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Who is the self-harming snake?

I am a poor boy in a northeastern mountain village in China, the early twentieth century, in order to make a name for myself, I joined a northern faction of tomb raiding gang. From the south to the north, the jianghu hundred states, three religions and nine streams, so many years from the teenager mixed to middle-aged, the amount of alcohol to see the growth of the years wasted, I have been in contact with many many strange people and strange things, you are interested, may wish to move a small bench, listen to a tomb raider\'s Jianghu insights and his fight with the horrible snake who are called self-harming snakes.

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Fraudulent corpse

The difference between the two is that one focuses on fine soil exploration and the other on efficient digging.

After marking, the head greeted me and asked me to dig down with him.

After digging, the top layer of soil was still relatively soft, but as we gradually dug deeper, we found that the more we dug down the harder the soil was, and the last thing we dug out was not green and white soil, but a kind of soil with a faint white frost, the soil was like frost in the ground in winter, I touched it with my hand, but it was still cold .....

The hunchbacked old man from Hunan has been watching, he raised his eyebrows after seeing this sight and said indifferently, "Extreme Yin land, it seems to be the right place, if a dead person lies in this place for more than 2,000 years, it would be difficult not to become a Yin nourishing corpse, this master is ruthless enough to bury all 18 generations of his own descendants with him."

I could feel the temperature around me drop a few degrees as we dug so hard and didn't break a sweat.

I wasn't sure if I was seeing things, but for a moment I thought I saw myself exhaling white air.

In the grave robbing business, a skilled earthworker with a whirlwind shovel can go down to a depth of two or three metres in an hour, and those like Second Brother and Third Brother can go down at least four metres in an hour. I'm slow because the soil is too hard, and then again, I've done less work here.

"Huh?"

"Wait, something's wrong, you guys stop first," Beggar Liu suddenly told us to stop.

"What's wrong Master Liu?" Turning his head, he asked him.

As soon as we stopped, the sound of clanking and grubbing was instantly gone.

Beggar Liu's eyes were closed, his ears flicking back and forth as if he was listening carefully to some movement.

Suddenly, his eyes snapped open! Turning around, he shone his torch upwards!

At this moment, the light from the powerful torch was like a spotlight, shining out impartially on a figure!

We saw a man lying on the rock face like a gecko, head down, looking right at us!

Just one look ....

I took a few steps back, and the shovel fell to the ground with a clatter as I lost my grip.

I faltered and pointed in the direction of the rock face and said, "An ..... Researcher An!"

Researcher Ann on the rock wall had her head down, her hair down so we couldn't see her face squarely.

"This outfit is Researcher Ann's! I recognized it right away, how could it be! She was clearly dead before!" My face swished white, from shock.

Sister Hong looked over there with the same look of horror, for she, like me, had seen Researcher An's corpse with her own eyes.

"What the hell!" Yao Yumen cursed through clenched teeth as she pulled out her sidearm and without looking, snapped two shots in quick succession!

Bang Bang!

One shot missed and hit the rock wall, the bullet and the hard rock wall collided with each other in the darkness, both rubbing out sparks of fire.

On the rock wall, Ann fellows limbs spread out flat, she suddenly crawled down the rock wall like a gecko! At a surprisingly fast pace!

"Look out!" The head shouted, raising the whirlwind shovel in his hand as a weapon.

Ann was so fast that the torch in her hand followed her quickly.

"Bang Bang!" Yao Yumen fired two more shots in quick succession, two shots hit, and Researcher An's body just shook, her speed didn't slow down in the slightest, and she crawled in front of Yao Yumen in the blink of an eye.

"Sister Yu be careful!" I couldn't care less about fear, I shouted, picked up the whirlwind shovel and slapped it at the thing's head!

"Slap!" I felt like I was not slapping a human head! It was as hard as stone! The reactive force shook my tiger's mouth and I almost lost my grip on the shovel.

In that instant, I saw clearly.

This was not a gutless, beautiful Ann researcher!

This thing's face was as white as tree pulp, her veins were purple-black and her eyes were all white! What's more, Researcher An's mouth was now open and unclosed, and the teeth exposed in her mouth were black, and some black liquid kept dripping down from the corners of her mouth.

