Chapter 2710 — Yu Xiaoke Has Vanished
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"You have a point. Saving a life matters most!" White Leader nodded at Wei Zhao, signaling that this did not count as disrespect to their patriarch—after all, the dead were never more important than the living, and even Patriarch Zhang Lifeng's spirit in heaven would not object.
Wei Zhao nodded, stepped up to the coffin, and began to examine it carefully, preparing to lift the lid.
"Up—" Wei Zhao reached out to raise the coffin lid, only to discover to his astonishment that the lid did not budge in the slightest!
Wei Zhao had not circulated his inner technique or used true qi, but it was only a coffin lid—how heavy could it be? He had not needed true qi at all. Yet this time he had miscalculated: there was not the faintest sign of the lid lifting!
"Up—" This time Wei Zhao circulated his inner technique, yet the coffin lid still did not budge in the slightest!
Wei Zhao was taken aback. He increased the force of his true qi, but the lid still would not open!
Something was wrong! Wei Zhao stopped straining at it by brute force and began to examine it closely, wanting to see just what was special about this lid, and why it would not open despite such effort.
But after careful observation, Wei Zhao discovered to his astonishment that the coffin lid was fixed—it simply could not be opened at all!
In other words, the lid and the coffin were one piece, merely carved to look like a lid. Although there was a thin seam between lid and coffin, a close look revealed that the seam was carved in. Lid and coffin were plainly a single whole—it would be a wonder if it could open!
"This coffin... is fixed? It won't open?" White Leader had noticed the strangeness too.
"Indeed, it won't open. It's a fake." Wei Zhao nodded, then rapped twice more on the coffin, back and forth, and said with a shocked expression, "This coffin... is solid. It's just a great block of stone. Inside... there are no remains!"
"What?!" White Leader's eyes went wide. This sudden turn left him speechless! The two of them had spent half the day paying their respects before a solid stone coffin with no remains in it—what kind of farce was this? "Then... Patriarch Zhang Lifeng's remains..."
"I don't know. But there are only so many possibilities: either this stone coffin was swapped out and the real one taken away, or this is not Patriarch Zhang Lifeng's true tomb at all, but a false tomb meant to mislead..." Wei Zhao said.
"A false tomb... with so many fine things inside?" White Leader cut in, unable to make sense of it.
"Without so many fine things, how could anyone believe it was the real tomb? How could the false pass for the true?" Wei Zhao countered.
"That's true enough. But if so, then placing any corpse here at all would have been better than a solid stone coffin!" White Leader was still puzzled.