Although the floating female corpse had no identification, Wu Xie found a hidden phoenix tattoo inside her diving suit: the mark of the Wang family. It turned out that the Wang family had discovered the secret beneath Third Uncle’s shop long ago and laid a tight net all around it. Even Uncle He, the old gardener, was one of their informants.
Wu Xie realized that the Wang family had been watching his every move throughout all the years of waiting and suffering. This time, he would neither run nor defend himself passively. His “Sha Hai Xie” persona awakened ahead of schedule. Using the intricate bronze tree mechanisms and hallucinogenic bronze bells in the Southern Song imperial tomb, Wu Xie turned the underground palace into a massive “hunting trap.” He deliberately sent out false signals to lure the elite Wang family squad following him into the tomb. With the terrain, Pangzi’s firepower, and his own ingenuity, he launched a ruthless counter-hunt underground.
