Tomb raiding: It all started with shocking the archaeological team.

After offering the cigarette, Chen Yibai reached into his pocket and pulled out several hundred-yuan bills, handing them over.

The old man saw Chen Yibai smiling politely, offering him cigarettes and money, but he only tried to take the cigarettes and didn't dare to take the money.

Chen Yibai, being quite honest, stuffed the money directly into the old man's pocket and said, "Grandpa, don't be afraid, I really just want to ask you about something..."

"I was just passing by here and thought the location was great, so I was thinking of buying a house here, but it seems like the project has been abandoned. Do you know what happened?"

When the old man heard Chen Yibai say he wanted to buy a house here, his expression immediately changed, and he said, "You want to buy a house here? You must not be a local, right?"

Chen Yibai smiled and nodded: "Yes, I haven't been living here for very long..."

Before he could finish speaking, the old man interrupted him, saying, "Then I advise you to give up on this idea. Haven't you seen that this place has been abandoned for seven or eight years? Even if it weren't abandoned, no one would live here even if you paid them!"

"Oh?"

Upon hearing the old man's words, Chen Yibai first exclaimed in surprise, "Oh!" as if the old man knew something, otherwise he wouldn't have said such a thing. Then, like a gossipy woman, he quickly asked, "Grandpa, is there any explanation behind this?"

To ask for more details, Chen Yibai even pulled the old man to sit down on a nearby stone stool, intending to have a heart-to-heart talk.

The old man subconsciously touched his pocket. Considering that Chen Yibai had given him several hundred yuan, and seeing that Chen Yibai didn't seem like a bad person, he lowered his guard and said with a serious expression, "This place is eerie!"

Upon hearing the word "weird," Chen Yibai felt that he had indeed guessed correctly.

The old man continued, "This place was planned and built eight or nine years ago, I forget the exact time, but I remember that the developer was the richest man in the city at the time. When the groundbreaking ceremony was held, even the mayor and the party secretary came. But during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the platform that was set up somehow collapsed, and it seems that more than a dozen people were killed..."

At this point, the old man lowered his voice deliberately, his tone becoming more subdued, and continued, "Then, just a few days later, the big developer went bankrupt overnight and then jumped off a building..."

"Didn't they say he ran away abroad with his sister-in-law, only to die there?"

Chen Yibai interjected, asking with some skepticism.

"cut!"

The old man lit a cigarette, scoffed dismissively, and said, "That's all just talk for outsiders. When the developer boss jumped off the building, I was still working at the funeral home. We ordinary people don't know the specifics of why the rumor about him fleeing abroad came out."

"Then what?"

Chen Yibai continued to ask.

"Then?"

The old man continued smoking and said, "Then this development was taken over by another developer, a very powerful real estate developer in our city. I heard that these villas were sold out as soon as they were launched. The buyers of these luxury homes are all big shots in the city, as well as wealthy businessmen from other places!"

At this point, the old man subconsciously lowered his voice again: "But I heard that everyone who bought a villa here suffered a terrible disaster before the house was even built and before they could move in. They either went bankrupt or lost their lives, their families were torn apart. Not one of them escaped!"

"The house had just been built to the first floor when the real estate developer who took over suddenly developed hysteria and jumped to his death. Then another real estate developer took over, and it was like a plague, with one disaster after another."

"This three-story building has been built over a period of time, and it seems like it's been taken over by five or six different real estate developers!"

The old man's tales became increasingly fantastical, yet they seemed very real, not like he was just spouting nonsense.

Chen Yibai, who was listening nearby, frowned even more deeply.

"I've also heard that during the construction of the houses, people were killed every few days on the construction site; it was never quiet!"

"Later on, when word got out, people said this place was haunted, really haunted! So no workers dared to come and work here! And no real estate developers dared to take over the project!"

After finishing his last words, the old man stubbed out his cigarette on the ground and looked at Chen Yibai with a "Isn't that weird?" look in his eyes.

This is bizarre!

That's really weird!

After hearing this, Chen Yibai nodded subconsciously, then stood up and squinted at the unfinished villa complex in front of him.

If what the old man said is true, then this place must be an ominous place, and a very ominous one at that!

For Chen Yibai, this kind of situation was quite common.

This is what is known as Feng Shui.

Good feng shui, with favorable winds and water, can nurture people and help them achieve great success and good fortune.

If the feng shui is bad, then many disasters will follow!

However, this place, which was once a feng shui treasure land, has now become an ominous place, and a very ominous one at that. People who have just bought houses and paid for them have been affected even before they have moved in. This is no ordinary ominous place.

According to Chen Yibai's understanding of feng shui, there is only one possibility for this situation!

That is, this place was originally a geomantically auspicious site, but someone tampered with it!

Moreover, it was a feng shui master who did something drastic to it!

Chen Yibai then asked the old man, "Grandpa, since this place is so eerie, didn't the real estate developer who took over the property consult a feng shui master?"

"Yes, I definitely saw it!" the old man immediately replied.

"It's no use even if you look at it?" Chen Yibai frowned and asked.

"The feng shui master died here. He was hit on the head by a half-brick thrown down from upstairs from who knows where, and he died on the spot!" the old man said with a sigh.

"Okay...it does seem pretty fierce!"

Chen Yibai grinned awkwardly. Seeing that he had asked enough questions about the details, he waved to the old man, "Alright, sir, you go ahead with your work, I'll wander around a bit more..."

Before leaving, the old man kindly reminded Chen Yibai, "If you have nothing else to do, you should leave quickly. Few people dare to come here. I'm an old man with a handful of dirt under my neck, I'm not afraid of bad luck, that's why I came up here to pick up some scrap metal to exchange for a pack of cigarettes..."

Looking at the old man's hunched back, Chen Yibai smiled slightly. At the same time, looking at the unfinished building in front of him, an idea quietly sprouted in his mind.

An idea to make a fortune and get rich!

That means taking over this unfinished building project, building all these detached luxury houses, keeping one for yourself, and selling the rest. With current housing prices and such a good location, wouldn't that make you rich?

As for whether this is an inauspicious place.

Chen Yibai is a professional at this.

If someone tampered with something, just find it and fix it!