The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 155 Entering the door
The eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month, early morning.

Outside the Twelve Clan strongholds.

Li Miao looked at the several short men in front of him and smelled the cold and earthy smell emanating from them. He couldn't help but frowned and moved his fingers.

He kind of wanted to kill these people with a single move of Xuantian Points.

Because these people are the tomb robbers invited by the major sects.

Whether in Li Miao's past life or in this life, the Central Plains people valued blood inheritance the most. Robbery and disturbing the rest of ancestors have been a matter of life and death since ancient times. In terms of death, tomb robbers are no worse than human traffickers.

However, Li Miao thought about it and decided to give up.

These tomb robbers have a tradition of looking down on ordinary people's graves and only target the graves of high-ranking officials and kings.

If it was an honest official, there would be nothing in the grave, and these people would not dig it up. As for those corrupt officials and princes who were buried with a lot of things... just dig it up, because those things were scraped off people's bodies anyway, and someone has to take them back from them.

"Is this the place?" Li Miao asked.

"Yes, sir, the Miao people's secret passage is right here."

A leading gravedigger replied, "We inserted some steel drills and probed. It's about the width of two or three people standing side by side. There's wind, so it's alive, not sealed up and unused."

"Okay, go down."

Li Miao waved his hand, and several people nodded in agreement and ran away in a hurry.

Li Miao turned to look at the several leaders and said.

"Everyone, I'll go in and take a look. You don't have to attack this village, just surround it and don't let these people escape."

"Yes, my lord."

Several leaders nodded.

Only then did Li Miao look at the secret passage dug by the tomb robber and walked in leisurely.

He had previously asked a large southern sect to perform witchcraft for him, but in fact he was trying to be lazy and wanted to trick people into coming over so that he could save himself some trouble.

But now, Li Miao doesn't want to let these people in.

Because this village is more than just a place to pass down the art of witchcraft. Ji Tianrui's origin, the Ming Cult's plan, and all the truths that have continued from fifteen years ago to the present day may all be answered here.

In fact, it may be more than that.

Before leaving the An family, Ji Tianrui left a stack of rough paper for practicing calligraphy on the desk in the secret room. Of course, Li Miao would not believe that it was left there unintentionally. How could it be called the true feelings of the heart? It was clearly left for him to see on purpose.

There are a few words in it that stand out.

"Dashuo. Zhu family."

"Emperor, the heavenly man."

"Mingjiao, founding a nation."

Faced with these words, even Li Miao had to be cautious and seriously seek the truth.

In the first thirty years after arriving in Dashuo, he had acquired enough force to protect himself. However, pure force has its limits. He is not alone and cannot rush in like a reckless man. He will not die, but Zhu Zai, Wang Hai, and Xiao Si may not. He must have a thorough and deep understanding of Dashuo to know where he is and what he can do.

And the fewer people who know about these things, the better.

After walking about a hundred feet along the secret passage, Li Miao frowned.

Because the direction of this secret passage is indeed extending towards the village, but the slope is getting steeper and steeper, diving towards the underground.

After walking another hundred feet or so, they saw faint bulges on the stone walls on both sides, as if something was embedded on them.

Li Miao looked carefully and felt that it was familiar. On this stone wall, there were a bunch of rat bones inlaid, just like the situation in the Miao King's Tomb. And on the stone wall in front, there were also sections of chicken, dog, pig, sheep, and cow bones inlaid.

Li Miao didn't understand the Miao people's beliefs. But this kind of primitive beliefs are all interconnected. Tombs often have some religious attributes, and the various images that appear in them all have their own unique meanings.

If the stone wall here is the same as the stone wall of the Miao King's Tomb, it means that in the Miao people's primitive belief, this place is on par with the Miao King. In the Miao people's belief, the Miao King is a human god, almost the supreme existence. What can be on par with him?

Li Miao continued to walk forward, and sure enough, on the stone walls on both sides, bones of humans and various animals began to appear mixed together, which was exactly the same as the situation in the Miao King's Tomb.

After walking a few dozen steps, I saw a cave entrance that went vertically downwards. It was pitch black and bottomless.

Li Miao jumped directly in, using the stone walls to push himself back and forth, and after sliding down several dozen feet, he landed on the ground.

This place is also a karst cave, but there are no densely packed coffins like the one in the Miao King's Tomb. Instead, the ground is extremely flat, with a few faint traces of light color, like the paths left by people who often walk.

Li Miao walked along the road and soon saw a fire.

There is a building there.

Li Miao looked carefully. It seemed that there was no one outside, but in fact, there were some discordant shadows around, hiding in the depressions of several stone walls. There were also countless subtle breathing sounds around, not just people.

Judging from the level of defense, we should have found the real culprit.

Li Miao walked along the stone wall, and the circulation of the internal Qi in an instant changed its path, and his footsteps and breathing became barely detectable.

It is the lightness and internal strength of the thieves' sect that are most suitable for stealth.

Walking all the way to a depression in the stone wall, Li Miao flashed and appeared in front of the man inside.

"!!!"

The man's eyes blurred and he lost consciousness before he could open his mouth.

Li Miao went around here and did the same thing. In a short while, he had eliminated all the secret sentries in this direction.

After doing all this, he climbed onto the roof, walked to the door of the highest room, and listened attentively.

Then I heard a noise inside, as if there was an argument.

"I said I shouldn't have been soft-hearted! I was afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, and I let those people escape. Now they are looking for us! What should I do? "

"It's easy for you to say that. Even if we had poisoned them and controlled several major sects, could we have stopped the imperial court's troops? Don't forget how Ge Pu Tianrui died!"

"So what? Do we still have the right to be picky? We're going to die anyway, so we can die with peace of mind by dragging a few people down with us! It's better than being a coward now!"

Several people were arguing excitedly and it sounded like they were about to start fighting.

Suddenly, an old voice sounded.

"Stop arguing. Since the clues we left didn't work, there's no point in saying this now."

"Right now, we need to think about how to get through this stage."

"No... we have no choice but to release 'that person'."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people who had been arguing just now spoke up at the same time.

"No!"

"Absolutely not!"

"We are rebels! Have you never seen the 'Pupa Girl'? If we let her go, we will die a hundred times more miserably than the 'Pupa Girl'!"

(End of this chapter)