Chapter 24: The Wooden Box (Part 1)

  Wang Wanshan's heart skipped a beat as soon as Ye Chen let him handle it, and he instantly understood that Ye Chen meant to pull him into the water. However, his face still smiled, and he hastily signaled to Wang Shan and Wang Zhi behind him before directly kneeling down in front of Ye Chen, saying gratefully: "Thank you, if not for you, we would have been doomed!"

  Ye Chen smiled slightly and shook his head, then looked at Wang Shan and said softly: "Don't forget, you promised to take me there to have a look!"

  Upon hearing this, Wang Shan lifted his chubby face and smiled: "Don't worry, that place is not far from here, I'll definitely take you there!"

  "En!" Ye Chen nodded slightly and smiled faintly, walking away to the side. He would no longer participate in current events, leaving everything to Wang Wan and others.

  Watching Ye Chen leave, Wang Shan hastily stood up and said to Wang Wan, "Dad, I'll go call the villagers and let everyone come see how these people died!"

  Wang Zhigang on the side also hastily stood up and echoed: "I... I... I'll go too."

  Wang Wan came and slightly shook his head, saying in a low voice: "No need, it's best if only the three of us know about this matter!"

  "Why?" Wang Shan looked at Wang Wan with a puzzled expression: "Dad, these three people have harmed many of our villagers, we should call the villagers to come and settle the score together!"

  Wang Wanshan looked at his chubby son, let out a soft sigh, and said with some helplessness: "Don't you understand why he left like that? It's clear he had deep grievances against these people. Why would he still ask us to take action and personally deal with the remaining two?"

  Listening to Wang Wanshan's words, Wang Shan and Wang Zhigang exchanged a puzzled glance, then both looked at Wang Wanshan.

  "He wants to drag us down with him, he's afraid we'll leak out what happened today. I guarantee that if I hadn't agreed with him just now, he would have taken action against us for his own safety!"

  Wang Wanshan was right about one thing, Ye Chen did think that way. Originally, Ye Chen didn't care about these things, but when he found out that these people actually had some connection with Xue Feng, he made up his mind that this matter must not be leaked out, otherwise it would inevitably give Xue Feng an excuse to kill himself.

  Wang Shan and Wang Zhi Gang stared at Wang Wan Shan in shock, speechless for a long time.

  Wang Wanshan let out a light sigh, shook his head, took the old and worn-out hatchet from Wang Zhigang's hand, turned around slowly towards the two black-clad men who were lying on the ground, still groaning in pain.

  At this time, someone will definitely ask why no villagers dare to come out and take a look in the midst of such a noisy fight. The reason is simple: it's all because these three men in black have cast too great a shadow over the hearts of the villagers of Wangjia Village, which is probably why their deaths will remain a mystery.

  Two men in black lay on the ground, watching Wang Wanshan walk towards them step by step. Fear appeared on their faces as they frantically kicked the ground with both feet, trying to get away from Wang Wanshan's ferocious face.

  "There's no wall that can't be breached, you can't kill me! If you want to kill me, the entire Wangjia Village will be buried with me!"

  The man in black shouted at Wang Wanshan in terror, while constantly backing away.

  Wang Wanshan sneered: "If we don't kill you, we won't be killed by you either. If we kill you, we still have hope!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Wanshan struck with his knife.

  "Pffft!"

  The old axe directly chopped onto the black-clad man's head, and due to its age, it had lost its sharp edge, causing the black-clad man's skull to be smashed open, with brain matter splattering directly onto Wang Wanshan's face, appearing extremely gruesome under the night light.

  Wang Wanshan didn't stop and immediately walked towards another black-clad man. Before the black-clad man could speak, Wang Wanshan struck again with his knife.

  After killing the two men in black, Wang Wanshan took a deep breath and turned to look at Wang Shan and others: "Wang Shan, you must remember today's events and never leak them out. If not, I'm afraid our Wangjia Village will be really destroyed."

  King Shan and two people also slightly nodded.

  Wang Wanshan nodded in approval at the two's agreement and continued, "Alright then, Shan'er you go find an expert. Zhigan, you come with me to deal with these two corpses."

  "Got it, Dad!"

  Wang Shan agreed with a sentence and turned around to run towards his own courtyard to find Ye Chen.

  None of the three people noticed that a black shadow on the rooftop not far away also left at this time. The black shadow was Ye Chen, who had returned after being tricked by Li Kuangshou once before. After that experience, Ye Chen could no longer completely trust anyone.

  "Hello, is anybody there?"

  Wang Shan stood outside his house, knocking on the door and calling out in a somewhat fearful tone. Originally, he had a decent impression of Ye Chen, but after what happened earlier, he felt a thread of fear towards this young man who suddenly appeared halfway.

  "I'm in, come on in!"

  Ye Chen's flat voice came from inside the house, making it impossible for anyone to discern any meaning.

