White Palace
At the end of the previous episode, Lan Qing and General Hua saw handprints on their bodies in the mirror, as if a ghost was lying on them.
After leaving the mirror, only they can't see it, but everyone else can!
But only the researcher reminded them, and everyone else turned a blind eye. Seeing this, the other two looked away.
Lan Qing and General Hua both had unhappy expressions. The difficulty of this matter lay in the fact that even if they knew about it, they had no way to deal with it.
"That's all we can do for now. Let's see if we can find a way to deal with the ghosts during the next exploration." The researcher shrugged and put the mirror away.
One comment expressed everyone's thoughts: [How scary! If I knew this, I would lose my appetite and stare at the mirror all the time to see if my handprints have changed.]
Zu Lingwei couldn't help but become curious. From the opening song, it can be seen that the researcher and the other two protagonists had a process from hostility to reconciliation, but now they are still very friendly with each other. Did something happen later?
The researcher seemed to be very knowledgeable about history and determined that the underground palace containing the strange bird was the "front hall" of the mausoleum, and the tomb chamber that Lan Qing and the others had just entered was the "gatekeeper hall."
The term she mentioned made the two of them look at each other in bewilderment. Lan Qing whispered, "Based on my limited knowledge of history, this doesn't seem to be the standard for a tomb in my hometown world... I don't know where these copies selected by the trial field came from."
General Hua nodded: "Me too."
The murals in the underground palace are narrative. The trial field has questions related to the tomb owner, so they have to collect information from the tomb. After a short break, the group began to study the murals. The researcher explained while reading the content.
The protagonist of the story is a princess who was born in a powerful country, one of the six great powers at that time. The king dotes on the princess and treats her as the apple of his eye.
It is almost certain that the princess in the mural is the owner of this tomb.
——Because there are only pictures, people don’t have a deep understanding of it and some parts are incomprehensible, but it does not affect the overall reading.
The king wanted to train the princess into a beautiful lady, but the princess did not like rouge, powder, fancy clothes or ornaments. She loved reading military books and wielding swords and guns since she was a child.
Moreover, she was very talented in these matters, with natural strength like that of an ox, even stronger than that of a strongman, and she also formed a guard team of her own. This paragraph should be exaggerated, but it does show the character of the tomb owner.
"...Oh, I understand. The mural we couldn't understand just now should be the one-year-old feast." The researcher suddenly realized and said, stroking his chin, "It shows that the princess didn't touch anything on the table during the feast, but... grabbed the imperial seal hanging on her father's waist."
Since these scenes were painted into the murals, they all conveyed certain meanings. They clearly conveyed a message: the princess's desire for power was extremely strong, and she was likely not satisfied with being a princess without inheritance rights, but wanted to become the monarch.
The king indulged the princess's hobbies and brought her to court. The little princess was not afraid of the stage in front of the civil and military officials, and she would express her opinions. Judging from her hairstyle, she was less than ten years old at that time.
But in the next picture, a prince was born. The king was overjoyed and gave him more treasures.
Considering the number of people who have appeared on the screen so far, Zu Lingwei could tell without any character explanation: It seems that before this, the king had only one child, the princess, but now, he has a son, a prince who can serve as an heir.
The treasures in this mural are more numerous and more magnificent than when the princess was just born. As a dream builder specializing in history, Zu Lingwei knew that it was very unusual for such a supporting character to "steal the show" in the mural of the tomb owner. It should be the princess's deliberate instruction.
The mural alone does not reveal the princess's attitude towards her brother. The next mural jumps to when she was 15 years old. The age was determined because of the "Jigui Ceremony".
However, at the same time, the mural also depicts a battlefield scene, with an enemy country at war with her own country. The princess rejected the good husband her father had introduced to her and asked to put on her military uniform and go to the battlefield.
The scene of the princess going to the battlefield was obviously one of the highlights in the tomb owner's life. It was depicted in a very grand manner, with bright red flags everywhere.
She went through many hardships and won a great victory, and finally the neighboring country surrendered. At this time, she was already 20 years old. When she returned, she imitated the men and performed the "capping ceremony" on herself.
The princess holds the military power, her power expands, and she even sets up her own princess mansion with her own stable team. Some matters in the court have to go through her hands for decision.
