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In the darkness came Sister Hong's voice: "Yunfeng, where are you, I'm here."

I blanched and dared not reply.

I squatted in place, clutching the amulet tightly in my hand, my head buried between my knees.

The ground was damp and foggy, and I felt more than just cold and fear.

There was also loneliness.

Our gang had come this far and I was the only one left alone. I regretted it, regretted not listening to Yao Yumen's and the grip head's warning.

I sat alone and scared on the turf, hungry and cold, and unconsciously, I thought of Li Jing.

I laughed to myself: "If I suddenly disappeared, if I died here, would Li Jing still remember me as a person years later, would she still remember me, Xiang Yunfeng?"

Thinking about these things.

It was slightly dawn.

A wind blew from nowhere and dispersed the thick fog.

At that moment.

At a glance, I saw that on the turf two or three hundred metres away, Sister Hong was lying on the ground and stretching herself out, like she had just woken up.

"Sister Hong!"

I darted down, slipping my foot and falling asleep in the middle.

She heard it and looked towards me.

"You're not dead! That's great!"

Sister Hong looked at me with a happy face and said breathlessly, "Last night it was so foggy that it was hard to walk an inch, I couldn't see at all, I could only determine the approximate location, and I didn't dare to walk around for fear of getting separated from you, Yunfeng."

It's good that people are okay.

I breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Sister Hong, did you hear me call you last night? Did you call me back?"

She looked up at me with a surprised expression, "No, I didn't hear anything, let alone say anything, what's wrong?"

There was no need for Red to lie to me, if she said she hadn't heard me back, she hadn't heard me back.

Then who was that voice in the fog last night?

The more I thought about it, the more scared I was, and my hands were shaking.

"Why do you look so pale?" Sister Red asked, frowning.

"Nothing ... Nothing."

I deliberately digressed, "You went looking for something edible, did you find it?"

Sister Hong shook her head a little disappointed, "No, there's all grass and trees nearby, didn't find anything to eat."

"It's okay Sister Red, it's good that people are okay, a day or two of not eating won't kill you."

"Well, try to hold on."

Having regained some strength, and thinking about that scene last night, I felt less and less good about this place, it felt evil, so we put our heads together and decided to get out of here.

Head up.

Hanging the Ga Wu box amulet around my neck, I took the amulet a few degrees more seriously.

When one encounters an unknown phenomenon, one's heart always subconsciously looks for support and protection. The amulet given to me by Yao Yumen acted as this amulet.

It took a little more than half a day before Hong and I finally reached the end.

Above this slope was still the entrance to a cave.

At this moment, looking down from above, the scenery was picturesque, like a secret place.

There were some stone carvings around the cave walls, one of which, although broken, could be seen to have the theme of several horses.

Pointing to this mural, Sister Hong told me that this would be the Eight Stallions of King Mu. According to legend, the eight horses in the Eight Stallions had names before they were born, just like the Six Stallions of Zhaoling in Li Shiming's tomb, but the time was too long ago, and the Eight Stallions of King Mu were mentioned in the Spring and Autumn Zuo Zhuan, but the names of these eight stallions have not been passed down to the world and no one knows them.

The fresco, which was recessed into the stone wall, was about two metres long and about one and a half metres wide. Sister Hong lamented that it was a pity about the stuff and that if she could have taken it away, it would have fetched a sky-high price in the black market.

"Sister Hong, these are broken, the stone carving type can be so powerful, look at these two horses, half of their heads have fallen off." I said pointing to the fallen horse heads.

Sister Hong shook her head, "Yunfeng you are shallow in the industry, some things are not clear yet, these stone carvings with special meanings, even if they are broken into a hundred pieces, after putting them together there are still a lot of people grabbing for them, especially the red-haired big noses, they are fascinated by our high antique type of stone carvings."

"You know the Six Steeds of Zhaoling, right?"

I nodded, "Two of the Six Steeds of the Zhaoling, the fist-hair and the sa-lu purple, weren't they stolen by Lu Qinshai and sold to Big Nose in the 1940s, and we still have four more in China, the Shifa Chi, the Green Zhui, the Teller Hussar and the White Hoofed Crow."

