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Chapter 21: Breakthrough Tian Yuqing couldn’t confirm our exact location, but he still used divination again and again to determine the direction of the pit wall. We rested against it. The people from the two teams had already been wandering around the bottom of the pit for a full six hours, and the moment we sat down, exhaustion hit all of us. There were many dried roots hanging down from the plants on the pit wall. Their tendrils had drilled up out of the soil, and as the temperature slowly dropped,…-
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The quicksand beneath the clay figurine collapsed all at once. None of us had seen that coming, so when we fell, all three of us were utterly unprepared. The cavity below was huge. Sand flooded up my nose and squeezed me downward. My chin slammed against a rock, and the pain made me wince hard. It felt like only a moment before I hit the bottom. I landed on my ass and sat there for a long while, every part of me aching and bruised. I barely managed to pull my legs in and look around. It was pitch black.…
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He Yu is in the coffin! The moment that thought flashed through my mind, I hurried up and used the shovel blade to pry at the lid. Ancient coffins and coffins with outer casings were usually sealed extremely well for preservation, and even a living person could suffocate to death if trapped inside for too long. The more I thought about it, the more frantic I became. I found a spot and shoved upward with all the strength I had, and the outer coffin lid that two or three people together couldn’t lift was…
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If He Yu hadn’t randomly drilled around and, by some twist of fate, ended up bumping into me, I might have been trapped to death in here for the rest of my life. In a place like this, a phone was never going to be reliable. No wonder He Yu had only brought a watch down with him. The watch’s timing function was extremely accurate, and it was waterproof and amazingly impact-resistant too. The hands on the watch reminded me that I had been stuck in this cavity for a full three hours, and I hadn’t even…
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After Tan Qiu left, Fourth Brother sent me off with fifty yuan as well. I had the money in my pocket, of course I was happy about it, so I hurried over to the little stall at the crossroads for a bowl of liangfen, then went to the supermarket and bought a few toothbrushes. On my way back from the supermarket, I saw the whole production street lined with mobile stalls selling New Year prints and Spring Festival couplets. Henan probably lacked nothing less than people. The county was always like this every…
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Fourth Brother wasn’t here. I locked the room door from the inside, flopped onto the bed, and began going over everything that had happened today, especially that nine-ring jade box. In fact, when Tian Yuqing asked me to look at it a second time, I really did notice some things I had missed the first time. A thin layer of pigment had been painted on the right side of the box, but I hadn’t paid it any attention during my first look, so I guessed it must be some special kind of paint that only showed up…
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I had thought Tian Yuqing would arrange for me to ride in the same car as him, but I never expected him to put me in the second car and get into the first one himself. I squinted and stole a glance into the first car, only to find an old man sitting in the back row, his beard already white with age. I found that odd. Why was there an elderly man in the group? He was already so old, and yet he still had to endure such a bumpy trip. That seemed pretty inhumane. I had no idea what kind of rule this was. Not…
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We didn’t have a family genealogy. As for the origin of the craft on my grandfather’s side of the family, all I knew came from oral tradition passed down from my grandfather and his ancestors. My grandfather’s forebears had once been an incomparably huge clan. From the way he described it, at its most prosperous, the family even rivaled the Ningguo Mansion in *Dream of the Red Chamber*. The years of those old events can no longer be verified now. Besides, what they were doing back then seemed to be…
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I thought to myself that I had always been an honest, proper sort of person. In all these years of living, I never seemed to have offended anyone. So how had so many big shots suddenly turned up here, each one seeming itchy unless they made a fool of me? A ghost wall was not something I’d willingly run into. How was I supposed to know that if you went there would be no problem, but if I went, another road would just appear? Tian Yuqing finally took his gaze off me. He pushed Tian Xiao slowly to the…
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Back in the car, the chill that had seeped into me seemed to be swept away at once by the air-conditioning and heater. He Yu had already been woken up by our noise, but he clearly didn’t have any grumpiness after being disturbed. Instead, he stared curiously at Lu Ayao, who had just gotten into the car. Tian Yuqing had said he was going to ask for help, but in the end he had only brought Lu Ayao. After we got in, the convoy turned around and got back on the highway, and my mood was pretty complicated.…
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