My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

"No need! Take him away... but remember, he is still mine."

The Demon Lord's eyes were a little dazed, and it was obvious that his mind was not on Hao Xie, but was thinking about other things.

Moreover, even if the Demon Lord forced Hao Xie to stay, Zhang Hao would find a way to take him away, which would only cause more trouble. It would be better to let go, at least he could retain some initiative.

On the way back to the inn, Zhang Hao was driving and Hao Xie was sitting in the passenger seat. He was looking out the window the whole way and didn't even glance at Zhang Hao.

At lunch time, Zhang Hao asked him to get off the car to eat, but he remained indifferent and just looked out the window silently. Zhang Hao had no choice but to buy the food and hand it to him. He reluctantly ate two bites, but it didn't look like he accepted Zhang Hao's apology, but more like he was reluctant to eat in order to survive.

When they were almost back at the inn, Hao Xie finally spoke.

"When you decided to sacrifice your emotions in exchange for power, did you ever think of us?"

This topic is ultimately unavoidable.

Zhang Hao knew that he was in the wrong on this issue, so he did not quibble but answered honestly.

"I have thought about it, but my idea at the time was to let Hansan follow me and help me keep it a secret from you. If I made any move that revealed the truth, he would help me smooth things over. But it turned out to be a very stupid idea..."

"Yes, we in the inn noticed your abnormality within a few days, but we didn't ask and waited for you to explain...but you never said anything."

Every word Hao Xie said was like a knife stabbing Zhang Hao in the heart.

Zhang Hao closed his eyes weakly and wanted to say something, but found that his throat was dry and he couldn't utter a word.

"Zhang Hao, I will never forgive you for this."

"……Um."

"Go find Fatty Wang. He might still be angry."

"Well, do you know where he is?"

"I'm going back to my hometown in Hexi. I think I'm going to visit my old friends."

Hexi is far away from here, and it takes at least one or two days to drive there. But Zhang Hao didn't say much, and silently bought two cups of coffee, drinking them while on the road.

Apart from the conversation during the meal, Hao Xie didn't say much to Zhang Hao, but the atmosphere obviously eased.

Once something happens, it is like a knife across your heart. Even if you try hard to ignore the other person's existence, the lingering sense of crisis will always remind you that you can no longer go back to the past.

Hao Xie also knew some of Wang Pangzi’s former friends. After arriving in Hexi, he sent messages to them, but he could not get through no matter how hard he tried.

Finally, Hao Xie contacted a mutual friend after asking around, and found out that they had gone to Xiadou together again!
Those friends were all called up by Fatty Wang. It was said that Fatty Wang was in a very bad mood at the time, and had a cold feeling of wanting to die. Those friends who had already retired from the underworld also took out their equipment from the warehouse and followed Fatty Wang to play the game to relax.

If the friend who provided the information hadn't had a wife who was about to give birth, he would probably have gone with them.

"Should we go to Douli to find him?" Zhang Hao asked Hao Xie for his opinion.

Hao Xie threw the question back to Zhang Hao.

"do you want?"

Zhang Hao thought seriously for a while and nodded.

"think."

"Then pack up and go look for him. The inn isn't open for business right now, and we won't have enough manpower to go back. Let's find Fatty Wang first."

"it is good."

That afternoon, the two bought equipment locally. According to the clues given by the friend, the fat man probably went to the grassland in the north.

The tombs in the south are often hidden in the mountains, with complex and bizarre terrain, while the tombs in the north are different, with relatively simple terrain, but the degree of danger is greatly increased.

The beliefs in the north and south are different. The beliefs in the north are often somewhat strange, so the things left in the tombs are also strange.

When Zhang Hao went to the battlefield with Hao Xie and Fatty Wang before, they had never been to the north. So Zhang Hao was a little worried about this trip.

With Zhang Hao's current strength, he was not worried about any danger he would encounter. What he was worried about was that Fatty Wang and the others might get into trouble before they met up.

Saying these words would only make Hao Xie more worried, so Zhang Hao said nothing and drove to the grassland silently.

The entrances to tombs in the grasslands are often not as mysterious as those in the south.

Sometimes, it may be just a simple hut or an inconspicuous stone monument on the grassland, or there may not even be an entrance at all.

