The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 108 Empty Coffin
“Empty!?”

Upon hearing this, Lao Qifeng didn't care about anything else. He used his Qinggong skills to cross the platform, landed on the coffin, and looked inside the coffin.

I saw that there was really nothing in the coffin. It was not even a cenotaph. There was nothing at all.

"Is this a 'suspicious coffin'?"

Lao Qifeng said in surprise.

When high-ranking officials and princes were buried, they would also be on guard against their graves being dug up by tomb robbers.

This "suspicious coffin" is also one of the methods, which refers to placing an empty coffin in the tomb, or directly building another tomb, so that tomb robbers can't tell where the tomb owner is buried.

In the 78th chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this incident was mentioned: "(Cao Cao) left a will to set up 72 suspected tombs outside the Lecture Hall of Zhangde Prefecture." "Don't let future generations know where I am buried, for fear that it might be excavated."

However, although Lao Qifeng reacted, he couldn't help but look back at the corpses kneeling on the ground, and was choked for a moment.

These girls, when they were only twelve or thirteen years old, had their facial features gouged out, and then endured two or three years of torture, trapped to death in this tomb.

Was it just for a suspicious coffin?!
What kind of beast is this Miao King!
"Amitabha." Yongjie sighed.

He did not speak a word during the whole journey because he was afraid that his voice would be recognized. He walked up to the corpse, put one hand on the corpse's head, raised the other hand on his chest, and began to chant sutras silently.

"Oh, that's not surprising." Li Miao snorted coldly.

"There is a reason why witchcraft has been suppressed in every dynasty. Dealing with flesh and blood, poisonous insects all day long, raising insects in your body, and turning yourself into a half-human, half-ghost, how can you be a good person?"

"Let's open the coffin first and see if we can find any clues to the way out."

Lao Qifeng reacted after hearing what was said, but his anger was still not over yet. He suddenly lifted up the coffin lid and threw it aside.

He jumped into the coffin, squatted down, and looked around.

"what?"

He seemed to have discovered something, and shouted quickly, asking a disciple of the Beggar Gang to throw a torch over so that he could look carefully in the light of the fire.

"Master Li... come and see." He pointed to the wall of a coffin.

Li Miao stepped forward and took a look.

I saw that on the wall of the coffin, there were hundreds of white scratches densely distributed.

It looks like... it was scratched by fingernails.

Li Miao squatted down, stretched out his fingers and wiped the bottom of the coffin, twisted his fingers, and frowned.

"Corpse oil. This is not a suspicious coffin."

At this time, the people who followed in also moved closer, but did not step onto the platform. When they heard what Li Miao said, they were all surprised.

"If it's not a suspicious coffin, where is the body?" asked the head of Kongtong.

"This coffin is locked with iron chains. Even if the person inside is faking his death, he can't escape."

Li Miao shook his head: "Not sure."

"We are not here to rob tombs. Let's put this matter aside and see if there are any other clues in this coffin."

After that, Li Miao and Lao Qifeng carefully checked the coffin from top to bottom, but found nothing.

Apart from the strange scratches and corpse oil inside, it seems to be just an ordinary coffin with fine workmanship.

Li Miao and Lao Qifeng performed Qinggong, and the other people who were unwilling to give up also went up to check, but they didn't find anything.

Li Miao twirled his fingers and looked around the hall.

Lao Qifeng came over and said softly to Li Miao, "Master Li, what should we do?"

After several things that happened before, Lao Qifeng already knew that Li Miao was their support to get out, and his martial arts skills were not inferior to his.

While everyone was taking turns to check the coffin, he secretly came over to discuss countermeasures with Li Miao. "Everyone present has their own thoughts. If they are not well fed and trapped here for a day, their morale will start to disperse, and there is no telling how much blood will be shed."

"Master Li, if you have any discoveries, whether you are sure or not, please speak up first. With hope, you can hold on longer."

Li Miao turned his head to look at him and was about to speak.

"Shen Ziyang, you!"

But I heard a scream from behind!
Li Miao turned around suddenly, only to see a man already had one foot on the platform where the coffin was stored.

The leader of Kongtong Sect cried out in surprise and tried to step forward to stop it, but it was too late.

The corpse kneeling under the platform had raised its head, with its dark facial features all open.

Just at this moment!
laugh!
Blood splattered everywhere!

Yin Minjun stabbed the man in the throat with one sword, then pulled it sideways and cut off his head.

Then he flashed forward and slapped the headless corpse away with one palm, preventing him from taking a second step.

The Ming Cult had just been beaten half to death by Li Miao, and then the Miao King's Tomb, which stored divine skills, appeared here. This was too strange. Li Miao would naturally be on guard.

Li Miao stayed behind and talked to Yin Minjun all the way. He had already told her some things, including how to be on guard against traitors.

Just now, Yin Minjun saw that man hesitating and walking around with his head down, looking suspicious. She had already become suspicious and secretly got behind that man under the cover of the crowd. It turned out that he had evil intentions!

If he were to step completely onto the platform, the poisonous insects would explode and about 70 to 80 percent of the people present would die.

"Whose disciple is this!" Yin Minjun shouted loudly.

"It's Shen Ziyang from the Qingcheng Sect!" said the leader of the Kongtong Sect, turning to look at the leader of the Qingcheng Sect, his hostility already evident.

Just now he noticed something unusual and wanted to stop it but it was too late. He was scared and then angry. He almost couldn't help but fight with Qingcheng Sect.

What happened just now happened too suddenly, and everyone just reacted at this moment. They all stepped forward and surrounded the remaining four people from Qingcheng Sect.

"Master Hao, what's going on?"

Lao Qifeng stepped forward, took a look at the corpse on the ground, then turned to look at the head of Qingcheng Sect.

"Those who can enter this tomb are all second-rate or above, and are personally selected by the heads of each family."

"This Shen Ziyang seems to be your direct disciple, Master Hao, right?"

"If it weren't for Elder Yin's intervention just now, most of the people present would have been killed by your disciple...Master Hao, you have to give everyone a reasonable explanation."

The head of Qingcheng Sect looked even paler at this time. He looked around at the remaining three disciples, his mind racing, but he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

But I heard Li Miao's voice behind me.

"Maybe it's not the Qingcheng Sect's fault. Someone may have harmed this Qingcheng disciple."

Lao Qifeng suddenly turned his head and looked at Li Miao.

Li Miao was squatting beside the headless corpse at this time. He bent his fingers into claws and tore open the clothes on the back of the corpse with a "swish".

I saw a sword wound on the shoulder of the corpse, and blood was slowly flowing out.

Li Miao put his palms together to form a knife and thrust it suddenly into the chest of the corpse. After groping in it for a while, he pulled out a struggling and screaming insect.

Li Miao crushed the bug to death, threw it on the ground, and turned to look at everyone.

"Someone secretly harmed this disciple and put a poisonous insect into his body."

"The poisonous insect entered his body, and he stepped onto the platform while in a daze."

(End of this chapter)