Book 1: Chapter 39: Strange Hole

Book 1: Chapter 39: Strange Hole

The three of us stopped at the entrance of the hole and Fatty threw a glow stick into it. It rolled about four or five meters into the narrow hole, but we didnt see anything strange. "Is this a fucking grave robbers tunnel?" Fatty touched the edge of the hole and immediately answered his own question. He was very experienced and could tell how old something was and what tools were used just by touching it. "Gentlemen, this is a natural hole."

Such a small hole inside a mountain wasnt unusual at all. It might have been a bubble in the magma when the rocks had formed, or it might have been a cavity formed after years of oxidation and dissolution of calcium carbonate.

Did they really abandon this tomb passage just because they dug a small hole?

Fatty looked at the words at the mouth of the cave and said, "Mr. Nave, is this one of your failed attempts to sound like a know-it-all? What's so strange about this thing?"

Im not the one that proposed this theory, I thought to myself. It was Poker-Face. But it was too difficult to shift the blame to him.

I told them what the words on the stone tablet said and then added, "Theres no denying that they dug up to this point and then abandoned the whole tomb passage. They must have encountered something strange or there was some kind of incident that occurred. This carved stone tablet indicates that whatever it was must be related to this hole."

"But this is a fucking tomb. Who are these words engraved for, the dead? Did they know that this tomb would be robbed? Fatty scratched his crotch, "Mr. Nave, I think your theorys a bust. This tomb passage wasnt abandoned."

Poker-Face touched the inscriptions and said to me, "I have to go into the hole and have a look. You wait here."

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TN Notes:

(1) For those getting confused like me, the Qin Dynasty (from 221 to 206 BC) came before the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D).

(2) The system of simplified Chinese characters was established in the 1930s. Fun fact, "one world, one dream" was the slogan for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

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I'm sorry, I'm not feeling it today. I tried, but my motivation just disappeared like their clothes. One second it was there, the next it was gone. This is also Poker-face's long-awaited chance to escape from the two naked weirdos lol. Hope he doesn't lose his memory like he did in that Tamutuometeor.