Chapter 209 I haven’t had enough fun yet!
Jian Yue was silent for a moment.
Concubine Liu asked hesitantly, "Butler Wang, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Jian Yue said, "I was just thinking."
Concubine Liu was curious: "What?"
Jian Yue sighed: "How could someone make such a big mistake?"
Lady Liu: "...I was wrong!"
Jian Yue thought for a while and said, "Actually, I've thought about it. The King of Chu may not ask for marriage at this juncture. First, he will soon be the regent. At this time, the most important thing is that the people in the court are stable. He will naturally not take risks easily. Secondly, he is now trying to gain the trust of the emperor. If he does something like this, wouldn't it be a failure?"
After hearing this, Lady Liu was also relieved. She said, "If he doesn't really want to marry me, I'll be relieved."
Jian Yue asked: "Yes, are you afraid that he will pester you?"
Lady Liu took a sip of tea and said, "That's not the case. I think I'm really pregnant."
Jian Yue was really choked by the tea this time. He coughed for a long time before he recovered.
Lady Liu stroked his back and said, "Butler Wang, are you okay?"
Jian Yue said slowly, "It's okay... How did you know for sure that you're pregnant? It's only been over a month since you came back from Bailu Temple, and you've already diagnosed it?"
Lady Liu said, "My period just didn't come this month, so I used the tool in the system mall to test it."
Jian Yue couldn't help but admire the system mall at this moment. It really sells everything. Isn't this a survival copy? It really is too much to have all these props for sale!
"You..." Jian Yue hesitated. He felt that he should be worried now, but when he asked, only he knew the complicated emotions in his heart, or rather, he himself was not clear. He asked: "But you are the heroine, and you are pregnant with the King of Chu's child, then the plot..."
Lady Liu said, "I haven't really gone through the main storyline before, so this is still a normal way to advance the main storyline. If it doesn't work, you can do it for me, Butler Wang!"
Jian Yue choked: "Isn't this a mess?"
Concubine Liu was shocked: "Did we follow a serious plot before!?"
Jian Yue: "...what you said makes sense."
Both of them now have a sense of beauty that doesn't care about the life or death of the system.
Just as Jian Yue was about to ask what he was going to do next, Concubine Liu said, "But I've made up my mind. I can't have this child."
Jian Yue, who was drinking tea, was shocked again.
"Look." Lady Liu said, "If we complete the mission of the dungeon and leave this world, then what will happen to the original owner of this body? She should have had a normal life, but it was turned upside down because of my selfishness. I can't let this happen. What's more, he... after all, he is a person in the dungeon, and I am a person in the modern world. We are from two different worlds and should not be together."
Jian Yue was silent.
He was silent, not because he was even more silent about the decision made by Concubine Liu, but on the contrary, he was silent because of his own affairs.
What Concubine Liu said makes sense.
If the copy ends, what should I and His Majesty do? We are two people from two different worlds. After a brief interaction, we return to our own lives. It would be better for us not to interact from the beginning. This would be fair to each other.
"Forget it, let's not talk about my business for now." Lady Liu said, "I stole the map of the underground palace from the King of Chu. Do you want to go with me?"
After Jian Yue collected his thoughts, he glanced at Lady Liu and said, "You are pregnant now, and the underground palace is dangerous..."
"It's okay. A weak child is not qualified to be my child!" Lady Liu said immediately, "Let's go quickly. I'm afraid it will be bad if it's too late and the King of Chu will react."
Jian Yue thought about it and it made sense. Tonight was already a mess anyway, so why worry about it getting even messier? He might as well just do it!
"Let me see the map." Jian Yue said.
Concubine Liu took out the map she had drawn. Jian Yue looked at it carefully and found that the map was drawn crookedly and most people could not tell what it was.
Jian Yue tried to identify it for a while and said, "Is this icon with a poop-like shape in the center the location of the underground palace?"
Lady Liu said, "Yes, doesn't the painting look like it?"
Jian Yue was silent for a moment, and could only sigh that abstract players really only rely on talent.
