of a fishy stench.
Looking at Fang Xiaocao’s gaze, Tom shook his head helplessly and began to explain, “Princess Your Highness, during the construction of ancient tombs, if mechanisms or hidden weapons are installed, they often choose decorations and floor tiles as activation switches, just like these lamps. Any one of them might be connected to a mechanism, and this kerosene might have poisonous gas or hallucinogenic drugs mixed into it during the setup of the tomb robbery prevention mechanisms.”
“If a tomb robber enters the tomb and lights these lamps, it is very likely that poisonous gas or hallucinogenic agents will be released, or some mechanism could be triggered.”
After listening to Tom’s explanation, Fang Xiaocao’s complexion changed, and she hurriedly stepped back a few steps, distancing herself from the lamp.
“That was close!”
“I almost got everyone killed!”
Fang Xiaocao said, still shaken.
“Princess Your Highness, also, please don’t wander off on your own anymore, okay? Always be cautious and follow the paths I have walked on to avoid stepping on hidden mechanisms in the floor,”
Tom continued to admonish.
Fang Xiaocao nodded, “Mm!”
“Don’t worry, I understand now.”
“But what is this kerosene made of?”
“Why hasn’t it dried out even after all this time?”
“And it’s almost transparent, it’s really quite remarkable.”
Fang Xiaocao voiced the question she had been curious about.
“This…”
Hearing Fang Xiaocao’s question, Tom’s expression froze, and he said awkwardly, “I don’t know either…”
Unable to satisfy her curiosity, Fang Xiaocao felt somewhat disappointed: “Okay then…”
Momentarily, Taotie, with a “hehe” laugh, boasted proudly, “I know this!”
“You know?”
Fang Xiaocao asked, taken aback.
Tom also looked curiously at Taotie.
That Taotie might know was something they had never expected. Taotie, the lovable idiot, didn’t seem to be the scholarly type but rather a definitive underachiever. How could he possibly know what this was?
“Hehe~”
Seeing the bewildered expressions on Fang Xiaocao and Tom, both showing disbelief, Taotie chuckled and said, “Don’t underestimate me, okay? Can’t I know something for once?”
Fang Xiaocao blinked, feeling that might be true.
She shouldn’t prejudge Taotie with bias.
Taotie is only clueless, not stupid.