"Bastard!"

In the nick of time, the old man from Xiangxi shouted angrily as he pulled out a piece of rope from his navy blue cloth bag, flew and made a loop in the front section of the rope, then threw it forward!

Without missing a beat, the rope was wrapped around An Fellow's neck like a noose!

Quickly wrapping the rope around his hand a few times, the old man pulled hard and the rope was instantly taut!

"What are you waiting for?" The old man shouted at me.

I ran to tug on the rope and joined him in the effort.

The researcher was now so strong that neither the old man nor I could pull her, and we were carried along as if we were losing a tug-of-war.

I stomped my legs to the ground and laid my upper body backwards in a playful manner. If a living person was pulled by a rope around their neck like this, I'm afraid their head would be pulled off.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the rope snapped.

I had used too much force and when the rope snapped, I went straight backwards.

The hunchbacked old man was shocked, "My corpse-binding rope!"

I was so angry and furious that I got up and cursed, "It broke when I pulled it! What kind of fucking rope is this!"

Researcher An didn't care about me or the old man from Xiangxi, it was as if she had a great grudge against Sister Yu.

With half a corpse-binding rope around her neck, Researcher An jumped on Yao Yumen and opened her mouth to bite her neck!

"Not good! Be careful, girl!" Liu Yushan shouted angrily.

"Crunch." At the crisis moment, Yumen directly shoved the entire barrel of the gun into Researcher An's mouth, jamming main her teeth.

Biting down on the gun barrel, a large amount of black juice dripped down from her mouth, all onto Sister Yu's head.

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang bang!" A series of shots rang out, and Sister Yu's face was fierce as she continuously pulled the trigger, directly emptying the magazine.

At such a close distance, the bullet entered through the mouth and exited from the back, the back of An Fellow's head was smashed.

"Beggar! Don't fucking shoot!" Liu Yushan shouted sharply.

"A clang!" It was the sound of a sharp sword being sheathed.

I watched in awe, only to see that Beggar Liu had actually pulled out a cold, shiny soft sword from his waist! This soft sword was coiled around Beggar Liu's waist like a belt.

It was a flash of white light in my eyes, too fast to see.

A human head floated in mid-air, then fell to the ground and rolled twice.

The whole process took but five seconds, and An researcher's head was directly disembodied, cut off by Beggar Liu with a sword ....

"Still ..... Still alive ....." I couldn't even speak clearly.

"Huh?" Beggar Liu walked over and squatted down curiously, he looked and grabbed An researcher's hair straight away and lifted it up.

Not dead.

Researcher An's eyes were still moving at this point, and her mouth was like a fish deprived of oxygen, one, one, one, one box ...

"Strange, this is not a rising corpse, what is this thing?" Beggar Liu carried Ann researcher hair, looking at the tsk tsk.

Looking at the sight before me, my soul was scared off .....

The old man from Xiangxi was furious, "It's not a rising corpse! Nor is it a fraudulent corpse! Not to mention not a nether corpse! What the hell is this! No wonder my corpse binding rope didn't work at all!"

At this moment, Sister Hong looked at me suspiciously as if she had thought of something.

I looked down sheepishly, not daring to look at her.

Sister Hong was also present at that incident with Old Xu last time, and she witnessed everything that happened then.

"What's going on Yun Feng?" Put Head asked me with a gloomy face.

Yao Yumen was almost bitten to death and I realised I was in trouble.

I pulled out the small glass bottle from my trouser pocket to show them, there was still a small half bottle of that pale blue liquid inside.

"What's this?" Putty asked, looking at the small glass bottle in confusion.

Before I could open my mouth to explain, Sister Red took a deep breath as she grabbed the words, "Put the head, gentlemen."

"This, I suspect, is the stuff that the Evergreen Society has always wanted."

"Hurry up and throw it away, are you carrying that thing for the New Year, beggar?" Liu Yushan glanced at the human head.

"Also, it's not something good," Master Liu casually threw it aside.

An researcher no head, the body will not be moving, although it is decapitated, but let people puzzled is An researcher neck and did not bleed much, close look, only to find its wound vaguely have the signs of knot rolling.

