I was stunned and looked at the na carefully to make sure there wasnt anything wrong with it. Indeed, it was Qi Yu.
In the Xisha incident that Uncle Three had been involved in, there were countless imaginative clues about this person, but never any real information. All I knew was that the copybooks I had used to practice calligraphy were actually written by him (1). I spent more than ten years practicing calligraphy with his copybooks, which eventually led to see the docunt he wrote. At that ti, I thought I was the one who had written it.
I also had so special doubts about this man because he had appeared in many clues I found, but there wasnt a particularly clear context to figure out what had happened to him. In the most critical Xisha incident of that year, he was always a huge blind spot.
I also discovered that many of the habits and connections I had since I was a child were all related to this Qi Yu. For a while, I suspected that he might have been my mother's first love and she had trained based on the man she had so admired.
Among the Mystic Nine children who went to Xisha at that ti, Qi Yu was undoubtedly a mber of the Qi family. There weren't many mbers of the Qi family. They were good at avoiding misfortune because they could do calculations using the eight Qin trigrams.
This shuikao belonged to Qi Yu, which was also in line with my previous reasoning. An expert had set up an array in this South Sea Kings tomb, which was probably the work of Qi Yu.
Generally, people who were familiar with Qins eight trigrams were good at finding tombs and setting up arrays. In other words, they either used feng shui to find the location of tombs and earn so money, or they identified things. If there was anything evil around, then they also had ways to deal with it.
Setting up an array in this tomb was probably due to special circumstances at the ti, which only soone from the Qi family could handle.
But the presence of this shuikao ant that Uncle Three had interactions with Qi Yu very early on. In fact, it showed that they had worked together before the Xisha incident. But Qi Yu was a clerk of a state-owned organization at that ti and had been a civil servant for a long ti before that. Uncle Three had been hanging out with Aunt Chen Wen-Jin for a while, and since Chen Wen-Jin was the leader of their archaeological team at the ti, that ant Qi Yu should be regarded as her subordinate.
With things like this, they must have entered the South Sea Kings tomb after Uncle Three t Chen Wen-Jin but before they went to Xisha. It was when Uncle Three t this beauty that he had a big dream to join the archaeological team and turn over a new leaf so that he could return as the prodigal son.
I smacked my forehead. In other words, Uncle Three ca to the South Sea Kings tomb not to rob a grave, but to conduct an archaeological project? This might explain why only the main coffin disappeared and all the other funerary objects were safe and sound.
But if it was an archaeological excavation, why didn't it continue?
Was Uncle Three secretly working with Qi Yu to make so money on the side, but didn't let Aunt Chen Wen-Jin know?
I rembered the picture of Uncle Three and Yang Daguang. They didnt look like grave robbers, but more like industrial workers doing scientific research.
I quickly stopped myself. If I continued thinking like that, I would have to redo all the training I went through over the past ten years. But there was no denying that Qi Yu and I had a very strong connection. If the whole thing really was related to him, then there was a logical reason for Uncle Three to give these clues to check.
I listened carefully to my surroundings but still didnt hear anything. I pushed Fatty, but he still didn't wake up.
I opened his nostrils and asked myself, do I really have to do this? I picked up the candle and prepared to look up Fatty's nose, but once I picked it up, the range of light widened and I suddenly saw a person standing about four ters away in the middle of the tomb passage.
I was taken aback, but as I stared at it, I realized that it was a black leather figurine. It was standing there in the dark like so kind of creepy nightmare.
All my hair imdiately stood on end as I looked from the broken hands to the delicate face. It was the leather figurine woman from the waterway.
For so reason, it had suddenly appeared in the tomb passage.
Did it follow from the waterway?
I looked at it carefully and saw that it was holding sothing in its arms.
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TN Notes:
(1) This is referring back to Vol 8 Chapter 73.
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