Tomb raiding: Carrying a coffin during a funeral procession, rewarded with the Dragon Elephant Prajn

Li Changsheng calmly observed the tense expressions on Hei Xiazi and A Ning's faces, and even got out of the car to give them his seat.

Hei Xiazi rubbed his hands together, quickly got out of the car and went to the third row, reaching out to touch the black coffin placed on it.

Just as he was about to touch the black coffin, Ah Ning frowned and suddenly spoke.

"Wait!"

"What's wrong, Miss Aning?"

Ah Ning took a deep breath and walked to the other side of the car door.

"I'll help you."

Hei Xiazi didn't understand what he meant, but he didn't pay too much attention to it.

He knew that inside the black coffin was supposedly a thousand-year-old corpse king that Li Changsheng had taken out of the tomb of the King of Xian, so he didn't think about opening the coffin, but only wanted to carefully observe the talismans on the black coffin.

Furthermore, few people in this world know that Hei Xiazi's eyes, when he wears sunglasses, are eagle eyes, seeing everything in crystal clarity and even able to see in the dark. When he takes off his sunglasses, they become ghost eyes, seeing everything blurry, yet able to see things that ordinary people cannot.

That's why Hei Xiazi always wears sunglasses wherever he goes!

After all, it would be unsettling for any normal person to constantly see eerie atmospheres here and restless spirits there.

After a moment's hesitation, Hei Xiazi decided to risk using his Ghost Eye once!

He took off his sunglasses and immediately stared intently at the black coffin in the back of the third row.

next second!

"ah!!!"

His eyes stung, and he cried out as he retreated.

A Ning was startled and quickly looked up, only to find that, for some reason, blood tears were flowing from Hei Xiazi's eyes.

"you……"

Hei Xiazi didn't speak, but his whole body was trembling.

Shivering, he put his sunglasses back on his eyes and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm fine."

Hei Xiazi waved his hand, then, ignoring the blood and tears still streaming from his eyes, rushed to Li Changsheng and hugged his leg.

"Advisor Li, Xiao Heizi was just joking with you. Who am I to be qualified to carry your stuff? You should do it..."

Li Changsheng asked with a half-smile, "Regretful?"

"I regret it!"

"What did you see?"

"I saw...no, I didn't see anything!"

Hei Xiazi's face was full of flattery, and his attitude was even more humble than before.

Not far away, Ah Ning watched the two people who seemed to be speaking in riddles, feeling utterly bewildered.

However, since Hei Xiazi doesn't want to carry the coffin, there's no need for her to be anxious. There will be plenty of time in the future to uncover the secrets of the black coffin.

Moreover, once they're inside the mountains, Li Changsheng and this black coffin are entirely at his disposal!

Thinking of this, Aning stopped.

Li Changsheng walked to the car, pulled the black coffin out with one hand, and then carried it on his back.

The enormous black coffin stood behind Li Changsheng, its pitch-black body resembling a majestic mountain against the backdrop of the setting sun.

The main force rested in the town for one night, and the next day, led by the local staff of Pansuo Geological Exploration, they went to the mining area.

The guide was a middle-aged man in his thirties named Zhang Wei. Perhaps due to years of traveling deep into the mountains and forests, he actually looked like he was in his forties, with a weathered, dark face that made him look like he was from Africa.

"Miss Aning, the mining area is near Qingxi Town in the mountains. To get to Qingxi Town from here, you either need to take a waterway or a mountain road. You can't drive there by car."

Ah Ning was prepared for this. He nodded upon hearing this and instructed his men to unload the equipment from the vehicle, preparing to walk to the mining area.

After doing all this, she turned to Zhang Wei and asked, "Which of these two roads is shorter?"

"Of course, the mountain road is shorter. From here, heading north, you cross two mountains and then a plank road to reach the mining area. It takes at most a day. If you go by water, you have to detour more than 200 kilometers, and it won't take less than two days to get there!"

"There's not enough time! Headquarters has given a direct order: we must arrive at the mining area by tomorrow evening."

The headquarters that Aning mentioned was none other than her boss, Qiu Dekao.

Jude Kao was born in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. In the 1920s and 30s, he entered China as a missionary and, with the help of the embassy, ​​collected a large number of Chinese cultural relics.

After the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan, Qiu Dekao withdrew from China, secretly looting and taking away countless cultural relics and treasures.

It was through these cultural relics and antiques that Jude Kaw, an American, became a wealthy man and a great collector, owning several large companies, such as a marine resource exploration company headquartered in Australia, and Pansuo Geological Exploration Company in China.

The reason Jude Kao did all this was because he tricked Wu Xie's grandfather, Wu Laogou, out of a Warring States period silk scroll, and even deciphered its contents, learning that the ghost illustrations on the scroll were related to clues about immortality.

As his body aged, Jude Kao's desire for immortality grew ever stronger, which is why he accelerated his efforts, sending mercenaries like Aning deep into the interior to search for clues about immortality.

He was unwilling to miss any clue to immortality.

Zhang Wei was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then frowned and said, "The mountain road is steep and more dangerous than the waterway."

"That's not a problem."

Seeing that Aning had said so, Zhang Wei stopped trying to persuade her and immediately nodded.

Before long, the main force was ready, and with a command from Aning, everyone headed towards the Wushan Mountains outside the town.

The mountain road was rugged, so we couldn't go very fast.

To Aning's surprise, after walking for two hours and going around in circles, they actually arrived at the same mountain where the human-headed melon was found on the winding mountain road yesterday.

Hei Xiazi glanced at the winding mountain road below, calculated the distance, and then hurriedly said, "Miss Aning, that severed melon fell from this spot yesterday. Should we have someone lower it down to the cliff to take a look?"

Ah Ning hesitated for a moment, about to refuse.

But then Foreman Xiang suddenly said, "There's a saying in our line of work: 'A place with human heads is a gold mine.' Where there are human heads, there might be hidden treasures like gold nuggets. Miss Aning is a big shot; she wouldn't be interested in such things. I'll have my men take a look. It won't take much time. What do you think?"

Ah Ning didn't refuse when she heard this. There were people from the gang leader's group going down anyway, and she was also curious as to why the human head melon was on the cliff.

Seeing that A Ning nodded, Xiang turned to his men and ordered them to prepare.

Before long, Xiang's men had tied the ropes, and one of the smaller men quickly rappelled down the cliff.

However, when they reached the halfway point down the mountain, the rope suddenly stopped moving, and no one below responded.

Xiang, the foreman, was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly shouted, "Tiger, what's going on?"

Not long after, Tiger's voice came from below the cliff.

"Hey, there's a cave here."

A cave?!

Everyone was taken aback, but Tiger hadn't come up yet, so they could only wait patiently.

About half an hour later, the rope tied to the top of the mountain finally started moving again.

In just a few minutes, Tiger nimbly climbed up.

"What's going on inside the cave?"

Xiang, the foreman, quickly inquired.

"There were many large earthenware jars in that cave. I looked around, and they were probably from the Ming or Qing dynasties. They were all filled with earth, and they smelled fishy and foul. There were several human-headed gourds growing inside the jars. I guess the one from yesterday fell into the cave."

Tiger recounted in detail what he had seen and heard, expressing considerable disdain for the cave.

"Boss, we've searched every cave, and the urns are all coarse pottery; there's nothing of value."