She had many male favorites, and one of them was not depicted with just a body outline like the others, but his face was highlighted, so he must be the most favored one.
Her father seemed to want to find another husband for her, but soon after, the atmosphere took a sharp turn for the worse and her father passed away.
The flags turned into white banners, and the whole country mourned for the late king, so the princess naturally did not have to marry. The mural did not describe the cause of death of the princess's father, but the following content of the mural seemed to hint at something:
The new king ascended the throne, and the princess, as his elder sister, shared the royal power almost equally with her brother, and the two ruled together.
"The mural ends here," the researcher said. "The entire life story of the tomb owner is probably spread out in different areas of the tomb chamber and cannot be seen for a while."
[The murals are so beautifully done. The part about the princess being favored is almost all painted with gold paint. I can imagine how magnificent the scene it depicts is.]
[How did Director Shang come up with this idea? How many skills did he need to master to shoot a movie like "Infinite Heartbeat"! ]
[I have a bold idea. When selling the peripheral products of Unit 2, can we also bind the murals here into a book? ]
[Ahhh Director Shang, why don't you even finish telling the story in the play in one go! Double the interruption [Mask of Pain]. ]
[It is reasonable to speculate whether her father's death has something to do with her? After all, this way, she can take power. ]
[Although it is just a mural where you can't even see the face clearly, I feel that this story is also very thrilling, and the image of the princess is vividly portrayed on the paper. @尚导, can you make another spin-off...]
There was a lot of discussion in the barrage, and the group of people in the picture found a secret door at the end of the mural. After opening it, they could see a space like an underground courtyard, with branches made of gold and flowers made of jade. When the lights were on, it was dazzling.
Here, they met the trial-taker again—but, he was already dead!
The three trial participants were all dressed like tomb robbers. Judging from their death, they had killed each other in a vicious fight. After their weapons and bullets were used up, they even used their teeth.
However, Lan Qing and his group could not figure out why they killed each other, as they clearly had plenty of food in their bags. Their bodies hung among the jade trees, looking extremely strange.
Zu Lingwei was a little scared, and her friend said: "The horror of this part is that if you don't know the cause, you don't know how to avoid it. It is possible that the protagonists will encounter similar situations next time."
Zu Lingwei: “…”
There is no need to explain such a terrible thing!
The tomb seems to completely imitate the princess's residence during her lifetime. Behind the front hall is a courtyard, with buildings and corridors on both sides, and behind the courtyard is another palace.
The bloodstains of the three trial-takers extended all the way to the location of the second palace. After entering the door, the first floor was empty, with stone steps on both sides leading to darkness.
After some hesitation, everyone chose the side of the stairs that did not have the blood of the trial participants.
The stone steps were wide enough to accommodate two off-road vehicles going side by side. To be on the safe side, the five of them climbed up together.
But as they walked, everyone felt something was wrong. Lan Qing stopped and said, "From the outside... is the second floor this high?"
She made a prompt decision and asked everyone to go back, but this time they walked much longer than they had walked to come, and did not reach the entrance.
There were stone walls on both sides, and no matter whether the flashlight shone upwards or downwards, there were endless stone steps. They seemed to be trapped on an infinitely long staircase!
Zu Lingwei felt a chill down her spine, and before she could even react when the word [End] appeared, the barrage of comments had already exploded.
[This dungeon is too weird, help me, there hasn’t been a single ghost scene so far, but I’m even more scared than in the first unit!!]
[Is it another time-space loop? Or some other mechanism? ? Director Shang, how can you stop here? QAQ]
[I feel suffocated just by imagining this. It seems that I should choose the side of the stairs with bloodstains! ... Director Shang, please add more chapters! ]
The second episode of "Princess's Tomb" was broadcast, and the tone of the second unit became more obvious. The audience of StarCraft suffered a new shock:
It turns out that even without describing how scary ghosts are, they can still scare people!
The capital star, where clouds and snow live.
Shang Jingyan flipped through the comments and saw the top comment for the second episode: [Is this what Director Shang said in the lecture, "The audience's own imagination is the most terrifying"? I've learned nothing QAQ]
She couldn't help but smile and gave a thumbs up.
