Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

As the head slammed down, my body instinctively recoiled backward.

Swish!

A bloody human head fell past the tip of my nose, and the strong smell of blood filled my nostrils.

Snapped!

Gululu.

The head fell to the ground and rolled, heading straight for my feet!

My hair stood on end instantly.

His retreating steps became frantic.

Bang!

His heel slammed hard on the threshold, causing him to lose his balance and fall backward toward the ground.

I quickly spread my arms and grabbed wildly to both sides, trying to grab the courtyard gate to steady myself.

Unfortunately, both hands grasped nothing.

Bang!

I fell flat on my back on the ground.

The intense pain extended from my back into my body, making me feel like my internal organs were about to be shattered.

"Ouch!" I hissed in pain.

I wanted to use the cool air to suppress the pain in my body.

Boom!

A muffled thud came from the threshold.

I endured the pain and propped myself up to look across the threshold.

But it was the rolling head that bumped into the threshold.

Whether by coincidence or not, the head of the person who bumped into the threshold was upright.

A mangled, bloody face was facing me.

His eyes, wide with anger and filled with resentment, stared straight at me.

They looked like they were coming to demand my life.

But I don't know him at all!

I slowly stood up, mustered my courage, and whispered to the severed head, "As the old saying goes, every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt its debtor."

"Go find someone who hurt you and take revenge..."

pat!

Before I could finish speaking, a large drop of blood fell on the spot where I had just been standing outside the door.

More drops of blood followed, falling like raindrops.

At that moment, the scene of slaughtering a pig involuntarily flashed into my mind.

With a single stab, the pig's carotid artery was severed, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

The gushing pig's blood dripped into the basin of water to collect it, like a small-scale blood rain.

If that small-scale rain of blood were to fall from a height, it might look exactly like the scene before us.

No, why am I thinking about these things!

I shook my head vigorously, trying to shake the memory of slaughtering pigs out of my mind.

Judging from the appearance, the dripping blood is likely related to a human head.

His body should be on top.

Even the person who killed him was on it!

With that in mind, I became fully alert.

Thinking of retreating back into the yard first, so that if things went wrong, I could run back.

Even if running back doesn't solve the problem, at least you can hide for a while instead of dying on the spot.

This can be considered a human's instinctive reaction when facing danger.

As I stepped back, a dark shadow fell outside the courtyard gate.

boom!

The dark shadows crashed heavily to the ground.

Only then did I realize that what had fallen was a person!

It's a headless person!

This should be the body of that head!

Who exactly was he? Why did he die on top of the courtyard gate?

The person who killed him disposed of his body right in front of me. Will they kill me next?

As I thought about it, I quickly backed away.

But after taking only two steps back, his foot stopped.

I stood there, frozen in place, staring intently at the headless corpse outside the courtyard gate.

Immediately afterwards, my whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The trembling became more and more intense, to the point that even the upper and lower jaws started to chatter.

An overwhelming sense of fear filled my entire body in that instant.

Because I recognized the body!

"Ma, Ma Dong!"

I uttered Ma Dong's name with trembling hands.

The reason why the mangled, dismembered body was identified as Ma Dong was because of the clothes he was wearing.

Dark blue coarse cloth shirt and trousers, black cloth shoes with multi-layered soles—this was exactly what Ma Dong was wearing before.

Especially the large patches on the knees of the pants, which are exactly the same as the pants Ma Dong wore in my memory.

Even if there are coincidences in the world, it's unlikely that all the patches on our clothes would be exactly the same!

Therefore, I concluded that the corpse outside the courtyard gate was Ma Dong!

Ma Dong has suddenly disappeared!

It seems that Ma Dong and his team didn't sneak away quietly, but encountered an accident!

And just like that, without making a sound, an accident occurred!

Even killing a chicken will inevitably make it squawk a few times, but Ma Dong was killed without making a sound!

Is this something a human can do?!

Or is it that ghosts really exist in this world?!

No, we have to go back quickly!

Without hesitation, I ran back and pounded on the door.

"Open the door! Open the door quickly!"

The door opened a crack, and Uncle Zheng reached out and pulled me inside.

Bang!

The door was slammed shut.

Uncle Zheng looked at me with a serious expression: "Why did you rush back in such a panic? What happened outside?"

"Wait, wait a minute." I leaned against the wall, panting heavily.

Han Bin leaned closer, looked me up and down, and sneered disdainfully, "Heh, weren't you quite capable just now?"

"They were only gone for a few minutes, and they were so scared they ran back..."

Uncle Zheng glared at Han Bin: "You don't even dare to go out, what's with all this energy?"

"If you're so capable, go outside for a few minutes before you start criticizing Shi Tou."

"Cough cough." Han Bin's face turned red from the shock of those words, and he coughed dryly and turned his head away.

By this time, I had caught my breath and calmed down, and began to describe what I had seen outside.

"I didn't see Ma Dong and the others outside the gate. I was about to walk a little further away to check the situation when a head fell from above the gate."

Uncle Zheng exclaimed in surprise, "What?! A human head?!"

"Whose head?"

Han Bin also turned around abruptly to look at me, his lips trembling slightly: "A person, a head?"

I continued, "A human head whose face has been peeled off, so bloody and mangled that its features are unrecognizable."

"I was so scared that I jumped back and tripped over the threshold."

"After I fell, a headless corpse fell from the top of the courtyard gate. The clothes the corpse was wearing looked a lot like Ma Dong's."

"Hiss!" Han Bin gasped.

A look of terror crept onto his face.

His cheeks trembled uncontrollably, and the veins on his temples bulged.

Han Bin gripped the hem of his shirt tightly with both hands and asked in a trembling voice, "You, you didn't see wrong, did you?"

"Can we really be sure that Ma Dong is the one who died?"

"There wasn't a sound outside just now. How could such a big, healthy person just die so suddenly?"

I nodded very solemnly and said, "Not only are our body types the same, but the colors of our clothes and pants are the same, and even the patches on the knees of our pants are the same."

"This is enough to confirm that Ma Dong is the one who is dead!"

"They didn't escape; they were killed silently!"

Pfft!

Han Bin's legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

Holding his head in his hands, he muttered, "This is something no human could do!"

"It's over, it's over!"

"There must be evil spirits or ghosts outside!"

"We're all going to die here!"

Uncle Zheng remained calm.

He kicked Han Bin in an annoyed tone: "You haven't even seen a ghost yet, and you've already scared yourself to death?"

"Besides, it's not impossible to kill a few people silently."

"Huh?" I asked in surprise, "How do I do it?"

Uncle Zheng squinted slightly, a look of reminiscence on his face.

"Of course, it's medication."

"For example, the mind-controlling drugs and mind-controlling smoke used in the martial arts world in the past."

"When Western medicine was introduced in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, some people in the underworld also used hallucinogenic drugs from Western medicine."

These words enlightened me, but they also brought up new questions.

"But why kill Ma Dong and the others so quietly?"

"What exactly are they after?"

I had just asked my question when a loud bang suddenly came from outside the door!