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My name is Li Shitou. In 2010, I went to Ruili with 500 yuan that my mother had sewn into her cotton-padded jacket, hoping to earn 100,000 yuan by gambling on stones to treat my mother's lung disease. My cousin disappeared, my travel expenses were defrauded, and I was taken in as a laborer by Lao Zhou, who had been in the stone betting business for twenty years. I have seen the ecstasy of making millions overnight, and the despair of losing everything. I went to the Pagan Mine and the Naypyidaw Public Market to find out: There is no magic that can't break the jade, it's all fraud, gangsters, and loan sharking. My cousin was murdered back then. ... Be sure to be careful not to do anything that violates disciplines or laws and regulations!

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The thing I regret most in my life is that I found that copper coin among my grandfather's belongings. It looks strange. There are no words on it, only a pattern that looks like a snake and a dragon. I didn't take it seriously and threw it into the drawer. Until that night, the glass of my house was smashed by bricks. Three men in black raincoats burst in. They didn't say anything and just stared at the drawer where I kept the coins. I ran all the way with my things in my arms, and according to the address given by my grandfather before he died, I escaped into an antique store called "Old Objects" in the west of the city. The shop owner's surname is Su, and I call him Mr. Jiu. He looked at the copper coins, then at me, and said something I will never forget in my life. "This is called money for asking for directions. It means asking the dead for directions. Your grandfather didn't tell you, what did your ancestors do?" Later I learned that the copper coin was a key, one of the nine keys. It can open those underground palaces hidden deep in the dragon veins that control the luck of Kyushu. And what my grandfather left me was not only the key, but also half of the "Secret Code of Searching for Dragons". The other half is in Master Jiu's hands. "If you want to survive, learn from me." Master Jiu pushed a cup of hot tea in front of me. His hand was very steady and the tea did not move at all. "Learn how to survive in the land of the dead." I said, I will learn. Since then, my life has completely derailed...