"Nie Wei." Hearing this name, I felt extremely conflicted and shook my head. "I don't know who he is, this person is truly astonishing."
As I spoke, I used the flashlight to look inside the room. I saw that the entire room was filled with a dozen or so coffins, covered in mud, but it was already dry, indicating that the coffins had been here for some time.
Pang Dun complained on the side, "What did you have to do with him? You've made me suffer too."
Ignoring Pang Dun, I felt surprised to see these coffins, but also a little disappointed. From the looks of it, Nie Wei couldn't possibly be living here.
"Let's go, check upstairs." I retrieved the flashlight and walked towards the staircase behind us.
Suddenly, a hand next to me swiftly reached out and grabbed my arm. I was stunned and almost turned around to punch. Just then, Fat Dun's voice suddenly came: "Duanmu, shine the flashlight in that direction."
"Huh?" I looked at Fat Dun in confusion. "What's going on, what's in that direction?"
Fat Dun, red-faced and flustered, looked like he was in a hurry: "Shine the light again, I don't know, I seemed to have seen something just now."
"Okay." Seeing Fat Dun like this, I had a bad feeling. So, I picked up the flashlight and shone it over, and sure enough, the situation in front of me was not good.
"How come this coffin is open?" Fat Dun said in surprise.
"Not good, there's been a corpse change." I frowned slightly and quickly pulled Fat Dun back a few steps, saying, "The situation is not good, let's go quickly."
"Corpse change?" Hearing these two words, Fat Dun's eyes almost popped out. Naturally, Fat Dun had slept next to several corpses just two days ago, so he was naturally more sensitive to corpses. At the moment, this kid actually stood still in place.
I was speechless for a while and quickly grabbed Fat Dun and retreated. I wanted to go upstairs to see, but with the current situation, it probably wouldn't be allowed. So I pushed open the door and went into the courtyard.
But just as I walked into the courtyard, my heart sank again. Because at this moment, there were actually four or five people standing at the entrance of the courtyard, all of whom were the villagers from earlier. I saw that they were holding iron rods and even machetes, and two of them were even holding crossbows, and not just any crossbows, but the type as powerful as a pistol.
All four or five of them looked at us menacingly and said fiercely, "Such audacious brats, daring to come here and cause trouble."
Looking at these four or five people, I somewhat understood what was going on. These four or five people had clearly just discovered our villagers. And from their current behavior, they were definitely involved with the coffin in the house behind me, and maybe they were in league with Nie Wei.
At this moment, another person licked the blade of his knife and said, "We do our thing, don't mess with anyone, you two brats don't know the depth of the sky and earth, you've actually let on to our dealings, so you two shouldn't expect to leave here alive either."
At this moment, I understood that I had trespassed on someone else's turf. These guys must have been pretending to be villagers, and then secretly engaged in tomb robbery and treasure hunting. If their dealings were discovered, they could be sentenced to death directly, which would make these people desperate.
They were now saying they wanted my life, and it was no longer just idle threats like the small-time gangsters in the town, they really wanted to kill us.
On the side, Fat Dun was already scared, but he was desperately pulling my arm, "Duanmu, these bastards really don't seem to want to let us off, damn it, let's fight."
Despite being timid and afraid of ghosts, when facing a real crisis, this kid was more ruthless than anyone else.
Hearing Fat Dun's words, I couldn't help but pat his shoulder, not answering. Instead, I looked at the group of desperados and said firmly, "Just a bunch of thieves engaging in tomb robbing, and you dare to shout and kill. Do you lot know that the Yin energy inside this ancient tomb is extremely heavy? You actually dare to live by this ancient tomb, aren't you afraid it's going to take your lives?"
"You're being mouthy even in the face of death." At this point, the person holding the crossbow lifted it and aimed it directly at me.
I shook my head, "Forget it. Words of reason won't work on you damn ghosts. If you want to kill us, come on."
As I spoke, I suddenly grabbed Fat Dun and darted back into the house. But just as we entered the house, there was a rumbling sound, and the bronze coffin and stone coffin in front of us were actually shaking violently.
And standing straight next to the stone and bronze coffins, there was a person wearing a long robe, with long flowing hair, a woman.
As soon as we entered the house, the woman immediately looked at us and was about to pounce on us. Seeing this, I, of course, knew what was going on. I wasn't alarmed and suddenly pulled out a talisman and chanted a spell: "The talisman is in touch with the spirit, connecting the living and the dead, life and death are predetermined, accumulated grievances are unpredictable."
As the spell was cast, the talisman paper started to burn. In the light of the fire, I also got a clear view of the face of the female corpse. After seeing it, I was taken aback.
It turned out that this female corpse looked exactly like a living person, although the skin was somewhat wrinkled, and her face was stiff. But one could vaguely tell that the female corpse had been very beautiful when she was alive. It was just that the ancient clothing she wore gave off an especially eerie feeling.
The rest, the female corpse is nothing special, there is not much resentment. It's just an ordinary case of corpse transformation, which is still manageable.
The function of the summoning charm is to establish instant communication between me and the female corpse. At the moment when the summoning charm burned out, I heard the sharp scream of the female corpse: "You shameless descendants, our burial here is for peace and tranquility, but you actually engage in grave robbing activities, disturbing the peace and causing unrest. Today, I'll take your life."
"Miss, please don't be hasty." At this point, I shouted at the female corpse, "We are not tomb raiders, on the contrary, we are here to rescue you. Can you tell us about your background?"
After I uttered these words, the female corpse indeed stopped and stood stiffly less than a meter away from me. As the paper talisman burned to ashes and the fire extinguished, the figure of the female corpse once again became terrifying.
"Is what the gentleman said true? Are you here to rescue us? Where are the tomb raiders?"
I nodded heavily, "Miss, you should see that we are honest people without a trace of hostility. It's us who came to rescue you, and now we are the ones being chased by those tomb raiders. If you help us deal with them, we can ensure a peaceful burial for Miss and her family."
Once I said this, the female corpse suddenly retreated into the darkness, and from her direction, a faint voice drifted in, "Alright, but don't try to deceive me, otherwise, I'll make sure you meet the same fate as them. Also, I am from the late Qing Dynasty, my family died due to a plague."
Having said that, the female corpse disappeared into the darkness. At this point, the time for the summoning charm was up, and I could no longer hear the voice of the female corpse, only the hoarse and heavy groans of the female corpse.
This is the difference in communication with the female corpse after summoning and before summoning.