Chapter 203 Lovers eventually become brothers!

Looking at the texture on the sword, this auspicious cloud pattern is exclusive to the royal family. It was the King of Chu, and only the King of Chu, who had ever carried such a sword pattern!

Xiao Lizi said: "I have seen him wearing a jade pendant like this at a banquet."

Gao Fei also looked at Jian Wen and said, "It must be him."

Jian Yue frowned slightly and said, "Prince Chu was a strong candidate for the throne. However, I once heard from His Majesty that the Xue family had saved Old Prince Chu, and Old Prince Chu and his family were able to survive. Later, Old Prince Chu swore that he would never harm the Xue family, and would do his best to help the Xue family whenever they needed help."

Gao Fei was puzzled: "If that's the case, why would they watch the Xue family being executed?"

Jian Yue said, "After the death of the old Prince Chu, the Prince of Chu was sent to the border to be in charge of the dispatch of the Xue family army. He was supposed to help with disaster relief, but in fact, he was also monitoring them. When the incident happened, the Prince of Chu was still at the border."

This is very strange.

The King of Chu was not in the capital, so there was sufficient proof of his alibi, and it was not their people who killed Teng Snake.

Little Li said thoughtfully: "Even if he is not here, his subordinates may not be here."

Gao Fei also said: "The King of Chu is very thoughtful. No one really knows his true background, except..."

Both of them looked at Jian Yue. Jian Yue was thinking about something when he suddenly realized that both of them were looking at him. He was startled and said in astonishment: "Why are you all looking at me?!"

Gao Fei smiled and said, "Brother, the King of Chu is determined to marry you. I think you should just give in to him and go investigate him!"

Little Li also nodded and said: "You have sacrificed for the greater good. We brothers will remember you."

Jian Yue was silent for a moment and then said, "When the King of Chu finds out that I am not a woman in disguise, what will happen? He will be furious and execute all of us and our entire family?"

Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi also fell silent.

Jian Yue thought for a moment and said, "The two military advisors around the King of Chu are also players. They told me that there is also an underground palace at the border."

This news came at a very timely moment.

Gao Fei said: "It would be great if we had the chance to go to the border to explore the underground palace, but we don't have the chance to go to the border at all."

Little Li also nodded, but thought for a moment: "But if I can't go, the clues to the Snake Mother will be almost completely cut off..."

Jian Yue said: "Not necessarily. At least the King of Chu is still in the capital. As long as he is still there, there is still a chance. After all, all our current inferences are based on speculation. If we can get something deeper from him, then there is still a chance. Let's get out of here first."

The three of them looked at each other.

They all nodded, and just as they were about to walk out, Jian Yue stopped suddenly after climbing more than ten meters. His hearing was very good, several times better than that of ordinary people, and he could hear faint and tiny sounds.

Jian Yue suddenly stopped.

Gao Fei, who was crawling behind him, suddenly felt that the person in front of him was quiet, so he turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Jian Yue said: "I heard human voices."

Leo said, "Our voices?"

"No." Jian Yue shook his head and said, "It was the breathing sound of someone else, the fourth person."

Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi suddenly froze in their tracks. There were only three of them in such a narrow passage, and it was a secret passage deep under the mountains. In this place where there was no village or shop in the distance, they suddenly heard the breathing of a fourth person. Isn't this an extreme horror movie! !

Then, Jian Yue suddenly looked behind Gao Fei, and his eyes slowly widened.

Little Leo also looked over and his eyes widened. In this narrow passage, he could even clearly hear a slow, sticky crawling sound.

Gao Fei turned his head stiffly and looked behind him, and saw a distorted white figure with blood on its body crawling towards him, and it seemed to want to reach out and grab him while crawling: "Ah!!!"

The miserable scream came to mind instantly.

Gao Fei was about to kick him and crawled forward like crazy.

The passage was not narrow at all. Gao Fei, a 1.8-meter-tall man, was frightened to death. He used his hands and feet to crawl forward and said to Jian Yue and Xiao Lizi, "Hurry up, run!"

