The crowd dispersed outside the cave and searched for dry branches in the snow. Soon, they returned to the cave with a full pile of trees.

Lin Panpan took the branch and took out matches from her pocket.

The branches were instantly ignited, making crackling sounds, quickly dispelling the coldness in the cave.

Lin Weihua and a few others followed the sound of water and found a water source in the valley.

They struggled to break the ice, their hands numb from the cold.

Lin Weihua took out two pheasants from his backpack, which were already frozen solid.

They rubbed the chicken repeatedly in ice water, removing the chicken feathers and internal organs bit by bit.

After dealing with the pheasant, everyone hurried back to the cave with their spoils.

As soon as he entered the cave, Lin Weihua breathed a sigh of relief, stamped his frozen feet, and said with emotion: "It's really cold in this mountain. I feel like my bones are almost frozen through!"

Lin Panpan looked up at him and pointed at the fire: "Come over and roast some food. We'll put the pheasant on the grill and we can have a hot meal."

After finishing the meal, Lin Panpan sneered, "It's so cold, and this Fatty Pang is still bringing his team out. It seems like he's at the end of his rope now."

Lin Weihua nodded as he drank his pheasant soup and said, "These people are making quite a lot of noise, why is no one doing anything about it?"

Lin Panpan looked at him and said:

“The places they chose were all in remote areas, deep in the mountains.

They usually steal everything in one night, and by the time someone finds out, they've already disappeared."

In 1973, the era was at a critical stage of transformation, and various orders were still being reshaped.

In the field of cultural relics protection, there has not yet been a strong deterrent against tomb-robbing crimes, resulting in tomb-robbing activities growing wildly like weeds.

Tomb robbing does not require a large investment of money. As long as you are brave enough and have some skills, you can become rich overnight.

Driven by huge profits, they have become more and more arrogant, completely disregarding the fact that these cultural relics carry the wisdom and history of their ancestors, and wantonly destroying the heritage left by their ancestors.

Lin Panpan collects these antiques not entirely for profit.

She truly likes them from the bottom of her heart and doesn't want these antiques to be leaked.

In 1973, against the backdrop of turbulent international cultural relics market, the domestic cultural relics protection mechanism was still imperfect, the smuggling of cultural relics was becoming more and more serious, and countless precious cultural relics were lost overseas.

Lin Panpan also tried her best to help. She closed her eyes. It was very cold in the mountains, so she could only lean against the cave and take a nap.

Lin Wei walked quickly to the bedside and whispered, "Panpan, get up quickly, there's movement over there!"

Lin Panpan hurried to the camp. They hid behind the bushes more than 30 meters away from the camp and observed everything with binoculars.

"Bang!" A grave robber with a face full of flesh collapsed beside the fire like a puddle of mud, his heavy breathing filled with the relief of surviving the disaster:

"This tomb is utterly evil! But the treasures inside...

Any one of these would be enough for us to eat and drink for a lifetime!"

A frail young tomb robber's legs gave way, and he fell to his knees, wailing heartbreakingly: "My brother... my brother is dead in there!"

Several tomb robbers who hadn't entered the tomb quickly gathered around and asked in panic, "What happened? Tell me!"

The young tomb robber swallowed his saliva and spoke in a hoarse voice:

"We followed the compass and found this ancient tomb buried deep underground.

Judging from the blue bricks of the tomb door and the style of the murals, it should be the tomb of a general from the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The tomb door was heavier than we had imagined, and it took a lot of effort for us to pry it open.

As soon as I entered, a stale smell hit me in the face, making me feel nauseous.

The walls of the tomb are covered with murals depicting the general's battles, and the surrounding pottery figurines are of various shapes."

“As we walked along the tomb passage, it was eerily quiet, with only the sound of our footsteps echoing in the empty passage.

Suddenly, an eerie creaking sound came from the front.

Before we could react, dozens of crossbow arrows whizzed out from the hidden holes on both sides of the wall.

The two people walking in front were instantly pierced by crossbow arrows, and blood splattered on the walls of the tomb passage. The scene was horrifying.

“After finally dodging the crossbow arrows, we continued forward and came to a tomb chamber.

In the center of the tomb lies a huge bronze coffin, engraved with runes.

Just as we were about to open the coffin, the ground suddenly shook violently.

Immediately afterwards, the floor tiles around the coffin began to loosen, and mechanical beasts emitting a metallic luster broke out of the ground.

These mechanical beasts' eyes flashed red, and they lunged at us with their fangs and claws bared."

"We brandished the tools in our hands and fought a desperate battle with the mechanical beasts.

But these mechanical beasts are extremely powerful, and their hard shells make our attacks ineffective.

In the panic, someone missed a step and fell into a trap on the floor of the tomb.

The trap was filled with sharp bamboo sticks, and the man was stabbed to a bloody pulp. His shrill screams echoed throughout the tomb, making one's scalp tingle.

"Just when we thought we were going to be completely wiped out, the mechanical beasts suddenly stopped attacking and retreated underground.

We were still in shock, but we bravely approached the coffin and worked together to open it.

In an instant, a strong stench of corpse hit me in the face, almost suffocating me.

Inside the coffin lay a corpse in armor, its face as lifelike as a living being, its skin a strange bluish-black color. It was the legendary General Zongzi!

"The general Zongzi slowly sat up, causing the dust in the tomb to fall.

Seeing this, my brother rushed forward waving a Luoyang shovel, trying to block the attack of the zongzi.

But that Zongzi was so powerful that it slapped my brother away with one blow. He hit the wall of the tomb and died instantly..." The young tomb robber burst into tears again when he said this.

Lin Panpan hid in a secluded place, listening to the tomb robbers' frightened stories, and her heart skipped a beat.

A chill ran up his spine. This tomb was far more dangerous than he had imagined.

Not long after, more tomb robbers crawled out from the entrance of the tomb.

Under the moonlight, their appearances were clearly visible. Some of them had expressions of fear on their faces, as if they had lost their souls.

Some people were seriously injured, with broken arms and legs covered in blood. Every step they crawled left a glaring trail of blood on the ground.

Lin Panpan counted and found that there were more than 130 tomb robbers who entered the tomb, but only 80 or 90 of them were able to come out alive.

Fatty Pang ran out panting with a few of his men.

Pang Pangzi spat and cursed with lingering fear:

"Damn it! If I hadn't brought all the equipment this time and if my brothers hadn't cooperated well, I would have been killed in this battle.

I didn't expect this tomb to be so strange! But the harvest is great enough to last us a lifetime!"

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