Chapter 82

Hearing the name Zhang Yancheng, Yin Nanfeng looked at Zhang Qishan with some curiosity.

"This person's surname is Zhang, and he also knows the Hill-Plucking Finger; could it be that he is one of your Zhang family members?"

Zhang Qishan raised an eyebrow, "Just because someone knows the Hill-Plucking Finger and has the surname Zhang, does that make them a Zhang family member?"

"Then why don't you say that this storyteller is also a Zhang family member?"

This remark left Yin Nanfeng stunned for a moment.

After a long while, she said: "Could it be that this storyteller also knows the Hill-Plucking Finger?"

Zhang Qishan shook his head, "The technique he used to deal with Old Lady Huo was truly beautiful; he is definitely no ordinary person."

"And he is so knowledgeable about tomb-raiding schools that it wouldn't be strange even if he did know the Hill-Plucking Finger."

Yin Nanfeng couldn't help but click her tongue; after listening to the stories a few times, even someone as arrogant and picky as Zhang Qishan seemed to be showing signs of being won over by Zhang Lin.

Now he had even voiced the speculation that Zhang Lin might know the Hill-Plucking Finger!

Did Zhang Qishan really think this Hill-Plucking unique skill was like cabbage, something any Zhang could do?

Yin Nanfeng snorted coldly and said: "I don't believe the Hill-Plucking unique skill is so common that everyone knows it."

"He is just a storyteller; if even he knows the Hill-Plucking Finger."

"Then I, Yin Nanfeng, will write my name backward!"

Zhang Qishan glanced at her sideways, smiled, and said nothing.

After Zhang Lin finished introducing Zhang Yancheng's background, he began to get to the point.

"This Zhang Yancheng had five fingers on his left hand that were extremely long and almost equal in length."

"His strength was so great he could raise a mound on flat ground, and his skills were so profound he could taste the soil to find a tomb; his tomb-raiding ability was truly remarkable."

"Zhang Yancheng followed warlords and was tasked with raising military funds, so he raided tombs using ancient methods."

"On the warlords' Northern Expedition, who knows how many secret ancient tombs were dug up by Zhang Yancheng."

"This man had a special routine for tomb raiding."

"Whenever he encountered a coffin unearthed from a place of blood-evil and yin-rot, he would douse the coffin with ox blood to observe its reaction."

"Does this sound similar to the method of taking and identifying soil used by the old master of the Wu family?"

"The Wu family master judged that there was a fierce thing inside the tomb by the blood in the soil."

"And this method of Zhang Yancheng's, dousing the coffin with ox blood, was to see if there were strange noises inside, which meant the occupant might have undergone a corpse transformation!"

"The soldiers under him would drag the coffin out of the ancient tomb to be exposed to the sun before opening it."

"If there was no movement in the coffin, he would look at the surface of the coffin."

"In general, the ox blood would not coagulate and would flow down the coffin body to the bottom, which meant there was no problem and it was safe to open!"

"But there was another special situation: when the ox blood was poured on, it was as if it had been poured onto sand and stone."

"The blood seeped into the coffin body; this was a sign of great evil, even more ominous than a corpse transformation, indicating that the thing inside the coffin might not be a human corpse!"

Hearing this, the audience below turned pale.

If it wasn't a human corpse in the coffin, then what was it?

Could it be that someone had put chickens, ducks, cows, or sheep into the coffin?

Even the blood corpse in the terrifying blood corpse tomb could be guessed to be something that had undergone a special corpse transformation.

How did this ox-blood-dousing method lead to an unknown result?

Hearing the noisy discussion below, Zhang Lin said directly: "You all must want to ask, if it's not a human corpse in the coffin, then what could it be?"

"The answer is, an indescribable corpse; such a thing can be called a demon!"

"Of course, the word 'demon' is mostly seen in ghost stories; this might be the first time you've heard it linked to a coffin."

"But things in ancient tombs are often like this; there are many facts that are inexplicable and incomprehensible to ordinary people, yet they exist."

"I presume those of you with some archaeological experience can understand what I am saying."

As soon as these words were spoken, most of the people below nodded one after another.

Ancient tombs are often buried underground, never seeing the sun all year round.

In places of extreme yin and extreme cold, strange things often happen!

Even when they go underground to participate in archaeology, there are many taboos.

These things come from the experience of predecessors; there is no logic to speak of, but everyone follows them!

"If he encountered a demon coffin, Zhang Yancheng would order people to dig a pit on the spot and sink the demon coffin into it."

"After applying mud, he would melt weapons and seal the coffin with molten iron!"

"He would only leave a hole on the top of the coffin large enough for a hand to pass through."

"Once the molten iron solidified, he would reach into the coffin with one hand to probe for the object inside."

"This was the unique skill of the ancestral Hill-Plucking General, the double-finger cave-probing!"

"And when probing the cave, he would order someone to use three-foot-long pipa shears to clamp his arm, while tying the handle to a horse's tail."

"Once he felt something was wrong, others could immediately whip the horse."

"When the horse was startled and ran, it would pull the mechanism, and the sharp pipa shears would immediately rotate and cut, severing his hand to save his life!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked.

They were amazed at Zhang Yancheng's ingenuity and stunned by his courage and skill!

To be able to sacrifice an arm to probe for treasure and save one's life showed that this man was ruthless and extreme enough!

"Coffins handled this way, because of the hole on top, would eventually become something similar to a giant iron whistle, so some people also called them whistle coffins."

"Zhang Yancheng only used this double-finger cave-probing skill three times in his life, and all three times he retreated with his arms intact!"

"The best time, he took out a golden grape the size of a molar from the coffin; it was said to have been hidden in the corpse's mouth!"

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