Chapter 200 - Chapter 200: Chapter 162: Touch Gold Captain! (Please Subscribe) (2/2)
However, Lin Chuan froze.
System, why are you giving me the “Touching Gold Secret Skill” now? What can I actually do with it?
Nowadays, tomb robbing would land me in jail!
If you go down into a tomb and take a couple of items, there are generally two outcomes.
You go in and never come out.
You go in, come out, get caught, and end up shot.
The “Taotie Pattern Wine Vessel” from the Western Zhou Dynasty that Old Bai forged last time would start its prison term in the Spring and Autumn period if it was freshly plundered from a tomb.
The quickest punishment would be to literally swallow a nuclear weapon.
Who could possibly bear that?
In the real world, beneath the high-hanging bright moon, one could see the open river below through the window, as well as the continuous mountains in the distance, faintly visible under the cover of nightfall.
The cool evening breeze slipped through the gaps in the window, stirring the curtains, and gently patted Lin Chuan’s face, calming his mind gradually.
“Forget it, let’s just touch gold in the virtual world,” he decided.
Lin Chuan was quite interested in the culture of tomb robbing, and touching gold could at least satisfy his craving.
It should be pretty exciting too.
At this moment.
The system’s voice rang out again—
[Host, due to the special nature of the Touch Gold Captain occupation, please draw your first experience instance at random.]
Lin Chuan’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly, “There’s a second experience instance?”
[Yes, but to unlock the second experience instance, the novel generated from the previous instance needs to achieve a certain goal.]
The system replied.
“It’s getting harder,” Lin Chuan understood.
In other words, the Touch Gold Captain occupation isn’t a one-time experience but is divided into several instances. To unlock the second one, I need to fulfill certain conditions with the novel formed by the first instance, and so on.
“Okay, draw the experience instance,” Lin Chuan agreed with a nod.
[Drawing your first experience instance now.]
[Drawing successful.]
[Your first occupation life experience instance as ‘Touch Gold Captain’ is: Seven Stars Lu King Palace.]
[Generating a new world for you with ‘Virtual Reality’ technology.]
[Please be prepared.]
The system instructed.
“Seven Stars Lu King Palace.” Lin Chuan nodded, as his consciousness sank into the newly generated virtual world along with the system.
In the new world.
Lin Chuan’s vision slowly became clear, and looking around, he found himself in an antique shop, arranged similarly to Goldstone Edge Antique Shop, a small store with various kinds of antiques and curios, but it wasn’t particularly popular.
There were no customers in the shop, only an assistant.
The assistant was thin, with a somewhat deep voice, dressed in black clothes, and quite good-looking. Though not as handsome as Lin Chuan, he had a distinctly different aura.
At this time, Lin Chuan took the opportunity to understand his current identity.
He was born into a family of tomb raiders.
Tomb Raider, a jargon term in the industry, also meant tomb robbing.
Ancient tombs are mostly pyramid-shaped, like a huge “dou,” and ‘Tomb Raider’ means flipping this tomb open, essentially, engaging in tomb robbing.
His grandfather was a skilled tomb robber who, 50 years ago, stole a Silk Manuscript from the Warring States period, noted it down, and left it to him.
Currently, Lin Chuan was the young owner of an antique shop.
“This is quite similar to reality,” Lin Chuan mumbled to himself.
“Young man, do you have any rubbings of Warring States Silk Manuscripts here?” An old man with gold teeth walked into the shop and asked Lin Chuan directly.
“No.”
Lin Chuan replied bluntly.
“A friend recommended me; I was looking to see your grandfather,” the old man with the big gold teeth said with a corner of his mouth spread in a smile.
“What do you want with my grandfather?”
Lin Chuan’s eyebrows furrowed.
At the moment, Lin Chuan was still learning about the Touching Gold Secret Skill.
The Touching Gold Secret Skill, that is, Tomb Robbing Skill, includes skills such as Observation, Listening, Inquiry, Pulse Taking, Feng Shui Divination Skill, Seeking Dragon and Dividing Gold to Determine the Burial Site, Tomb Mechanism Technique, and so on.
Take, for example, the Skill of Seeking Dragon and Dividing Gold to Determine the Burial Site.
‘When seeking dragons, you must observe the winding mountains, where each winding represents a barrier, and where barriers guard as if a thousand locks, there must dwell nobleman and lords.’
The old man with the big gold teeth grinned, “Your grandfather stole a Warring States Silk Manuscript back then, he must have kept a few rubbings. I want one to compare with the rubbing I have to see if they are the same.”
“Not a chance.”
Through multiple virtual occupation life experiences, Lin Chuan knew that the rubbing of a Warring States Silk Manuscript was significant.
How significant, Lin Chuan hadn’t figured out yet.
“Hold on, young man, help me take a look at this. Is it the same as the Warring States Silk Manuscript your grandfather had?” The old man with the big gold teeth pulled out a piece of white paper.
“Looking at things is fine.”
In terms of appraisal, Lin Chuan was a grandmaster-level figure.
The old man with the big gold teeth handed over the piece of white paper.
On the paper was a picture of the Warring States Silk Manuscript.
Lin Chuan only glanced at it for a moment before realizing that the Silk Manuscript in the picture was a fake.
He reported his findings truthfully.
Upon hearing this, the old man with the big gold teeth left immediately, in a hurry.
That evening.
Third Uncle sent Lin Chuan a message about “Dragon’s Ridge.”
“Dragon’s Ridge,” code for something valuable.
But Lin Chuan was a step too late; the Ancient Black Gold Saber, referred to as “Dragon’s Ridge,” was taken by a young man.
In the virtual world.
Although this was a tomb-robbing family, Lin Chuan’s father and Lin Chuan himself had never entered a tomb or been involved in tomb-robbing activities.
However, Third Uncle was quite a figure in the tomb-robbing industry.
Therefore, if Lin Chuan wanted to complete the “Seven Stars Lu King Palace” instance, he might need Third Uncle’s help.
He didn’t even know where the Seven Stars Lu King Palace was.
Could it be related to that “Warring States Silk Manuscript”?
The system wouldn’t provide something useless; there must be a mystery to this manuscript.
After thinking it over, Lin Chuan printed a photo of the Warring States Silk Manuscript and gave it to Third Uncle to check.
Third Uncle immediately broke the mystery, “This is a map.”
“A map?”
Lin Chuan’s eyebrows furrowed and he paused momentarily, “What kind of map?”
“It’s the map of a tomb.” Third Uncle continued, staring at the manuscript, “This tomb must be from the Warring States period belonging to a noble of the State of Lu. Are you considering taking a look inside the tomb?”
“Yes,” Lin Chuan raised an eyebrow.
Hearing about the State of Lu from the Warring States period, he couldn’t help but think of the “Seven Stars Lu King Palace.”
First, he had to explore the “Seven Stars Lu King Palace”!