Never Wanted To Do This Chapter 3

night.

It was late autumn and the cold wind outside was like the howling of the devil.

Greg put all the tomb-robbing equipment given by the system into a worn cowhide bag, then put it on his back, reached out to open the door, and prepared to get down to business.

call...

The moment the door was opened, the icy cold wind blew on his body, making Greg shiver on the spot, and all the hairs on his body stood up.

"dmn it, this weather is really freezing! But this guy is so poor that he doesn't even have a thick coat, he only wears a thin coarse cloth."

Greg clasped his arms and looked up at the gloomy sky. The moon was hiding behind thick black clouds, with only a sharp corner showing, like a dagger hidden in the dark, showing its sharpness.

These days the government has very strict control over tomb robbing, and tomb robbers can only come out at night to find work like rats.

Because it is easier to hide at night, tomb robbers are called "earth rats" in the local slang.

Greg held the lantern, took a deep breath, and ran straight towards Heifeng Town. His figure slowly disappeared into the dark night.

Since the decline of the Xu family, in order to avoid being ridiculed by his former colleagues, Greg moved out of Luoyang City and lived in Tunzi Town, ten miles away from Luoyang City.

Heifeng Town is right next door, not too far away, only about ten miles away. Greg is also very familiar with the road conditions in the nearby villages.

About an hour later.

Greg carried the lantern and came to the barren slope behind Heifeng Town.

It was already around eight or nine o'clock in the evening. The night was pitch black and the surroundings were exceptionally quiet. Occasionally, one could hear a few dogs barking from a village in the distance.

Fortunately, Greg is usually brave enough, otherwise, even if he hadn't found the tomb, he would have been scared to death just by the eerie and dark environment.

As for the barren slope behind, it is actually a hill of earth with a few crooked trees growing on it, as well as several large and small grave mounds. Because it is late autumn, the crooked trees have lost all their leaves and only dead branches are left. The hill is covered with messy dead grass surrounding the bare grave mounds, making it look desolate.

To find a tomb, one must first determine the location. The ancients viewed death as life, and the wealthy families in particular were particularly particular about tombs, so they would choose a place with good feng shui to build a tomb.

In order to find the Feng Shui site first, it would be difficult to see anything standing at the bottom of the barren slope, so Greg picked up the lantern and carefully climbed to the top of the slope.

call...

Just as Greg reached the top of the slope, there was suddenly a whistling sound from the dry grass under his feet. Several dry vines were pulled out, almost tripping Greg.

Greg looked carefully and saw a black shadow flashing from under the dead vines. It looked like a badger, so he didn't pay much attention to it and just turned his head to look around.

Although it was dark at night, the outline of the entire barren slope could be seen, and with the knowledge from the "Encyclopedia of Feng Shui", Greg could tell at a glance that this barren slope was extraordinary.

This hill looks ordinary on the surface, but standing on the top of the slope, you can see that the whole hill is shaped like a crouching tiger, with a head and a tail, and its limbs crawling in a lying position, facing southwest.

Halfway up the barren mountain, there is a pothole in the arms of the crouching tiger, but there is a ditch at the bottom of the pothole, so no water will accumulate. This just forms a Feng Shui pattern of "crouching tiger's blessing".

With the blessing of Crouching Tiger, future generations will prosper!

Such a good piece of Feng Shui, so there must be a tomb underneath!

Greg couldn't hold back his excitement, so he carefully went down the hillside carrying the lantern.

Just when he reached halfway down the hillside, Greg might have been a little too excited. He was only concerned with holding the lantern to find the 'water outlet' of this Feng Shui treasure land. Suddenly, his left foot stepped on empty air, and he fell flat on his face with a thud.

Fortunately, Greg reacted quickly and quickly grabbed the ground with his hands.

Nowadays, hunters who make a living from the mountains often dig pits on the barren mountains to make traps to catch prey, and often put some animal traps in the pits, which can even break thigh bones.

But when Greg got up and looked down, his heart sank instantly!

What he just stepped on was not a trap dug by the hunter, but a circular hole with a diameter of half a meter!

"This is a tomb that has been visited by my peers!"

At this moment, Greg's expression looking at the tunnel under his feet was uglier than if he had eaten a piece of sh!t.

Basically, with the current style of tomb robbers, they generally leave no grass or armor behind wherever they go!

"What the hell is this?"

Greg spat a mouthful of thick phlegm into the hole under his feet.

But if you think about it more carefully, there are countless thieves around Luoyang City in this world, so it is normal for an ancient tomb to be visited by their peers.

"Since we're already here, let's go down and take a look. Maybe there's something left. It's better than going back empty-handed!"

At this time, Greg could only comfort himself in this way.

But what Greg never expected was that after taking just two steps, he discovered another circular hole in the ground.

