On the night of the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, there was no pedestrian on the Sealand Highway, and there were few vehicles.

In the distance, two bright lights pierced the night, and an off-road vehicle drove rapidly in the direction of Qianling under the bright moonlight.

At a turn, the headlights suddenly went out, and the SUV quietly turned into a dense meadow and came to a stop.

"Boss, it's here," a middle-aged man with a thin face sitting in the passenger seat turned his head and whispered into the back seat.

A very gentlemanly middle-aged man in the back seat was closing his eyes and recuperating, and after listening to the man in the passenger seat, he was silent, and after a few minutes, he opened his eyes and said slowly: "Let's start!" ”。 Although his tone was firm, it seemed to reveal a hint of horror, which sent a chill down the spine of the other people in the car.

The man, known as "The Boss," was Zhao Yiming, the chief executive of a construction group in Shanghai. The emaciated man in the passenger seat was named Liu Yiming, a small staff member of a cultural relics unit in Xi'an. The driver, Ah Liu, and Xu Shengming, who was in the back, were Zhao Yiming's bodyguards and assistants.

Half a year ago, Zhao Yiming was sitting on the wide chair in the chairman's office of the group company leisurely sipping tea, and the scene of participating in the cultural relics auction in the afternoon echoed in his mind. He was greatly shocked when he saw that the exquisite antiques were auctioned off by buyers at an astonishing price. Only at the beginning of Chinese level, he started from an ordinary mason, and after only 10 years of hard work, he achieved great success, and finally sat on the throne of the chairman of the small construction company where he used to work, and the small construction company has also become a well-known group company.

After Zhao Yiming's great success, he always felt an inexplicable sense of loss. In his early years, he dropped out of school due to life difficulties, although with his current status, he often went in and out of various activities of high society in Shanghai. But behind the smiles on the faces of others, he always felt as if they were laughing at his education. There was a smile on his face, just because he was a rich chairman, but in his bones he regarded him as an upstart mud leg.

After attending an antique auction, Zhao Yiming was inspired to collect some artifacts as a way to raise his image in the hearts of others.

Later, after spending a lot of money to buy a large number of counterfeits after many collecting activities, Zhao Yiming gradually became an antique connoisseur. He was determined to collect a number of genuine cultural relics that were not circulated in the cultural relics market in exchange for the envy of others.

After getting acquainted with Zhao Yiming, Ah Liu, who was mixed in the underground cultural relics market in Shanghai, and Xu Shengming, who resold cultural relics after returning home from the army, were introduced by Zhao Yiming as a confidant and entered Zhao Yiming's construction group company, and became Zhao Yiming's driver and bodyguard respectively.

In the small talk, Xu Shengming learned Zhao Yiming's thoughts, and smiled at Zhao Yiming secretly: "Mr. Zhao, since you want to get rare things that you can't see on the market, why buy them from others?" ”

Zhao Yiming was stunned, his eyes lit up: "Shengming, tell me, what ideas do you have?" ”

Xu Shengming glanced around, closed the office door tightly, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhao, a comrade-in-arms of mine in the army, returned to his hometown after recovery, and worked as a small clerk in a cultural relics unit in Xi'an. I often hear him say that they are full of treasures, and that when a farmer is lucky enough to dig up a thing, he changes hands and becomes a millionaire in no time. Those freshly dug up treasures are all good things that have never been found on the market! ”

"You mean tomb robbing?" Zhao Yiming let out a low cry of surprise.

Xu Shengming pressed his index finger to his mouth and said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhao, that's right, if you want to get rare treasures, there is only tomb robbing." In the area of Xi'an, there are many imperial tombs, as long as you can find one of them, any thing in it can be described as priceless. I wonder if Mr. Zhao has the courage to do it? ”

Zhao Yiming pondered for a while, and said with a smile: ", there is nothing that I Zhao Yiming dare not do." ”

So, Xu Shengming contacted his comrade-in-arms Liu Yiming in a cultural relics management office in Xi'an. After Zhao Yiming's lucrative annual salary, Liu Yiming quit his job at the Cultural Relics Management Office and became a full-time assistant to help Zhao Yiming identify cultural relics and spy on tombs in Xi'an.

After months of preparation, Liu Yiming taught Xu Shengming and Ah Liu how to explore the cemetery and become proficient in using the "Luoyang shovel", a special tool for tomb robbery, to dig holes for illegal excavation.

