"My lord, we've arrived." After entering the tomb with Elder Zhao, they walked for half an hour through winding paths before finally reaching the very center of the tomb. Wang Han was truly impressed by the tomb they had built for him; it was riddled with traps and mechanisms, and in some places, powerful mutated beasts were even imprisoned, which would be released if the traps were triggered.
At the deepest part of the tomb is a burial chamber, 100 meters long, 100 meters wide, and 20 meters high, where Wang Han's coffin was placed. Forty-eight golden pillars, each one meter thick, are distributed throughout the chamber, supporting the roof. Each pillar is inlaid with various colored gemstones depicting lifelike mythical animals—dragons, phoenixes, qilin, white tigers, and black tortoises—some majestic, some sacred. At the very center of the chamber is a silver lake filled entirely with mercury, about 30 meters in diameter. In the middle of the lake is a circular golden mountain, 10 meters in diameter. Jade trees surround a pavilion with jade tiles and golden pillars atop the mountain, arranged in a regular pattern. A white jade coffin, carved with various lifelike animals, flowers, birds, and plants, sits at the very center of the pavilion. Green and red gemstones are arranged to form the "other shore flower," Wang Han's favorite, and inlaid around the white jade coffin and on its lid. Thirteen gemstones of different colors are inlaid around the perimeter, each the size of an infant's fist.
The very top of the tomb chamber was crafted from silver and inlaid with countless luminous pearls of varying sizes. At the very center, directly opposite Wang Han's jade coffin, stood a bowl-sized luminous pearl, surrounded by others like stars around the moon. Each pearl was inlaid according to the positions of stars in the sky. On the floor, except for a half-meter radius around the silver lake paved with jade and crystal, the rest was entirely covered in gold tiles. Each tile was carved with a different beast, its patterns filled with purple-gold, each tile unique, and the beasts' eyes adorned with various colored gemstones. Even the walls were decorated in this manner.
Around the tomb chamber, twelve bronze coffins were arranged around the central white jade coffin, but all the lids were open. Clearly, the owner was not present.
Looking into the tomb chamber, Wang Han took a deep breath, took out a powerful searchlight from his backpack, and turned it on.
The next moment, Wang Han's eyes were almost blinded by the golden light, while Old Zhao closed his eyes in advance.
After a while, Wang Han barely managed to open his eyes. Golden light, silver light, and light mixed with gemstones filled the tomb chamber. The jade trees and carvings looked even more lifelike, and the shimmering silver lake made the tomb chamber look like a palace of the gods. Even though he had experienced many battles, his heart couldn't help but pound at this moment.
"This...is my tomb?" Wang Han said blankly, truly shocked.
“Yes, my lord. Only in this way can it be worthy of your status.” Old Zhao said, “My lord, these are just decorations for the tomb chamber. I was afraid they would disturb your peace and quiet. The burial objects are all behind the tomb chamber.”
"The burial goods are all in the back?" Wang Han stared blankly at Old Zhao.
"Old Zhao, who were you talking to just now?" Just then, a man dressed in Han Dynasty general's armor, with a withered and purple face like a zombie, walked into the tomb chamber through the only door and said.
"Yes, it's my lord." The zombie man who entered rubbed his eyes in disbelief when he saw Wang Han standing in front of Zhao Lao. After confirming that he was not mistaken, he immediately ran over, knelt on one knee before Wang Han, and shouted, "Your subordinate Zhang San greets my lord and welcomes your return."
"Zhang San." Wang Han looked Zhang San carefully and knew that he was now a zombie. He said, "Thank you for your hard work. It won't be long before I restore you all."
"It's no trouble at all. It's our duty to wait for our lord's return," Zhang San quickly replied.
“You’ve really worked hard; not everyone can endure 1,800 years,” Wang Han asked. “What about the others?”
"My lord, the others...the others are all watching TV in the burial chamber," Zhang San quickly said. "I'll go and call them right away."
"Watching TV, it seems your lives aren't too boring," Wang Han said with a smile. "I'll go over there too, and see what kind of burial goods you've prepared for me."
The burial chamber where Li Si and his men were located was right next to the main burial chamber. When Wang Han entered the burial chamber, he saw his men playing video games and watching television. There was a generator running nearby.
"Zhang San, didn't you say you were going back? Why are you back again? Old Zhao is here too, and there's a stranger here. Is he new?" A zombie dressed as a scholar said to Zhang San without turning his head.
"What are you saying?" Zhang San quickly said, "Hurry up and come to pay your respects to our lord."
"My lord." Upon hearing this, everyone was stunned. Although they often joked, they would never joke about this. They all turned to look at them.
"My lord." Upon seeing Wang Han grinning at them, Xi Zhicai and the other zombies quickly dropped what they were doing and bowed to him.
After meeting his men, Wang Han chatted with them for a while, made some arrangements, and then packed all the burial goods into his backpack. He had to admit, his men were truly formidable. They had practically plundered the entire world back then, and then used almost all the treasures they had looted as burial goods for him. Moreover, the burial goods had increased over time. Besides a large amount of wealth and weapons, what surprised Wang Han most was that these guys had actually assembled a zombie army to be buried with him—all battle-hardened veterans from the military.
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Three days later, guided by Wang Hanying's clone, the young man and a large group of experts finally arrived outside the mountains. The difference between the people they had seen at the hotel that day and those who had arrived now was immense. Not only were there several times more people, totaling a thousand, but their quality had also risen by one or two levels. Only a few, including Miao Miao, were town-level martial artists and town-level ability users; the rest were at least city-level, and there were even eight national-level individuals. They had also brought a large amount of equipment and professional personnel.
Among them were Sieg Shawn and others whom Wang Han had met in the United States, as well as Anna's parents, Beckham and Klein. Almost a third of the world's top experts were present, and half of the top experts were there.
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"They've finally arrived." Inside the tomb, upon receiving the message from his shadow clone, Wang Han, clad in black armor, smiled and instructed the others, "Proceed according to plan. Capture some alive first."
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"The villagers have already left; it seems they received advance notice." When the experts from various countries followed Wang Han's shadow clone to the village, it was already deserted.
“Although we’ve left, since it’s the village of the tomb keepers, the tombs can’t be too far away,” the young man said. “Let the scientists use instruments to search for them.”
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