Chapter 197 Well Tomb

Before Lin Zhao could finish speaking, Tian Dan mocked from the other end of the phone, "I knew you people from small, insignificant sects were useless. You don't need to worry about things here. Just keep Li Po busy. Don't let him come and mess things up for me."

Judging from Tian Dan's tone and the sound of the car coming through the phone, she must have grasped some crucial clue. And she had rushed to a certain place ahead of us.

I pondered for a moment before saying, "Lin Zhao, call Xie Yueling and tell her to come back. Also, remind her that people from the Coffin Gate are near her."

Lin Zhao hesitated for a moment before dialing the number, "Yueling, where are you? You're in danger right now. Tell me where you are, and I'll come find you right away!"

Xie Yueling was silent for a moment before saying, "Lin Zhao, you don't need to worry about the Xie family's affairs. Don't worry, I won't implicate you!"

Lin Zhao said seriously, "Yueling, since you've decided this way, I have nothing to say. People from the Coffin Gate are looking for you. Be careful."

Lin Zhao hung up the phone after speaking.

I looked at Lin Zhao inexplicably, "That's it?"

Lin Zhao said, "Of course! There are some people you can't persuade. The more you try to persuade them, the more stubborn they become. If you don't persuade them, and let them think for themselves, they'll become more and more afraid and eventually come to you. Xie Yueling is like that. If you don't believe me, wait a while, and she'll call me back."

While I was listening to Lin Zhao, Ye Yang said again, "Zhao Ci's message has arrived. Gu Jing Temple was originally called Jingzi Fen. The well in that place is the tomb."

Speaking of Jingzi Fen, I've actually heard of it.

It doesn't mean burying people directly in the well, but using the well as a tomb to bury people under certain special circumstances.

There are many mines in the Northeast. In the past, working in the mines was like going to the underworld to make money. You never knew if someone would go down and never come back. If there was a mine collapse, burying people alive inside, a tomb had to be built on the spot.

The easiest way was to block the mine tunnel and build something similar to a tomb gate at the abandoned mine entrance. When someone went down the well, they would worship it, partly to send their companions on their way, and partly to say that they had no grudges and shouldn't be dragged down.

As long as a mine tunnel had a tomb gate built, it would never be opened again. The mine owner would rather dig another tunnel than go there.

Moreover, there was another rule for opening a new mine tunnel, which was that it couldn't be too close to the original sealed tunnel, lest the dead hear the living mining and want to move along with them.

So, if people working in a certain mine tunnel heard mining noises behind the wall, they had to think about what was next door!

I subconsciously replied, "Is there a mine at Jingzi Fen?"

"No!" Ye Yang shook his head, "Zhao Ci's information says that there are no mines there. But there have been some well-digging artisans! And the people there all use wells as tombs."

"When people die, they don't use coffins, but directly lower them into the well, letting the corpse stand at the bottom of the well. The well water reaches the waist, and the well is sealed as a tomb. That's the origin of Jingzi Fen."

My eyes couldn't help but shrink suddenly, "Do well-digging artisans bury themselves in tombs? There's no such way of burying people in the Northeast!"

Feng Ruoxing said, "All trades in the world have secret arts. The ancestor of well-digging artisans is Lu Ban. Maybe some secret arts have been passed down. However, I've never heard of digging wells to bury people."

I said in a deep voice, "The clues seem to be connected."

"The Gu Jing Temple area has the custom of burying people in wells, and there was a Snake Worshiping sect."

"Shen Ping came to Gu Jing Temple that year to find a way to break the tribulation."

"Xie Sanbao also came to Gu Jing Temple, and he brought Xie Yueling here. He didn't come here for sightseeing, maybe it was also for the secret of Gu Jing Temple."

"Now, Xie Yueling has run to Gu Jing Temple for help."

"Weren't the seemingly chaotic clues perfectly connected at Gu Jing Temple?"

While I was speaking, Lin Zhao's phone rang. The caller was Xie Yueling, "Lin Zhao, can you come and help me? There really... there really is someone following me."

Just as Lin Zhao was about to speak, I made a gesture to him and quickly transmitted my voice, "Ask her where she is?"

Xie Yueling said, "I'm still on the national highway, about to reach Gu Jing Temple."

I transmitted my voice, "Ask her if there are any trees nearby? If so, tell her to find a place where she can wedge the car between two trees, preferably in a way that the doors can't be opened. Then, turn on the hazard lights and sit in the car without moving."

"As long as we don't go over, don't talk to anyone who calls her, just pretend you don't see them."

Lin Zhao looked at me with wide eyes and made a gesture, "Will this work?"

"Don't worry. It will definitely work!" I said in a deep voice, "Just wait and see."

Lin Zhao immediately told Xie Yueling what I said. Soon, there was the sound of a car door rubbing against a tree trunk on the other end of the phone. Xie Yueling also asked anxiously on the phone, "Lin Zhao, I've wedged the car between the trees. What do I do now?"

"Tell her to send you a location, and then wait there." I directed Lin Zhao to hang up the phone and flew towards Xie Yueling's location.