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Chapter 44: Cliff Burial
"Cliff burial? May I ask what cliff burial means, Mr. Xu?"

Suti asked with interest.

The other three people also looked at Old Xu with curiosity. Although they had followed Old Xu to rob tombs for many years, they had never robbed a tomb like this.

Old Xu pointed to the cliff under his feet and said.

"The so-called cliff burial is to dig a cave on the cliff as a tomb, place the tomb chamber in the cave, and then seal the cave entrance with dragon-breaking stones. This is cliff burial."

Old Xu stroked his beard and said.

"This method of tomb construction is extremely difficult. Workers have to work on the cliff and dig into the mountain. With the previous level of manpower, it would take a lot of manpower and material resources, and it would take ten or even dozens of years to build it. After the construction, the coffin and some burial objects and funerary objects have to be lowered from the cliff and placed into the tomb one by one. It is extremely difficult and not something that ordinary kings and princes can afford to build."

"According to my research, this tomb was built during the Hundred Kingdoms period, when the Kingdom of Mu was at its peak. The first King Mu was buried here. Later, the Kingdom of Mu was defeated and destroyed, and some of King Mu's descendants moved here to guard the tomb. This is the Mujia Village we saw."

After telling the history, Mr. Xu returned to the main topic.

"Cliff burials are not only difficult to build, but once they are built, it is also very difficult to mine them."

"You see, most tombs are built underground, at most four or five meters above the ground, at most a dozen meters. After carefully positioning, you can dig a hole and go directly down to the main tomb chamber. Once you get something, you can come up directly. It's quick and convenient."

"But this kind of cliff burial is not possible, because it is a hole dug directly on the cliff. The tomb is a hundred meters deep inside the mountain. It is impossible to dig a hole from above."

"So we can only learn from the workers who built this mausoleum back then. We hang on the cliffs and find the tomb entrance. Then we enter from the entrance where the Dragon-Severing Stone is placed."

"That's not all. Listen to me, this kind of tomb is dangerous. Why is it dangerous? If the tombs of some ordinary kings, princes, generals and ministers are built underground, because of their noble status, in order to prevent them from being stolen by later comers, they will build some traps in the tombs to prevent thieves."

"But as long as the location is measured accurately and the tunnel is well dug, these traps can be avoided. For example, the tunnel can be dug directly in the main tomb chamber. Going down the tunnel is the main tomb chamber, which is like playing a game and going directly to the last treasure chest room, avoiding various traps along the way.

"As long as the location is well determined and the hole is dug well, the traps in most properly built tombs are just for show and cannot be triggered at all."

"But cliff burials are different, because in this kind of tomb, whether it is the tomb builders or tomb robbers, they can only enter through one entrance, so they usually place a large number of traps and mechanisms at the only passage, and these traps and mechanisms are impossible for us to avoid."

After saying a lot, Old Xu felt a little thirsty, so he took a sip of water and said.

"Now that we have found the approximate location of the tomb, we still have four difficulties to overcome. The first level is to find the exact location of the tomb entrance, the second level is to open the dragon-breaking stone at the tomb entrance, and the third level is the various traps inside the tomb. The last and most difficult level may be the evil spirits in the tomb."

When talking about this, Mr. Xu's expression became serious.

"Brother Su Xiu, do you know why many ancient people liked to build tombs on Yin meridians?"

Su Ti didn't understand either, so he made a random guess.

"Why? Is it to create evil spirits?"

"Yes, they are artificially creating evil spirits."

Old Xu said seriously.

"In our country of Xia, burying people alive has been a tradition since ancient times. The more powerful a person is, the more people are buried alive. What is the purpose? In addition to showing off their noble status, they fill a large number of innocent people into the tomb to bury them together. The purpose is to use the resentment of these people, combined with the Yin Qi of the Yin Vein, to artificially create evil spirits!"

Su Ti also learned a lot about evil spirits in the past few days. In addition to the evil spirits produced by the Yin meridians, resentment is also a very critical part. The heavier the resentment of the corpse, the more likely it is to be corrupted by Yin energy after death and turn into evil spirits.

"You have to know that things like traps will decay and become useless after a few hundred years."

"But evil spirits are different. They will not grow old and die. They live by absorbing Yin energy. They can guard a tomb for hundreds or even thousands of years!"

