Carrying the military spade on his shoulder, Chen Qing entered the subway.
There was only one subway line in Ximing City.
It was very crowded, and Chen Qing was busy transferring the data from his old mobile phone to the new one.
"Humph!"
A girl stomped her foot in front of him. Chen Qing didn't know whether she was acting coquettishly or was angry, and he didn't pay attention.
However, this girl was really angry!
No way! Didn't he used to be so eager to please me that he'd even lick the soles of my shoes?
Why didn't he even bother with me when I was practically throwing myself at him now?
She was none other than Chen Xi.
She wasn't the type to give up easily, especially after she had decided that Chen Qing was an extremely excellent catch.
Chen Qing, I'm determined to win you over!
Even Jesus couldn't stop it, I'm telling you!
Chen Qing didn't look up and concentrated on transferring the data.
The next stop arrived.
Chen Qing still didn't look up. Anyway, he was going to the terminal station.
Suddenly!
Chen Xi snatched the mobile phone and rushed out of the subway in a few steps.
Chen Qing was about to chase after her, but she timed it just right. The subway doors closed just then, separating the two of them on either side.
Chen Xi stood with her feet together, leaning her body slightly, with one hand behind her back and the other waving the mobile phone, smiling brightly.
She chuckled and said, "Tomorrow, I'll return the mobile phone to you right here~"
Several boys in the subway all exclaimed in admiration.
With her looks and figure, she was really charming!
Who could resist her?!
They looked at Chen Qing in surprise, their eyes full of envy.
Most of them were also curious. What kind of person could win the favor of such a girl?
Chen Qing sneered.
He directly dialed the police hotline.
"At Changhu Station, a thief snatched my new mobile phone."
"Value? A satellite phone worth 14,999 yuan."
"Yes, contact this number."
After saying that, Chen Qing didn't bother about it anymore.
Acting coquettishly?
Hah!
Maybe in his previous life, he was so blind that he fell for this kind of woman.
Now, you can go and act coquettishly with the police!
Everyone in the subway was completely dumbfounded.
No way?
This couldn't be described as just being a straight guy.
This was like a Transformers!
It was obvious that this beautiful girl was interested in him.
What was the deal with calling the police?
The surveillance in the Tang Dynasty was world-famous!
Soon, the police locked onto the suspect.
The criminal facts were crystal clear.
After a short while, the police found Chen Xi who was waiting for the bus.
She was really confused.
"Please come with us."
"Police officers, you must have the wrong person!"
"No mistake. You snatched someone's mobile phone. It's clearly shown on the surveillance. Isn't this the one in your hand?"
"This..."
Chen Xi was speechless!
Totally speechless!
"This... this... He's... He's crazy!"
Her mind was in chaos.
"How dare he?"
"How dare he do this?!"
"How could he do such a thing?!"
What she did just now wasn't on a whim.
It was the best scenario she had rehearsed many times in her mind.
Full of girlish charm and vitality, she didn't believe that she couldn't win over Chen Qing.
Even if Chen Qing got angry, it would just be a matter of acting coquettishly.
She could hold his arm and pretend to accidentally rub against his chest.
If one attempt didn't work, she could try twice.
Among countless possible follow-up developments, she never expected this to happen.
"Let's go!"
Chen Xi was really stunned when the police grabbed her arm.
She suddenly pulled her arm free from the police's grip, her eyes a bit red: "I... I... We were just joking around!"
"Chen Qing is my friend... No, he's my boyfriend. Don't believe me? I still have his phone number! And his WeChat too!"
"Please come with us."
The police didn't indulge her. They had seen too many such tricks when clearing up nightclubs.
There were those who grabbed the police's hands and tried to touch their private parts, and those who stripped naked and said, "I'll do anything as long as you let me go."
Compared to those, this was nothing.
They were numb to it.
If she really wanted to explain, she could do it at the police station.
Chen Xi was really panicked. She was escorted into the police car, with tears in her eyes.
She felt so wronged.
Really wronged.
Once she arrived at the police station, she found Chen Qing's number and dialed it.
She really wanted to ask what was going on!
Was it really necessary?!
However... the phone was turned off.
"He's really my boyfriend. We were just joking around!"
She cried while making the statement.
"Let's not talk about whether he's your boyfriend or not. Even if it's true, this is still a crime."
Another police officer glanced at her: "This mobile phone is worth 15,000 yuan. For robbery... the sentence is three years or more, up to ten years."
