Chapter 59: The Nine Corpses Dragging Coffins

  The location of the Heavenly Master's coffin was not far away, and soon they arrived. The old clan leader's tomb was still open. The corpse and coffin that were once buried inside had disappeared from this world.

  After arriving at the place, Liu Weimin stopped ringing the bell, and I returned to normal. Rushing to his side in anger, I asked him what he had done to me.

  Liu Weimin just gave me a faint glance without explaining anything.

  He walked up to the grave and took a look. Then he turned around and said to me, "Take off your official robe and hang it on that tree to burn."

  He was talking about a small tree not far from the grave, but I had made up my mind not to help him with anything. Liu Weimin waited for a while, seeing that I didn't move, and said impatiently: "You'd better know your place. I'm not in the mood to fool around with you now."

  I told you to get out of here, stop using family members as hostages against me. It's not a big deal, just break up and scatter. If you don't believe it, try it and see.

  With a surge of grief and indignation. At this moment, I really let go, and through what just happened, I also feel that I must have a great use for Liu Weimin, without me, he can't even open the coffin.

  If he dares to use my parents as leverage again, making this grief and indignation even more intense, then I really dare to die in front of him. Now is not the time for a calm and composed death. With a hot head, there's nothing I won't do.

  Liu Weimin furrowed his brow and looked around, but didn't say much. The iron shovel that Xu Qi had left behind was still stuck in the soil pile. Liu Weimin grasped it in his hand and started digging, but he wasn't digging a coffin. Instead, he walked around the grave, seemingly measuring something. Every few steps, he would scoop up a shovelful of dirt to mark a spot. After circling around once, he began to dig with a grunt.

  We just watched from a distance, neither helping nor stopping him, and Liu Weimin dug out nine shallow pits. There should be something in the pit, but we can't see it.

  From the top of the mountain, San Shu, who had been silent all along, gradually became restless, with dense sweat beads on her forehead. Yu Wei still suspected her and made sarcastic remarks several times, but San Shu didn't respond, not even looking at him, focusing intently on Liu Weimin. Logically, Liu Weimin was the benefactor of her family, and she was a junior, so she should have gone to help with the work, but she didn't.

  At the third watch of the night, Liu Weimin finally stopped working, put down his iron shovel and sat on a pile of soil to smoke a cigarette. His expression was somewhat desolate. Yu Mo asked me if I could guess what this old man was doing.

  I said I didn't know, and he asked me again, what did Lao Zu just stuff into my mouth?

  I lightly said: "Zombie Blood."

  Don't be so shocked that your chin drops, and ask in a hurry: "What's the feeling? I'm going to rely on it, will you eat zombie blood, so the old man uses the bell to control you?"

  "I don't know, when I first ate it, my throat felt like it was on fire, but then I didn't feel anything anymore. Has Xiaobai contacted you again?"

  Yu didn't shake his head and fell silent, just as I was about to ask again, Liu Weimin's phone suddenly rang.

  I don't know who called him or what was said, but Liu Weimin responded with a few "uh-huhs" and, without avoiding us, said: "Get the villagers to stand in position. When it's time to mobilize them, they'll all feel numb and weak. You control the scene, no matter what, you can't let them get out of line."

  When I heard this, Yu Wu and I were both shocked. Liu Weimin said that the villagers were all working for the No. 6 archaeological team, but now they were listening to his arrangements. Didn't that mean that the No. 6 archaeological team also had to listen to his orders?

  It's also possible that it wasn't the archaeological team, but Liu Weimin's people, which would be even more terrifying. He can drive away wolves and swallow tigers, and he actually chased away the archaeological team under Dao Xie's command!

  After hanging up, Liu Weimin walked in front of us, dialed the number and pressed the speakerphone. A few beeps later, a woman's voice came from the phone, "Hello?" My heart was racing, I was about to grab it, but Liu Weimin handed me the phone instead.

  That was a gentle voice, but she said politely: "Hello Grandpa Liu, it's so late to call, is there something going on?"

