Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 274 Digging Again
At night, under the gaze of Shi Zichen, Lao Zhou picked up the Xuanji compass.

The bronze disk shone faintly in the moonlight, and the inlaid meteorite magnetic needle trembled slightly, as if resonating with the heaven and earth. The outer ring of the compass was engraved with 365 degrees of the celestial sphere, and the 28 ivory pieces embedded inside could rotate freely, like a miniature universe.

Old Zhou was concentrating, mumbling something, and the compass in his hand slowly turned with his movements. He looked up at the sky from time to time, and then lowered his head to adjust the position of the compass. Then, he took out a bronze astronomical instrument, which was shaped like a compass, and gently placed it on the compass and began to measure carefully.

Shi Zichen, who was standing by, looked a little sleepy and couldn't help yawning. He saw Lao Zhou take out a calculator from his pocket and quickly pressed the keyboard, making a "beep, beep" sound. He couldn't help but laugh and said, "You guys are so up-to-date in your business? You still use calculators?"

Old Zhou ignored him and continued to calculate intently, muttering something. Little Zhou next to him quickly said, "Officer, my father used to calculate by hand, but later he used a calculator at my suggestion."

"You don't know, my father used to be a stubborn old man! He firmly said that the results calculated by the computer have no soul! Cyber fortune-telling is not fortune-telling."

"When he got older, he kept making mistakes. He would use pen and paper to do the calculations himself even though the computer would give the answer with just a click. He made so many mistakes that he ended up using a calculator."

"I heard that some of my colleagues are also researching AI big models and using big data to find dragons and divide gold."

After hearing what Xiao Zhou said, Shi Zichen nodded and said, "I have encountered cases using large AI models before."

"Hiss...it's true!" Xiao Zhou was shocked!
"Hey! I figured it out!" Old Zhou suddenly shouted, his voice filled with excitement that was hard to conceal: "The stars in the sky are spinning, and so is the tomb! We dug in the wrong place before, the entrance is not here at all!"

After Shi Zichen heard this, he said, "You mean, the tomb you dug is moving underground?"

Old Zhou looked crazy, gesticulating and saying, "That's right! The positions of the stars in the sky are changing, and so is the cemetery. To the southeast of here, there is an imperial tomb that is exactly the same as the one I found last time! It's right there, let's go dig!"

"...Are you lying to me?" Shi Zichen said, "Do you think I will believe you?"

"I didn't lie to you! My son and I dug there. There really is a big tomb here!" Old Zhou said, grabbing Shi Zichen's hand.

He had been robbing graves for his entire life, and even after being caught, he accepted it. But he couldn't let his "reputation" be damaged just because he chose the wrong grave.

The reputation of Xingshumen cannot be ruined in his hands!

Will Shi Zichen believe what he says?

of course!

Because that's what he came for!
Occasionally, strange things happen in this world, and they exist to deal with these strange things. There are many things in Lao Zhou's confession that are difficult to understand.

The underground palace, the person talking in the coffin, and the nine coffins, there are undoubtedly many suspicious points. That's why he came to intervene in this matter.

So Shi Zichen called several other policemen, and a group of seven or eight people took their tools and continued to walk up the mountain under the guidance of Lao Zhou.

The road on the mountain was difficult to walk on at night. They walked for an hour or two before they arrived at the place pointed by Lao Zhou.

"Here! It's here!" Lao Zhou pointed to a place with a compass and said excitedly. At this moment, he forgot his identity, as if he was the leader of this team.

It's just an ordinary flat slope on a mountain.

"Dig!" Shi Zichen gave an order, and seven or eight people started digging.

They dug very quickly, and in less than half an hour, they had dug a large hole several meters deep and slanting downward. The more Zhou dug, the more familiar the soil seemed to him, until he had hollowed it out and dug out a large hole.

"It's here! Yes, it's here!" Lao Zhou said loudly, looking at the big dark hole.

The injustice of their Xingshu Sect was finally cleared by him!

Just as he was about to go in, Shi Zichen grabbed him. Then several policemen arrested him. Lao Zhou was furious: "You are robbing each other, you are destroying the bridge after crossing the river!"

"You are confused!" a policeman said helplessly: "We are here to identify the scene, not to rob the tomb!"

"Yes! If we find the tomb, we need to report it!" Another policeman took out a roll of plastic wrap and carefully sealed the hole: "Be careful to protect it!"

He did this to prevent air from entering and oxidizing the artifacts inside.

"I..." Old Zhou wanted to say that he didn't notice it the last time he came, but Little Zhou reacted faster and said, "Officer, since we found the tomb, can we use our merits to offset our crimes? Can we reduce our sentences?"

He was sentenced to almost twenty years in prison for tomb robbing and reselling cultural relics.

He is still young and doesn’t want to come out at the age of fifty!

"Uh..." Lao Zhou was stopped by the police and realized that he was no longer the tomb robber when he was young. Now he was just a prisoner.

Instantly, the energy and spirit in his body seemed to be drained away. He said hesitantly: "Yes, can I reduce the sentence?"

Shi Zichen on the other side finished his call and saw the two of them and said, "It depends on the value of this tomb! People from the Cultural Relics Bureau are on their way. Let's leave a few people here to guard it, and the rest can go back."

Normal cultural relic excavation is not as simple as tomb robbing. Moreover, it is said to be an underground palace, how many cultural relics would there be! If documents such as bamboo slips were found in it, the archaeological value of it would instantly make national headlines.

"Lao Liu, Lao Zhang." Shi Zichen pointed at the four people and said, "Stay here with me and be careful not to let anyone in."

The two of them saluted to Shi Zichen and said, "Yes!"

"The rest of you, take these two people back down the mountain! You've all worked hard today!" Shi Zichen arranged for the remaining two people: "Cuff them both, so they won't run away halfway."

"Yes!" The other two saluted and handcuffed Lao Zhou and Xiao Zhou to each other, and then handcuffed their own hands to ensure that there would be no accidents.

Xiao Zhou said: "Officer, we are waiting for a reduction in our sentence, we won't run away!"

Lao Zhou also said: "Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are determined by God. We were caught by you, and it's just our fault for not being careful."

The other two policemen ignored them and just took them down the mountain to rest.

The night wind was chilly, and only Shi Zichen and two policemen were left on the mountain. They sat around a bonfire, smoking, chewing betel nuts, and chatting aimlessly.

As we all know, cigarettes and betel nuts have infinite power.

When it was finally dawn, Shi Zichen and the other two policemen were surprised to find that the big hole they had dug at night had miraculously disappeared!
(End of this chapter)