Sister Hong probably didn't expect me to name them accurately and she said appreciatively, "Good, you're right about everything, two of them were stolen by Lu Qinshai back then, so let me ask you again, do you know how much they were sold for to the American|Korean."

I didn't know this, so I took a tentative guess and said, "Eight thousand dollars?"

In the forties, this money was already considered astronomical, the common people could not save enough of this money in several lifetimes, this is a big ocean, this price, I think I even try to say high.

Sister Hong shook her head no, she said straight away, "Not eight thousand, two pieces, one sold to Philadelphia and one to Pennsylvania, total price, one hundred and twenty-five thousand oceans."

"That much!" I was startled.

I was shocked, knowing that back then, the price of a whole courtyard in the second ring road of North|Jing was only a few hundred dollars! That's enough money to buy a hundred and fifty-three courtyards!

This is only one of them, and there was also Yue Bin from the Liuli Factory in North|Jing, who stole a huge stone carving of the empress and the Buddha from the Longmen Grottoes, and in order to transport it out, Yue Bin smashed the empress and the Buddha into more than sixty pieces and packed it into nine boxes, and after going out, he found someone to put it together, and finally sold it for 60,000 big noses called Pu Ailun. "

Sister Hong's words once again refreshed my perception, before I always thought that bronze and high antique jade were the most valuable, but I never thought that stone and stone carvings could also be worth so much money.

Sister Hong added, "In this world, everyone shouts at grave robbers, but compared to the people of Lu Yue, they are nothing compared to them."

At the moment I was looking at the stone carving of King Mu's eight stallions in the cave, and it seemed to have become even thicker and heavier.

I gulped and asked, "Sister Hong, this, we shouldn't be able to take it away, right?"

"Don't think about it, this thing needs professional tools and cracking before we can take it out, and once it appears on the market, the chances of the authorities tracing it back to us will increase infinitely. Do you want the money or do you want your life?"

I let out a heartfelt sigh of pity, there were several conditions we didn't possess in order to take this out, but I had seen it and had my eyes opened.

"Huh? No Sister Hong, this is the Eight Steeds of King Mu of Zhou, how did it end up in the tomb of a southern vassal king? What's going on here?"

"Don't ask me, I'm not sure now either."

Sister Hong looked around the cave and frowned, "There are things of high rank like that in the ministry, and now this stone carving has been found, this what's-his-name Mustard Waiter is definitely above the vassal kings in status."

"The opening of the mountain for the tomb, the hollowing out of the moth mountain, the extensive use of green stone from the northern region for the filling of the roof, the yellow intestine inscription, the burial of living people, the numerous cherished plants covering a huge back garden, the separate and independent sacrificial pits. And so on."

Sister Red sighed.

"This is the most intimidating dungeon tomb complex I've seen since I started my career."

"The tomb owner is not the Emperor of Zhou, though."

"But, no less than the Son of Zhou."

Having come this far, the identity of the tomb owner becomes even more confusing.

A large proportion of modern archaeologists do not acknowledge the existence of prehistoric civilisations (countries) before the Shang Dynasty, because the age is so long ago that it would be difficult to learn about that lost civilisation by relying solely on the oracle bone inscriptions and the six stacks of the nine-stack seal script.

History is, thick, mysterious and profound.

Just like the stone sculpture in front of me.

In fact, I had speculated that this cave could have been the place where this vassal king, in the early days of the Western Zhou, kept his horses and stored them.

After admiring the stone carving for some time, Yun and I continued to feel our way up.

My left arm dangled, not daring to strain, and every now and then I would feel pain, which I gritted my teeth and forced myself to endure.

At the end of the walk, at the end of the cave, was a pool of water.

The water was unclear and murky, with the occasional sound of falling water dripping around it. The area was completely sealed off all around and was a dead end.

We were so full of hope, but when we saw the pool of water, our hearts went cold.

I threw a small stone.

"Poof," the sound was dull and you could tell just by the sound that the water was deep.

"Sister Hong, it's over, what about this, we've come to a dead end, we can't get out," I said, my heart hardened and my voice demoralised.

The water was murky and it was impossible to see between is interchangeable, maybe two thousand years ago this was simply just a pit with no water."