Concubine Liu said, "But I don't know why. I compared the map of the entire palace and couldn't find this place."
"Maybe this place isn't on the map of the palace at all." Jian Yue looked at it for a while and said, "I think I know where this place is."
The system panel showed that it was almost three-thirty or four o'clock in the morning. The sky was still gloomy. There was thunder not far away, and it was going to rain heavily. The autumn wind had already started to blow, and it was very cold. In such a dark night, the two people crossed the garden and headed straight for the palace that stood quietly in a remote corner of the imperial palace.
He had only been to this place a few times tonight.
Concubine Liu stood beside him, looking at the deathly silent palace. She touched her arm which was covered with goose bumps and said, "I think this palace is a bit eerie."
Jian Yue said: "In the past, the Imperial Noble Consort, your Majesty's biological mother, hanged herself here."
Concubine Liu was slightly surprised, but still followed Jian Yue into the yard obediently. The map was marked only in this yard, but there was no clear indication of where the palace was in this yard.
There is no place to look for this.
Lady Liu said, "You can't dig three feet into the ground, right?"
Jian Yue also fell into deep thought. He returned to the courtyard. As soon as he entered the courtyard, his system panel was refreshed. The refreshed panel clearly showed: "
Limited-time mission: [Imperial City Underground Palace]
Mission details: Find the secret hidden in the underground palace of the imperial city
Task time limit: half an hour
Mission Reward: The Secret of the Underground Palace"
Half an hour.
The time limit for this limited-time task was much tighter than any other time-limited tasks given before, and it was extremely difficult to find the underground palace in such a small courtyard. Jian Yue frowned slightly. Even if he really had to dig three feet into the ground, it was not realistic to dig it all in half an hour. What's more, it was about to rain and it would be dawn, making it even more difficult to act.
He thought.
Lady Liu said, "The wind is blowing."
Under a big tree not far away, the swing swayed in the wind, making a creaking sound of rotten wood, as if the woman in white was still wandering back and forth under the tree and refused to leave.
Jian Yue said to Lady Liu, "First split up and look for a secret door."
Concubine Liu nodded, and the two of them moved back and forth in the small courtyard, groping the walls with flashlights.
The countdown panel continues:
【29 points】
【28 points】
【19 points】
【15 points】
【8 points...】
I have almost touched the entire yard.
Jian Yue and Concubine Liu met again. Concubine Liu wiped the sweat off her head and said, "No, there are no secret doors anywhere. What should I do? The time is almost up."
The wind was getting stronger now, thunder and lightning were roaring, and heavy rain was about to fall. It was almost four o'clock in the morning, and it would be dawn soon. If their mission failed, there was no need to look for it anymore.
The audience in the live broadcast room also discussed:
"Just say that the underground palace is hard to find."
"I think they will definitely fail in this mission."
"If anyone could find it, this copy would have been completed long ago."
“It’s really difficult.”
"Don't go there. This is a special-grade copy. The reward is a precious item that can upgrade cards!!"
"Aren't they finished then?"
The system's countdown continues relentlessly:
【Five minutes】
【Four minutes】
Time passed by little by little, and seeing that the mission was about to fail, Jian Yue frowned tightly. Suddenly, his eyes fell on the kitchen not far away.
Concubine Liu only saw Jian Yue quickly run to the kitchen, and then immediately picked up the earthenware jar containing the mineral powder. Then he said to Concubine Liu, "Follow me!"
The two men went straight to the small courtyard in the side hall.
The person living in that small courtyard is Nanny Li, who turns into a monster at night!
The audience screamed:
"What does he want to see Madam Li?"
"Are you seeking your own death?"
"Are you going crazy and ready to throw a tantrum?"
Jian Yue kicked the door of the side courtyard open and saw Nanny Li inside. Before Nanny Li could react, she saw someone coming in. Nanny Li originally stayed in her side courtyard because of the imperial concubine's order and did not dare to go out, but she did not expect that someone would dare to kill her!
