Chapter 1 Cloud Jie

Yun Jie was a riot. At first, I thought he looked fierce and menacing, like a member of the G袍 brotherhood, a江湖 figure, so he must be a dauntless and fearless brute like Hu Wazi. But after this trip to the underground palace, I discovered that this guy was superstitious and cowardly.

The "Grave Robbers Die" stone tablet in the tomb tunnel scared him half to death. Now, seeing these stone figures cast from living people, he was so frightened that he stammered.

Seeing that Yun Jie was really scared, Lao Wei smiled, walked over, and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Yun Jie, what are you panicking about? Don't say these stone figures definitely aren't grave robbers. Even if, for the sake of argument, this underground palace really has some great power that can turn grave robbers into stone statues, we're not grave robbers, are we?"

I chimed in, "That's right, that's right. We're here to catch grave robbers, not to rob graves ourselves. A straight foot casts a straight shadow. What's there to be afraid of?"

Yun Jie said with a worried look, "But, what if the old ancestor in the underground palace makes a mistake? What if they misunderstand and wrongly accuse good people?"

Hu Wazi sneered from the side, "Don't worry, they can't make a mistake. Didn't you already bow down at the stone tablet? You already told the old ancestor that we're good people. How could the old ancestor still get it wrong? If you're still not at ease, bow down a couple more times here."

Hu Wazi was obviously joking, but Yun Jie, the simpleton, actually took it seriously. He didn't stand on ceremony and started mumbling to the stone statues.

"Old ancestor, bless us, tomb owner, bless us. We're not grave robbers. We're here to catch thieves. We're on your side. You must see clearly and not wash the Dragon King Temple with a flood. Don't mistake your own people for outsiders..."

Xiao Liang and I watched from the side, covering our mouths and giggling. Lao Wei almost couldn't hold it in either, quickly coughing twice to cover it up.

However, while Yun Jie was attracting most of our attention, I suddenly heard a noise from deep within the underground palace.

I was just about to turn around and remind Lao Wei when I saw that Lao Wei's gaze had already swept towards the direction of the noise.

He had obviously heard it too!

"Who's there?!"

Quick as lightning, Lao Wei shined his flashlight in the direction of the sound and asked sternly.

As a result, when the light swept over, I didn't see anything unusual. Only, the sound suddenly became hurried, a rustling that gradually faded away. I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, feeling that it sounded like footsteps.

"Someone! Probably Liu Huangshu's men!" I immediately guessed.

As soon as Hu Wazi heard the name Liu Huangshu, his eyes immediately stood up. He raised his tiger fists and shouted, "Chase!"

After saying that, he didn't care about Lao Wei's command and chased after the footsteps.

Er Jun followed Hu Wazi without saying a word.

Don't let Yun Jie's cowardice in front of the stone figures fool you. He wasn't ambiguous when it came to action. He bowed twice more and immediately caught up with Hu Wazi and Er Jun.

Seeing that the three of them were rushing too fast, Lao Wei quickly shouted, "Slow down! Slow down! Be careful of ambushes! And many of them have weapons. The most common is a simple assembled crossbow, with very strong lethality within twenty meters!"

Hu Wazi was anxious to avenge Uncle Mei and couldn't care less. In the blink of an eye, he strode away and disappeared into the tomb passage.

We quickly followed. I, Lao Wei, and Xiao Liang walked in front, with the other colleagues from the Xiaoling Guard bringing up the rear.

Coming out of this stone figure-filled tomb chamber, we faced a very long tomb passage. Although this tomb passage was long, it wasn't straight, but winding and curving. And the height wasn't very high, about 1.8 meters, 1.85 meters. Hu Wazi, a big guy, had to lower his head and bend over to walk inside.

Because of his height and long legs, he could run fast even in the narrow tomb passage.

I watched him running far ahead, bending over and lowering his head, looking like a man-eating beast. In recent years, there's a soccer player named Haaland, and he runs exactly like Hu Wazi.

Hu Wazi ran fast and soon caught up with the person making the noise. I vaguely heard an old voice shouting from ahead, "Don't chase, don't chase. You'll shake my old bones apart..."

Then came Hu Wazi's roar, "Are you one of Liu Huangshu's men? Confess honestly! Don't think I won't touch you just because you're old!"

Hearing this, Lao Wei couldn't help but frown, "What? Sounds like he caught an old rat?"

I asked doubtfully, "No way? Still tomb raiding at such an old age? Can his body handle it?"

Lao Wei said with a wry smile, "Generally, there aren't too many old people in this line of work. After all, tomb raiding relies on strength. But there are also those who refuse to accept their age, or those who are experienced and become more cunning with age. They still go down into tombs when they're old, but those are just isolated cases."

Xiao Liang quickly said, "Let's go, let's hurry up and catch up! This rat is old and can't take much. Hu Wazi's heavy-handed, don't let him kill the old rat!"

"Right, right, right!"

After being reminded by Xiao Liang, we realized how dangerous it was to leave this old rat to Hu Wazi. We ran up non-stop and saw Hu Wazi holding a skinny old man in his hand, interrogating him.

The old man looked extremely old, his hair was all gone, his skin was loose, his face was full of wrinkles, and he had few teeth left in his mouth.

He was dressed in rags and had a pungent stench about him.

Such an old man didn't look like a grave robber at all.

Hu Wazi kept asking, "Tell me! What's your relationship with Liu Huangshu?"

The old man pricked up his ears and listened, shaking his head, "Liu Huangshu? How could I be related to him? My surname is Zhang, not Liu. If I were to be related, it would be to Zhang Fei..."

As soon as I heard this, I knew that he probably didn't know that "Liu Huangshu" referred to a grave robber, but thought it was Liu Bei from the Three Kingdoms.

The capital of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period was in Chengdu, so the people in this area are very familiar with the characters of the Three Kingdoms.

However, after hearing the old man's answer, I suddenly felt that his accent was a bit strange. The intonation sounded like Sichuan dialect, but it was somewhat different from Sichuan dialect and also different from the local dialect.

At this time, Lao Wei stepped forward, first pulled Hu Wazi aside, and whispered, "Hu Wazi, be polite. The man is old after all."

Then he turned to the old man and asked, "Old man, why are you wandering around in this ancient tomb? It's bad luck. Did you come alone? Or did someone come down with you? Seeing how old you are, someone must have brought you down, right?"