Jian Yue didn't move.

Just when Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi were about to climb a few meters away, they saw that Jian Yue was still standing there and hadn't caught up. Gao Fei couldn't help but swore, "Are you crazy? You're still staying there waiting to die!"

Jian Yue watched the white figure slowly crawling towards him, then he reached out his hand to hold the man down and said, "This is a living person. His breathing and crawling posture are both normal for a living person. I can tell the difference."

Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi complained in unison: "How can a normal living person be in such a hellish place!"

Jian Yue pointed at himself and them helplessly.

Gao Fei: “…”

Jian Yue pulled aside the hair of the man in white and said after seeing the face, "It is you, Master."

The scholar's face also looked quite injured. Jian Yue checked his wounds and said, "Why are you alone?"

The wound was very deep, so deep that the bone could be seen, and there were traces of snake bites, but the scholar had applied medicine himself, and they should have an antidote that he didn't have, so he wouldn't be unconscious after being infected by the Teng snake venom. However, the whole person looked like he had gone through a lot of hard battles, and at the moment he looked very weak. He pointed behind him and said, "My brother is behind me."

Jian Yue and others looked back.

After a while.

A big man covered in blood and looking even more miserable also lay over, as if his entire body was soaked in blood.

Gao Fei asked: "What did you two do just now? How did you end up like this?"

The scholar said weakly, "I fought with a group of Teng Snakes."

Everyone was stunned. These two people were able to fight against the group of Teng Snakes alone and still come out alive and find the passage. This was definitely not an ability that ordinary people could have. Jian Yue immediately said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's go out first."

The passage smelled of blood and was dark and gloomy, with thin air. People could easily suffocate if they stayed there for too long.

Everyone continued to climb forward.

No one was chatting at this moment. After climbing for about ten minutes, they could feel the faint breath of wind. When they went out of the passage, there was faint moonlight outside. They came out of the mountain.

Gao Fei was the first to crawl out. After going through so many things and being scared half to death by the man in white, he collapsed on the lawn as soon as he got out.

Xiao Lizi and Jian Yue climbed out one after another.

After Jian Yue went out, he pulled the two scholars together, and finally all five of them collapsed on the lawn halfway up the mountain. The moonlight remained, and the five disheveled people were almost all in tatters.

The scholar's younger brother howled, "Water... Is there any water?"

Jian Yue had already heard the sound of water in the nearby river. He said, "There is a river ahead."

Gao Fei and the others were already very thirsty. They got up and ran to the river bank to drink some water. Then they pulled some leaves to get some water. Jian Yue said, "I'm not thirsty. Give it to them."

So it was divided between the two scholars.

The moonlight shining down on the hillside increased visibility, and the people who survived the disaster were resting on the lawn by the river.

Jian Yue's waist and shoulders were in so much pain that he loosened his clothes a little, and could see blood stains on the white gauze.

Gao Fei asked: "You were injured so badly?"

Jian Yue shook his head and said, "It's just an old injury that got pulled."

In fact, it had cracked a long time ago, but I was afraid that my teammates would worry when I was down there, so I endured it. Now that there is no danger, I can apply medicine.

The two scholars were also lying on the ground. Jian Yue said, "You are also seriously injured. Why don't you go to the mall to exchange some medicine for treatment?"

After hearing his words, the scholar's lips turned pale: "We just exchanged all our points for items to save our lives down there."

Jian Yue hesitated for a moment, and after simply sprinkling some medicine powder on his wound, he handed the rest to the scholar. The scholar did not take it, but said with difficulty: "First, save my brother first."

Gao Fei and others went to look at the bloody man next to them.

Jian Yue crawled over despite the pain, then checked Gao Fei's brother's wounds, and then said: "He has two broken ribs and a broken bone in his left leg. He needs to stop the bleeding. Some of his intestines are also sticking out. I just stuffed them back in. The hemostatic medicine I have is definitely not enough."

Gao Fei said: "I have a little here."

They all carry some with them.

