General of the Heavens

Chapter 102: A Rebellion Has Been Formed [Seeking Recommendations]

With predecessors planting the trees, the rest was much simpler. Without Ning Chen even having to say anything, Hu Bayi simply had Wang Pangzi catch a few sparrows and release them into the tomb.

Test to see if there is any toxic gas.

An hour later, the sparrow was full of energy.

With all preparations complete, Ning Chen decided to officially enter the tomb. However, he didn't expect that Yingzi, this daring girl, also wanted to experience it, so Ning Chen went along with her.

Following the ropes, they entered the tomb chamber one after another.

The tomb chamber was not large, about thirty square meters. Ning Chen could see at a glance that the coffin of the tomb owner was placed in the very center of the main chamber.

Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang walked over with flashlights: "Chief, it's pitch black in here. Aren't you afraid of falling if you don't bring a flashlight?"

Ning Chen said calmly, "What do you know? My eyes can see clearly even in the dark."

"Really?"

Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang looked at each other in bewilderment.

Ning Chen ignored them and walked straight ahead. Since there was no burial bed, a shallow pit was dug in the middle of the main chamber, and the dark coffin was placed in the pit.

Half of the coffin was sticking out.

Then, Ning Chen looked at the walls of Pi Zhou and saw a series of colorful bas-relief murals, in which the figures were simple and lifelike.

There are eight murals in total. Ning Chen looked at them all. Some depicted hunting scenes in the forest, some depicted drinking with friends in the palace, some depicted going to war, some depicted escorting prisoners, and the last one depicted a scene of being conferred a title.

Each mural depicts a man wearing a fox fur coat, who is naturally the tomb owner. Therefore, the owner of this general's tomb must have been at least a marquis.

This tomb is of the rank of a feudal lord.

It's just that they're in a very bad situation.

Ning Chen walked in front, Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi followed behind, and Yingzi was in the middle. Hu Bayi saw that Ning Chen was avoiding traps with extremely skillful techniques, such as some hidden arrows. He even felt that Ning Chen had set up these traps himself.

It's incredible, something I've never heard of before.

Hu Bayi suddenly remembered his grandfather Hu Guohua, who had said that there were sixteen characters in the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique".

They are: Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, God, Buddha, Demon, Animal, Awe, Suppress, Escape, Object, Transformation, Yin, Yang, and Void.

However, he spent his entire life learning only a little bit of fortune-telling and feng shui skills, but even so, Hu Guohua earned the title of Master Jin Dian.

Hu Bayi clearly remembered that Hu Guohua had said that the truly powerful aspect of the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique was the most unfathomable character "emptiness"!

What is emptiness? It is the formlessness of the great elephant and the silence of the great sound. The highest realm of Feng Shui secrets is a text without a single word.

By studying step by step until the end, one will have realized the Great Dao and naturally comprehend the ultimate mystery of "within creation, the unity of heaven and man" in the "Void" scroll.

Hu Bayi saw that Ning Chen knew the tomb chamber inside and was familiar with the mechanisms and traps like the back of his hand. In addition, Ning Chen had previously said that his celestial feng shui skills were barely passable...

All signs indicate that Ning Chen, the director of the research institute, is thoroughly familiar with his family's "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" and uses it even more skillfully than he is.

Has he reached the realm of emptiness?

But his grandfather, Hu Guohua, clearly said that this book was passed down by Zhang Sanlianzi, a legendary tomb raider from the Qing Dynasty.

Apart from a notorious bandit surnamed Ning who forced him to hand over the book and then skimmed through it, no one else knew anything about it…

"Wait, damn it, a bandit surnamed Ning?"

Hu Bayi remembered what Ning Chen had said before: he had a photographic memory. Was it possible that Ning Chen was a descendant of that bandit surnamed Ning?

If that's the case, then everything makes sense. It's very likely that the person surnamed Ning at the time memorized this book!

Then it was passed down to Ning Chen's generation!

"Damn, I need to think about it some more, I need to think about it some more, what else did my grandfather say?" Hu Bayi racked his brains trying to recall.

Unfortunately, he couldn't remember most of what happened when he was a child. Hu Bayi only remembered that there were two other people who went with a man surnamed Ning to look for his grandfather.

As for the specifics of what he was talking about, Hu Guohua didn't say. He only said that these people had an incredibly powerful background and that he shouldn't mess with them.

Because one of them not only had tens of thousands of followers and dominated the area, but was also a notorious bandit leader who committed all sorts of evil deeds.

"The leader of the Unloading Ridge bandits? Isn't that just tomb raiding?"

Hu Bayi guessed the general idea from Hu Guohua's few words, which meant that if he remembered correctly, Ning Chen's ancestors were likely tomb raiders!

That's how Ning Chen knew he had a book, and that's how Ning Chen knew he only knew the Heavenly Star Feng Shui Technique, but not the Gold Divination and Acupoint Location Technique.

After figuring this out, Hu Bayi felt his blood boil!

I was wondering why Ning Chen seemed different. Turns out, this guy in front of me is a master thief disguised as an archaeological researcher!

However, although Hu Bayi guessed most of the facts, he could never guess the most important point: that the person back then was Ning Chen himself!

Time has no effect on Ning Chen!

Ning Chen had just cleared away the surrounding mechanisms and was about to open the coffin when Hu Bayi snatched the hunting rifle from Wang Pangzi's hand and pointed it at Ning Chen.

"You, surnamed Ning! I know who you are!"

When Ning Chen saw that Hu Bayi suddenly became unusually agitated, he instantly thought of something, perhaps something that Hu Guohua had said to Hu Bayi before.

"Rebellion! Who do you think I am?"

Ning Chen ignored Hu Bayi's gun and asked.

Fatty Wang, looking completely bewildered, said to Hu Bayi, "Old Hu, put your gun down first. Isn't that Chief Ning?"

"That's right, Brother Hu, don't let it go off accidentally!"

Hu Bayi's eyes widened as he said, "I'm perfectly clear-headed, Fatty. We've all been tricked by that Ning guy. He's actually the real tomb raider!"

"How could that be? He's the director of the research institute. Director Ning, you should explain yourself. Don't drive Old Hu crazy."

Fatty Wang was terrified that Hu Bayi might accidentally shoot Ning Chen in a fit of anger. They were after money, but they couldn't bring themselves to kill someone.

Ning Chen curled his lip and said disdainfully, "Let him think what he wants. Even if I'm a tomb raider, what can you, Hu Bayi, do about it?"

Hu Bayi sneered, "Since you admit it, then I'll just say that we discovered this tomb together, and Fatty, Yingzi, and I all got a share of the treasures inside."

Once we've received our share, we'll go our separate ways, you go your way, I'll go mine, and we'll keep to ourselves. We won't go back to your research institute either!

Ning Chen glanced at the large red coffin beside him. There must be a big treasure inside. Why did Hu Bayi have to choose this time to rebel?

How is this different from joining the National Revolutionary Army in 1949?

"Are you sure?" Ning Chen asked again, reminding him.

Hu Bayi nodded heavily: "Of course, but you lied to us before, so I'm going to tie you up and release you after we get the treasure."

Ning Chen looked at Hu Bayi with pity and said, "Alright, alright, hurry up and tie me up, then you can do whatever you want."

"Could this cooperation be part of a conspiracy?"

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