After Hao Xie arrived at the grassland, the information he got from his friends was no longer available. In this vast grassland, it is impossible to accurately determine the location of the tomb by words alone.

"Think carefully, which one would Fatty Wang be interested in?"

"I'll ask Huo Xiuxiu. Her family has very detailed records on this. Although they haven't been to many tombs, they have records of them."

"Just ask."

It turns out that the Huo family has indeed done in-depth research on these things.

"Let me see... There are three near you, but none of them have been opened yet. Even the national archaeological team has never been there! If Fatty Wang is really there, it's illegal! We have to get him out quickly!"

Hao Xie responded: "I know this, but the problem is that this place is too big and there are no obvious signs. Send us a map and we will find people according to the map."

"it is good."

Huo Xiuxiu quickly sent the map over and asked one more question before hanging up the phone.

"I want to know...how is Zhang Hao doing now?"

"He's back to normal and hasn't had any relapses." Hao Xie answered casually.

Zhang Hao listened from the side and couldn't help but smile slightly.

"So when can I return to the inn?"

"Let's talk about it after I find Fatty Wang. I'll beat him up first. He dares to do such a illegal thing. I think he is tired of living! I'll die first!"

Everyone seemed to tacitly regard the inn as their final base camp and they all cared deeply about it. Now that they had the chance, they didn't say anything else and just thought about going back.

Zhang Hao was very grateful for their affection for the inn, but it seemed too pretentious to say it out loud.

The map that Huo Xiuxiu sent also carefully marked the danger level of each place.

The closest tomb to him is the one known to be less dangerous. The entrance to the tomb is a stone house, and local people often go there to worship. If he wants to go in, it will easily alarm the local herdsmen, so that place should not be Fatty Wang's first choice.

The degree of danger of the remaining two is unknown, but based on the existing intelligence...these two are no less dangerous than the Qinling Tombs in the south.

Hao Xie looked around and threw the question to Zhang Hao again.

"Which one do you think Fatty Wang will go to?"

“I think it might be the one on the snowy mountain… He might be in a mood right now where he wants to vent or find some excitement. The snowy mountain is at a high altitude, with a low temperature, and there are few people. If the information they know is that the remaining two are equally dangerous, then in order to find me, he will most likely go to the one on the snowy mountain.” Hao Xie snapped his fingers.

"Yes, I thought of that too. Let's go find him!"

The road on the grassland was rugged and difficult to travel on. After walking along the national highway for a while, they began to head towards the snow-capped mountains.

At first it was a green meadow, but gradually the grass turned yellow, and even the cow and sheep dung on the road decreased significantly.

As the altitude increases, the oxygen becomes thinner and thinner.

Although this is the northern grassland, they have headed westward and have now reached the northwest.

The tomb ahead is still about 300 kilometers away, but the road ahead is becoming increasingly difficult to walk on.

Frequent rivers began to appear on the ground, and when they bypassed one, they would immediately encounter another.

Suddenly, Hao Xie pointed at a small black dot in the distance and said, "Look over there, is that a car?"

Zhang Hao squinted his eyes and took a look, and found that it was true!

It was a black van, and Hao Xie was very familiar with the license plate number, as it belonged to a friend of Fatty Wang.

"It looks like they're just ahead. We guessed right."

"Let's go and find someone."

After getting off the car, Zhang Hao and Hao Xie continued on foot, carrying their equipment.

On the way, Zhang Hao wanted to help Hao Xie carry more things, but was rejected by Hao Xie.

He said: "I am not useless, I can carry myself on my own!"

Zhang Hao was yelled at again, but he was in a good mood.

It's better than not talking to him at all along the way.

As the altitude continued to rise and the temperature gradually dropped, Zhang Hao began to unconsciously release his strength to search for Fatty Wang's trace.

But perhaps because the tomb was underground, he could never penetrate the earth's crust. To find the person, he really had to find the entrance left by Fatty Wang!
"It's all white all around, or the rocks are black. It's impossible to find the entrance just by looking. We have to find a way to determine the location of the tomb."

There are many ways to determine the location, such as using a compass, or mobilizing the sect's unique secret treasure. These methods all rely on tracking the source of underground spiritual energy to locate the location.

The advantage of this method is that it is low cost and only requires one to practice it to the highest level, but Zhang Hao does not need to do so.