  Ye Chen looked at Wang Shan who walked in and asked softly with caution, fearing to offend Ye Chen: "When are you going to take me there?"

  "What do you mean?" Wang Shan said with some trepidation.

  Ye Chen looked at Wang Shan's fearful appearance and didn't make any further explanation, only slightly smiled: "For now, I still have something to do, after passing by, I will leave directly!"

  "Leave?" Wang Shan was delighted when he heard that Ye Chen would leave directly and couldn't wait for him to leave sooner.

  Ye Chen smiled lightly: "What's wrong, can't bear to part with me?"

  "No...no..." He immediately felt that he had misspoken, and Wang Shan hastily added: "Heh heh, it's just that I'm a bit reluctant to part with you."

  Ye Chen smiled slightly, not taking it to heart. After all, this time he came not only to avenge Xu Feng's death but also obtained an extraordinary skill: "Alright, I won't fool around with you anymore, let's hurry up and go!"

  Upon hearing this, Wang Shan smiled foolishly and said: "Good!"

  He immediately turned around and took Ye Chen outside.

  Not far from Wangjiacun, on a small hill, Ye Chen and Wang Shan stood side by side. Ye Chen looked around at the empty ground, furrowed his brow slightly, turned to look at Wang Shan, and asked in puzzlement: "Is it really here? There's nothing here."

  Wang Shan chuckled slyly: "The first time I came with my second uncle, we didn't see anything either. We were planning to rest here and see if we could meet some people to rob. Who knew that before I took two steps, I discovered a small entrance."

  Wang Shan said as he walked forward with Ye Chen, and then pointed to a clump of weeds, saying: "It's here. I covered it up when I left last time, planning to come back and take another look." He then squatted down and gently moved the weeds away.

  In an instant, a single-person entrance appeared in Ye Chen's line of sight.

  Ye Chen looked at the pitch-black entrance and frowned: "Is it here?"

  Wang Shan nodded slightly and directly entered the dark entrance, at the same time making a gesture to Ye Chen, letting Ye Chen follow behind him.

  Ye Chen also furrowed his brow and followed closely behind, heading inside as well.

  As soon as Ye Chen entered the tomb, he felt a blackness in front of his eyes and couldn't see anything. He could only follow Wang Shan's back by feeling, slowly walking towards the depths of the tomb.

  It wasn't long before Ye Chen felt that the originally narrow passageway had broadened, and then he heard Wang Shan's voice: "We're here!"

  Then Ye Chen suddenly felt that the surroundings had brightened up, and when he looked around, he saw Wang Shan skillfully lighting the lamps in the tomb chamber.

  Ye Chen calmed down and looked around, the tomb was not very big, only about 20 or 30 square meters. The surroundings were empty and there was nothing else inside except for a stone coffin in the center of the room. There were no words on the walls either. It could be said that inside the tomb, apart from the stone coffin in the middle, there really wasn't anything else.

  Ye Chen walked slowly to the stone coffin and stretched out his hand to feel it, wanting to find something.

  After a moment, Ye Chen furrowed his brow and shook his head slightly, muttering to himself: "Am I overthinking this? Maybe it's just an ordinary tomb?" He then turned to look at Wang Shan, who was standing honestly by the side, and asked in a soft voice: "What about that wooden box?"

  When Ye Chen asked the question, Wang Shan hastily walked forward and pointed at the stone coffin, saying: "Inside the stone coffin."

  Ye Chen looked deeply at the stone coffin and said to Wang Shan: "Open it."

  Upon hearing this, Wang Shan dragged his cumbersome body and leaned against the stone coffin. With great effort, he pushed open the lid of the stone coffin and pointed inside, saying to Ye Chen: "The martial skill was discovered in here."

  Ye Chen hastily stretched his head to look, and saw that inside the coffin there was a white skeleton. Ye Chen took one glance and knew that this skeleton belonged to a male. Immediately afterwards, Ye Chen didn't continue to carefully examine the skeleton, because he saw an ancient wooden box placed beside the skull.

  Ye Chen took it out and put it in his own hand, examining it carefully. He turned it over and looked at it for half a day, but Ye Chen was also puzzled. This wooden box was just like an ordinary wooden box, only looking a bit older.

  "Was I just overthinking? This is really just an ordinary tomb, and that Wuji technique might have been unintentionally obtained by the owner of this tomb!" As he thought about it, Ye Chen slightly shook his head and was about to put it back, but at the moment he put it back, he accidentally dropped the wooden box onto the ground.

  "Slap"

  With a soft creak, the wooden box opened directly.

  Ye Chen hastily squatted down, picked it up and wanted to put it back in the stone coffin. However, at this moment, Ye Chen saw that the inside of the wooden box cover was actually engraved with a 'seven' character.

  Immediately, Ye Chen hastily took it into his hands, carefully examining it, and tapped the lid of the wooden box with his hand. Suddenly, his face lit up with joy, thinking to himself: "Is it empty?" The inside of the wooden box's lid was hollow.

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