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Chapter 496 - 496: Identity Revealed! The Astonishing TombRaiders from the Past! (1)
Chapter 496 - 496: Identity Revealed! The Astonishing TombRaiders from the Past! (1)
Chapter 496: Identity Revealed! The Astonishing TombRaiders from the Past! (1)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Aside from photographs, there were merely some banknotes and coins; nothing else of particular significance.
He glanced at the two individuals sprawled on the floor. It was established that they had been killed by gunfire.
The one sprawled on the table also met his end similarly, they were shot to death.
However, beneath him on the table were a letter and a pen.
It seemed he was penning a letter just before his demise.
Luo Feng ran his hands over the corpse and found a wallet, which contained a few photos, some Yen, and some US Dollars.
There was hardly any particularly significant information, which frustrated Luo Feng.
After carefully lifting the corpse, Luo Feng managed to extract the envelope.
Fortunately, before his death, the man’s blood had not splattered on the envelope, otherwise the written text would not have been completely legible.
He carefully opened the envelope.
Upon seeing the text, he discovered that it was all in Japanese.
Could this man have hailed from the Land of the Cherry Blossoms?
After scrutinizing for a while, Lu Feng found that the envelope’s contents did not resemble a letter but more a diary entry.
“1931? Dalian? Excavated Yingchengzi (a place) Han Tombs, acquired 7025 artifacts, personally safeguarding 300!”
“1937, unearthed the Ma’s Trough Tomb! Retrieved artifacts…”
“1935…”
The dates jotted down had no particular sequence, the earliest of which could be traced back to around 1903.
This man did not seem to be a grave robber.
He appeared to be more of an artifact restorer.
He was responsible for restoring these artifacts and then relocating them.
“Luo Feng, what does it say?” Li Shishi, seeing Luo Feng engrossed in the letter, did not want to disturb him but was very curious.
“Yeah, don’t just keep it to yourself, how about you offer us some of your translation services!” Qin Rubing also inquired curiously.
Their circumstances had certainly changed.
The “friendliness” had lessened considerably.
Her initial attitude towards Luo Feng was aloof and slightly violent, followed by obedience.
But after being exposed to the sun, she turned slightly haughty.
Nevertheless, all this was just in her words. When it came to actions, she was quite obedient.
After all, she had already experienced being on her knees.
Luo Feng, with a smile, responded, “These records are not of good deeds. It’s about people from the land of the Cherry Blossoms, stealing artifacts from our Huaxia.”
“The land of the Cherry Blossoms? Stealing artifacts? These people are indeed tomb robbers!”
“Why again these devils, these people really disgust me to the core!”
After collecting the records, listing a large number of artifacts, Luo Feng prepared to open the corpse.
He then opened a drawer beneath the body.
As expected, there were even more envelopes in the drawer.
Luo Feng, whom upon opening and inspecting said envelopes, chuckled,
“Everyone is aware of what happened at the Old Summer Palace, right?”
“Old Summer Palace? Who doesn’t know that? Wasn’t that in our textbooks since middle school, or even primary school?” Qin Rubing interjected.
“Yes, the Old Summer Palace incident is a representative event. But in terms of severity, it doesn’t compare to other tragedies. In other words, there are even worse calamities than the Old Summer Palace.”
Hearing this from Luo Feng, Qin Rubing asked, “Are there worse incidents?”
“Of course there are. That’s when the little devils invaded under the guise of archaeology, extensively excavating our Huaxia’s ancient tombs!” Luo Feng retorted.
“Damn, such a nauseating nation!”
“When did this happen? How come I don’t know about it?” “I think I’ve heard someone mention this before!” Many were hearing about this for the first time.
Yet, some were already privy to the details.
“Hehe, around the year 1900, the little devils started frantically looking for cultural sites. Starting with Buddhist sites, under the pretense of archaeology but in reality, they were treasure hunting. They left their footprints all over
Huaxia, across more than 40 towns, 294 Buddhist site locations!”
“After getting a taste of the sweetness from hunting these Buddhist sites, they sent people over for tomb-raiding!”
“When the invasion began, the Cherry Blossom nation went berserk, brazenly looting, directly carrying things out of the museums!”
“The biggest loss was the initial discovery of the Peking Man’s skull cap!” “Till now, its whereabouts are still unknown!”
Pointing at the numerous envelopes in the drawer, Luo Feng added, “Today, the artifacts I found can be basically confirmed as those looted and stolen from our Huaxia by the little devils.”
“Damn! So that’s what happened?”
“How much did they steal? How much did they rob?”
“I thought the host had struck gold, but now, I feel quite heavy-hearted!” “How many treasures did we lose to these robbers?”
“Doesn’t the land of the devils contain several of our Huaxia’s artifacts, all looted and stolen!?”
“Yes, the host finding these is just the tip of the iceberg!”
“No, it’s the tip of the iceberg’s tip!”
Luo Feng did not say anything more, continuing to open a thick stack of documents.
The documents recorded the list of some artifacts that were transferred here.
Just one parchment envelope held over two thousand artifacts.
And there were at least twenty or thirty such envelopes in the drawer.
From this, one could imagine the number of artifacts had already exceeded tens of thousands.
This was a staggeringly terrifying number.
Even till now, despite Luo Feng’s precision in tomb hunting, had not discovered tens of thousands of artifacts yet..