Okay, he's really dead, but the body is still warm... Guess he died very recently.
Du Ming's work?
Something to do with the cave, I think.
Du is a Spring guardian. He won't forgive this.
It's a possibility... The scene tells me that this Landbreaker fell into an ambush.
And the attack was pretty vicious. Really underestimated the dude. So he tried to avoid us, and then killed a Landbreaker. What is he planning?
The cave really smells... Did the Landbreakers blast it open with their explosives? Does that mean the Ancestral Spring...
He was probably preparing for the rites when he saw the Landbreaker, and secretly followed the raider all the way here...
Then he saw the huge cave that the Landbreakers blasted with explosives ... got super pissed and smashed the Landbreaker, right? Okay. So what happened next? Where did he go?
Chen, if you returned home and saw the gates of your house blasted wide open, what would you do?
What?! I'll charge right in and see if they stole — Ah! I got it! Du Ming jumped into the cave to find the source of the spring, right?
Oh dear. We should get down there right now! It'd be bad if anything happens to him...
Yeah. Qingwu mentioned that before. Stockade residents are more than willing to defend the Spring with their lives!
Yeah. He Lao also referred to the Ancestral Spring as the roots of Qingbo Stockade. The residents depend on the spring for livelihood. They even treated it as a symbol of faith... Perhaps Du Ming feels the same as well.