"I want to go down there and check it out," Red told me of her thoughts.

"Don't. ....." Looking at the pool of water in front of me, I started to panic inside for no reason.

One, because I was afraid of water and didn't know how to water, and two, because the murky pool of water didn't know how deep it was, and I didn't know if there were some strange things in the water. Not to mention that I didn't know where the water would lead to.

Probably guessing my worries, Sister Hong sighed, "Hey, we are all feeling our way across the river now, if we don't manage to find the oldest three, we will have to starve to death here sooner or later."

Sister Hong unzipped her clothes, and she did so openly, not avoiding me as a man. I didn't dare to look either.

"Yunfeng you stay here, I'll be up in a few minutes, watch my clothes," Sister Hong said, testing the temperature of the water with her foot.

When she finished speaking, she jumped right in with a plop, splashing out quite a lot of water.

The water bubbled up a little and returned to calm.

I took Sister Red's clothes and lay on the edge of the puddle, staring unblinkingly at the water. My hands were sweating, they were nervous.

The sound of water ticking all around me was like a clock ticking.

Time, minute by minute, goes by.

One minute in the blink of an eye.

Two minutes.

Three minutes.

Still no ripples in the water.

Just as I was getting anxious, a layer of water blistered on the surface.

There was a sound of water coming out.

Sister Red burst out of the water at once, gasping for breath.

The joy on Red's face when she came ashore was unmistakable.

"That's right ..... Yun Feng we guessed right!" Sister Hong wiped her face and said excitedly, "There's no water, it's probably because of the earthquake that caused the underground river to back up and flood the place completely."

"I've made a prediction, I can probably swim out in about four minutes with my breath closed."

"Four minutes?"

I frowned, "I can't do it Sister Hong, I can't hold my breath for that long, and I can't use my arm," I pointed down to where I was injured for her to see.

Sister Hong gave my arm a worried look and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Same as before, I'll hold on to you and take you over, we still have the strength now, otherwise in a day or two, we won't even have the strength to go into the water, and by then, we'll only be stuck here waiting to die!"

"Rest and recover first," holding my face in her hands, she looked me in the eyes with a serious face, "Yunfeng, you can do it, believe in yourself, you won't die here, and neither will I."

We then rested here, something Sister Hong didn't say, but I knew in my heart that there was only one chance, and if we didn't get out, we wouldn't get up.

Nervous, I lay on the ground with my eyes closed and kept breathing deeply as I made my final preparations before entering the water.

After about a couple of incense sticks, the space inside here darkened.

"Is it clear of Cloud Peak?"

I opened my eyes and looked around.

Sister Hong was leaning against the wall with her eyes closed and she didn't say anything.

I thought it was my fear of entering the water and I was too nervous to have hallucinations, so I didn't take it to heart and continued to close my eyes to recover my strength.

"Have you reached the cloud peak?"

It turned out that not long after I had closed my eyes, Sister Hong's voice came again.

When I opened my eyes, Sister Hong was her usual self and didn't say anything.

"Pah," I slapped myself as hard as I could.

Across the room Sister Red heard the ringing sound.

"What's wrong? Yunfeng what are you hitting yourself for?"

Not daring to say that I might have been hallucinating, I was ready to say that I was fine.

But the words came to my lips.

Uncontrollably, I said, "What's wrong, Yun Feng, what are you hitting yourself for."

I was actually imitating Sister Hong's speech!

Sister Hong associated with something, her face turned white and she said three words in a deep voice.

"Who are you."

At this moment I was conscious and I wanted to say that I was Yun Feng.

But the words came to my lips.

Uncontrollably, I said, "Who are you?"

I was scared because I I associated it with the fact that wasn't it the same with Chen Tu Gong earlier?

Sister Hong and I had made a joke of him, saying that he was mentally ill, that he was insane.

How could I be like that too?

Have I become mentally ill too?

Is this the aftermath of me smelling the old yellow cypress face on the yellow intestine? But I remembered that Sister Hong smelled it too, why was she okay?

I had heard this voice last night in the fog.

Sister Red's face was pale as she looked at me and made a gesture of silence.

When she got up, she frowned and circled me.

