Northern Mongolia, inside the camp.

Duan Pingyu, who was on guard at the tomb entrance, suddenly heard the roar of engines. He turned back and saw several off-road vehicles speeding towards them from a distance.

A few minutes later, the convoy arrived. Qi Yun got out of the car and walked over, followed by more than twenty security forces officers.

"How's it going?" Qi Yun asked.

Duan Pingyu looked at the people behind him, then pointed to the cave entrance: "They're still inside and haven't come out yet. Two of them stayed back, but I knocked them out and threw them in the tent next to us."

Upon hearing this, Wu, who was beside Qi Yun, gestured with his hand, and two security officers, armed, headed towards the tent.

"I'll take people inside to control the group in there," Wu said to Qi Yun.

Before Qi Yun could reply, Director Hua, who had already observed the tomb entrance, cautioned, "From the outer indications, the scale of this tomb is not low. Various anti-theft mechanisms are likely inside. If you engage in a firefight with the Tomb Raiders inside the tomb, you will be at great risk."

Wu frowned at this. He wasn't familiar with tombs, but he knew Director Hua was from Jiang Province's Cultural Relics Bureau, so he did not doubt what the other said.

"Wu, let's listen to Director Hua. Don't take unnecessary risks. Capture them when they come out," Qi Yun also persuaded from the side. After all, he was the one who brought these people here, and if there were severe casualties, he would feel somewhat guilty.

"Alright." Wu nodded and turned to give orders to the others, "Drive the cars further away, spread out, and hide. Wait for my instructions."

...

Underground, three men with a goatee stood at the entrance of a burial chamber, staring in disbelief ahead.

This burial chamber was much more spacious than the previous anterooms and corridors. The dome was high, about four or five meters, made of a single slab of blue stone, looking very majestic.

The surrounding walls were also built with blue bricks, covered with colorful murals. Though coated in a thin layer of dust, under the flashlight, they still appeared vibrant and bright.

Knights in armor galloped on horseback, maidens carried ritual utensils and walked in procession, and in the central painting, a general-like man sat authoritatively in a large tent, holding a longbow, exuding an imposing aura.

In the center of the burial chamber lay a massive vermilion lacquered coffin, quietly resting. The coffin body is over three meters long and one meter wide. The lid's raised section was carved with a very particular pattern.

Between these patterns were embedded copper nails, firmly securing the coffin lid. However, possibly due to the passage of time, the copper nails had rusted, and much of the red lacquer on the coffin lid's edges had peeled off, exposing the dark wood underneath.

At each of the coffin's four corners stood a nearly two-meter-tall Bronze Warrior. These Bronze Warriors were cloaked in armor, armed with swords, and had fierce looks on their faces as if guarding the tomb's owner.

"Oh my god..." the young man's voice trembled, "Uncle, whose tomb is this?"

The goatee man stared at the mural on the wall for a long time, then walked straight to the center of the burial chamber: "Open the coffin!"

As his words fell, the other two men followed him into the burial chamber.

They approached the coffin, circled it once, and the goatee man retrieved a lighter from his cloth pack. With a "click," he lit it, waited for over ten seconds, then saw the flame did not extinguish. He promptly removed his oxygen mask and tossed it aside, leaning in closer to the coffin to sniff.

The exposed dark wood beneath the coffin lid's peeled red lacquer had an oily sheen, as if soaked in a special oil.

The young man smacked his lips: "Wow! This coffin could be made of golden nanmu, right?"

The goatee man didn't answer, extending a hand: "Hand over the tools!"

The young man quickly took a short crowbar and a claw hammer from the cloth bag and handed them to the goatee man.

The goatee man hefted the crowbar, his gaze settling on the copper nails embedded in the coffin lid. He crouched down, using the crowbar to press against the seam of the outermost copper nail, preparing to exert force when another Tomb Raider suddenly exclaimed, "Uncle, just now I saw that Bronze Warrior's eyes seemed to flash!"

"That's obsidian; it glows when it absorbs flashlight light. You two, don't touch anything carelessly; be cautious of traps." The goatee man advised as he steadily applied force, the crowbar creaking into the copper nail's seam, slightly loosening the most peripheral copper nail, leaving dark red rust debris.

The goatee man remained unhurried, his technique practiced, suggesting he had done this type of work often before.

He sequentially pried open the surrounding copper nails, each loosening with a subtle "click" like teeth fracturing bones, echoing in the silent burial chamber.

After four or five minutes, having pried open all the copper nails, he inserted the crowbar into the coffin's seam and shouted to the other two men, "Open it!"

The three of them applied force together on the coffin lid, and with a creaking "ya," opened it halfway.

Suddenly, a mix of wood, dust, and faint sandalwood scent gushed out, denser than before, yet, strangely, without a musty smell, instead carrying a hint of spiciness that made the young man turn his head aside, coughing.

The flashlight illuminated the inside of the coffin through the gap; the brocade lining the bottom had already decayed into a gray-black color. Lying in the center of the brocade was a skeleton.

The iron armor on this skeleton had also rusted to a dark red, the body itself long since turned into nothing more than skeletal remains.

Beside its skull lay a translucent jade tablet.

The goatee man cautiously stepped back half a step, nodded toward the nearby Tomb Raider: "Take the jade out."

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