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"Sir, the person has been brought." Feng Ji brought over an elderly man with gray hair.

Li Chenbi looked at the old man and got straight to the point, "Since you're in this line of work, have you heard of the legend of an ancient tomb from a previous dynasty in this area?"

The old man clasped his hands towards Li Chenbi and said, "To tell you the truth, when I was young, I came here with my fellow disciples to search for that tomb."

Qi Weiming was overjoyed upon hearing this, "In that case, take us there quickly!"

The old man looked troubled. "That tomb had a clever mechanism. My senior brother and I got trapped as soon as we reached the entrance. I barely escaped with my life, but my senior brother perished inside."

"This tomb is too eerie. Even if you find the entrance, it's very difficult to get in, and once you're in, you can't get out. It's as if no one was ever intended to come out when this tomb was designed."

Qi Weiming frowned. "Impossible. If those who go in can't come out alive, how can those people come in and out so freely!"

The old man said in a panic, "I am telling the truth, I have not hidden a single word."

Li Chenbi turned his head to look at the depression in the mountain and said, "Perhaps there is another exit."

Then he asked the old man, "When you first discovered that tomb, what was the entrance located in?"

The old man pointed in a direction, "That direction isn't far from here, it's only a fifteen-minute walk."

Li Chenbi thought for a moment, then looked again at the direction of the depression in the mountainside. "Since the location isn't far, can we go down from here?"

The old man said, "My senior brother and I had thought about it before, but the bottom is unfathomably deep. It is said that it is connected to an underground river, and the mountain walls below are even steeper. There is not even a foothold to climb. Once you fall down, there is no chance of survival."

Li Chenbi pondered for a moment and said, "It might be impossible for ordinary people, but if one has exceptional lightness skills, it's not impossible."

Li Qiuping hurriedly spoke up, "Those people are incredibly skilled in light-footed martial arts. They were able to leave silently right under my and my grandfather's noses. It shouldn't be difficult for them to come and go from here."

Qi Weiming walked to the edge, trying to discern something from the overgrown weeds.

Li Chenbi: "Don't waste time. Split into two groups. One group will follow this person to find the entrance, while the other group will prepare iron nails and hemp ropes. Let's try going down from here."

Li Chenbi felt increasingly uneasy. So much time had passed, and he wondered how Fan Liuer was doing now.

Qi Weiming agreed with his arrangement and quickly made preparations.

The two split up. Qi Weiming led his men to find the entrance, while Li Chenbi stayed behind to guard it. Li Qiuping, who was good at light footwork, went down to scout ahead.

While they went to prepare the nails and ropes, the rest of the people began clearing away the weeds and trees along the edge to make it easier to go down later.

Fan Liuer stopped looking and turned her gaze to Wei Nian, who was standing to the side.

She rested her elbows on the railing, tilted her head back, and hummed a little tune. If you didn't look closely, you might really think she was some young man from somewhere.

Fan Liuer looked at her and felt a little strange.

She should be afraid of Wei Nian, the bandit who kidnapped her here, but her fear came entirely from this strange place and the unknown, not from Wei Nian himself.

Seeing Wei Nian actually made her feel a little more at ease.

"You've been staring at me. I'm more handsome than your husband, aren't I?" Wei Nian turned his head to look at her, a nonchalant smile on his face.

Fan Liuer said, "Actually, we can't get out, right? You haven't contacted my husband at all." Her voice was very soft, not accusing or questioning, but with a sense of resignation and compromise.

Wei Nian's smile faded slightly, and her expression turned serious. "I said I would let you go, and I will let you go."

Fan Liuer's doubts grew stronger as she looked at Wei Nian's face and her earnest eyes.

A person's mouth can lie, but their eyes cannot.

Despite being a bandit, Wei Nian's eyes were clearer than most people's.

She felt extremely out of place here, with this place.

"You're going to betray them," she whispered.

Upon hearing this, Wei Nian raised an eyebrow slightly, then her smile widened, and she looked at Fan Liuer with curiosity in her eyes, "Why do you think that?"

"My intuition tells me you don't belong here; you belong to the bright world outside."

Upon hearing this, Wei Nian's eyes widened slightly. She turned her head and looked up, staring blankly at the hole above that appeared to be only the size of a basin.

She then looked away and said to Fan Liuer, "You are very smart, but I am not the good person you think I am. I have killed many people, and my hands are stained with blood."

Fan Liuer thought for a moment and said, "Then you must have your own reasons. If you had a choice, you probably wouldn't want to kill anyone."

Wei Nian laughed again, "Are you too kind or too naive? So what if you have your reasons? You've killed so many people, how can you still be a good person?"

"You can't say that. That cleaver killed so many people. Can you say he was a bad person? People aren't black and white. I don't deny that there are truly evil people in this world, but there are also many people who are forced into it."

"Otherwise, why would there be the saying, 'Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot'?"

Fan Liuer looked at Wei Nian, forcibly suppressing her nervousness, trying to open Wei Nian's heart with a heart-to-heart talk, hoping to gain a bit of sympathy from Wei Nian and exchange it for a chance to live for herself and Si Qing.

"It's not terrible to make mistakes; what's terrible is making the same mistake again and again."

Wei Nian stared at Fan Liuer for a long time without speaking, and Fan Liuer also refrained from speaking, her palms damp with sweat.

"I really like you. If we hadn't met here, I might have married you."

This sudden remark caught Fan Liuer completely off guard, leaving her utterly stunned.

Siqing, standing to the side, was also stunned. "You...you're not a woman?"

"Yes." Wei Nian raised an eyebrow. "I am a woman, but also a man, or you could say I am neither male nor female."

Fan Liuer hadn't yet figured out what was going on in those convoluted words when Si Qing took a deep breath.

She knew that she had heard people say that this was called a hermaphrodite.

She has everything that women have, and she also has everything that men have. She can give birth to children, and she can also get women pregnant.

I always thought it was just a legend, but I never imagined it was real.

Fan Liuer had never heard of it before, and she was completely confused.

Wei Nian looked at her expression and found it amusing. "I really like you, but our fate is too short. After today, we will never have the chance to meet again."

She leaned closer to Fan Liuer, looking at her, and asked, "If I tell you my story, will you remember me in the future?"

Fan Liuer nodded blankly.

Regardless of whether she is male or female or neither, this is an opportunity.

Wei Nian put his hand on her shoulder, pulled her a couple of steps to the side, and said, "I'm only telling you this."

Siqing could no longer see Wei Nian as a pure woman. Seeing this, she wanted to stop her, but Fan Liuer put her hands behind her back and made a gesture to her.

Seeing this, Siqing silently shut up.