Record of a Thousand Lives - Chapter 76
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Chapter 76

“Katz! I finally found it!” Hudderson shouted.

Katz stopped digging and ran toward Hudderson, asking, “Are you sure?”

“My search skill just showed a reaction here. Damn it, that took a while,” Hudderson said as he carefully hammered a stone wall.

The old stone wall broke down, and they found a treasure hidden in it—a large coffin.

Katz gulped dryly and asked, “Whose corpse do you think is in it?”

“It must be an ancient noble, at least,” Hudderson replied.

“How can you tell?” Katz asked.

“Look at the drawings on the coffin; they’re very fancy and luxurious,” Hudderson said.

The two graverobbers had come to this place two months before. They had stumbled upon it by accident after wandering around the desert and falling into a ditch, then down into a large hall. The passageway was quite weathered, and it seemed the two graverobbers had fallen when a portion of it caved in.

“Right in front of us is the fruit of all our labor,” Hudderson said.

The two graverobbers had secured an exit and searched the area. It seemed to be a burial site. The stone walls were inscribed with foreign inscriptions and numerous ornate murals. The place gave off the stench of hidden treasure just from the looks of it; unbelievably, they had found a pile of rare gems after searching for only a day.

“How much would this be worth in yen if we brought it back to reality?” Katz had asked.

“I don’t know the exchange rate, but it would definitely be worth at least thousands of dollars,” Hudderson had replied.

The two graverobbers had not ventured further inside and instead left with the gems they found. There was an old saying that letting greed get the better of you in an old burial site...