Before, she didn't use this method much because the audience was not familiar with horror and couldn't imagine many scary routines. But now after several episodes, Starman can fully "scare himself".
X71: [……]
Yanyan, your smile is so scary!
Shang Jingyan looked away from the computer, drank a cup of tea brewed by Yun Yongxue, and said with emotion: "Studying here with you feels more efficient."
——Yes, she came to Yun Yongxue’s house as a guest with another purpose: to learn.
In the questions asked after the previous lecture, there were some questions similar to the cultural knowledge questions about Dream Builder that Shang Jingyan was unable to answer. After all, she had only scored a bare 80% in the written examination for the previous entrance examination.
Zu Lingwei said that some universities might invite her to give lectures in the future and suggested that she prepare well.
Although no one deliberately brought this up, Shang Jingyan was very competitive and determined to make up for this shortcoming.
So in the next few days, she planned to let Yun Yongxue tutor her.
Yun Yongxue's house is almost all pure white, with extremely simple decoration. It doesn't look like a home at all, which makes people unconsciously serious, so Shang Jingyan said, "Efficiency has become higher here."
Perhaps the only thing that shows warmth in this villa is the row of photos of Yun Yongxue's mother and him on the wall.
Yun Yongxue's mother is a famous musician and dream builder. She gave birth to him while single.
He had never been deprived in material terms since he was a child, but his mother passed away when he was only five years old, and the spiritual picture was given to him as a relic.
Human spiritual power is a rather wonderful thing. On a macro level, it can create countless incredible wonders, and on a micro level, it can build a bridge between two people.
This phenomenon of "spiritual legacy" is also extremely rare. It usually only occurs between direct blood relatives, and occasionally between lovers with extremely resonant spiritual powers.
Yun Yongxue thought for a while, and suddenly said: "It's faster to learn in the mental picture... Do you want to come and take a look at my mental picture?"
Lin Feijie was also listening at the side and almost choked when he heard this. The mental picture is almost equivalent to a person's essential appearance, and it will not be revealed to others unless they have an extremely close relationship.
Of course, when treating mental illnesses, the patient will establish a mental connection with the doctor, but this is the same as treating other illnesses: a person will take off his clothes in front of a doctor, but would he take them off in front of a random stranger?
At this moment, he vaguely realized one thing: Yun Yongxue's common sense education really had a big gap...
Shang Jingyan was also stunned for a moment. She vaguely remembered that there was a layer of etiquette involved, but seeing that Yun Yongxue looked normal, she thought that her understanding of interstellar culture was not thorough enough.
Maybe friends don’t need to care so much?
Anyway, she has entered the mental picture of Pei Yi and others.
So she nodded happily and said, "Okay."
Lin Feijie: “…”
It seems like both of you have no common sense!
However, after Shang Jingyan finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that normal people appear in the form of a core spiritual body in their mental images, but she only has a ball of light.
"But wait a moment, let me check my condition first," she added.
Shang Jingyan closed his eyes and meditated, entering his own mental picture, floating above the grass, feeling a little worried.
Or, try pinching yourself, just like you would when you are making a work of art?
Shang Jingyan did what he said. He first picked a common animal at random and imagined himself turning into a sparrow.
With a "puff" sound, a chubby sparrow fell to the ground. Shang Jingyan raised his wings and was surprised to find that it was quite easy.
She flapped her wings a few times and felt that the body was too small, so she tried to pinch the person again, and Shang Sparrow slowly turned into Shang Dayan again.
Shang Jingyan: “…”
She was a little surprised by herself. She had never heard that someone's core spiritual body could be changed. Was she a little too abnormal?
Shang Dayan, who had just come up with a new look, turned his head to look at his entire body. He was so impressed by how ugly he looked that he decided to change it again.
This was repeated for more than ten times, and Shang Jingyan changed from a carnivore to an herbivore, from a flyer in the sky to a swimmer in the water, and finally became a black sheep.
Shang Jingyan trotted to the water's edge and looked at himself. The black sheep in the reflection was of moderate size, with a graceful body, two curved black horns on its head, eyes like the finest emeralds, and pupils in the shape of two black "ones", giving a sense of mysterious horror.
