Chapter 97

That Song Dynasty tomb was originally my second target, but I had failed at my first target, the South Sea country. I no longer had the face to continue checking.

Could it be that the other pi tong in this set pointed to the Song Dynasty tomb? Did I touch something in Yang Daguang’s tomb that had the smell of another pi tong, which was what kept attracting the leather figurine woman?

But after thinking about it, it seemed impossible. I didn’t know where the Song Dynasty tomb was now, but since Uncle Three could steal the murals, there had to be other simpler ways to tell me how to get to the tomb. Using such a weird method was a bit like putting the cart before the horse.

Unless… the location of this Song Dynasty tomb was indescribable. Maybe it was constantly moving, so you needed something that could act like a compass.

But after listening to what Ha Zong had said, I didn’t feel like he told many lies. He originally believed in folklore, although he hardly encountered any reliable methods when he was in the process of looking for folk remedies and various kinds of strange spells. It didn’t matter whether he encountered magic or smoke screens, he always believed that there was some folk wisdom and divine power in the world. So, his idea was a little odd but acceptable.

The next step was to make my own judgment. I glanced at him and realized that he never even looked at the tongue, but he was covered in a cold sweat. “This tongue was found in the pi tong. Is it related to what you said?” I asked him.

Ha Zong looked at the tongue and shook his head. “This… this is nothing. Sometimes, in order to keep the shape of the chin when stripping the skin off, the skin on the chin will be removed along with the root of the tongue, which might fall off when it rots.”

“But this isn’t the figurine’s tongue. It’s the tongue of a grave robber from about forty years ago. It was put into the body of this leather figurine woman.”

Ha Zong gave a wry smile, “This… this is a coincidence.”

“You mean to tell me that when a grave robber happened to pass by this leather figurine woman forty years ago, he suddenly didn’t want his tongue anymore and cut it off and threw it into the leather figurine woman’s mouth?” I asked as I stared into Ha Zong’s eyes. “Are you kidding me?”

I had a strange feeling that something was wrong.

I had found this tongue, but he didn’t even look at it. In fact, he only looked at the leather figurine woman. He might have looked relaxed, but he was showing an unprecedentedly ugly expression on his face.

In my opinion, the most bizarre thing about this matter was the tongue, yet he didn’t even want to talk about it. When answering my questions, he was nervous, unfocused, and seemed to have no interest in the tongue at all.

Rationally speaking, this was wrong and didn’t make any sense. Unless I was just a total noob and didn’t understand how shocked the pi tong made him, he had to be hiding something from me.

But I remembered he had blurted out a sentence in the beginning, “You’re dead.”

After that, he tried to retract the sentence. His explanation was that there were bugs in my body, but later, he said that I might have touched the bugs. These two explanations were utter nonsense. When I recalled everything that he had told me, my instincts seemed to say that the sentence “you’re dead” came from the heart.

Ha Zong didn’t have any flaws, but my gut was telling me that something was wrong. I could immediately tell when other people were lying to me, but in the antique industry, this kind of vague wrongness would definitely make me want to scrutinize it more carefully.

I thought up several possibilities, looked at the tongue on the table, and then picked it up. I suddenly exerted my strength and leaned towards Ha Zong’s face. No one could escape at this distance, but as soon as my hand started to move, Ha Zong immediately bounced up, rolled over the bed, and picked up the leather figurine woman, using it as a shield to block me and the tongue in my hand.

I immediately understood what was going on. His attention had always been on the tongue, but he didn’t show it, which was quite an impressive feat for him.

He had been afraid of the tongue from the very beginning, but this guy deliberately acted like he was afraid of the leather figurine woman and led all the topics to it instead.

But why?

“Don’t come over! Don’t come over!” Ha Zong yelled.

“Shout about something else!” I scolded him.

“Wu Xie, if you must die, don’t drag me down with you! Take that thing away!” Ha Zong shouted.

At this time, I saw the leather figurine woman’s head suddenly turn 180 degrees and look at Ha Zong.

Ha Zong looked it in the eye and shouted, “Fuck!”

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