Liang Houzai and I don’t have a driver’s license. Senior Brother Geng’s injuries have not healed yet, but now there is no other way, so we can only let him drive first.

The reason why we didn't bring Liu Shangang with us this time is mainly because Liu Shangang's appearance is so distinctive. As long as the villagers see his face, they may think of us as bad people.

It would be great if Liu Shangang could also disguise.

Senior Brother Geng drove to a small village closest to the forest. It was already seven o'clock in the evening. The villagers were organizing their meals. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they could smell the fragrance coming from the village.

We packed our luggage, brought our tent and some mountaineering equipment into the village.

This time, we still disguised ourselves as travelers and entered the village. Such an identity is the least suspicious thing. After all, travelers should often get involved in Lao Linzi like this.

It was getting late, so we planned to find a village house to stay and ask the locals about the situation in the old forest.

But when Senior Brother Geng knocked on a door and said he wanted to stay, the owner said there was a hotel in the village and the price was not expensive, so he suggested that we go there.

According to the address given by the villagers, we quickly found the hotel. It is located in the northwest corner of the entire village. It is a two-story building. When we arrived downstairs, we saw an old off-road vehicle parked not far away.

When he entered the building gate, a middle-aged man with a stubborn figure came up immediately. He asked me with a smile: "Are you here to climb the mountain? Are you staying?"

I nodded first, and saw a few tables in the lobby of the hotel, with toothpicks and tableware on it, so I said to him: "Get us some food first. My friend said that the food here is quite good."

"It's over," the middle-aged man said while leading us to the dining table: "The craftsmanship is average, mainly because the materials in the mountains are good, they are all pure natural and pollution-free, haha."

After we sat down, he brought the menu again and I asked him, "Are you the boss here?"

He handed me the menu and responded: "Ah, yes, I run this small shop, my surname is Gao."

I smiled and said, "Oh, Boss Gao, I heard from my friend mention you. They all said you are a good person, not only enthusiastic, but also very honest."

When I said the word "truthfulness", the corner of the shop owner's mouth twitched suddenly, and then he kept nodding and smiled at me in a dull mood.

I looked down at the menu and said, "What a guy, it costs 200 yuan for a mushroom fried pork, but it costs 100 yuan for a simple fried bamboo shoot."

He is not opening a hotel, it is simply a robbery.

I frowned at the menu, and the shop owner said to me: "This is all things on the mountain and you can't eat it anywhere else."

I nodded and smiled at him: "It's okay, it's not short of money. By the way, I want to ask you something."

"What's up?"

I said, "I heard from my friend that there seems to be some problems with the feng shui of the mountain behind the village, right? He said that there have been many supernatural incidents in that place."

The shop owner was amused on the spot: "Supernatural incident? I grew up here since I was a child. There are no supernatural incidents. They are all spread by people outside. They see that our mountain products are doing well in business and deliberately make up stories to vilify us."

"Hey, that's the case," I stared at the menu and said, "How can I say such things randomly? Well, these rumors must have been made up by those unscrupulous businessmen, and only those people do such things that damage their good deeds."

When I was talking, I didn't see what the store owner was doing.

After ordering the dishes, he took the menu to the kitchen. Later, the one who came over with the dishes was a very strong young man. He was still aggressive when he came out of the kitchen, but after putting down the dishes, he left without saying anything.

Liang Houzai watched him enter the kitchen door and smiled and said to me: "Brother Dao now has the power of Grandpa Chai."

I said "Hmm?" and looked at Liang Houzai.

Liang Houzai raised his chin to the kitchen door: "When this guy came out just now, he looked like he was looking for trouble. As a result, you looked at him and his aura became weak in an instant."

At this time, Senior Brother Geng, who was sitting opposite, said, "No one of you two can tell each other. I don't know what you have experienced over the years. Although I can't see it normally, sometimes I feel ruthless all over my body... I can't say it's ruthless, anyway, it gives people a very uncomfortable feeling."

I was a little puzzled: "Does there be? Why don't I feel it myself?"

Liang Houzai was about to speak when footsteps came from the entrance of the corridor next to the lobby. Several people walked down there. One of them was shaved with a bald head, wearing a soft T-shirt with a very drooping feeling, a big black leather bag under his armpits, and a gold chain around his neck.

These people should be local merchants who went to the local area to purchase goods.

They found a seat to sit down, and then they saw the bald man waved to the kitchen door and shouted, "Boss, we want to have a meal."

The shop owner came out soon. When the people ordered the dishes, they kept complaining that they were too expensive, but they still ordered a lot of dishes.

Later, the shop owner went into the kitchen again, and the people behind us started chatting at the top of their voices.

At the beginning, they were talking about some unpleasant jokes. Several people laughed exaggeratedly while chatting. It was not until the first dish was served that they had dinner and talked about business matters.

These people were so loud that you could hear it clearly even if you covered your ears. At first, I was a little annoyed, but as they were talking, they talked about the matter on the construction site.

