Brother Xiong was able to locate himself on the north peak, found what he thought was the best feng shui position, and began to organize people to take turns digging the thief hole. Mustache and I adhered to our principles, and we didn't want to depreciate ourselves to help them dig the soil, so we just stood by and watched them toss. Brother Xiong stood outside the cave, constantly observing the soil that had been dug up. I heard him talk to himself a few times, "Why is the soil so soft, it's so easy to dig." "Indeed, by the time the work was finished in the evening, the hole was ten meters deep.

At first, I was a little puzzled, wouldn't it be a good thing that the soil was soft and easy to dig, so why complain? Later, I heard Brother Xiong say to Ah Fei and Aki: "The sealed soil here is not hard enough, I am worried that it has already been dug up once before, and then it will be filled in again." If that's the case, someone might have stolen it! ”

Out of this worry, Brother Xiong has been sullen when he eats dinner. Fu Yapao, Ah Fei and Ah Ji didn't bother to care about this, they were tired from digging the soil all afternoon, and after eating, they went into the tent to sleep. Brother Xiong wanted to pull one of them up to keep vigil, but the mustache offered to keep watch for the first half of the night and the second half of the night respectively, so there was no need for the others to keep vigil.

I understood the mustache's concerns, and last night I had noticed that something was wrong in the mountains. Rather than putting your safety in the hands of people who are not capable, it is better to work hard yourself, at least to be at ease. Brother Bear wished that the mustache would be more positive, so he happily agreed, and went into the tent to sleep.

At nightfall, the mustache gave me a few flags and some talismans, and arranged a formation around the camp as he had requested. The Taoist formation is slightly different from the Yin cultivation and belongs to the Ming formation. In other words, the ghost can see, but it is easy not to approach, and if it is triggered, it will be injured. The Yin Xiubu array is mostly a dark array, which can be used to set traps and catch ghosts, but the lethality is not as powerful as the Taoist formation.

After setting up the formation, the mustache told me to go to sleep first, and I came to stand on the first shift. I didn't have to be polite to him, so I went to sleep quickly. I slept until one o'clock in the middle of the night when the mustache came to wake me up and change him. I asked him if he had noticed anything out of the ordinary. The mustache shook his head and said no.

The second half of the night when I stood was also uneventful, and I didn't even see a single mountain beast that liked to come out at night to feed. But under this strange atmosphere, the calmer the surface became, the more suspicious I felt, and I always paid attention to the situation around me until the sky was slightly bright.

On the morning of the third day after entering the mountain, Mustache and I were still watching from the wall. Fu Yapao and the other three continued to dig hard, and Brother Xiong still looked worried, but his worries soon had an answer. When they were digging until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, Aki's shovel suddenly struck a hard object.

"Boom!"

Aki was stunned and crawled out to tell Brother Xiong that he had dug up a stone slab. Brother Xiong couldn't wait to snatch the folding shovel in Aki's hand, and dug it himself, and finally cleared out a complete stone tomb door!

Brother Xiong had been worried that the tomb had been stolen before, but now that the tomb door was intact, his mood improved. He asked Aki to expand the space in the cave to facilitate later operations. The mustache and I then went in to see the excitement. I saw that the stone door was more than three meters high and more than two meters wide, and it was a gate type, and there was no way to push it open, so it could only be lifted. I patted the tomb door, and I couldn't help but be a little stunned, such a heavy stone door, but so open?

But Brother Xiong is very experienced in dealing with this, and he has already carried a portable jack. They first dug a hole under the stone gate and then stuffed a jack into it against the bottom of the stone gate. Although this jack is simple, it is still no problem to hold up a weight of two or three tons.

Ah Fei and Ah Ji seemed to be very skilled in operating this, and quickly propped up the stone gate, leaving a space of about thirty centimeters, and it was completely possible to drill into a person from underneath. Brother Xiong was very cautious, and asked people to carry two big stones in and jam both sides respectively, so that it was much safer.

Brother Xiong squatted down and shone a flashlight into the door, and said to Ah Fei: "You go in and take a look, this kind of gate generally has a chain or machine operation, and if you find it, pull up the entire door." ”

Ah Fei agreed, and slipped in. He fumbled inside for a while, then shouted outside, "There's a thick chain here, but I can't pull it up by myself." ”

So, Brother Xiong called Aki and Fu Yapao to climb in to help. Then I heard the sound of chains twisting from inside the tomb, and the large stone gate finally slowly rose up, revealing a long tomb passage. The inside of the tomb was so dark that nothing could be seen. Ah Fei and the others stuck the chain, and the stone gate couldn't fall. Brother Xiong was not in a hurry at this time, and beckoned everyone to climb out of the robbery hole to rest first, while waiting for the filth in the tomb to dissipate.

