Chapter 24: The Coffin's Occupant

  If the first disappearance was an accident, then what about this time? Was he again unknowingly taken away by some secret door? He was clearly just pulling Pengpeng earlier, but when I came over, he was gone. This person is too strange.

  "It's possible that the kid went down first, this is just the nature of businessmen, seeing treasure and forgetting danger." Pengpeng helped me up and prepared to head down as well.

  I grabbed Pengpeng and asked:

  "Pen Pen, how did you and the coffin get acquainted?"

  "It was through a friend, that's how we met when we went drinking together. We hit it off immediately at the dinner table and chatted a lot, afterwards we often chatted online, played games together, drank together. That's how it was, what do you mean?"

  "Do you know his background and family situation?"

  "It's about right, this antique shop has been passed down from his ancestors, his grandfather used to do this back then, later on his father didn't take over, until it was his generation, but he was interested in this stuff, so the shop was passed down to him."

  "Why did he call it a coffin?"

  "I'm telling you, this kid only collects things from the dead. As long as it's from a grave, he can tell the era just by smelling it. His QQ username is even 'Funeral', I mean, isn't that basically the same system as coffins?"

  The coffin is a title in the Jianghu, which means it has the same brand effect as Nike and Adidas. Any place that hangs a paper coffin at the door proves to be a place where dead people's belongings are collected or a region where banned goods are sold. This unlucky name is not used casually, only those who have been through three generations of hardships and blessings that surpass five lifetimes have the qualifications to use it. Because such people are hard to find, they were lost from generation to generation. In ancient times, there were organizations that used coffins as their flag, spreading all over the world to search for graveyards and taking over newly unearthed artifacts. For some reason, their sense of direction was very accurate, and any royal tomb could not escape their eyes, especially those from a hundred years ago, which had been smoothed out by time, they could still find them. Then they would sell the location to professional tomb raiders, and after they took things out of the tomb, they would buy them back at a high price. But where these things were sold to, no one knew.

  This organization has long since disappeared, and now he uses the name of a coffin. Is it to let those who understand know that he is the only heir of the coffin faction? Otherwise, he wouldn't have located the position indicated on the map so quickly. However, after entering, he seemed like an outsider who didn't understand anything, and what he knew was not even as much as I had read in books. Maybe he was intentionally hiding his strength?

  Pengpeng saw me lost in thought for a long time without speaking, so he patted me and interrupted my thinking.

  "What's going on?"

  "Brother-in-law, are you suspecting the coffin?"

  "No, I just feel a bit uneasy. What was that strange thing that just rolled past us? How did it roll down? Is it that mysterious person again, and is he trying to tell us the way through this road?" I quickly changed the subject because I didn't want to make Pong Pong uncomfortable.

  "This is the only explanation, every time we come here, the hint was given by him. Since he already knows everything, why didn't he go in himself? Instead, he let us be the cannon fodder and walk in front, is it kindness or a sinister plot?"

  "The only answer is the road below, he's doing this just to let us continue on our way, maybe there's some danger down there that he can't resolve."

  "That's right, because you're the reincarnated one, won't there be some mechanism that only you can undo?"

  "Let's go, but first we need to find a coffin."

  "By the way, did you take a picture of me when I jumped over from there just now?"

  "What? Take a picture?"

  "Yeah, if I could put up a floating photo on QQ Space, that would be so cool!"

  I remember him telling me before he took off, but I only remembered looking at the coffin and forgot about it. Pengpeng had already taken my phone from me to look at his own heroic pose. "How could this be?"