33: Chapter 33: Not just tomb raiding, but murder!

Su Yun watched the increasingly ferocious face on the screen, but his own expression remained unchanged.

He even picked up his thermos and took a slow sip of water.

He had seen scenes like this many times before.

No matter how ruthless a character might be, in front of Tianji Divine Calculation, they were nothing more than a clown with no clothes on.

Su Yun set down his cup and swept his gaze over Lao Wu.

On the system panel, those words, red to the point of being black, were pulsing violently.

[Sin Value: 95]

This number was even more glaring than the green hat on top of Old Sun's head just a moment ago.

And in the [Detailed Crimes] column, besides "Crime of Excavating Ancient Tombs," four large characters were glaringly written...

[Intentional Homicide].

Su Yun's fingers tapped gently on the desktop, making a "tap-tap" sound.

This sound traveled through the microphone and echoed in the silent underground space, making Lao Wu's heart creep out.

"Lao Wu, stop touching that pig-slaughtering knife."

Su Yun's tone was flat, just as if he were chatting with a neighbor.

"That's meant for killing pigs, not for scaring people."

"Besides, from this far away, even if you pull that knife out, what can you do other than give yourself some false courage?"

Lao Wu's hand froze.

He hadn't expected Su Yun to be able to tell that he had a pig-slaughtering knife tucked into his waist.

This kid was a bit eerie.

But he was a seasoned veteran who had been in the underworld for so many years, and his mental fortitude was exceptionally strong.

He pulled his hand back, steadied his phone again, and squeezed out a smile that looked worse than crying.

"Master Su is really good at joking."

"In our line of work, out in the desolate mountains and wild forests, it's not excessive to carry a knife for self-defense, right?"

"You said earlier that it was a dead end; was it because you thought the money was too little?"

"How about this: six million! As long as you point me to a path and let me transport this thing out, I'll transfer six million to you immediately!"

Su Yun looked at his stubborn expression—the type who wouldn't shed tears until they saw the coffin—and shook his head.

"Money is a good thing, but you need to have the life to earn it, and also the life to spend it."

"Lao Wu, I won't ask you about anything else."

"I'll just ask you one thing: a tripod this big, relying on just yourself, how did you get it out of a pit several meters deep?"

Lao Wu was stunned for a moment.

This question was too tricky.

That bronze tripod weighed at least a hundred catties, and on top of that, digging the tomb tunnel and clearing the soil layers—one person simply couldn't do this job.

"I... I just got lucky!"

Lao Wu's eyes darted around, and he stubbornly insisted.

"I was originally just here to dig for wild vegetables nearby; who knew that with one strike of the hoe, I'd dig up something hard."

"The pit wasn't deep to begin with, so I just took my time and managed to get it up."

"Digging for wild vegetables?"

Su Yun acted as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Late at night, you ran next to the Zhou Tomb, a key national cultural relic protection unit, to dig for wild vegetables?"

"And you brought a Luoyang shovel, an engineer's shovel, a high-beam flashlight, and a gas mask to dig for wild vegetables?"

"Lao Wu, you dig for wild vegetables quite professionally."

"Does this wild vegetable grow like a bronze tripod, where you have to look at the patina and the patterns?"

The livestream chat room burst into laughter.

"What the hell, digging for wild vegetables!"

"Even Wang Baochuan would have to kowtow to you if she came here."

"The excuse you found wouldn't even fool my three-year-old nephew."

"Lao Wu: If I say I'm here for archaeology, do you guys believe me?"

"Master Su's mouth is too sharp; how cutting!"

Lao Wu was flushed red in the face from Su Yun's retort.

He knew this excuse didn't hold water, but now, apart from refusing to admit it to the death, he had no other option.

"Master Su, if you truly don't want to help, then forget it."

"There's no need to make fun of me here."

"I won't sell this thing anymore, okay? At worst, I'll just bury it back!"

As he spoke, Lao Wu reached out to hang up the connection.

He could see it now; this Su Yun wasn't some fortune-telling master at all, he was just here to pick a fight.

If he kept chatting, he was afraid something big would happen.

"Don't be in such a hurry to leave."

Su Yun's voice suddenly rose a few notches, carrying an unquestionable authority.

"Da Liu and Ma Zi haven't come up yet; it wouldn't be appropriate for you to leave alone, right?"

Boom!

As soon as these words came out, Lao Wu felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

His finger, reaching for the hang-up button, stopped abruptly in mid-air and trembled violently.

Da Liu.

Ma Zi.

These two names were like two sharp knives, stabbing fiercely into his heart.

They were his two accomplices.

And brothers with whom he had sworn brotherhood.

"You... what nonsense are you spouting?"

Lao Wu's voice was shaking; that was fear from the bottom of his heart.

"What Da Liu and Ma Zi? I don't understand!"

"I don't know them! I'm all by myself!"

Su Yun watched his panicked appearance, his smile slowly fading and turning cold.

"You don't understand?"

"Fine, then I'll help you remember."

"Two hours ago, the three of you dug up this tripod."

"Da Liu said this thing was too conspicuous and hard to sell, so he wanted to hide it first and wait until the heat died down."

"Ma Zi wanted to cash in immediately, saying he owed gambling debts and was in urgent need of money."

"And you, Lao Wu."

Su Yun paused, his gaze as sharp as a scalpel, as if dissecting Lao Wu's chest.

"You thought this thing was worth a lot of money and didn't want to share it with them."

"You wanted to keep it all to yourself."

Lao Wu's breathing became rapid.

Huff, huff...

His eyes were wide open, staring fixedly at Su Yun on the screen, as if he were an evil spirit crawling out of hell.

"You, how do you know..."

He asked subconsciously, then quickly covered his mouth.

But it was already too late.

Su Yun didn't give him any chance to breathe; his speaking speed became faster and faster, every word piercing the heart.

"During the argument, Da Liu wanted to make a move."

"But he forgot that you had that pig-slaughtering knife tucked into your waist the whole time."

"You first stabbed Da Liu in the kidney with the knife, then, while Ma Zi was stunned in fear, you grabbed the engineer's shovel from the ground and struck him right on the back of the head."

"That blow was quite ruthless."

"You smashed his brains out, didn't you?"

"Those dark red spots on the front of your clothes aren't blood from a scraped skin, are they?"

"That is the blood sprayed out by Da Liu, and the stuff splattered from Ma Zi's brain!"

With every sentence Su Yun spoke, Lao Wu's face turned a shade paler.

By the time the last sentence was finished, Lao Wu had collapsed onto the ground.

His flashlight fell to the ground, its beam swinging wildly, illuminating his face—covered in dirt and cold sweat—making it look even more hideous.

The livestream chat room was dead silent.

Hundreds of thousands of viewers, at this very moment, didn't even dare to breathe.

The comments that were flooding the screen just a moment ago had all stopped.

Everyone was terrified by the scene Su Yun had described.

Murder.

For money, he killed two people in a row.

This was a desperado!

"You, you are a ghost..."

Lao Wu pointed at the screen, trembling, his teeth chattering.

"What the hell are you, a human or a ghost?!"

"How could you possibly know so clearly?!"

At that moment, his psychological defenses completely collapsed.

The fear of being seen through by someone was even more terrifying than having the police standing right in front of him.

The police still needed evidence to arrest someone, and they still needed interrogations.

But this Su Yun was as if he had been standing right there watching at the time!

Even the details were described without a single error!