Jian Yue took the medicine they handed over and used it to heal the scholar's brother. The scholar saw it and seemed a little confused. He said with difficulty: "Why...why did you save us? We are obviously not on the same side, and we also threatened you."

"I just can't bear to see someone die in front of me without helping." Jian Yue said: "It has nothing to do with who you are."

The scholar fell silent.

In this dungeon full of ghosts and monsters where anyone could die, they are even in different camps and can even be considered enemies, but they still maintain their conscience and humanity.

After Jian Yue stopped the bleeding of his almost unconscious brother, he said, "I can only deal with it simply. Your people should be near Bailu Mountain. Let them take you to the doctor."

The scholar was lying on the ground, looking at him. A smile appeared on his pale face and he said, "Thank you very much for this time."

Jian Yue said nothing.

There was already a team holding torches looking for people on a small path on the hillside not far away. It could be seen that they were the King of Chu's men. The King of Chu must have known about and authorized the scholars to enter the underground palace.

Just when those people were looking for them.

The scholar lying down suddenly looked at Jian Yue and said, "King of Chu...those Teng Snakes were not killed by King of Chu's men."

Jian Yue and others paused and looked at the scholar.

The scholar gasped and endured the pain. The calculating smile on his face faded away. He looked at the few people quietly and said, "Whether you believe it or not, Teng Snake was not killed by the King of Chu's men. He is also looking for the Snake Mother."

Jian Yue said, "Isn't the Snake Mother there under the underground palace at the border?"

The scholar's voice was slightly injured, but still clear. He said, "There is a big door under the underground palace at the border. It is tightly locked and we cannot open it, but I am sure there is no living creature inside."

Jian Yue frowned: "If it is a snake bone, it is not considered a living thing."

The scholar shook his head and said, "The space inside the gate is very small. We once wanted to dig in, but the back was all solid loess ore. In the end, based on the holes dug on all four sides, we figured out that there was only a room about three meters wide at most."

This means that the Snake Mother is not in the underground palace at the border.

Jian Yue said: "What is locked inside that door?"

"I don't know." The scholar said, "Back then, General Xue regarded the underground palace at the border as important as his life. He did not allow anyone to enter the underground palace at the border, and had the Xue family army guard it for generations. If the Xue family had not been executed and the King of Chu had some power at the border, my brother and I would not have had the opportunity to enter the underground palace at the border."

When Gao Fei heard this, he said, "Then you guys didn't follow us into the Bailu Mountain Underground Palace, did you?"

The scholar hesitated and nodded.

Little Leo asked: "How do you know we can get in?"

The scholar thought about it and thought that it was a clear card. He glanced at everyone and finally his eyes fell on Jian Yue and said, "I'm not sure that you can get in, I'm sure that he can get in. The door to the underground palace can only be opened by the smell of Xue's blood. That day I saw Wang Zongguan and the emperor together in the restaurant, so I knew that he could definitely open it."

Jian Yue was silent.

Is it possible that his affair with His Majesty is known to everyone? !

As he was talking, the King of Chu's men had arrived. When the scholar was rescued, he said, "Thank you very much for this time. We can cooperate. You will have a chance to go to the underground palace at the border. There will be a war at the border. I heard from the King of Chu that His Majesty will most likely lead the army in person. We can meet at the border then."

The crowd just separated like that.

On the way back.

Gao Fei asked: "Your Majesty, will you really go? The border is so dangerous."

Little Leo also subconsciously looked at Jian Yue. They didn't know since when, but they all assumed that Jian Yue must be the one who understood Huangfu Chengyu.

Jian Yue originally wanted to say it was too dangerous, but he thought of Huangfu Chengyu taking him to Wushan to worship their ancestors, and the eyes of Huangfu Chengyu when he mentioned the deceased members of the Xue family. The entire Xue family was loyal and brave, but they were all wrongfully killed. This incident has long become a bloody scar in their hearts. Back then, the Xue family died unjustly because the border reported that the Xue family was collaborating with the enemy and committing treason.

If you want to find evidence to overturn the case, only the border will have clues.

