The Lost Tomb : Restart (The Sound Of Providence)

Chapter 89: Another Possibility

After Uncle Two finished speaking, he immediately understood and said, "Oh, you told me."

I sighed. Uncle Two seemed to be making tea on the other end and said, "Take a closer look and call me if you find anything new."

I said ok and hung up the phone. As I spun the phone around in my hand, I couldn't help feeling uncomfortable. This matter was different from the things I had looked into in the past. With the incident ten years ago, I could clearly see the context, what was missing, and what others wanted to hide. Amidst the great mystery and confusion, I was at least able to see a rough outline.

When I faced the events ten years ago, my biggest fear was that the mystery was so unimaginably huge. But in the process of moving forward—from the core events in Xisha to the various clues Poker-Face had intermittently left behind—I could look at things one by one and clearly see the nodes.

I had been weaving these nodes into a complete truth for an entire decade.

I was used to thinking like this, but this time, it wasn't a clear node.

All the traces and clues I found were irrelevant. If I wanted to write a novel, then I'd have to write several prologues like some of the ancient novels used to do.

I casually flipped through the material again. Some of the murals in the back were very important and played a huge role in the later events, while others were completely insignificant achievements of the South Sea King that the painters had depicted at that time. Some of these achievements included controlling the water in the underground rivers and catching huge mussels to collect pearls. But even though Uncle Two had made numerous annotations on almost every detail, my thoughts started to wander at this time.

My first thought was, how many people entered the South Sea King's tomb? Based on the current analysis, it was a team of at least thirty people. Otherwise, it would've been impossible to blast in from the bottom of the tomb chamber. I called one of my previous buddies, who was a master. He said that he didn't need thirty people. As long as he chose good spots to blow up and everyone understood basic mechanics, six people could do it.

It was hard to say how many there were, but now I knew it was at least six people. In addition to the simple process of stealing the coffin—I'll call it the main event—three other things happened.

Event A occurred when the descendant of the Qi family set up a feng shui array.

I was almost certain that the "fulaiyi" [1] was used to make this feng shui array, but unless Qi Yu wanted his soul to return to this ancient tomb after death, then this feng shui pattern was too puzzling.

Of course, when I thought about it later, I realized that there was another possibility. Although the shuikao had Qi Yu's name written on it, he might not have actually worn it.

If this was the case, then Qi Yu was a killer and it was a sinister feng shui array. It was possible for feng shui arrays to harm people, but they took effect very slowly. Who did he want to harm? Why not kill the other party when they were alive instead of harming them after death?

Event B occurred during the construction of this ancient tomb when they discovered a hole. There was a stone tablet in front of the hole that stated you wouldn't get out once you went in. There were many strange distance markers in this naturally-formed hole. But despite the tablet's warning, we went in and came out at the other end (even though we had to crawl for a long time).

Was it a false warning? I was thinking about it so much that I almost thought I'd find myself back in that hole every time I woke up. Maybe we didn't get out at all, but were trapped there and having a nervous breakdown.

Whatever the case, this hole was very special. When the tomb was being built at that time, the South Sea country's people even went so far as to abandon a tomb passage for it. Why?

Event C occurred when Uncle Three copied the mural in the South Sea King's tomb. This mural had a strange leather figurine woman with a blurred face. Uncle Three took the leather figurine woman out of the main tomb chamber, but ended up dumping it in the drainage channel below. No matter how I thought about it, this leather figurine woman was really very strange. It almost seemed to be possessed by a ghost.

After thinking over everything, I decided to meet the protagonist of Event C. I put on some clothes and headed to Uncle Two's warehouse. 

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[1] Note:

[1] The shuikao. Remember, guilaiyi and fulaiyi translates as something like "return garment", just with different characters. Feiyi is something like "flying garment". It's the banner carried in the funeral procession and then buried in the tomb for the purpose of calling back the spirit of the deceased.