“Who’s there?” I looked around. 

Senior Shu

 pulled himself together. “From the Yang energy I sensed in the air, that person isn’t powerful. I 

don’t think

 they 

came here 

with evil intentions. I guess they were tourists who accidentally trespassed our campsite.” 

Senior Shu

 headed to our campsite

, and a

ll of a sudden, he disappeared. As the sky was too dark, I didn’t know what had just happened. I worriedly walked forward. 

And, 

I experienced the same thing. I slid 

down just 

as

Senior Shu

 had done! 

It took me a few seconds to reach the bottom. I hurriedly turned on the flashlight. I

recognized 

we were trapped in

 a

pit someone had dug. The pit 

covered

 several square meters

. 

I saw

 Senior Shu

 standing near me. 

“Luck

ily

, they didn’t set any spikes here. Otherwise, we would have become human hedgehogs.” 

Senior Shu

 wiped the cold sweat o

ff

 his face. Then, he took the flashlight from me

 and shone it on

 the space above. I lifted my head and followed the light. This pit was four or five meters deep. However, when we came here to camp, there was no pit! 

I was a little shaken

 and cursed,

 “Who the 

heck

 did this? They 

have

 dug such a deep pit without leaving any traces!” 

It wasn’t too strange 

for

 someone 

to

 dig such a deep hole on plain land. 

However,

 we were on the mountain, where the soil underneath was all basalt! 

Senior Shu

 said, “

It

 should be the native people 

here. The

y

’re probably

angry 

because we’ve 

trespassed in their

 forbidden area. However, I 

don’t think

 they mean harm. Otherwise, we would have been dead by now.” 

Then, he found a spot to sleep.

The walls of this hole were strangely smooth

, which

 had made it impossible to climb up. 

I couldn’t be as calm as him. Shivering inside, I watched the hole above. When 

Senior Shu

 had already 

fallen

 asleep, I felt the 

cold

 wind continuously blowing from above. Gradually, my scalp went numb. 

I didn’t know how 

much time had passed, but 

my eyes slowly closed at some moment.

Then

, 

a

 fox cry echoed above my head. This time, I heard it loud and clear. That thing was right above my head. I wanted to see what it was

, but

 it never appeared 

withi

n my vision. 

Around half an hour later, the cry disappeared. I checked my phone. It was 4:00 AM. Thinking that there shouldn’t be anything foul coming again, I relaxed and slept right away. 

I didn’t know how long I had slept 

before

 I heard rapid footsteps above my head. I didn’t sleep deep enough, so I woke up as soon as I heard the noise. 

Senior Shu

 was awake. He was sitting cross-legged next to me. 

Seeing 

that I had woken 

up, he pointed upward. “Here they come!” 

Indeed, when the footsteps stopped, we heard people yelling and cursing above our heads. They were speaking some minor ethnic language that I didn’t understand. Soon, a rope was dropped

 to us

. 

W

hen I was about to climb up

, Senior Shu stopped me. 

“Wait here. I’m going first to see the situation.” 

Then, he grabbed the rope and slowly climbed up. Not long after he 

went

 up, I saw the rope 

drop

 down again. 

It

 meant that I could go up. 

I grabbed the rope and climbed up. Finally, I saw who had come to rescue us. There was a group of people surrounding us. They all held pipe guns

 or 

bows

, and they wore 

colorful garments. Some even had beautiful feathers on their heads. At first glance, I knew they were 

some

 minor ethnic hunters. 

They looked angry

, and they 

star

ed 

at us as 

though

 they had a deep grudge against us. I couldn’t stand this unknowing hostility. I talk

ed 

first

. “

Why did you dig th

is

 pit to trap us?” 

“You two came here to rob the tombs. We

 were already

 kind 

enough not to

 kill you!” One of the hunters spoke 

in

 broken Mandarin. 

Rob the tombs? We didn’t rob any tomb!

As soon as I was about to explain, 

Senior Shu

 pushed me aside and 

went

 to the hunters

. He said in a stern voice,

 “We came here yesterday. We’re looking for the legendary Undead Grass. We 

haven’t

 rob

bed 

any graves here

, nor do we want to

.” 

Then, 

he

 opened our tents in front of them. 

After s

howing them the 

defensive

 magic tools, he said, “Brothers, you 

made a mistake

. You see our tools here? These aren’t things 

that

 tomb robbers use, wouldn

’t 

you say so?” 

