Gu Xi had traveled nonstop, reaching the city ruins Kru had mentioned in just two days and one night.
The moment the Holy Silver Evil Coffin stopped, Kru jumped down.
He looked up at a large tree on a nearby hill, then compared it against the sunlight to confirm the time and their current location.
Only then did he nod with certainty.
"There's no mistake. This is the place."
Looking at the empty ground before them, Gu Xi said somewhat speechlessly,
"Kru, did you fill the dirt back in after finishing the excavation?"
"How could that be? Who fills the dirt back in after archaeology? But I'm not like you, casually sending over a troop that can dig up the earth.
When I do archaeology, I'm usually alone. I don't have the strength to dig straight down.
I normally identify the strata first, then dig a hole downward..."
"A tomb-raiding tunnel?"
Hearing that, Kru said helplessly, "I'm doing archaeology, not robbing tombs, all right?"
Though he said that, Kru still led Gu Xi toward the foot of a nearby hill.
"I've always remembered the location. It's this hill. See the tree on the mountain? Follow the direction it points downward, and you'll see a stone. See it? That stone.
I moved both the tree and the stone here myself. Normally, no one would deliberately move them again.
So as long as the location is confirmed, it won't be easy to make a mistake.
Now look at the straight line between the tree and the stone. What do you see?"
Gu Xi looked carefully and discovered that there really was a spot between the tree and the stone where the vegetation grew differently.
"The plants there were newly planted?"
"Hahaha, looks like you were fooled too. The actual location is a