Then he walked forward, and under the illumination of the wind lantern, Greg walked around the entire bumpy area and found a total of seventeen robbery holes. They were like groundhog burrows, with no place to even step foot!

Moreover, the size and digging techniques of each of these 17 tomb-robbing holes are different. From this, it can be concluded that they were not done by the same group of tomb robbers, but were made by different tomb robbers.

This time Greg's heart was completely chilled.

And I truly witnessed how rampant tomb robbers were in the Luoyang area.

There are as many as a dozen robbery holes in one ancient tomb!

Being so enthusiastically visited by my peers, I’m afraid there won’t be a single hair left.

Greg's high spirits when he first came here were dampened by these seventeen tunnels, like a deflated ball.

But then again, the system only says that entering the ancient tomb and prying open the coffin will complete the mission, but it doesn't say that tombs that have been robbed don't count!

Although I couldn't touch the treasure, I completed the system task, so it wasn't a wasted trip in the biting cold wind.

While considering this, Greg also found the "water mouth" of this Feng Shui treasure land.

The so-called water mouth is the core position of the Feng Shui site, and can also be called the "living mouth".

The awesome tomb robbers can determine the dynasty of an ancient tomb by smelling the rammed earth, and based on the burial styles and forms of each dynasty, finally determine the location of the main tomb chamber based on the location of the 'water outlet', and then dig a hole right above the main tomb chamber to reach the main tomb chamber below!

This is the highest realm of a tomb robber, which requires knowledge of feng shui, the forms of tombs throughout the ages, and the ability to observe, listen, ask and feel.

Now Greg also mastered all of them, and quickly locked onto the main tomb chamber of the ancient tomb through the "water outlet".

However, there was no need to dig more holes, because there was already a ready-made circular hole at the top of the main tomb chamber, and it was dug very beautifully, and the soil on both sides of the hole was also pressed very tightly, which was obviously the work of an expert.

It seems that this ancient tomb under your feet has been visited by a master.

But this doesn’t matter to Greg, as long as he can complete the tomb-robbing mission assigned by the system.

After making up his mind, Greg took off his backpack, took out a bundle of hemp rope, first fixed one end firmly at the entrance of the cave, then threw it into the tunnel to test its depth.

Judging from the hemp rope thrown down, the depth of this tomb is about six or seven meters, which is more in line with the form of ancient tombs from the Northern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the diameter of this stolen hole is about 70 to 80 centimeters, which is relatively large among the stolen holes.

Greg held the lantern in his mouth and carefully went down the tunnel pulling the hemp rope.

The candlelight from the lantern illuminated the entire tunnel, but the ground beneath my feet was blocked by my own shadow, and it felt like the abyss of hell.

This kind of unknown darkness is often what easily brings fear to people, not to mention that there are ancient tombs with dead bodies buried underneath.

Although Greg is usually very brave, this is his first time doing such a thing. Just like a shy little girl doing it for the first time, he can't help but feel a little nervous inside, and cold sweat breaks out on his back.

Only when his feet were firmly planted did Greg's nervous heart finally settle down. Then he immediately took the lantern and shone it around.

Under the dim light of the wind lamp, you can see that this is a tomb chamber built with blue bricks. The tomb chamber is square and not very big, estimated to be about twenty square meters, with a big hole on the top.

The tomb chamber was in a mess, with broken pottery figurines and pottery fragments everywhere. There were also traces of excavation on the walls of the tomb chamber left by tomb robbers who pried away the murals.

The scene before him was just as Greg had expected before he came down. There were seventeen robber holes outside, one of which led directly to the main tomb chamber. With such enthusiastic visits, there would definitely be no grass left, not a single piece of armor left.

Even the black wooden coffin placed in the middle of the tomb was opened, and there were obvious signs of prying and chiseling on the coffin.

Although Greg did not see the epitaph, judging from the construction style of the tomb chamber and the broken pottery figurines and pottery jars on the ground, the owner of this ancient tomb was at least an official of the fifth rank or above during the Northern Song Dynasty. The coffins used were usually decorated with gold plating, but all of them have been pried away.

There really wasn't even a single hair left for Greg.

Greg took another deep breath, then held his breath, holding the lantern high in his hand, and looked into the black wooden coffin that had been opened.

squeak...

The moment the lantern shone into the black wooden coffin, a group of black shadows suddenly jumped out of the coffin, making sharp squeaking sounds.

Fortunately, Greg reacted quickly and took a step back.

Those that jumped out of the coffin were mice. There were about 10 to 20 of them. They were slightly bigger than kittens, with long tails dragging behind them. After being frightened by Greg, they quickly jumped out of the coffin and fled everywhere.

Greg looked inside the coffin again.

Sure enough, there was a dark brown ancient corpse lying in the coffin, with obvious signs of having been turned over by tomb robbers. More than half of it had been eaten by rats, revealing the rotten bones. It looked shocking, hideous and terrifying.

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