Jian Yue said: "I don't know."

He would never be able to be sure that he could fully understand Huangfu Chengyu's determination.

"But I know one thing," he said: "No matter where he is, I will be with him."

Gao Fei and Xiao Li were stunned and turned around.

Jian Yue thought the two were going to express their feelings about the touching love between him and His Majesty, but Gao Fei patted him on the shoulder and said, "It seems like you two really could be brothers. My friend, when you become a royal relative someday, don't forget me when you become rich and powerful!!"

“…”

When they returned to the mountain, Jian Yue was covered in wounds. The secret guards originally wanted to leave him in Bailu Temple to recover and not take Jian Yue back with him, but Jian Yue said, "It's okay, I can handle it. I have promised Your Majesty that I will go back after I finish my work. If I don't go back, Your Majesty will be worried."

The most important thing.

If he didn't go back as agreed this time, Huangfu Chengyu would definitely not blame him given his character, but it would be difficult for him to act alone next time.

The secret guard took Jian Yue back.

The journey was bumpy for quite a while, and it was almost dawn when we returned to the inn.

The imperial physician had been waiting in the inn for a long time. Jian Yue knew that Huangfu Chengyu had already fallen asleep, so he specifically told the people around him not to wake up the emperor. However, just as the imperial physician had unbandaged his wound, there was a noise outside.

Someone pushed the door and walked in.

Huangfu Chengyu's hair was tied up by a jade crown and draped behind him. The man wore a simple white and gold brocade robe, with a noble and innate cold temperament. When he stepped in, the imperial physician and everyone in the room knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

"No need to be polite." Huangfu Chengyu waved his hand: "Treat him."

The imperial physician quickly stood up and continued to treat Jian Yue's injuries.

Jian Yue, Jian Yue felt a little stressed. Huangfu Chengyu was sitting quietly at a table not far away, just lazily drinking water. Even if he didn't say a word, his aura was silent and full. Jian Yue's legs were even shaking! Wan La Wan La, he said he would go back and take a look, but he ended up making his wound like this. Your Majesty is not talking now, is he going to hold back a big move?

The imperial physician said, "The wound has been cleaned. You just need to drink some medicine to calm your nerves and replenish your blood. The medicine has been prepared. You will take it in a while."

Jian Yue was stunned: "Boil, boiled?"

Didn’t I just get back? How come I’m ready now?

The doctor bowed and said, "Your Majesty ordered it."

Jian Yue looked at Huangfu Chengyu who was not far away, and felt even more guilty. Should he say that he was worthy of being His Majesty, as he knew him so well!

Huangfu Chengyu said to the imperial physician, "Go down."

The imperial physician had wanted to run away a long time ago. In fact, His Majesty's aura was so strong that he felt like his head might fall to the ground at any moment!

After everyone left, the room returned to silence. Jian Yue looked at Huangfu Chengyu, smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Majesty, it's so late, and you still can't rest because of your servants' affairs. How about going back to rest first?"

Huangfu Chengyu said slowly: "You didn't rest for the whole night because of my affairs. You are not tired, so why am I so tired?"

Jian Yue felt a little tingling on his scalp, and he quickly said, "As long as it can help your majesty, it is what I should do."

Huangfu Chengyu said, "Really? I asked you to stay in Bailu Mountain, but you didn't obey me."

Jian Yue quickly said: "This is different!"

Huangfu Chengyu raised his eyelids to look at him, and Jian Yue became scared. Huangfu Chengyu looked at his wound. When he entered the room just now, he saw the imperial doctors holding a plate of blood-red gauze. It was shocking to look at. The whole room was still filled with the smell of blood. He felt that the emotions in his heart had not yet been completely calmed down.

"You entered the underground palace." Huangfu Chengyu said.

Jian Yue nodded.

Huangfu Chengyu said calmly, "Now that we're in, are you relieved now?"

Jian Yue said, "Your Majesty, did you know about the Teng Snake under the underground palace a long time ago?"

