637: Chapter 633: Empty 637: Chapter 633: Empty Who on earth were these people?
Ye Tian and Ye Xuong were both astonished!
Could it be that these extraordinary individuals had already gathered at such a distant place from Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb?
If it really was this group of remarkable individuals, then Ye Tian and Ye Xuong had to be extra cautious, as these people were likely to be experts.
Even with their excellent Qinggong, they could still potentially be discovered…
“Hold your breath,” Ye Tian said to Ye Xuong.
Ye Xuong immediately changed his breathing, breathing with the smallest possible breaths…
Ye Tian did the same, and the two men quietly approached the area where there was light!
It turned out to be two staff members of the Jiangcheng Cultural Relics Protection Department, taking a walk with flashlights, which made Ye Tian and Ye Xuong also breathe a sigh of relief.
These two were ordinary people, so as long as Ye Tian and Ye Xuong were a bit careful, they would not be noticed by them.
Since the Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb had been tomb-raided, the Cultural Relics Protection Department had been mobilized.
They had dispatched professional security forces to guard the tomb, to prevent it from being tomb-raided again.
These staff members were always around the tomb, inevitably feeling bored, so they would come out for walks as well…
Ye Tian and Ye Xuong were very close to these two staff members, so they could clearly hear their conversation!
“Did you hear about Xue Yunfu?”
“Heard about it, it’s said he was chopped into minced meat, died a terrible death!”
“Not that thing!
I mean that the police suspect him of an inside job.
They found a large number of cultural relics in the basement of his villa!”
“Really?
That guy was actually that bad?”
“So, the tomb raiding of Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb must have been his doing!
Back then, we even regarded him as a role model, now it seems we were blind!”
“If the case of the tomb raiding is solved, do we not have to keep guard here anymore?
It’s really boring to stay here every day, and sometimes it even gets haunted!”
“It’s not haunted!
It’s said that the dragon’s vein was dug up!”
“Are you joking?
In this crappy place of Jiangcheng, there would be a dragon’s vein?”
“I also heard it from others, whether it’s true or not, I don’t know, maybe there really was an emperor buried in Jiangcheng!”
“Hehehe~~~~~ If there really is an emperor’s tomb, why don’t we learn from Xue Yunfu and try tomb raiding?”
…
The two staff members chatted back and forth, and all their words were eavesdropped on by Ye Tian and Ye Xuong.
However, for Ye Tian and Ye Xuong, there was no reliable intelligence obtained; eventually, the two staff members shifted to trivial topics in their conversation…
Ye Tian and Ye Xuong found it uninteresting and lightly leaped out, springing dozens of feet away, and the staff members also sensed the movement but were unable to catch sight of Ye Tian and Ye Xuong.
“Did you see that just now?
Were those two figures?”
“What figures?
Perhaps it was just birds flying!”
“True, how could people possibly fly?”
…
Ye Tian and Ye Xuong continued toward the direction of Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb, with their Qinggong though exquisite, being completely silent, thus they went unnoticed.
“There’s something suspicious!”
While performing Qinggong, Ye Tian said, puzzled.
Ye Xuong, who was beside him, was taken aback and hurriedly asked, “Boss, there was nothing strange in the conversation of those two people just now, where’s the suspicion?”
“There’s a big suspicion!”
Ye Tian shook his head, continuing.
“Those two are people without martial arts skills, their only means of confronting an enemy is the weapons in their hands.
The serious matter of Jiangcheng’s dragon’s vein being dug up would definitely attract many strong adversaries, yet from their conversation, it seemed rather relaxed, as if they hadn’t encountered any danger at all.”
Ye Tian meticulously voiced his concerns, impressing Ye Xuong greatly.
A seemingly innocuous conversation, yet Ye Tian could perceive the anomalies!
“Boss, you’re really amazing!
I couldn’t have thought of that much!
Since there are various suspicions surrounding Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb, we should be careful!”
Ye Xuong cautioned, and Ye Tian spoke no more.
After a few leaps, they arrived near Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb!
“Hide first!”
Ye Tian and Ye Xuong hid behind a rock, then both looked in the direction of the tomb.
Just as the two staff members had said earlier, there indeed were many people guarding the outside of Jiangcheng Ancient Tomb.
All of them were wearing the Cultural Relics Protection Department uniforms, each holding a weapon, and if anyone dared to approach the tomb, they would probably shoot on sight!
“Boss, those guys are just good-for-nothings, even with guns they’re not so scary.
How about I take care of them all?”
Ye Xuong volunteered eagerly, but Ye Tian waved his hand.
“Hold on!”
Saying this, Ye Tian looked again at the personnel of the Cultural Relics Protection Department guarding outside the tomb.
