Fifty-eighth palm, special task force dispatched (3)

  "The Master's Dharma name is truly intoxicating..." Upon hearing the Flower Monk, I and Sheteng were genuinely intoxicated... Is he still Lu Zhishen?

  "Two close friends, no need to be so polite. Today we have a good opportunity to meet, come in and I'll show you some great things." The monk led us into his tent, rummaging through something, as I walked in, I saw Buddha statues and beads scattered on the ground... This monk is really careless.

  "Come, take a look." I saw that monk take out a kasaya and spread it open in front of us. "This kasaya is really nice-looking." Is he trying to get us to praise him? I feel like this kasaya is a bit rustic, with some torn fabric on top... but still, let's give some praise.

  "Zihe Dage, this is a Bai Lu Yi..." Shitian has a feeling of regret, looking at me... The monk who was originally frowning when I praised his clothes suddenly had a smile on his face when he heard Shitian say that.

  "What? What is a hundred-patch robe?" A hundred-cloth robe? I've never even heard of it.

  "Zihe Dage, the Bai Lu Yi is a kind of Buddhist monk's down-to-earth ascetic practice. They help the common people and don't ask for anything in return, just a piece of broken cloth. Collecting 100 pieces to sew into clothes... this is called Bai Lu Yi." Na Hua heard Shengteng talking on the side and secretly rejoiced.

  "Wow, this is so intense!"

  "Where, where..." Huahe Shang folded his clothes neatly and was about to put them away when something fell out of the clothes, looking like a certificate or something. I picked it up and opened it to take a look, and it turned out to be an ID card. "You're actually only 22 years old!" I exclaimed in surprise at seeing his age, thinking he looked more like someone in his thirties or forties from his appearance.

  "I'm going, I'm so uncomfortable with the way you guys are looking at me, do any of you have a cigarette to spare? This monk's sudden change has really left us speechless... I stiffly handed him a cigarette, he lit one and sat on the ground with his legs crossed..."

  "Uh... master... you're like this..." I don't know what to say anymore.

  "Don't call me Master anymore, just call me Flower Monk, come on, sit down and let's have a smoke." He gestured for us to take a seat... I looked at Shitian, Shitian looked at me, and with a bitter smile, sat down.

  "You're really a monk?", I couldn't believe it when I saw him like this.

  "Yes, I did leave home when I was young. But I'm a wandering monk. Who says monks can't smoke or eat meat?"

  "Right, right... Yeah, who says monks don't eat meat..."

  "Master, may I come in?" I heard Captain Luo's voice outside the tent. The monk quickly extinguished his cigarette and sat up straight: "Come on in." This change was so fast that neither Shitian nor I had time to react...

  "Eh, Zikawa, Shiteng you guys are here too, I was just about to go find you in a bit, perfect timing." I saw Captain Luo wave away the cigarette smoke with a scrunched up face: "Zikawa... won't smoking inside affect Master?"

  "What? Affected?" I thought of this monk who was just smoking himself!

  "No way, Buddhism emphasizes equality among all living beings. I just saw the two donors smoking and wanted to persuade them sincerely... As the saying goes, 'I won't go to hell, who will?' To persuade them, I must put myself in a smoky environment." The monk's words were really one after another.

  "Alright, I'll gather you all to have a meeting and tell you about the discoveries of the past few days." Captain Luo said and walked out, we three followed behind him. I secretly kept staring at that monk, he even winked at me...

  The three of us followed Captain Luo into a relatively large tent, where we saw a long rectangular table set up inside. It seemed to be the conference room. I saw that everyone inside was from our group, and Old Dao with the big beard was sitting at the front with his eyes closed... "Amitabha". I noticed that except for Old Dao, everyone else greeted us, while Flower Monk kept saying "Amitabha", and Shengteng and I only knew how to say "hello".

  After sitting down, Captain Luo stood in front: "This time our province discovered the tomb, it is the first performance opportunity for our group..."

  "Captain Luo! Something's wrong, someone's been buried!" Captain Luo hadn't even finished speaking when a staff member rushed in. We all stood up and heard him say "Take me there!" I saw Captain Luo follow the man out, and we all followed after them. I saw that old Daoist with the big beard still sitting there, looking like nothing had happened. "Aren't you going?" I asked as I ran up to him. "Hmph" was all he said, so I gave up trying to get a response from him and followed after the others instead.

