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Chapter 8 Chapter Seven Three Mysterious Visitors

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It seems unbelievable that he wants me to go to the grave, but it is not impossible.I had to figure out how I should respond if he did make such a request. As I was thinking, Du Bao looked at me with an extremely earnest expression: "Mr. Wei, please leave immediately, the master seems to be very anxious to see you." I smiled, and suddenly said a word: "Is it because those three mysterious visitors are forcing him?" When Du Bao heard this, he was stunned for a moment: "It's true that there are three guests here, and it's...very mysterious." I said, "How mysterious is it?"

Du Bao said: "I... can't say it, but the three of them are indoors... and they are wearing hoods, so they can't see their faces clearly. Generally speaking, Arabs don't do this." I took a breath, now, at least I know that those three people are indeed quite mysterious, and they seem to have a power that can make the virus do things for them──After driving me out, they sent someone to come in a low voice please let me go. I didn't say anything more, just nodded and followed Dubao out.Hu Ming sent it out, and sent me all the way to the overly luxurious car sent by the virus.

Hu Ming seemed to want to go with me, but finally he just waved to me reluctantly. In front of the car, besides Du Bao, there was a driver in his thirties.The driver's driving skills are extremely high, and the large touring car with superior performance is like "flying" on the road. Half an hour later, the "palace" of the virus was in sight.When the car was about to reach the gate, the big iron gate opened automatically, and the car drove straight in and stopped in front of the building. Du Bao jumped out of the car and opened the door for me. When I got out of the car, a dozen people came out of the house, lined up, and bowed to welcome me.

The dozen or so people were of different heights, young and old, and with different outfits and expressions. It seemed that they were all disciples of the virus. I followed Du Bao into the building, which was different from the last time when Hu Ming took me in. I walked in another direction and passed a deliberately decorated corridor. The oil paintings hung on both sides of the corridor were enough to make any oil painting collector in the world feel ashamed. Saw a heart attack. At the end of the hallway, are two doors of finely carved mahogany.I have heard Ada's account and know that it is the study of the virus.As soon as Dubao arrived at the door, the door opened, and at the same time, I heard the anxious voice of the virus: "Please come in, Mr. Wei, please come in."

Du Bao stood at the door and made a "come in" gesture to me.I passed him and walked into the study.As soon as he entered, the door of the study was closed. As soon as I entered Virus' study room, I didn't look at the luxurious layout of the study room. First, my eyes fell on the three people sitting in a corner.Those three people were sitting on a couch in a rather strange situation. They were sitting upright, and the three of them were squeezed into each other, sitting very close to each other. The couch was originally designed for three people to sit extremely comfortably, but because the three people sat crowded together, the three of them gathered on one side, and the other half was left empty.

Those three people, just as Ada said, were dressed in white Arab robes, with hoods on their heads, pulled down so low that their faces could not be seen clearly.As soon as I came in and looked at them, they also looked at me, I just felt their heads lifted, their eyes flickered where they couldn't see their faces clearly, and then they recovered The original posture, sitting still. Viruses are extremely smart. As soon as I came in, I stopped looking at him and looked at the situation of those three people. He must have noticed it, so he immediately said: "These three are my friends. We are going to discuss the matter. Don't lie to them."

I smiled noncommittally, and then I looked at the virus. I saw that he was wearing very comfortable silk clothes, with a thin body, and was completely sunk in a silver-white velvet easy chair. He made a gesture of wanting to stand up and welcome My posture, but it can be seen that he actually doesn't mean to stand up at all. Originally, he was so old, I should be polite, but I was angry with him for dispatching a cheetah to drive me away last time, so I just looked at him coldly and didn't make a sound. Virus' complexion changed slightly, but then he smiled eagerly, and actually stood up: "Mr. Wei, please sit down."

I nodded and sat down across from him.At this time, I can be sure: the virus asks me for something. After I sat down, the virus also sat down, and I nodded to the three people who had been sitting still: "Aren't you going to introduce these three friends to me?" The virus was taken aback for a moment, as if it didn't expect me to make such a request.He immediately said: "There is no need to waste time, Mr. Wei, I pay attention to the speed of doing things, and I don't like to beat around the bush." I raised my eyebrows: "Okay, what do you want me to do?"

