Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

Da da da....

As the footsteps grew closer, Qin Henian turned his head and saw three people coming down from the wooden house. However, Zhang Qilin's eyes looked a little strange as soon as he came out of the wooden house, staring blankly at where Qin Henian was.

Zhang Qilin could sense Qin Henian's aura. He could clearly feel that he was no match for Qin Henian, but it seemed that the other party was treating him and the blind man like children. Therefore, Qin Henian's aura was not directed at him, and his gaze was not on Qin Henian, but on the dark figure kneeling in front of Qin Henian.

"Who is that person? I've never seen him before."

Wu Xie felt his eyesight was still good. As soon as he stepped out of the building, he saw someone squatting or kneeling in front of Qin Henian not far away. Wu Xie asked in confusion.

"You're talking about Fatty. I've seen the same thing before, but I don't know him either. Let's go take a look! I guess it's a mouse that our Henian caught somewhere."

Fatty Wang wasn't too surprised by the situation. He already had a feeling that something was wrong in the village, and now he didn't know if He Nian had caught him by revealing some clues.

The three men walked up to the person kneeling on the ground with their head down and fell silent.

As the golden-red light faded, Qin Henian opened his eyes and turned his head to meet three pairs of probing gazes.

"This person was following us, and I caught him. He seems to be a distant relative of Little Qilin, and there's something strange about him!"

Qin Henian stated the facts with an indifferent gaze.

"The Zhang family?"

Follow them? Why...?

Zhang Qilin reacted quickly and went straight to the man. Seeing the man kneeling on the ground in pain, he grabbed him without saying a word and ripped off his shirt, revealing a continuous, dark Qiongqi tattoo on the man's shoulder.

"Is that a Qilin?"

Fatty Wang looked at the tattoo on the man's body, which looked very similar to the one on Zhang Qilin's back, and exclaimed in surprise.

"It looks a bit like it, but something feels off about this tattoo..."

Wu Xie stared at the tattoos on the man's body, but something about the tattoo on his head felt off...

"It's Qiongqi!"

Zhang Qilin interrupted their conversation, his eyes fixed on the tattoo on the man's back, fragments of memory piecing together in his mind, but he couldn't quite connect them.

"Hey hey hey! Who cares if he's a Qiongqi or a Qilin? He's been following us brothers, and Fatty can tell he's no good. Let's think of a way to take him back for questioning!"

"We don't want a shadow following us all the time; even if we know, we could easily be caught off guard and fail!"

After seeing the tattoo on the man's back, Fatty Wang had a plan in mind. Since this man was related to his brothers and was following them, he was obviously a person with a strong purpose. Rather than letting the tiger return to the mountain, it would be better to keep him under the control of their own people.

"Row!"

Qin Henian's thoughts coincided with Wang Pangzi's, because he also didn't intend to leave such a time bomb outside, who knew when it would explode!

With a wave of his hand, Qin Henian swung his arm in front of Zhang Qilin.

"Little Qilin, you've been cultivating for so long, and this person is from your family, so you should take him and keep an eye on him!"

"it is good!"

Upon hearing Qin Henian's words, Zhang Qilin nodded in agreement, because he still had many things he wanted to pry out of this man.

So next, Zhang Qilin used the energy he had accumulated during his cultivation to cast a small spell and directly bring the person into his Qilin consciousness space. In addition, fearing that there would be no air in the space, he used his hand to make a blood-red cut on his black gold ancient sword so that his skin could open up and let some air into the consciousness.

Of course, Zhang Qilin wasn't stupid; he wouldn't let the bleeding flow for no reason. He had the wound bandaged with gauze to stop the bleeding.

"Four bosses! Fatty brother! Where are you?"

Just as the group was about to return to A-Gui's house, they heard Yun Cai's familiar voice from afar, and they quickened their pace and left the place.

Wang Pangzi, who was excited to hear Yun Cai's voice, suddenly seemed to tug at something in his clothes while walking. He quickly squeezed his pocket before continuing to run towards Yun Cai with a grin.

Wang Pangzi's actions were also observed by the other two, but they tacitly remained silent.

They had only been back at A-Gui's house for a short while when Qin Henian and his group, just about to go upstairs to interrogate the person they had brought back, heard a commotion outside A-Gui's house before they even reached the top...

"Village Chief! Niece Yun Cai! Are you home?"

"Uncle Gui! Uncle Gui, something's happened! Someone in the village found Uncle Panma's blood-stained clothes in the Buffalo Head Gully!"

"Uncle Gui! Save my father! Please let the villagers come with me into the mountains to look for him!"

"......"

The noisy sounds kept coming towards A-Gui's house from not far away. The four people who heard the noise exchanged glances and then followed Yun Cai to the door to see what was going on.

A large crowd blocked the doorway. Among them was a young man, about 1.7 meters tall, with sallow skin and a fairly decent appearance. He was holding a grayish-white garment. Although the color of the garment was discernible, the first thing that caught the eye was the large patches of red bloodstains on it...

"How is this going?"

Wu Xie stared intently at the clothes in the man's hand, feigning curiosity as he asked a question.

"This huge pool of blood... my God..."

Fatty Wang clicked his tongue in amazement. He really hadn't expected such a thing to happen. His two chubby little legs took a few steps to Yun Cai, who had just arrived in the crowd and finished asking about what had happened.

He patted the other person on the shoulder...

"Little Cloud Sister~ What's going on? What happened that so many people have come looking for Ah Gui? And what's with the clothes that child is holding..."

Fatty Wang tilted his head and leaned close to Yun Cai's ear, asking in a low voice.

Yun Cai looked at the man in the crowd who was crying uncontrollably while clutching his clothes, her eyes filled with sympathy. When she heard Fatty Wang ask her a question, she reached out, pulled the man's clothes aside, and began to mutter to herself...

“Brother Pang, the young man carrying the blood-stained clothes is Uncle Panma’s son from our village. Uncle Panma went up the mountain several days ago, maybe five, six or seven days ago, and then he disappeared on the mountain. This morning, someone from the village went up the mountain and found the clothes near Shuiniutougou. He hurriedly took the clothes back to the village.”

"This Panma is a master at climbing mountains in our village, and he was also the logistics personnel who delivered supplies to the archaeological team that came for the second time!"

"Speaking of the location of the archaeological team we need to go to in the mountains, the person who knows the way best is Panma. If I were to take you there, it would probably take us several days to find our way by the trees in the forest. But if Panma takes you up the mountain, we can get to the place where the archaeological team used to be stationed in a day and a half or two at the fastest!"

Yun Cai slowly told Fatty Wang about the identity of the missing person, and looked at the person who was crying while holding the blood-stained clothes with a sad and regretful expression.

"So this horse is very familiar with your mountains, then how could it have gone missing?"

Wu Xie couldn't understand it. He had originally seen Fatty Wang pulling Yun Cai to find out what was going on, but because he was close by, he could also hear some of it. He found it strange that this person named Pan Ma had suddenly disappeared.

Moreover, the other party was a logistics staff member of the second archaeological team back then.

"We need to find him alive or dead! Panma has only been in the mountains for a few days, so his disappearance should only be a matter of time. As long as more people go into the mountains to search, we're bound to find him!"

Seeing that the boys were all in a low mood after hearing the news, Qin Henian couldn't help but interject.