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

The locust swarm was wiped out, and the swifts in the sky flew back to their nests inside the cliff face.

It is obvious that both the swifts and the locusts are artificially raised in this area to allow these two species to restrain each other while also being able to reproduce and thrive.

Li Changsheng picked up the black coffin again and turned to look at A Ning.

"Go down from here, and there's a cave about 30 to 50 meters away. I need to go to the funeral first."

"A funeral?"

Ah Ning was taken aback for a moment, but quickly came to her senses.

She remembered that Li Changsheng had opened a funeral service. She had initially thought it was just a cover for his work as a tomb raider, but after seeing the flying zombie king inside the black coffin, Aning was already nine-tenths convinced.

She nodded quickly, her tone filled with a sense of awe.

"Mr. Li, this operation will proceed according to your opinion."

Li Changsheng picked at his ear and said helplessly, "I still prefer your proud and unruly self. Why don't you revert to your old self?"

"..." Ah Ning rolled her eyes at Li Changsheng and ordered her men to hire mercenaries to mark anchor points on the stone platform and prepare to go down.

To be honest, Ah Ning has a somewhat exotic look, and she's especially beautiful when she has a cold expression.

Seeing that Li Changsheng had put away the flying zombie, Hei Xiazi quickly came over.

He whispered, "Boss Li, you see, someone as important as you doesn't even have a lackey to run errands or carry your bags. It's really not befitting your status. How about I..."

Before Hei Xiazi could finish speaking, Li Changsheng ruthlessly interrupted him.

"Glasses."

"Yes, Mr. Li, what are your instructions?"

"You're a pretty good person, but unfortunately you're not very lucky! When your luck catches up with Xiang Batou, Xin, or that kid Wu Xie, I'll give you a chance."

In Li Changsheng's mind, the best bag carriers are still Wu Xie and Xiang Batou!

However, one of them has his own team, and the other is busy looking for his third uncle, so he can't be his underling for the time being.

Upon hearing this, Hei Xiazi was immediately stunned.

He thought to himself, "I managed to escape from what was said to be a life-or-death situation and even gained a longevity constitution and these yin-yang eyes. How can you say I'm unlucky?"

Li Changsheng patted Hei Xiazi on the shoulder and encouraged him, "Work hard!"

After he finished speaking, he saw that Ah Ning's men had already descended into the cave one after another along the ropes, and he followed them with the black coffin on his back.

Below the Longmen Stone Platform is a stone waterfall, with all sorts of oddly shaped stones embedded in the rock walls.

Beyond the stone waterfall lies a large wooden beam stretching across the canyon floor.

The wooden beams are entirely black, and judging from the material, they should be Phoebe zhennan wood, which is larger and thicker than the Phoebe zhennan wood in the Forbidden City.

When Xiang Ba Tou saw the golden nanmu beam, he couldn't help but gasp.

"What a huge piece of Phoebe zhennan wood! If it were shipped out, it would probably be worth over a hundred million!"

In ancient times, Phoebe zhennan wood was a royal tribute and was not even allowed to be used by ordinary people. It was considered a serious offense to cut it down and make furniture without permission.

It can be said that, whether in modern times or ancient times, Phoebe zhennan wood is the finest of woods and is extremely valuable!

The superiority of Phoebe zhennan wood is evident in the fact that the main beams of the Forbidden City have remained standing for four or five hundred years.

Upon hearing this, Aning frowned and asked, "Isn't golden nanmu wood exclusively for the royal family?"

Xiang, the head of the gang, smiled and explained, "During the Ming Dynasty, the Feng family, the Guanshan Taibao, was specifically responsible for building imperial mausoleums for the royal family and controlled a portion of the felling and transportation of Phoebe zhennan wood."

Upon hearing this, Ah Ning nodded knowingly.

Although this piece of golden nanmu wood is worth more than 100 million, the most important thing right now is to find the entrance to the Immortal Village.

Anyway, such a big wooden beam won't fly away, and there's plenty of time to deal with it later.

Beyond the wooden beams lies an area of ​​hanging coffins.

Within an area of ​​about 20 to 30 meters, there are hundreds of hanging coffins.

These hanging coffins have half of their coffins exposed to the elements. They have long been rotten and decayed due to wind and rain, and you can even see the white bones inside.

Li Changsheng recalled it carefully.

Hu Bayi's team was driven to desperation by locusts and landed on a wooden beam. Due to the collision of a flock of swifts, the beam fell into the deep valley and eventually got stuck at the entrance of a hanging coffin cave.

With the protagonist's halo around him, he got stuck in the exact spot where the stone coffin was located, and found the key to the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village from inside.

But Li Changsheng didn't have that protagonist's halo, so he could only resort to a clumsy method, letting everyone search for the sites one by one.

"The hanging coffin cave I'm looking for contains a mummified corpse, who is holding an ancient bronze sword in his arms."

Upon hearing Li Changsheng's request, A Ning nodded slightly and then ordered her subordinates to search according to the requirements.

There are quite a few people here, so if they spread out and search, it won't take too long.

really!

Less than half an hour later, someone found the target.

Li Changsheng's spirits lifted, and he immediately grabbed the iron chain and swung directly to the location of the target hanging coffin.

Seeing this, Ah Ning, Xiang the foreman, and the others followed.

From the outside, this hanging coffin looks no different from any other one.

Only by parting the vines could one see that the coffin lid had been opened long ago, and the owner inside was sitting upright in the coffin with a noose around his neck.

Upon seeing the lasso, Tiger, one of Xiang's men, immediately laughed and couldn't help but tease him.

"Boss, this is a grave that has been propped up."

Old Kuai said with a worried look, "The noose has already been put on, and the funerary objects inside the coffin have probably all been looted."

Old Kuai was more pragmatic; he knew that although the large wooden beam outside was valuable, it was not something they could get their hands on.

Firstly, such a large piece of Phoebe zhennan wood could not possibly be transported out of the mountains by just a few people; in the end, the government had to be alerted, and it was eventually handed over to the state.

So his target was still these hanging coffins, hoping to find some small artifacts.

After searching for most of the day, this hanging coffin was the best preserved, but I didn't expect it to be a tomb that had been visited by my colleagues beforehand.

Mercenary Mike was somewhat knowledgeable about China, but he didn't understand Tiger's jargon, so he asked in a low voice, "What does 'corpse-tethering rope' mean?"

Tiger didn't mind and gave a casual answer.

"When setting up the coffin, we generally don't touch the deceased with our hands. Instead, we prepare a rope, put it around the deceased's neck, lift them up, and then touch the burial objects inside the coffin."

Mike seemed to understand, but not quite, why they had to do that.

Xiang, the head of the team, smiled faintly and explained in a more scientific way.

"In the past, the older generation used lassoes to prevent corpses from absorbing human energy and turning into zombies. But in modern terms, the air inside a tomb is stagnant, and various germs thrive there. Avoiding contact with the corpse also prevents harm!"

Xiang's words are more reasonable.

In the 1980s, there was an incident in the domestic archaeological community where a staff member was infected with bacteria.

At the time, the archaeologists were careless and did not wear protective gloves, so they directly touched the coffin liquid with their hands.

The next day, the staff member was infected with the bacteria and infected several of his colleagues.

The archaeological excavation was immediately halted, the government sealed off the site, and dispatched numerous medical experts. It took a great deal of effort to cure the archaeologists and prevent the spread of germs.

Since this incident, archaeological excavations in China have become more standardized, and no one dares to touch a coffin full of coffin fluid without wearing protective gear.