Putting her head through the small glass bottle was clearly not convinced, she did not believe that this medicine could bring the corpse back to life in.

Master Zhao of Xiangxi was still sore about the rope, he couldn't stop sighing, "The old Zhao family has been eating dead people's food for generations, I didn't expect that one day the corpse-binding rope passed down from my ancestors would be destroyed in my hands, I'm unfilial, unfilial ah ....."

When I saw him sighing, I couldn't help but say, "Master Zhao, it's not that I don't believe you, but what kind of rope is that? What kind of corpse binding rope, it breaks as soon as you pull it, it's not sturdy at all! I don't think anything can be tied up."

"Alas .... Junior, you don't understand, you don't understand." Master Zhao silently picked back the broken rope and stuffed it back into his bag.

"Then again, Miss Yao you weren't hurt just now, were you?"

"I'm fine, nothing serious."

"That's good, you rest," said the head in a deep voice as he looked at the big guy, "Things have come this far, it's about to get clinical, we can't just stop half way, Yunfeng, keep digging."

Without saying anything, I picked up the spinning shovel and continued digging, daring to look at the ground beneath me, not at the body and head of Researcher An.

At this point, Liu Yushan said, "Are you two tired, or should I call my friends to come and help?" I knew that the friends he was talking about must be the mandrill.

"No, Brother Liu," I waved the spinning shovel in my hand, "your friends are probably not as tall as this shovel, how can they dig? We appreciate the kindness, and this is our strong suit, so just watch."

Liu Yushan nodded and didn't interrupt, but it was Master Zhao, the corpse chaser, who seemed to talk more. He kept asking me how the medicine in the glass bottle was made, where it came from, what ingredients were in it, etc.

The only people who knew the ingredients and how it was made were Researcher An and the others, and now that all three of them were dead, how could I know?

I was a little impatient with the questioning, so I lied and told him that it was actually corpse oil, refined from the bodies of the dead, and that you shouldn't ask me about the exact method, I don't know, if you want to ask, Master Zhao, you should ask Liu Jiansheng and the little skeleton head, they definitely know.

"Oh .... So," the old man thought about it and did not say anything.

The robber hole went down deeper and deeper, and both the handle head and I jumped in and dug, shovel after shovel of dirt being thrown up over and over.

"Clang."

Suddenly, the whirlwind shovel of the handle head hit some kind of metal object, and now that the others weren't talking the surrounding area was quiet and the sound of the movement was ear-splittingly loud.

"Shipping out? What is it?" Jade asked as she ran over.

Picking his head out of the dirt, he raised a rusty bronze from the pit. I had seen many bronzes before, but this was the first time I had seen one of this shape, and I didn't know what it was called.

It is a flat, round bronze with a lid, which is sealed and has some kind of animal design on it.

The shape of the object is very similar to the kind of hand warmers that people use nowadays to plug in electricity. It is not in very good condition and I feel that it will break apart if you touch it.

After carefully studying the outline of the pattern on the lid, the head said in amazement, "This is not a pattern of a tomb-beast, look carefully, is this pattern a bit like the stone carving of a clam sculpture unearthed in Puyang, Henan Province decades ago?"

Yao Yumen nodded his head after looking at it, "Don't say it, it really looks like it. If I remember correctly, the site in Puyang was from the late Neolithic period, right? It's much earlier than the Western Zhou."

I couldn't understand what they were talking about, so I asked Jade what this mussel sculpture was.

She told me that it had the head of a pig with a monkey's tail, and that no one knew it when it was dug up, but later some scholars found that the prototype resembled an animal called a mussel in the ancient Shanhaijing. So there was the term, and people in the trade thought that the one in Puyang was an isolated piece, not realising that there was a bronze of the same design here.

"Oh, so, that's really precious, but alas, it's all black and dry patina and rotten." I sighed, lamenting this precious bronze.

Black dry patina is the term used in the grave robbing trade, and this kind of patina is the least popular in the trade, because almost all bronzes with this kind of patina come from dirty pits, and things from dirty pits are the least expensive and are in bad condition.

More on this, by the way. There are four types of patina for bronzes from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Warring States period. There are four types of patina, and the same can be said for jade, as well as bronze.

