The hill was bare, with almost no plants growing on it. The mountain was filled with strange-shaped stones. In a relatively flat area halfway up the mountain, there were twenty to thirty houses piled up with stones, just like a small village.
Mozzie glanced at the houses and said to me,""Do you find this layout a little familiar?”
I saw that these houses were closely packed together and arranged in an orderly manner. The number of houses at the bottom increased in order. From the appearance, it looked like a cow's horn. I quickly replied,"This is simply a mini version of the Xijiang Thousand Miao Village.”
Mosquito nodded and asked Li Juan to check if there were any voodoo around the house. Living in such a dangerous place, Mozzie was worried that the warriors of the ancient Jiuli Race would place Gu worms around the house to protect themselves.
Li Juan answered with certainty that there was no such thing. She said that in the ancient Jiuli Race, only the Great Wizards could use witchcraft. Moreover, warriors valued honor very much and would not use it.
Since Li Juan said so, I walked to the nearest stone house and reached out to push open the door made of a few wooden sticks. The door fell apart without any warning.
"Ah!"
I was so scared that I took a few steps back. The other three were not scared by the scene in front of them. Instead, they were shocked by my shout and made different defensive movements.
"Can you not be so shocked? It seems like there's a need to reassess you after we get out.”
Dafei put down the gun in his hand and shouted at me in dissatisfaction. At the same time, he glanced at Li Juan strangely, making her feel uncomfortable. She quickly ran to Mosquito's side and leaned against him.
My face turned red. Actually, it wasn't that my willpower wasn't strong enough. It was just that I had encountered too many strange things along the way. My nerves had long collapsed like when I had diarrhea. Any fart could explode.
In order to ease the awkwardness, I quickly volunteered to be a suicide squad and rushed into the house with my gun. After looking around, I reported loudly,"Leader, there's nothing here.”
The four of them searched the houses separately but did not find any clues.
I casually said," It's really strange. There should be a grave after he died. Why is there nothing? Could it be that they were all eaten by wild beasts?"
Mosquito shook her head." The last to die might, but the first to die, the living won't ignore it.”
Dafei nodded in agreement. But where would the remains of these ancestors be?
"Oh, right." I suddenly thought of something and quickly said to Dafei,"Leader, there's a saying in our hometown. Some ethnic minorities are popular in burying deep graves.”
"Deep Foundation Tomb? Oh, I see." Dafei nodded slightly and walked towards the higher ground.
Mozzie came over and asked me what a deep foundation grave was. I felt that the opportunity to be a treasure had come." Hehe, after this person dies, he will definitely be buried in peace. As for An Unease, it depended on how deep the grave was. There's a saying in my hometown: The coffin was buried deep, the family produced gold, the grave was covered with thick soil, and there was meat every meal. "To put it bluntly, this deep foundation grave means that the grave pit is dug especially deep. However, in our country, this deep foundation grave only refers to the graves of certain ethnic minorities. As you know, Han people bury graves with mounds, but some ethnic minorities don't. After they buried the coffin, they would fill the ground. It was said that this was to prevent grave robbers from discovering it.”
Mosquito smiled helplessly and said,"Isn't this the stone coffin tomb mentioned in the Mystical Records?"”
"Yeah, it's a stone coffin tomb."
“......”
Not long after, Dafei returned and waved at us, indicating that we should follow him.
I was a little puzzled." Leader, what are you preparing to do?”
"Digging a grave."
"Digging graves?"
The three of us were a little surprised and quickly asked for the reason. Dafei explained that he could not find any clues in these houses, so he could only see if he could find anything in their graves.
It dawned on me that in ancient times, tombs were not only the residences of the dead, but also the places where many secrets were sealed.
However, I had a question in my heart."Leader, do you know where they are buried?”
Dafei said a few inexplicable words," With the back facing the mountain and the front looking at the water, there is a green forest under our feet. The left side is not protruding, and the right side is flat. The middle is just right to bury the ancestors.”
"This…"
After listening to Da Fei's jingle, I looked around and saw a place that matched what he said.
