I don't believe Galawa's claim, and neither does Wei Shengnan.
After some haggling, Galawa agreed to double the price to be our guide, but on the condition that he could leave the group at any time if he felt any danger.
After agreeing on the terms with Galawa, Wei Shengnan stood up from her chair and said, "Everyone, please get ready. We'll be leaving in an hour."
Knowing that Galawa couldn't understand Chinese, I asked Wei Shengnan, "Since we've roughly determined the location of the tomb, and Galawa hasn't been to that forbidden area before, why bring along a local like him?"
Wei Shengnan was about to explain to me when the satellite phone rang. She picked it up and mumbled, "Galava's capabilities are very important to us. You'll understand when we get there."
After determining the approximate location of the demon monk's tomb, everyone began to make preparations in earnest.
According to the plan, we will take two cars to Hengji Mountain in the south, and then walk in.
As for the car that was left behind, there was no fear of it being stolen. Firstly, the Wei family was wealthy and powerful, and secondly, we had also witnessed the tribe's bloody methods of dealing with thieves.
Only people from the four sects attended the previous meeting. When Monkey saw me come out, he was the first to come up to me: "Young Master Duan, what's going on?"
"Location found. Get ready, it's time for us to set off."
As I spoke, I led the monkey toward the parking area. Song Laosan told me that the truck carrying the goods contained all the equipment he had brought.
When I lifted the tarpaulin, I was truly stunned.
Generators, impact drills, cutting machines, angle grinders, chainsaws... all kinds of modern tools are available. If you didn't know better, you'd think they'd moved a renovation company here.
When I saw Song Laosan approaching, I dismissed Monkey and said to him, "The Four Gates are righteous thieves. The Judge's Record also has ancestral precepts: do not damage tombs, do not insult corpses, and do not alter feng shui. Aren't your tools a bit too destructive?"
"It's better to be prepared. We might not use the things we bring, and they don't necessarily have to be used in the tomb. They can be very convenient for things like clearing a mountain or building a road."
Song Laosan climbed into the carriage and pulled me up: "What you want is inside, come with me."
As he walked deeper into the carriage, Song Laosan reached out and lifted a tarpaulin.
What was under the tarpaulin looked like a small market stall, with swords, talismans, coins, wood carvings... a jumbled mess.
I rummaged through them for a bit and picked up a wooden human figure sculpture: "Is this Dragon-Subduing Wood?"
“Indian culture is different from that in China. They don’t use the things we have. And I can’t find suitable lightning-struck wood for you right away. This statue is something I found in the Tibetan street after a lot of effort.”
Song Laosan explained somewhat embarrassedly, "If you really need it, then use the Two Realms Blade instead."
"The Two Realms Blade is for suppressing corpses, while the Dragon-Subduing Wood is for slaying ghosts. How can they be the same?"
I picked up a rusty, chipped Gurkha knife: "This is the two-world knife you found. You could break it in half with a little force, right?"
"In the 19th century, India experienced a national independence movement and armed uprising, capturing Delhi, Lucknow, and Kanpur, among other places, before being suppressed by the British army! This knife was unearthed from a mass grave in Kanpur. After more than two hundred years, it hasn't rusted, which is quite remarkable! Well, this thing mainly provides psychological comfort. If you're really scared, I have something good here!"
Seeing my disdain for the knife, Song Laosan grinned and opened a wooden box next to him. Inside were several pistols, grenades, and explosives: "I'll grab a short-barreled rifle for you and take them down. Whatever demons or monsters they are, one burst and they're all wiped out!"
I looked at the weapons in the box, behaving very cautiously: "If you want to die, don't drag me down with you! I'm not going to waste my breath on this! What if we run into a quicksand tomb? Wouldn't that be digging my own grave?"
However, Song Laosan was right about one thing: the Two Realms Blade and the Dragon-Subduing Wood are just for psychological comfort and not very useful when tomb raiding. Besides, I was a newbie and didn't have much respect for tradition, so I put the two substitutes aside and started to choose the truly practical tools.
Half an hour later, I had almost finished selecting the items, and Wei Shengnan, Qu Ruilin, Xu Hu, and the others outside had also gathered together.
After checking their own belongings and the convoy's equipment, everyone drove the trucks away from the tribe and headed towards Hengji Mountain.
In the past, the techniques of all four disciplines were taught by the previous generation, but because of the three-generation gap, we only mastered some theories and had no practical experience.
This is the first time the four departments have collaborated in sixteen years since my father's incident.
The fourth generation of hotheads, without any experience and relying only on their enthusiasm, wanted to challenge the ancient tomb designed by the feng shui master Li Chunfeng.
After visiting Li Fan's tomb, I also felt that ancient tombs are just exaggerated and not actually scary.
Looking back, I was fucking insane.
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