Chapter 7 Section 2

  When Jin Douzi confirmed the location of "Jingmen", Pang San Ye immediately beamed with joy, and this round could be said to be his stable win. As for leaving one palm behind, it's hard to say now.

  Peng Tianyang sighed inwardly, this Golden Helmet was getting further and further away on that path, but he knew it was a dead end anyway. By the time Golden Helmet realized his mistake, it would be too late for regret.

  Although they lost this round, Cha Qian and his men from the Zhaozi Camp didn't seem to be worried at all. Jiang Yunshui was puzzled by the reactions of the people around him.

  Peng Tianyong carefully paced back and forth, looked around for a while, and finally said: "Let's start from this position."

  Jiang Yingshui saw Peng Tianyang waving at him and hurried over, Peng Tianyang asked him: "What's wrong, isn't it strange that the people in Huoziying are too calm?"

  Knowing that Peng Tianyong had seen through his thoughts, Jiang Yunshui also did not hide and said: "If this round is lost, there will be only two sentences left. I'm afraid that when the time comes, there will be a problem with me."

  Peng Tianyang smiled and patted him on the shoulder, saying: "You don't have to worry about this matter, the way of Feng Shui is ever-changing, although both I and Jindouzi found the 'Surprise Gate', but whether we two people found the real location of the Surprise Gate is another story."

  This made Jiang Yunshui even more puzzled, and Peng Tianyang didn't hang around to continue explaining: "The so-called 'Shocking Gate' doesn't just refer to one place. This Shocking Gate also includes four kinds of true, false, real, and unreal. However, these four changes are unpredictable and can be said to be 'false as true when true is also false, true as false when false is also true'. And this talk about reality and illusion is even more mysterious, it's related to the changes in Feng Shui. Now if I explain it to you, you'll become even more confused. Anyway, the Shocking Gate that we two found still has variables, next time because of the Shocking Gate, it will definitely change."

  While the two were talking here, Jin Douzi was also telling Pang San Ye about the terrible relationship in the shocking door, but because he won this round, although Pang San Ye listened with his ears, his mind was not all on it.

  Jin Douzi looked at Pang San's appearance and sighed in his heart. Although Pang Yong was a good friend, he had not experienced any major events. He had already been affected by the gambling fight and now he had lost to those mice camp people.

  Now Pang San Ye is even less careful in listening to his words, it seems that a change will definitely occur next, Jin Dou Zi has the heart to win over Hao Zi Ying in this matter, but now it seems that it is already impossible.

  This made Jin Douzi inevitably feel a bit disheartened and cold, so he didn't say much more and ended his conversation with Pang San Ye.

  Zha Qian walked over to Jiang Yunshui and Peng Tianyang, interrupting their conversation, and asked: "Can you figure out this combination lock?"

  Peng Tianrang said: "Although it can't be 100% certain, I'm 90% sure that this is the one."

  Cha Qian nodded and said: "Since it's like this, can you be sure how deep the cave is?"

  This time, Peng Tianyong did not respond immediately, but looked at the Emperor's Crown Mountain and said: "According to my observation in this place for several days, I'm afraid that there are two separate underground palaces here."

  The judge was startled and asked him: "What do you mean?"

  Peng Tianrui first pointed to the ground and then pointed to Emperor Crown Mountain, saying: "When the air vein rotates, the earth stores gold; when the air vein travels, the mountain is pregnant with treasure. The direction of the air vein here has two kinds of changes, so this place should be the upper and lower palaces."

  Zha Qian thought for a moment and then called Zhou Futong over, telling him what had happened. After hearing the story, Zhou Futong also felt that it was a tricky situation.

  Peng Tianrang said, "This matter is like pulling a thread and moving the whole body. Once this place's layout is destroyed, it will be impossible for both palaces to enter or exit. Even if they do get in, once trapped inside, it would likely be a life-or-death situation."

  Cha Qian finally understood Peng Tianying's meaning, it was because of this matter that his elder brother and seven other brothers were lost in that place back then, this matter absolutely cannot happen again.

  Zhou Futong sighed and said: "I'll go talk to them about it."

  Having said that, Zhou Futong walked towards Jin Douzi and the others, but soon returned with a hint of anger on his face.

  Zha Qian looked at Jin Douzi and the others, then turned to Zhou Futong and said: "Since he's not afraid, we don't have anything to worry about either. Let's take advantage of them!"

  Before long, Pang San Ye and Cha Qian agreed on the second round, this time they were competing to see who could open the surprise door first.

  Observing the feng shui and the direction of the air vein, is to find the dragon and explore the cave. This is more complicated, but many unnecessary things have been abandoned. However, before digging a grave, the tradition of offering "three incense" has always been followed in the village of Hua Zi Ying.

