As soon as the young man said that, I frowned immediately: "Dude, you're lending me way too much money! It feels even worse than loan sharks! So you're just making four million off me without doing anything?"

"Didn't I say that 15% of this money is for Fengmen Village's expenses? And how can I do nothing? First, I need 10 million, and second, I have to bear the risk of lending you this money! We're complete strangers; if there's no benefit, why would I lend you the money?"

The young man looked at me with disdain: "Don't think my price is high. When we get to the functional area, go and ask around. In Fengmen Village, you can only get half of the loan amount. If I didn't have some spare money and wanted to earn some pocket money, I definitely wouldn't lend it to you."

"Okay, I agree to your terms!"

After thinking about it, I finally agreed to the young man's proposal.

In order to enter Fengmen Village, Jiang Tianyi spent 200 million yuan to buy the Zewang Jade Seal from me. Moreover, we are partners, and finding Duan Jinyan is not just their business. So after listening to the young man's introduction, I also wanted to try my luck at Zhongle Casino to see if I could find any relevant clues.

"You're just lucky today. If you hadn't run into me, you would have lost an extra million."

The young man spoke to me and led me to the front of a mountain wall, then walked towards a cave: "Let's put everything else aside, just look at the complicated terrain here. Without me leading the way, how long would it have taken you to find your way out?"

Looking at the mountain wall in front of me, which resembled a city wall and had been carved into it, I suddenly asked him, "Tell me, how do you distinguish between day and night in Fengmen Village?"

"Based on the biological clock."

The young man was the first to enter the cave: "This place is always pitch black, never seeing the sun. Everyone says it's the underworld, and the people who wander here are half-human, half-ghost."

The young man's words confirmed my suspicions and made me understand why no one had been able to find the location of Fengmen Village all this time.

Because this is not the world above ground at all, but an ancient tomb!

The pitted and uneven marks on the outer wall clearly indicate that the original reliefs in the tomb chamber were destroyed by manual excavation.

The cave we were passing through was also filled with lanterns. The stone bricks on both sides of the walls had been destroyed, but there were still a few remnants of blue bricks in the gaps on both sides of the floor.

That snake woman is really clever; she actually opened her business inside an ancient tomb.

Judging from the size of this tomb, it is most likely another underground palace-style building, and it is much larger than the tombs of the Demon Monk and the King of Ze.

Most importantly, this woman also destroyed all the reliefs and tomb bricks in the underground palace.

This makes it difficult to determine which dynasty the tomb was built in, and therefore it is impossible to infer the identity of the tomb owner based on historical records and its scale, and thus further determine the location.

After passing through the cave, the view outside suddenly opened up.

The street ahead widened, lined with brightly lit Chinese-style buildings, and the number of people on the street increased. Without exception, all of them were dressed in funeral clothes, and many of them wore masks.

Seeing me staring at those people, the young man reminded me, "You also have a mask in the left pocket of your jacket. If you're worried about running into acquaintances in a place like this, you can wear the mask."

"There's no need."

I knew Duan Jinyan wouldn't come to Fengmen Village in person, and I didn't think I'd run into any acquaintances here: "Where shall we go to make the transaction?"

"Follow me!"

The young man walked the streets with familiarity and quickly led me to a money exchange and into the room.

Perhaps due to the unique mechanism of the currency in Fengmen Village, this money exchange had no security measures. Inside, there were a dozen or so tea tables separated by screens.

Many people dressed in funeral clothes were conducting business, while the people of Fengmen Village were all wearing traditional Chinese robes.

Seeing what these people were wearing, I couldn't help but roll my eyes. These guys dressed us in funeral clothes, but they themselves knew to avoid taboos.

As we stood in front of an empty counter, the middle-aged man who had been drinking tea behind us put down his teacup and asked, "Gentlemen, is there anything you need?"

The young man took off his own card and handed it over, while placing ten million ghost money on the table: "He wants to borrow ten million from me, and this money needs to be guaranteed by Fengmen Village."

Seeing the young man's actions, I took off my own card and handed it over.

The middle-aged man checked our license plates and said to me, "Fengmen Village takes a 5% transaction fee as collateral, and a 10% handling fee will also be deducted from this transaction. After Fengmen Village gets involved, they will be responsible for recovering this money from you. You cannot leave Fengmen Village until this money is paid off. Do you understand this rule?"

"Know."

I've already thought of a repayment plan. Once we've finished our business here, we can let Jiang Man go first, open her own Fengmen Village account, and then transfer the money in so I can use it to repay the loan.

"Wait a moment, we need to verify your identity to see if you have the ability to repay ten million."

The middle-aged man rang the bell beside him, and a young waiter quickly ran up behind him, took my card, and left.

About two minutes later, the young waiter ran back, handed the cards to the middle-aged man, and whispered something in his ear.

The middle-aged man nodded, took out a seal resembling movable type printing from the drawer, formed the characters "丁肆" (Ding Si), and asked me, "What denomination do you need?"

I thought for a moment: "Let's go for the whole 500,000."

Soon, seventeen sheets of ghost money bearing the name "Ding Si" and a face value of 500,000 were handed to me.

The young man took the five ghost money bills I handed him, clapped his hands with a smile, and said, "Brother, it's been a pleasure doing business with you. I have other things to do, so I can't keep you company any longer!"

After the young man left, the middle-aged man at the counter said to me, "The guarantee from Fengmen Village has officially taken effect. You must ensure that you have more than ten million yuan in deductible funds in your account before you leave. Otherwise, you will need to transfer your business or property to the name of someone designated by Fengmen Village as collateral. As long as you repay this money within one month, the contract will be automatically void. If you fail to pay on time, we will take your things."

I was taken aback: "Wait, you just told me to transfer the money to my own account? But I don't have an account."

"Fengmen Village is a black market; how could anyone who comes in not have a trading account?"

The middle-aged man explained, "You came with the young lady of the Tianxia Group. We determined through your network that you have the ability to repay ten million, which is why we provided the guarantee. If you can provide information on other assets or company shares, you can use them as collateral and take away the equivalent amount of money from us, without any handling fees."

After hearing what the middle-aged man said, I stood there stunned for about five seconds, and asked with a bewildered look, "Why didn't you say something like that earlier?"

The middle-aged man gave a particularly smug look: "Fengmen Village has no rules. We have no obligation to warn you that you've been scammed. We're only telling you this so that you can repay the loan on time."