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Chapter 237: Tomb Raiders Alliance (I) Partridge Whistle Meets Zhang Qiling
"I am Partridge Whistle."

"I am Zhang Qiling."

"I am Chen Yulou."

"My name is Wu Wu Gou."

In the foothills of Jiutian Mountain in Zuoshui County, Shaanxi Province, four young people from all over the world gathered here.

"I've long heard of you two." Chen Yulou saluted with his fists clasped, and Partridge Whistle also saluted.

"You're welcome. I'm just a rookie and don't deserve Mr. Chen's praise." Zhang Qiling seemed unused to this kind of courtesy and responded with a somewhat stiff expression.

Zhang Qiling, who was born in the third year of the Republic of China, is now nearly thirty years old, but the Zhang family's blood makes him look very young, about twenty years old.

As for Gou Wu, although he was somewhat well-known in Changsha, he had rarely left Hunan. He could only stammer, "My name is poor and my reputation is low, so it's not worth mentioning."

On his left were members of the Buddha's family, and opposite him were the leader of the Southern Xiangling tribe and the elusive Taoist monk Banshan.

It made him seem a little unpresentable as the fifth among the nine schools in Changsha.

"Woof! Woof!" A soft dog bark came from Dog Five's bag.

"I heard that Master Gou Wu has trained a smart dog that understands human nature very well and is good at finding acupuncture points." Partridge Whistle asked curiously.

"I'm not worthy of it. I'm just a dog." Gou Wu felt a little embarrassed.

He had a Tibetan Spaniel named Sancun Ding in his pocket. It was small in size, weighing only a few taels, and was naturally too small to be raised. Gou Wuchang put it in his sleeve and took it with him wherever he went.

"I have long admired the hero of the Zhang family. Seeing him today finally fulfills my wish." Chen Yulou is indeed a well-known figure in the underworld, and he treats people with a warm and gentle warmth.

He turned to the somewhat reserved Gou Wu and said, "Why don't men take Wu Gou and conquer the fifty states? Gou Wuye has such a strong name, how can you be so modest?"

"I've heard of the name of the Fifth Master of the Changsha Old Nine Gates in Yunnan, Guizhou, and other places."

"Both of you are heroes from your youth. We are ashamed of ourselves."

Zhang Qiling saluted with his fists, but his face was expressionless and indifferent.

Gou Wu felt a little embarrassed to be praised so highly by Chen Yulou, the famous leader of the Southern Xiangling Army, but he was very proud inside, and the corners of his mouth were almost grinning behind his ears.

It turns out that my name has this meaning, and it wasn't just picked randomly by the old man.

"We are gathered here today at the invitation of Master Zhang Dafo, but the underground is dangerous, and we should take care of each other."

"This is what Master Zhang Dafo has entrusted us with. We two brothers will do our best." Partridge Whistle said with a smile on his face.

When fighting with strangers, the most frightening thing is that they will plot against each other.

Chen Yulou and Queqiao Shao also didn't want these two "Zhang family members" to have any ulterior motives, and if they fought in the underground, it would harm both themselves and others.

Chen Yulou is a well-known figure in the green forest world.

In every dynasty, only when the world was in chaos would there be groups of bandits who would live among the mountains, rivers and swamps, digging up graves and cutting off the dragon veins of the king's tombs.

Just because there was government jurisdiction during peaceful times, and China has always had strict household registration checks, a large group of refugees like Xiangling Lishi who roamed around would sooner or later become a thorn in the eyes of the government.

Therefore, only when the world is in chaos and many refugees become bandits, these bandits can change their appearance and put on the identity of green forest bandits. They usually roam in the mountains and forests, and their tribes travel around to survey the terrain of the mountains and rivers. Once they find a large tomb, they will gather together and dig up the tomb.

The old man Chen Yulou is the leader of the Xiangling bandits. He controls the bandits in several provinces such as Henan, Shaanxi, and Hunan. He is a big figure in the three rivers and four lakes.

Partridge Whistle was born in the Zagrama tribe. In order to break the curse caused by the wizard of the tribe who used his jade eyes to peek into the imaginary space, this tribe has been searching hard for the Zhuochen Pearl that appeared briefly during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. To this end, they searched all the tombs and formed a branch of the tomb-robbing school - the Mountain Moving Taoist.

After thousands of years of inheritance, Partridge Whistle is probably the last Taoist monk who can move mountains among his tribe.

When he was young, he learned the tricks of this art from a tomb raider named Liaochen, and became a great man who combined the two major traditions.

Chen Yulou and Queqiao Shao once collaborated in Xiangxi. Although the result was dismal, they both admired each other's abilities.

But recently, the well-known Zhang Dafoye asked someone to find Chen Yulou and asked him to spend a big bucket to find an object from the pre-Qin period.

For this, Zhang Dafoye not only paid three large boxes of gold bars, but also gave five hundred Chinese rifles and three mortars.

You have to know that this is a chaotic time, and antiques are valuable in prosperous times, and gold is valuable in troubled times.

Antiques in troubled times were cheap and could not be sold for much money. Even Chen Yulou mainly stole gold, silver and bronze artifacts.

