General of the Heavens

The next morning, Ning Chen had a dark expression on his face.

Upon seeing Ning Chen, Chen Yulou's face immediately lit up with a smile: "Oh, Brother Ning, you look great! Looks like you've had a good rest!"

Ning Chen raised his hand to stop Chen Yulou's fine talk: "Brother Chen, do you really have to show off before Partridge Whistle returns? Have you forgotten the lesson you learned before?"

Chen Yulou's face turned ugly upon hearing this. Apart from Ning Chen, who else would dare to speak to him like that? Anyone else would have been killed by him long ago.

However, since things had come to this point, Chen Yulou no longer concealed his intentions. "Brother Ning, as the saying goes, a man fights for a breath, and a Buddha fights for a stick of incense!"

It's not that I'm being unreasonable, but you have to think about me, don't you? So many people have been lost, how can my Xieling lineage accept defeat willingly? If I'm afraid, what prestige will I have left…”

Chen Yulou's voice trailed off as he spoke, "This guy's stubborn pride is beyond redemption; he'll regret it someday."

"Alright, but you have to listen to me later!" Ning Chen said casually, and Chen Yulou agreed without taking it seriously.

Luo Laowai was ordering the engineers to keep working, and not to stop and rest until they had dug out the entrance to the Pingshan ancient tomb.

But he didn't consider that most of the soldiers in the engineering corps were heavy smokers, and after digging all night, they were already half-dead and in a daze.

Several seasoned smokers couldn't resist their cravings and collapsed to the ground. Old Luo, glaring at them, ordered his men to drag them into the woods and kill them…

Ning Chen's mind raced, and he immediately stopped Luo Laowai: "Commander Luo, these people are still useful, so let's keep them for now and I'll deal with them for you later."

Ning Chen spoke up, and Luo Laowai naturally gave him face. However, he thought that Ning Chen was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see them die.

In reality, Ning Chen was even more ruthless than him!

They dug and dug until noon, when the engineering battalion unearthed a magnificent stone gate deep underground, amidst a landscape littered with corpses.

It turned out that, just last night, during a thunderstorm, Chen Yulou used a technique to listen to the wind and thunder, and heard continuous echoes from the ground amidst the storm!

He immediately concluded that the tomb entrance was at the foot of the mountain, but it was buried very deep. However, as long as he dug all the way down, he would surely find something.

You should know that ordinary tomb raiders don't have this kind of ability to listen to the tomb's location and find the tomb. Otherwise, even if they exhausted all the few hundred engineers, they would not have been able to dig the tomb entrance.

Half a day later, they indeed dug up the tomb entrance.

Luo Laowai was overjoyed and rewarded each of the sappers who had unearthed the stone gate with two ounces of top-quality ginseng. Then he pulled Ning Chen and Chen Yulou over there.

He pushed aside the exhausted engineers who were staggering about, and saw a dark blue stone gate divided into two sections, each more than three people tall, like a tightly closed city gate.

These two stone doors, buried deep underground, are extremely heavy, weighing no less than three to five thousand pounds. The gaps between the doors are filled with molten lead and iron, making it impossible to pry them open.

The underground palace of the ancient tomb was extremely spacious. Although there were no jewels or jade in the side hall, local legend has it that the rare and precious items offered by emperors throughout the ages were hidden in a deep well in the main hall. Thinking of this, Luo Laowai felt a strong urge to try it.

The sharp-eyed strongmen discovered ancient characters carved on the stone gate, but after clearing away the dirt, they were completely baffled; none of them could recognize what was carved on it.

Only the leader, Chen Yulou, was a learned man who often boasted of his vast knowledge of classical allusions. He was invited to the front to see the ancient seal script on the stone gate.

However, Chen Yulou only glanced at it before sensing something was wrong. The large characters on the tomb door were not seal script, but rather the tomb owner's curse against tomb raiders.

Although the tomb contains the remains of Mongols, the tomb robbers have always been Han Chinese, so these characters are all carved in Han script, and the content is a curse on the tomb robbers.