With a buzzing sound in her head!
Chen Xi froze!
Three... three years?
Tears welled up in her eyes and her hands were shaking slightly.
On the other side, Chen Qing had already arrived in the east of the city.
The yin energy was very heavy.
It was like wearing only a thin piece of clothing on an autumn morning or suddenly having the quilt pulled off in winter.
Having experienced the Ghost Tide, he knew clearly that although it was daytime, there was still a possibility of encountering ghosts, although the probability was extremely low.
At the beginning of the Blood Moon Ghost Tide, the big shots in the city had planned a counterattack, and this princess tomb was involved, so Chen Qing knew the route very well.
Nowadays, most people had moved into the city, but there were still quite a few villages outside the city, and there were still many people there.
There was no way around it. They couldn't afford houses in the city. They couldn't just sleep on the streets, could they?
After walking straight for half an hour, Chen Qing arrived at an abandoned village.
Not far from the village, there was a mound with a huge dead locust tree on it.
Beneath this mound was the princess tomb.
"Please, please, I just want to borrow a bit of ghostly energy..."
Chen Qing thought to himself, folded the military spade into the shape of a hoe, and started digging.
The top layer of loose soil was easy to dig, but the deeper he went, the more compact the soil became.
Every time he dug with the spade, there was a clanging sound, as if hitting a stone.
The tombs of important people were usually quite deep. Chen Qing was already prepared to work on it for several days.
Before long, it was noon.
With another dig, he suddenly felt his hand loosen.
Had he dug into a hollow?
Quickly clearing away the soil layer, Chen Qing found a slanting downward hole that was just wide enough for one person to pass through.
A cold air spread out from the hole, and goosebumps rose all over his body. It was ghostly energy!
A tomb-robbing hole.
Obviously, this tomb had been visited by experts before.
If it were a proper tomb robber, they would probably be crying by now, but Chen Qing was full of joy!
The work that was supposed to take at least three or four days was done in one go!
There were two Ghost Tides, one in the south and the other during the Blood Moon. The awakening of ancient artifacts happened during the Blood Moon Ghost Tide.
When the Ghost Tide broke out in the south, the ancient artifacts didn't awaken.
It was only when the Blood Moon came that the ancient artifacts awakened. Now, with the monitoring of the Blood Moon, the ghostly energy at various Ghost Tide sites could also awaken ancient artifacts - these were things that people had only confirmed later.
Judging from the ghostly energy in this ancient tomb, it should be enough to awaken the Demon-Suppressing Tower!
Immediately, he placed the Demon-Suppressing Tower at the entrance of the tomb-robbing hole and leisurely ate a compressed biscuit.
Go down?
He didn't dare.
Right now, he was just an ordinary person through and through. Judging from this ghostly energy, there must be quite a few wandering spirits inside, and there might even be evil spirits.
Wandering spirits → Evil spirits → Evil ghosts.
Wandering spirits, especially the first level ones, could be regarded as newborn ghosts, chaotic and ignorant, acting on instinct and rarely hurting people.
Evil spirits, compared to wandering spirits, had a significant increase in strength and also had stronger intelligence. They began to hunt humans purposefully - because that was the way for them to improve.
For example, a baby who died would turn into a wandering spirit-level [Child Ghost], and when certain conditions were met, it would evolve into an evil spirit-level [Night Crying Child]. They liked to eat children the most.
There must be quite a few wandering spirits in this tomb, and the tomb owner was most likely an evil spirit.
While thinking like this, Chen Qing suddenly saw a middle-aged woman not far away looking at him fixedly.
She was carrying a basket on her back and holding a hoe, probably just coming back from digging wild vegetables.
She stared at Chen Qing for a long time and then left.
Chen Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
There was no signal on his mobile phone. Feeling bored while waiting, he took a nap. In a daze, he heard some noise.
Chen Qing looked over and saw the middle-aged woman leading a group of people walking towards him aggressively.
"Yes! It's right here! I saw it clearly!"
"Is this the tomb robber?"
"How dare he come to steal our things! He's really asking for trouble!"
More than ten people, most of them holding hoes, were looking fierce.
Chen Qing thought to himself that this was bad, but he calmly stood up, not panicking at all.
Having experienced the apocalypse, he understood one thing very clearly: If you showed even a bit of weakness in your aura, the other side would become ten times stronger.
He quietly covered the Demon-Suppressing Tower and looked at them expressionlessly: "What's the matter?"