The virus pondered for a moment, as if considering how to speak: "Qi Bai once said that if you join the tomb robbery business, you will do better than him." I snorted, "It's not an honor to be a better tomb robber than Qi Bai, and it's not worth fighting for the title." Hearing me say this, his face became quite ugly in an instant, and he murmured: "I shouldn't say that, it's better than Qi Bai, it's almost like me, that's simply great!" I sneered, "I don't see any greatness." The look of the virus was even uglier. With his piercing eyes, he doomed me, but it didn't take long for him to return to his original state: "Don't discuss these things, there is one thing—"

He paused again when he talked about this, and then said: "I want to invite you to a place and get all the corpses out there. You can pay me whatever you want, if you can succeed." I think right, he really wants me to rob the tomb!And it's very strange, it's not the treasures in the tomb that are to be stolen, but the corpses in the tomb.It was as weird as it could be.Although I knew from Ada's narration that this was what the virus wanted Qi Bai to do that day, I still felt extremely weird. I took a breath, and just about to ask a question, Virus waved his hand: "I can't ask why."

I was very disgusted with his tone, and said coldly: "Don't ask why? Qi Bai may have failed because of this." Virus shook suddenly: "How do you know that Qi Bai failed?" I sneered: "Don't think I'm so ignorant, otherwise, you wouldn't look for me." Virus sighed: "Actually, it's not that you are not allowed to ask, Instead, ask, and you won't get an answer, and even I don't know why." Virus said while looking at the three people.I also looked at those three people: "So, three, why?" One of the three made a rather stiff voice: "I can't say it." I stood up: "I'm sorry—" As I said that, I turned to the virus: "Mr. Zheerfen, I never do things that I don't understand." I purposely called out the name "Zheerfen" to surprise the virus, and at the same time let him know that I have great powers, making him think that I am the best candidate he entrusted. Sure enough, the virus shook again. It stared at me for a while, the wrinkles on my face trembling uncontrollably. After a while, I said, "Think about the reward you can get." I stretched my waist and pretended not to be interested at all. Virus immediately looked at those three people. The three people looked at each other. It seemed that none of them liked to talk. Not a word. This can't help but make me feel very embarrassed.Because although I pretended to be uninterested, in fact, even if there was no reward, I would agree to this matter.Because all the mysterious things started from Qi Bai's tomb robbery. If I can also enter this ancient tomb, then all doubts and mysteries may be solved easily! Those three people were silent, and their attitude was so persistent. I had no choice but to yawn again, lazily and indifferently, half turned around, and walked outside. I just took a step, and one of the three people had already called out: "Please wait a moment." The man's voice was always very stiff. Although he said the word "please", it still sounded very stiff. I turned around, but the man spoke to the virus again: "Is there no one else but him?" Virus let out a long sigh: "If it was twenty years ago, no, even ten years ago, I wouldn't have sighed." He said, looking directly at the three people: "Why don't you realize your love for me earlier? promise? Then, I can do it myself, without having to ask others." At that moment, I was extremely confused about what the virus said. What does the virus mean when it says this?What promises did those three people make to him?Why if those three people fulfilled their promises early, he could go out in person without asking for help? I already knew from Ada that Qi Bai was transferred by a virus.The benefit that the virus promised Qi Bai was any one of his twenty treasure rooms. That was an extremely appalling reward, and it could be said to be the highest reward one could get for doing one thing in the world.However, he would only do this if those three people paid the virus more. And what was the commitment of those three people to the virus? While I was in extreme confusion, one of the three people said: "No, we don't trust any... people. After you fulfill our request, we will definitely fulfill our promise." The virus snorted: "Actually, I don't believe you either, who knows if you will really keep your promise." The man said: "Mr. Zhe Erfen, you have to gamble. In fact, even if you lose, you have nothing to lose—" When he spoke here, he paused for a while, and his tone became much slower: "Because you have nothing to lose at all." I was already puzzled enough, but when I heard their conversation, I was even more puzzled, and I couldn't figure out what their conversation meant. Virus sighed again: "This friend, he needs to know why first, can you agree?" The man made a rather weird sound before saying, "Mr. Wei, I really can't tell you, and it's much better if you don't know than to know." I insisted: "No. I won't do things that are unclear." The man's tone became urgent: "It's definitely not unclear, you just need to enter the tomb and bring out all the corpses inside." I hummed: "Even Qi Bai, the first-class tomb robber expert, failed, and you still say it's easy?" The