"This, this big?"
"My butt can fit something this big, Fatty?"
"Old Hu, I've made it."
Fatty looked at the giant corpse beetle before him.
He was still somewhat shaken.
However, Fatty was a resilient person; he had seen all sorts of things and was not as nervous or flustered as a greenhorn.
Zhang Tian and Hu Bayi ignored Fatty. Zhang Tian was carefully examining the corpse beetle.
The corpse beetle was still alive; it had not been killed by Zhang Tian's blade.
It had a crack on its body.
"Quick, look, there seems to be something on its butt."
Fatty exclaimed excitedly.
"You're not blind."
Zhang Tian shot Fatty a glare. Both of them looked at the corpse beetle's posterior.
"What is this? Little Master Zhang, can such a big bell fit into a corpse beetle's butt?"
Hu Bayi frowned slightly.
"The sound we heard just now should have come from here. There's actually something else inside this bell."
As Zhang Tian spoke, the corpse beetle wiggled its rear.
The bell emitted a piercing sound.
Hu Bayi and Fatty quickly covered their ears.
At this moment, a voice echoed in Zhang Tian's mind.
[Item: Warring States Period, Early Stage, Soul Suppressing Bell! High-grade artifact. This item is composed of a corpse beetle and a thousand-year-old centipede; neither is dispensable.]
[Item Function: Bewitchment, Hallucination.]
[Function Description: Bewitchment can briefly shake one's soul. Hallucination can cause one to encounter their deepest fears.]
Descriptions after descriptions appeared in his mind.
Zhang Tian frowned slightly.
The corpse beetle and the centipede were indispensable.
But, did he have to raise this thing himself?
If he kept a corpse beetle in his antique shop, his mother would scold him terribly!
"Little Master Zhang, there's something else in the bell?"
Hu Bayi was a little surprised.
"Mm, if I'm not mistaken, there's a thousand-year-old centipede inside the bell. When the centipede is hungry, it eats the corpse beetle's flesh, while the corpse beetle feeds on carrion, living this way."
Zhang Tian said softly.
"How disgusting. Little Master Zhang, just tell us, how much is this thing worth."
Fatty's face showed disgust.
"Fatty, don't spout nonsense if you don't understand. This thing is absolutely a divine artifact."
Although Hu Bayi didn't know what a divine artifact was, he could tell from Zhang Tian's expression that this thing was extraordinary.
"Old Hu is right. This is a divine artifact, immeasurable by money. Moreover, it's impossible to display this in a museum, don't you think?"
Zhang Tian said. Both of them nodded.
Putting a corpse beetle in a museum would be the act of a fool.
"Besides, this bell isn't worth much, and no one would dare to buy it. So, I plan to keep this thing."
Zhang Tian said. Fatty and Hu Bayi stared at Lin Tian in shock.
"Little Master Zhang, are you crazy? Keeping this thing? You're not trying to ensure your body isn't wasted when you die, are you?"
Fatty was speechless and couldn't understand.
Zhang Tian didn't say much. "Alright, get some ropes and tie it up."
"And get a cage to put it in. I'll take it back."
Zhang Tian was not one to procrastinate; he gave instructions directly.
The two of them didn't object much. This thing could be considered an antique, and yet not entirely. It felt a bit mysterious.
There wasn't much point in handing it over.
After helping Zhang Tian put the corpse beetle into his backpack, the few of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, in the judgment room.
[Hiss, what a huge beetle.]
[What beetle? That's clearly a corpse beetle!]
[Holy crap, aren't corpse beetles very small, not even the size of a fist? Why is this corpse beetle so big!]
[Has it become sentient? Also, were the hallucinations we just saw real?]
[Setting aside the corpse beetle, I think I saw a ghost just now!]
[Does this world really have ghosts? Wait, isn't this our world?]
For a moment, everyone was stunned.
It wasn't just the corpse beetle larger than their heads,
but the hallucinations that had just been played also shocked countless people.