These are dry green patina, also known as flat patina, which is the kind of patina that is green all over, and is commonly found in the northern regions of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The second type of patina is the mercury patina, which is a white layer that is poisonous. Bronzes with mercury patina must be treated before they are played with, otherwise they will be poisoned.

I was told by Sun that if you come across a large item with a red or blue anti-lead patina, don't wash it with the method of killing it, as the price will be greatly reduced if it is washed.

The last type is the black dry patina on the bronze in front of us. A black dry patina on bronze means that there was a dirty pit underneath. Dirty pits are dirty places such as dung heaps, thatch pits, pig pens and sheep pens.

A real grave robber has a good nose, and as the head of the bronze was an old hand, we didn't doubt his words.

One after the other, two more bronzes with a black dry patina were unearthed, each in a different shape.

The last one was even weirder, with the image of an eight-legged tiger-headed monster with a four-legged snake wrapped around its neck.

"This ... Are these other two pieces the ancient totem gods that were worshipped in the ancient Yue Kingdom?" Sister Hong exclaimed in amazement as she looked at them.

"Little Red, what do you know?" Putu asked.

Sister Hong nodded her head to be sure, "That's right, Putt Head, these are the two things, I used to be interested in ancient creature legends, I've read the old Shan Hai Jing more than once. This, this little man with fish scales swimming in the water is called Zu Yu, the thing with the eight legged tiger head is called Foot Qi, and the first one dug up is indeed called Beng Shou." ...

"All these motifs were once subjected to the totemic cultural worship of the ancient Yue people. Put your heads together, Yunfeng, you keep digging down, I suspect you'll find something else."

Sister Hong held her chin and considered, "Yunfeng, do you remember the patterns on the golden coffin and silver coffin?"

I said, "Of course I remember, there were soldiers engraved on the golden coffin and silver coffin, and those soldiers had four-legged snakes coiled on top of their heads.

"That's right," Sister Hong nodded and said, "The ancient Vietnamese soldiers had four-legged snakes coiled on their heads, and their prototype should be this foot up."

She looked to the crowd and said in a deep voice, "The clues are connected, this mustard waiter is not only a great noble of the Western Zhou, but also possibly a descendant of some branch of the ancient Yue people of the Ancient Yue Kingdom, otherwise, it is impossible for the mustard waiter to bring these totemic elements into the tomb."

"Totem cum Patriarch God, these patterns are not only patterns, they were also a kind of script thousands of years ago, a kind of graphic type of script of the ancient Yue people, which no one can decipher today, no one knows what these animal patterns represent. But ..... There was a note published by a late old professor before he died in which he argued."

"These too old designs ... It is possible that they are the origin of the oracle bone script."

The origins of the oracle bone inscriptions are also a mystery.

Both ancient Yue and ancient Shu were prehistoric civilisations, and apart from the occasional discovery of a few scattered patterns in the country, there is very little in the history books about this ancient civilisation before the Shang and Zhou dynasties. We know so much about it thanks to Sister Hong's knowledge, otherwise we would have been in the dark, not knowing anything.

Sister Hong fiddled back and forth with the bronzes, her brow furrowed as if she was thinking about something.

At this point, she said, "Yunfeng, let's work harder, we have to finish this before the gang comes looking for us, we can see the burial objects, which means the main coffin is not far away."

After digging for some time, the spinning shovel hit a thick slab of stone, which was not small and the head called out to several people to come down and push together to push it open.

The slab was just halfway open when the

I was not the only one who smelt it, I could tell by the expressions of the others. I could not smell the slab when it was covered, but once it was opened, it really stank, just like the smell of a cesspit in a dry toilet in summer.

I covered my nose and said out loud, "Why does it stink so badly? Putou, it's not really a cesspit down here, is it?" I was the closest, and I couldn't stop gagging from the stench.

"What's wrong with a cesspit? A cesspit is a cesspit! The mustard coffin is buried here, so we'll let you down with a rope and you can take a torch and feel around."

"Huh?" I whispered sarcastically, "Put the head you... You're not making me jump into a thatch ...."

Five minutes later, I had a rope tied around my waist, and after a few more words of caution, they pulled the rope and lowered me down like a bucket of water.

