Sun Baozi looked at Liu Bu Zhen with a smile and said, "It's not the right time yet. Old Liu, once I let you go, you'll take advantage of our carelessness and trigger some array or curse that we haven't noticed. Then you can save those over 4,000 catties of gold. Am I wrong to say this, Old Liu? Do you think I dare take this risk?"
Liu Bu stared at Sun Baozi with blinking eyes, still somewhat unwilling to say: "So can you at least remove the handgun behind me? Once he fires, your gold will be gone too."
This sentence reminded Sun Dawei, he chuckled and said to Ximen Lian behind Liu Bu's true body: "Master, point the muzzle down a bit, at the buttocks. Just like before, as long as Old Liu makes a small move, you'll fire. Before we get the gold, let's first keep our lives safe."
After finishing, Sun Baozi stopped paying attention to Liu Bu Zhen who still wanted to argue and said to Wang Xiao Ran who was still counting on his fingers: "We'll count again later, you won't be left out." After a pause, Sun's deputy looked at the opposite side of the door and asked Wang Xiao Ran: "What's going on inside? Is it really not dangerous? I'm not saying this, but we need to be careful, or else we might lose our lives before we even get the gold."
Wang Xiao Ran finally came back to his senses, looked up at Sun Ao Zi and said: "I carefully checked both sides inside, but didn't find any formation or spell. However, there is another entrance that goes down diagonally, it's hard to say what's inside."
Sun Baozi nodded and turned to Liu Bu Zhen, saying: "Old Liu, think carefully, where did you put the first spell as we went further in? If something happens to my people because of this, I don't want those several thousand catties of gold..."
When Sun Baozi said the last sentence, although he still had a smile on his face, there was already a hint of coldness in his tone. Liu Bu couldn't help but shiver involuntarily. He too had lived for a long time, and it was the first time he met someone who could make him feel chilled to the bone with just a smile.
Liu Bu calmed down and said to Sun Baozi: "It's safe to go inside, but be careful when you're near the edge of the underground bunker. I've cast a heart-locking spell, and if we go further in, we'll see those people. But don't move them, I've cast a ghost-curse spell around each of these people. There are only two more, there aren't any others."
Sun Baozi was still a bit uneasy, looking at Liu Bu and saying: "Old Liu, think carefully again, is it possible that you used to cast some kind of spell, could it be that after such a long time, you've even forgotten yourself?"
"It's impossible" Liu Bu shook his head firmly and said, "When I walk this road, I have to be extremely careful. If there are any curses that even I don't remember, then the first one to suffer will be me."
Seeing Liu Butian say this, it doesn't seem like he's intentionally hiding anything. Sun Baozi smiled and said to Liu Butian: "You remember that's good, anyway you'll be the first to leave on this road after a while. Now that we've finished discussing official business, let's talk about something private. Old Liu, you wouldn't hide all that gold under your bed at home, would you?"
Liu Bu truly understood Sun Bao's meaning, and after hesitating for a moment, he said: "No matter whether it's people or things, what place can compare to here? I hid all the gold in underground bunkers, but that place is even more remote, and you need to find the mechanism to get in."
Sun Baozi narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Bu Zhen after he finished speaking. He tilted his head, thought for a moment, and then said to the crowd around him: "Let's keep the formation we had earlier and move forward. It's not me saying this, but if there's any uncertain place, let Old Liu come back and walk through it again. We're not afraid of trouble, at most, we'll just have Old Liu take a few more laps."
As they continued to move forward, Old Mo approached Sun Baozi and said: "Great Sage, you're being a bit too cautious, aren't you? Liu Bu is really in our hands, Yang Xiao personally guards him, are you still afraid he can fly into the sky?"
Unexpectedly, Sun Baozhu furrowed his brow and shook his head, saying: "Old Mo, you don't know, from the moment I entered this mansion, my heart has been feeling uneasy. My right eyelid keeps twitching, which is not a good omen. Every time I've had this feeling in the past, it's almost always followed by great misfortune. However, due to the previous interference of the shocking technique, I'm also somewhat unclear whether it's really that kind of feeling or not."
Sun Baozi paused for a moment, looked at Liu Butian in front of him and said: "Let's move forward, maybe it was just the interference from the shocking technique that gave me a slight misconception. It's always better to be cautious."
After Sun Baozi finished speaking, he didn't meet Lao Mo again. He took a few quick steps forward and caught up with Liu Bu's back again. After entering the place where the gold vault used to be, he immediately saw a huge opening in the right corner. The opening was as tall as a person, unless Yao Ming walked from here with some difficulty, ordinary people could easily walk in with their toes inside.