Sister Hong said, "Yunfeng don't say anything, listen to me."

I covered my mouth with one hand and nodded my head.

Just then I heard her say, "Let me ask you, have you ever had any hallucinations, or hallucinations?"

I nodded and pointed to my ears, indicating to her that I had heard them.

"Where did the sounds you heard first come from? Don't mess around, think carefully."

After thinking back carefully, something very strange occurred to me.

The voice last night, when I first heard it, was very close to me and I could hear it very clearly, then it felt like it became distant.

The sound, where it first came from, was right next to me.

The Ga'u box amulet was still hanging around my neck and I felt my trouser pocket, dry and shrivelled, nothing there.

Suddenly, I blushed!

I remembered something.

The last time I casually caught a legless bug that looked like a robin, I didn't take it seriously and casually stuffed it into my trouser pocket.

But ... Why is it gone now?

The robin had no legs and ran away on its own?

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I was, in front of Sister Hong.

I took off my trousers a little.

Pulling down his trousers, he revealed the side of his thighs.

Red and I were both shocked.

We hadn't expected it.

On the outside of my thigh, near my trouser pocket, there was a cut the size of a nail cap!

The flesh of the wound was turned out, purplish red and slightly pus-filled.

The point is, I didn't feel any pain at all!

When I pressed it with my hand, I couldn't feel anything at all.

When I pressed the wound on my thigh, some juice flowed out from it.

At the same time, Sister Hong obviously didn't speak, but I heard a voice.

"Yunfeng, where are you, I'm here." These were the words I had heard the night the fog rose.

Looking at Sister Hong's expression, I could tell that the voice was only audible to me, not to her.

"Wait! Yunfeng you stay still for a while!" Sister Hong shouted, her eyes horrified as she stared dead at my wound.

Only to see, on the inside of my thigh, visible to the naked eye, the flesh was constantly rippling, and there was clearly something alive writhing inside!

"Don't move! Bear with it!" Sister Hong fished out her dagger straight away.

My own thighs were in such a state that I was terrified.

I bit down on my shirt and watched the whole thing in horror.

The dagger was sharp and Red gritted her teeth as she looked at the slightly writhing spot on my thigh. It went straight down the knife.

The dagger left blood as soon as it cut the flesh, and I clenched my shirt, expecting it to hurt. I didn't expect to feel any pain at all, just a tingling sensation.

After cutting the flesh, I could see clearly.

Inside was a yellowish-brown worm. It was the same legless worm that I had put in my pocket out of curiosity.

Sister Hong carefully plucked the worm out with the tip of her knife.

The worm came out and died.

As soon as the worm was dead I started to feel pain, a sharp pain in my outer thigh.

Sister Hong used a dagger to cut her clothes and tied a cloth to stop the bleeding.

She wiped the sweat and took a breath and said, "There, it should be alright."

As soon as the worm was plucked out, I didn't speak like her, and the hallucinations I had earlier were gone, so everything returned to normal.

Sister Hong looked at the dead bug on the ground and frowned, "What an evil thing, I didn't think of it before, but now I suddenly think of something, a small legendary bug called an echo bug."

Sister Hong spent more than ten minutes telling me all that she had thought of.

I also found it unbelievable when I listened to it.

There had been many records of this worm in ancient books, and at first the ancients were not sufficiently aware to classify this disease as one of the strange and difficult diseases, as was recorded once in the Compendium of Materia Medica.

"Read the herbs, stop the thunder pills, and stop the worm whispering."

Exactly how Li Shizhen cured it is how later generations interpreted it. At first, the patient did not look different, but when he came to the name "Lei Wan", the patient started to shake and sweat and looked very scared. Later, Li Shizhen used Lei Wan as a medicine, decocted it and made him drink it, and he was cured of his strange illness the next day. This is one of the later legends.

This worm, found in the Garden Secret, I carefully recalled the events leading up to it.

Chen Jiansheng had been trapped here for some time, and he had entered it several times before we arrived.

Is there a possibility that the reason he learned to speak like a human was also because, like me, he had this strange worm burrowed into his flesh.

It could be that over time, Chen Jiangsheng's condition was worse than mine, so he would be lazy-eyed and in a trance before the attack.