"It can be said that some of the evil spirits themselves are tomb guards artificially created by the owners of these tombs."

Suti had never thought that there was such a reason. It turned out that the evil spirit was artificially created to guard his own tomb.

Doesn't that mean that archaeology and tomb robbing in this world are extremely dangerous, because the more powerful the king's tomb is, the more energy and effort will be poured into it, and the more powerful evil spirits will be created to guard it?

How come he has never seen such reports or news in the tomb-robbing industry?
Could it be that it was suppressed by the country?

Just as Su Ti was thinking, Old Xu looked at the cliff in front of him and said.

"Next, I will conduct a vertical survey on this cliff to locate the specific location of the tomb entrance. It will take about three days. After the location is successfully located, it will depend on Lao Li to figure out how to open the hole."

Old Li put down the engineer shovel and chuckled.

"Don't worry, Mr. Xu. As long as you find the entrance to the tomb, I promise to open it for you even if it's guarded by a 10,000-jin dragon-breaking stone."

"Ah."

Mr. Xu nodded slightly.

In the following days, Mr. Xu surveyed the location of the tomb. His specific method was to tie a safety rope from the top of the cliff, and then hang on the cliff to survey it carefully.

Su Di couldn't help much in this regard, so he had to practice boxing on the cliff every day, waiting for Mr. Xu to inspect the tomb.

Mr. Xu's survey process was also quite dangerous. Like a rock climber, he hung a rope around his waist, hundreds of meters in the air, and kept hammering on the mountain wall, looking for the location of the tomb entrance.

Old Xu's calculations were extremely accurate. He had agreed to find the location of the tomb in three days, and at noon on the third day he had already found the location of the tomb.

The location of the tomb entrance is about a hundred meters vertically, and is several hundred meters above the ground.

After confirming the location, the rest was left to Lao Li.

He took the tools and hung them on the tomb entrance marked by Mr. Xu on the mountain wall. After some precise measurements, he came up to write and draw, and finally found more than a dozen points at the tomb entrance.

Lao Li used a hammer to chisel open the spot and then took out his signature weapon.

There were a dozen detonators and some high explosives for blasting the mountain.

After carefully preparing the explosives, he then filled the drilled points with explosives, a process that took another two days.

Two days later, with the sound of explosives exploding, the Dragon-Breaking Stone was blown apart. After a burst of rock rolling, a bottomless cave appeared on the mountain.

"Professional, so professional." Suti said in admiration as he watched the entrance to the tomb being opened.

Being able to blast such a precise cave on the cliff without destroying the overall structure of the mountain, Lao Li is more than qualified to be a blasting engineer.

Old Xu stroked his goatee and spoke calmly.

"The tomb is now open, but the gas inside is still very turbid. It will take some time to ventilate it."

"Let's rest for the night and then go into the cave to investigate tomorrow."

On the cliff at night.

Several people gathered around a fire and set up a small tent.

Branches cracked and a rustling sound was heard in the jungle in the distance.

"here we go again."

Suti glanced at a few scarlet spots in the woods, which flashed by in the woods.

Although they did not encounter any new evil spirits during these days, they could always feel the peeping coming from the woods when they set up camp on the top of the mountain.

"What on earth is that, a beast?"

Cao Man frowned and said, there would be many wild animals in such deep mountains and old forests, it is not surprising that they would observe them because of the arrival of humans.

"It should be a monkey or something like that, but it's hard to say."

Old Xu glanced at the humanoid figure climbing the branches in the woods and flashed by, and frowned slightly.

Nothing happened these past few days because there were people on guard. Plus, those things were just watching from afar, so they had no idea what were spying on them.

"Anyway, we're going to enter the tomb tomorrow. I hope everything goes well."

"That's right. No matter what's hidden in the woods, we won't deal with them. We just rob the graves and leave."

At noon the next day, when the sun was at its heaviest, everyone packed their luggage.

Everyone was wearing mountaineering clothes, rock climbing shoes, two mountaineering picks, and two safety ropes. One was inserted into the tree at the top of the cliff, and the other was kept on the body, ready to drill a hole in the rock at any time to make their own backup safety rope.