man made a strange voice again: "I don't know what happened. I really don't know. There must have been an accident. In fact, we just need to bring all the corpses out." He repeatedly emphasized "all corpses", and I couldn't help snorting: "All, what's the total?" The three of them looked at each other, and they seemed to be studying whether they should answer my question. I didn't hear their conversation, and they must have exchanged opinions through winking.It was still the person sitting in the middle who spoke: "There are seventy-four in total." Seventy-four bodies.When I heard it, I couldn't help but startled the boss. There are so many, I really never thought of it. When I was in a daze, the virus said: "Seventy-four bodies are actually the same as one body. As long as you can get out one corpse, you can also get out seventy-four corpses." I took a breath, thinking about what the virus said, his words were not unreasonable.To rob a tomb, you must dig a passage to enter the tomb. The difficulty lies in how to enter. Now that you have entered, there is no difference between getting out one corpse and seventy-four corpses. I looked at the three people again: "Alright, where is that ancient tomb?" When I asked this, it actually meant that I had agreed, and the virus could obviously understand this, so he showed a very excited expression on his wrinkled face. One of the three said: "I can't tell you." I was angry and funny at the same time: "Haha. Very good, you didn't tell me where the tomb is, but you wanted me to go there and steal the seventy-four corpses?" The man said: "There is nothing unreasonable, we will take you to that place." I wanted to mock them a few words at first, but when I heard that man say that, I couldn't help but be speechless.Yes, why tell me where the tomb is if they take me there? I said, "Yes, it makes sense." The virus was very happy: "Okay, then what do you want to pay?" I said: "If I succeed, I want all the gold funeral objects." The virus took a breath: "I knew it earlier, alas, that is the most valuable treasure in the world." I immediately said: "I believe that the reward these three gave you must be more valuable." The virus shook slightly, then murmured: "Yes, that can't be measured by money." I still don't know what reward those three promised the virus. "Can't be measured in money", what does that mean?Is there anything in the world that cannot be measured by money? I didn't think about it further, because it has nothing to do with me, I just said to the virus: "I don't want this group of funeral objects myself, but I want it from you on behalf of Professor Hu Ming." The virus muttered another ugly word, of course it was Hu Ming.I said again: "Also, as for tomb robbery, I am actually an amateur. I want to dig a tunnel? What tools do I need? You should at least give me a description of the appearance of the tomb, or should I go to the field to observe it first, and then consider how to proceed? If appropriate Will the blasting of the explosives damage the structure in the ancient tomb?" I sent out a series of questions, and the virus frowned. It seemed that it didn't know which question to answer. The person said, "It's not necessary, the channel has already been completed." I was stunned for a while, not knowing what the man meant by that.Not only me, but even the virus showed a surprised and inexplicable expression, and said, "What did you say?" The man seemed to know that he had slipped his mouth, so he kept silent, and the virus said "um" as if he had realized something: "By the way, it must have been done by Qi Bai, and the accident happened after he entered the tomb." , was that... what kind of accident?" The virus is talking to itself, but I am very nervous.Because experts like Qi Bai, if they encounter accidents after entering the tomb, wouldn't it be more dangerous for me, a layman, to go in? Since I promised to do this, I naturally hope to do it well, and I don’t want to encounter accidents, so I asked the virus, what accidents might I encounter when entering an unpredictable ancient tomb? Virus shook his head: "This question is really not easy to answer. The structure of ancient tombs, each nation has its own characteristics, is confusing and unpredictable, and all kinds of traps are all set up to prevent tomb robbers. , you will fall into a trap, and the ancients have mysterious powers, and they can use spells to make tomb robbers suffer misfortune—” He talked endlessly, and I couldn't help laughing bitterly: "Listen to you, I shouldn't go." As soon as Virus heard what I said, he realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and his expression became extremely embarrassed. For a while, even he, a super old trickster, didn't know what to do. I said: "Don't worry, since I agreed, I won't change my mind, but I really want to study with you how to proceed." Virus spread his hands: "Frankly speaking, I don't know anything about the tomb you are going to, so I really can't help you." I knew that what the virus said was the truth, and I immediately looked at the three people: "If you want to succeed, you should tell the situation in the tomb." The man said: "We don't know what's going on inside, we only know that there are extremely strict anti-theft equipment, and there is already a passage, which can lead directly to the tomb—" When the man