The scene where Fatty encountered a ghost had directly scared countless children to tears.
"What we saw just now was probably a hallucination, caused by the sound from that bell."
Chen Xi said.
The crowd quieted down considerably.
[We must believe in science!]
[Wait, that bell is a cultural relic, right?]
[They're actually hoarding cultural relics, how excessive!]
[The one before, can this be donated?]
[Have you ever seen anyone donate a corpse beetle?]
[Even if this thing were donated, would you want the expert team to encounter a ghost? Also, at that time, thinking was rigid, and they were planning to eliminate feudalistic thoughts. If this thing were donated, wouldn't it disrupt order?]
For a moment, there was a flurry of discussion below the stage.
In any case, they no longer dwelled on why Zhang Tian didn't donate it.
After all, that era was precisely an era of eliminating feudalistic thoughts.
If it caused a sensation, it would be detrimental to the policies of the time.
[It's over, I'm already curious about what we'll encounter next.]
[The scene just now was truly perilous, Little Master Zhang drank that blood so fiercely.]
[Not afraid of encountering infectious diseases at all.]
[After drinking all the blood, if he encounters a virus infection, the book ends!]
The crowd below the stage was in a chaotic uproar.
The judge rapped his gavel on the table, and it finally quieted down.
Everyone turned their attention back to the screen.
"Thank you, Little Master Zhang, for saving our lives just now."
Hu Bayi said to Lin Tian with a solemn expression.
He was very loyal, and so was Fatty.
Both of them looked at Zhang Tian.
It could be said that if Zhang Tian hadn't gone down to save them just now, they would have been gone by then.
Therefore, Hu Bayi and Fatty now trusted Zhang Tian more.
After all, in that situation, someone willing to risk their life to save them was trustworthy.
"It's nothing. We're all brothers, no need to be formal."
Zhang Tian waved his hand.
"Aye, yes, yes, we're all brothers, all brothers. Little Master Zhang, from now on, you're my boss, Wang Fatty, and Old Hu's boss."
Fatty seized any opportunity he could.
He was afraid of missing out on any benefit.
Who was Zhang Tian?
Little Master Zhang, immensely wealthy.
To be recognized as his boss was a stroke of immense good fortune.
Fatty was not foolish.
Hu Bayi didn't say much; he had saved his life, so naturally, they were brothers.
"Good, we've truly seen true friendship in times of hardship, haha!"
Zhang Tian was also magnanimous.
He readily agreed to Fatty's proposal.
Afterward, Fatty paddled the boat, holding his sore backside.
Meanwhile, Zhang Tian and Hu Bayi stood at the bow.
Hu Bayi held a compass in his hand.
His gaze was fixed upwards.
"Little Master Zhang, look up there."
Hu Bayi said, looking towards the sky.
They saw, in the dim cave, illuminated by the light,
a series of crystal coffins appearing on the cliff face.
When the light shone on the coffins, they could even see the corpses inside.
However, it was a pity that most of these coffins had no lids.
It was evident that everything inside had long been looted.
"Little Master Zhang, crystal coffins, they must be worth a lot, right?"
Fatty's eyes lit up.
He looked as if he had seen a treasure.
"A single coffin should be worth tens of thousands, but you can't move it."
"And you can't sell it."
Zhang Tian said softly.
The coffins were ancient, and being made of crystal, they were naturally valuable.
But if you took these things out, who would dare to buy them?
Were they not afraid of death?
Or did they intend to move in themselves?
Fatty was rendered speechless for a moment, staring at the coffins, unable to do anything.
Hu Bayi frowned, looking at the cluster of tombs.
"Little Master Zhang, this should be a large tomb complex. I suspect there's nothing good left inside."
Hu Bayi said. Zhang Tian waved his hand.
"I don't think so. Instead, I think there should be a world within a world here. Perhaps even a tomb within a tomb."
After Zhang Tian finished speaking, both of them looked at him with some astonishment.
A tomb within a tomb?