I, on the other hand, had my own consciousness when I had the attack because I had discovered it early.

Chen Jiangsheng hadn't touched anyone at all when he started, so the thing had been lurking.

When I thought about it that way, it all seemed to make sense.

It was not a good thing that this had happened, and although it had been dealt with early, it had definitely had an impact on our upcoming plans for the descent.

It became more difficult.

There is weirdness everywhere.

Mandrills, trailing golden moss, unknown flowers and trees, and answering insects, burial pits, ritual platforms, stone carvings of eight stallions, and finally this little pool of water in front of us.

Sister Hong meant that it was not too late, and when the wound on my leg stopped bleeding, Sister Hong got up and said, "Get ready, let's get into the water and swim out."

Holding hands and standing at the edge of the pool of water, she took a deep breath and turned to admonish me, "The proverbial door is up Yunfeng, fight for yourself, don't be afraid, remember what I said earlier, right? We can all get out alive."

I gritted my teeth and nodded, "Got it Sister Hong, fight!"

"Breathe in, take a deep breath."

I took a big breath and breathed deeply.

"I'll count from one to three, start on three, keep in sync, it's not far, hold your breath to the end, you have to hold on to me."

"One."

"Two."

"Three."

"Jump!"

Without hesitation, on the count of three, she and I jumped into the water, almost in sync.

The water was not as cold as in the underground river, but the visibility was not good, so I puffed out my cheeks and held my breath.

A few very small fish swam past me and after less than a minute of diving, I could vaguely see many stone steps in the water, one after the other.

We swam in the direction of the steps and followed them.

There were no water plants under the water, so I didn't have to worry about getting my feet tangled up in them, but something unexpected happened.

As I was moving my stirrups underwater, the area where my thigh wound was bandaged, opened up .....

Quite a lot of blood flowed down the wound and flowed in a steady stream all around.

Because of the smell of blood, from nowhere, a foot-long black fish was attracted. The black fish was not very big, but looked as if it had teeth.

Sister Hong looked back and saw the fish.

With frightened eyes, she desperately tugged me forward and swam with great strength.

Such violent movements were accompanied by a massive consumption of oxygen in the lungs.

Soon I felt myself reaching my limit, my lungs suffocating.

Blood continued to seep out.

Then I saw a steady stream of black fish with teeth gathering around me.

They gathered together, following the smell of blood, and finally targeted me and Red.

The fish gathered more and more and began to chase us!

Swimming down these steps underwater, a close call was made when red dots of bright light appeared at the surface of the water ahead, looking like torches.

"Gulp," I reached my limit, unable to hold my breath, and took a big gulp of water.

The pain came as a black fish bit into my thigh.

Then two ....

were getting closer to the surface, and Red was under attack, and she rushed out of the water like a madman, dragging me with her.

"Help ..... Help!"

As soon as I showed my head I sucked in a big breath and shouted for help, there were piranhas biting me.

On the shore, torches shone.

Sun Boss, Sun Lao San held up torches while looking at me and Hong in a daze.

"Little Hong!"

"Yunfeng!"

Big brother and third brother put down the torch, without even taking off their clothes, they jumped into the water with a poof and dragged me to the shore with them.

I still had several black fish biting into my legs, and Sister Hong was similarly biting into several black fish on her arms, which hurt to look at.

San slapped his thigh violently, with a look of excitement.

"Great!"

"Good for nothing! Lao-san, don't you see what the two of us have become!" Even patting and beating to deal with the few black fish on her body, Sister Hong looked at Sun Laosan.

After not seeing him for a few days, Sun Laosan had a dusty face and felt a little thinner, he sighed, "It's kind of God's eyes that we can meet again, Xiao Hong you don't know how much big brother and I have suffered in order to find you and Yun Feng."

"Old man, don't talk about useless things, as long as people are okay," the boss asked softly, "Yunfeng, Xiaohong, you are in

At this point my eyelids were heavy and I said breathlessly, "Big brother, can you guys take care of me first, I can't carry it anymore."

"Ahem, you look at me."

"Hurry up, Lao-san come and help."

