Chapter 165 The person is gone
Old man Zhong took out a lamp stand from somewhere and placed a night-shining pearl on it.
The night pearl emitted a faint blue light, illuminating the stone steps in front of it.
Old Man Zhong warned again, "Follow closely!"
"Where I step, you step too!"
Liu Shiqi nodded.
I just watched Old Man Zhong step over a step and go down.
Step halfway onto the next step.
Then he stood still, crossed another step, stepped on it, and it was still in the middle of the step.
Old Man Zhong turned his head to look at her, "Girl, follow me!"
Liu Shiqi nodded.
Also like him, cross a step and then step in the middle.
The same goes for the steps at the back.
You have to cross a step first...
To be honest, it's quite strenuous to walk like this.
Liu Shiqi discovered that their stairs were spiraling downwards.
Some of the steps have probably become very brittle due to their age and will rot with just the slightest step.
They became more cautious.
They didn't notice that there was a figure standing where they were originally standing.
The figure was dressed in white, tall, with hair hanging down behind him.
He was standing still, staring at Liu Shiqi and Old Man Zhong.
The cold wind howled up from underground like a ghost, carrying with it the smell of decay and oldness.
It was as if to freeze their souls together.
The light of the luminous pearl in Old Man Zhong's hand swayed in the darkness.
The faint blue halo barely tore through a trace of darkness, reflecting the mottled stone wall on one side.
The stone walls are also engraved with strange symbols and distorted patterns.
Under the flickering light, it twists and turns like a living thing, telling unknown secrets.
Liu Shiqi pointed at the symbol on the wall and asked in a low voice.
"Grandfather, these are from Ceylon too?"
Liu Shiqi frowned slightly.
I always feel that these patterns are familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere. But I can't remember it.
Old man Zhong shone the night pearl and nodded.
"yes!"
"These are some text patterns of Ceylon, and most of them talk about the national conditions and customs of Ceylon!"
"Okay, let's go."
"This place is still a long way from where we want to go."
Old Man Zhong's voice was steady, yet also somewhat solemn, "Let's all be careful."
Liu Shiqi nodded, looked at the text patterns again, and then continued walking down.
Their footsteps made a dull echo on the stone steps, and every step seemed to step on the strings of time, stirring up an ancient and terrifying tremor.
They had just left a short distance when the white figure floated down.
He stopped where Liu Shiqi had just stood, and stared at the text patterns for a long time before leaving.
The further down you go, the lower the temperature.
There was an intoxicating fragrance in the air, like a mixture of flowers and something unknown.
Seeing that Old Man Zhong didn't say anything, Liu Shiqi knew that the smell should not be poisonous.
She took a few long puffs.
“Smells so good!”
[The smell is not pungent at all, and it smells very refreshing! 】
[Yeah, I like it!] 】
[I don’t know how it was mixed!] 】
[When I get back, I'll try some!] 】
Liu Shiqi thought silently.
[However, this empress also knows how to enjoy herself! 】
[Even after his death, he made his own tomb smell so good! 】
Above them, the white shadow not far away paused...
Old Man Zhong glanced at Liu Shiqi.
I thought to myself, you little bitch, you have no respect at all for the dead.
I dare not imagine anything.
"Not alert at all..."
He hasn't finished speaking yet.
Suddenly, a sharp cry broke the silence.
Coincidentally, the step under Liu Shiqi's feet broke and she almost slipped.
Old man Zhong was startled and hurried to help her.
Liu Shiqi was agile and turned around and stood up on his own.
Old Man Zhong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she was fine.
See, daydreaming brings disaster...
He quickly shone the light towards the source of the sound.
I saw a huge black and red bat fluttering up from the bottom of the tiankeng.
When its wings were spread out, they were more than as wide as a person, and its blood-red eyes flashed an odd light in the darkness.
"Don't panic, it was just disturbed by us." Old Man Zhong comforted, but he held the lamp in his hand even tighter.
Liu Shiqi nodded and stood still.
Suddenly, the bat rushed straight towards Liu Shiqi.
Liu Shiqi was startled and was about to jump away.
Old man Zhong was also covered in cold sweat.
As a result, just when the bat was about to get close to Liu Shiqi, it seemed to be blocked by something.
He actually screamed and fell in front of Liu Shiqi.
Then he disappeared.
Liu Shiqi and Old Man Zhong were both confused.
Liu Shiqi asked Old Man Zhong, "What's going on?"
Old man Zhong was also puzzled.
"Don't know? I guess! Is there something wrong with his brain?"
Liu Shiqi looked at him speechlessly.
Old man Zhong touched his nose and said, "Let's go, let's go!"
"It's all your fault for imagining things!"
Liu Shiqi...
"You know what I'm thinking?"
Old man Zhong shut up.
The two continued to walk down.
The white shadow continued to follow them like a wisp of smoke.
They didn't know how long they had been walking.
Until a huge black stone door appeared in front of him.
Only then did Old Man Zhong let out a long sigh of relief.
“We’re finally here!”
Liu Shiqi, look at this door!
Then he looked at the sinkhole which seemed to have no bottom yet, and the steps leading down further.
"Then we don't have to go any further!"
She looked into the depths of the sinkhole and frowned.
She always felt that there was something deep down, as if attracting her down.
Old Man Zhong also took a look under the tiankeng.
I thought, if Zhuang Yan really fell down, he would definitely not survive.
It's too late for them to go there now.
So, it’s all the same if you can’t go down.
The most important thing is that he has never gone down to the bottom of the sinkhole.
His grandfather once told him that there was no end to the underground of the tiankeng...
Old man Zhong pursed his lips and thought.
What if Zhuang Yan is a lucky person with good fortune?
He didn't fall down, but came into the imperial tomb.
Although this possibility is only one in ten thousand.
Old man Zhong shook his head and said.
"I don't want to go!"
"Let's go into the imperial mausoleum and take a look!"
Old Man Zhong said this and went forward to push the door.
Seeing him like this, Liu Shiqi could only rush over to help.
This door is not very big, just like the gate of an ordinary mansion.
But it's made of stone and very heavy.
It took them a lot of effort to push open the gap that was just big enough for one person to pass through.
Old Man Zhong was in front and Liu Shiqi followed behind. The two of them entered the stone gate together.
After the light gradually faded away, the white shadow appeared at the door again.
After standing there for a long time, Bai Ying suddenly jumped into the sinkhole.
Liu Shiqi suddenly turned around as if he sensed something.
He looked outside through the crack in the stone door.
But it was pitch black outside and there was nothing there.
Old Man Zhong turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Liu Shiqi frowned.
"I feel like there are other people here..."
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