Chapter 28 Section VI

Shuanglong Cemetery is located in the outskirts of the city, facing the river and backed by green hills. It is a treasured place of geomantic omen.Since it is not Qingming and Chinese New Year, there are not many people who come to visit the grave, and there are less than thirty people here and there. Among the thirty people, one old and one young were dressed in formal attire, wearing sunglasses, holding lilies in their hands, with solemn and solemn expressions—they were the griffins and falcons pretending to be worshippers. They came to the cemetery in the afternoon, found a random tomb, and pretended to worship.After that, the two quietly hid in the forest behind the cemetery without anyone noticing.

Now, all they have to do is wait for the dark, wait for the opportunity. The Gryphon's original time was 11:30 in the evening - that's when people are most tired, and it's easy to let down their vigilance.But at six or seven o'clock in the evening, the cemetery was basically empty.Only the old man who watched the tomb was left alone in the hut next to the cemetery. Gryphon and Falcon hid in a bushy and very hidden place on the back mountain, took out dry food and water from their satchels, and after eating and drinking, they lay down on the grass to recharge their batteries.

The cemetery at night is eerie, and any slight movement of grass can trigger all kinds of fearful associations.Most people dare not stay in this environment at all.But this pair of mentors and apprentices are not ordinary people. Their professional characteristics determine that they must adapt to this dark and deep environment.In the words of Gryphon, this is one of the basic qualities of a thief. For a few hours, the master and apprentice took a nap alternately.At half past ten, they began to make preparations for action.Gryphon took out the small tape recorder that recorded all kinds of weird sounds from his satchel.He has profound skills, and he can almost walk in the mountains without making a sound, so he went to set up the lure himself.

The Griffon tiptoed around from behind the old man's house to the tombs in the southeast.As he walked, he estimated the distance (you can’t walk a straight line between the tombs, you can only go around like stairs), and when he walked for about fifteen minutes, he stopped and hid the tape recorder in a very Hidden place - under a large cluster of flowers in front of a tombstone.He set the time and volume, and let the tape recorder go off around half past eleven.He was convinced that the eerie noises would be enough to make anyone feel haunted.After setting the trap, the division head eagle returned the same way.He looked at his watch, and it took exactly half an hour to go back and forth.

Before the action, the master and apprentice left the previous hiding place and hid near the grave watcher's hut.They had to make sure the old man was lured out the door after hearing the noise. At half past eleven, the tape recorder hidden in the southeast started working.The magnetic tape inside it spins.These carefully recorded sounds are loud and quiet, and the purpose is to make it difficult to judge the distance.The first sound was a relatively loud "thump" deliberately to attract attention, as if something heavy fell to the ground and made a muffled sound. This sound is a signal to prepare for action.Now the Gryphon and the Falcon were watching the door of the hut with bated breath, to see the old man's reaction.

Looking at the tomb, the old man is a very dutiful and down-to-earth person.The grave sweepers occasionally gave him a tip of tens of hundreds of yuan, and he was very grateful and devoted himself to his duty.Now that he accepted such a huge sum of money from Xia Lan, he was simply terrified.The old man vowed to do a good job of guarding the tomb - on the one hand, to make himself feel a little more at ease; May have to be forced to return.So even though Xia Lan and Butler Jin didn't ask him to go around every hour, he was very strict with himself.The old man bought an electronic alarm clock and set the time for every hour. Even when he went to sleep at night, he would come to check around on time, and then go back to sleep-for fear of mistakes.For him, in order to keep the money, he must keep the tomb.

At eleven o'clock, the old man had already gone around the tombs in the northwest direction.After returning to the hut, I just lay down for a while, before I fell asleep, I heard this "thump".The old man's heart also thumped.Since receiving the money, he has become a hundred times more sensitive than before.The slightest movement can arouse his vigilance.Now, he "chuckled" and sat up, judging the source and possibility of the sound. A few seconds later, there was another sound.The old man sensed something was wrong, he got out of bed, picked up the flashlight and police electric baton beside the bed (provided for him by Butler Jin), opened the door, and searched for the direction of the sound.

