Artifact Report

Chapter 129 Jin Xueli: Think about it, this is the second time I met a vulture

The person is dead, why make the coffin so luxurious and expensive?
Jin Xueli didn't care about the deceased and had cursed Wei Xilai over and over again for more than ten times.

This man did not forget his status as a rich man even after his death. Look how much trouble he caused to the gravediggers.
The coffin was heavy and wide. Even when it was standing upright in the bucket, a large part of it was still dangling and sticking out, as if it would fall headfirst at any moment.

"I secured it with a rope."

Jin Xueli shielded the rain with one hand and shouted to Han Liuyue in the cab, "Try driving it again. It shouldn't fall over this time, but don't drive too fast."

It seemed as if God was unwilling to let them carry the coffin away easily. Not long after they left the tomb, it started raining again - huge raindrops, with a tooth-tickling joy, once again generously poured down on the earth.

The surface of the coffin was already painted smooth and shiny, and with the water accumulated in the bucket, it became even more unstable. After the thrilling experience of the coffin rolling on the ground, even if it was tied with ropes now, people still felt uneasy.

What's more, the vulture was also a troublesome thing. It would cry out "He's hugging me" from time to time, and then flutter a few times, bumping into the coffin and swaying it left and right with bangs. If Jin Xueli, who was walking on the road in the rain, had not been afraid of breaking the coffin lid, she would have really wanted to hit it in the face with an axe.

"Be careful, there's a downhill slope ahead." She shouted to Han Liuyue, who nodded.

In the cemetery on a rainy night, visibility was very poor. The flashlight was filled with silvery-white raindrops, covering the sky and the earth with a fine white net.

Amid the roar of the bulldozer and the heavy rain, Han Liuyue asked loudly, "You just said you encountered an upgraded vulture in the nest?"

Even with the sounds of rain, engines, and vultures crashing into the coffin, the two of them still overcame the difficulties and chatted with each other.

"Yeah," Jin Xueli also said loudly, "I was wondering at the time why the vultures followed me even though I wasn't on the verge of death."

She picked out the situation at that time and said a few words. Even through the night and the rain, she could feel a lot of sympathy in Han Liuyue's eyes - but the reason for the sympathy was not what she thought.

"Although your conditions... well, I mean, if you ask Brother Shiba for help, it's not impossible for you to come to Kai's house as an intern. You can practice more strength and go into the nest with our hunters to see what they have to offer."

Han Liuyue's tone was as if he were advising a homeless person to earn a living with his own hands. "Being a hunter isn't easy. You need to learn a lot. Look, even vultures can..."

Jin Xueli understood what she meant and was furious.

"What do you think? You're saying I'm not very capable as a hunter?"

"Hey, you said it yourself. I'm still trying to find a nice way to put it." Han Liuyue didn't look embarrassed at all.

Unlike the other inhabitants, vultures are almost non-dangerous, except for the fact that they can become targets—they are not even any stronger than the average human.

To an uninformed outsider, it seemed like a perfectly healthy hunter almost fell to a vulture. This experience certainly couldn't be written on a resume.

"You'd be unlucky too,"

Jin Xueli was very dissatisfied and took two steps closer to the cab, making sure every word hit Han Liuyue in the face: "Do you know what kind of situation I was in when I met it? Unless you can fly, you may end up worse than me."

"Oh?"

Oh shit.

Jin Xueli refused to accept the situation and described the situation again: the traffic light on the road was slow to change to a safe color, there were checkered markings on the road ahead, and next to it was a row of houses that were not allowed to be trespassed...

"I was practically trapped. It was like the environment was helping me. To move forward, I had to cross the hopscotch grid. And that turned out to be cheating! Halfway through, all the grids were 'copied.'"

She thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "...Isn't it because I was really unlucky back then?"

"Maybe," Han Liuyue said briefly, which was not like her style.

The two fell silent at the same time.

Amid the sound of rain, a small backhoe slowly moved across the ground.

The cemetery is extremely large, covering the entire mountain and slope; Vesile's tomb is hidden deep in the cemetery.

In order to reach the gate earlier and avoid being discovered, the bulldozer did not drive on the main road, but instead chose a small path in the cemetery, passing through rows of tombstones. Fortunately, Han Liuyue was familiar with the cemetery and did not have to worry about getting lost.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, so loud that it was deafening and we couldn't continue chatting.

Jin Xueli was still wearing only the garbage bag-like raincoat, and she was unable to raise her head due to the rain. She swept the road ahead with a flashlight, and after looking at it, she waved her hand, and the bulldozer rumbled up to her.

After walking for only a few minutes, she heard Han Liuyue shout something. She turned around and asked loudly, "What? You spoke?"

Han Liuyue knew that now was not the time to talk.

