Since the mice are frequently active in Nanshan, it means that the robber holes they dug are also nearby. The tombs around the ancient city of Qushang must be underground palace-level tombs, which means that the amount of work for tomb robbers to dig robber holes will be very large, and the whole process will be very long.

At nine o'clock that night, Lao Wei, Xiao Liang, Hu Wazi and the others, as well as four other Xiaoling Guards, set off together for Nanshan.

We drove two cars in total, one for the Xiaoling Guards and another for the five of us: Hu Wazi, Xiao Liang, Er Jun, Yun Jie, and me.

Hu Wazi drove in the front, Er Jun sat in the passenger seat, and Xiao Liang, Yun Jie, and I sat in the back. I sat in the very middle, grabbing the back of the two front seats with both hands. It was a bit cramped, but I managed to endure it until we reached our destination.

In order not to alert the enemy, we parked the cars at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. We got out of the cars and went up the mountain along the mountain road in the dark.

Lao Wei was not very relieved about Hu Wazi, Er Jun, and the other underworld figures, so he specifically told them before leaving: "Hu Wazi, you must be calm when you see tomb robbers later. Don't start fighting right away. Listen to my command and don't act without authorization, understand?"

Hu Wazi said with a smile, "Don't worry, don't worry, we are all people of discretion."

Er Jun and Yun Jie also nodded in agreement.

But I always felt that Er Jun was just perfunctorily agreeing.

Lao Wei gave them a few instructions, then waved his hand towards the mountain, and our group began to climb the mountain in the dark.

At this time of year, although Sichuan hasn't experienced a significant drop in temperature, it's still quite cold in the mountains at night.

Especially when the wet grass and leaves brushed against the body, that icy feeling was really refreshing.

I walked in the middle of the group, with the Xiaoling Guards in front and Hu Wazi behind, with Xiao Liang by my side. Our group didn't speak along the way, just focusing on hurrying along.

But when we got halfway up, I heard Xiao Liang making "uh uh" sounds from time to time, as if she was not feeling well. I whispered, "Xiao Liang, are you okay? Is it that your injuries haven't completely healed and it hurts when you climb the mountain?"

Xiao Liang bit her lip and shook her head at me, saying, "It's okay, it seems like a stone got into my shoe and cut my foot. I'll have to pour it out later..."

I quickly called out to Lao Wei, "Lao Wei, wait a minute, Xiao Liang has a stone in her shoe, let her pour it out."

After saying that, I helped Xiao Liang to a tree by the roadside, so she could support herself with one hand on the tree while taking off her shoe and shaking it upside down. But as soon as she took off her shoe and touched her foot, she suddenly cried out "Ouch!"

I was startled and subconsciously touched it too, only to find that Xiao Liang's foot was wet, sticky, and hot – it was all blood! Looking down, I saw Xiao Liang pour out a small thing covered with thorns from her shoe. It didn't look like a stone, but more like a plant seed.

I said, "Ouch, Xiao Liang, your injury is a bit serious. Why don't you not go up the mountain and wait for us in the car down the mountain?"

Xiao Liang gritted her teeth and insisted, "It's okay, a minor injury is nothing, this injury is not serious, it's just a little bleeding."

I said, "Is this just a little bleeding? My hand is covered in blood. Could it be that this grass seed cut a blood vessel?"

Xiao Liang still insisted, "It's okay, it'll stop bleeding in a while, don't worry."

As a result of this incident, everyone stopped where they were. The Xiaoling Guards in front stood still, waiting for us to deal with Xiao Liang's situation.

And it was precisely because we stood there for a while that, with the mountain wind blowing, they seemed to vaguely hear some discordant noises.

One of the Xiaoling Guards pointed to the other side of the mountainside and asked, "Listen, what's that sound? Why does it sound like someone is cursing?"

I pricked up my ears and listened, and sure enough, it was a group of people yelling and cursing. Anyway, it was just a loop of words like "fuck," "damn," "go to your mother's," and so on, and it was getting louder and louder.

Hu Wazi also listened carefully for a while and said, "Why do I feel like there are people fighting in this forest?"

I said in surprise, "Who would be fighting in the forest in the middle of the night? Could it be that two gangs are fighting over territory?"

Hu Wazi shook his head and said, "Gangs fighting not only want to determine a winner, but the most important thing is to demonstrate, to let others see the strength of the gang, so they won't hide in this deep mountain forest to fight. If they're going to fight, they'll do it in the street!"

Lao Wei immediately said, "I know! It's probably two groups of mice bumping into each other. Most likely two groups of people were digging robber holes, and they accidentally dug into the same place. The two groups couldn't agree, so they started fighting!"

When I heard this, I couldn't help but nod and say, "That's very possible!"

Lao Wei made a decisive decision, waved his hand towards the direction of the argument, and said, "Go! Follow me to catch people! Let them fight like snipe and clam; we'll be the fisherman who benefits!"

Hu Wazi immediately followed him up.

I wasn't in a hurry to go over, but asked Xiao Liang, "Xiao Liang, can you still hold on? Otherwise, I'll help you down the mountain to rest first?"

Xiao Liang was also a tough person. She simply took off the sock on her other foot, put it on the injured foot, and used two layers of socks to stop the bleeding. Then she winked at me and said, "Isn't this okay? It doesn't matter, don't worry about me, let's go, hurry up and catch the mice!"

Seeing Xiao Liang so insistent, I couldn't refuse her, nodded at her, and followed the Xiaoling Guards, Hu Wazi and the others towards the direction of the cursing.

Because the mountain road was difficult to walk, and it was night, the mountain was pitch black, so even though we could hear the commotion nearby, it took us almost twenty minutes to find the source of the noise.

When we arrived at the scene, the group of people were still fighting. By the moonlight, I saw that the scene was indeed two groups of people wielding tomb raiding equipment such as iron shovels, Luoyang shovels, and grappling hooks.

They were fairly evenly matched in number, with about seven or eight people in each group, fighting and cursing, the scene was very lively.

Because the tools in their hands were hard objects such as iron shovels and hoes, they were very lethal when they started fighting. I saw that nine out of ten people at the scene were injured, and some unlucky guys were seriously injured and had been knocked to the ground and couldn't move.

Xiao Liang looked carefully for a while, then suddenly tugged on my arm and said, "Chen Rongsheng, look, isn't that group on the left the same group we saw at the hostel?"

I had actually forgotten what that group looked like long ago, but I didn't expect Xiao Liang to remember. I said, "Really? Are they all there?"

"No, the person in charge of bargaining with the hostel owner isn't there, but the other people are," Xiao Liang said.

I nodded and asked Lao Wei, "Lao Wei, what do we do now? Do we take action now, or do we wait?"