It wasn't much deeper, and less than five metres down the rope I stepped on the ground. I shot my torch upwards and gave a safe landing gesture to the handle.

The rope was long, so I didn't untie it in case there was another big four-legged snake or something down here that they could pull me up in a hurry.

Shining my torch around me, I saw at once that a huge bronze coffin lay across the north-west corner of the ground! The coffin lid was covered with dried black rust and a layer of rotting moss, and when I looked around, there was nothing but the coffin.

The closer I got to the coffin the worse it smelt, and I thought it was inside before.

Was the coffin full of shit? But even if it was shit, how could it still smell after more than 2,000 years?

I shouted out to report what I had seen up there: "Head! Come down and take a look! There's a coffin!"

In no time, they all came down, holding onto the rope. The crowd circled the bronze coffin, but there was no way to get at it, for we found that the entire lid and the coffin were filled with copper water and could not be pushed by brute force.

"Stand back, I'll try," said the beggar Liu, pulling out the soft, shiny sword at her waist.

Sword for the king of a hundred weapons, soft sword is a sword in the alien, good use of soft can be rigid, ordinary people practice soft sword without a few decades of skills simply can not play. This is not a name that is known in the jianghu dao, it is not called for nothing, from a sword cut off the head of researcher An can be seen, this master play soft sword is a real kung fu.

"Ding ....." The sound of gold and iron clashing rang out as Master Liu's soft sword stuck right into the coffin!

When he pulled out his sword, a small gap had opened between the coffin lid and the main body of the coffin. Although bronze was not as hard as raw iron, it was still metal after all, and this sword had pierced right through, so one could imagine how strong the force of this sword was.

"Quick! Get on the shovel! Pry it for me!" The head of the group was delighted to see this and was busy shoving the whirlwind shovel into the gap under the coffin lid.

Even if the coffin was made of copper, after more than 2,000 years, the bronze was badly rusted and once a gap was opened, the rest was just more effort.

After tinkling for an hour, he pried the head with a steel shovel and, relying on his own weight and the principle of leverage, finally pushed open a corner of the coffin's lid.

The corner was opened, and in an instant a black smoke, visible to the naked eye, emerged from the coffin.

We were the closest, and the head of the coffin shouted, "Danger! It's corpse gas!" He shouted and darted backwards, managing to avoid the small puff of black smoke.

I reacted half a beat slower and ran away, but still took a small puff.

I instantly felt a little dizzy, while my nose was hot and a nosebleed came out.

"Don't move around, get flat on your back! It'll kill you!" Old man Xiang Xi was busy shouting at me.

I was busy lying flat on my back, and after just a minute or two I felt not only dizzy, but also uncomfortable and just tight at my throat. It was like something invisible was choking me, and breathing started to become difficult, while my arms and legs started to shake uncontrollably.

"Hold him down!"

The head of the handle grimaced as the rest of the men each held me down by my limbs in a death grip.

"Open your mouth, swallow it directly, don't bite through it," the old man from Xiangxi fished out a small black pill from his small bag and shoved it directly into my mouth.

I swallowed the black pill whole, and then he fished out a small self-sealing bag, which contained a handful of lime green willow leaves, which were sealed in the bag and still looked fresh.

He stuffed a handful of green willow leaves into my mouth and didn't let me chew or eat them, but instructed me to keep them in my mouth like this.

It must have been five minutes before he said, "That should be about right, open your mouth and spit it out, be careful not to swallow it."

I spat out the willow leaves and saw that they were no longer green in colour, they had all turned black.

Seeing me spit out the blackened willow leaves, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's okay, luckily you inhaled less, plus I happened to bring something with me, otherwise, you kid wouldn't have survived more than ten minutes."

Although I was still a little dizzy, I could feel myself getting better. I struggled to get up and thanked the old man for saving me.

I was relieved to see that I was safe and sound, and he said in a serious voice; "Luckily I came down this time to get Master Zhao, the corpse Qi ..... The most fearful thing for us tomb robbers is to come across this stuff, once you have inhaled this stuff, even a strong person will not last more than ten minutes."

