Hearing this, everyone became nervous. Jiang Cheng suddenly signaled Liu Xueyi to stop, then went out and called the old gentleman from downstairs, asking him to take the boy downstairs to play.

The boy was initially unwilling, but after hearing Fatty's persuasion, he finally nodded and earnestly made a pinky promise with Fatty, saying, "Then after you finish your business, Fatty-gege, you have to play with me. I'll take you out to see the sights. Shanghai has many fun places!"

"It's a deal."

Watching Fatty and the little boy interact, Yuan Shanyuan and Luo Tianhe's eyes turned red with envy. Building good relationships with important clue characters in missions was also a skill, but unfortunately, they were too late.

With the little boy's departure, everyone felt a sudden sense of relief.

Liu Xueyi became nervous when he mentioned the suspended coffin, his lips trembling slightly. "I... I used the technique that person taught me and actually cracked the mechanism on it. The iron chains as thick as my forearm came undone naturally, and the coffin, guided by the chains, fell to the ground."

"Then the coffin opened. Inside... inside was a corpse, only a corpse. There were no gold or silver treasures as imagined, but just this corpse was strange enough. The corpse was dressed in attire that only royalty could wear, but you couldn't see its face because it was covered with a bronze mask, and the mask was engraved with strange patterns."

"But from this corpse's build, and... and the approximate contours of its face, the more I looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. It was clearly... it was the person from my dreams!"

"He made me rob his own tomb!"

"I was terrified and collapsed on the ground, my mind blank. In the end, it was Xiaoyao Jiang who tore off his own clothes to make cloth strips, tied my hands and feet, and then everyone dragged me away. I rested in the tomb passage for a long time before I felt like my soul had returned."

"Seeing that I was okay, everyone untied me. Then Xiaoyao Jiang brought a small box and placed it in front of us. When he opened it, it was full of gold and silver jewelry. Seeing these jewels, I immediately perked up."

"He divided the jewels into five equal parts in front of us. We each took a share. Xiaoyao Jiang said in a hoarse voice that this was our payment for this tomb robbery. We must keep our mouths shut about this matter."

"At the time, my mind was filled with the gold and silver jewelry in my hands, thinking that this would be enough for a carefree life."

"After doing this, we began to retreat along the tomb passage. Xiaoyao Jiang was the last one. But on the way, someone stepped on a mechanism, and the bluestone slabs on the tomb passage came crashing down one by one, and a large amount of quicksand also began to pour in."

"Xiaoyao Jiang was hit by a bluestone slab. We wanted to save him, but his lower body was pinned down by the bluestone slab. He barely held on to his last breath, took his share of the jewelry from his arms, gave it to me, and told me that his name was Sun Deji, from Liping County near Shanghai City, and that he had a wife and children at home. He asked us to give this money to his wife."

"The situation was urgent, so we had no choice but to take the money, promise him, and then leave quickly. Soon after we ran out of the tomb passage, the entire tomb passage collapsed."

Fatty stared at him warily, "You didn't promise him and then not do it, did you? Did you secretly divide the money?"

Liu Xueyi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. "No, it's true that we wanted that bag of jewelry, but we would never dare to do such a thing. After all, every trade has its rules. Such dead man's money, we're afraid we'd have the life to take it but not the life to spend it."

"After discussing it, we decided to find a place to hide the grave goods we had brought out first. After doing all this, we took Sun Deji's share of the jewelry to Liping County."

"After inquiring along the way, we indeed found Sun Deji's home, but unexpectedly, his wife's body swayed after learning of our intentions, and she fell from her chair to the ground. Her whole face changed, and her lips were trembling."

"At first, we thought she couldn't accept this reality. After all, a living person was just gone, and they were husband and wife. Everyone understood this kind of feeling. But then the woman's words completely stunned us."

"How... how is that possible? My husband died last month, and his body was buried!"

Liu Xueyi imitated her very well, his voice as sharp as a woman's.

"We were also dumbfounded. To be honest, we've been doing this for some time, but this was the strangest. Naturally, we didn't believe the woman's words. How could that be?"

"We asked the woman if there was anyone else nearby named Sun Deji, if it could be a coincidence, but the woman said very firmly that there wasn't. This Sun Deji was her husband, and he had already died. She had watched him be buried with her own eyes!"

"Hua Shetou is a very suspicious person. He demanded that the woman take us to Sun Deji's grave to take a look. The woman agreed very readily. Our group followed the woman to a wasteland located outside the village. Here, tombstones stood in rows, and each grave mound was arranged irregularly like small earthen mounds. Following the woman's guidance, we indeed found a tombstone with Sun Deji's name engraved on it at the very back."

"For people in our line of work, a tombstone is nothing. We pretended to believe in front of the woman, gave her some money to send her away, but secretly everyone discussed and unanimously decided to exhume the body for an autopsy."

"Naturally, this kind of thing couldn't be done in broad daylight. We first prepared some handy tools, then hid in the woods not far from here, waiting until night."

"When all the lights in the village were extinguished, calculating that the villagers should all be asleep, we went back again, found the tombstone, and dared not light candles, so we just borrowed a little moonlight to start digging."

"The coffin wasn't buried very deep. We took turns in pairs, and it didn't take long to dig up the coffin. To avoid any accidents, we also lit incense to worship before opening the coffin."

"But when we opened the coffin, everyone was dumbfounded. It was actually an empty coffin!"

"What was even stranger was that there was a hole on the wide side of the coffin, as if something had clawed it out. Fan Jianglong was brave and jumped into the coffin without saying a word, squatted down to check, and then told us that the hole was dug out from inside the coffin."

"He also found a small piece of torn cloth on the edge of the hole, as if his clothes had been accidentally torn when he was drilling the hole."

"The torn cloth was gray and had a rough texture. After touching it a few times, I couldn't help but shiver and started rummaging around my body. I found the cloth strip that Sun Deji had torn to bind my hands and feet, and the two were exactly the same!"

"No living person could dig a hole in a narrow coffin. Sun Deji must have been dead at the time. He was a corpse, but it was this corpse that crawled out of the coffin and led us to open that eerie tomb."