Volume 1 Jin Dynasty Ancient Tomb Chapter 7 The Entrance of the Tomb Appears

  "Hurry up," Liu Wei said, clearly getting impatient with the leech that wouldn't come off.

  I looked up and saw that through the mountain in front, I could see the peaks on both sides. A ray of sunlight also spilled down. There were very few trees near the mountain, which was a turning point. Fortunately, I had asked an old man before returning, and he told me to follow the triangular sign from the turning point, find the place where the yin and yang positions overlap, and then deduce it against the third star of the Big Dipper, so I can find the tomb, which should be in a very secret location.

  After walking for over 20 minutes, we climbed up the hill, but the leeches seemed to not want to let us go and still followed closely. On top of the hill, I stopped and carefully observed the position of the surrounding peaks, then said "Follow me, head northwest."

  "Hey kid, are you okay? Don't get us killed!" Zhu Baozi asked distrustfully as he turned his head back.

  "Believe it or not," I said, my temper also being provoked by him. Shi Tou and I turned around and left. Liu Wei said to Lao Liang, "Let's go, follow up."

  I turned my head to take a look, Zhu Baozi's face was not pleasant but still followed up, the two Japanese people surrounded him in the middle, making me have no choice but to despise Zhu Baozi and Liu Wei. Back then, being oppressed by Little Japan was one thing, but now they voluntarily became slaves. However, thinking about it, I myself wasn't much better off either, wasn't I also working for Little Japan?

  The denser the forest, the darker the sky seems to turn in an instant.

  "Huh? Why did the scorpion retreat?" Liu Wei said in puzzlement.

  "Yes, yes, he really stepped down." Zhu Baozi also chimed in.

  But I felt increasingly depressed in my heart, and my face couldn't help but look bad. Liu Wei quickly ran two steps to catch up and asked, "What's wrong, Mr. Lin? Your face looks so bad."

  I sneered and said "You'll get your wish soon."

  "As you wish?" Liu Wei was slightly taken aback, and smiled as he asked, "What do you mean, Mr. Lin?"

  "The yin energy is so heavy that it breeds poisonous insects and toxic substances. If the yin energy becomes too dense, no living thing will come near," I explained.

  Liu Wei looked around and stroked his chin, saying "No wonder it's so quiet here." He walked a few more steps before asking, "Mr. Lin, I remember you said something about 'ten thousand corpses'? What does that mean?"

  I thought of what the old man had told me, and then I said "To suppress a fierce star, you must use something even more ferocious than it, and human corpses are the best."

  The stone suddenly added a sentence "If they become zombies, wouldn't that be bad."

  I gave the stone a white eye and said, "If it were a corpse, it would have turned into a zombie. The crematorium staff would have to go to Mao Mountain to get a Ph.D."

  The night fell slowly, and the forest grew darker. The eerie atmosphere was like a solid entity that made me feel waves of chilliness. Suddenly, Zhu Baozi, who was leading the way in front, cursed loudly, "Damn you, you turtle grandson, dare to cheat old man!" Then, Zhu Baozi turned back furiously and reached out to grab my collar, but his hand was blocked by a arm that stretched out from beside him. It was Shi Tou who had stopped Zhu Baozi's hand.

  I frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

  "Rabbit kid, go and take a look yourself!" Zhu Baozi pointed ahead and scolded.

  I didn't have time to bother with him, I took three steps as two and walked forward for less than thirty meters. Suddenly, I was also stunned. The forest had reached its end, there wasn't a single tree in front of me, but the road was gone too. Less than fifty meters ahead was a cliff.

  "What's going on?" Liu Wei also asked in a low voice as he approached.

  My heart is also pounding wildly, have I really taken the wrong path? My mind is completely lost, and I look around in all directions under the moonlight.

  "Can you find it or not?" Zhu Baozi cursed again on the side.

  I furrowed my brow and stared at him, saying two words: "Shut up."

  "You..." Zhu Baozi suddenly became furious, but the Japanese man said from the side "Quiet, let Mr. Lin take a closer look." Zhu Baozi immediately deflated like a punctured balloon and slumped down, sulking in silence.

  "We haven't even felt like we're going downhill, how did we end up in a mountain valley?" Stone suddenly said, and this sentence also reminded me. Indeed, turning back to look, I could see the mountain ridge where we had turned, with peaks appearing in all directions: southeast, northwest, and southwest. Three mountains surrounded a valley, which was exactly where the Nourishing Position and the Fatal Position converged. I smiled slightly and said, "We haven't gone wrong, this is indeed the place where the Nourishing Position and the Fatal Position converge." Then I pointed to the northeast and said, "Look, isn't that the Big Dipper?"

  "Haha, right, right," Liu Wei clapped his hands excitedly. "Mr. Lin is indeed a worthy successor of Old Zhang. Please, Mr. Lin, hurry up and find the location of the tomb!"