  These three incense sticks are for "Heaven, Earth and Man", because grave robbers would never believe in supernatural things. After the three incense sticks were lit, Zha Tianlin took out the "Mole Shovel" from Huoziying's camp and sprinkled it with crimson wine, this was the real beginning.

  At this moment, Jiang Yunshui truly understood why the group of people in front of him dared to call themselves "Tianhua Waste Camp". The orderly progress and the tacit cooperation of everyone made them look like a well-trained army, without any panic.

  Looking at the other side, although there were also many people, it looked chaotic and disorganized. Each person seemed to be doing their own thing, and conflicts between them often arose.

  Peng Tianrang said to Jiang Yingshui, "You've seen the 'Tianhua Camp', but what you see is only a third of what it was in its heyday. In those days, the name of Tianhua Camp was known far and wide, from the imperial court to the common people, everyone knew about it. We were not inferior to Cao Mengde's 'Mojin Academy' back then."

  Jiang Yunshui detected the desolation in Peng Tianyang's words, and the sorrow and grandeur he spoke of were also somewhat restrained. The name of Xuantian Huozi Camp was once known throughout the land, even foreign countries had heard of it. But the heavy losses suffered by Xuantian Huozi Camp during that tomb robbery were also extremely astonishing, from three hundred people in those days to only fifty or so now.

  Peng Tianyang took out a thumb-sized, all-black object from his body and handed it to Jiang Yunshui, saying: "This is the Haozi symbol of Haozi Camp, made of evil-warding wood. Although we people in Haozi Camp don't believe in evil spirits, this thing can be considered a token representing our Haozi Camp."

  Jiang Fengshui took over the Huozi symbol given by Peng Tianyang, which was shaped like a curled-up mouse and had a small hole on it, with a black rope passing through it to form a loop. Upon closer inspection, there were hundreds of dense characters on both sides of the object, but Jiang Fengshui didn't recognize any of them.

  Peng Tianrui watched as Jiang Yunshui took the Huozi symbol, and it was as if he had completed something very important. He still remembered his older brother's entrustment before entering the tomb that year. At that time, his older brother handed over the Huozi symbol he carried with him to Peng Tianrui, saying that if anything unexpected happened this time, let him send this thing to his own child.

  Jiang Fengshui looked at it for a moment, then carefully hung the Huozi symbol around his neck and put it inside his clothes, pressing it tightly against his chest.

  Peng Tianyang said, "Let's go and take a look at how the Haozi Camp operates."

  Two people came to a place closer, Peng Tianyang pointed at one of the men with a straight rod and said to Jiang Yunshui: "This is the 'rod mouse' in the Haozi camp. Before robbing the tomb, they will use different rods to explore the underground situation based on the terrain. It's called 'one inch of soil, knowing the square circle'. That is to say, these rod mice can know what's going on here by relying on the soil brought out by the rod inserted into the ground. For example, if this place is buried in a Ming dynasty tomb, their filling soil must be made of stone ash plus 'nine dynasty soil', and if it's a Song dynasty tomb, then the tomb will be covered with red soil, and then a layer of 'furnace ash' will be sprinkled on top.

  While Peng Ta Neng was talking, one of the "rodent mice" on that side pulled out the rod inserted into the ground and sniffed it under its nose.

  "This rodent said: 'The soil here has a strong smell of ferocity, and there are no insects inside. The color of the soil is generally dark red, so this is indeed the entrance to the hole.'"

  After hearing this, five people quickly came to the place where the mouse was, and they unfolded a roll of oilcloth that had been carried on their backs. Inside, it looked like a dazzling array, mostly consisting of various sizes of shovel heads.

  Peng Tianrang told Jiang Yenshui: "They are the 'shovel mice' in the wasteland camp. These people were either former diggers or used to do masonry work. The shovels in their hands are divided into sixteen types, each with three handles, one short, one medium and one long. Moreover, these medium and long handles can be adjusted freely, making it much more convenient to carry."

  On this side, Peng Tianyang was talking to Jiang Yunshui, and on that side, the earth and rocks were flying up, with five people moving quickly and in an orderly manner.

  Soon a cave that could hold two people, about nine feet deep, appeared. The side of the Haoziying camp quickly came over with ten more people, and they carried away all the earth and rocks piled around.

  Looking at Pang San again, he has gradually adapted and his progress has also accelerated significantly. The people brought by Pang San this time were all invited with a lot of money, most of them were in groups of several people doing the tomb raiding business, so it was inevitable that there would be friction at first.

  Jīn Dōu Zi looked at these people and finally stopped arguing over some trivial matters, he also felt relieved. He looked at the gradually deepening hole, a smile involuntarily appeared on his face, just like watching his own child grow up, with genuine laughter.

  Peng Tianrui was still talking to Jiang Yunshui about the things in Haoziying, when he suddenly frowned and looked towards Jindouzi.