Gryphon and Falcon, who were hiding in the dark, were delighted when they saw the old man coming out, knowing that the plan had worked.And the old man was indeed a simple-minded person, he only wanted to do his duty, and he didn't realize that the tomb robbers would set traps. Now, he has gone towards the southeast direction where the sound came from. A minute after the old man had gone out, griffins and falcons emerged like ghosts.Holding the folding steel shovels for digging graves in their hands, they walked quickly and silently to the northwest.After walking for a few minutes, the Gryphon found the target with keen memory.He whispered to Falcon, "This is the tomb."

Falcon looked at the tombstone with his eyes trained to see in the dark.The moment he saw the inscription, he felt his heart was touched by something.The complicated feeling that followed was something he hadn't expected at all before. A poor child was suffocated to death in a safe.But now, we're going to open his grave, take away his funeral objects, and maybe... leave him in the wilderness. Will it be too cruel? Seeing that the apprentice was in a daze, Griffon touched him with his elbow and whispered, "What are you doing? Why don't you hurry up and work?" Falcon recovered from the trance, but suddenly, he felt an inexplicable chill all over his body—it seemed to be a strange feeling after reading the inscription.Falcon shuddered, looked at the Gryphon and said, "Master, I suddenly have... a bad feeling. Or, let's forget about it this time..."

The Gryphon's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets, and he said in a low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about! We've already made it this far! As long as we follow the plan, we can leave with the jewels in half an hour. .You stand over there quickly and remove the tombstone with me!" Falcon didn't dare to resist, so he had to bite the bullet and do what his master said.The two stood on both sides of the tombstone, and with all their strength, they moved back together, and the tombstone moved away. Gryphon picked up the shovel on the ground and handed it to Falcon: "Dig quickly, we don't have much time!"