Chen Yulou spent his life searching for ancient tombs and large mounds in various places, and he never believed in such nonsense as the idea that tomb raiding would be punished.

So he said to the bandits, "Try reading the inscription on the stele. It is the name and official title of the tomb owner of the past. There is nothing strange about it."

Everyone secretly gave him a thumbs up after hearing this, except for Ning Chen, who had a cold smile on his face. He was also someone who had been in the antique business, so he could recognize a few seal characters and knew the contents on the tomb door very well!

He simply couldn't expose them at this moment. Old Luo, standing nearby, didn't care about any of that; all he cared about was the treasure in the tomb: "Come on, get the explosives ready and blow this damn door to smithereens!"

"Stop! This is absolutely unacceptable!"

Ning Chen didn't say anything when the Unloading Ridge team dug up the mountain to find the tomb, but now that Luo Laowai has proposed using explosives to blast open the tomb door, Ning Chen absolutely will not allow it!

Over the millennia, a crack has appeared in Ping Mountain. In the original story, the collapse of Ping Mountain was directly related to Luo Laowai's use of a large amount of explosives!

Ning Chen may not have known, but since he was involved, even if he didn't think about the safety of the Hundred Thousand Unloading Ridge Bandits, he still had to be responsible for his own safety!

If Luo Laowai causes all that trouble and the mountain collapses, how will he complete the system mission? At that point, he will truly be in uncontrollable danger.

"Kid! Are you trying to teach me how to do things?"

Chen Yulou and Ning Chen are on good terms, but Luo Laowai is not. When it comes to interests, anyone who tries to stop him is his enemy!

"Hey! Commander Luo, let's hear what Brother Ning has to say before making a decision. Harmony brings wealth, harmony brings wealth..."

Chen Yulou stepped in to smooth things over, and Ning Chen realized that Luo Laowai was a clueless idiot who knew nothing!

Working with someone like that will only lead to disaster. Ning Chen's eyes flashed coldly as he secretly plotted how to cripple this guy...

At the same time, Ning Chen calmly asked, "Have you considered whether using explosives will widen the cracks in the mountain? Is the mountain's load-bearing capacity sufficient? What if a landslide occurs?"

Ning Chen asked three professional questions in a row, leaving Luo Laowai speechless. He grabbed his adjutant and made him answer.

But the adjutant was also an incompetent fool. None of Luo Laowai's engineers had ever learned precision demolition. They always relied on their intuition to blow things up. This would be fine for ordinary ancient tombs, but not for Ping Mountain!

"Then what do you suggest? If you can't do it, I don't care about anything else, I'll just blow open the tomb door and be done with it!" Luo Laowai said reluctantly.

Ning Chen chuckled mockingly, "You don't understand, do you? I'm the last descendant of the Tomb Raider General, so I know a thing or two about the secret arts of Tomb Raider!"

Chen Yulou's eyes lit up. "I'd love to hear the details!"

Luo Laowai also set aside his airs and humbly asked for advice. Ning Chen said, "A wise man makes good use of resources. The Qianjun Tomb Gate is difficult for humans to break through, so we need to borrow something!"

Ning Chen instructed Luo Laowai to send someone to fetch 100 catties of white vinegar. For things like stone gates, pouring 100 catties of white vinegar on them would soften them within a day, at which point a Luoyang shovel would be enough to dig through the tomb entrance.

"Brother Ning, is it really that simple?"

"You're not lying to me, are you? I'm not very educated."

Luo Laowai was dumbfounded. He was always rough and uncultured when it came to tomb raiding, so he had no idea about oxidation-reduction reactions. Chen Yulou was equally incredulous.

"Is this what they call the secret arts of tomb raiding?"

Ning Chen patted Chen Yulou on the shoulder and sighed, "Brother Chen, just read more books. Master math, physics, and chemistry, and you can go anywhere in the world. What's the big deal?"

Chen Yulou: "..."

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