The Nationalist government's gold yuan coupons had long been regarded as toilet paper, and the only hard currencies circulating in the market were the US dollar, gold and arms.

Such a huge price, exchanging an expensive item for an antique of unknown value, and having the Zhang family go along, this is definitely not a simple matter.

Moreover, the target was in Shaanxi Province, where the Japanese army was heading, and Chen Yulou could not bring many strong men with him.

That's why Chen Yulou insisted on inviting Queqiao Shao to go with him.

Partridge Whistle set his eyes on Zhang Qiling. His intuition told him that this taciturn young man must have great abilities and big secrets.

He had heard of the Zhang family's name, and his great-grandfather had a connection with the Zhang family.

There are also some fragmentary records in the ancestral notes about this mysterious and low-key family.

However, the Zhang family has a longer heritage than theirs, and most of the time they keep a very low profile. However, in recent years, Zhang Dafoye of Changsha has become famous and has brought many members of the Zhang family out of retirement, which has brought this family back into the sight of many people in the industry.

The Zhang family never communicated with outsiders, so it was a bit strange that they were called in for this matter.

If it weren’t for the fact that Zhang Dafoye’s deposit was too generous, so generous that Chen Yulou couldn’t refuse it.

If Chen Yulou had not lost many of his Xiangling brothers in western Hunan, he would have been in urgent need of replenishing money and power.

He also avoided it.

But now, I'm here.

Chen Yulou calmed down and began to ponder the shape of the mountains and the flow of water.

"The terrain here is open, and this section of the mountain range is symmetrical on both sides." Partridge Whistle learned the skills of the tomb raider and has gained a good understanding of finding dragon points.

"The forests are lush, the valleys and peaks face each other, and the mountain extends slightly in an arc on the north and south sides, resembling a blooming lotus."

"This underground palace must be located on the second peak of Jiutian Mountain or inside the Lotus Palace on the third peak."

"That's very insightful." Gou Wu clasped his fists politely, but he caught a glimpse of Zhang Qiling frowning and observing the mountains and rivers.

He is considered the representative of the Buddha, and the silent young man next to him is the representative of the Zhang family.

The two should be in the same trench, but the young man is too taciturn, so he can only bite the bullet and communicate with Chen Yulou.

Gou Wu said, "Jiutian Mountain inherits the dragon vein of the Qinling Mountains. It originates from the Qinling Mountains through Mount Li and the Wei River, and goes all the way to Xi'an and all the way to the Wei River. Layer by layer, it gathers the energy of the mountains and rivers where yin and yang meet, and transforms the energy into a cave."

"It has become a true dragon's lair and the place of the king's tomb."

"But he can gather energy and disperse it, so he can only be a king, not an emperor!" Gou Wu made a judgment.

Zhang Qiling frowned slightly and stared at the shape of the mountain in front of him.

The Zhang family has actually existed for a long time, but the real Zhang family members cannot leave the clan land for a long time, and only the branches are active in the outside world.

The most powerful branch in recent years is undoubtedly Zhang Qishan, the Dafoye Zhang from Changsha.

However, the tomb was located in a Japanese-controlled area, so they couldn't send too many people to avoid alerting the Japanese. So the main family and the outside family decided to send one person each. The main family sent Zhang Qiling, the most outstanding young man of this generation.

Zhang Qishan, an outsider, gathered the purest five members of the Old Nine Gates and hired Chen Yulou, the chief of the Southern Xiangling, as external aid.

Therefore, a four-person tomb-robbing team was officially formed.

"But the mountains follow the flow of water, the earth is the emperor, and the sky is the emperor." Zhang Qiling said succinctly: "Jiutian Mountain is too famous to begin with, and ordinary kings, princes, generals and ministers are easily offended by the two energies of heaven and earth."

"The feng shui is good, but it can be used as a temporary palace, not as an underground palace."

"Good! You are worthy of being a disciple of the Zhang family!" Chen Yulou praised half politely and half sincerely.

Partridge Whistle also nodded silently. This was roughly the same as what he learned from his master, but the Zhang family seemed to have been passed down for thousands of years, and a young man in his teens had such knowledge.

"But what the Buddha pointed out cannot be wrong." Gou Wu was carrying a two-point gold dog. The dog was very clever and had already started to search for the scent.

"Unless, we are not looking for an ordinary underground palace." Zhang Qiling's words made the sensitive Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle raise their eyebrows.

Look at each other.

The Zhang family is very mysterious and has many experts, but this time they have recruited outsiders like them.

It seems that this job is not so easy to take on.

"Let's go." Gou Wu took the lead without hesitation.

"I hope everything goes well." Partridge Whistle glanced at the time. It was noon.

On the second and third days of the clear moon, everything goes well.

Just right.

About an incense stick of time after they entered, another group of fully equipped people appeared in the valley.

Behind them were hundreds of Japanese soldiers armed with live ammunition.

"Ms. Hashimoto, Director Wang, it seems that the people from the Zhang family have already gone in!" A lame bald man stood at the entrance of the valley and looked at the footprints on the ground.

"Hey, four of you, all pretty good!"