said this, he suddenly became very impatient: "Please don't waste your time, it's time for us to go." I resolutely said: "No! I must study the details with Mr. Zheerfen. I believe Qi Bai has already gone in." The virus blinked, and I will roughly explain the contents of the two tapes that Qi Bai received. I have already introduced the content of Qi Bai’s two audio tapes at the beginning, so I won’t repeat them. Those two audio tapes indicate that Qi Bai was in a passage at that time, which may lead to the tomb room I am going to. ! The virus listened attentively, and those three people were also listening. When I was talking about hearing the continuous sound of glass breaking, the three people not only kept looking at each other, but also kept moving their bodies, indicating that they had listened to my narration. ,feeling anxious. When my narrative came to an end, the virus said: "I don't know what kind of environment he is in. The constant sound of glass breaking is really incredible." The virus wants to deliberately express relaxation, but I can feel that the atmosphere is very heavy.One of the three suddenly shouted: "He can succeed, but he betrayed us." I was stunned: "What do you mean?" The man didn't answer my question, but kept saying: "He can succeed, but he betrayed us." When he kept talking like this, not only was his tone blunt, but the sharp and hard voice made people shudder. It wasn't until here that I understood the reason why Qi Bai sent me the two tapes instead of the virus.Hearing that person keep calling Qi Bai "betrayal", one can imagine that after entering the tomb, Qi Bai encountered some accident, which made him change his mind and did not steal the corpse he wanted to steal. The man repeated the words of scolding Qi Bai dozens of times, his voice became more and more frightening, the virus seemed to be a little bit unbearable, and shouted: "Stop, don't say it." The man stopped abruptly, panting: "There's no need to discuss Qi Bai, now, it's Mr. Wei." The man asked, "Where is Qi Bai?" Virus said: "I tried everything possible to find him, only a genius knows where he is." I don't know why the reaction of these three people is so abnormal when I tell the contents of Qi Bai's tape. I said, "Excuse me, what do you think is the reason for his rebellion?" The man screamed, "Because he's mean. Because he's human. Because—" I waved my hand abruptly and interrupted his words, because he said too much: "What kind of talk is this? I am also human." The man stood up suddenly: "Mr. Wei, as long as you keep your promise and bring all the dead bodies out after entering the tomb, you can succeed." I raised my eyebrows: "Why are you so sure?" The man said: "Because Qi Bai can enter the tomb, so can you." I didn't stop for a moment, and asked urgently: "Why do you know that Qi Bai has entered the tomb? It seems that you know the internal situation of that ancient tomb very well, why?" The man's body trembled again: "We can discuss this issue later." I couldn't help cursing: "Fart, it's me who is going to enter the ancient tomb now, not you, I need to know first." The man said: "Forget it, you are not the right candidate." As they talked, they walked out.I didn't expect that things would change like this all of a sudden, and I didn't know how to react for a while.And the three of them walked very fast, they had already reached the door, opened the door, and walked out. I called, "Wait a minute." Those three people didn't stop, they just slowed down a bit and said, "If you don't like to ask so many stupid questions and just do it, you can still come to us." I said angrily, "Where can I find you?" The man said: "Remember the call to Professor Hu Ming's residence?" I was startled suddenly, and I wanted to say something, the door of the study was closed, I ran to the door, and shouted: "Stop them." I know that in the "palace" of the virus, it couldn't be easier to prevent a few people from leaving.Sure enough, as soon as I yelled, Virus immediately pressed a button on the armrest of the easy chair he was sitting on, and at the same time, his face was full of complacency. At this time, I had already opened the door of the study.As soon as the door of the study was opened and I looked out, I was completely stunned. At this time, my expression must be extremely weird, so the virus suddenly stood up. Where Virus was sitting, he could not see the situation in the corridor. It was my expression that made him stand up suddenly. My expression was extremely surprised, and the three people walked out, and I shouted: "Stop them!" At that moment, the virus obviously wanted to prevent the three people from leaving, so he passed He gave the command from the armrest of his chair. Those three people walked out, and there were four super big men lined up, and each of the four big men held a wooden stick with a sharp short thorn in their hands—the virus is very classical in the use of weapons. This weapon is obviously an ancient weapon.He doesn't use modern firearms, which may be because he thinks that ancient weapons are sufficient. The three men were still walking forward, and the four big men blocking the way immediately swung the barbed sticks and beat the three men down.The four of them used a very special way of attacking. First, concentrate on hitting one of the three, and hit the first person on the left