When Yan Qing woke up, she found herself in a different place.
She had just been lying on a stone slab, and this place seemed to be a stone chamber. Apart from the stone slab she was lying on, which had been carefully cleaned, everything around her was covered in a thick layer of dust.
Yan Qing sat up, and this simple action stirred up a small cloud of dust, causing her to cough incessantly.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey—what kind of hellhole is this?" Yan Qing waved her sleeves and patted the dust around her, unable to resist complaining, "Am I buried in a pile of dirt?"
No, she didn't want to stay in such a terrifying place any longer.
So she stood up and began to search for the exit of the stone chamber.
She looked around, and the dusty room seemed truly sealed off. Aside from the bare stone walls, she couldn't find a single entrance or exit.
Yan Qing was a little dumbfounded. She couldn't have just parachuted in here, could she?
What's worse, she was all alone here; that damned Chu Jiang had disappeared again.
However, Yan Qing has always been optimistic, and right now, her goal is to escape first.
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What Yan Qing didn't know was that on the night she fell into a coma, the entire Zhang family mansion had been turned into a living hell.
Besides the thousands of coffins displayed in the square, the entire Zhang family mansion was completely dismantled by the severed limbs and remains that came from underground.
All the buildings collapsed, and their original grandeur was no longer visible.
Beneath the ruins, only one person remained alive in the entire Zhang family mansion.
The man stood against the wind on the roof of the small wooden house that resembled a cave.
The moonlight was almost invisible in the sky, and the dim light shone on his face, making his peerless appearance appear cold and hard.
If Yan Qing were here, she would immediately recognize that this person was none other than Chu Jiang, who had once again disappeared without a trace.
Chu Jiang stood with his hands behind his back, facing a dense array of coffins, a sight that was truly unsettling.
"Don't you guys need to explain this to me? Hmm—?"
His voice wasn't loud, and his tone didn't seem harsh. Yet, with just this ordinary sentence, the first row of coffins involuntarily trembled.
Then, the lid of the middle coffin suddenly burst open, and a figure dressed entirely in black knelt down, pleading in a hoarse voice.
"Reporting to Master, we are here to guard this place on your orders, and we dare not have any selfish thoughts."
"Oh—? You dare not have any selfish motives?" Chu Jiang actually laughed. "This is what you mean by 'daring not to have any selfish motives'?"
He pointed to the sky above everyone's heads, and after the dim moonlight dissipated, the Zhang family's old house finally revealed its true appearance.
Above them, where they had thought it was the sky, was an endless expanse of darkness. And at this moment, this darkness was violently shaking, as if the earth were trembling.
The Zhang family's old house was actually built underground! If Yan Qing were here, she would probably be shocked by this fact.
Chu Jiang raised his hand and pointed, and the earth-shaking tremors overhead suddenly stopped.
After calming everything down, he turned his gaze back to the kneeling figure, his tone ambiguous, as if he were both smiling and not smiling.
"I remember, when I designed this formation for you, it wasn't meant for you to commit massacres. Look at this place, in just a hundred years, I'm afraid tens of thousands of people have died! You really think too highly of me."
"Master, please forgive me!" The shadowy figure knew he was angry the moment he heard that. The more nonchalant this person was, the more furious he was.
Seeing his current behavior, he felt a chill run down his spine. Had his master already discovered everything? But that shouldn't be the case! Hadn't he been sleeping the whole time?
"Hehehe—" Chu Jiang laughed again, "It seems I, as the master, have been terribly negligent. In that case, then—"
Chu Jiang suddenly fell silent at this point.
The shadowy figure, who had been keeping his head down and not daring to utter a word, suddenly began to explode in clusters behind him, each coffin spewing out a cloud of dark red blood.
Strangely, all the explosions were completely silent.
Only when a small splatter of black blood landed on his back did the shadowy figure belatedly turn around. The next moment, he completely collapsed.
"No! Ah—!!!"
Chu Jiang remained standing on the high ground, casually wiping his fingers. At his feet, a pool of black blood gathered, forming a small river.
Suddenly, Chu Jiang seemed to notice something, his eyes fixed on a certain direction, his tone still indifferent.
"Get out here."
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After half a day of turmoil, Yan Qing was now absolutely certain that she had been locked in a sealed space.
The frustrating thing was that she seemed to be deep in the mountains. What she thought were stone walls were actually thick layers of rock. She had drilled a very deep hole in one of the walls with an electric drill, and the loose rock dust was falling out from there.
"Heavens above, where am I?" Yan Qing couldn't understand how she got in, since the place was sealed off from all sides.
Undeterred, Yan Qing summoned Chu Youming Jinli, and the two of them thoroughly searched the cave once more. The result, of course, was predictable.
Yan Qing was on the verge of collapse. "Damn it, it couldn't have fallen from the sky, could it!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a violent tremor came from above, and the next moment, a figure descended from the sky.
Yan Qing's eyes lit up instantly, "Yue Qi, what are you doing here?!"
Yue Qi's attire was also different from usual. He was wearing a diving suit with an oxygen tank on his back and a long sword strapped to his chest, which looked rather comical.
When Yue Qi saw her, he was stunned for a moment, then his surprise turned into immense joy.
"Yan Qing, what are you doing here?"
The two of them asked the exact same question without prior arrangement, and then burst into laughter in the same instant.
Yan Qing punched him lightly, "Tell me quickly, I asked first."
Yue Qi's expression was somewhat helpless, but he couldn't stop smiling.
"Um, would you believe me if I told you this was purely an accident?"
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