But she didn't even wait for Nanny Li to get angry.
Jian Yue simply threw the mineral powder in his hand away, and then Concubine Liu who followed behind could only hear a scream from Nanny Li, and then Jian Yue saw her running out through a remote small door. Jian Yue quickly followed her and pushed open the small door. After entering through the small door, there was a closed space.
After Lady Liu came in, she said, "This seems to be a secret passage."
Jian Yue nodded and said, "Well, it seems that this is the real entrance to the underground palace. In order to protect the underground palace, the previous people put the entrance behind Li Ma's side courtyard. Most people would think that the imperial concubine hid it herself, so they only searched the imperial concubine's courtyard. However, because Li Ma's courtyard was there and it was particularly desolate, no one checked it."
Concubine Liu said with some emotion: "The person behind this plan is too smart."
Jian Yue had no time to sigh, as the secret passage was very narrow. He took out the flashlight and walked forward along the secret passage. The entire secret passage was extremely quiet. After walking forward for a distance, he touched the same button as the one at Bai Lushan. He pressed it, and thought he would fall from the entrance of the tunnel, but after waiting for a long time, he did not fall.
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On the contrary.
All I could hear was a loud "boom".
Slowly, a stone door opened in front of the two people.
This is a secret room. Jian Yue saw the interior of the secret room. It was engraved with dense totems and there was a box in the middle.
Concubine Liu exclaimed, "Is this the only room in this underground palace?"
Jian Yue said: "Let's take a look first."
The two people stepped in, and Jian Yue discovered that the murals here were different from those in Bailu Temple. Most of the murals in Bailu Temple depicted the bond between Teng Snake and the Xue family, as well as the specific location of the prayer platform, but the murals here were different. The murals here mainly depicted the bond between Teng Snakes. In the front was the snake mother, and next to the snake mother, there was an equally huge Teng Snake, followed by other small Teng Snakes.
Lady Liu asked, "There are two snake kings?"
Jian Yue also realized that this painting might be more than that. He continued to look at the mural. From the mural, he could clearly see that after experiencing the heavenly calamity, only one of the two snake kings was left, and the mother snake was dying. It seemed that she had fled to a mountain, but was rescued by humans. The mother snake in the mural expressed her gratitude to humans. The leader was wearing the armor of the Xue family, which should be the reason why the Xue family had a connection with the Teng Snake clan.
"Heavenly Tribulation" Jian Yue said: "Look, the place where this heavenly tribulation is passed is full of desolate flying rocks. This seems to be outside the frontier."
Concubine Liu also moved closer and gave a definite answer, "Yes, you see that everything is in a panic. I remember King Chu told me that the border is all Mobei, and the environment there is like this. It seems that the Teng Snake clan originated from the border. They encountered a natural disaster at the border, one snake died, and another survived and ran to Wushan to be rescued."
This speculation is well-founded.
Jian Yue continued to look at the murals. The Teng Snake clan mobilized their forces to repel the enemy forces that had besieged the Xue family and the royal family. Then, from the murals, the Xue family began to build temples on a large scale and began to build underground palaces for the Teng Snake clan to provide them with a habitat and breeding ground. In exchange, the Teng Snake clan provided them with the ability to create illusions and change human minds.
"So if the Xue family had the protection of the Teng Snake Clan, the late emperor would not have dared to touch them." Concubine Liu boldly guessed: "Look here, it is clearly depicted on this mural that the Teng Snake Clan is very grateful to the Xue family for saving their lives, and they have a deep relationship with the Xue family in Wushan. Many little Teng Snakes are very close to the Xue family's bloodline, and the fact that the Xue family's blood can freely enter and leave the underground palace is also a proof."
Jian Yue thought for a moment and said, "What if something happened to the Teng Snake Clan back then?"
Concubine Liu choked.
The two men looked at each other, their expressions became solemn, because this was the most likely scenario. The late emperor and the national teacher might have found a way to suppress or control Teng Snake. They were afraid of Teng Snake, or wanted to control it. The Xue family was unwilling, and a conflict arose between the two, which led to the extermination of the Xue family and even the massacre of the Teng Snake clan.
