Tomb robber: Tuantuan, I am a national treasure!

I walked for a long time but still didn't see anyone.

Jinnian was walking, so naturally he was not as fast as the other three people.

Two people riding horses and one leading a donkey could never walk faster than him.

Jinnian relied entirely on the breath of three people remaining in the air to chase after them.

The three of them walked further and further away as if they were on skateboards.

Jinnian had just transformed back and didn't have much energy. Relying on his own body, he probably wouldn't be able to hold on until he found these three people.

“Huh…..ha….”

Jinnian let the strength in his body turn into a warm current that flowed throughout his body, so that he had the strength to keep going.

The journey was long and the weather was not pleasant. The scorching sun hit my body, but it didn't feel as warm as usual. Instead, it felt like lava and was unbearable.

Jinnian was actually fine. No matter how hot the sun was shining on him, he seemed to be floating on the surface with consciousness. He was just very thirsty and wanted to drink water.

Jinnian no longer had any desire for the pastries in his arms, as they became drier the more he ate them.

............

"Wow, there are forks in such a small place?"

"Master Buddha, which way are you going? Wait a minute, wait a minute, I haven't had a proper fortune telling since I came out, let me do a fortune telling first."

Qi Tiezui kept chattering all the way and never stopped, but the other two people didn't say anything either and let him talk. Now that he finally found a chance to show himself, Qi Tiezui patted his sleeves and got ready to start.

As soon as he got into position, Zhang Qishan rode his horse to the other side.

Qi Tiezui: “Ah?”

He quickly stopped Zhang Rishan who was following behind him and said, "What do you mean? Why are you going this way? Why don't you wait a moment? I haven't started calculating yet!"

Zhang Rishan naturally stood with the Buddha: "Eighth Master, just follow me."

Qi Tiezui was too unconvinced: "I haven't calculated it yet, can the Buddha calculate it too? Better than me?"

Zhang Rishan shrugged his shoulders and continued walking forward with unwavering faith: "The Buddha must have his reasons. Whatever the Buddha does is right."

Qi Tiezui looked at the two people's backs speechlessly. What else could he do? He could only follow them.

He kept muttering to himself, "You flatterer."

Not long after the three of them walked, they met a little Zhenzi.

From a distance, you can see a lot of things piled up outside the town, such as stone pillars, stone plates, stone lions, and some old objects that are obviously not in use today.

"This is?"

Qi Tiezui took off his small round glasses and took a closer look.

"This is not something from today. You can tell it's quite old."

"Could it be? Under this mine...hiss..."

Several people probably had an idea in their minds, but they didn't say it out loud. It was probably very dangerous down there, and this small town didn't look simple either.

The three men walked to the middle of the road, swaggering, but there was no one around them, and when the breeze blew, it seemed a little desolate.

"Isn't this an empty city?"

Coincidentally, just as Qi Tiezui finished saying this, several figures ran out from not far away. He covered his mouth, pretended to be surprised and praised himself: "Oh wow, I really am a fortune teller!"

Zhang Rishan shook his head and quickly stepped forward to stop a person. It was a woman with a child. They were both wearing coarse cloth clothes and carrying a bag on their backs. They looked like they were fleeing.

"Hello, I would like to inquire about............."

"No! I know nothing!"

Zhang Rishan was interrupted by the woman just as he started to speak. The woman hurriedly pulled her child and saw that there were two people behind her, so she quickly changed direction.

"We are not bad people. We just want to ask about the nearby mine, the mine next door..."

"What mine? I know nothing about it!"

Zhang Rishan couldn't stop them, he could only watch them walk further and further away. He still lowered his head and wanted to ask about the child in the woman's arms.

"Little boy, I'm not a bad person, I just want to ask you something, okay?"

The child in the woman's arms hadn't even opened his mouth yet before his mother covered his mouth and ran away quickly as if she was looking at some bad guy.

Qi Tiezui just wanted to laugh when he saw this, and complained to Zhang Qishan beside him: "Master Buddha, you might as well let me go. I look much kinder than the adjutant, right?"

"You said this adjutant, why is he asking questions when he wants to? Why is he so expressionless and stern? Just like you..." Qi Tiezui suddenly realized something and turned his head quietly, only to find that Zhang Qishan was staring at him with no expression on his face, just like a person with expressionless face, so he quickly stopped talking.

Qi Tiezui had a sad face and twisted his lips in a pretentious manner, and he almost said it out loud. Although he felt that the Buddha might know what he wanted to say, if he really said it out loud, he would be in great trouble.

When Zhang Rishan came back, he saw Qi Tiezui pinching his mouth and slapping his hands for no reason, and realized that the Eighth Master must have said something he shouldn't have said again.

He stepped forward past Qi Tiezui.

"Master Buddha, I only found out a little bit. The woman was fleeing."

"Escape? Famine? Robbery?" Qi Tiezui couldn't help but interrupt: "You haven't heard of it?"

Zhang Rishan ignored him and continued to report: "It is said that there were several mining accidents nearby, and people lost their livelihoods, so everyone fled one after another."

"Mine accident? I seem to have heard of this... It was the one that caused a big fuss a while ago, what was that... Oh yeah, Xiao Jinnian also mentioned it, those Japanese..."