"I know a little bit, but I've never actually seen it." Huangfu Chengyu said, "I was raised in the palace since I was young, and later stayed in Wushan for a few years. My grandfather and my family members took great care of me, but they never took me into the underground palace."

Jian Yue said, "Your Majesty, do you want to go in and take a look?"

Huangfu Chengyu held a teacup in his hand, his face cold and expressionless: "My mother asked me to promise that I can only enter the underground palace when my life is about to end, otherwise I cannot set foot in it."

Jian Yue's heart was shocked.

Your Majesty is the last living bloodline of the Xue family. If there is anyone in the world who can open the door to the underground palace, it is only him. However, the imperial concubine does not want your Majesty to enter the underground palace, and only allows him to go back when his life is about to end. Is there any intention behind this? What is the Xue family really hiding, or protecting from the world?

Jian Yue said directly: "I went in there and found that it was full of corpses of Teng Snakes. There were no living creatures."

Huangfu Chengyu said slowly: "I can guess it."

Jian Yue's brain was originally a mess, but when he saw Huangfu Chengyu, his whole mind became clear again. He felt that the emperor was reminding him of something.

After a moment's silence.

Jian Yue suddenly looked up and said, "Your Majesty, there are still living Teng Snakes in this world, right?"

Otherwise, how could those paintings in the palace still have the function of creating illusions? Otherwise, who are the people who are causing trouble everywhere now? The Teng Snakes in the underground palace are all dead, and the Xue family is also dead, but there may be other people in this world who are raising Teng Snakes!

Or rather...

A more terrifying guess entered Jian Yue's mind. Someone had killed the Teng Snake under Bailu Temple. But the Teng Snake was so big, could it really be killed by humans?

Could it be that there are actually two different Teng Snake bloodlines in this world that are enemies of each other? It's just that the Teng Snake of the Xue family was killed and exterminated? Then their enemies may not only be humans!

The more we dig into the truth, the more terrifying it becomes.

Jian Yue was frightened by his own guess, and his voice trembled: "Is there another underground palace?"

Huangfu Chengyu said: "Back then, the Xue family built temples in various places, but not all temples had underground palaces under them."

Jian Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

Huangfu Chengyu added: "But there is indeed more than one underground palace."

Jian Yue looked up at him in shock.

Huangfu Chengyu said: "My grandfather once left behind a map of the underground palace, but this map was left in the Xue family ancestral hall at the border. The location of the ancestral hall is hidden, and only the Xue family members can see it."

Jian Yue was shocked. There really was more than one place. If he wanted to find the mother snake and other sources of Teng Snakes, he had to go to the border! !

Huangfu Chengyu looked at the man whose face was a little pale and said, "These things actually have nothing to do with you. The situation at the border is dangerous. You can stay and recuperate."

Jian Yue hurriedly said, "No, no, no, how can it be irrelevant? I have already discovered that my blood seems to react to the Xue family's gate. Even the Teng Snakes react when they smell it. My blood is also useful! Your Majesty, do you think we should..."

Huangfu Chengyu's heart tightened, and the man's eyes dimmed. He slowly stood up and walked in front of Jian Yue. He pinched Jian Yue's chin with his cold fingers. He didn't feel guilty after the truth was revealed. He just suppressed his emotions with lust and paranoia. He whispered, "What?"

Jian Yue swallowed and said, "Should we do this privately..."

Huangfu Chengyu encouraged him: "Keep talking."

"Are we secretly related by blood?" Jian Yue said bravely, "Your Majesty, although this sounds absurd, I don't think it's impossible. Otherwise, why does the underground palace react to me but not to others? Do you think it's necessary to check my background? No wonder I always feel like I want to get close to Your Majesty. Your Majesty, do you think it's possible for us to..."

His words were blocked between his lips before he could finish.

The audience in the live broadcast room laughed wildly and complained while the system blacked out the screen:

"My lovers finally become brothers."

"Manager Wang, you really dare to ask!"

"Hahahaha, if they really become brothers, then King Chu will have no hope, right?"

"The plot of your copy is so confusing. Haha, now we are really a family!"