He directly set up a hexagonal square formation and stood in the center of the formation, with one hand raised high towards the sky and the other hand palm pushed forward, as if he was sensing something.

"What are you doing?"

"I need to carefully feel the flow of energy here. If Fatty Wang and the others really opened the tomb when they came, then some spiritual energy would definitely leak out here. I just need to capture it."

Hao Xie curled his lips and didn't ask any more questions.

The light from the sky was so dazzling that Hao Xie felt his eyes hurt after looking at it for a while.

"Lao Zhang, my eyes seem to be hurt by the light."

"what happened?"

Zhang Hao happened to find the exact location. He turned around and saw Hao Xie covering his eyes to block out the light, with a painful expression on his face.

"My eyes are sore and painful. The light is too strong. My eyesight is not good to begin with..."

Not only did his eyes hurt, but Hao Xie also began to feel a splitting headache.

"Come with me, I will take you into the tomb first."

It turned out that the entrance to the tomb detected by Zhang Hao was not far from here, just behind another small hill. It was just because it was all white here that they didn't notice the entrance.

As soon as he entered the cave, the noisy sound of the wind disappeared immediately, but Hao Xie still did not open his eyes.

Although the surroundings darkened, making him feel a little more comfortable, the headache still persisted...

What’s going on? Why does my head hurt so much?
Hao Xie clenched his fists, and after a long while, he slowly opened his eyes.

In front of them was a huge door. Apart from a hole in the lower right corner that looked like it was blown out by gunpowder, there was no other sign of the door being open.

In other words, if Fatty Wang really went in, he should have used gunpowder to blow the door open.

Anyone who knows a little about this business knows that doing this when entering a tomb may cause instability in the internal environment of the tomb. To put it more mysteriously, it may anger some kind of existence in the tomb.

Zhang Hao frowned slightly and suddenly had a bad feeling.

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The sound of tinkling continued in the tomb.

Fatty Wang was carrying a large backpack filled with a lot of heavy things. He was also holding another bag in his hand and was putting the things from the tomb into the bag.

The funeral customs of the grassland here are very different from those in the Central Plains. There are not so many rare treasures, but more ancient objects such as Dzi beads and agates. If they were modern products, these things might not be worth much, but Fatty Wang knew that these were left here many years ago, and any one of them would be priceless.

If you sell it secretly, it will be enough to feed you for most of your life; if you are discovered while selling it, it will be enough to put you in jail for most of your life.

After putting everything he could see into his bag, Fatty Wang had nothing to do, so he kicked the broken vases on the ground, trying to make some noise to make himself feel less upset.

But his actions made his friends very unhappy.

"Can you be quiet? When we came in, we wanted to crack the code on the door, but you just blew it open with explosives. You should know the rules of the tomb, which is not to disturb."

"We've already come in, and you just said you don't want to bother us. Don't you think it's funny?" Fatty Wang sat on the ground and said, "Hurry up and pack up. We're leaving. I don't want to argue with you."

His nonchalant tone irritated his friends.

"You said you wanted to come here for some excitement, so we came here with you, but you don't care about our lives. Isn't that too much?"

His friends knew that he was upset because of the inn's affairs, but come to think of it, do these friends have no temper at all?
"Do you take that Han guy too seriously? What does his life or death have to do with you——"

Before he could finish his words, Fatty Wang rushed over and punched him hard on the shoulder.

"Do you know what he is doing now? If you don't know, don't make any comments!"

The friend didn't expect that he would fight with him because of someone he had just met for a short time, so he rushed up and started fighting with Fatty Wang.

They kicked everything around them aside, and in their angry mood they didn't notice that a small vase rolled all the way and landed on a floor tile. The tile sank slightly, as if it had triggered some mechanism!
The two men struggled and moved to the side, not noticing at all that a huge dark pit had quietly appeared beside them, with no bottom in sight.

Fatty Wang was a strong man, and he was very powerful. The two of them didn't notice the pit during the shove. My friend missed a step and fell straight down!
"Oh my goodness!"

Fatty Wang reacted quickly and grabbed his friend's arm. But the inertia of a big man falling was too great, and Fatty Wang fell with him, leaving only half of his body lying on the edge of the pit. (End of this chapter)