Chapter 52: Going down to the tomb, I will look at the billion eyes
When sliding into the cave, Xiangying curled up his body very experiencedly and protected his head.
She counted in her mind how many numbers it took to get from the entrance to the bottom of the cave.
This was taught to her by her captain at the end of the world.
After countless training sessions, Xiangying has been able to count accurately, one meter at a time.
It took her eight counts to land just now.
This means that the distance from the cave entrance to the bottom is at least eight meters.
Xiangying landed steadily on the ground and brushed off the dust on his body.
She looked around and saw a long and narrow corridor in front of her with the faint light from above her head.
Xiangying quickly took out the torch from the space and lit it, illuminating the murals on the wall of the corridor.
I don’t know how long this tomb has existed, but it’s probably more than a hundred years old. The color of the murals has faded greatly due to exposure to oxygen.
Only the strange words engraved on it have been preserved along with the ancient tomb to this day.
There was a plop sound from the side, Xiangying looked over and saw that it was Jie Chen who jumped down after her.
She pursed her red lips slightly, knowing that Jie Chen would not let her walk alone.
Jie Chen brushed the dust off his shoulders with a cold face and walked towards her: "How many times have you insisted on doing what you want? My patience is limited."
Xiangying ignored his temper and took his arm in his hand and pulled him to his side.
"Jie Chen, look at what's written on the mural? Whose tomb is this?" Xiangying used a torch to light the way for him.
Xie Chen glanced at the torch in her hand with confusion.
Xiangying explained casually: "Oh, I just picked it up from the ground. It should be left by the tomb robbers."
Xie Chen did not ask any more questions and turned his eyes to the painted wall.
He frowned slightly and said, "Three hundred years ago, King Anping of Dai State fell ill on his way back to his fiefdom and was buried here."
"He had accomplished many great deeds during his lifetime. When the Emperor of Dai heard the news of his death, he was extremely saddened and arranged for two wizards, Cai and Wang, to come here on a thousand-mile horse to handle his funeral."
Xiang Ying's eyes lit up: "He is a prince, so he must be very rich, and the burial objects should be very rich."
She couldn't wait to enter the tomb and take a look.
Jie Chen grabbed her and said in a low and pleasant voice: "We should not disturb other people's resting place after death."
Xiangying shook his head decisively: "I'll just take a look, I won't touch anything."
As he said that, he threw off Jie Chen's shackles and entered the narrow and long corridor.
Xie Chen's eyes were gloomy as he followed her.
What Xiangying didn't expect was that the heavy tomb door didn't have any mechanism. She just pushed it twice and it opened.
Dust blew in her face and fell down. She covered her mouth and nose and coughed a few times.
"Isn't King Anping valued by the Emperor of Dai at that time? Why is his tomb so simple?"
There were no mechanisms, let alone a burglar-proof glazed roof. The structure of the tomb that Xiangying had known about did not exist here at all.
If it was such a simple tomb chamber, then the previous wave of tomb robbers must have already emptied out everything.
Thinking of this, Xiangying couldn't help but frown.
Xie Chen behind him said, "Prince Anping was the biological brother of the Emperor of Dai. Although this tomb is not luxurious, it is not bad either. It is only because he died suddenly that he was buried simply."
Suddenly, he changed the subject: "It's just that the words carved on the wall outside are exclusive to the Dai royal family."
"If I remember correctly, the Queen's ancestors are descendants of the Dai Kingdom. The Crown Prince Xiangli is proficient in the Dai Kingdom's writing. How come you can't understand it at all?"
Xiangying's hand that was stroking the tomb door paused slightly, and her long eyelashes concealed the waves in her phoenix eyes.
"Isn't this normal? You often say that I am dissolute, but am I as hardworking and studious as my brother?" Her voice was calm, without any panic.
Xiangying completely believes in the original owner's memory.
If the original owner had learned it, then she would definitely do it, just like when she sees someone's face, it would immediately match a certain impression in her memory.
She couldn’t understand the words just now, which meant that the original owner didn’t learn it!
Who can blame her?
Xiangying asked back, "However, since this is a writing system only used by the royal family of Dai, it should not be widely spread. How did you learn it?"
Her eyes were sparkling and shimmering, and when she looked at Jie Chen, a relaxed mood lingered between her brows, but her eyes were serious.
Xie Chen paused and looked away slightly: "You are not qualified to ask."
Xiangying didn't bother with him.
It is not surprising for someone like Jie Chen, who was lurking in the Western Zhou Dynasty palace as a spy, to learn something of this.
She made sure there were no traps in the tomb and dragged Jie Chen in.
After passing through an even narrower passage, you can only pass sideways.
The real tomb door is right in front of you, with a maid's head poking out carved on it, which is lifelike.
With the flickering light of the torches, the maid carved on the door seemed to peek out from the darkness of the underworld.
Xiangying cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry for offending you today. My husband and I accidentally came here. We just wanted to take a look around. We promise not to damage the coffin or the body."
Xie Chen frowned: "What do you mean by husband and wife?"
Xiangying turned around and winked at him: "Can't we just lie to the devil and ask King Anping to stop making things difficult for us?"
Of course she was joking, just to amuse Jie Chen.
Xiangying pushed open the door of the tomb and heard a creaking sound.
A beam of light suddenly poured out from the tomb.
If you don’t know, you might think there are people living there.
Immediately afterwards, Xiangying frowned.
She smelled blood!
Jie Chen naturally smelled it as well, and he subconsciously reached behind his back to touch the sword hanging at his waist.
However, he touched nothing and then he remembered that the sword was lost when he fell into the water.
Both of them were very alert and walked in one after the other.
They were stunned almost at the same time.
It’s not because the tomb is so luxurious, on the contrary, it is extremely simple.
A circular tomb with a tall golden nanmu coffin in the middle, and mermaid oil burning on the surrounding walls that would not go out for tens of millions of years.
But on the ground, there were bones lying all over the place.
Especially on the coffin, there was actually a skeleton hanging on it.
There were about seven people scattered here, all buried here.
"It must be the tomb robbers who dug the hole." Xiangying bent down to examine their bones.
It is judged that they have been dead for no more than twenty years.
The bloody smell just now was the blood left on the ground, which was emitted after being absorbed into the soil over the years.
Xie Chen looked around and said calmly, "These people died from killing each other. Only the man lying on the coffin has slightly green bones, as if he died of poisoning."
The whole environment looked like an internal conflict among the tomb robbers.
The person who opens the coffin should be the remaining survivor.
But he, too, was poisoned.
But the entire tomb is naturally ventilated, so where does the poison come from?
Xiangying walked to the coffin.
The coffin lid had been pushed open halfway and had not been closed, and the bones inside were those of Prince Anping.
He was wearing an extremely gorgeous robe, and it was unknown what was painted on it, but the exquisite patterns on the clothes were still intact and the color had not completely faded.
He was wearing a jade crown and gorgeous clothes, with a pearl in his mouth, and the body was surrounded by gold.
He does look wealthy, but Xiangying doesn't want to take anything from the coffin.
She was a little disappointed.
"I thought there would be something good in the tomb."
She doesn't want the burial objects if they only exist in the coffin.
Suddenly, Jie Chen, who was standing at the end of the coffin, spoke up: "Come and look at this."
(End of this chapter)
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