I heard from one of them that the construction site had been shut down three days ago. It is said that a tunnel was dug while digging the foundation. Several workers ran down to look, but found an ancient tomb passage connected to the tunnel. I don’t know if it was true.

Then I heard others discussing that if the tomb passage is really dug out, the project will be ruined. The superiors probably have to send someone to do archaeological excavation. He said that he also heard from the workers of the construction team about digging out the ancient tomb, and said that the foreman in charge of the construction did not report this matter.

At this time, I heard the bald man say, "Hey, that must be fake! If the ancient tomb is really dug out and a few young foremen don't report it, do you still want to rob the tomb? You have to shoot it if you do such a thing. Besides, there are so many people on the construction site, maybe they will spread the matter, and they will definitely not dare to do it like this. Fake, absolutely fake."

The bald man who was talking should be the most prestigious among the few people. As soon as these words were spoken, everyone else was in line with them, and some even flattered him.

The three of us were having a meal in a depressed manner, and no one spoke, but whether it was Senior Brother Geng or Liang Houzai, the expressions on their faces were not so natural. I guess my expression was similar to theirs.

After the meal, the shop owner secretly gave us a very low discount. I asked him if the store was doing an event, why did he get such a low discount? As a result, he said that he suspected that we were reporters and told us not to expose it to him.

Afterwards, the store owner arranged a room for us and served us with kind words all the way.

The rooms in the hotel are relatively simple, similar to the simple hotel on the road. There are three beds and a TV cabinet in the room. There is no separate bathroom, and there is a heavy moisture on the quilt.

At around nine o'clock, we turned off the lights and pretended to be sleeping. At this moment, a very light footstep sound came from outside the door. The sound moved from the front to the entrance of the corridor, and then the sound of going downstairs came.

Since we entered this room, the shop owner has been eavesdropping outside. Although we all noticed that he was outside the door, everyone tacitly did not say it out.

Seeing that the shop owner had gone away, I asked Liang Houzai: "What do you think about the grave passage being dug out on the construction site?"

Liang Houzai thought for a while and said, "It's probably true. Although from the information, the construction site is not in the coordinate area, no one can guarantee that there is no tomb passage leading to the large tomb below the construction site."

Senior Brother Geng asked me: "Do you want to go and have a look?"

I looked at my watch and said, "Wait a little longer, the villagers may not fall asleep at this point."

Next, we looked at the watch and counted the time while waiting silently. It was not until after 11 o'clock in the evening that the door locks came from the hotel lobby that we carefully got up from the bed and tried not to make too loud noises.

I leaned over to the window and looked in the direction of the village. At this moment, there were almost no lights in the village, and only two street lights were lit at the entrance of the village. From where I was, I could not only see the entrance of the village and our cars, but also look into the distance, but also see the hill where the construction team was located.

Even if I opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything unusual on the mountain.

After the lobby became quiet, we took all our luggage, opened the window and flipped out. We lived on the second floor of the hotel. The height of three or four meters was nothing to Liang Houzai and me. When we landed, we quickly bent our legs and relieved pressure, and then rolled on the ground for a distance, so as not to make too loud noises as possible while relieving the pressure.

But Senior Brother Geng was in trouble. He first pulled out a rope in the room and then slowly slid along the rope to the ground.

When we came to us, Senior Brother Geng smiled awkwardly: "I was not active in practicing martial arts when I was a child, so it was very troublesome when it came to this time."

I looked at the rope that was hanging down from the second floor and sighed in my heart.

Liang Houzai asked me: "Will you come back tomorrow morning?"

"It depends on the situation." I said, taking a few steps back, then charged forward and climbed up to the second floor with the wall. After returning to the room, I untied the rope tied to the foot of the bed and put it in my backpack.

After dealing with these, I jumped down the window.

You can't just leave the rope here, as it may be troublesome if you are seen.

I made a lot of noise when I was climbing the wall just now. I was worried that the shop owner would come out to check it out, so I quickly pulled Liang Houzai and Senior Brother Geng away.

Without Liu Shangang, the guide, we dare not walk through the village. We could only leave the village from the northwest and circled a lot before we arrived at the construction hill.

There are three rows of temporary mobile houses at the foot of the mountain. The exterior wall of this kind of house is a very thin foam sandwich panel, which has poor sound insulation. When we walk by nearby, we can hear the noise in the house. A group of workers are gathering to play poker, and we can often hear the sound of cards scattering on the table.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and they were not asleep yet. It seemed that the project here was indeed suspended.

When I was closer to the mobile room, I heard someone saying, "How many days have the foreman been walking?"

"It's been three days, I don't know when I will come back."

"They have reported it, it can't be that long. Besides, the archaeological team members have come, why haven't they come back yet?"

"Those archaeological teams have not come out yet since they entered. It's impossible that something happened. Alas, you all heard the noise last night. It seems that someone had exploded something on the construction site."

"You play your cards well, hey--I lost again. Brother, can we play cards well? Why do you care about these things? They are professional archaeological and can do something bad. Play cards, please concentrate."
Chapter completed!