"Four people?" Hashimoto sneered, "Director Wang, how could four people possibly dig out this underground palace?"

"The Zhang family are all experts in finding dragon points and acupuncture points, and in a fight, quality is more important than quantity." Wang Buquan, who was called Director Wang, glanced at the huge group of people and said with a frown.

But considering that the other party had brought an army, Wang Buquan didn't say much. Instead, he asked, "Old He, where Yin and Yang can't grow together, how could that fight happen here?"

Jiutian Mountain, I heard there wouldn’t be any big tombs in this place.

But the news that the Wang family had planted a secret agent in the Zhang family was accurate.

There must be a secret pointing to the ultimate here.

Even the Zhang family did not truly obtain it, the supreme secret treasure of the deceased immortals and saints, great longevity and great freedom.

This is the ultimate ideal that the Wang family has been pursuing since their ancestor Wang Canghai.

The Wang family was very powerful at this time. A branch of the family became the president of the Nanjing government, and the main branch had long cooperated with the Japanese in the Northeast, jointly establishing the "Manchuria-Mongolia Cultural Association", robbing ancient tombs of Goguryeo, and even collecting and dividing up the cultural relics of the Forbidden City.

With the help of the Japanese, the Zhang family in the Northeast was suppressed and could not raise their heads.

We even collaborated with the Japanese to conduct destructive research on ancient tombs and monuments in Dunhuang and the Liao Dynasty, and continued to uncover the ultimate secrets.

This time, he even took advantage of the information obtained by the undercover agents who had been planted within the Zhang family for several generations.

But the news was only fragmentary and did not give the full picture.

Therefore, the Wang family took advantage of the close cooperative relationship between the Nanjing Wang Mingquan government and the Japanese and took the initiative to contact the Japanese.

This is why the elite tomb-robbing team from the north, including the northern tomb-robbing master He Laogui, known as the "Chu Ma Xian", and the northwestern bandits Ma family, followed the Zhang family and prepared to take advantage of the situation.

Three miles away, a battalion of elite Japanese troops had set up a tight net.

Above the sky, groups of Japanese Type 92 tank bombers flew by.

Every move of the Zhang family is under their surveillance.

"Professor Hamada, why do you want to bring these Chinese people with you?" A Japanese man dressed as a monk stared at He Laogui and Wang Buquan with a gloomy look, and said indifferently.

Professor Hamada wiped his glasses and said, "Master Otani, please do not discriminate against our friends. After all, the Empire is now leading the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Belt."

"Mr. Wang's family has always been very supportive of the Empire. This time, it was the Wang family who took the initiative to inform the headquarters of the intelligence."

He spoke slowly and the people around him immediately lowered their heads.

Professor Hamada, whose original name was Hamada Kosaku, was later known as the "Father of Japanese Archaeology". He was the president of Kyoto Imperial University in Japan and the founder of archaeology.

Hamada looked at Otani Kozui and said, "In June 1937, Mr. He, Mr. Kuroda, and I excavated the ancient Goguryeo tombs in Ji'an, Jilin, and obtained very valuable original materials."

"Later, we collaborated on many projects, including exploring the Yunding Tiangong of the Dongxia people and searching for Gutongjing in Badain Jaran."

"So I have great respect for Mr. He's professional skills, and he is also a very important friend of mine."

"Hi." Otani Mitsuru was respectful on the surface, but he didn't care in his heart.

Although he was a monk, he did all kinds of evil.

Some time ago, he deliberately stole hundreds of thousands of precious cultural relics in Dunhuang and chopped off the heads of many Buddha statues.

This made him famous in Japan overnight. After all, there are many Buddhists in Japan, and it is rare for a monk to be so disrespectful to Buddha.

Hamada Kosaku looked around and said slowly, "You are all the core forces of the empire's archaeological community. The ancient Chinese people installed traps in ancient tombs to prevent their treasures from being stolen."

"You may not have the treasure, but you must not lose it."

"For everything, let Mr. He and the others go first. We just need to collect first-hand information from the ancient tomb as quickly as possible."

"Hi!" Otani Mitsuru, Kuroda Genji, Yoshikawa Koichiro, Torii Ryuzo, Egami Namio, and Tamura Minoru all bowed.

This group of people are the most active Japanese "archaeologists" in China. No matter whether it is a museum, ancient house or tomb, they cannot escape their crazy and destructive plunder.

Take away what you can, and smash and burn what you can't.

Even some copper artifacts of research value were melted down to make bullets.

Hamada Kosaku nodded with satisfaction. Since the Chinese were not capable of protecting such a magnificent treasure, let's hand it over to the more capable Japanese.

This time, the Wang family's actions and determination were even stronger and more urgent than when they were searching for the Yunding Palace.

Although Yunding Palace ultimately failed, they learned the greatest secret that the Zhang family had guarded for generations.

longevity.

This is a temptation that no one can resist once they get this secret.

Coupled with the Japanese's advanced biochemical technology, the Japanese will definitely become the most outstanding race in the world.

Even, become a god!
　The Japanese who appear in this chapter are all real people who came to China to rob tombs during the war of aggression against China.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)