Tomb Raider: The comprehension is against the sky, and the achievement is indestructible

Chapter 72: Strange Coffin Shop, Old Cadre in Beijing

The fat man carried the armillary sphere on his back and couldn't help muttering:
"Good fellow, it seems that we came here just for sightseeing. Master Jin will have a good reputation when he returns. Master..."

He glanced at Su Mo, but didn't dare to mention the dragon bone again. He turned to look at the golden abacus mummy behind Huba:

"Old Hu, you got a second uncle, but I'm the only one carrying this thing. I can't exchange it for money and I have no reputation. I'm just doing the work for others!"

Huba smiled and said:

"There's definitely nothing good here. Fatty, if you're still not satisfied, why don't we go to Li Chunlai's place and see, maybe we can get something good!"

When the fat man heard this, he was indeed tempted.

The embroidered shoes that Li Chunlai found from a coffin are worth several hundred yuan. Shaanxi is the hometown of the Qin and Han dynasties, so there are ancient tombs everywhere. Maybe there are some ancient tombs there. If we can get some funerary objects back, this trip will be worth it!

Thinking of this, the fat man stopped complaining, carrying the various parts of the armillary sphere, and followed Su Mo outside.

The four of them walked out along the tunnel they came in through, and no longer passed the Hanging Soul Ladder. This made them walk much faster, and soon they arrived at the tunnel they had come in from before. Then they climbed back into the Fishbone Temple along this tunnel.

When they came out again, it was already late at night. It seemed that everyone had stayed in the cave for nearly a whole day.

They then rested in the Fishbone Temple. When it got light, they returned along the same route to the foot of Longling, and then took a car to Gulan County where Li Chunlai was.

Gulan County is not far from Longling. It only takes half a day to get there by car. The four got off at a small town called Shibeidian, and they could only walk forward.

After getting off the bus, the four were preparing to have some lunch in the town and then head to where Li Chunlai was. Suddenly, two people came in front of them, one old and one young. The old one was wearing a red armband and looked serious, while the young one was only seven or eight years old and held a wooden stick in his hand.

The old man and the young man walked up to Su Mo and the others, looked at them very vigilantly, and said:

"What do you do?"

Fatty Wang and Huba were stunned:
"I'm just passing by, what's wrong?"

The old man said in a deep voice:
"Our stone tablet shop is under martial law recently. Outsiders are not allowed to stay. Please leave as soon as you finish your meal!"

When Huba and the others heard this, they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Martial law?

Is it you who issued this martial law order?

Fatty Wang couldn't help but laugh in a teasing tone:

"Grandpa, we are good citizens. What are you doing? We are from the capital. You should know that martial law is not imposed casually. How dare you impose martial law and drive away passers-by in a town like yours? Be careful. I will report it to you when I go back. I will not be able to bear it if they investigate!"

The old man was just a farmer here, how could he know so many things? When he heard that Hubayi and the others came from the capital, which is the capital of China, it would be bad if they really reported it.

Thinking of this, the old man's momentum softened and he forced a smile on his face:
"So you are the comrades from the capital. Something happened here, and the mayor said that outsiders are not allowed to come in to avoid any problems. This is not what I said!"

Hubayi couldn't help but ask curiously. But the old man was also very straightforward. After Hubayi and Fatty Wang talked a few words, he told them everything.

It turns out that there was a coffin shop in this stone tablet store. Legend has it that the owner of the coffin shop would knock on the coffins when there was no business. As long as he knocked near the coffins, someone would die, and then people would come to buy the coffins. This legend has been circulating for many years, and many people believe it to be true.

The owner of this coffin shop died suddenly a few days ago. He had no children. In addition, the legend of the dead person being found in the coffin was so scary that ordinary people did not dare to approach him. Therefore, it took several days for others to find out that he was dead, and his body was stinking all over the street.

When everyone saw that the old shopkeeper was already dead and there was a ready-made coffin in the coffin shop, they immediately decided to put the old shopkeeper's body in the coffin and bury it.

Who knew that when they moved the coffin, they found there was a tunnel underneath it. The town's militia platoon leader was brave enough to go down with a torch to check. However, he was so scared when he saw it that he almost wet his pants.

He said that the cave below was very deep and filled with a gloomy aura, just like the underworld. He only dared to walk halfway and didn't dare to go any further. He only saw a stone bed with a stone box on it.

When the villagers saw that the stone box looked like an antique, they dared not move it and immediately notified the county. There happened to be an archaeological team in the county, led by a man named Professor Sun. They immediately rushed to the stone tablet shop and asked the townspeople to maintain order and prevent outsiders from watching.

As a result, the old man said that the stone tablet shop was under martial law and outsiders were strictly prohibited from staying there.

It turns out that he is using chicken feathers as a token of authority!
When Su Mo heard this, he knew that there was some mystery in this coffin shop. According to the original novel, Chen Yulou, who had fallen into the underworld and become a blind fortune teller, seemed to be nearby.

Chen Yulou was infected by a poisonous miasma in Yunnan that year, and had to destroy his own eyes to escape with his life. It is a pity that the great thief leader of Xiangling ended up wandering around the world and making a living by fortune-telling for others.

As far as Su Mo knew, Chen Yulou had a human skin map of King Xian's ancient tomb on him, and the second dragon bone was most likely hidden in King Xian's tomb.

Thinking of this, Su Mo wanted to go to the coffin shop to take a look, but looking at the old man's appearance, it seemed that he would not allow them to get close to the coffin shop.

Su Mo was thinking of a solution when he suddenly saw two people running towards him in a hurry:

"Oh no! Something happened to that old cadre from Beijing. I'm afraid he died in the cave!"

When the old man heard this, his face suddenly changed.

Su Mo suddenly had an idea and grabbed the old man:

"Grandpa, we are also from Beijing. We know Professor Sun. Can you take us there? Maybe we can help out!"

The old man was panicked, but he didn't bother to tell whether what Su Mo said was true or not. After all, the four of them were also from Beijing, and maybe they could really save the old cadre.

He then brought Su Mo and others to the coffin shop, but saw a lot of people gathered outside the coffin shop, all talking there, and few people dared to go in.

Several militia-like men stood near the store entrance, looking anxious. A militia platoon leader was yelling at the top of his lungs:

"No one dares to go down and rescue that old cadre. As long as he rescues that old cadre, I will reward him ten dollars!"

In the countryside of Shaanxi these days, ten yuan is already a considerable sum of money, but the people watching nearby were all looking around, and no one dared to take this "huge sum of money"!
At this moment, Su Mo suddenly said loudly:

"Comrade Platoon Leader, I'm from Beijing and I know Professor Sun. Let's go down and take a look!"

(End of this chapter)