At this moment, the old man from Hunan squinted at the bronze coffin, he said with a grave face; "There is corpse gas, and the corpse gas is so thick that it has turned black, this means that the master lying in the coffin is not yet rotten, a coffin with only white bones left would never be able to gather such a thick corpse gas."

"It's okay if you don't have a corpse, but in case you do ..... As to whether the money can hold down the corpse," the old man shook his head, "I can only pray for the blessing of the ancestors and leave it to fate."

The old man carefully unwrapped the newspaper and took out a pure gold coin with a heirloom finish.

The gold coin was just three centimetres in diameter, a small flat coin, with the four characters "Yingguintongbao" in seal script, read in eight-point script, in a strong, ancient style.

I was startled because I recognised this coin. The coin was minted by Li Shun, the leader of the rebellion army during the Chunhua period of the Northern Song Dynasty, and ranks among the top fifty most famous ancient springs, with only one small flat iron coin and one bronze folded five coin found, both of which are first-class treasures.

What's more, the one in the old man's hand in Xiangxi is a gold Yinggui Tongbao ... It is unprecedented, and has not been recorded in any of the spring catalogues of the past.

This must be a unique piece.

Seeing me dumbfounded, the old man glared at me and said with some pride, "This Ying Sense Tong Bao is indeed handed down in my family, Zhao Mou my ancestor was a spear-wielding lieutenant in front of the account of Grand Commander Li Shun, and my ancestor was responsible for the work of collecting corpses on the battlefield, in addition to protecting the personal safety of Commander Li."

I thought to myself, "No wonder, this kind of family heirloom, to say that the historical heritage does not have a bit of Taoism that is impossible, if one day this master ceased to do this business, other than that, just to send this one ancient spring fifty famous pieces of great treasures to auction, that in exchange for money, his children and grandchildren are afraid that they will not be able to use up."

Then, with a nervous look on his face, the old man took the money containing the mouth in his hand, looked at the handle and said, "It should be almost ready, open it."

"Yes." The handle head nodded with a grave expression.

It was impossible to push the lid of such a heavy bronze coffin open directly by hand, so the method we used was to "rush" it, using the steel handle of the spinning shovel as a crowbar, using the principle of leverage, and then moving it a little.

As we kept pushing, the lid of the bronze coffin emitted an unpleasant, ear-piercing scraping sound.

The previous corpse gas was just a mouthful, and with a bang, the lid of the coffin, which was close to a thousand pounds, fell heavily to the ground, raising a lot of dust.

The man's hand held a mouthful of money to stay alert, and I and put my head down, while raising my torch to shine inside.

The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things.

It's disgusting ..... It's so disgusting, no wonder it stinks!

The faces of all those who saw this scene changed as we saw that the coffin was flatly covered with a layer of four-legged snake corpses, over a hundred in number! The corpses of these four-legged snakes were wrapped one around the other in a circle like a big twist, all in a semi-rotten state, with handfuls of big white maggots constantly tossing up and down between the rotten flesh.

The head said with a grim look on his face, "Where did the bodies go?

Having said that, Shou Tou did not believe in evil, he forced himself to endure his discomfort and used the whirlwind shovel as a spade to shovel twice through the rotten flesh of the snake.

As his hand rose and fell with the movement, the handle head visibly froze and said, "No .... There's a partition in this coffin, this

"Yunfeng come and help, get these things out," the handle head twisted his head and instructed me.

The smell in the coffin was downright foul, and shovel by shovel the head and I kept shoveling out the decayed four-legged snakes, the whirlwind shovel in my hand had a white layer on the surface under the torch. It was all maggots, and it really made me sick.

The coffin had a partition and the pile of snakes lay flat on the partition, just as the head had said. I knocked on it with a shovel and could tell by the sound

At this point Yao Yumen suddenly warned, "Wang, look, there's a small hole in the middle, isn't there?"

It was only when she reminded us that we noticed that there was indeed a small irregularly shaped hole in the middle. The hole was narrow at both ends and wide in the middle, a bit like a keyhole of some kind.

"Huh?" Sister Red suddenly said in awe, "I think I've seen this shape before ....." She looked up at me and said; "Yunfeng do you remember that bronze artifact?"