From this entrance, walking inside is a section of sloping downward road. After walking for about five or six minutes, Liu Bu suddenly stopped his footsteps and looked at the ground in front of him, saying: "The ground ahead has been sealed with my Heart Bone Spell, only six steps can be taken, if one step goes wrong, none of us will need to go back"
As soon as Liu Butian finished speaking, everyone stopped in their tracks and stared at the dark ground ahead. The five members of the group walked out from the crowd and carefully approached the spot where Liu Butian was looking. After about two or three minutes, Wang Shaoran returned alone, glanced at Liu Butian, and said to Sun Baozi: "There is indeed a trace of Heart Bone Curse at a position twenty meters ahead, but he has covered up all the paths. With our abilities, it will take at least two hours to lift this curse."
"Two hours?" Sun Baozi furrowed his brow and continued, "Isn't it just a matter of burning incense and spitting blood? I'm not saying this, but how could it possibly take two hours?"
Wang Xiao Ran looked at Sun Bao Zi with some helplessness and said: "The methods for removing curses, arrays, and techniques are all different. Compared to the other two, the difficulty of curse removal is greater. In the past, on Mount Qi Lian, there was a large-scale curse that our Director Ouyang stayed in for three months before it could be considered removed. Until now, there are still three major curses that we have been unable to remove, and can only seal off those places. We let the troops go in and keep watch, making them military restricted areas where civilians are not allowed."
Sun Baozi also heard this for the first time, he blinked his eyes and thought for a moment before saying to Wang Xiao Ran: "Can't get rid of it after all - can't even Wu Renyi do it?"
Wang Xiao Ran replied, "At first, there were nine major curses. Later, Director Wu lifted six of them. Even if Director Wu had intervened, it would have taken at least ten days to lift one curse. During the last lifting of the curse, an emergency situation occurred in the sentence. It was because Director Wu couldn't withdraw his hand that he relied on several other directors and investigators, who paid a huge price to resolve the incident. Afterwards, Director Gao completely abandoned those few major curses."
"It's still me who will go first, you guys just watch carefully and then follow" At this time, Liu Bu truly spoke up: "There are only six steps, as long as you guys are a bit careful, there won't be any problem"
"Don't worry about this." Sun Baozi looked at Liu Bu with a hint of a smile and said, "Guess whether I'll let you go by yourself now? Old Liu, it's not me saying it, but we've been in contact for several hours already, how come you still don't understand me?"
After saying that to Liu Bu, Sun Baozi immediately turned to Wang Xiao Ran and said: "Two hours is impossible, so I'll give you one hour. If you can resolve it, then resolve it. If not, we'll retreat!"
"Go back?" Wang Xiao Ran said in a daze, having just found out that they were about to get hundreds of pounds of gold. Now going back wouldn't mean giving up everything? He stuttered: "No... should we move forward instead? The hostages ahead won't be saved? And what about the gold..."
Sun Baozi hummed and then looked at Wang Xiao Ran, saying: "Who said we can't go? We'll just change our approach. We'll retreat to the top, calculate the position, and then dig a hole from above to avoid the curse here and head forward. With current technology, two or three excavators can get it done in half a day. Alright, you guys start trying to lift the curse first, an hour has already started." Wang Xiao Ran listened and immediately returned to the front, more than 20 meters away, facing their five-room investigation team, saying: "Sun Juzhang gave us an hour, let's try once whether we succeed or not."
Looking at Wang Xiao Ran and a few others squatting on the ground, staring fiercely at the ground. Sun Baozi turned his head to look at Liu Bu Zhen, smiled and said: "You also heard it, not walking from here, I can still get to the front. By the way, ask you a question, Old Liu, which family is strong in excavator technology?"
"No need to say more, I understand what you mean." Liu Bu let out a sigh and continued, "Take me over there. This curse was set by me, I'll help them lift it, it won't take ten minutes."
"Is that so, the formation was set up by you, or are you going to dispel it? Sun Aozi smiled and looked at Liu Bu Zhen, continuing: "Then why didn't you say so earlier, causing us to waste half a day's effort. Old Yang, take Lord Liu with you on a trip."
In front of them were several thousand kilograms of gold. At this time, who would be willing to turn back and stir up trouble? Yang Xiao and Xi Men led Liu Bu Zhen to the side of Wang Xiao Ran and the others. Liu Bu Zhen pointed at a small mound on the ground that was ordinary and unremarkable, saying: "The cursed eye is right there. The curse used the 'Living Soul Knot', which are the souls of 99 children..."
He paused for a moment, realizing that he might have misspoken, and immediately turned back to Sun Baozi and said: "The soul's affairs have nothing to do with me, don't count it on my head"