The monkey's simple question, however, sent a chill down my spine. I looked him up and down and asked, "What exactly happened to you after you went missing?"

"Do you have a cigarette? Give me one, I'm about to suffocate!"

Monkey took off his gas mask, and Lin Que took out a cigarette from his waterproof bag, lit it, and greedily took two puffs: "After we parted ways that day, I led the survey team to the site of the old Qingyun Town government for surveying. After walking a distance, the loader ran out of fuel, so I told everyone to rest for half an hour and refuel the vehicle."

Just as we were resting, fog suddenly rolled in. The weather was clear and cloudless. As soon as I saw the fog in the woods, I sensed something was wrong. I felt that this was probably a trick by Ping'an Village, so I told everyone to put on gas masks and be careful of a sneak attack. As soon as I put on my gas mask, someone in the group fainted and others ran around aimlessly.

When I saw this situation, I knew something must have happened, so my first thought was to run out and warn you. But as soon as I got out of the woods, I was caught!

The people who captured us were completely different from the ones we had seen in Ping'an Village. They were all wearing black training uniforms and were very burly. At first glance, I thought they were other tomb raiding teams. Just as I was about to explain, they hung a row of ropes on the tree and were going to hang us all!

Those guys wouldn't listen to my explanation at all. They were the first to hang me from a tree. Just when I was about to give up, Miao Xiaoxian arrived with a group of people and rescued me. If they had arrived a few minutes later, I probably would have been dead.

I glanced at the monkey: "You've confused me completely. You mean, Miao Xiaoxian saved you from those men in black?"

"No, but Miao Xiaoxian did save me."

The monkey explained, “When Miao Xiaoxian came here, she didn’t look at me. Instead, she said that her tribe had lost the key and was preparing to enter the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace by other means, but they lacked people who knew how to dig tombs. When I heard her say that, I knew she was targeting me, so I struggled violently. Miao Xiaoxian took the opportunity to have her people put me down and asked me if I had anything to say. I told them that I came to rob tombs and that I knew how to dig tombs.”

"You mean, the people who kidnapped you were from the Ping'an Village city tribe, but the task of entering the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace through the tunnel fell to Miao Xiaoxian and her group?"

Jiang Man glanced at the monkey: "After the people of Ping'an Village released the poisonous fog in Qingyun Town, they even had the ability to completely seal off this place. Since they decided to enter the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace in this way, how could they not build their own team and instead use an outsider like you?"

"I'm not too sure about that either. Miao Xiaoxian didn't have much contact with me the whole time so as not to expose our relationship. And what you said is wrong. Ping'an Village organized a professional tomb raiding team this time. The team had all sorts of people, but none of them were digging tombs."

The monkey thought for a moment and said, "When I overheard them talking later, I vaguely heard about this. It seems that they originally prepared two mortar workers, but both of them had accidents."

Lin Que interjected, "My lord, did Miao Xiaoxian kill those two laborers to save you?"

"Impossible. Miao Xiaoxian is cooperating with us. If he knew in advance that someone was going to target Monkey, he should have passed on the message, not eliminated Tugong to let Monkey fill the vacancy. That would be too risky and illogical. Something must have really happened to their Tugong."

I pressed the monkey for details, "You just said that Ping'an Village also organized a tomb raiding team this time. How many people did they bring? Is Miao Xiaoxian in charge of security?"

"After I was captured by the people of Ping'an Village, I followed their tomb raiding team and dug tunnels everywhere. During this time, Miao Xiaoxian was in charge of our safety. After we found the right location and dug the tunnel last night, everyone was ready to go down into the tomb. Miao Xiaoxian was also ready to go down, but suddenly people from Ping'an Village came and said that Miao Xiaoxian should stay and guard the ground, and that someone else should be found to replace her."

The monkey paused for a moment: "Although Miao Xiaoxian didn't say anything at the time, I did notice some clues. The tomb raiding team organized by Ping'an Village was very professional, and everyone was extremely cautious! I think the people of Ping'an Village left Miao Xiaoxian outside because they suspected her. After all, I was the only outsider in this tomb raiding team, and I was pulled into the team by Miao Xiaoxian. Rather than saying that they were wary of her, it would be more accurate to say that they didn't trust me!"

Upon hearing Monkey's words, Song Laosan, who was not far away, also became nervous: "You just said that you people entered here last night, so you were much earlier than us? How many people came down from Ping'an Village?"

Do I need to answer your question?

Monkey glanced at Song Laosan, then lowered his voice and continued in a tone that Song Laosan couldn't hear: "The tomb raiding team in Ping'an Village is small, only four people. One of them is a feng shui master, the other is very mysterious and doesn't do any work. I guess he's similar to Young Master Duan, responsible for cracking the mechanisms under the tomb, and the last one is my assistant!"

The people from Ping'an Village didn't come down to rob tombs, but to stop others from doing so. So, besides the four of us digging the tunnel, twelve people from Ping'an Village came down too! After entering the underground river, they started setting traps and using poisonous insects everywhere! At first, I thought they'd need me to dig the tunnel, so I wasn't on guard. But those bastards caught me off guard, tied my hands and feet, and prepared to throw me into the river to drown me!

Seeing that the monkey was unharmed, I asked him, "The people from Ping'an Village must all be experts. How did you escape their attack?"

The monkey pointed in the direction where we were saved: "When the people of Ping'an Village tied me up, they originally intended to kill me directly, but the feng shui master in the group said that we were in the Yellow Springs and should see as little blood as possible, so they had someone throw me into the river where you fell in."

As soon as we reached the shore, several hairy monsters rushed out of the water and dragged the people carrying me into the water. I used a stone to cut the rope binding my hands, picked up their backpacks, and ran. I was worried that if I continued forward, I would trigger some traps they had set up or be discovered, so I planned to wait here for a day or two before moving on. I was just thinking of going to the river to fetch some water when I unexpectedly ran into you.”