Xia Lei’s left eye went to the sound as soon as he heard it. His eye saw through the grass, and saw the thing in the grass. He couldn’t help laughing to himself — what had been hidden in the grass was not a person but a snake. 

It was a false alarm. 

Xia Lei moved forward, going around the area with the snake. He came to the foot of the mountain about ten minutes later and finally saw that tombstone. It was hidden in the grass, and only half of it was left. The thick grass had covered it up, and the broken surface was covered with bird droppings. The part which had broken off had fallen in the grass to one side of it, and faint markings of a cross could be seen on it. The stone had moss crawling all over it, and people had carved graffiti in Italian on the surface of the stone — Alice was here, I love Leonardo, Peter is an idiot. 

It seemed Italians liked to do these sort of things too. 

These bit of vandalism also proved one thing, and that was that this place was remote, but people still came here. The tombstone might even...