They hadn't lost their backpacks, and there were emergency straps in the bag that they had prepared earlier. After briefly treating my wounds and eating a mouthful of dry food and getting something in my stomach, I felt better.

I felt better after I had eaten some dry food and got something in my stomach.

Sun Laosan couldn't stop shaking his head after hearing this, "There is nothing strange under the sun, and to be able to touch a tomb like this once in your life is an eye-opener. In addition, Xiao Hong, in fact, what I care most is that you said that Chen Jiansheng, this person is really a southern school earthworker? And took the initiative to save you?"

I corrected him, "No San, this man should be called Bai Jiansheng, according to himself he is a descendant of the old man Bai Chun Diao."

"That's even more wrong!"

Sun Laosan looked at me with a frown, "I've heard of some famous earthworkers in the Southern School, after all, I'm an earthworker myself, but I have no impression of this Chen Jiansheng at all."

"What about you Brother?"

"No," said Boss Sun after thinking carefully, "I've heard a little bit about Chen the Pot, I think he's with the Zhao Flood wave, but this Chen Jiansheng ..... It is indeed unheard of."

The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the problem.

I felt a bit uncomfortable after hearing this, regardless of Chen Jiansheng's identity, but this man saved us both, a drop of water should be repaid, let alone this? We are not too ignorant of human feelings, too cold-blooded?

The boss, who looked at me with my head bowed in disbelief, seemed to have guessed what I was thinking, and he laughed: "Yunfeng, don't think we don't know how to repay our kindness. "

"I tell you Yunfeng, there is a reason for what happened, Xiao Hong's father, Chen Zhiyong, back then, was made by the South faction's toffs who teamed up to make a black and white game and eventually had someone buried alive in the West|Zang."

I was dumbfounded to hear that there was such a thing! If this were true, for Sister Hong, it would be a revenge for killing her father .....

No wonder, since the beginning, Sister Hong had never given Chen Jiansheng a good look, even after he saved us, she was still like this.

"I'm sorry Sister Hong," I said and lowered my head.

Sister Hong took a deep breath, "There is a head for injustice and a tail for debt, sooner or later, my revenge will be intensified and I will get it back sooner or later, when I have saved enough money and enough contacts, when the time comes, I will let my father rest in peace in his nine springs."

Sister Hong's tone was calm, but from these plaintive tones, I could hear it. Heard her determination.

"I know it's useless to advise you as many times as I can, Hong, I still want to advise you to look on the bright side, we are mixed in the lowest level of the jianghu, there are some people, even if we ourselves put our lives on the line, we can't create any consequences for them, this is the fate." The boss said this in a somewhat despondent tone.

"What fate! As long as there is money! As long as there are people!"

"What is fate!"

"Tell me, Boss! Isn't my father's life a life? Huh? Say it!" Sister Hong suddenly shouted and turned hysterical.

"If one hundred million won't do, then two hundred million! If two hundred million doesn't work, then three hundred million, no one in the jianghu dares to mess with them, I, Chen Hong, dare!" Sister Hong was completely out of control as she roared hysterically and loudly.

I didn't understand the feud at all, but this was the first time I had seen Sister Hong like this, and to be honest, it was a bit scary.

The Sun brothers were silent when they saw this. The atmosphere was a little strange.

Cautiously, I tried to ask: "Big brother, when Sister Hong said that no one dares to mess with them, who does this they refer to? Is it a person? Not even the head of the group would dare to mess with them?"

Big Brother and Third Brother exchanged a meaningful glance.

"No, it's not one person, it's an organization, a gang, a group of strange people in the upper echelons of the jianghu."

"Strange people? What kind of people are those?" I was a little puzzled.

"Hey," the boss patted my shoulder, "Yunfeng, you are still young now, you don't need to know too much, you just need to know one thing, this gang, we can't afford to mess with them, the head can't afford to mess with them, Yao Yumen can't afford to mess with them, even Yao Yumen's uncle, Yao Wenzhong, can't afford to mess with them ... No need to think so much, little red we will still be advising, when you have been in the industry for a long time, some things will naturally become clear."

I nodded my head with seeming understanding and did not ask more questions.

If it's really like the boss said, I'm still young, some things, I will understand clearly sooner or later.