Through the window that was half blocked by the coffin, she seemed to find it troublesome and changed her mind. She stopped talking and just waved her hand, telling Jin Xueli to keep going.

The road ahead was also flat, with no unusual movement; Jin Xueli turned the flashlight back and waved her hand again.

The bulldozer wheels rolled onto the road ahead.

Amid the mixed fragments of light and dark between the flashlight, the rain curtain, and the darkness, Jin Xueli almost thought that the scene of the bulldozer sinking and tipping forward was an illusion - but the next second, the huge coffin that came loose from the bucket rolled towards her like rocks carried by a mudslide.

There was not even time to scream, the shadow had already completely covered his head.

Jin Xueli's hair stood on end. With all her might, she leaped to the side. The coffin, weighing several hundred pounds, barely grazed her back as it slammed into the ground, sending up countless splashes of water. She barely dodged the coffin, but because she couldn't stop in time, she crashed headfirst into the nearby stone tomb. The flashlight snapped out.

She touched her forehead and felt a wet, hot, iron-smelling sensation.

Oh no, we can’t let the vultures out…

Consciousness was hit, like a rotten tooth that was about to loosen and fall out, and it was as shaky and dragging as Jin Xueli's body and steps.

After a while, Jin Xueli struggled to get up, stepped on the deep and shallow rain puddles, and walked towards the coffin as quickly as possible.

When she was a few steps away from it, she stopped again, took out her cell phone from her trouser pocket, and quickly took a picture - and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the coffin fell down completely, fortunately the lid did not fall open.

It seemed to have rolled over and now fell to the ground. Half of Vesile's head was still exposed in the hole. It seemed that his cervical vertebrae were broken by the previous blow, and his head was hanging crookedly.

Naturally, the residents would not die so easily.

When she tried to pull the lid of the coffin, the vulture closed his eyes and groaned in pain: "What's going on..."

The pull didn't budge - seeing that the coffin lid was still locked, Jin Xueli's heart sank back into her stomach. Without caring about it, she turned around and ran straight towards the bulldozer.

The flashlight on the mobile phone had a small range and the light was not strong enough. She scanned it back and forth several times before she finally believed what she saw. She was a little dumbfounded.

A big pit collapsed on the road she had just walked on, which just happened to catch the bulldozer and pull it into the pit, where it tilted and sank into the ground.

It was as if someone had dug a trap on the road - if a person walked over it, the ground would still support it; but if an excavator carrying a coffin passed over it, it would collapse immediately.

"Han Liuyue!"

She called out and walked around to the cab. Because the machine was halfway buried in the soil, she could reach out and grab Han Liuyue's shoulder from the road. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"It hurts me..."

Han Liuyue, the driver, was hit harder and couldn't get up from the dark cab for a long time. "Vulture—"

"It's still in the coffin," Jin Xueli said hurriedly, "Luckily the coffin wasn't thrown open."

"That's good," she murmured, taking a deep breath, "give me a hand first."

"it is good,"

Because the bulldozer was tilting, Jin Xueli placed her phone on the ground to illuminate it, grabbed her hand, and pulled her out. "How did such a huge hole suddenly appear in the cemetery?"

"That's right," Han Liuyue muttered, "I've also filled in the hole I dug nearby..."

Jin Xueli almost pushed it back to her.

"You dug the hole?" Her voice rose eight degrees. She was so angry that she was at a loss for words. She could only repeat herself: "You dug the hole?"

"No, you misunderstood."

Han Liuyueban was stuck in the cab and hurriedly explained, "I was just about to tell you that I dug a grave nearby. Didn't I tell you that before the burial, I would bring people to expand and deepen the pit..."

"Did you dig into the road?"

"No, no," Han Liuyue said quickly, as if to appease him. "I dug the grave next to it. Although I enlarged the pit, it shouldn't have expanded to the area in the middle... Besides, I filled it in."

"Then how do you explain the potholes on the road?" Jin Xueli held back her anger and let her support her as she backed out of the cab.

"Could it be related to the continuous rain?" Han Liuyue whispered.

"Stand on the ground first," Jin Xueli said unhappily, "Be careful, this is the edge of the pit, the soil is loose and slippery—"

She had just said this when the surroundings suddenly became dark.

The two of them were silent for a moment.

The flashlight on a mobile phone is not enough on a rainy night and can’t illuminate very far; but there is still an essential difference between having it and not having it.

"Is it out of battery? I haven't had a chance to charge it today..."

Jin Xueli's heartbeat, after stopping for a beat, was now beating twice as fast as before. She let go of Han Liuyue's hand and turned around to grope on the ground for a while.

...The cell phone is missing.

　You can rest tomorrow!
　　I'll write a chapter thanking the characters, then I can rest... I'm planning to watch Alien, I'll probably be offline soon if I don't...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)