Chapter 15: Good Luck
Night came,

The vegetable greenhouse base became silent and desolate. Even the sounds of insects and birds gradually died down. It seemed that an eerie atmosphere gradually enveloped the entire base.

Make the greenhouse vegetable base extra quiet.

A tomb robber who was on guard outside carefully left his post and climbed up the wall of the greenhouse next door in three or five steps.

Another person, hiding behind a straw curtain on the earthen wall, was observing the movements around him from a high vantage point.

"Brother Wu," the man suddenly shouted, startling the other man.

"Changgui, why are you running here when you're not watching over there?" Jia Xiaowu slowly put away the gun in his hand and immediately scolded Zhang Changgui with a stern face.

"Brother Wu, don't be angry. I'm not trying to be lazy. Don't you think it's too quiet tonight? No matter how careful they are in the greenhouse, it's impossible for them not to make any noise. I'm worried that something happened down there."

Zhang Changgui's sentry position was closer to Shed No. 4. Before the sun set, he could still vaguely hear the sound of a chainsaw coming from the shed, but after it got completely dark, no more sound came from inside.

Now more than an hour has passed, and still no sound is heard.

Logically speaking, they would also make noises when talking or moving things inside.

Jia Xiaowu said nonchalantly, "With Brother Qiang and the scholar here, we don't need to worry. It must be that the extraction of cultural relics was not going smoothly, and the scholar was acting on impulse again and didn't let Brother Qiang and the others use force."

Zhang Changgui also felt that Jia Xiaowu's explanation made sense. If it weren't for the scholar surnamed Xu who insisted on not destroying any cultural relics, they would have emptied the tomb long ago. Why would they have continued to work here for three years?

However, Zhang Changgui was still very grateful to the scholar named Xu. If they had not excavated the ancient tomb in his way, their income would probably be less than one-tenth of what it is now.

The broken utensils that they had not taken seriously before became priceless treasures after a little repair in the hands of the scholar named Xu.

The two chatted for a while, and Jia Xiaowu said to Zhang Changgui: "Changgui, you'd better go back and keep watch. We can't let outsiders sneak in. I think the two young men on bicycles who passed by today are very suspicious. We can't let them take advantage of the opportunity."

Zhang Changgui said with great disdain: "The youngsters nowadays are only good at talking. If they really saw what we have in our hands, they would probably piss their pants in fear."

Jia Xiaowu smiled and said, "Don't be so absolute. What if he is just a fool?"

Zhang Changgui smiled and said, "That's even better. I like young people who are ignorant. I will let them know that brains are never as strong as bullets."

Killing people seems to have no psychological burden for them.

More than an hour later, it was getting late at night and the street lights in the distant village were turned off.

Zhang Changgui, who was standing on guard outside greenhouse No. 4, still heard no movement from inside, so he came to Jia Xiaowu again.

Jia Xiaowu said with displeasure: "Changgui, you have left your post again. Do you want Brother Qiang to punish you?"

Zhang Changgui said with a little concern: "Brother Wu, I think something is wrong. There is no one outside now, should we go in and take a look?"

Jia Xiaowu stood up from the straw curtains, looked around in the pitch-black darkness, and saw no one, so he said, "That's fine. Go quickly and come back soon."

Afterwards, Zhang Changgui went into greenhouse No. 4.

There was no light in the shed, so he could only use the faint moonlight shining through the plastic film to grope his way to the side of the shaft.

There was a dim light coming from inside the well.

Lying on the well mouth, Zhang Changgui shouted inside: "Brother Qiang?"

When he got no response, he called out again, "Monkey?"

Still didn't get any response.

The experienced Zhang Changgui realized that something unexpected might happen underground and immediately tightened the pistol in his pocket.

Then he ran out of the greenhouse and whispered to Jia Xiaowu, "Brother Wu, something seems to have happened down there."

Upon hearing this, Jia Xiaowu immediately jumped down from the earth wall, then carried the imitation Type 56 semi-truck on his back and rushed into greenhouse No. with Zhang Changgui.

At the same time, two kilometers away, Li Zhi, who was lying on the ground under the cliff, saw Jia Xiaowu jumping down from the earth wall of the vegetable greenhouse.

Li Zhi immediately patted Ye Fan's arm and said, "Little Ye, let's go, it's time for us to act."

Li Zhi, who has practiced breathing techniques, has sharp ears and eyes and extraordinary vision.

Even in the dark, with the faint moonlight, you can still see clearly what is happening two kilometers away.

Such terrifying eyesight is comparable to an eight-fold mirror.

Ye Fan, who was originally lying on the ground and staring at the direction of the Big Dipper in the night sky, stood up instantly and asked eagerly: "Brother Li, are they starting to carry the cultural relics out?"

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "That's not the case. But the two sentinels have gone back, so their excavation today should be over."

Ye Fan asked: "So did we use the thieves to rob each other? Or did we force the purchase and sale?"

Regarding this aspect, Ye Fan currently has limited experience, and he is not yet the Ye Hei who will be so bold as to sell the descendants of the major holy places in Beidou in the future.

He is not the Ye Fan who dared to snatch food from the ancient Changsheng Temple on Mingling and the Human King Palace at the Yuhua Fairy Cliff on the Ziwei Ancient Star, and successfully robbed the number one prodigy of the Ziwei Ancient Star, Yin Tiande, and snatched the ancient divine scriptures.

He is not yet able to accept this kind of bottom-testing action.

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi looked at Ye Fan meaningfully and thought to himself, "It turns out that your style of doing things was developed on Earth."

