At that, everyone grew tense. Jiang Cheng suddenly signaled Liu Xueyi to stop, then went outside and called the old gentleman from downstairs, asking him to take the boy down to play.
The boy was reluctant at first, but after the Fatty talked him into it, he finally nodded. He solemnly hooked his little finger around the Fatty's and said, "When you're done with your important business, Brother Fat, you have to play with me. I'll take you out to see the sights. There are so many fun places in Shanghai City!"
"It's a promise."
Watching the Fatty interact with the little boy, Yuan Shanyuan and Luo Tianhe were so jealous their eyes turned red. Getting along with important clue-bearing characters in a mission was an art in itself. Unfortunately, they'd made their move too late.
Once the little boy had left, everyone felt a sudden wave of relief.
As Liu Xueyi spoke of the coffin that had been suspended in the air, he grew tense all over. His lips trembled slightly. "I... I used the method that man taught me and really did break the mechanism on it. The iron chain, as thick as my forearm, came loose on its own, and the coffin was lowered to the ground."
"Then the coffin opened. Inside... inside was a corpse. Just one corpse. There weren't any gold, silver, or jewels like we'd imagined. But the corpse alone was strange enough. It wore the kind of clothes only a lord could wear, but we couldn't see its face because it was covered by a bronze mask, carved with strange patterns."
"But the more I looked at the corpse's build, and... and the general shape of its face, the more familiar it seemed. It was clearly... clearly the person from my dreams!"
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