After a dozen or so seconds, Luo Tianhe finally let go. The man, as if utterly drained, collapsed backward onto the ground, clutching his two fingers. His body was bent like a shrimp, twitching uncontrollably.

"How about another round?"

Luo Tianhe, bowl in hand, looked down at the man, his tone utterly devoid of emotion.

Li Bai quietly explained to everyone that this man's index and middle fingers had been contaminated with corpse energy from years of contact with corpses in tombs. Now, the corpse poison had seeped into his bones. Corpse poison was extremely yin, and ordinary people couldn't see anything amiss from the outside. But if it encountered extremely yang substances like glutinous rice soaked in rooster's blood, the clash of yin and yang would trigger excruciating pain.

Luo Tianhe's method was also learned from the older generation. In ancient times, this method was used to identify tomb robbers. A bowl of blood-soaked glutinous rice; if the suspect remained calm, they were released. If they showed any sign of distress, their head would roll.

"Based on the degree of corpse poison penetration, is this person highly skilled?"

Li Bai hesitated for a moment, uncertain. "He should have some experience, but to say he's highly skilled is probably an exaggeration compared to Yu Chengmu. Everyone specializes in different things. This person only opens coffins and retrieves treasures, after all, the best treasures are in the tomb owner's coffin or on their body."

Seeing Luo Tianhe squat down, intending to continue, the man broke down and finally admitted that he was indeed the tomb robber, Liu Xueyi, and that the Wu family’s… the Wu family's treasures were also delivered by him.

Luo Tianhe patted Liu Xueyi on the shoulder, half-threatening, half-resigned. "It would have been better if you'd been honest earlier. Why suffer like this? Now, you better tell me everything you know honestly, and I won't make things difficult for you. Otherwise… you know the consequences."

Seeing that things were more or less under control, everyone began to ask questions. Jiang Cheng cut to the chase, directly asking him how many accomplices he had, who they were, and how many burial objects they had stolen from the blood corpse tomb.

"Including me, there are... there are 5 of us in total," Liu Xueyi said weakly. The excruciating pain earlier had left him still recovering, trembling every now and then.

Unexpectedly, Luo Tianhe exploded upon hearing this, grabbing Liu Xueyi's fingers. The latter nearly fainted from the pain. "Are you trying to fool a three-year-old? With your skills, five people dare to touch a blood corpse tomb?"

"No... no, I really didn't lie to you! Ah... ah ah! Let go!"

No matter how Luo Tianhe interrogated him, Liu Xueyi insisted that there were only 5 of them. Finally, Fatty couldn't stand it anymore and bluntly said that if they continued like this, the person would probably die before they could get anything out of him.

Yuan Shanyuan narrowed his eyes, stepped forward, and looked at Liu Xueyi, who was barely clinging to life. He said, "I can see that the sores on your face are from corpse poison from the tomb, it should be that Marquis Hun tomb. How about this, as long as you tell the truth, I'll help you deal with the corpse poison, and we'll be even."

Liu Xueyi looked at Yuan Shanyuan, his pupils somewhat unfocused. Yuan Shanyuan smiled, didn't say anything, and took out a silver needle, removed Liu Xueyi's upper garment, sprayed a mouthful of wine on it, wiped it simply, and started applying the needles.

In less than 10 minutes, Liu Xueyi's eyes changed, and an excited expression appeared on the remaining half of his face that was intact.

"How do you feel?" Yuan Shanyuan asked, putting away the needle.

"It's… it doesn't hurt anymore, and my qi and blood seem to be flowing much smoother."

Yuan Shanyuan assured him that he could completely remove the remaining poison from his face in just 10 days.

It had to be said that these two played the good cop and bad cop roles very well, cooperating perfectly. But when Yuan Shanyuan asked the same question in a gentle tone, the answer he got was still the same as before.

There were only 5 of them.

Yuan Shanyuan stopped Luo Tianhe, who was about to inflict more torture, and stared at Liu Xueyi, saying with a fake smile, "Alright, then tell me the identities of these five people, and who is the leader among you, and how did you find out about this blood corpse tomb?"

Liu Xueyi nodded painfully. "I can tell you everything I know, but… but this matter is very strange, and even now I can't figure some of it out. After all... the origin of all this is a dream."

"A dream?"

"Yes, even though it's been a long time, I still remember it. It's a dream," Liu Xueyi took a breath, his eyes gradually becoming distant. "It was a dream I had inside the tomb."

Fatty couldn't help but frown. "You mean a dream you had while you were in the tomb, or you dreamed about the ancient tomb? Make it clear."

"It wasn't that I dreamed about it, it was that… I was inside the ancient tomb. That time, I collaborated with some outsiders to open a large tomb, but in the end, these people wanted to take my share and actually collapsed the tomb passage from the outside, leaving me alone in the tomb."

"I was terrified at the time, and even gave up struggling and waited to die. I fell asleep in a daze, and as a result… as a result, I dreamed of a person."

At this point, Liu Xueyi's face became terrified, and even his breathing became rapid.

Li Bai asked in a low voice, "What kind of person?"

"I… I don't know, I couldn't see his face clearly. He was sitting there, wearing a suit, his face… his face was blocked by a newspaper, he was reading the newspaper."

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked at the same time, and then a strange feeling ran through their bodies.

Finally… they found him!

It was the Newspaper Man!

Jiang Cheng took a deep breath, then nodded calmly to Liu Xueyi, "Continue."

"This person told me that he knew there was another exit in the tomb passage, which was secretly built by the craftsmen who built the tomb in the first place so that they wouldn't all be buried alive after the tomb was completed. He could tell me about it and let me live, but I had to promise him that after I got out, I would do something for him."

The result was obvious. Liu Xueyi agreed, so he was able to appear in front of everyone now.

"After this person told me the route, I woke up. Originally, I didn't have much hope and thought it was just a hallucination before death, but I still went to the place he said with a sliver of hope, and as a result… as a result, I really found a secret passage!"

"Following the secret passage, I climbed out."

"After escaping death, I knew that person wasn't joking. He was definitely a god-like figure. In the following days, I was worried, after all, I had promised the other party to do something for him."

"But as time went by, I forgot about this matter, until… until one night a long time later, I drank a lot of wine, and in a half-dream, half-awake state, I dreamed of this person again. He said it was time for me to fulfill my original promise."

"He wanted me to rush to the Xia Tou Tuo Temple outside Shanghai before dawn the next day. In addition to me, there would be 4 other people there."

"The five of us together, set off to a place called Wolong Town, where there is a large tomb in the mountains. Our mission was to open this tomb."