Chapter 10 Was It Really You?

*Pa!*

Li Tianran jumped straight back into the hole from outside, stood up, and stared at the gravedigger.

"What... what size shoes do you wear?"

The cold voice echoed in the night sky, like a sharp sword carrying a chilling aura.

The gravedigger was stunned, as if he hadn't heard Li Tianran clearly. "What?"

"Let me see your shoes." Li Tianran walked towards the gravedigger, saying calmly, "Lift your foot up!"

The gravedigger seemed to understand something, and cursed angrily, "You little bastard... you're suspecting this old man?"

"I've been guarding this graveyard for so many years, I've never done anything like stealing from the dead!"

The heavy dialect-laced curses spewed from the gravedigger's mouth, as if he was suffering a great injustice.

In the piercing cold wind, the hunched-over gravedigger roared with grievance, a scene that looked extremely desolate.

"Why are you so nervous?" Li Tianran approached him, grabbed the gravedigger's wrist, and said coldly, "I didn't say you did it. Even the police have to do routine checks when solving a case. You should know that."

"What am I nervous about?" The gravedigger sneered at Li Tianran. "You little turtle son ain't a cop or soldier, you got no right to check me!"

Li Tianran laughed. He pressed down on the gravedigger's shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Right now, it's just you and me in this whole cemetery. Whoever has the power has the right! I want to search you, do you have the ability to resist?"

These words were very domineering and unreasonable.

At the same time, Little Black walked out of the darkness, its pair of glowing green eyes sending a chill down one’s spine.

The gravedigger's tone softened. He said in a hoarse voice, "Young man, I have no grievances with your family, how could I dig up your parents' grave? Why don't we call the police and let them investigate this matter!"

"The military police don't even have time to deal with robberies, where would they find the time for something like this..." A touch of indifference appeared on Li Tianran's face.

Indeed, this matter was extremely important to Li Tianran, but it was of no value to the military police.

In this world, they can't even handle the affairs of the living, who has the energy to care about the dead?

"From the moment I got here, you intentionally reminded me to check the ancestral hall where the ashes are kept, twice in a row… There are no ashes of my parents in there. What's in there?" Li Tianran gritted his teeth, a fierce look in his eyes.

He felt that the gravedigger was acting strange.

From the beginning, the other party had reminded Li Tianran twice to check the small ancestral hall where the ashes were kept.

That small ancestral hall had only a few tens of cubic centimeters of space. Even the dumbest tomb robber wouldn't leave anything behind after taking the ashes.

Moreover, as a gravedigger, when he discovered that the ashes had been stolen, he would have checked the inside of the ancestral hall first.

So the fact that the other party kept reminding Li Tianran to check it seemed very abnormal.

"Young man, I really don't know what you're talking about..." The gravedigger's tone was nervous, and in this terrifying environment, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Alright, then you go and check it for me again." Li Tianran said in a deep voice, "If nothing happened, it will prove that I wronged you. As compensation for the mental damage, I'll give you one hundred thousand yuan!"

One hundred thousand yuan was nearly seven or eight years' worth of the gravedigger's salary.

This was undoubtedly an astronomical sum.

But the gravedigger took two steps back, a stiff smile on his face. "Young man, don't joke around with me... How could I take your money?"

"Woof..."

Little Black walked over and stared coldly at the gravedigger's throat, letting out a threatening growl.

"Go on, go." Li Tianran said expressionlessly, pointing in the direction of the ancestral hall. "Or you can tell me a little more now... something you haven't told me."

"What haven't I told you!" The gravedigger had an extremely embarrassed expression on his face, desperately trying to defend himself. "I'm really not a bad person!"

"I'm not in the mood to argue with you! My parents' ashes are gone, I have the urge to kill someone right now!" Li Tianran suddenly roared, his eyes filled with a chilling murderous intent.

The aura of someone who has personally shed blood is completely different from those flowers that live in greenhouses.

Since the world changed, at least a dozen lives had been lost at Li Tianran's hands. The blood of these people had also hardened Li Tianran's heart.

He was now like a beast king, staring coldly at a sheep.

The gravedigger finally couldn't bear the pressure any longer and collapsed, trembling all over.

"I'll say it again, if I wronged you, one hundred thousand yuan." Li Tianran pointed to the direction of the ancestral hall. "Now, walk over there."

The gravedigger walked tremblingly to the front of the ancestral hall, his back to Li Tianran.

Nothing happened.

Li Tianran frowned.

Could it be that he really wronged him?

Was his guess wrong?

A light flashed in Li Tianran's eyes. He drew the Wujin Tang Dao (Obsidian Tang Blade) that he carried with him from its scabbard, deliberately making the "clang" of the blade being drawn sound very crisp and obvious!

*Swish!*

After hearing this sound, the gravedigger's body, which was facing away from Li Tianran, suddenly trembled. He quickly grabbed something from inside the ancestral hall and threw it at Li Tianran!

Then, he ran away with his head in his hands!

Those were two metal tubes about the thickness of a finger, with two colorful wires on them. Because of their small size and the fact that they were placed in the shadow of the ancestral hall's blind spot, they had not been discovered before!

Li Tianran's pupils shrank.

He recognized what it was!

Electric detonators!

At this moment, a subtle light flashed in the air on the electric detonator. It was controlled by remote control, and it had obviously been activated!

In an instant, Li Tianran roared, "It really is you, you bastard!"

He was quick-witted and quick-handed, and slapped the metal tube in the air with his blade, batting it away like a tennis ball!

The metal tube was batted away on the spot, and exploded with a bang about three meters away from Li Tianran!

A ball of hot, dazzling light lit up in the night sky, along with a roaring sound!

To the left, a stone tablet was blown apart on the spot.

Li Tianran's brow twitched wildly.

This was a millisecond-delay detonator that would explode within ten milliseconds of being activated.

If he had really gone to check the ancestral hall just now, and the other party had pressed the remote control to activate it, either his hand would have been blown off or his eyes would have been blinded!

How vicious!

Thinking of this terrible consequence, Li Tianran's brow furrowed with terrifying murderous intent. He turned to look at the gravedigger who was fleeing madly, weighed the Tang blade in his hand, and threw it out like a javelin!

*Pfft!*

The sound of a blade entering flesh rang out.

The gravedigger's thigh was pierced, and he let out a miserable wail, falling to the ground with a thud.

"Where are my parents' ashes?" Li Tianran walked over with a gloomy face, grabbed the gravedigger's hair, and lifted him up from the ground. "Who told you to kill me?"

"..." A simple remote control button fell from the gravedigger's palm. The intense pain made it difficult for him to remain calm. He pleaded, "Your parents' ashes are not here. Someone paid me to do this. I just took them out and handed them to someone else. As for who the other party is, I really don't know!"

"Then what use are you?" Li Tianran's brow furrowed, he gripped the hilt of the blade and slowly rotated it in the other party's flesh.