The climb took little effort, and the group of more than twenty soon reached the summit.
After Xiong Jie knelt before the grave and burned incense, Hua Jianming directed the workers to begin digging.
There was no special technique involved. They simply dug straight down!
The digging went on for over an hour.
Only after they had dug more than four meters down did a worker notice something unusual.
"We can't dig any farther!"
The voice came from the bottom of the pit.
Hearing this, Hua Jianming immediately asked, "What did you hit?"
"Nothing. We just can't dig any farther."
Hua Jianming frowned, then told the people below to come up.
When he went down himself, he realized the worker had not been lying. They really had encountered nothing; they simply could not dig any farther.
There was still soil beneath them, but it was as hard as rock!
After considering it for a while, Hua Jianming climbed out and gave a new order.
"Stop digging down. Start widening the pit!"
This order was different from the last.
Hua Jianming gave no other specifications. He only told them to widen it.
Two hours later, when the bottom of the pit had been widened to four meters across, they made another discovery.
"We found the coffin!"
Hua Jianming jumped straight into the pit.
Chen Miao did not go down, but he approached the edge and looked toward where Hua Jianming stood below.
A corner of the coffin had been exposed there.
But once Chen Miao got a clear look, he frowned. Something was strange about that exposed corner.
Judging by its position, the coffin seemed to be... standing upright?
Chen Miao's guess proved correct. Once the soil surrounding the coffin had been cleared away, all they could see was one end