Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 229 Black Stone Ball, Evil Thing

Su Sheng stood under a tree not far away.

In the darkness of night, he looked very eerie in his bright red shroud.

The most sinister thing is his eyes and expression.

There was no emotion in his eyes or on his face, like a puppet without a soul.

call!

The night wind blew.

Su Sheng slowly raised his head, staring at me with his expressionless eyes.

I felt a strong sense of uneasiness in my heart.

Goosebumps appeared all over my body,

"Su Sheng?!" I called his name, trying to wake him up.

Even if it makes him have some emotional fluctuations, it's good.

The corners of Su Sheng's mouth curled up slightly.

I wanted to laugh, but I couldn't.

Shi Nianzi leaned close to my ear and whispered, "Master Chen, I'll go get him."

I shook my head slightly.

Thinking that something was wrong with Su Sheng's condition.

If you arrest someone rashly, something might go wrong.

Just as I shook my head, Su Sheng suddenly moved.

I saw him raise his arm and swing it hard, throwing something the size of a fist at me like a hidden weapon.

"Master Chen, be careful!"

The stone mill stepped forward to protect me.

Whoosh!

The things Su Sheng threw flew over with a strong wind sound.

In the darkness, I couldn't see clearly what he threw. I could only vaguely see a ball of something flying towards me at high speed.

The millstone took a deep breath.

At the moment when the thing was about to hit him, he stretched out his hand like lightning and caught the flying monkey with his raised hand.

Snapped!

With a crisp sound, the mass was firmly grasped by the right hand of the stone mill.

"hiss!"

The stone mill gritted its teeth and gasped.

After transferring the mass to his left hand, he shook his right hand vigorously to relieve the pain.

“My hand hurts!”

"How can this coward Su Sheng have so much strength?"

"Even if he started practicing since he was young, he wouldn't be able to have such great strength!"

The millstone kept muttering to itself.

I feel that the force with which Su Sheng throws things is astonishingly great.

I frowned.

I know exactly how much strength Su Sheng has.

When we were robbing tombs together before, his strength was ordinary.

It's not surprising at all!

His body has changed a lot!

Su Sheng slowly raised his hand and pointed at the object held in the stone mill's left hand.

It seemed to be trying to tell me that thing was important.

After pointing, he walked into the depths of the bushes without looking back.

Shi Nianzi suddenly became anxious: "This coward is trying to run away!"

"There must be something wrong. I'm going to catch him!"

I grabbed the millstone's arm and said, "Stop chasing me."

"Why?!"

"As the old saying goes, don't enter the woods. There's a dark bush ahead. What if he's deliberately trying to lure us over there?"

"It's too risky to chase him. Let me see the ball he threw first."

When I reached out to ask for something, Su Sheng had already run away.

Seeing that he had missed the chance to catch up, Shi Nianzi sighed and handed the thing to me.

The thing feels very substantial when you get it.

The hand that was pressing down sank involuntarily.

I guess it's a stone, but it feels like paper when I touch it.

Lift the object up to your eyes.

What you see is yellowed paper.

The paper looks quite old, very thin and delicate, and you can see the thin fibers in the paper when holding it up to the light.

I think it should be rough paper.

Rough paper is made of bamboo fiber, has good ink-holding and water-absorbent properties, and is suitable for writing and printing books.

Because Mao Jin, a famous book collector in the Ming Dynasty, purchased a large amount of this paper to print books and stamped the edge of the paper with the word "Mao" in his seal, this paper is called "rough-edged paper".

"There seems to be words written on the paper?" Cui Hao said, pointing to the ink on the back of the paper.

I lifted the rough paper to reveal what was wrapped inside.

The thing wrapped in the paper was indeed a stone.

The stone is spherical and obviously polished by hand.

I picked up the stone ball and examined it carefully.

After looking at it over and over again, I found that it was just a pitch-black stone ball, and there was nothing special about it.

This is a little strange.

According to my guess, there must be something special about the black stone ball.

I held the black stone ball in front of Cui Hao and the others and slowly turned it.

"Can you see anything unusual?"

The three of them stared at the stone ball with six eyes for a long time, then shook their heads.

"There's nothing unusual about it. It's just a round stone ball."

"Is being too round considered abnormal? Wouldn't it be difficult to polish such a round ball?"

"It's not that difficult. As long as you have a machine, it's easy to make such a round stone ball."

"Brother, why don't you take a look at what's written on the paper?"

I casually handed the stone ball to Cui Hao, smoothed out the rough paper and started to read it.

There was neat regular script written on the paper.

The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, showing extraordinary calligraphy skills.

Just based on the words on it, this piece of paper can be sold for some money.

"There's a hidden river inside the cave, which goes down for over a hundred feet. The cave is vast, like a hidden world..."

The content written on the paper is quite ancient.

It belongs to the ancient vernacular style.

The content is a record of the ancient people's experiences when entering the cave.

It is estimated that it was written at least in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is not difficult to say that it was written by people in the Ming Dynasty.

"Brother, what does 'the cave is vast' mean?"

"Can you read it more clearly? Otherwise we won't understand." Cui Hao said, scratching his head.

None of the three of them had ever received proper education. Although classical vernacular Chinese was easy to understand, some sentences were incomprehensible to them.

So I explained it in plain language.

"After flowing down the underground river for more than a hundred feet, the cave suddenly expanded, revealing a new world. It's no exaggeration to say it's a different world."

"Is this place, with its unique caverns, the legendary place where treasures are hidden? But I don't see any treasures, instead I see piles of bones."

"I went ashore and explored among the bones, but found nothing useful. Instead, I discovered new holes in the depths."

"After walking two miles along the new cave, we found many pottery jars, as if ancient people had lived here again."

"After walking another half mile, we finally saw the God's Tomb."

That’s all for now.

The paper content can be used as a map for exploring the cave.

Su Sheng threw this piece of paper to me, obviously wanting me to go find the tomb of the gods.

It seems that the old man Ma Si from Xiangxi has controlled Su Sheng.

I guess Su Meng and Su Lou can't escape his clutches either.

It is very likely that Old Man Su’s children and grandchildren are controlled by Ma Si... It seems that this matter must be kept secret, otherwise Old Man Su may not be able to accept it.

As I was thinking about it, Cui Hao poked me gently.

"Brother, why don't you continue reading?"

"What happens after we discover the God's Tomb? Is there anything we are looking for in the God's Tomb?"

I shook the paper and said, "I've finished reading it. There's nothing more to read."

"Hold!"

Cui Hao cursed angrily, "This is just keeping us on suspense. We've missed the most important part!"

I want to curse a few words too.

Because I also want to know what's next.

This Ma Si is so disgusting!

"Go to sleep first, we have to rush back tomorrow morning."

We entered the dormitory building and went to the assigned rooms to rest.

Silent all night.

The next morning, we drove to the foot of the mountain where the cave was located and went up the mountain carrying all kinds of equipment.

As soon as I reached the entrance of the cave, I saw Taoist Master Zhang sitting cross-legged on the rocks inside the cave.

"Old Zhang."

I walked over quickly, took out the black stone ball and handed it to Taoist Zhang.

As soon as he saw the black stone ball, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

"Where did this evil thing come from?!"