The leader of the hunter team looked hesitant. After a while, one of them talked to him

 in 

their language. The leader then 

made

 a cold

face. “Recently, our ancestor’s tombs 

have

 been robbed. Moreover, every time, the robbers 

make

a

 noise 

that sounds like

a

 fox cry! Yesterday, our Dazhu 

waited 

here the whole night. He heard the fox cry from this place. What else do you

 have

 to say?” 

“Hold on, you said 

a

 fox cry? Does it sound like 

a

 woman crying?” 

It was the sound I had heard when I had come to this mountain. Moreover, last night I heard it right above the pit! I didn’t know what it was, but now, I understood that it wanted to blame the crime on me and 

Senior Shu

! 

I explained what I had experienced since we had come to the mountain to the head hunter. After listening to me, he lowered his voice

 and discussed 

with the other hunters. In the end, he nodded. “I trust you for now

, b

ut you have to prove that you didn’t do such things.” 

Then, he waved at his peers. The other hunters threw 

Senior Shu

 into the trapping pit.

He gave me an evil smile. “Before we get the tomb robbers, we need a hostage.” 

“Okay!” 

I nodded reluctantly, thinking that 

Senior Shu

 and I were lucky that we had encountered relatively gentle Yunnan 

people

. If 

this

 had happened in Tibet, the

y

 woul

d have

shot

 us as 

though

 we were just hopping rabbits. 

“I am Baji, a local hunter. These are my brothers.” 

After 

making

 the deal that I would help them find the real culprits, Baji showed me the friendly and hospitable faces of the minor ethnic people. He roasted the boar he had just hunted to treat me. While gnawing on the juicy boar leg, I listened to the strange stories that had happened here recent

ly

. 

Th

e

se hunters were all from the Achang Tribe. 

For g

enerations, they had lived in this area

. They hunted 

to feed their families

, and w

hen the old people in their tribe died, they 

were

 buried on Mount Horse Saddle. They said that by doing so

, it 

would guarantee their later descendants’ lives. 

A few days ago, when Baji came to the mountain with his peers, they found 

that the

 grave of one of their ancestors was unearthed. Although they were angry, they thought it was just an 

accident

. They fixed the grave and left. 

After that day, the graves in the mountain w

ere 

robbed from time to time. The 

strong

 men of the tribe pledged their hearts that they had to make 

things

 right for their ancestors

.

 They 

split up and took

 shifts 

to

 watch the mountain 

throughout

 the days and nights. Soon, they recognized that when they heard the fox cry, a 

tomb was robbed

. That

 wa

s why they had misunderstood us last night. 

After listening to Baji, I asked skeptically, 

“You mean

, y

ou’ve been watching for quite a long time and you haven’t found anything suspicious yet?” 

Baji stuttered. “We 

saw 

two robbers digging the tombs. At that time, we were confident that we had outnumbered them, so we all rushed toward them. Unexpectedly, they moved so fast. Moreover, no weapons could harm them. They seem to be some sort of robot! We let them escape in the end…” 

When he said that, Baji

blushed. To them, it seemed to be an embarrassment that they had let their enemy run away. 

I wanted to comfort Baji but then, I recalled the two freaks that had forced us to move away from the mountain peak. I asked, “The two tomb robbers you met, one wore white clothes and the other wore black clothes, right?” 

“How did you know that?” All the men jerked up from their seats after I said that. 

From their abrupt reaction, I knew I was right. I didn’t say anything further but quickly pulled Baji to the mountain peak. 

He hesitated at first, but he then waved his hands and asked some people 

with

 guns to stay by the pit to watch 

Senior Shu

. 

Around half an hour later, we 

arrived

at

 the place 

where Senior Shu and I had seen

 the two freaks last night. Strangely, there was a hole right where they had stood. 

“Damn! I must kill them!” Baji was stunned when he saw that.

I followed him and saw a tomb under that hole. The coffin was pried open, 

which revealed

an

 unrecognizable corpse inside. 

W

e joined hands to fix the grave.

Baji looked at me with red eyes. “This is my grandmother’s tomb. She was afraid that her tomb would be raided afterward, so she didn’t 

want a

 tombstone. But now…” 

Before I 

could provide

 him comfort, he got on his knees

 and begged 

me to help them. I was bewildered 

at this

 moment. I was a suspect in the previous moment, and now they

’d

 made me 

their savior

. 

“From the soil 

around

 my grandmother’s tomb, I 

can tell

 that it was dug early this morning. You and 

that

 old man were in the trap at that time. Of course,

 I

 don’t 

suspect

 you anymore. Please, I 

know 

that you’re not 

an 

ordinary pe

rson

. Please help us!”