In Panjiayuan, the first thing they did was trick Lao Hu into going tomb raiding.

"........."

Wang Yueban was speechless for a long time. "It's no big deal for a dog to bark at the moon. People just want to leave their things here... Is it any of your business?"

Wu Xie shook his head, strongly disagreeing, and insisted on his own idea.

Wang Yueban was utterly speechless. He quickly walked to Su Mo's side and said with a fawning smile, "Master Su, is the mechanism here?"

Su Mo nodded, and Fa Qiu gestured with two fingers on the wall. He quickly noticed something unusual, paused with his right hand, and pressed down without hesitation.

"Click click click click click click click click click click!"

The mechanism was activated, and the entire massive tomb wall began to rise and recede upwards.

Hearing the commotion, everyone quickly returned to Su Mo's side and raised their guns in alert.

Wang Yueban exclaimed in surprise, "There really is a secret room!"

The passageway was quite large, and after Su Mo went in, everyone else followed suit.

The tomb chamber inside was not very large, and a beautiful coffin was placed on a stone platform in the center.

Looking at the coffin before him, Su Mo said, "This should be the coffin of Commander Zhang, the one who modified the tomb!"

Xie Xiaohua nodded and said, "That's right, the woodworking and carving skills match up perfectly!"

Wang Kaixuan looked at the coffin, rolled up his sleeves, and laughed, "Then let's get to work! Everyone, lend a hand and open the coffin!"

"Master!"

Suddenly, Wang Yueban shouted, "As a tomb raider, shouldn't I light a candle to set the scene?"

"fart!"

Wang Kaixuan cursed, "Although I am a tomb raider, I have only lit a handful of candles. With Brother Su here, what are you doing here?!"

"Brother Su is the General of the Tomb Raiders, a position bestowed by Heaven, granting him complete freedom from all taboos..."

"Quickly, quickly, open the coffin!"

"..."

Wang Yueban was speechless. To his shame, he was a disciple of the Tomb Raider Captain, but he had never lit a single candle.

"Come on, come on..."

Wang Kaixuan waved to the crowd, "Everyone, let's get started! One, two, three!"

With everyone's help, the coffin lid was moved aside.

However, when they saw the body dressed in a blue general's uniform inside the coffin...

Apart from Su Mo, everyone else was dumbfounded.

"Brother!"

Wu Xie exclaimed in surprise and instinctively reached out to save the person.

Xie Xiaohua quickly grabbed Wu Xie's hand: "Hey! Wu Xie..."

Wang Kaixuan and his apprentice exclaimed in unison, "Holy crap..."

Wu Xie reached out again to check the other person's breathing, his face paled, and he asked incredulously, "Dead?"

In his mind, Zhang Ke the mute was an extremely powerful person, and he would never die, no matter who died.

Suddenly, Wu Xie seemed to have suffered a huge blow.

Su Mo reminded him, "He's not Xiao Ge, he just looks like him. Look, he's even wearing a general's uniform from the Republican era!"

Chapter 316: The Beginning of Misty Village

Su Mo reminded him, "He's not Xiao Ge, he just looks like him. Look, he's even wearing a general's uniform from the Republican era!"

Wu Xie then realized something was wrong. "Right, right, it's not Xiao Ge. Xiao Ge wouldn't be in trouble, and even if he were, he definitely wouldn't be lying here wearing a military uniform from the Republican era! This can't be him!"

Wang Kaixuan exclaimed in amazement, "But this turtle and the tortoise look exactly alike! They're so similar!"

Wang Yueban nodded in deep agreement: "They really do look alike, even more like twins than twins!"

Xie Xiaohua said, "If this person isn't Xiao Ge, then it must be Commander Zhang!"

Wu Xie reminded her, "Xiao Hua, take out the diary that Master Su gave you and take a look. Maybe there will be clues in it."

Xie Xiaohua nodded and took out her diary from her bag, handing it to Wu Xie.

Wu Xie quickly flipped through the pages, his tense expression gradually relaxing. "There really are clues..."

Wang Yueban said impatiently, "Read it aloud, let everyone hear it..."

Wu Xie glanced at everyone, then said, "Deep affection misplaced, how can this be bearable? Heaven is jealous of talent..."

"Here, I, Dou Cheng, swear to Heaven that, regardless of life or death, I will follow my master, and even if I enter the deepest hell, I will not retreat!"

"..."

Hearing this, Xie Xiaohua sighed, "A loyal and brave man, he must have committed suicide because his superior died for some reason!"

Wang Kaixuan nodded and said, "Rare indeed, a true character!"

Wang Yueban: "He's a die-hard loyalist! And he wasn't just passively buried with someone; he actively chose to die for love!"

Wu Xie continued reading, "He mentioned earlier that he was transferred to be a personal guard for a division commander named Zhang Buxun. Zhang Buxun, the division commander Xiao Hua mentioned, could he be...?"

Everyone looked at the corpse in the coffin that looked exactly like Zhang Qiling.

