"Did the more famous ancient tomb-raiding mechanisms become, the less useful they were?"
Sun Yuan felt he had truly learned something—knowledge that would never appear in any textbook. "But doesn't the excavation of the Nine Star Mound prove the existence of prehistoric civilizations? ...Why did the ancients prefer to believe in something as ethereal as Curse Technique rather than technology?"
"So it all comes down to luck!"
Professor Xiang laughed. "Some of them mainly used these ritual objects to frighten people. If that's what we ran into, we can count ourselves lucky. But if we encounter mechanisms combined with Gu Technique and Curse Technique, it'll be a real headache... Take several tombs from the late Yan Han period, for example. They're still extremely difficult to excavate. Just around the outskirts, we've found the skeletons of more than a hundred tomb raiders from different eras..."
"So this time really was a matter of luck."
Sun Yuan nodded. He saw Engineer Jin push open the bronze Blood Curse Door. After waiting for a while and confirming there was no danger, Engineer Jin signaled that it was safe.
Professor Xiang immediately went over and caressed the ancient patterns on the bronze door. "A treasure, a true treasure... There are even inscriptions. Hmm, this is ancient Yan Han language. Ever since Yan Han unified its writing, all written characters in the world have changed in form but never strayed from the same origin. This says—'Blood Curse... utterly severed... the Yellow Springs... the road home...'"
"Looks like this tomb owner had great faith in the Curse Technique he arranged..."
Sun Yuan grinned.
If the other party had been a biochemist from ancient times who toyed with Gu insects or poisons such as mercury, using Gu Technique or poison arts, he might have been somewhat afraid.