with the wooden stick hard. All of this happened very quickly. I guess the person who was hit would have blood spattered on the spot and screamed loudly. Who knew that when the wooden stick was struck down, the sharp thorns on the wooden stick pierced the white robe on the man's body.But judging from the sound, it seemed that there was no body inside the white robe. I mean, the barbed stick is not like hitting a white robe worn on a person, but like hitting a white robe hanging in mid-air. This was enough to make me stunned, but the next moment, I saw three people still walking forward and bumped into two of the four big men. The height of the two big men was more than two meters. I walked forward side by side and bumped into the two big men. The two big men were knocked away like paper sticks, and they showed extremely painful expressions. That's when I got that terrified look on my face that made the virus go away. As soon as Virus stood up, his voice trembled a little: "What's wrong? What happened outside?" I couldn't answer, because something new happened outside the door.As soon as the two big men fell to the ground, four more big men ran out quickly, leading four black panthers. As soon as the four black panthers ran up to the three men, they squatted down together.Their movements were so sudden that the four people running out with the black panther couldn't hold back their momentum and threw themselves on the back of the panther. Those three people still walked forward, and in the blink of an eye, they had passed between the four black panthers.When the three people walked over, although the four black panthers did not huddle together, judging from their movements, they were not much different from sick cats. At this time, I really didn't know what happened, and I just thought in my heart: the virus's subordinates can't stop those three people. The virus can also see the situation outside the door.At this time, the three people had almost reached the end of the corridor, and there was a door closing quickly from both sides.But when the two gates were about to close, those three people suddenly turned sideways together and walked out from the gap where the two gates were about to close together.As soon as they were out, the door closed. These three people really couldn't get through the gap. At that time, the gap was only 20 centimeters wide. How could one person pass sideways? Those three people went out anyway, and as soon as the door closed, one of the three people's body, a corner of the white robe, was caught in the door.The situation is like a person wearing loose clothes accidentally caught by the elevator door when entering the elevator. If a corner of the white robe remains in the crack of the door, there are only two possibilities: one is that the person in the white robe remains by the door.Another possibility is that the person in the white robe tore the white robe, or took off the white robe and left on his own. I guessed it might be the latter, because the three were too eager to get away to care about a white robe. The virus stared at me fiercely: "You have messed up everything. You are by no means as capable as I imagined. Qi Bai probably doesn't know you at all, so that's why I respect you so much." I sneered: "You mean, I asked too many questions and left those three people?" The virus said: "Of course." I sneered again: "For me, there is no loss at all. Your golden funeral objects may fascinate many people, but to me, they are worth nothing. In my opinion, you have suffered a loss. You call Qi Bai went and wanted me to go, it must be those three people who promised you a special benefit, but now, you can't get that benefit!" As I spoke mercilessly, the virus' wrinkled face turned gray again. At the same time, very annoyed, he snorted and said, "Get out!" I couldn't help but get angry, he didn't even say the most basic manners, I was invited by him, but now he told me to "screw".I sneered: "The words you use are really good. I hope that when you ask me for something again, you will come here." In an instant, the virus showed a very tired expression.This kind of tired expression, appearing on a person of his age, looks very sympathetic, which makes people directly feel: It's over.Nothing worth mentioning, because life is almost over. If it weren't for his harsh words, I would really feel sorry for him.But he made a gesture to wave away the flies beside him: "Get out of here, I won't ask you for anything." I immediately counterattacked: "That's not necessarily true. Maybe I won't ask any more questions, and then go to see those three people and promise them to steal the seventy-four corpses from the tomb." The virus shook for a moment, fixed on me, remained silent for a while, and did not make any movements. At this moment, I turned around and prepared to leave without waiting for him to come to his senses.When I said this, to be honest, I actually didn't mean to go to those three people again. Everything seemed unbelievable, as grotesque as a nightmare, and there was no clue at all, and they didn't even know where the three people came from, it just made people feel weird and inexplicable.If it weren't for the mysterious death of Shan Si, I would rather endure the torment of curiosity than deal with this matter anymore.
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