Chapter 51 Continue to Explore

Knowing that there was no toxic dust, Fatty became arrogant and kicked the door in when he came to the next room.

The situation inside was almost the same as that of the previous room, except that the coffin had a different shape and was longer. There was some hard-to-distinguish gold-colored lacquer on the coffin. It seemed that a woman was buried here.

I ignored it and went on reading the epitaph, discovering that my initial judgment was wrong. The coffin belonged to a man called Zhang Ruishan who was also a member of the “Qipan Zhang”. I looked through the details of his life and found that he was basically the same as the person we had seen in the previous room. He must have died in the same firefight, so his burial place was adjacent.

The only difference was that this person’s parents weren’t as famous as the one next door, but he was given the same treatment because he was “good at management”. As I read through the many details, I could see that Zhang Ruishan wasn’t the same as the one next door. While that other person had a moderate personality, this Zhang Ruishan seemed to have read foreign books and “understood reason and was good at writing”. He seemed like an open-minded person with a good style of writing.

Fatty said that all the people in this row probably died in the same firefight. If I wanted to find new clues, I’d probably have to go a little further. Maybe that way, I would see something new.

I agreed, so the two of us went out and walked along the corridor. I was planning on walking through half of the building, since it was normal for dozens of people to be killed in a firefight with guns, but after walking about sixteen or seventeen meters, Fatty and I immediately stopped.

We suddenly saw that the door of a room in the middle of the corridor was open.

This obviously hadn’t been opened by us. As soon as we shined our flashlights at it, we found that this door was extremely large. It was three times larger than the door of the room beside it, and the decoration was completely different. When we looked inside, we saw that there was a huge coffin that had also been opened, but it looked like they didn’t close the coffin lid again like we did since the lid had fallen to the ground.

“What’s the situation?” Fatty looked at me. “Little Brother and the others… have they been here?”

I shook my head, “But the person in this coffin is definitely different from the others. Look at this burial chamber. It’s like a presidential suite.”

We walked in, but as soon as I looked at the ground, I found that there was something wrong. There were no footprints here and the hinges on the opened door were old, the cracks that had been kicked in rotten to the core. The outer edge of the coffin was covered in dust, and the room was filled with dust-covered incense burners that surrounded the coffin.

This door and the coffin had been opened for a long time now. And based on the thickness of the dust, it had at least been more than a decade.

“It appears that some people have been here before us, but not Little Brother.”

“Was this from the last funeral?”

“Who would fucking rob a tomb after finishing a funeral? Their ancestors would be pissed,” I said. “It can’t be a funeral, it’s a grave robbery.”

“Damn it, just the few of us are kick-ass by ourselves. If you pick any one of us to rob a tomb, we’d have the talent to shake the entire grave-robbing industry. And I’m known as the Fat Prince of Grave Robbing. The few of us who have come to this place have all worked so fucking hard, yet we’re still unclear about how many of us are still dead or alive right now. Is it possible that there are people out there who are better than us?” 

“Ghost said that at that time, many of them had entered the ancient building but died in it. So, this coffin may have been opened by them. That was thirty years ago.”

“Didn’t they come for the funeral procession? Why would they steal things?”

“Those people were originally grave robbers,” I said. “And some of them weren’t of high quality, so the possibility of stealing was very high. Moreover, the struggle was too intense at that time. Ghost may not know—or be willing to say—whether that group entered the building for any other purpose. But under the circumstances, it’s possible.”

I conveniently took a look inside the huge coffin—there was a skeleton that was completely covered in dust, its situation similar to what I had seen before. I turned to the wall and looked at the man’s name—who was this awesome guy?

After looking at it, I paused for a moment, thinking that I had seen wrong. I walked over, took a closer look, and saw two familiar words—Zhang Qiling.

“This is Little Brother’s coffin,” Fatty said. “It turns out that Little Brother is a big zombie!”

“Don’t be ridiculous,” I said as I immediately lifted my flashlight and carefully looked at the words behind it.

There had to be something fishy about this. It couldn’t be what it looked like.

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Woohoo! Another book done! Well technically Vol 8 is split into 2 parts and this is part 1. For continuity’s sake, I’m just going to treat Ch. 1 of Vol. 8 Part 2 as chapter 52. If you look at http://www.daomubiji.org/dao-mu-bi-ji-8, the author just kept the chapter numbers going so I’ll do that too even though Amazon split Vol 8 into 2 separate books (the greedy jerks).

I might take a breather tomorrow and start back up on Saturday, but I also wanna know what happens next so I might surprise us all and upload a chapter tomorrow lol. To all of you bothering to read this far in and not flaming my shitty translations, THANK YOU. I saw those 2 1-star ratings (with no review) on Novel Updates and they honestly made me kinda sad/disappointed lol. Like damn, I’m working a full time job and doing this in my free time. If it was because of me, at least let me know what I can do to try to fix it. If it was for the author, why the hell are you 6+ books in and just now giving a one star? But I digress, thanks for sticking with me this far you beautiful souls. （´▽｀）

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Updated 4/4/2021