"Hey, you know what?" Mozzie and I stood side by side and muttered," What he said reminded me of a very awesome online author called Ground Scream. He wrote a novel called Ghost Lights Out, which was about Feng Shui and tomb robbing. What he wrote was all related to the investigation bureau. It was said that he had once worked for the Investigation Bureau. Otherwise, how could he know so much?”
"Do you know where the gossip on the Internet came from? It's people like you who have nothing better to do than to spout nonsense and fan the flames to watch the show. Anyway, bragging is not illegal.”Mosquito replied in a bad mood, causing Li Juan to cover her mouth and chuckle.
As we chatted and laughed, we were already standing on the empty ground. After looking around, Dafei stood in the center of the empty space and looked around. Then, he kept spinning his body, walking up and down in a very orderly manner, and at the same time, he muttered something. It was just that his voice was very soft, and he could barely hear words like 'Yi Chou.'
"Alright, here, start digging.”Dafei finally stood at the edge of the stone house and stomped his foot.
"He's really amazing, but he's still not as good as our village's Liu Banxian.”
I whispered. Seeing Li Juan's puzzled face, Mosquito explained," That's a Feng Shui master in their village. He mentioned it more than once and always said that he was very powerful. I don't know if it's true or not."”
We don't have the relevant equipment, so we can only rely on our daggers to slowly dig the soil. In the beginning, the soil on the ground was still relatively loose, but before they could dig a foot deep, it began to become hard. The deeper he dug, the harder it was.
In order to open the coffin after we find it, we have to expand the area of the pit mouth while digging deeper. Naturally, this increases the workload. Fortunately, we had Dafei, the tomb raider expert. Under his command, we loosened the soil from the edge and it was relatively easy.
When my hands were about to lose all feeling, a sizzling sound was heard. The dagger finally touched something very hard. At this moment, we were already standing in a funnel-shaped pit that was about four meters deep.
I slumped in the pit, not caring if it was dirty or not. I stretched out my hands that were covered in mud and wiped the sweat on my forehead. Looking at the others, besides Dafei who was still standing, Mozzie and Li Juan were in a worse state than me.
Dafei seemed to be in good spirits. He cleared the soil under his feet alone, revealing a wide and long stone slab.
I thought to myself that it was just like what my hometown said. The deep foundation graves were all buried with stone coffins. I couldn't help but curse at the mosquitoes,"Mozzie, I say, your ancestors are really too much. Are you afraid of grave robbers after dying here? Why did he bury it so deep? Fortunately, Da Fei's leader Niu Bi could find a tomb that was thousands of years old.”
After Dafei saw that the stone coffin had revealed its true appearance, he took two steps back and sat down."To the people of the Celestial Empire, the living and the dead are equally important and particular. No matter where it was, no matter who it was, everyone wanted to be buried comfortably after death. It was normal to be buried so deep. Also, the geomancy of China had already taken shape in primitive society. Moreover, there were only a few famous clans at that time, and they were basically the same. Even the funeral customs of various famous clans evolved from the original Fengshui. Therefore, anyone who knew a little about this could be found.”
After listening to him, why do I feel that Dafei is always targeting me? Could it be that I beat him up before? Revenge?
Then, Dafei turned to look at Li Juan and said expressionlessly,"Li Juan is the descendant of the Jiuli Race. She should know about such a simple matter.”
Li Juan looked a little unnatural and said awkwardly,"Master didn't tell me this."
Mozzie and I didn't know how to respond. We buried our heads and rested, afraid that Dafei would say something to slap us in the face again.
"Let's begin."
When they were almost done resting, Dafei took the lead and found a few hard wooden sticks. The few of them worked together to open the lid of the stone coffin. This stone lid was directly placed on the coffin. Other than the key points, as long as the method was appropriate, it was not difficult to remove it.
When we opened the coffin, we were worried that there would be poisonous gas in the coffin. We tried to move the stone lid bit by bit so that the gas inside wouldn't come out all of a sudden.
"This is indeed domineering."
Just from the skeleton in front of him, one could see his majestic figure when he was alive: He wore a feathered crown, his upper body was naked, a skirt made of animal skin was tied around his waist, a huge axe was tied to his waist, and he held a spear in his hand.