"Forget it, bad luck, let's not talk about it."

"Yunfeng Xiaohong, Lao San and I are almost done poking around up there, we found a very odd place, messed up, it could be the main chamber where the tomb master's coffin is hidden."

The boss squatted down and picked up a stone with his hand, as he wrote and drew, he continued, "Look guys, this is like Moth Mountain, we've been walking for so many days, onwards and upwards, there are two possibilities."

"The first one, this big underground palace is across two big mountains, that is, from Moth Mountain to Nine Dragons Mountain. Just like the Qianling Tomb straddles Liang Mountain and Milk Mountain."

"The second, we've made a detour, and it's possible that we're heading back, just because of the geographical structure, causing us to be unable to distinguish our direction, and we're actually still under Moth Mountain."

These two possibilities, thinking about them, I felt that either guess could have happened, and this is what I am now guessing.

"Yunfeng Xiaohong, what do you guys have to say about this as well, let's try to get this figured out, it would be too humiliating to be in two minds like this ..." ...

The people listened to the silence, red sister also fell into a deep thought.

"Big brother," I raised my hand tremblingly.

"Oh, what do you think, Yunfeng? Say it and listen, don't be in a hurry."

"It's like this big brother," I organized the thoughts in my head and said, "We found the axe earlier, and also found the stone carving of the eight stallions of King Mu of Zhou, although we didn't find the nine pots and seven gui for the son of heaven, but I think it's only a matter of time."

"Stop, allow me to say one thing," said Red, who seemed to have come out of the emotion she had just felt.

"There's no point in you lot writing and drawing here, Boss I ask you, what's the purpose of our trip down here?"

"To find Lao Er," the Boss replied dryly.

"And did you find it?"

The Boss shook his head despondently.

But he immediately changed his expression.

"Yes, we didn't find the penis, but we found this."

"Look guys," the Boss pulled half a cigarette butt out of his trouser pocket.

The butt was in a tattered state, and Ehi could see the trademark plate on it.

"Five Golden Flowers." It was a Five Golden Flowers brand of cigarettes.

The boss pointed to the cigarette in his hand and said, "The oldest one only smokes this brand of cigarettes, I have learned before that there are no such cigarettes sold locally in Shunde at all, this kind of five golden flowers cigarettes are popular in the area of North|Beijing and Hebei, basically you can't see them in the south, they belong to regional cigarettes."

I knew this.

At that time, regional cigarettes were popular in the northern areas, such as official hall cigarettes, four-seven cigarettes, welcome cigarettes, white stone forest, red diamond second generation, monkey king brand cigarettes, jasmine brand cigarettes, small panda cigarettes and so on. Basically, one is popular in one region.

What I found strange was that there was half a pack of Five Golden Flowers cigarettes in the piece of clothing that the short mule golem had picked up earlier, which was taken away by Chen Jiansheng.

The cigarettes were the same as the ones Er had been smoking, and the clothes were definitely not Sun Lao Er's, as they were fat and Sun Lao Er was lean and did not match at all.

But Chen Jiansheng had said earlier that one of the men in their gang, the Branch Pot Chan, had died, and Chen said that Five Golden Flowers was what this man had loved to smoke when he was alive.

If it was a coincidence, then there were at least two people who smoked this kind of cigarette. In other words, the fact that the Boss picked up this cigarette does not prove that the Second had come down, let alone that he was still alive.

Looking into the Boss's hopeful eyes, I wanted to say something several times, but I couldn't bear to tell him the truth.

If the second brother was not found in the end.

Then, until then, this rotten cigarette was to give the two brothers something to hold on to for moral support.

So I pretended to be happy and said, pretending to be surprised, "Yes, Brother! I know, Five Golden Flowers this is what Brother Two usually smokes! He must have been here and still be alive, otherwise he wouldn't be able to smoke."

"That's right, that's the truth, and I also think that Two is still alive," said the oldest, taking back his cigarette, with hope in his eyes again.

Sister Hong also saw through it without saying anything.

She changed the subject and asked, "We've talked about what happened to us, what about you guys."

"Don't mention it, just thinking about it makes me angry, I told you before, I brought four detonators with me before coming down to deal with special situations."