Zhang Qishan made a gesture: "Shh."

"Okay, let's stay here tonight."

"here?!"

Zhang Qishan looked at the startled Qi Tiezui and raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

"Hahaha.....It's nothing, nothing."

Qi Tiezui laughed but he really wanted to cry in his heart. His big house, comfortable bed, and small palm-leaf fan were all gone!

After sleeping in this shabby place, if he is not bitten into a pig's head by mosquitoes when he wakes up tomorrow, he will take the surname of Buddha!

The three of them wandered around for a while and found that this place was really desolate. Apart from the mother and son they met at the beginning, they didn't see anyone else.

It was getting dark and foggy.

They left the horses and donkeys outside and surveyed half of the town, but there was still a part left to be seen.

They investigated as they walked, looking for any useful clues.

As the evening breeze blew and the moonlight was hazy, the attention of several people was suddenly attracted by the big red lantern in front of them. In the deserted town, the lantern was too conspicuous to ignore.

"Eh?"

"Didn't the woman say that everyone was fleeing? Why are they still hanging red lanterns?"

Zhang Qishan said slowly: "Some young men stayed near the mine. This statement is not without credibility, but we still have to be careful."

Zhang Rishan looked at the gate and said, "It looks like we'll have to sleep on a bunk bed tonight."

The two of them were analyzing their accommodation for the night and the environment, while Qi Tiezui, who was originally standing next to them, was walking towards the door while shouting, "It smells so good."

"Hey hey hey! Lord Buddha! Someone is cooking something in there!"

Qi Tiezui kept sticking his head out, and he was almost putting it into someone else's pot.

Zhang Qishan laughed: "Aren't you afraid?"

Qi Tiezui chuckled: "As the saying goes, the world is big, but eating is the most important thing. I'm almost starving to death! How can I care about other things........."

Zhang Rishan looked at the excited Qi Tiezui and silently said to Zhang Qishan: "No wonder he can play with the young master."

Qi Tiezui heard this and was unhappy. What was wrong with him? He just missed a few bites of food, so why did he act like that little fool Jinnian?

"Adjutant, you don't know this. We've been looking for so long and haven't seen a single ghost. Why don't we take the initiative to go in and ask around? Who knows, maybe we can get some clues. How great!"

Zhang Qishan could not deny it, but patted his shoulder and said, "Who knows, the mask of the person inside may be thicker than the lens of your glasses. Be careful not to get any clues and get killed by them instead."

Qi Tiezui touched the place where he was slapped, and suddenly bared his teeth: "Aren't you and the adjutant still here?"

"Really? You two are still here to protect me!"

Three people went in carrying bags. People inside were sitting in groups of three or five, sparsely spaced, and there was nothing special to see.

However, Zhang Qishan keenly sensed that the person in the innermost part was observing them secretly. Zhang Qishan did not want to alert the enemy, so he pretended not to see it and continued walking forward with the other two people until they reached the innermost part, where a person who looked like the leader was sitting.

Qi Tiezui suddenly straightened his back, feeling that his chance had come. He pointed at the adjutant's clothes and put on a friendly smile in response to the man's cold face.

Zhang Rishan naturally didn't understand what he meant, so he stood behind him to prevent any accidents.

Qi Tiezui's face was frozen from smiling, but he still didn't wait for the adjutant to make a move. He turned around and saw Zhang Rishan looking at the people around him vigilantly, but he had restrained his aura. To outsiders, he would think that he was just like a child who had never seen the world, with his eyes wandering around.

Qi Tiezui was so disappointed with his friend that he took out the money from his clothes himself, then ran to the leader and squatted down.

"Brother, you see, when we passed by this place, it was completely desolate. There was nothing around! There weren't even any pheasants, ducks, or rabbits! We were almost starving to death............"

The leader sneered and didn't reply.

It was his younger brother next to him who spoke up: "It's a mess out there right now. You never know when this money will become useless!"

Qi Tiezui suddenly figured it out, and continued to wave at the two people next to him. Seeing their puzzled looks, he couldn't help but say, "Tsk... More... More! Give them all to me first."

Qi Tiezui took the money and copper coins he had asked from the two men and stuffed them all into the leader's hand.

"Brother! We are so hungry that we almost want to eat people............"

The leader weighed the money stuffed into his hand and smiled with satisfaction. Then he opened the pot and pointed to the empty stools next to him: "Sit down."

"It's not that I don't want to treat you guys to a meal, it's just that life is really hard these days, and we brothers don't have enough to share."

"Hahahahahaha thank you big brother, thank you big brother!"

Qi Tiezui was a little gnashing his teeth, but it was not obvious. Only Zhang Qishan and Zhang Rishan saw it. Although it was not his money that was spent, this leader was really a black man.

The money given to him could be put aside to treat several people to a good meal, and he could also buy some cakes for Jinnian. When he saw what was in the pot, his face turned even darker, because it was a pot of stew.

But of course he couldn't show it. After all, this stew, actually, seemed, perhaps, to be a little fragrant?

When he started eating, Qi Tiezui suddenly thought, it smells really good... maybe it's because he didn't eat lunch? Anyway, it smells really good.

He couldn't help but praise him a few times, and unexpectedly received praise from the leader.