  I stood there with my phone in hand, unable to understand why Wenjing said such a thing. Liu Weimin chuckled and lowered his head, saying: "Girl, are you feeling better?"

  The girl responded with a soft "uh-huh", and then said "thank you, Grandpa Liu". I was wondering if she was quiet, but her next sentence gave me the answer. She said: "Grandpa Liu, is my brother next to you? I want to talk to him for a bit."

  My heart was stirred, and then I heard Liu Weimin say: "Your brother has gone to help me with something, you should rest early, in a few days you will be reunited with your siblings, ask Xiao Li to answer the phone."

  A few seconds later, a male voice came through again, saying respectfully and clearly: "Hello, sir. I'm Li Bo."

  Liu Weimin took the phone from my hand, staring at me without blinking, and said: "Li Bo, you guys keep an eye on that little girl. If I call her again tonight, don't let her answer it. Take her to a remote mountain village overnight, find a few most despicable men to take turns serving her, after finishing, cut off the girl's four limbs and throw them into the river to feed the fish."

  The man replied with a straightforward "yes", and Liu Weimin hung up the phone, looking at me calmly. I, on the other hand, was stunned, my eyes wide with shock, as if there was an expanding balloon in my chest that was suffocating me, making my brain feel oxygen-deprived and on the verge of convulsing.

  Yu shouted at Liu Weimin, "You old bastard, you're too cruel! Do you still have any humanity?" After scolding him, he pushed me and said, "Don't just stand there, do what others tell you to do. What kind of waves can you still stir up?"

  I stared at Liu Weimin with a hatred I had never felt before, but he didn't take it seriously and even joked: "You also want to learn from Zhuang Shenhai, carve my appearance into your brain, so that you won't kill the wrong person when you take revenge in the future?"

  Unconsciously, his voice became hoarse, I asked him, what's going on with Wen Jing?

  Liu Weimin said that two days ago, after leaving Guanxi Village, Huang Jinbai still thought he had succeeded in stirring up the water and forcing Liu Weimin to temporarily avoid him, so he decided to take his family into hiding for a while.

  When moving house, one must take away the important things. It was at that moment when Village Chief Xu Shulin sneaked into the Huang's home that Liu Weimin finally confirmed Huang Jinbai's true identity.

  Huang Jinbai was wrong, he didn't understand Liu Weimin's strength, thinking that with Liu Weimin gone, he would be safe, but he didn't expect that after one Liu tiger left, a pack of vicious wolves surnamed Liu arrived.

  A sense of desolation rose in my heart, I asked Liu Weimin, was the sixth archaeological team under his command?

  Liu Weimin thought for a moment, his face looking strange as he said: "The specific reason is hard to explain, let's just say this: they think of themselves as my subordinates. Xu Shulin was very hospitable to the archaeological team, but didn't realize that the team was monitoring him. He used a secret boat to send away Li Dazhuang's ghost and Wenjing's living soul, but was intercepted by the team. The longer Wenjing's soul is separated from her body, the greater the danger. So I sent someone to directly return Wenjing. I promised you I would save her, and I did. How about you? Will you help me open the coffin?"

  I forced a smile and asked, "Do I have a choice?"

  Liu Weimin said solemnly, "Yes, Nalan Yuqing still cared about you before his death. I couldn't bear not to fulfill this wish for him, so I won't lay a finger on you. If you're willing to give up Wenjing and the one behind her, Yumou, you can leave the mountain freely. I won't stop you."

  I wanted to spit on his hypocritical face, but my cheeks were puffed up and I ended up spitting on the ground instead. Resigned, I said: "Earlier you wouldn't let me leave, now you're acknowledging my choice, you've played both the good and bad guy!"

  I didn't bother arguing with him and walked towards the pit, taking off my clothes as I went. Liu Weimin shouted from behind me, "Have you thought this through? You might die!"

  I took a wrong step and almost fell over. I turned around and gave Liu Weimin a complex look, sending him the middle finger.