Sister Hong was the team logistic, she was more familiar with these things.

Sister Hong nodded: "Fire detonators, the number nine point five, my men helped prepare them, of course I know about this."

"What, did you guys use them? How many of them did you use?"

"Well, yes," nodded the oldest, "used one, thanks to this, otherwise, the boss and I would have been finished!"

"It's a long story, I can't explain it in a sentence or two, I'll tell you about it when I have time, for now, I'll take you to a place that I think has something to do with the main chamber."

"Yunfeng, how is your leg, can you walk, do you need me to carry you?"

I endured the pain and gritted my teeth as I stood up.

"No need big brother, I can do it on my own."

"OK, be a man, I'll walk slower, if you can't keep up, remember to ask at any time, don't hold on."

I nodded.

This large tomb under Moth Mountain is a completely stone walled dungeon style structure on the upper level and an underground cavern structure on the lower level. The mountain was covered with underground rivers and some hidden caves, so this was not a complicated structure.

The Sun brothers had made their own torches, burning mainly clothes and dry branches, which were not very persistent and the torch was already starting to lose momentum.

Holding the torch and following this path by the waterhole, the Sun brothers brought me and Sister Hong to a place.

When we arrived at the place, we saw before us a vajra wall sealed with hexagonal clay, with no door or window in the wall.

The wall had no doors or windows, it was just a wall. Liouhe clay and vajra wall are what people call it now, just like white plaster mud and green plaster mud, the ancient people didn't call it that.

There are cuts in the grave robbing trade.

Green with white, fortune comes, triple clay, buried green, vajra wall, cannot be opened.

The colour of triple clay is creamy white, and the ingredients are glutinous rice juice, clay and dung juice. This kind of soil does not fall apart in a thousand years, is very hard and stable, and is also waterproof.

Further up there are four- and five-composite clays, and it is said that there is a maximum of seven-composite clay, but that no one has ever seen.

The boss recognises at a glance that this wall is a six-hectare clay, in fact it is said to be. Three whites, four greens, five blacks and six yellows are said to be the colours of these mixed clays after they have solidified.

As for the ingredients in the hexagon, the boss said he could only guess five.

The mixture of these materials is refined through repeated refinement, and then mixed and dried to make the clay.

In the past, the cost of triple clay, not to mention hexagonal clay, was very high.

The wall is called a vajra wall, but it has only been found once, and it is still a five-component wall, and the owner of the tomb was Emperor Ming Wan Li. The archaeological team had to work hard to open this vajra wall back then.

Hong knocked on the dull yellow stone wall and frowned: "Lao San, there is no way to run into this stuff, the vajra wall with six hops of yellow, no one in the line has ever heard of encountering it, normally, if anyone in the line encounters the triple clay, they use alum noodles with vinegar to soak it, but these two things, you guys didn't prepare them either, right?"

"You guys wouldn't be ....." Sister Hong suddenly raised her eyebrows.

The boss's face was gloomy as he said, "Back in the year of the Ding Tomb, behind the vajra wall of Wuhe earth was the coffin of Emperor Wan Li, we have come this far, if we don't take a look at the rightful owner of this place, will we be willing to do so?"

Sister Hong looked up and frowned, "After all, it's still inside the underground palace, the two 9.5 fire detonators are quite powerful, aren't you afraid that the underground palace will collapse and bury us all alive in here?"

"We've certainly considered that, but look at it this way, Little Red, the fact that this underground palace hasn't collapsed in over two thousand years means that the quality is still reliable, and Old San and I still have confidence in it."

"Then let it be," seeing that the boss was adamant, Red finally nodded and did not discourage.

If ancient tomb robbers came across this, they could only choose to go around, including the abductor needle, any strange and obscene techniques were useless, even if experts who were good at dividing gold and fixing points came, to get in, no one was good enough, they could only break through with violence.

How was the wall of vajra of the Ding tomb opened?

The archaeological team hired sixteen strong villagers, each with a sledgehammer and a sharp chisel, to work in two-hour shifts...

Eighty, eighty of them.

It took sixteen old men more than twenty days to knock a hole in the wall.