Brother Xiong distributed all the tools he brought to everyone. He himself wore a miner's lamp and held the ** gun of the Fu Ya Cannon in his hand. Ah Fei and Ah Ji also put on miner's lamps and each held a folding shovel in their hands, which was not only a tool, but also used for self-defense when necessary. Mustache and I were only given a flashlight, and Fu Yacang was responsible for carrying ropes and other miscellaneous items.

I think Brother Xiong's arrangement is obviously biased, and it is still to protect themselves first. I don't know what strange things I will encounter when I enter this ancient tomb, and I and Mustache don't have any guys in our hands, so I can't help but feel weak. I flipped the flashlight in my hand, thinking that this thing couldn't be prevented, and it would be deformed if I smashed it. So, I picked up a slightly thicker dead log nearby and used it.

The mustache was prepared, and unhurriedly pulled out a mahogany sword from his backpack. The peachwood sword is about one meter long, and the sword body is wide and thick, although it is just a magic weapon for slaying ghosts, it is not bad to use it to smash people. Fu Ya Cannon carried a large pile of miscellaneous items on his back, and there was a crowbar inside. When he saw that I was looking for something to defend myself from, he pulled out the crowbar and held it in his hand.

After resting for an hour, Brother Xiong saw that everyone was ready, and estimated that the filth in the cave was almost dispersed, so he took the lead and went into the thief cave first, and the others also entered. When we arrived at the tomb, Brother Xiong rearranged the team again, and let me and Aki lead side by side, he and Ah Fei were in the center, and Mustache and Fu Ya Cannon were behind. I was a little dissatisfied with his arrangement, but in this environment, it was not easy to argue with him.

The cemetery is quite spacious, and Mo said that it is no problem to walk two people side by side, and two cars side by side. The floor of the tomb is paved with large stone slabs, and the two sides are carved with reliefs, and Brother Xiong is quite interested in this, and he is not in a hurry to move forward, but to check all the way. Most of the figures on the reliefs are dressed in short clothes and narrow trousers, carrying bows, arrows and spears, and wearing various headdresses on the top of their heads. Although I don't know much about history, at least I can see that these people should be Miao or Li people in ancient times. Later, some Han Chinese with long robes and wide sleeves and armoured troops began to appear, and then there were Manchu people with braids, and the content of the relief was dominated by war scenes at this time.

There are not many figures in the last relief, only about a dozen people carrying a coffin and walking towards a cave. I understand this one, this is very consistent with the legend of King Miao that Fu Yacang told us before, it is obviously the scene where King Miao was buried by his subordinates after he was defeated and died. The cave in the relief is probably the tomb we are in now!

The front section of the tomb is relatively long, about 50 meters, and then the next step is to pass through a doorway. The back of the doorway is also dark, and you can't find the end with a flashlight, and it is likely that there is still a long tomb road. Aki turned around to ask Brother Xiong's opinion, and Brother Xiong pointed forward and motioned for the two of us to continue walking.

Aki is not as clever as Ah Fei, but he listens to Brother Xiong very much. I wasn't happy, but I had to follow him to find my way. But as soon as our feet crossed the threshold and landed on the ground at the same time, the stone slab on the ground suddenly flipped over, and Aki and I lost our center of gravity and fell into a hole!

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

"Ouch!" Aki and I both cried out in pain.

Fortunately, the hole wasn't too deep, and there was nothing sharp in it, so Aki and I just got hurt from the buttocks. I struggled to get up and tried to use the flashlight to shine on the top of my head, only to find that the flashlight had been broken. I scolded: "Fake! Then he told Aki to look up and shine with a miner's lamp, and the loose slate above his head had closed again. I tried to scream twice, but the people above didn't answer me, but there was a faint sound of shouting and screaming, and it seemed that the people above were also in danger!

Suddenly caught in a trap, Aki seemed a little flustered, and asked me what should I do? I replied angrily: "I don't know, let's see if there is a place to climb up next to here!" ”

But the hole was full of soft dirt, and it would collapse when you stepped on it, and there was no way to climb up with your grip, so Aki and I had to give up after a few attempts. I asked Aki to shine a miner's lamp into the depths of the cave, and found that the hole was quite deep. I said to Aki, "Let's go inside and see if there's any other way to go." Aki had no opinion when he left Brother Xiong, so he nodded and followed me inside.

The only source of light for the two of us now was the miner's lamp above Aki's head, and the direction of the light was moving with his gaze, so I could only put my hand on his shoulder and walk side by side in the dark. But as soon as I took a few steps, I stepped on something under my feet. I called out to Aki and let go of my feet to look at the ground, and Aki suddenly screamed again. If I hadn't been pulling him, I'm afraid he would have turned around and ran away immediately!