"We are decent people, how can we do such illegal activities? We just accidentally picked up some discarded things when we were out playing. As for why those things are so valuable, how can ordinary people like us know? We are not professional archaeologists."

Li Zhi started talking nonsense in a serious manner, and described his own behavior as so great and glorious that Ye Fan was stunned.

He even almost forgot the cases of corruption in the "archaeological world" that Li Zhi had told him about when they were chatting under the earth cliff.

Seeing Ye Fan's meaningful look, Li Zhi immediately said: "Okay, I've said a lot today, you can think about it carefully later."

The more Ye Fan interacted with Li Zhi, the more he felt that Li Zhi, who always had a lazy face, was unfathomable.

The two men carried their bags and ran quickly towards the vegetable greenhouse.

It would take an average person about ten minutes to run two kilometers in the wild. However, Ye Fan and Li Zhi, who were carrying backpacks, only took six minutes to run the entire distance, and they did not show any signs of being out of breath after reaching their destination.

In front of the fence outside the vegetable base, the two calm people took a short run and directly crossed the iron fence that was nearly three meters high.

Then they began to move silently in the greenhouse vegetable base like cats.

Soon we arrived behind the earthen wall of greenhouse No. 4.

The two nodded to each other, then used the force to climb over the earth wall.

Afterwards, they lay behind the rolled-up straw curtain on the earth wall and began to listen attentively to the movements inside.

Ten minutes later, an excited conversation suddenly broke out in the greenhouse.

"Brother Wu, we are going to make a fortune this time." The voice was a little dull, as if he was speaking through a thick mask.

"Changgui, let's move quickly. The air below may be poisonous. Our gas masks won't last long." Another dull voice also reached the ears of Ye Fan and Li Zhi.

"Brother Wu, there are a lot of things. Please throw two more bags down to me." Zhang Changgui, wearing a gas mask, seemed to be at the bottom of the shaft.

"Changgui, don't put the broken ones into the bag, pick up the intact ones." Jia Xiaowu, who was holding a rope outside the shaft, shouted inside.

"Fifth brother, don't worry. There are almost no broken objects this time." Zhang Changgui's voice came from the bottom of the shaft.

After hearing the conversation inside, Li Zhi and Ye Fan, who were lying on the wall, did not dare to make any noise.

About half an hour later, several gunshots were suddenly heard from inside.

Ye Fan was startled, and Li Zhi shook his head at him, signaling him to stay calm.

Then, the two heard Jia Xiaowu's groan, and he seemed to have been shot.

But Zhang Changgui's voice completely disappeared.

At this time, Li Zhi took out two hammers from his bag, handed one to Ye Fan, and signaled him not to hold back.

Then they cut the plastic film with a knife and climbed into the greenhouse using the ropes.

After landing, Li Zhi moved very fast, like a tiger pouncing on its prey, and rushed towards Jia Xiaowu, who was bandaging the wound on his left arm, waving a hammer.

Jia Xiaowu, who had his back to Li Zhi, seemed to sense the danger and immediately bent down to grab the 56 and a half that Li Zhi had leaned against the wellhead.

But Li Zhi had already thrown the hammer away.

"puff!"

It was as if a watermelon had exploded and Jia Xiaowu's head burst into pieces.

Seeing this, Ye Fan looked at the hammer in his hand with some shock.

Li Zhi turned his head and shouted to Ye Fan: "Okay, Xiao Ye, it's time for us to act now. Put on the protective clothing first."

Afterwards, Ye Fan followed suit and put on medical protective clothing.

And both of them wore gas masks.

Then Ye Fan followed Li Zhi down into the vertical shaft.

They first saw Zhang Changgui, who had been shot in the head, at the bottom of the shaft.

Then two bodies were seen dragged to the side of the inclined shaft.

When they arrived at the door of the main coffin chamber, they saw Xu Shusheng, whose head was pierced by sword energy.

After entering the coffin chamber, they saw Brother Qiang whose head had been chopped off and the tomb robber whose heart had been pierced from behind with a chisel.

Li Zhi explained to Ye Fan in detail why those people died.

After seeing this scene, Ye Fan sighed: "It's true that people die for money and birds die for food."

There was not much fear or panic in his voice, nor did he feel any nausea or discomfort in his body.

Li Zhi said: "Now you know why most tomb robbers are father and son partners."

Ye Fan nodded and said, "These people really have no humanity."

Li Zhi glanced at the horseshoe gold and bronze artifacts on the ground, and suddenly asked, "Faced with so many treasures, don't you have any other ideas?"

Ye Fan said, "Brother Li, you are making fun of me again. Although I am poor, I still have good eyesight. These people must have touched something they shouldn't have touched, and that's why they were robbed. They definitely didn't die simply for money."

Sure enough, Ye Fan had done some research on the taboos of the underground.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "You observed very carefully. The wound on the head of the man who died from a sharp blade piercing his head was definitely not caused by a normal weapon. The owner of this tomb is not a simple person."

Ye Fan said excitedly: "Could this be a tomb left by ancient monks?"

Li Zhi pondered for a moment and said, "I need to study it to be sure."

In fact, he had already discovered the clues of this coffin chamber.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for it to be preserved so well. It must have been protected by the formation for a long time.

Ye Fan has not yet come into contact with the world of cultivation.

Although Li Zhi had never come into contact with the world of cultivation, he knew that there were cultivators in the world.

When considering a problem, one would naturally take the monks' methods into consideration.

(End of this chapter)