“Brother Lu, did you find anything?”
Hu Ba Yi looked at the empty center of the tomb, feeling that something wasn't right.
“The coffin is definitely still here, it's just been hidden.”
Lu Feng immediately spotted the stone toad on the ground.
“Where is it hidden?”
“Right in the center of the tomb chamber.”
“Underground?”
Hu Ba Yi looked down at the ground: “Where is the mechanism then?”
“Feng Ge, Lao Hu, Ying Zi, come quick, there’s a mechanism here!”
Wang Pang Zi shone his flashlight on the others, aiming it at a protruding piece of wall, reaching out to press it.
“Don’t touch it!”
Lu Feng said coldly.
Wang Pang Zi’s hand froze mid-air. Lu Feng’s voice was serious, making him feel a sense of dread. He instinctively pulled his hand back.
“What’s wrong?”
“Such an obvious mechanism, it’s not meant to help tomb raiders, is it? It’s a trap meant to lure tomb raiders into pressing it.” Lu Feng said.
“No way?”
Wang Pang Zi didn't quite believe it.
“Wang Pang Zi, follow me into tombs, you better behave yourself, otherwise don’t blame me for being rude.” Lu Feng warned.
This was no longer the simple world of Ghost Blows Out the Light or the Notes, in this Tomb Exploration world, there would definitely be something different.
He was invulnerable to spirits, not immortal!
Wang Pang Zi instinctively wanted to retort, but thinking back to how Lu Feng had kicked the man-bear six or seven meters away, he decided to hold back: “Got it.”
Lu Feng frowned slightly.
This Wang Pang Zi probably didn’t take it to heart.
Staring at him for a few seconds, he decided to ignore him.
A thousand words are not as good as one’s own experience, the best thing would be for Wang Pang Zi to come close to death once. If he still didn’t change, then he would be abandoned.
“Brother Lu, where would the mechanism for this coffin be?” Hu Ba Yi asked.
Lu Feng pointed to the stone toad in front of the tomb door, saying: “Don’t you find it strange that they inexplicably put this stone statue here in isolation?”
“You mean?”
Wang Pang Zi excitedly ran over, grabbed the stone statue, and tried to rotate it or move it. It actually moved: “It moved!”
Rumble!
A series of mechanical sounds echoed around them.
Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, and Ying Zi’s nerves instantly tensed, their eyes fixed on the center of the tomb chamber.
The ground in the center of the tomb chamber opened up on both sides, and a coffin simultaneously rose from below, completely exposed to the air.
The coffin was quite large, made of red wood and black lacquer, with gold-colored designs painted on it, the colors and style were very strange, related to the Jurchens' totems.
“It’s out.”
Wang Pang Zi scurried over to Lu Feng, saying: “Brother Lu, you have sharp eyes, otherwise we would have been in vain!”
Lu Feng said indifferently: “Prepare to open the coffin.”
“Alright.”
Wang Pang Zi picked up his Lo Yang Shovel and was about to pry it open.
“Fatty, what are you doing?” Hu Ba Yi immediately stopped him: “We have rules in the tomb raiding business, people light candles, ghosts blow out the lights, cocks crow and lights are extinguished, we don’t touch the gold.”
“What does that mean?”
“It’s a covenant between the dead and the living…”
Hu Ba Yi explained the rules of people lighting candles and ghosts blowing out the lights, lighting a candle in the southeast corner.
Lu Feng said nothing.
Whether the corpse would rise or not was inevitable.
It was just a matter of the time it took to light a candle, Lu Feng was indifferent.
Seeing the candle lit, Lu Feng walked to the coffin, placed his right hand on the coffin lid, and with a slight effort, pushed the sealed lid open.
A dried corpse with red hair was seen lying quietly inside, wearing a black mask.
He wore a celestial crown, a red robe with blue trim and gold thread embroidery, and cloud-stepping boots.
The dried corpse also held a pair of ancient jade pieces, the moths on the jade were lifelike, clearly not ordinary objects.
There were also a few pieces of Song Dynasty porcelain beside the body.
Wang Pang Zi looked at his shovel, his face full of bewilderment.
Didn’t they say that sealed coffins are difficult to open? Lu Feng opened it with a gentle push?
“Go and have a look.”
Hu Ba Yi pulled Wang Pang Zi towards the coffin to take a look inside.
“It’s ancient jade!”
Wang Pang Zi’s eyes lit up.
“It must be good stuff.”
Hu Ba Yi's eyes were only on the ancient jade, ignoring the mask and porcelain: “Brother Lu, how shall we split this pair of ancient jade?”
Lu Feng showed a playful look: “You want this pair of ancient jade?”
“Yes.”
“Then you can have the ancient jade, the rest, the mask and the jars are mine.”
“That’s not really fair.”
Hu Ba Yi felt that the jars might be worth something, but not as much as the ancient jade: “Once we sell the ancient jade for money, we’ll give you some.”
“Alright.”
Lu Feng smiled.
He picked up the mask and took the five pieces of porcelain from the coffin. When the others weren’t looking, he put the mask and porcelain into the system space.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t wait to take the jade pieces from the body: “Lao Hu, this pair of jade has good craftsmanship, how much could it be worth?”
“At least tens of thousands, I’d say.”
Hu Ba Yi was very happy, he also thought that Lu Feng was generous to leave them the best things: “Quickly put them away.”
“Right, right.”
Wang Pang Zi wrapped the jade pieces in a cloth and kept them close to his body.
“Feng Ge, can we leave now?”
Ying Zi felt safe staying by Lu Feng’s side after seeing his strength.
“Not yet.”
“Why?”
“Because the corpse is about to rise.”
“What do you mean?”
Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi moved away from the coffin, hearing Lu Feng’s words, they were startled: “Brother Lu, what did you just say?”
“The corpse is about to rise.”
“No way?”
Hu Ba Yi instinctively looked towards the candle in the southeast corner, his face suddenly turned pale: “How did this candle go out? Bad luck! The master doesn’t welcome us!”
“It must have been blown out by the wind, right?”
Wang Pang Zi didn’t believe in the existence of zombies: “The body is all dried up, how could it possibly rise? That’s just made up to scare tomb raiders.”