How could I possibly be confined in a cage?

Chapter 129 Cliff Coffin (2)

The skinny guy gritted his teeth and jumped over there.

Fortunately, he was light and there was no wind at the moment, so although he veered slightly off course, he landed safely on the platform.

The platform was only a meter long and half a meter wide, but that was enough. He quickly untied the rope and climbed up, quickly scaling the tree. He shouted with delight:

"Yes, sir, this way is fine."

Master Huang and his group were also happy, finally they didn't have to go through caves and dangerous paths anymore.

So one by one, they tied the rope around their waists and lowered themselves down...

After they all left, Guo Zixing and the other two quietly went to the burial niche.

For nearly an hour, they remained tense, pressed against the mountainside, enduring the wind and sun, and almost couldn't take it anymore.

The three of them slumped on the platform, rubbing their stiff leg muscles, completely losing their composure.

"It's such a pity that we let them leave like this," Qingru said regretfully.

While rubbing his leg, Guo Zixing said, "There's nothing I can do, it's my fault. I misjudged the situation and didn't know he would take a different approach."

Qingru said, "Forget it, everyone has their own destiny. Maybe Heaven thinks it's not time for him to be taken yet."

Standing up, Qingru stretched her limbs. Seeing several coffins laid out there, she wondered, "What kind of burial method is this?"

Guo Zixing said, "I just heard them say it's called cliff burial? It's a custom from Chongqing, I think. He said that his ancestor's ashes are hidden inside. Heh, who knows what they are."

Qingru lagged behind and didn't hear what Master Huang and the others were saying, so she nodded and observed.

These coffins all showed signs of being pried open; she pushed them open with a single push.

"Ah!" Qingru cried out.

Guo Zixing immediately stood up. "What's wrong?"

"There are dead people inside..."

Guo Zixing yanked open the coffin lid, and Zhang Xun rushed over to check on it.

“It was a servant,” Zhang Xun said, looking at the corpse’s clothes.

Looking at the arrow stuck in the servant's chest, it was clear that he had been pierced through by a powerful force when he was caught off guard.

"Be careful, there might be some traps."

Guo Zixing was also eager to know what it was that would make Master Huang take such a risk, so he carefully examined it with Zhang Xun.

The body was pulled out and placed aside, and then the lids of the three coffins were opened.

"It's all empty. What did they get?"

Qingru examined it carefully inch by inch, and even tapped it with her hand.

Suddenly Qingru called out, "Guo Zixing, come quick! It seems like the bottom of this coffin is empty."

Upon hearing this, Guo Zixing took a dagger and pried open the bottom of the coffin, revealing a hole underneath.

Zhang Xun immediately took it and continued digging. While digging, he suddenly hit something hard, looked at it in confusion, and then continued digging.

"Wait," Guo Zixing stopped him, "Don't be impulsive, that servant was just killed by a hidden weapon."

Zhang Xun was also terrified when he heard this, thankful that he had been a step too slow.

They removed a coffin board and used it as a hoe to dig at the ground. In just a moment, the hard object underneath was revealed.

"Gold!" the three exclaimed.

Unexpectedly, what Master Huang risked his life to retrieve was gold.

Then the bottoms of the other two coffins were dug up, and without exception, they were filled with gold.

"Ha," Guo Zixing exclaimed, "The person who hid the gold is truly cunning. Not to mention that this location is really hard to find, her elaborate scheme is truly unexpected."

Qingru agreed, "Yes, there are mechanisms in every coffin we open. We'll open the one with the hidden weapons first, so people will subconsciously think that there's treasure where there's danger. Then, when we find the jar, we'll assume that's the treasure, and naturally we won't look at the bottom of the coffin."

If the first coffin opened contains a jar, it's normal that the other coffins are empty; in any case, the gold at the bottom of the coffins will be ignored.

Zhang Xun laughed for a while, then suddenly said, "The gold is here, so what did Master Huang take away?"

Qingru and Guo Zixing exchanged a glance, both seeing the smile in each other's eyes. "Ancestors, huh?"

Having found the gold, the next step was to figure out how to transport it back.

Qingru patted the coffin, when suddenly a thought struck her, and she, Guo, and Zhang exclaimed at the same time, "Coffin!"

Without further ado, the three of them quickly dug out all the gold.

When they were piled up together to count, it was so dazzling that it almost blinded the three of them.

"My goodness, how much money is this?" Qingru exclaimed, she had never seen so much gold before.

Zhang Xun and Guo Zixing were also stunned.

The more they dug, the more gold they found, eventually piling up into a small mountain.

Guo Zixing's heart pounded. With so much gold, he wouldn't have to worry about feeding his army.

Zhang Xun looked at all that gold and thought, if it were all his, he would never have to struggle for the rest of his life.

He blinked quickly, suppressing the urge to possess it. Zhang Xun coughed a few times; after all, they were still on the cliff, and only by successfully taking the gold out could it truly be theirs.

Otherwise, once we leave the mountains, Commander Guo will still be the most powerful.

Silently elevating himself to the status of a saint in his heart, Zhang Xun's eyes grew increasingly clear.

"We've already drilled through the bottoms of these coffins, can they still be used to transport gold?"

The problem has resurfaced. Yes, I was so excited that I overlooked the most important issue.

Looking down at the stream, I estimated the height to be about 100 meters; anyone who jumped in would surely die.

Looking at the gold and then at the coffin, they really couldn't bear to give it up.

Seeing the two of them deep in thought, Qingru also started to use her brain. If things could be transported up, they could be transported down. Otherwise, how did the first person manage to do it?

Qingru looked at the bronze stake. It would take more than one person to drive it in. The place where Master Huang and the others had just escaped was not enough to exert force. So how did the first person manage to transport the coffin and gold up here?

Looking at the flowing water below, Zhang Xun asked, "Young Master, do you remember the flood that once occurred outside Sifang City?"

Guo Zixing thought for a moment, "I seem to have seen it in the county annals. You suspect that it was transported up by boat during the flood season?"

"I just have some doubts, after all, it requires the cooperation of several people."

"Come and see!" Qingru exclaimed excitedly again, "Here!"

Guo Zixing and the others looked in the direction Qingru was pointing and saw very tiny creases on the coffin.

"And it's on every single plank."

"This is?"

Qingru recalled, "I remember my history teacher once said that there was a master craftsman named Lu Ban in the past. The tools he made were ever-changing and very magical. For example, the Lu Ban chair can be unfolded into a stool, folded into a chair, and unfolded into a plank. So do you think... this coffin could be the same?"

Guo Zixing's eyes lit up. "Give it a try!"

Zhang Xun and Guo Zixing quickly began to disassemble the planks. Although the planks were old, they could still be folded into a box.

"You were right!" Guo Zixing was very excited; it really was true.

"Am I right? It seems that the person who hid this thing is very likely a woman, otherwise how could she be so meticulous?"

Guo Zixing chuckled, then suddenly remembered something.

Zhang Xun's expression was solemn. "The only person who is bold, meticulous, and possesses so much gold is Liu Biyu, the mountain king of Yanming Mountain twenty years ago."