Indeed, learning from Xue Yunfu’s previous experience, they regarded this ancient tomb with great importance, probably not wanting a similar theft to occur again.
But although there were many people guarding the tomb, they were all ordinary people, each holding a weapon, just for show…
Not to mention others, even Ye Xuong could easily handle them!
The official emphasis differed starkly from the actual number of guards, which inevitably raised Ye Tian’s suspicions.
“…”
Hesitant, Ye Tian used his clairvoyant ability to survey his surroundings, and within several miles, there seemed to be no ambush.
What exactly was going on?
Seeing Ye Tian’s cautious demeanor, Ye Xuong hurriedly said, “Boss, if you don’t enter the tiger’s den, you won’t get the tiger’s cubs!
We are already at the tomb’s entrance today, if we keep watching from here, we won’t get any clues!”
“True!”
Persuaded by Ye Xuong, Ye Tian nodded in agreement.
“Ye Xuong, since that’s the case, go distract those people for me!”
Ye Tian pointed at the employees of the cultural heritage protection department guarding outside the tomb and said, Ye Xuong, with his strong abilities, was more than capable of drawing them away!
“Understood!”
Ye Xuong responded and with a swift leap, he appeared right in front of a group of cultural heritage protection department employees!
“Who’s there!?”
Startled by the sudden intrusion, an employee immediately shouted, swiftly withdrawing his gun and sweeping it towards Ye Xuong’s body.
But before he could fire, Ye Xuong struck with a palm, viciously bending the gun’s muzzle…
With one gun disabled by Ye Xuong, the other employees quickly hurried to back him up!
There were more than ten employees gathered at the tomb entrance, each holding a machine gun.
Ye Xuong could handle them, but his goal was to lead them away.
“Swoosh!”
Ye Xuong then grabbed the employee whose machine gun muzzle he had bent and swept him up into his hands!
Following that, with a jump, Ye Xuong leaped into the jungle!
“Chase him!”
With a companion captured, the other employees couldn’t just sit still and immediately followed in pursuit, Ye Xuong managed to draw all the guards away from the tomb entrance in less than a minute.
Seeing this, Ye Tian’s body surged forward, and he reached the tomb’s entrance.
The entrance was small, requiring Ye Tian to stoop to enter, but once inside, the space gradually expanded, allowing Ye Tian to straighten up.
Such ancient tombs usually had anti-theft measures, so Ye Tian proceeded with extreme caution, constantly using his clairvoyant ability to scout around to avoid tripping any traps!
Fortunately, there were no traps in the tomb’s passageway, enabling Ye Tian to smoothly enter the burial chamber.
The chamber was vast, roughly the size of half a basketball court!
Although the chamber was extremely dim, Ye Tian’s night vision was superb, allowing him to clearly see every plant and every tree inside the chamber!
Ye Tian scanned his surroundings and looked far into the distance; the tomb’s burial chamber was completely empty!
“How come there’s nothing here?”
Ye Tian was somewhat shocked; this didn’t look like a burial site at all.
Where could the other grave goods have gone?
Considering the scale of this tomb, the tomb’s owner must have been a very wealthy person; his burial goods should have been substantial.
However, as far as Ye Tian knew, Xue Yunfu had only stolen three artifacts from the tomb.
So where were the rest of the artifacts?
Even more baffling for Ye Tian was, if the tomb was truly empty, what exactly were those cultural heritage protection employees guarding outside?
If there was nothing left to steal inside the tomb, why maintain such a vigilant watch?
Wasn’t it a waste of manpower and resources?
Ye Tian was puzzled; if there was nothing in the tomb, it meant that his night’s venture into the tomb had been in vain.
“That’s right, dragon veins!”
Ye Tian then thought of the term “dragon veins” and began to search around the chamber.
It was rumored that the dragon veins had been severed!
In such a large tomb, the digging would naturally start from the tomb’s entrance to the burial chamber, which was the path Ye Tian had just traveled.
However, this path appeared undamaged; even if Xue Yunfu was there to steal the tomb’s treasures, his excavation team consisted of professionals who were unlikely to damage other items in the tomb.
Thus, how exactly were the dragon veins severed?
Ye Tian couldn’t understand and found nothing in the tomb’s burial chamber.
The chamber walls were smooth, without any mural decorations, and the floor was merely plain stone slabs, bland and ordinary.
Ye Tian paced back and forth in the chamber to no avail and eventually came to the central stone sarcophagus.
In any tomb, it was used to bury the body of the tomb’s owner.
The lid of the stone sarcophagus had already been lifted off, and Ye Tian couldn’t help but look inside…
Apart from the corpse, there was nothing inside; like the rest of the chamber, the grave goods had vanished.