A few days ago, Liu Yiming learned from a local cultural relics dealer in Xi'an that there were 17 burial tombs scattered around the Qianling Tomb where Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian were buried, and some of them had already discovered the specific location of Princess Yiyang, one of the burial tombs. After Liu Yiming reported Zhao Yiming, Zhao Yiming allocated a lot of money to let Liu Yiming buy specific clues from relevant people. This is the beginning scene, four people drove an off-road vehicle, the trunk was full of tomb robbery tools, and they came to Qianling by night.

After the four people got out of the car, they took out the tools from the trunk, led by Liu Yiming, and quietly touched the main peak of Liangshan, where the Qianling Tomb is located.

The route of the tomb robbery was carefully studied by Liu Yiming for three days before it was finalized, and he would rather take more detours than avoid all kinds of inspections that he might encounter.

When they followed the established route to the southeast slope of the main peak of Liangshan, the sky suddenly began to darken. Everyone looked up and saw that the moon, which had just been round and bright, was somehow being mercilessly swallowed by a dark cloud drifting from nowhere.

After a while, the moonlight disappeared completely, and the five fingers were missing. On this deserted barren mountain, everyone couldn't help but shudder in their hearts. Suddenly, the four of them were surprised to find that each other's pale faces appeared in front of them. It turned out that the night sky was clear and the moon was shining just now, but at this time it was completely plunged into darkness, and a strong lightning bolt illuminated four bloodless faces in the night.

Accompanied by dazzling lightning, a thunderclap sounded not far away, and a group of four people sat on the ground in shock at the same time. It was pouring rain in the sky, Liu Yiming was splashed on the face by the cold rain, he woke up suddenly, and shouted: "Follow me, this place is really evil!" ”

The four of them trotted all the way in horror, and suddenly, they all stopped in unison. The four of them looked at each other, but they couldn't say anything wrong.

After a terrible silence, he gradually came back to his senses, and it turned out that the night sky was still so clear, and the moonlight was still so bright, except that the clothes on his body were all wet, and there was no dark cloud, not the slightest raindrop, and he could not see the terrible lightning and hear the breathtaking thunder.

"Really... Is there really a ghost in this world? Zhao Yiming trembled, not knowing whether to talk to himself or ask others.

Ah Liu looked around in horror, except for the shadows of the black trees everywhere on the mountain, there was nothing abnormal, and said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Zhao, today is the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is the Ghost Festival, the strange phenomenon just now, did we bump into the ghosts and gods?" ”

After Ah Liu finished speaking, the four of them were silent. The choice of today as the day of tomb robbery was set by Zhao Yiming himself. He never believed in ghosts and gods, so he wanted to take advantage of Halloween, when the people were busy with sacrifices and few people came out at night, and the night of the full moon was also convenient for them to rob tombs.

Unexpectedly, when he encountered such a strange thing, a chill came out of his heart. Liu Yiming opened a package, took out a few pieces of paper money that had been prepared a long time ago, and scattered them into the air, chanting words in his mouth.

After Liu Yiming finished drumming, the three of them set their eyes on Zhao Yiming, and they all had their hearts retreating. Of course, Zhao Yiming understood everyone's thoughts, but his self-made hard work and yearning for cultural relics, as well as the large amount of money and energy he invested in this tomb robbery, made him finally overcome the fear in his heart, and he made up his mind to dig up the tomb of Princess Yiyang and obtain a large number of rare cultural relics from it.

Zhao Yiming calmed down his emotions and said in a slow but not easy to argue tone: "Brothers, just now it was just a local climate change in the mountains, how can there be ghosts and gods in this world?" No, everything is fine now. Stick to the original plan, and after success, the brothers divided the treasures equally, and from then on, you were troubled by the fact that you didn't know how to use the money. ”

After listening to Zhao Yiming's words, everyone couldn't help but feel moved, as if they had forgotten the frightening scene just now, and expressed their willingness to act with Mr. Zhao in unison.

Liu Yiming opened the package, took out a map, looked at it carefully with a small military flashlight, and then used a compass to determine the direction. Ah Liu, who was next to him, also took out a handheld GPS locator, and after careful checking, the two finally determined their current position.

A group of four people, led by Liu Yiming, continued to march towards the tomb of Princess Yiyang.