"The bronze vessel? What bronze artifact?"

Suddenly, memories of a previous scene flashed through my mind.

"The bronze battle-axe? That ceremonial object!"

"Yes, that's the one," said Red, pointing to the small hole, "narrow at both ends and wide in the middle, and as you can see, it should be about the same size and width as I can visually see."

How could that be! Chen Jiansheng had gotten the object before, and if that was the case, it was likely to have fallen into the hands of the little skeleton's gang by now!

With a grim look on his face, he asked the beggar Liu, saying that he wanted to ask him to try his hand to see if he could open the partition as he had done before.

Unexpectedly the beggar Liu looked at it and shook his head, he said, "I won't try, it's useless to try, the coffin lid was previously poured with copper water, the lid and the coffin itself are separate, in addition to the time lapse of a thousand years the rusting is serious, so I can open it."

He pointed to the partition and shook his head, "You see, the partition itself was built together back then, it's one piece, I can't fix it, it's okay if you have dynamite."

"Dynamite ....." We did have this stuff before, the detonator was in Sister Red's bag, we used two at the time and still had leftovers, but then we got caught and even the backpack was taken away by the gang.

Sister Red looked at the handle head.

He shook his head and said he didn't carry that kind of thing with him.

If we had enough time, we could always find a way to open this partition in the coffin, but we didn't have that time. According to the headman's guess, the gang was probably on their way.

At this point I raised my hand and stammered, "How about ..... How about we pull out first?"

"No, think of something else," said the head of the group, taking a deep breath; he didn't want to give up just like that.

Just then, there were sudden footsteps coming from outside the cave entrance, and I saw a few torches flickering in the distance, and could faintly hear someone talking.

I took two steps back and said in a panic, "Run! The gang's coming!"

"Run? Boy, where are you going to run, down into the ground?" Beggar Liu drew out his soft sword, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.

Yao Yumen also looked gloomy as she took out her small pistol and filled the magazines one by one.

Putting blue veins on his forehead, he instructed us in a low voice, "Remember, watch my instructions."

I clenched the spinning shovel in my hand and swallowed, my eyes fixed on the direction of the cave entrance.

The sound of footsteps approached and the torch grew.

As I rounded the corner, I was the first to see Chen Jiansheng leading the way. He was followed by a group of men, some of whom I had seen before. Little Lockhead, Owl Woman, Brother Jian and others were among them. Some of them were carrying mountain swords, others were carrying guns, and there were twice as many of them as we were.

We were in a hurry, but we ran into each other after all, but the way I saw it, the head of the skeleton was not thinking of hiding anymore.

At this moment, people from all sides, on both sides, met each other.

"Yo, if it isn't Chen Hong, and this kid, I dare say you are hiding here?" Chen Jiansheng shook my eyes directly with his torch. Sister Hong looked at her coldly and didn't say a word.

Raising her head with a hand to signal us not to make any rash moves.

"Northern faction, Wang Xiansheng," put the head sort of greeted the little skeleton head.

With swords drawn between the two sides, the little skeleton head came out with his hands behind his back and said, "Wang Xiansheng, right? I know you, and I know you've been down here for a long time, as expected.

"What? Have you figured out not to hide, or is ..... you want to put up a fight with the old man?"

"Cut it out, my lord," Chen Jiansheng suddenly laughed, "there are so many of us, and Brother Jian and Sister Wen are also here, just this bunch of unworthy hole-punching rats, and they dare to show their teeth with us?"

My heart was on fire as I listened, the young man's impulsive nature had risen. As soon as the head of the group gave the order, I dared to take the shovel and charge forward! It was too much to be caught and chased all this way. I might as well fight them with a real gun and not suffer! So be it!

The head of the team had a calm face as he sneered, "That's right, we don't dare to mess with the Evergreen Association, and we are indeed rats."

"But then ..... Rats can eat people even when they are desperate, don't you think?"

"Ding ....." The crisp sound came through before the little skeleton head noticed the person behind the handle head.

The beggar Liu finger flicked the sword, he grinned, "Old Su Qin ah, it's been more than ten years since I've seen you, although I'm not in the Changchun Association anymore, but sometimes I still miss you old boy."