The two began to dig the grave quickly.During the digging process, Falcon felt chills from time to time, which was something he had never experienced in his previous theft experience, and this feeling seemed to be unique to him, not to the experienced master.Falcon faintly felt that something was wrong with this matter, as if digging up the tomb would cause some terrible consequences... He didn't dare to bring it up again.The current situation does not allow him to discuss or discuss with Master.This is the end of the matter, we can only continue. After the upper layer of soil was dug up, Gryphon tried it out with a shovel, and said excitedly: "The shovel touched a hard iron-like object, which must be the safe. Now let's be careful and walk along the road." Dig the safe, as long as a large part can be exposed, we can carry it up!" Falcon didn't say a word, and looked a little anxious.But the master didn't notice at all, just urging him to hurry up.Falcon had no choice but to continue working. After more than ten minutes, more than half of the safe was exposed from the soil.The lion headed eagle said to the falcon: "There is no need to dig. Let's hug it up together." The master and apprentice squatted on the ground, hugged the safe from both sides, pulled it out of the soil, and carefully placed it on the side. "Okay, now it's your turn." The owl stared at the apprentice. Falcon looked at the safe, and for some reason, his heart became more and more frightened.But he didn't dare to say it, he could only ask, "How long has it been?" Gryphon glanced at his watch: "Twenty minutes have passed, and there are still ten minutes, which should be enough..." Having said this, Griffin suddenly stopped and opened its mouth wide, as if remembering something important. Falcon was frightened by Master's expression, and asked, "What's wrong, Master?" The griffin looked at the falcon suddenly, and said, "Oops! I just now remember that we have overlooked a problem. If the old man finds the tape recorder in the southeast direction, he will immediately understand what is going on! Of course he will not Then walk over at the usual speed, and run over immediately! That is to say..." "The half hour we counted is actually not that long?" Falcon's cold sweat broke out from his back.He looked at the safe, "Master, then... shall we continue?" Gryphon bit his lips tightly, and said fiercely: "It's all come to this point, I'm going to take a gamble anyway!" He grabbed Falcon's shoulder, "Boy, it's up to you! You have to use the most Quickly open the safe!" Falcon didn't dare to neglect, now his heart was beating wildly, and he couldn't tell whether it was caused by the inexplicable anxiety before or the nervousness now.He has no time to choose and think. Falcon closed his eyes tightly, clenched his teeth, and exposed the veins on his face—this is his special performance when he uses telekinesis numbers. Gryphon knew that the apprentice had begun to use supernatural powers.He held his breath, not daring to interrupt—this was the last link, but also the most important one, there must be no mistakes, otherwise, all the previous efforts would be in vain. "0..." Falcon closed his eyes and said the first number. Gryphon hurriedly opened the cover directly in front of the safe and pressed "O" on the numeric keypad. "0." "The second number is still O?" Gryphon asked suspiciously, a little afraid to press it. Falcon's expression was very painful-this is always the case when he used supernatural powers-he nodded quickly.Gryphon pressed it without hesitation. "1...2...3...6...8..." Falcon said the seven-digit number word by word.Gryphon enters the passwords one by one. But the safe didn't open. The alarm system prompts: the input password is wrong.Three wrong codes will activate the automatic alarm system. The Gryphon's head exploded with a buzz.The password that Falcon sensed was wrong. Falcon opened his eyes, sweating profusely.He saw that the door of the safe didn't budge, and he knew he had failed.In order not to disappoint Master, he said: "There are two more chances, I will try again." "No... there is only one chance left." Gryphon said sadly, "If the password you sensed this time is wrong again, the alarm system will activate and the safe will make a harsh sound... We have completely failed. "Aren't there three chances in total?" Falcon asked puzzled. Gryphon shook his head: "Think about it, that child is locked up here. Would his family never try to enter the password once? They failed once, and you failed again just now... there is only one last chance left .” Falcon was stunned, not knowing what to do. Gryphon seemed to be really planning to fight this time. He raised his head, stared at the falcon, and said, "It's okay, try again! Don't worry about other things, just focus on sensing!" "Master, if this time..." "Stop talking, there's no time, hurry up!" Gryphon looked forward nervously, "I seem to have heard the old man's footsteps!" Falcon didn't dare to say more.He closed his eyes tightly and entered the induction state again. "0... 0... 1... 2... 3... 6..." Falcon put his hand on his forehead and said six numbers again, but it was exactly the same as before. Gryphon had already pressed these six numbers, and his heart was half cold. When it reached the last number, Falcon actually stopped and didn't speak for a long time, as if feeling that the last number was extremely difficult, and the pain on his expression was several times that of just now. Gryphon's heart was about to burst out of his chest.At an extremely urgent juncture, Falcon actually got stuck on the last number-this has never happened before!What was anxious was that he didn't dare to urge him, for fear of affecting Falcon's induction.Beads of sweat oozed from the Gryphon's forehead. Finally, Falcon opened his eyes and said the last number at the same time: "6!" Gryphon quickly pressed down. With a bang, the safe opened. The Gryphon was so happy that it almost jumped up—at the last moment, it finally succeeded!He couldn't wait to open the cabinet door, and said to Falcon: "My boy, you really have it! Let's quickly get the gem..." Suddenly, his movements stopped, and he stared blankly into the safe. Two successive inductions made Falcon exhausted.Sitting slumped next to him, he felt relieved when he saw the cabinet door open, but he found that Master's appearance was wrong. The Gryphon's eyes were almost bursting at this moment, its mouth was opened to an unbelievable extent, and its lips moved up and down.He seemed to be unable to move, he couldn't even make a sound, his body shook violently like sifting chaff, he backed up involuntarily, and finally - fell to the ground, his right hand tightly grasped the heart, and his mouth opened and closed. After a few strokes, the whole person was completely motionless like a dead snake. "Master...Master!" Falcon knew something was wrong, but he didn't understand what happened.His whole body was cold and his back was numb.The huge change and fright made his mind go blank.While helping the master who didn't know whether he was dead or alive, he subconsciously glanced at the safe. Falcon's blood froze, and his hair stood on end.What he saw made his stomach clench.