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

When Xiang, the foreman, saw that A Ning was determined to get rid of the zombie monkey, he stopped trying to persuade her.

After all, giving advice to someone is something you can do once or twice, but not a third time.

Aning watched as her men packed up all the zombie monkeys before turning to look at Mike.

"Have you found the exit from the tomb?"

"Found it, the exit of this tomb is in the air-raid shelter."

Everyone was somewhat surprised to hear what Mike and the others said.

Xiang, the leader, asked, "An air-raid shelter?"

"The ridge we were on just now was more than ten kilometers away from the air-raid shelter. How could we have arrived at the air-raid shelter in an instant?!"

Ah Ning was equally puzzled and asked in surprise, "How can you be sure it's an air-raid shelter and not somewhere else?"

"Miss Aning, you'll see for yourself."

Mike made way for them, and everyone quickly followed.

The narrow tomb passage outside, though winding and tortuous, is not very long.

After walking less than a hundred steps, a large gate cast in bronze appeared before them.

The gate was open, and you could see at a glance that behind it was none other than the air-raid shelter where Aning and the others had found the Wushan ape eating snails.

On the other side was a large steel gate.

"That doesn't make sense. We thoroughly inspected the air-raid shelter when we passed through it. There's no way we wouldn't have discovered such a large tomb!"

Upon hearing this, Mike quickly shook his head and explained.

"Miss Aning, no, the specific situation is very complicated..."

As he spoke, he called over another white mercenary to demonstrate.

The mercenary walked out of the bronze gate and into the air-raid shelter. He then turned around, looking bewildered, and searched around for the gate he had just entered.

Upon seeing this, everyone was intelligent and immediately realized what was happening.

"This tomb is connected to an air-raid shelter, but it's not in the same space?!"

"Thinking about it, it makes sense. Back then, an entire engineering corps was building air-raid shelters. If there really was a tomb hidden there, how could they not have discovered it? I guess this 'proxy tomb' of the Conferring of the King's Ceremony is indeed a bit fantastical."

Xiang, the foreman, couldn't help but sigh, then turned back to look into the depths of the tomb passage.

"Miss Aning, do you want to continue investigating?"

"Of course we should, this tomb hasn't been fully explored yet."

Ah Ning took the initiative without hesitation, her eyes sparkling.

Over the years, Jude Kao's research on immortality has made no significant progress.

Now that they've finally caught a zombie monkey that may have undergone immortality experiments, Aning naturally wants to strike while the iron is hot and achieve even more.

She thought for a moment, then raised her hand and gave the order: "Mike, take a small team and escort the zombie monkey to the camp first. I have a satellite phone in my room; call headquarters directly and have them send a helicopter to pick it up."

Mike immediately accepted the order and left. As his group departed, the tomb chamber instantly went from crowded to deserted.

Besides Gou Daoshi, Li Changsheng, Hei Xiazi, Xiang Batou and his eight men, A Ning's men also decreased from fifteen or sixteen to four or five.

It is worth mentioning that since entering this tomb, the Taoist priest Gou has ignored everything else and devoted himself to studying the medicinal herbs and prescriptions on the antique shelves in the main tomb chamber, seemingly wanting to find the secret to immortality.

When Li Changsheng and the others returned to the main tomb chamber, Gou Daoshi was still buried in these books, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing.

Seeing this, Hei Xiazi asked curiously, "Master Gou, have you found anything useful?"

"Useful? Useless! That bastard, the King Conferment Ceremony, always tears up the records at the most crucial point!"

At this point, the Taoist priest raised the handwritten copy in his hand.

When everyone looked over, they discovered that there were indeed torn marks on the last few pages of the book, and judging from the marks, they were old marks from many years ago!

"Were the important parts covered up or torn off?"

A Ning frowned slightly and subconsciously looked at Li Changsheng.

"Boss Li, in your opinion, has the Conferring of a King Ceremony actually led to the discovery of immortality?"

"How should I know? Do I look like a deity to you?"

Li Changsheng shrugged and replied casually, his attitude even somewhat perfunctory.

He had come in high spirits, originally intending to complete a quest, but the zombie monkey was not recognized by the system, so he couldn't complete the funeral quest, which annoyed him quite a bit.

Aning got a bit of a retort and, in a fit of anger, snapped back.

And he quickly convinced himself!

"Never mind, he's someone the boss specifically asked us to cultivate a good relationship with, so I'm not angry..."

Thinking of this, Aning turned to look at Black Bear.

The latter quickly replied, "I don't think so. If Feng Wangli were immortal, he wouldn't just stand by and watch the Feng family fall apart without doing anything."

Upon hearing this, Ah Ning remained noncommittal, but ordered her men to hire mercenaries to search the tomb chamber again, and to pack up and take away all the relatively intact books on the curio shelves, as well as the medicinal herbs and prescriptions contained therein.

but……

At this moment, the Taoist priest's eyes darted around, and he suddenly said, "Miss Aning, we've searched most of the tomb, but there's one place you haven't searched yet."

"Where?"

"An alchemy furnace!"

Gou Daoshi pointed to the center of the tomb chamber, to the purple-gold bronze incense burner that was nearly two meters tall!

The alchemy furnace is exquisitely designed, with a dragon on each side, coiled around the top of the furnace.

The middle section features a hollow design, with three Xuanwu relief sculptures at the bottom.

Ah Ning's eyes lit up after hearing what Gou Daoshi said.

She nodded, gathered her subordinates, and came to the alchemy furnace.

He then ordered a skilled Southeast Asian mercenary to climb to the top of the alchemy furnace.

The mercenary turned on his flashlight and shone it into the alchemy furnace.

A moment later, he gave a report in slightly accented English.

"Miss Aning, there's something inside!"

Upon hearing this, Ah Ning was invigorated and immediately ordered her men to work together to lift the heavy lid of the alchemy furnace.

Once the lid of the alchemy furnace was lifted off, Aning immediately used the furnace wall as a springboard to jump onto the top of the furnace.

However, when she turned on her flashlight and shone it inside the furnace, she couldn't help but gasp in surprise upon seeing what was inside.

"Miss Aning, what's inside?"

Upon hearing this, Ah Ning looked at everyone with a strange expression and said, "I can't explain it either. You can come and see for yourselves."

Upon hearing this, Gou Daoshi, Xiang Batou, and the others, who were already extremely curious, all climbed to the top of the alchemy furnace.

Fortunately, this alchemy furnace was made of the finest purple gold and weighed several tons. Even after many people climbed up, it remained as stable as Mount Tai.

The group reached the top of the furnace and immediately looked inside.

Inside the alchemy furnace lay a zombie ape!

More importantly, the zombie ape's abdomen was ripped open, and next to it was a shriveled placenta that looked like it would break at the slightest touch.

"this……"

Everyone now understood why Ah Ning's expression had been so strange earlier.

The zombie ape was already bizarre enough, but who would have thought that it could give birth to baby apes?

What is this? A child born from a corpse?