The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 77: Mummified Body

Su Wan's idea was that Wu Xie told Li Cu many highly credible stories before letting him join the team. At the same time, Li Cu also firmly believed that he was accidentally involved in the incident.

Everything pointed to the fact that Wu Xie entered the desert for some secret that was there. This was the one solid thread.

So everything from the clues Lan Ting left Wu Xie, to Huang Yan leading the team, to the team's collapse, Huang Yan's death, and Li Cu's involvement... all of this revolved around this one thread.

If Gutong Jing in Badan Jilin wasn't Wu Xie's destination, then at what point did these events become part of his scheme?

What Lan Ting encountered while traveling to Badan Jilin was purely accidental, so if Wu Xie was scheming, it was too fucking distant. People say that schemes become more susceptible to discovery if more connections occur, but such a thing was too unrealistic.

It was possible that Lan Ting's story was true, and if it was and Huang Yan entered Badan Jilin, was that when Wu Xie started his scheme?

Huang Yan was one of Wu Xie's people, and Wu Xie's purpose was to discover some secret in the desert. There was no reason to deceive his subordinate by making him go to another desert and pointlessly do something. The problem was that there were really a lot of strange relics, trucks, and boundary markers in Gutong Jing, and the desert area wasn't that small. If this wasn't Gutong Jing, then these things must have been prepared by someone.

Even if this was a Hollywood movie set, the scenery here was too real.

It couldn't be the result of an artificial setting.

Li Cu also realized that even if it was a cheap scam, they had a lot of things to consider, like whether it would succeed. But what was in front of them couldn't be realized.

The three were dizzy with the heat, and their thinking was slow. Li Cu also doubted his judgment and asked Su Wan whether his watch was broken or not, but Su Wan firmly denied it.

Li Cu had to close his eyes and rest until the sun went down. Without a doubt, Wu Xie had undoubtedly told him a complete and flawless story before. And when Wu Xie said these words, he was also conveying the message to Mr. X.

Mr. X wouldn't be Mr. X if he didn't check things out upon hearing such a story. He was certain of his meticulous power, so everything Wu Xie had said must have been investigated, but no flaw was found.

Well, Li Cu assumed that the strange phenomenon in Gutong Jing being discovered, and Huang Yan coming out from inside was all true, because there was a high probability that it was all real.

Huang Yan died suddenly, but managed to carve that picture on Li Cu's back beforehand. This strange episode meant that Mr. X was officially involved in the matter.

Next, Wu Xie took him into the desert.

He touched his chin and looked around. There was no doubt that this desert was the desert he had been in before. In other words, if this wasn't Badan Jilin, then Wu Xie had already made up his mind to lure Li Cu here before bringing him into the desert.

So, regardless of whether the scenery could possibly be re-created or not, and assuming that there were no bugs [1], then he could at least be certain that Wu Xie's purpose for taking him into the desert had nothing to do with the ancient Gutong Jing tomb.

Wu Xie's aim was Mr. X.

So why was he dragged under the sand here instead of running away to save himself?

Was it a mistake? If he had planned this whole thing, then he should have known long ago that there were moving haizi, trucks, and danger under the sand here. But he came all the way here, and didn't show an ounce of recognition in front of Li Cu or Wang Meng.

If his coming here was part of the scheme, and Wu Xie was truly a very meticulous person, then these unknowns were also part of the scheme, which meant that being dragged under the sand was also planned.

Was there something wrong with this man's mind?

Did he want Li Cu to convey some kind of message?

I did do that, but the message was very random. I tried so hard to escape so I wouldn't end up like Wu Xie.

If he was dragged into the sand, then all of Wu Xie's strategies would have gone to shit, wouldn't they?

Unless Wu Xie wanted to commit suicide, and simply found Li Cu to be buried with him.

Li Cu believed in his own judgment, and although he was incessantly ridiculing in his heart, deep down, he had begun to realize the relationship between these things.

What he lacked was details.

He realized that although those hands had grabbed him, the first hand that appeared behind him didn't attack him directly like it did with Wu Xie, but hesitated for a long time.

If this was all part of Wu Xie's plan, then it must have been inevitable that he escape without being attacked.

Did Wu Xie do anything to him?

They came up from the haizi, moved the dried corpses, and buried them. Did Wu Xie do anything special to him at that time?

Li Cu couldn't remember clearly. He didn't know if there was something that would prevent this plant from attacking itself, but he thought such a thing was likely.

Then Black Glasses appeared, as if he had been waiting there. Black Glasses' equipment and instructions even enabled him to walk out of the desert alive.

Then he used the phone, went back to school, and suddenly found himself receiving a lot of strange things.

He told Su Wan about his experience countless times, so Wu Xie's current situation must have spread. Mr. X knew that Wu Xie was trapped.

Wu Xie destroyed the GPS equipment and used the haizi to move in the desert, so Mr. X must not know the exact location of the fake "Gutong Jing".

It appeared that Mr. X was very interested in this fake "Gutong Jing", and since Li Cu was probably the only one who knew about it, he had high expectations of him.

There was also Liang Wan's appearance, which put him in contact with that pepper-spray gangster that Mr. X was also monitoring.

Li Cu was prepared to go into the desert in accordance with Mr. X's plans, but as a result, that pepper-spray gangster threw them off the train.

Now Mr. X thought they were using some other method besides the train to get to Badan Jilin, and was anxious to find them again.

This cleverly designed scheme was done for a purpose: to simply draw the tiger away from the mountain. But what was the point?

To protect them? Trap them in this desert for temporary protection?

Li Cu's gut told him this wasn't case. Such a clever setup must mean that something huge was going on, but he still wasn't able to understand what it was.

He didn't know what had happened on the train, and he naturally didn't know what he was supposed to do now, but he knew that when the sun went down, something would happen in this desert that would force him to take action.

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[1] It's referring to bugs in a system, like computer glitch kind of stuff.