Fatty quickly winked at Rouyi, signaling her not to say anything.

Rouyi swallowed the words that were about to spill from her mouth.

"What is it?" Li Feng asked.

The person lying in the stone coffin was actually the Iron Mask's corpse. His facial features were so lifelike, it would be more accurate to say he wasn't the Iron Mask because there wasn't a mask on his face at all.

Fatty and Rouyi had seen the Iron Mask's face after he removed his mask in the underground city, so they were sure that the person in the stone coffin was indeed the Iron Mask. However, they had personally witnessed the Iron Mask turn to ashes. So, who was this person lying in the stone coffin now?

Li Feng advanced step by step, his expression sinister, pointing his gun at them both, and asked, "What were you about to say just now?"

Seeing that she couldn't avoid it, Rouyi made up an excuse to prevaricate, "I... I've never seen a mummy before, I'm just a little curious."

Rouyi's explanation didn't raise any doubts in Li Feng's mind.

Li Feng thought that since he had already used these two, he might as well kill them. Just as he was about to shoot them, someone quietly crept up behind Li Feng and pressed a gun to his head.

By the time Li Feng realized there was a gun pointed at the back of his head, it was too late to react.

The person pointing the gun at Li Feng snatched the gun from his hand. Having lost his weapon, Li Feng's legs trembled, and he raised his hands high, "Don't... don't kill me..."

The gunman went around in front of Li Feng. Li Feng recognized him and knelt down in front of him with a thud, "Big Brother, spare my life, I don't want the money anymore."

The gunman said slowly, "I only asked you to bring them here, not to kill them."

Li Feng knelt on the ground in fear, "I... I didn't plan to kill them, Big Brother, spare my life."

The gunman didn't hesitate and decisively shot and killed Li Feng on the spot. The gun was a silenced weapon, so the sound wasn't loud, but the blood splattering on Li Feng's head showed that the gun was powerful. The gunman's ruthlessness made Fatty break out in a cold sweat.

After dealing with Li Feng, the gunman actually inserted the gun into its holster, not using it to threaten Fatty and Rouyi. Fatty couldn't quite determine whether the other party was friend or foe.

The gunman smiled at Fatty and Rouyi and said, "I'm sorry to have frightened you both."

Fatty was baffled by the gunman's series of actions. He tentatively asked the gunman, "Who are you people?"

The gunman smiled, "I probably don't need to say it, you two can probably guess."

Fatty suddenly thought of his identity and cursed inwardly. The only people who would dare to kill soldiers within Chinese territory were the people from the utterly heartless Z organization.

The gunman was good at reading people. He inferred from Fatty's expression that Fatty was angry and furious because he had killed the people in the camp.

The gunman stopped smiling and said to Fatty seriously, "Brother Shi, you've misunderstood. Although I'm acting according to my duty, I'm also ridding the people of a scourge."

When Fatty heard "ridding the people of a scourge," he became even angrier. He immediately planned to rush up and fight the gunman in front of him.

Seeing Fatty's posture, the gunman felt that the situation was not good, so he quickly added, "You find it strange that these soldiers aren't wearing military uniforms, right?"

After the gunman's reminder, the anger in Fatty's heart instantly subsided by half. He still asked with anger in his voice, "What do you mean?"

The gunman replied, "The place we are in is Lop Nur. There is a unit stationed nearby, responsible for guarding and protecting certain important areas, preventing tourists and adventurers from accidentally entering, and also preventing tomb robbers from secretly sneaking in to steal antiques and destroy relics. Lei Zhiming is a soldier in this unit, or rather, the squad leader acting as the platoon leader."

The gunman paused for a moment, then continued, "Several months ago, Lei Zhiming caught a group of tomb robbers here while leading a patrol and discovered this ruin. The tomb robbers had a large number of gold and silver artifacts in their hands, and they used these antiques as bargaining chips to try to pull Lei Zhiming into their scheme. There were eight people in Lei Zhiming's patrol team, and seven of them, including Lei Zhiming, were persuaded, except for one young soldier.

The young soldier firmly opposed the tomb robbers' enticement and remained unmoved by money. Seeing that persuasion was unsuccessful, Lei Zhiming and the other six soldiers strangled the young soldier to death. Then, these seven people colluded with the group of tomb robbers.

These seven people used the excuse of family visits and vacations to leave Lop Nur from the garrison. Then, they used the opportunity of troop rotations from other places to enter Lop Nur and set up a camp near the ruins.

I don't know if you're lucky or unlucky, but you showed up just as their looting work was about to come to an end.

Fortunately, I bribed and placed a secret sentry named Li Feng in their camp. This person is ostensibly a militiaman, but in reality, he's just a notorious tomb robber.

If we hadn't discovered it, you two might have been buried alive by them today or tomorrow."

Fatty still found some loopholes in the gunman's words, "If they wanted to kill us, why didn't they do it on the first day?"

The gunman explained, "Because they found a large number of antiques in the ruins, and there was a disagreement over the distribution of the spoils. Both sides wanted a larger share. As a retired veteran, you might have sided with Lei Zhiming against the tomb robbing gang, so Lei Zhiming spared your life."

Fatty frowned and asked relentlessly, "Are the identity verification and supply transportation all fake?"

The gunman shook his head, "Just a delaying tactic. When have you ever seen soldiers helping civilians take so long? Moreover, identity verification is usually done immediately. Don't you find it suspicious that it's been delayed for so long? However, the supplies are real, but they were intercepted by us. The two young guys who were supplying Lei Zhiming were taken care of by us."

Faced with the many suspicious points about Lei Zhiming, Fatty gradually began to doubt the identities of Lei Zhiming and the others, but he did not completely believe everything the gunman said. Instead, he kept a close watch and asked the gunman, "How do you know all this? And how did you bribe Li Feng?"

The gunman said, "The organization wouldn't let the archaeological team sneak into Lop Nur alone without any preparation. We've been lying dormant nearby for half a year, and we've already figured everything out here."

"Most importantly, the tomb robbers and the soldiers are not of one mind. These tomb robbers have no morals to speak of, and they only care about their own interests. With a little guidance in the distribution of the spoils and the offer of money, they are willing to do anything, even things that could cost them their heads. In the end, it's just a lose-lose situation, allowing us to reap the benefits," the gunman added.

Seeing that Fatty was still dubious, the gunman pointed to a large rock in the sand pit and said, "The remains of the young soldier are next to that rock. You can go dig it up if you don't believe me."

With that, the gunman threw an engineer shovel to Fatty.