Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Su Chen felt short of breath and tried to pry open Old Wu's fingers.

However, it's unclear whether the old man was possessed by an evil spirit, but he possessed astonishing strength, and we couldn't pry it open no matter how hard we tried.

Just as Su Chen's hand had reached for the pistol at his waist.

A deafening shout rang in his ears.

At the same time, Su Chen suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight in bed.

"I……"

He was feeling a little dizzy. When he turned his head, he saw the four members of the Wu family, including the black-backed sixth brother holding a Guanshan knife, looking at him with concern.

"You guys...what happened?"

Before Su Chen could finish speaking, he smelled a strong stench of blood.

Immediately afterwards, he saw an unknown creature, about a meter long and covered in hair, lying on the ground behind Blackback Six.

Blackback Old Six breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Su Chen wake up.

He wiped the still-wet blood from the knife with his sleeve and explained in a deep voice, "A raccoon crawled into the tent, and you were just bewitched by its urine, kicking and hitting the air!"

Old Wu, who was standing to the side, lit his pipe again at some point. He took a couple of puffs before speaking.

"This isn't an ordinary raccoon; it's a raccoon that has become a spirit. Luckily, Old Knife discovered it in time, otherwise we would have all fallen victim to this beast's trick."

After listening to everyone's account, Su Chen finally understood the whole story.

While they slept, Black-backed Lao Liu and Wu Jizong were responsible for keeping watch outside.

The large raccoon sneaked in from behind the tent.

It came in and urinated, right near Su Chen's bed.

The urine of a raccoon dog has hallucinogenic effects. The sleeping people were all captivated by it.

Fortunately, the black-backed old man on night watch was alert and sensed something was wrong, so he immediately came in to check.

He discovered the raccoon rummaging through everyone's belongings, and with a single stroke, beheaded it.

Then everyone was awakened, except for Su Chen, who was in a deeper state of hallucination and it took a while to wake him up completely.

After understanding the whole story, Su Chen felt a wave of fear wash over him!

In the deep mountains and forests, there are countless mountain spirits and monsters like these.

If you're not an experienced hunter, or if your group isn't large, you could easily fall into the traps of these mountain spirits and monsters and perish in the mountains.

This kind of thing happened even in the Republic of China era.

Even in later generations, with cell phones and navigation, people still occasionally get lost in the old forest.

It's hard to say whether there are any mountain spirits or wild monsters causing trouble here.

Taking a deep breath, Su Chen quickly got up, put on his clothes, and walked to the raccoon whose head had been chopped off by the black-backed Lao Liu.

An ordinary raccoon is at most about the size of a mouse.

Even the larger ones will never exceed the size of a domestic cat.

But the civet cat in front of us is nearly a meter long, almost as long as a large dog.

The hair on its body was like steel needles, standing on end.

What's most chilling is that it has two long canine teeth on its face.

Judging by its appearance alone, no one would guess that this is actually a raccoon dog; they would probably think it is a legendary mandrill.

Old Wu shook his head and said softly, "These past few years have been plagued by famine. People have nothing to eat, and there are no wild animals in the mountains either. Normally, these clever foxes would avoid any light from a distance. This time, they must have been starving to the extreme to risk crawling into the tent."

That's true. Ordinary wild animals, even those that have become spirits, rarely take the initiative to attack humans.

If someone actually takes action, it's usually because there's a reason behind it.

Shaking his head, Su Chen said, "Let's throw this raccoon out. If it stays too long, the smell of blood will attract other animals."

Who knows what kind of ferocious beasts might roam in these deep mountains and forests?

Tigers may have decreased, but wolves were no less prevalent during the Republic of China era.

For example, when Su Chen was young in the 1990s, there were wolf packs in the mountains near his hometown.

The most dangerous time was when the wolf pack reached the main road in the village and almost snatched a child before the villagers noticed and chased the wolves away together.

However, with the advent of the 21st century, these wolves have been hunted to extinction, and they are rarely seen in the wild except in the uninhabited areas of the north.

Wu Laogou responded and, together with his second brother, carried the large raccoon several hundred meters away before putting it down.

After they returned, Su Chen and the others changed their tent location and set up their tents again.

However, Su Chen wasn't sleepy anymore, so he switched shifts with Black Back Six and the others, and continued to keep watch with Wu Laogou for the rest of the night.

In the middle of the night, Su Chen told Wu Laogou a story about Wu Tianzhen robbing the Lei City tomb, which completely stunned him.

He insisted that Su Chen help him by introducing him to the extraordinary Wu Tianzhen.

He also said that he felt a sense of familiarity as soon as he heard the name, and that they must have been from the same clan hundreds of years ago.

Su Chen laughed heartily, then turned around and realized that dawn had arrived without him noticing.

Old Wu and the others also got up, so the two stopped chatting, tidied up, ate some dry food, and set off again.

The road ahead wasn't long, so the group quickened their pace and arrived at their final destination in just over an hour.

This is a mountain ridge area, located at the deepest part of Biaoziling.

Looking back in the direction we came from, we can see a continuous range of mountains, shaped like a white tiger lying in front of us.

Wu Jizong glanced at it twice and couldn't help but give Su Chen a thumbs up: "Brother Su, brilliant! It really is the White Tiger Crouching Gate!"

Su Chen smiled, took out a map from his backpack, and circled part of the ridge with his finger.

"There are specific rules about the White Tiger Reclining Gate. Generally, the entrance to the tomb is located above the tiger's tail."

Although the area has been narrowed from a ridge several kilometers long to a radius of less than 500 meters.

However, the area is still very large, making it quite troublesome to search.

At this moment, Old Wu smiled and said, "It's already very good that you were able to find it so accurately. You can leave the rest to this old man."

As he spoke, he shook the pipe in his hand and stood up to look at the ridge.

After searching around for a while, he walked over, picked up some soil from the ground, and put it in his mouth to taste it.

The taste didn't feel right, so I moved to a different spot.

After repeating this seven or eight times, Old Wu finally smiled and said, "This tastes right. Little San'er, come and take a shovelful."

"Good Le!"

Old Wu cheered, took a split-headed shovel from behind his back, assembled it, walked to the old foreman's side, and dug down with the shovel.

On the other side, Black-backed Old Six looked at the old leader eating dirt with a puzzled expression and asked curiously, "What is he doing? Does eating dirt help him find an ancient tomb?"

Su Chen laughed and nodded, "You really can!"

"what?"

Black-backed Old Six was speechless for a moment, stunned on the spot.

Su Chen then said:

"In the tomb raiding business, there's a simple saying: Tang tombs are sweet, Song tombs are astringent, Ming and Qing tombs are too harsh with lime. Warring States tombs are fishy, ​​Qin and Han tombs are fragrant, and Shang and Zhou tombs don't even need a sniff, they're full of green clay..."

"This is the 'smell test,' which uses the smell, color, and style of the ancient tomb's earthen mound to determine its approximate age."