In reality, there would definitely be no sheep that look like this, but many people’s core spiritual bodies are fantasy creatures, such as Tian Jiangli’s unicorn, so it doesn’t matter.
Shang Jingyan came out of his meditative state, nodded and said, "Okay, let's start now."
So, after a moment, the two of them put on the mental link devices under Lin Feijie's complicated gaze.
Shang Jingyan entered Yun Yongxue's mental image directly without the need for a linker. What she saw was also pure white. And in that white, there was an equally white long-haired cat running towards her: "Yanyan!"
Yun Yongxue's core spirit is a cat with blue eyes - his mother and genetic father both have blue eyes, and if he didn't have albinism, he would theoretically have blue eyes as well.
He came in front of Shang Jingyan and tilted his head: "So you are the little black sheep."
"Just 'black sheep' will do, no need to add a small word." Shang Jingyan corrected.
She frowned slightly because she saw a little black mist lingering on Yun Yongxue's cat's tail, the same mist that causes cavitation, which was quite abrupt against the white.
It seems that I have to find an excuse to treat Yun Yongxue in the next few days...
Shang Jingyan followed Yun Yongxue and walked into the core area.
There were two white palaces, one larger and one smaller, each occupying an area, and their styles were almost exactly the same.
Yun Yongxue's aesthetics, habits, etc. are almost all inherited from his mother, as can be seen from the picture.
However, when Shang Jingyan looked carefully, he found that the edge of the small palace had changed, and a glass greenhouse extended out. The style was obviously different and very modern.
It is filled with flowers and plants, and the plants surround the coffee tables and chairs, which looks perfect for an afternoon nap.
"Ah...that's the new area I opened up." Yun Yongxue said.
To be precise, it was a new area that he opened up after he met Shang Jingyan.
In the past, there was not much "self" in his spiritual world, it was pale, and he just imitated his mother's relics to build a palace of music.
He was born in a musical family. He was too talented in music, chose music too early, and his life was completely filled with it.
Yun Yongxue sometimes feels that “it’s not me who chose music, but music that chose me” is not self-praise, but a realistic state.
The notes and music flow in the blood of "Yun Yongxue". Apart from the music, there would be nothing left of "Yun Yongxue".
His therapist once told him that his current condition was very dangerous and he was very likely to suffer from synovitis.
——But now it shouldn’t happen.
Yun Yongxue said silently in his heart.
In the world of spiritual power, unless objects are deliberately made to look old, they will always be brand new and will never be stained by dust.
The palace that belonged to Yun Yongxue's mother still looked like it had just been built on the first day. Angels and clouds were carved on the crystal beams and pillars, reflecting the skylight and making it colorful. If you knocked lightly at any place, you would hear a pleasant sound from the resonance.
Shang Jingyan tapped the crystal floor lightly with his black hoof and heard an echo.
"Let's learn here. Although my mother is a musician, she has a wealth of common sense that a dream builder should have." Yun Yongxue took out a few books from the piano stand and picked them up.
Learning in the mental picture is actually the direct infusion of information, just like connecting a storage disk containing data to a computer.
Shang Jingyan felt dizzy for a moment, and a sentence flashed through his mind: This is truly traveling in a mountain of books and a sea of knowledge.
She studied for the entire afternoon. There were too many things in her mind and she could not hold on any longer. She finished the day's study in a daze and even had a meal at the Yun family.
In the twilight, Yun Yongxue watched her leave. Lin Feijie: "..."
Oh, is this what lovesickness means?
After Shang Jingyan completely disappeared from his sight, Yun Yongxue was stunned for a while, then entered his own mental picture, came to the palace on his mother's side, and sat down in front of the piano.
When Yun Yongxue's mother passed away, he was too young to fully understand what "death" meant, so it was difficult for him to feel overly sad; but as he grew older, he would often feel that his mother was still there, because her spiritual world was still accompanying him.
Yun Yongxue had been learning knowledge in that huge, pure white music hall since he was a child. The resonance of blood made his learning incomparably efficient.
More than ten years have passed, and until now, he has still not fully realized the experience and knowledge left by his mother.
Yun Yongxue's previous depression and closedness, in addition to the lack of emotions to stimulate inspiration, was also due to the fact that he felt he would never be able to surpass his mother in his entire life.
