Otherworldly Merchant
Chapter 607: Achang Tribe

“Who’s there?” I looked around.

Senior Shupulled himself together. “From the Yang energy I sensed in the air, that person isn’t powerful. Idon’t thinktheycame herewith evil intentions. I guess they were tourists who accidentally trespassed our campsite.”

Senior Shuheaded to our campsite, and all of a sudden, he disappeared. As the sky was too dark, I didn’t know what had just happened. I worriedly walked forward.

And,I experienced the same thing. I sliddown justasSenior Shuhad done!

It took me a few seconds to reach the bottom. I hurriedly turned on the flashlight. Irecognizedwe were trapped inapit someone had dug. The pitcoveredseveral square meters.I sawSenior Shustanding near me.

“Luckily, they didn’t set any spikes here. Otherwise, we would have become human hedgehogs.”

Senior Shuwiped the cold sweat offhis face. Then, he took the flashlight from meand shone it onthe space above. I lifted my head and followed the light. This pit was four or five meters deep. However, when we came here to camp, there was no pit!

I was a little shakenand cursed,“Who theheckdid this? Theyhavedug such a deep pit without leaving any traces!”

It wasn’t too strangeforsomeonetodig such a deep hole on plain land.However,we were on the mountain, where the soil underneath was all basalt!

Senior Shusaid, “Itshould be the native peoplehere. They’re probablyangrybecause we’vetrespassed in theirforbidden area. However, Idon’t thinkthey mean harm. Otherwise, we would have been dead by now.”

Then, he found a spot to sleep.

The walls of this hole were strangely smooth, whichhad made it impossible to climb up.

I couldn’t be as calm as him. Shivering inside, I watched the hole above. WhenSenior Shuhad alreadyfallenasleep, I felt thecoldwind continuously blowing from above. Gradually, my scalp went numb.

I didn’t know howmuch time had passed, butmy eyes slowly closed at some moment.

Then,afox cry echoed above my head. This time, I heard it loud and clear. That thing was right above my head. I wanted to see what it was, butit never appearedwithin my vision.

Around half an hour later, the cry disappeared. I checked my phone. It was 4:00 AM. Thinking that there shouldn’t be anything foul coming again, I relaxed and slept right away.

I didn’t know how long I had sleptbeforeI heard rapid footsteps above my head. I didn’t sleep deep enough, so I woke up as soon as I heard the noise.Senior Shuwas awake. He was sitting cross-legged next to me.

Seeingthat I had wokenup, he pointed upward. “Here they come!”

Indeed, when the footsteps stopped, we heard people yelling and cursing above our heads. They were speaking some minor ethnic language that I didn’t understand. Soon, a rope was droppedto us.When I was about to climb up, Senior Shu stopped me.

“Wait here. I’m going first to see the situation.”

Then, he grabbed the rope and slowly climbed up. Not long after hewentup, I saw the ropedropdown again.Itmeant that I could go up.

I grabbed the rope and climbed up. Finally, I saw who had come to rescue us. There was a group of people surrounding us. They all held pipe gunsorbows, and they worecolorful garments. Some even had beautiful feathers on their heads. At first glance, I knew they weresomeminor ethnic hunters.

They looked angry, and theystaredat us asthoughthey had a deep grudge against us. I couldn’t stand this unknowing hostility. I talkedfirst. “Why did you dig thispit to trap us?”

“You two came here to rob the tombs. Wewere alreadykindenough not tokill you!” One of the hunters spokeinbroken Mandarin.

Rob the tombs? We didn’t rob any tomb!

As soon as I was about to explain,Senior Shupushed me aside andwentto the hunters. He said in a stern voice,“We came here yesterday. We’re looking for the legendary Undead Grass. Wehaven’trobbedany graves here, nor do we want to.”

Then,heopened our tents in front of them.After showing them thedefensivemagic tools, he said, “Brothers, youmade a mistake. You see our tools here? These aren’t thingsthattomb robbers use, wouldn’tyou say so?”

