On the night of the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, there was no pedestrian on the Xilan Highway, and there were very few vehicles.

Two bright car lights in the distance cut through the night, and an off-road vehicle was driving rapidly towards Qianling under the bright moonlight.

At a corner, the lights suddenly turned off, and the off-road vehicle quietly turned to a dense grassland and stopped.

"Boss, we're here," a middle-aged man with a thin face sitting in the passenger seat turned to the back seat and said softly.

A very gentlemanly middle-aged man in the back seat was closing his eyes to rest. After listening to the man in the passenger seat, he remained silent. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes and said slowly: "Start!"

.Although his tone was firm, it seemed to convey a hint of panic, causing a chill to run down the spines of other people in the car.

The man called the "boss" is Zhao Yiming, the boss of a construction group in Shanghai. The thin-faced man in the passenger seat is Liu Yiming, a former employee of a cultural relics unit in Xi'an. The driver Ah Liu and

Xu Shengming in the back row is Zhao Yiming's bodyguard and assistant.

Half a year ago, Zhao Yiming was sitting in the large chair in the office of the chairman of the group company, sipping tea leisurely, and the scene of attending the cultural relics auction in the afternoon echoed in his mind. When he saw pieces of exquisite antiques selling for astonishingly high prices,

After being bought by the buyer, he was greatly shocked. With only a junior high school education, he started working as an ordinary bricklayer. After just 10 years of hard work, he achieved great success and finally got the job where he used to work.

He became the chairman of this small construction company, and that small construction company also became a well-known group company.

After Zhao Yiming achieved great success, he always felt an inexplicable sense of loss. He dropped out of school due to poor life in his early years. Although with his current status, he often attends various upper-class activities in Shanghai. But when others are smiling, he

Behind his back, he always felt that those people seemed to be laughing at his education level. Although they smiled at him on the face, it was just because he was a rich chairman, but in his heart they regarded him as a nouveau riche.

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After attending an antique auction, Zhao Yiming was inspired and decided to collect some cultural relics to improve his image in the minds of others.

Later, after many collection activities and spending a lot of money to buy a large number of forgeries, Zhao Yiming gradually became an expert in antiques. He determined to collect a batch of real cultural relics that were not circulated in the cultural relics market in order to

In exchange for the envious looks of others.

Ah Liu, who was hanging out in Shanghai's underground cultural relics market, and Xu Shengming, who was reselling cultural relics after returning home from the army, became acquainted with Zhao Yiming and were introduced as confidants by Zhao Yiming. They joined Zhao Yiming's construction group company and became Zhao Yiming's driver and bodyguard respectively.

During the chat, Xu Shengming learned what Zhao Yiming was thinking and smiled secretly at Zhao Yiming: "Mr. Zhao, since you want to get rare things that you can't see in the market, why bother buying them from others?"

Zhao Yiming was startled, his eyes shining: "Shengming, tell me, what ideas do you have?"

Xu Shengming glanced around, closed the office door tightly, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhao, a comrade of mine in the army returned to his hometown after recovering and worked as a clerk in a cultural relics unit in Xi'an. I often heard him say

Since there are treasures everywhere, there are many cases where farmers are lucky enough to accidentally dig up something and change hands, and immediately become a millionaire. Those treasures that have just been dug up are all

It’s a good thing that’s never been seen on the market before!”

"You mean tomb robbing?" Zhao Yiming whispered in surprise.

Xu Shengming pressed his index finger to his mouth and whispered: "Mr. Zhao, that's right. If you want to get rare treasures, you have to rob tombs. There are many imperial tombs in Xi'an. As long as you can find one of them, the contents inside will be hidden."

Everything is priceless. I wonder if Mr. Zhao has the courage to do it?"

Zhao Yiming thought for a while, then he chuckled and said, "Fuck, there's nothing I, Zhao Yiming, dare not do."

Therefore, Xu Shengming contacted his comrade Liu Yiming in a cultural relics management office in Xi'an. After Zhao Yiming offered him a generous annual salary, Liu Yiming resigned from his job at the cultural relics management office and became a full-time assistant to help Zhao Yiming identify cultural relics and spy on tomb information in Xi'an.

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After several months of preparation, Liu Yiming taught Xu Shengming and Ah Liu how to explore the cemetery and skillfully use the "Luoyang shovel", a special tool for tomb robbing, to dig holes for excavation.