"I don't understand." Lady Liu said, "What kind of thing could force the Teng Snake clan and the Xue family to this point?"
Jian Yue's mind naturally became heavy. The more he investigated, the bloodier the truth became. At first, they all thought that monsters were the most terrifying, but the more they dug into it, they felt that the greedy human hearts were more horrifying.
There is one last mural left.
This painting is completely different from the other paintings. It shows a group of people surrounding a huge snake. The snake is lying in a cave in a painful posture. The sky and atmosphere around it are extremely scary, with lightning and wind and waves. A group of people are surrounding a child in a cheering posture.
Lady Liu said, "The snake mother turned into a child?"
Jian Yue shook his head.
He was very familiar with bones and the body. Although he was not a veterinarian, he had seen many beast carcasses. From the appearance of the giant snake in the mural, he suddenly came up with a guess.
"This giant snake is pregnant." Jian Yue said, "It's giving birth."
The birth and reproduction of divine beasts, especially giant beasts, are very cruel, and many of them are even born to suffer from thunder. Generally speaking, the snake king and the mother snake should protect the young in their belly together, but because the snake king is missing at the border, the mother snake has to face the thunder disaster when giving birth alone. The humans all around her are people from the Xue family, and they are protecting her!
Lady Liu was surprised and asked, "Doesn't that mean that the Teng Snake clan is not extinct? They, they have children?"
Jian Yue is not sure now: "All this is my guess. We must find the Snake Mother. Once we find the Snake Mother, everything will become clear."
The two have finished looking at all the murals.
He turned around.
I looked inside the house and saw an empty box.
Jian Yue walked over and found that the box could be opened directly. He opened the box, but found that it was empty and there was nothing inside.
Lady Liu looked more serious. She said, "Someone took the things away."
Jian Yue also realized that they were a step too late, or in other words, if they had not come today, even these murals might have been destroyed and even the last clue would disappear.
He picked up the box and shook it.
As expected, the sound of the empty layer was heard, and Jian Yue said, "There is something under this box."
He used the same method to pry open the interlayer, and sure enough, he saw an old letter in the box. He opened it and saw the beautiful handwriting on the letter, which was obviously left by the Imperial Concubine.
[The underground palace contains the bones of old friends. The Xue family has guarded them for generations, and will rest them in peace. They will eliminate all Teng Gu in the world and return peace.]
Lady Liu looked at the letter and said, "This box probably contains the bones of the mother snake, but the contents of the box were taken away. The imperial concubine clearly wrote down her last wish, which is to eliminate all the Teng Gu in the world and restore peace to the Teng Snake clan."
After saying that.
Jian Yue remained silent. He didn't say anything at all. Such silence made people feel a little scared.
Concubine Liu asked in confusion: "Butler Wang, what's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"
The audience in the live broadcast room felt inexplicably nervous when they saw Jian Yue's silence. Although Jian Yue looked careless most of the time, he was very reliable when he was serious. This was why Liu Guiren, Gao Fei and others were unconsciously willing to listen to his orders. He was like the leader of a group of people, and he could always calmly find the loopholes in the most chaotic times.
Jian Yue changed his usual smile. He looked at the letter and said slowly, "The bones of old friends may refer to remains or blood."
Concubine Liu's hand trembled!
She looked at Jian Yue in disbelief!
Bone and blood...
Bone and blood...
Isn't that what kids mean?
Lady Liu said in surprise: "There may be children left behind by the Snake King and Snake Mother down there!"
Isn't that the new king of the Teng Snake clan? Although the Teng Snake in the underground palace is dead, this clan is so powerful. If the new snake king is really still alive, it would be a very terrifying thing. Once the Teng Snake clan moves in full force, the world may be destroyed!