I sighed from the bottom of my heart and stammered,"Why? It should be at least 1.9 meters, right?"”
Mosquito burst out laughing and jokingly asked me if I was envious. How else can I answer? My height is my weakness
Jokes aside, we carefully searched the coffin. There were almost no burial items in the coffin. There was only an irregular fist-sized stone ball beside the skull.
I picked it up and played with it for a while. I found that it was just a very ordinary stone ball polished with stones. I really couldn't guess why the tomb owner used it to be buried with him. It could be a weapon he used when he was alive, the kind that he threw, or it could have a special meaning to the tomb owner.
Dafei was silent for a few seconds and asked me to help lift the stone cover. I quickly went up to cooperate and spent a lot of effort to turn the stone slab over. There were some strange patterns on it.
"It's a picture."
Mosquito spoke first. Dafei nodded and said that he was not sure what the higher-ups wanted to express. He asked Li Juan if she could translate it.
"Yes."
Li Juan nodded. Her master had taught her some of the ancient Jiuli language. The words recorded on this stone tablet are similar to the legend that Li Juan told us before. To us, it doesn't have any substantial help.
I said dejectedly,"Alas, I was happy for nothing. I thought there was a way to record it out." Leader, how about it? Why don't you look for other graves and we'll dig them out to take a look?”
"It's useless." Dafei said with certainty," Although this open space is full of ancient tombs, we are digging the leader's tomb. During the tribal era, the hierarchy was very strict. Other stone coffins are not qualified to be engraved.”
Mozzie and Li Juan were as disappointed as I was. They were also impressed by Da Fei's ability. He could actually tell where the leader was buried at a glance.
"You're all quite tired. Have a good rest.”
After saying that, Da Fei climbed out of the grave, and Mozzie and Li Juan followed him out. I wanted to put the stone lid back on, but it didn't budge. He thought to himself,'Mosquito, you skull-cleaver. Your ancestral grave has been dug up, but you don't care about your ancestors.'
Just as I was thinking about it, a gust of cold wind blew in from all directions. I was puzzled and quickly chased after them.
"Hey, Leader, are we staying in the stone house?”"Can you stay away from these graves?" I asked.”
Dafei ignored me. Mosquito asked me curiously what was going on.
"What happened? Let me tell you, it's best for this person to stay away from the netherworld. Our village's Liu Banxian once said,"One Yin versus one Yang, everything is negotiable." Two yin against one yang, unable to sleep in the middle of the night; Three yin to one yang, sick do not leave the bed; Four yin against one yang, even if you don't die, you will go crazy; Five Yin against one Yang, even the immortals wouldn't help. It meant that the more graves there were, the more dangerous it would be for a person to live in. Although they are your ancestors, if we dig up their graves, won't they wake up in the middle of the night to strangle us?”
"Is it that exaggerated?" Mosquito asked with bulging eyes.”
I knew that he didn't believe me, so I tried to persuade him." Sigh, I didn't believe it in the past either. But ever since we became the Mystic Police, some things can't be explained by science alone. If they really come looking for trouble, the first one to die will be you, this unfilial descendant.”
Mosquito just smiled and stopped bickering with me. In the end, under Dafei's arrangements, we found the largest stone house to light a fire and rest. Because I was really too tired, I threw all the words I had just said out of my mind and fell asleep in the innermost corner.
"Get up."
"Who is it? Why?"
I don't know how long I slept, but I still felt a little dizzy. When I realized that someone was shaking my body, I was so scared that I quickly waved my hand and punched before I could open my eyes. However, his fist was suddenly blocked by a huge force. It turned out to be Da Fei.
"Leader, what's the situation?"
"Follow me out to find a way out."
I sat up unwillingly and looked at the two people behind Dafei. They were talking and laughing softly. Pah, they were really shameless.
"Hurry up and leave."
Dafei walked out of the room without a word. What else could I do? I glared at the mosquito who didn't even look at me and followed him out.
When they reached the top of the mountain, Dafei looked back at the stone house and asked softly,""Do you believe Li Juan?"
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