  "What's going on!" I saw that at this moment we were standing on a flat ground, and in front of us seven or eight people were holding shovels and digging something.

  "Today, when we were exploring this burial mound, they were originally rubbing against the wall, but when they touched a place on the wall that felt different, after removing the mud, it was discovered that there was a wooden board inside. Then, after discovering that the entire perimeter was mud with hidden wooden boards, suddenly all the wooden boards were pulled out, and the quicksand sprayed out, instantly filling this burial mound... I saw the person who came to inform us talking to Captain Luo, everyone's expression on their face wasn't good."

  Quicksand! Some of the mechanisms inside the tomb have quicksand, but why would a burial mound have it? How can we rescue people with this endless quicksand... I saw Captain Luo's face looking very unsightly. "Stop exploring other burial mounds and re-examine the soil layers nearby!"

  "Captain Luo, hadn't you detected these soils before?" Logically speaking, all this preparatory work should have been done already.

  "Checked everything, nothing's wrong, don't know how it suddenly turned into quicksand!" Looking at Captain Luo like this, I didn't dare ask anything more.

  It's been a few days since the last burial, and nothing has moved. The tombs have been dug up one after another, but no one dares to dig deep, only scratching out small pits on the surface, with dozens of them already counted... We don't have any tasks these days, so we're just helping out at the scene.

  "This is a place of great misfortune... I don't know who was buried here." As I heard someone approaching, I recognized it was Tang Qi. These past few days, except for that old Daoist with the big beard, we had become familiar with each other. Tang Qi was a folk geomancer and had a deep understanding of feng shui. He just had a somewhat cold personality. Tang Qi arrived beside us, sighing incessantly.

  "What's up?", Huahe Shang has been inseparable from me and Sheteng since his true face was seen by us last time.

  "Look at this, according to the principles of Feng Shui, having a mountain behind and water in front is supposed to be auspicious, but that mountain is sitting right there, blocking all the sunlight from the east."

  "Wait, where did the water come from?" He said "back mountain face water", where did the water come from? I know there is a mountain.

  Tang picked up a handful of soil from the ground and handed it to me, "Take a sniff." I took a whiff, and the soil had that scent that comes after rain. "Is there really water?"

  "Hmm, if I'm not mistaken, there should be an underground river beneath this place." He continued to speak on a subject that was unfamiliar to me: "Mountain breaks yang, water gathers yin. Corresponding to the position of the East Palace, it originally had the layout of the Green Dragon Embracing Water, but was forcibly altered into a gathering yin land."

  "What is Yin convergence land? What is Yin convergence land?"

  "In Feng Shui, there are several types of ominous lands: Aggregating Yin Lands, Haunted Mounds... If ancestors were buried in these places, their descendants would definitely have a lifetime of bad luck and calamities. Shi Teng heard about Aggregating Yin Lands and was also taken aback, saying to me, 'Moreover, I'm afraid the people buried underneath this land must have become zombies.'"

  I'm scared when I hear zombies, last time Yang Tie was such a pervert, is there another one this time?

  "Now that we know this is a place of concentrated yin energy, why are we still digging? Isn't this just asking for trouble?"

  "You wouldn't know how much impact an ancient tomb would have on the world today, perhaps there's something earth-shattering inside? Tang Qi said calmly, maybe it's true, after all, the Terracotta Army was only discovered after Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum was excavated, and then there's the Mawangdui..."

  "...the zombies inside..."

  "It's hard to say, maybe it's just a gamble, although I don't know who the owner of this tomb is, and whether it's a real or fake tomb." This gamble is too big!

  "By the way, Tang Qi, do you know that big bearded man?" I felt uncomfortable just thinking of that big bearded man's arrogant look.

  "I don't know, I heard it's recommended by many mayors, but I'm not too sure."

  "Recommended by many mayors? Is it so powerful?" What is this identity...

  "I don't have much contact with him... but I heard he's called Xuanxu Daozhang."

  "I also called Huahe Shang, what is Xuemiao? I saw Lü Suijian standing next to a monk..."

  "Alright, alright, it's late, let's get some rest." We dispersed and returned to the tent. Suddenly I wanted to call Zhang Ting. As soon as I took out my phone, Shi Teng knew what I was going to do and he also took his out... Asked about Zhang Ting's situation, it seemed that every day she had Yuqin and Yuxin with her, and in other aspects, Director Jiang was helping out, so there shouldn't be any issues. After returning to the tent, we went to sleep.