Su Mo said, "It should be him. Major General Brigade Commander, Division Commander, Lieutenant General Division Commander, that matches up!"

Wu Xie continued flipping through the pages: "Let me look further down..."

I flipped through several pages in a row.

"Have it!"

Wu Xie continued, "The commander-in-chief gave instructions to give the division commander an important mission, but we didn't expect that this mission would be to go down into the tomb to retrieve treasure."

"According to Commander Zhang Gaoyuan, he captured a treasure thief surnamed Wang. After interrogation, this man told Commander the location of an ancient tomb!"

A tomb raider surnamed Wang?

Wang Kaixuan was somewhat surprised. "Could it be a member of the Wang family?"

Xiaohua pondered for a moment, "It should be him. You know, the Wang family has a history of hundreds of years!"

Wu Xie continued, "The commander-in-chief needs military pay, and the division commander is the commander-in-law, so we asked the division commander to personally lead a team to retrieve the treasure!"

Seeing this, Wu Xie looked at everyone and said, "I remember Zhang Gaoyuan. He was said to be a warlord in the Yunnan-Guizhou area during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and he was quite powerful."

"He was born into a wealthy family, and he has a rather domineering personality!"

"With the help of family influence, they formed an army and established a militia corps. After that, they expanded their power and became unstoppable!"

As if remembering something, Wang Yueban immediately said, "Before we asked that old man for lodging, he seemed to have mentioned Zhang Gaoyuan..."

"Yes, he mentioned it. The old man said that Zhang Gaoyuan had also been to Misty Village."

"Tsk tsk tsk, a legendary figure. Let me tell you, following this Zhang Buxun, he's probably a ruthless character too!"

Wu Xie opened the notebook and continued reading: "Following the Commander-in-Chief's orders, the Master followed the map and found the ancient tomb, along with countless treasures of gold and silver..."

"..."

Wu Xie seemed to have discovered something, and his voice rose a few decibels, "Upon investigation, the 'immunity token' was delivered to the pawnshop by villagers from Misty Village. This news has greatly excited the Commander-in-Chief..."

"So I decided to go to Misty Village myself to find out what was going on..."

"According to the captured Wang family members, his ancestor Wang Zanghai once discovered the secret of immortality in an ancient tomb in Miwu Village."

"Having found nothing, the commander slaughtered everyone in Misty Village and ordered the division commander to stay behind to continue searching for the elixir of immortality..."

"Although the division commander was unwilling, the commander-in-chief had done him a favor, so he had no choice but to stay!"

"The commander helped the villagers of Misty Village build coffins, and I made a new discovery in the tomb..."

"This tomb is actually a double-layered structure; the upper layer contains burial goods, while the lower layer is the actual burial chamber for the tomb owner."

"I happily led the commander over, but, I don't know what mechanism we triggered, everyone suddenly became strange, as if they had turned into monsters..."

"The commander ordered me to provide support, but when I returned, the commander had disappeared without a trace, and even the monsters that my compatriots had turned into were gone."

"Just when I and a platoon of soldiers had been searching for days without success, I reported the matter to the commander-in-chief. But just then, the division commander returned."

"The commander asked the division commander where he had gone, and the division commander said he didn't remember. The two of them had a big argument. When I got back, I also asked the division commander where he had gone!"

Wu Xie paused at this point.

Wang Kaixuan asked, "What happens next?"

Wu Xie shook his head: "He didn't say, but this matter seems to have become a knot in Dou Cheng's heart. He often brought it up afterward!"

"He couldn't explain what exactly happened that day, but he knew that from that day on, Commander Zhang had become very preoccupied!"

Wang Yueban took the notebook. As she flipped through it, she asked, "And then?"

Wu Xie said, "Later, they entered the ancient tomb again!"

Wang Yueban was stunned: "You've found the secret to immortality, haven't you?"

Wu Xie shook his head: "I don't know."

Wang Yueban guessed, "It's pretty much true, because he clearly knew Zhang Gaoyuan wouldn't let him go, so why would they go back to the ancient tomb?"

Su Mo said, "Perhaps he has his own plans, but one thing is certain: Zhang Buxun definitely hasn't discovered the true secret to immortality..."

Wang Kaixuan looked at Su Mo and smiled, "That's right. According to the information from the diary, this Zhang Buxun is a man of great loyalty and righteousness. Moreover, his revenge and his dream are not about immortality. If he really discovers the true secret to immortality, I think he would definitely be willing to hand it over to Zhang Gaoyuan!"

Su Mo said, "Zhang Buxun clearly knows information about the art of immortality, but he hasn't handed it over. Instead, he's unusually guarding this place..."

"I believe there must be a huge problem with this immortality technique!"

Chapter 317: Farewell to the Silent Rider

"I believe there must be a huge problem with this immortality technique!"

Su Mo truthfully expressed his views on the immortality technique of Misty Village, which could be considered as giving the people of the Nine Gates around Xiao Hua a heads-up in advance, so as to prevent them from becoming greedy for the immortality technique and going astray.