There were several times when he thought of ideas to cheer himself up, but when he looked into his mother's mental picture, he always saw similar content.
After all, that was a life journey of more than 130 years. He looked up and felt that the mountain was too high to surpass. It seemed that he could only wander in his mother's legacy and repeat what she had done.
"Ms. Yun, did you see Yanyan just now?" Yun Yongxue said softly while sitting in front of the piano.
As far as he can remember, he seems to have rarely called "Mom" many times, and it was the nanny who took care of him since he was a child. When he came to this spiritual picture, every time he wanted to call "Mom" or "Mother", he felt very unfamiliar.
The word "Ms. Yun" actually feels familiar to him, because the same word "Yun" keeps reminding him of the blood relationship between him and his mother.
“I was lucky, as a musician, to encounter brand new styles at the age of 18 that you hadn’t even seen before.”
A small smile bloomed on Yun Yongxue's mouth, like ice and snow melting.
He pressed the keys, and notes flowed out. The pure white palace echoed and resonated, as if his mother was responding to his words.
Originally, after Shang Jingyan finished his lecture, other universities in the main galaxy were still waiting and watching. Therefore, before the entrance examination of the mainstream galaxy, Shang Jingyan only gave that one lecture at Lianmeng University.
But after 11 days, the situation changed dramatically.
——Because, in the main star system examination area of this membership examination, the top candidate is of horror style, and the candidate is from Lianmeng University!
If we expand the ranking to the top 50, we can see that 8 of them are horror films.
This number may not be much when viewed alone, but it is already astonishing when compared with other themes. Once such a situation occurred in previous years, it meant that the theme would cause a follow-up craze until the audience didn't want to watch it anymore.
What’s even more dramatic is that the student who ranked first was none other than Su Shudong.
Su Shudong made a game called "Nobody's Kiss", which is disguised as a love strategy game, but as players play, they will find that all the heroes the heroine meets are actually monsters.
The male boss who drives a luxury car turns into a water monster at night, the little brother next door is actually a resentful spirit occupying an entire building, and the little boy in school is actually an octopus monster that has infiltrated human society...
In addition to love, various horror stories will happen when you are with them, which is really a test of your heartbeat.
[Su Moudong is really a bit rude. He played a trick on someone and then used their useful information.]
[But to be honest, Su Moudong and the other candidates are very brave. If it were me, I would not dare to use the routines I just learned in the entrance examination.]
[It turns out that the work I randomly matched was Su Moudong’s. I thought it was good when I saw it on display, but now I just feel complicated...]
Because of that bizarre penalty announcement, no one on Star Internet calls him Su Shudong anymore. Instead, they call him "Su Moudong", which is both funny and a bit sarcastic.
On the day the results came out, Shang Jingyan and Yun Yongxue were in the gymnasium of Lianmeng University. The latter said she wanted to take her to play Qilude, a spiritual sport that was recently popular in the main galaxy.
She hadn't bought the small flying device yet and was still choosing when she heard a burst of cheering in the museum. It sounded like they were congratulating Su Shudong for winning first place.
Su Shudong is in there too?
Yun Yongxue frowned when she saw him and said unhappily, "Let's wait until he leaves before we go in."
Qilude is a newly emerged sport, and Lianmeng University only has one venue. He cannot change the venue, which is a bit infuriating.
However, Su Shudong had already seen them from afar, walking towards Shang Jingyan through the crowd. Yun Yongxue frowned even more, slightly blocking Shang Jingyan, and looking directly into Su Shudong's eyes.
The two young men were about the same age, and both had a very “aristocratic” temperament, but their essences were completely different, like two cats that were wary of each other.
"Shang Jingyan, are you also going to play Qilude?" Su Shudong said with a smile. He stopped pretending to call her "Miss Shang" and called her by her name "Shang Jingyan". "Then after you learn it, do you dare to compete with me?"
Shang Jingyan raised his eyebrows. This was really a childish way of provoking others. Wasn't Su Shudong ashamed?
The people around looked over to watch this great show.
"I know you've never played before, I can lend you my aircraft for three days--"
Shang Jingyan interrupted him directly and said, "No need."
She also smiled, "I can compete with you right now."
Yanyan: No one can be more pretentious than me.
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