The Lost Tomb Vol. 8

Chapter 65: Clues in Despair

I spent the next few days in a daze, and only when some unexpected events happened could I return to this world. The rest of the time, I mostly lay or sat there, thinking over and over again about what happened before. I didn't think about all the details anymore, just played it like a movie in my head.

But I didn't have any emotions.

Despair was the greatest emotion, it could devour everything, and for a moment, I even realized that I didn't have much attachment to this life. Either let me learn everything behind this mystery, or let me die on the way to understanding it.

This was what I deserved, because my obsession had already killed many people. If I didn't die, the world was really unfair.

When I thought about these things, my mood was very calm, without any of my previous anxiety. I felt that even if I finally knew all the key points behind all this, I wouldn't feel relieved.

In the future, I knew I'd never have the same strong desire as I did before, and any unknown wouldn't be able to impress me. Just a few days later, however, I found out that I was wrong. It seemed that this matter's development would never be within my expectations.

I got the very unexpected news that Qiu Dekao's company began to restructure its assets.

Obviously, due to the first shareholder's deteriorating health, Qiu Dekao's control over many aspects of his company began to weaken, other shareholders began to become active, and the struggle between dark shares became fierce. Many people fell victim to this struggle, including some senior members of Qiu Dekao core team.

These high-level officials had a very good personal relationship with me and Fatty when we were in the Heavenly Palace. Although the contact wasn't close, sometimes I would ask them many questions and they would give me some advice in private.

After the chaos in the company, many of these senior officials began to leave, and several of them began to send me some files that were originally confidential to the company.

These files were top secret when Qiu Dekao came to power, but when he fell, these things became chicken ribs, and no one believed the information they held. These files were to be separated and destroyed.

Those people said that since the company hadn't attached importance to it, it was better to give to me— the person that needed it— to see if there was any useful information rather than destroy it.

The number of files was staggering. Obviously, although these people were kind-hearted, they weren't kind enough to classify it for me. A few files added up to at least a few hundred gigabytes, all of which were pictures of files that had been scanned and uploaded.

I brewed black tea and read all the files in two days, starting from the first package.

The contents were quite rich, and although not every volume was valuable, those that were had very important information. In contrast, the worthless parts had something odd.

I sorted out all these documents and divided them into three categories: valuable, doubtful, and worthless.

What struck me most was one of the summary documents for the Xisha archaeology trip. The main purpose of this document was to request funds from the board of directors and it had to explain why the Xisha project was necessary and what the potential value was.

The core part of this document was divided into two parts. The first one was the explanation: Qiu Dekao thought that the probability of ancient tombs in Xisha was quite high and he included a large number of folk legends and historical records taken from photos of ancient books that were hundreds of megabytes in size. This wasn't the decisive evidence, however. An "internal document" was the key factor.