Chapter 228 Tomb
The Green Guardians stopped outside the cave; they were not qualified to enter the mausoleum.
Su Ying and Xiao Jin looked at each other and slowly walked into the cave.
The cave didn't look big from the outside, but after walking in, they found that it was very spacious. There were beads inside to illuminate the cave, leading them all the way down.
The cave was winding, and the two walked cautiously for nearly a quarter of an hour before they arrived in front of a stone gate.
Xiao Jin observed the situation around the stone gate, and finally gently turned a shelf containing beads next to the stone gate.
With a "click", a crack appeared in the stone door in front of them. After a while, a stone door that two people could pass through side by side appeared in front of them.
When Su Ying was about to go in, Xiao Jin stopped her.
She glanced back at him in confusion.
Xiao Jin didn't say anything. He just pulled her behind him and walked to the front.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows and looked at his solid and broad back, feeling as if her heart was scratched by a cat.
Behind the stone gate was a row of stone stairs winding down. The two walked down the stairs for a long time before they arrived in front of a stone gate.
After pulling the mechanism of the stone door to open it, a strong golden light came out from the stone chamber, almost blinding Su Ying's eyes.
Su Ying narrowed her eyes slightly, and after she adjusted to the light, she slowly opened them and followed Xiao Jin in.
Even though both of them were people who had seen the world and experienced storms, they were still blinded by the mountains of gold, silver and gems inside.
This is not a mausoleum at all, it is clearly a treasure house. No wonder the previous queen did not allow anyone else to approach this place.
Su Ying curiously walked forward and picked up a gold cup to weigh it. After confirming that these things were real, she suddenly wanted to laugh three times.
Damn, I’m rich!
Xiao Jin collected his thoughts and cast his gaze on a large bookcase beside him.
He walked over, picked up a book and started reading it. It actually talked about how to control people and also included some unique secret techniques.
"Puppet Book?" Su Ying picked up a book and took a look. Isn't this the method of training those children that she saw on the scene that day?
"The rulers here have blocked the thoughts of those people through various kinds of training, almost making them lose the ability to think for themselves. They only know to obey orders and be loyal to the queen." But the rulers have forgotten that there is only one of them, but the queen can be many people.
This is also why those people came to acknowledge their master so quickly after she captured Wei Ji.
Su Ying turned her eyes to a large and thick booklet. She walked over curiously and opened it. What was recorded on it was the origin of Tiankui City.
A hundred years ago, this place was already a place for exile of criminals, but there were not so many people here. Then, a woman suddenly appeared and brought all the prisoners together. She let them spend a full thirty years to build the Tiankui City and establish themselves as emperor.
But not long after, the queen found that as she grew older, the people around her became more and more cunning, and some even wanted to rebel. In order to prevent the Tiankui City that she had worked so hard to establish from being overthrown, she found a secret book on puppetry from somewhere, and began to recruit young children into the city and began to train them, turning them into mindless puppets whose life and death she could decide.
This way, she wouldn't have to worry about her throne being taken away.
But everyone will eventually grow old and die. When the empress felt that she would not live long, she chose someone she loved to succeed her. This person was the previous empress before Concubine Wei.
The previous queen inherited the purpose of the previous queen and continued to promote puppetry. The normal people in the city before either died or were gradually expelled. From then on, Tiankui City became what they see today.
It just records the previous female queen, and there is no record of Wei Ji after that.
The booklet did not specify who the previous queen had chosen to succeed her, and it did not even mention the matter.
Su Ying calculated the time. When the first empress died, it was probably the 30th year after the Tiankui City was completely established. The second one was not very old when she succeeded to the throne. It was less than 30 years until the records were stopped. Considering the lifespan of the first one, the second one's lifespan was almost half as short.
The book also records that the new ruler can succeed to the throne by defeating the previous ruler. It is a formal competition, not a fight like the one between her and Wei Ji.
However, there is no record of Wei Ji in the book, and this woman may have usurped the throne.
Su Ying closed the booklet and continued to look through other books, trying to find some records about Wei Ji, but after searching around, she didn't find even a single word.
This person seemed to have appeared out of nowhere in Tiankui City.
"Xiao Jin, you definitely don't think that Tiankui City is a gift from God to us." Since she couldn't find it, Su Ying didn't bother about it anymore. She closed the booklet and looked at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin looked at her and suddenly laughed.
When he smiled, Su Ying was stunned. She had to admit that he looked really good when he smiled.
"why are you laughing?"
"You just said 'we'."
Su Ying frowned. Is there anything wrong with this wording? Does this guy want to monopolize it?
"Boy, you'd better not have any dangerous thoughts, otherwise I will turn you into a puppet."
Xiao Jin was not afraid of her threat at all, "It's not impossible for me to be your puppet."
Su Ying looked at his black eyes which were getting brighter and brighter, and always felt that there was something else behind his words.
She changed the subject and said, "The book doesn't record where these gold, silver and jewelry came from."
"No matter how he got here, it's all ours now."
Su Ying felt that this made sense, but she was still a little worried about leaving the things here. Next time she would have to find a chance to hide some of them in the space, as the space was the safest place.
As they walked further in, they found that there was indeed a coffin inside. The surface of the coffin was extremely luxurious, and was inlaid with various gems.
Su Ying felt that this should be the coffin of the first empress.
However, there was only one coffin, which made Su Ying more certain of her guess that Wei Ji's position as empress could not be obtained normally.
"Go out first." The mausoleum ends at the coffin section.
Su Ying nodded and followed Xiao Jin out of the cave.
Green Protector saw the two people coming out and stepped forward respectfully.
"Go back first, and let everyone I'm with go to the main hall."
"yes."
Tiankui City has been taken, and the next question is how to take over here and make it one's own territory.
Qiao Yang and his friends also walked around the city. The buildings here were very majestic. One could imagine how much manpower and resources were wasted in their construction. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this city was built of corpses.
(End of this chapter)
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