  He took off his official robes, and all that was left was a small pair of underwear. But I am a dying man, and I don't want to lose face, so I hung the official robes on a tree and asked Liu Weimin to come and light a fire. With a whooshing sound, the official robes ignited into a fierce flame, and the flames leapt up onto the small tree, burning the leaves with a crackling sound. Just as I was about to ask Liu Weimin what to do next, I was startled by a sudden movement beside me and almost urinated in fright.

  The trees swayed violently, their branches shaking wildly as if they were being burned alive. The woman's shrill screams echoed through the flames, filled with a bitter and resentful tone that sent chills down one's spine.

  I rushed to Liu Weimin's side and asked him with a quivering heart, what on earth is this thing? A mother tree?

  Liu Weimin said: "I think it should be a live burial under the tree, just like the one near your house, that big bridge's foundation pile is similar, I haven't dug it open to see, but it's probably to guard the heavenly master's coffin, confuse the villagers' eyes, and prevent them from accidentally working on this evil thing."

  I said you don't know anything, how did you know this tree would call out? Also, is the female ghost that's been causing trouble in the village this mother tree?

  Liu Weimin said that it doesn't matter who the female ghost is, what's important is that she appeared and was killed.

  If this tree was planted to guard the coffin, it must have been planted at least a few hundred years ago. However, it is not lush with branches and leaves. After the official's robe was burned to ashes, the small tree also turned into charcoal and would soon turn into flying ash.

  Liu Weimin asked for my birth date and time, then dialed a number and said "Let's start", before pulling us back 10 meters away, staring intently at the grave.

  I can barely contain my excitement. Last time, Xu Qi brought me close to getting into a coffin, but was stopped by the horse-faced monster. I don't know if that monster will appear again.

  This time, the moon was not obscured by dark clouds, but instead poured down its clear light, and a faint silver moonlight appeared on the mountain waist. I couldn't think of how that coffin would appear, no one dug it up, could it fly out by itself? And then swallow Liu Weimin!

  The wind gradually picked up, from a gentle rustle of dust to a fierce howl, the sound of the wind whistling in my ears, fine grains of sand densely pattering against my face, making it hard to keep my eyes open, but the grave we were staring at remained unchanged.

  I covered my face with both hands, and looked through the gaps between my fingers. I turned my head to ask Liu Weimin, but found him standing against the wind, constantly waving that strange grass whip to hit the air, speaking loudly but unclearly.

  The wind gradually stopped again, and after a bout of strong winds and sandstorms, we were left with nothing but dust on our faces, and there was no change at all on the mountain waist.

  I was just about to speak when Liu Weimin suddenly shouted: "He's here!"

  At this moment, I realized that the mountain waist was eerily quiet, without wind or human voices. I couldn't even hear the breathing of people around me. Everything in front of me seemed to be motionless, as if it were in a vacuum. Liu Weimin was standing with his horse, wildly swinging his whip.

  Underfoot, a slight tremor, as if a dragon was moving through the mountainside.

  Before his eyes, Liu Weimin slowly crawled out of nine shallow pits dug around the grave, nine strange creatures.

  Nine creatures wearing official hats, dressed in official robes, and stepping on official boots, exposed half of their bodies, let out a loud roar, the sound waves intertwined in the air, like the enraged Thunder God about to bring down the world-destroying thunderbolt, destroying humanity.

  Among the nine corpses, the one facing me made San Shu and You Wu look at me with a shocked expression.

  That face was carved from the same mold as mine, and his hand grasped a quaintly shaped dagger.

  The zombies that crawled out of the ground had a very thin black thread tied around their necks, they rushed towards us, and the grave of Laozu Gong also made a rustling sound, until the zombies were only about 7 or 8 meters away from us. A golden coffin bound by the black thread was finally pulled out of the grave, but those zombies seemed to have been cast with a petrifying spell, suddenly they didn't move anymore.

  The Heavenly Master Coffin finally appears, and we see the zombies in their entirety. Besides me, there's Ninth Brother, and the rest are from the Ji family, a group of forgetful friends.