Bai Qianmo followed Gu Jueye as they slowly crossed the swaying bamboo bridge, silently calculating the time in her mind.
The bridge is about 300 meters long. They walked relatively quickly, and it still took them about ten minutes.
Upon reaching the other side, all around was pitch black and silent.
There are many pebbles on the ground, which should be fragments that were polished off the stone walls when the tomb was excavated.
He walks very unsteadily.
The surrounding area was very open, and even with the special detection light on, the end could not be seen.
"I'll go call them over." Bai Qianmo walked straight towards the bridge.
Just then, several black flying creatures suddenly hovered above her head. The creatures were over a meter long and appeared particularly large when they spread their wings.
They stared intently at her with their eerie green eyes, as if they were eyeing prey about to be devoured.
Just as Bai Qianmo noticed them, one of them bent down and pounced straight at her.
Behind her was a sheer cliff.
"careful!"
Hearing Gu Jueye's shouts, Bai Qianmo quickly snapped back to reality and dodged the enormous creature as it lunged at her.
He then lifted his foot and delivered a spinning side kick, sending the creature crashing off the cliff.
"Are you alright?" Gu Jueye came to Bai Qianmo's side.
"It's alright, Fifth Brother. These things seem to be wooden kites from the Mo family. When I kicked them away just now, I didn't feel flesh and blood, but wood."
"Clap clap clap! Not bad."
A young man's voice suddenly came from the shadows.
The two men's expressions changed slightly as they looked toward the source of the sound.
A group of people slowly emerged from the darkness.
The leader was a tall man wearing a white linen robe.
His hair was long and tied into a bun, with a crystal-clear jade hairpin inserted diagonally into the bun.
He exudes an air of otherworldly elegance. Although his face looks only twenty years old, his eyes reveal a sense of vicissitude.
Upon seeing this person, Gu Jueye's clear eyes narrowed sharply.
"Yin Heng".
"Hehe, Xu Changchong, long time no see."
Bai Qianmo suddenly looked at the man again.
Is he Yin Heng?
She had heard her fifth brother mention that Yin Heng was the son of a warlord in Shanghai and was engaged to Xu Jin'en. However, for some reason, he changed his mind and argued with his elders to break off the engagement.
Finally, the Xu and Yin families had a public discussion, and Xu Jin'en took the initiative to request the annulment of the engagement, thus ending the arranged marriage between the two children.
They thought the two would never cross paths again, but something happened later and Yin Heng fell in love with Xu Jin'en. However, by then, Xu Jin'en and Xu Changchong were already together.
Yin Heng was filled with regret. The woman who should have been his wife was instead possessed by the man he hated most, so he vowed to get Xu Jin'en.
At that time, warlords were fighting each other all over the country, and wars frequently broke out between the Northern Army warlords led by Xu Changchong and the local Shanghai warlords led by Yi Yinjia.
In the end, Xu Changchong disappeared, and Xu Jin'en passed away at the young age of thirty, never to see her beloved again.
Yin Heng disappeared without a trace, and the grudges and affections between the three people have been lost to history.
Unexpectedly, more than a hundred years later, they would meet again in this way.
However, a question flashed through my mind.
Fifth Brother lived to be over a hundred years old because he joined the subterranean civilization.
Why is Yin Heng still alive?
Moreover, judging from his appearance, he should be around twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
Gu Jueye did not speak, his cold gaze sweeping over the group of people behind Yin Heng.
"So you are Mo Chen."
He had suspected Mo Chen's identity at the time. He was very familiar with Mo Chen, who was always against him. Moreover, he was very interested in the Qi King's tomb. In order to open the stone door of the Qi King's tomb that had not been opened for thousands of years, he really went to great lengths.
Seeing his true face today, everything has become clear.
"If I had to say what I regretted most back then, it would be that I didn't kill you in that cave."
When Gu Jueye said that, Yin Heng chuckled coldly.
"Unfortunately, there's no going back in this world. We're both still alive, that's the reality."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Heng looked at Bai Qianmo, his deep eyes seemingly hiding a hidden emotion.
"You don't remember the past?"
past?
A question flashed through Bai Qianmo's mind: Was he talking about her amnesia?
Gu Jueye pulled Bai Qianmo to his side.
She looked coldly at Yin Heng: "She isn't."
Yin Heng sneered: "If it weren't for her, why are you so nervous?"
Bai Qianmo immediately realized that they weren't talking about her amnesia, but about Xu Jin'en.
Just then, the sound of iron chains rattling came from the bamboo bridge.
A moment later, Fang Shu, Da Ze, Gu Teng, and the others also crossed to the other side.
"I'm telling you two..." Da Ze paused, his gaze warily sweeping over Yin Heng and the others.
"We waited for your reply for a long time on the other side, and it turns out someone has come."
Yin Heng was accompanied by more than a dozen men. At this moment, everyone felt that the atmosphere was not right and a big battle was likely to break out at any time.
Then, a person walked out from behind Yin Heng.
"Why don't we cooperate?"
The speaker was a man wearing a black windbreaker. His cold gaze swept across Bai Qianmo's face before he pointed to the darkness behind him.
"That's the entrance to the stone gate. We have the pair of black and white jade pendants, but although they fit perfectly into the stone gate, it remains unmoved. There are many hidden mechanisms set up around it. Without a member of the Mo family leading you, it's a pipe dream to reach the foot of the stone gate."
Bai Qianmo looked at the man who was speaking.
How can we cooperate?
The man said, "There is a handprint on the stone door. We suspect that this handprint is the key to opening the stone door."
Fifth Brother had mentioned the stone gate handprint to her before.
This is why even the Mo family's mechanical techniques couldn't open that stone door.
Because they only obtained the black and white jade pendants, they couldn't open the stone gate at all. The key point was the handprint on the stone gate mountain.
But who owns this handprint?
They are now asking for cooperation, which means the owner of the handprint is clearly on their side.
Who could it be?
Bai Qianmo looked at Gu Jueye.
Fifth Brother is highly likely. Firstly, he disappeared from here and returned to a hundred years ago. Secondly, due to this unexpected experience, his body also mutated, which is why he was able to extend his lifespan like Fifth Brother.
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