Out of vigilance against the things in the forest, even though they set out at noon, everyone still left one person to guard the luggage to prevent sneak attacks by those things, and that person was Zhu Wendong.

Zhu Wendong's martial arts skills are pretty good, he has reached the Tongli stage, but he didn't become a disciple of an ancient martial arts master like Su Ti, but was self-taught.

He has mastered the three most popular ancient martial arts on the dark web, "Body Strengthening Technique", "Black Tiger Fist" and "Gang Wolf Knife". He has training methods, bare-handed fighting methods, and knife-wielding fighting methods. His close combat ability is very good. Before Su Ti joined Xu Lao's team, he was the strongest person in their team in frontal combat.

Although Cao Man is also a martial artist in the Tongli period, he is only good at whip techniques and hidden weapon throwing. He is still not as good as Zhu Wendong in frontal combat, so he goes down to the ancient tomb to explore with everyone else.

After everything was ready, the four of them lowered the rope and walked along the mountain wall toward the tomb below.

Su Ti had a safety rope tied around his waist, holding the rope in his hands, and stepped step by step on the hard mountain wall.

This was his first time rock climbing, but it didn't seem like it should be called rock climbing; it would be more appropriate to call it rope rappelling.

Although he was hundreds of meters in the air, he had a strong will and was not very afraid.

In addition, his body is much stronger than that of ordinary people, so even though it was his first time to rappel, he seemed to be able to do it with ease.

After descending for a while, everyone was about to hammer rock bolts into the mountain wall and hook their second safety rope when something strange suddenly happened from above!
A sound similar to that of a baboon and Zhu Wendong's shouting suddenly came from above!
In the chaos, a loud roar was heard from Zhu Wendong on the top of the cliff.

"Come up quickly! There are a lot of evil spirits up there!"

When everyone heard this, their faces changed. Without having time to think about why they were attacked by the evil spirit at this time, they all grabbed the ropes and walked up!

And at this moment, suddenly! Suti's rope shook violently! It was as if someone was cutting his safety rope!
"They are cutting the ropes. I can't stop them alone! Come up and help me!"

Zhu Wendong screamed in agony! It seemed like he couldn't hold on for much longer!

"Hurry up and drive the pitons!"

Seeing this, Cao Man hurriedly shouted to Su Ti.

Suti was still fifty meters away from the top of the cliff at this time. With the shaking amplitude of the rope, it would definitely be too late for him to climb up.

His face changed, and when he was about to hammer in the safety nail, the rope hanging on him broke with a bang!
The rope broke so quickly that Suti had no time to react. He was holding the hammer in one hand and the rock nail in the other. He had no time to grab the rock and stabilize his body.

The stone that Su Ti was standing on slipped, and he felt his whole body go empty. The next second, he was upside down and fell off the cliff!
At this critical moment, a sound of breaking air was suddenly heard, and a long whip flew out like a snake, wrapped around Su Ti's left arm several times, and then straightened with a bang the next second!
It’s Cao Man!
She was agile and had been paying attention to Su Ti. At the moment Su Ti fell off the cliff, she threw out the whip hanging around her waist and rescued Su Ti!
"Hurry up and put the safety nails on!"

Cao Man yelled with his face flushed.

Although she is a strong warrior, she is just a woman and does not have much strength.

In addition, his body was suspended in the air, and it was very difficult to hold on to an adult man like Suti.

"it is good!"

Su Ti responded with a shout. He was frightened by the fall off the cliff just now and almost let go of the hammer in his hand to grab the rock. Fortunately, he saw that Cao Man intended to take action and did not do so. Now he was temporarily safe and hurriedly started hammering the rock nails.

But when it rains, it pours
The next moment, Cao Man’s safety rope also began to shake violently!

Her face changed at this moment. She was holding the whip in one hand and had no way to hammer the rock nails unless she threw Suti down.

At the same time, the safety ropes of Lao Li and Lao Xu also began to shake violently!

However, they had already started hammering in the safety nails before the ropes on Su Causeway started shaking, and now they were halfway done, so it was definitely still in time!
At this moment, language communication was too slow. Cao Man's expression changed several times, but he finally chose to believe Su Ti. He held the whip in one hand and did not make any move.

After a few seconds, Cao Man's safety rope broke with a bang, and he fell off the cliff like Su Ti before!
(End of this chapter)