Jian Yue walked to the floor tile and knocked on it. It was indeed empty. He walked behind a few statues and carefully studied the textures on the paintings. Finally, he said, "There should be a large underground palace under the palace. I suspect that the Teng Snake clan once lived there. The mother snake should have been here. She came to see the imperial concubine for the last time and gave her her bones. She must have wanted to explain some funeral arrangements. This bone must be of great use."
Pause.
Jian Yue continued, "The system once told me that the reward for completing this task is the key to the underground palace. The key in my arms is the thing in this box, the remains of the Snake Mother. Someone must have used the Snake Mother's bones to do something bad, so that the Teng Snake Clan can't rest in peace even after death, so they want a Nanning."
Noble Lady Liu said directly: "I also learned from the system before that every copy of the nightmare world has a dream core. If you find the core of this dream core, you can leave this copy world. If we want to leave here, we should find the remains of the snake mother, find the last underground palace and destroy all the bones of the Teng Snake, and then we can end this copy."
Jian Yue agreed with this statement.
"At the border." Jian Yue said: "The Snake King disappeared at the border, and the whereabouts of the Snake Mother's remains are unknown. The answers to all questions are at the border. The underground palace at the border may have all the answers we need."
Concubine Liu also realized this.
Jian Yue looked at the box. After thinking for a moment, he said, "The person who opened this box is left-handed."
Concubine Liu was shocked: "How did you know?"
"The lock on the box was pried open, but the knife marks are wrong." Jian Yue said: "Usually people use the right hand to wield a knife, but he used his left hand."
Lady Liu thought for a moment and said, "There are many left-handed people in the palace. Who could be it?"
Jian Yue thought about the many paintings and people in the palace, and said, "The Imperial Master, the King of Chu, and even the Queen Mother are all possible."
Concubine Liu said, "Just give it to me, King Chu. If he took it, I will tell you."
Jian Yue nodded: "Then I will find a chance to test the Queen Mother and the Imperial Master."
Concubine Liu responded, and the two of them prepared to leave. When they came out, Jian Yue glanced at her and said, "Do you really want to abort this child?"
"I can't really have a child with the person in the copy, it seems ridiculous." Liu Guiren said: "Besides, I just like handsome guys, I haven't had enough fun yet!"
Jian Yue said, "But just now in the side hall, when Nanny Li wanted to attack someone, you subconsciously protected your stomach."
Intuitive reactions cannot deceive people.
Concubine Liu was silent for a moment, and she said, "What else can I do? I can't stay and be his princess. Will the child be born without a mother? I do love the child, butler Wang, there is no mother in this world who doesn't love her child. She will do anything for her child. It is precisely because of this that I can't let the child suffer from birth!"
Jian Yue listened to her words but remained silent.
Seeing him staring at her intently, Lady Liu asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with what I said?"
Jian Yue suddenly returned to the mural in the secret room and slowly said, "Before your Majesty was born, the imperial concubine had already started taking an unknown poison to make your Majesty live a short time. When your Majesty was born, he had black spells on his body, which was determined to be a bad omen. I only felt that those spells were familiar before, but I forgot where I had seen them. Now I remember that these spells are the patterns of the Teng Snake clan on the mural."
Lady Liu suddenly froze at the door.
A chill came over my heart.
A secret that may have been hidden for more than ten years is slowly being revealed.
"But, but..." It took Concubine Liu a long time to find her voice. She tried her best to analyze calmly: "The last words of the Teng Snake clan were that their illusion ability was used to bring disaster to the world. Only when they are all destroyed can the destruction of the illusion be completely destroyed. That's why the concubine has been giving His Majesty poison, just to make all this end as soon as possible..."
The two people looked at each other.
She looked at the thin figure of the person not far away, and for a moment, she felt that this person was really going to break. She had worked so hard for so long, but only to solve such a mystery. She saw Jian Yue's sadness and pain in his eyes. He personally solved the injustice and pain that her lover had suffered in his life, and even saw his ending.
Lady Liu didn't even know how to comfort Jian Yue, nor how to solve this chess game. But she was also in this mess. She sighed slowly and said in despair, "It turns out that this is a dead end."
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