  I didn't want to waste any more time, so I found the tomb and we went in. We took the money and that was it, no need to owe each other anything. So I nodded, and from the stone backpack, I took out a compass, an eight trigrams diagram, a mirror, and a map. According to the old man's method, I began to deduce. Robin looked at the feng shui to determine the auspicious position, the eight trigrams diagram sought the heavenly reason in the third star of the Big Dipper, the mirror was used to reflect the moonlight to find the tomb, and the map naturally marked the final location. In fact, people from the Southern School were more skilled at finding tombs on maps.

  After struggling for ten minutes, we finally marked the location on the map. But when we looked over in that direction, our faces all turned green - it was a cliff!

  "Is the tomb built in the air, so we can't see it?" Zhu Baozi said with a sarcastic tone. A Japanese man actually believed him and picked up a stone to throw over there, but of course, he didn't hit anything.

  I thought for a moment and said "Could it be built on the cliff wall?"

  "Impossible," Zhu denied in one breath. "At that time, people didn't even have tools, how could they possibly build a mausoleum on the cliff?"

  "Why is it that Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum still hasn't been entered by anyone to this day? Why was Egypt able to build the Great Pyramid?" Two consecutive rhetorical questions, and I almost choked Zhu Bajie to death. I just don't get why there are people in this world who like to look for trouble, clearly having no linguistic ability, yet still going out of their way to stir up trouble.

  "What's the point of saying this? Let someone go and take a look." Liu Wei stared at the map for half a day before raising his head to speak.

  Old Liang immediately put down his backpack and took out a bundle of rope from it. I forgot what this kind of rope is called, but on TV, it was introduced that this kind of rope can withstand 200 kilograms of weight as long as the fishing line is thick enough. Old Liang took out four ropes tied together with a thickness equivalent to four fishing lines, and it should be able to withstand their combined weight if they were all lowered down together.

  "Lao Liang, go down." Liu Wei took one end of the rope and fixed it to the ground with a clamp, saying to Lao Liang. Lao Liang didn't say anything either, nodded his head, wrapped the rope around his waist in a circle, and slid down the cliff along the rope.

  Time ticked away minute by minute, the rope getting longer and longer, my heart growing more and more tense, my breathing becoming somewhat urgent. What if I was really wrong, what if there really wasn't a tomb here? Zhu Bajie and the others wouldn't let me off easy. I couldn't help but turn my head, wanting to tell Shi Tou to be prepared to change his expression at any moment, but seeing Shi Tou's right hand always placed in his bosom, I secretly thought: no wonder he was a former special forces soldier, always so vigilant.

  When the rope was over 70 meters, it suddenly shook violently to the left and right. Liu Wei shouted loudly "Quickly, quickly pull upwards!" We all rushed to use force to pull upwards, not long after, Old Liang was pulled up. Zhu Pangzi and Liu Wei simultaneously asked "How is he?"

  "There's a big hole about fifty meters away," No wonder Old Liang didn't like to talk, his throat must have been injured, his voice was abnormally hoarse, if it were a child, just listening to the sound would be enough to scare them to tears.

  "Mr. Lin, what's going on?" Liu Wei asked, turning his head back.

  I said "what we call a cave now, was confirmed in ancient times as a hole on the cliff wall, is a dragon floating in the air, choosing a day to fly."

  "You mean..." Liu Wei smiled slightly.

  I nodded "Yes, the location of the tomb is right there."

  "It's fine as long as we found it, let's go down!" a Japanese man said.

  Zhu Pangzi nodded and said to a thin man beside him, "Thin monkey, you go down first."

  "It's the big one," said Skinny Monkey, shouldering a small backpack and sliding down the rope.

  Two Japanese also followed closely and climbed down.

  "Mr. Lin, please!" Zhu Baozi made a welcoming gesture.

  My face suddenly sank, staring at Liu Wei and asked, "Didn't you promise Grandpa Zhang that I only need to take you to the location of the tomb? Now that we've found it, why won't you let me leave?"

  "This, Liu Wei dryly laughed and scratched his head. "Hey, Mr. Lin, don't misunderstand, you see that we haven't even seen the shadow of a grave yet, saying this is a grave is just your speculation, it's still better to wait until we've actually seen one before we can be at ease! You'll just have to bear with it for a little while!"

  The few people left standing surrounded me and the stone, while Zhu Baozi suddenly pulled out an old-fashioned 54 pistol from who-knows-where, coldly staring at me. The others' clothes also bulged, probably hiding weapons as well.

  "Haha," I chuckled, "You're right, we can't rest assured until we find the tomb." In my heart, I knew that once things started to move, neither Stone nor I would be able to escape, and Liu Wei and his men probably wouldn't let us leave easily. We could only look for another opportunity later.

  "Mr. Lin understands, that's all!" Liu Wei also made a gesture of invitation.

  I didn't bother with him anymore and grabbed the rope to start climbing down, when suddenly I was caught by a rock. The rock looked at me and said "Follow me, I'll go first."