The leader of the hunter team looked hesitant. After a while, one of them talked to himintheir language. The leader thenmadea coldface. “Recently, our ancestor’s tombshavebeen robbed. Moreover, every time, the robbersmakeanoisethat sounds likeafox cry! Yesterday, our Dazhuwaitedhere the whole night. He heard the fox cry from this place. What else do youhaveto say?”

“Hold on, you saidafox cry? Does it sound likeawoman crying?”

It was the sound I had heard when I had come to this mountain. Moreover, last night I heard it right above the pit! I didn’t know what it was, but now, I understood that it wanted to blame the crime on me andSenior Shu!

I explained what I had experienced since we had come to the mountain to the head hunter. After listening to me, he lowered his voiceand discussedwith the other hunters. In the end, he nodded. “I trust you for now, but you have to prove that you didn’t do such things.”

Then, he waved at his peers. The other hunters threwSenior Shuinto the trapping pit.

He gave me an evil smile. “Before we get the tomb robbers, we need a hostage.”

“Okay!”

I nodded reluctantly, thinking thatSenior Shuand I were lucky that we had encountered relatively gentle Yunnanpeople. Ifthishad happened in Tibet, theywould haveshotus asthoughwe were just hopping rabbits.

“I am Baji, a local hunter. These are my brothers.”

Aftermakingthe deal that I would help them find the real culprits, Baji showed me the friendly and hospitable faces of the minor ethnic people. He roasted the boar he had just hunted to treat me. While gnawing on the juicy boar leg, I listened to the strange stories that had happened here recently.

These hunters were all from the Achang Tribe.For generations, they had lived in this area. They huntedto feed their families, and when the old people in their tribe died, theywereburied on Mount Horse Saddle. They said that by doing so, itwould guarantee their later descendants’ lives.

A few days ago, when Baji came to the mountain with his peers, they foundthat thegrave of one of their ancestors was unearthed. Although they were angry, they thought it was just anaccident. They fixed the grave and left.

After that day, the graves in the mountain wererobbed from time to time. Thestrongmen of the tribe pledged their hearts that they had to makethingsright for their ancestors.Theysplit up and tookshiftstowatch the mountainthroughoutthe days and nights. Soon, they recognized that when they heard the fox cry, atomb was robbed. Thatwas why they had misunderstood us last night.

After listening to Baji, I asked skeptically,“You mean, you’ve been watching for quite a long time and you haven’t found anything suspicious yet?”

Baji stuttered. “Wesawtwo robbers digging the tombs. At that time, we were confident that we had outnumbered them, so we all rushed toward them. Unexpectedly, they moved so fast. Moreover, no weapons could harm them. They seem to be some sort of robot! We let them escape in the end…”

When he said that, Bajiblushed. To them, it seemed to be an embarrassment that they had let their enemy run away.

I wanted to comfort Baji but then, I recalled the two freaks that had forced us to move away from the mountain peak. I asked, “The two tomb robbers you met, one wore white clothes and the other wore black clothes, right?”

“How did you know that?” All the men jerked up from their seats after I said that.

From their abrupt reaction, I knew I was right. I didn’t say anything further but quickly pulled Baji to the mountain peak.

He hesitated at first, but he then waved his hands and asked some peoplewithguns to stay by the pit to watchSenior Shu.

Around half an hour later, wearrivedatthe placewhere Senior Shu and I had seenthe two freaks last night. Strangely, there was a hole right where they had stood.

“Damn! I must kill them!” Baji was stunned when he saw that.

I followed him and saw a tomb under that hole. The coffin was pried open,which revealedanunrecognizable corpse inside.

We joined hands to fix the grave.

Baji looked at me with red eyes. “This is my grandmother’s tomb. She was afraid that her tomb would be raided afterward, so she didn’twant atombstone. But now…”

Before Icould providehim comfort, he got on his kneesand beggedme to help them. I was bewilderedat thismoment. I was a suspect in the previous moment, and now they’dmade metheir savior.

“From the soilaroundmy grandmother’s tomb, Ican tellthat it was dug early this morning. You andthatold man were in the trap at that time. Of course,Idon’tsuspectyou anymore. Please, Iknowthat you’re notanordinary person. Please help us!”

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