A few days ago, Liu Yiming learned from a local cultural relic dealer in Xi'an that there are seventeen tombs scattered around the Qianling Mausoleum where Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty are buried. Some of them have already found out the specific location of one of the tombs, the tomb of Princess Yiyang. Liu Yiming

After reporting Zhao Yiming, Zhao Yiming allocated a large amount of money and asked Liu Yiming to buy specific clues from relevant people. This was the beginning of the scene. Four people drove an off-road vehicle with the trunk full of tomb robbing tools, riding in the night

, came to Qianling.

After the four people got out of the car, they took out the tools from the trunk, led by Liu Yiming, and quietly went to the main peak of Liangshan Mountain where Qianling Mausoleum is located.

Liu Yiming carefully studied the tomb robbing route for three days before finalizing it. He would rather take more detours than avoid various possible inspections.

When they arrived at the southeast slope of the main peak of Liangshan Mountain according to the planned route, the sky suddenly began to darken. Everyone looked up and saw that the moon, which was round and bright just now, was somehow covered by a dark cloud that came from nowhere.

The ground is devouring.

After a while, the moonlight disappeared completely, and they could not see their fingers. On this deserted and deserted mountain, everyone couldn't help but shudder in their hearts. Suddenly, the four of them were surprised to find that the other person's pale face appeared in front of them. It turned out that the person who had been there just now appeared in front of them.

The night sky was clear, with a bright moon in the sky, but it was completely plunged into darkness. A strong bolt of lightning illuminated four faces without even a trace of blood in the night.

Along with the dazzling lightning, a thunder exploded not far away, and the four people in the group were so shocked that they sat on the ground. It rained heavily in the sky, and Liu Yiming was splashed on the face by the cold rain, and suddenly

He woke up with a start and shouted: "Follow me quickly, this place is really evil!"

The four of them jogged all the way in shock. Suddenly, they all stopped in unison. The four of them looked at each other, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

After a period of terrible silence, I gradually came back to my senses. It turned out that the night sky was still so clear and the moonlight was still so bright. Except for the clothes on my body that were all soaked, there was no more dark clouds, no raindrops, and no sight of that terrible thing.

The lightning and the soul-stirring thunder could not be heard.

"Really...are there really ghosts in this world?" Zhao Yiming trembled, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or asking others.

Ah Liu looked around in horror. Except for the dark tree shadows everywhere on the mountain, there was nothing unusual. He said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Zhao, today is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, which is the Ghost Festival. The weird phenomenon just now...

Did we hit a ghost?"

After Ah Liu finished speaking, the four of them were silent. Zhao Yiming chose today as the day to rob the tomb, which was decided by Zhao Yiming himself. He never believed in ghosts and gods, so he wanted to take advantage of the Ghost Festival, when people are busy offering sacrifices and there are few people.

Some people come out at night, and on a full moon night, it is convenient for them to rob tombs.

Unexpectedly, he encountered such a strange thing, and a chill came out of his heart. Liu Yiming opened a package, took out a few pieces of paper money that he had prepared long ago, threw them into the air, and muttered something.

After Liu Yiming finished tinkering, the three of them all turned their attention to Zhao Yiming, and they all wanted to quit. Of course Zhao Yiming understood everyone's thoughts, but his hard work and yearning for cultural relics, as well as the large amount of money he invested in this tomb robbery,

With money and energy, he finally defeated the fear in his heart, and he made up his mind to dig up the tomb of Princess Yiyang and obtain a large number of rare cultural relics that he dreamed of.

Zhao Yiming calmed down and said in a slow but not easy to argue tone: "Brothers, it was just a local climate change in the mountainous area. How can there be ghosts and gods in this world? No, everything is fine now. Stick to the original

After the plan was successful, the brothers divided the treasures equally. From now on, you will be worried about having too much money and not knowing how to use it."

After everyone heard what Zhao Yiming said, they couldn't help but feel excited. They seemed to have forgotten the shocking scene just now, and expressed their willingness to act together with Mr. Zhao.

Liu Yiming opened the package, took out a map, looked at it carefully with a small military flashlight, and then used a compass to determine the direction. Next to him, Ah Liu also took out a handheld GPS locator. After careful checking, the two finally determined their current location.

position.
Chapter completed!