Her heart was pounding.
"This is the truth. This is the truth. The old man and Master really didn't kill the Shangguan family, because they didn't die at that time."
Li Yunting was also shocked.
But for a moment, he didn't listen to Jiang Ciyou's words.
"What do you mean?"
"Isn't it obvious? The thirty-seven mummies here are the Shangguan family's."
Shangguan Qinghuan seemed to have finally reacted.
His expression turned cold and hard, a completely different person from his previous calm demeanor. "Impossible, absolutely impossible."
"If, as you say, these mummies are from a tomb-robbing group, then how come there are so many children's bodies?"
Shangguan Qinghuan's body began to tremble.
He stepped back step by step: "Impossible! If you dare to insult our Shangguan family again, I will make sure you die right now."
Jiang Ci was worried but not afraid.
"Have you ever considered this? Whether it's newspaper records or your own memories, your Shangguan family had 38 members. And the fire that wiped out the Shangguan family also found 38 bodies. So, who are you? Since you're still alive, shouldn't 37 people have died?"
Shangguan Qinghuan had naturally thought about this problem, but as he was still a child, he did not think about it carefully. It was not surprising that the fire accidentally killed one more person.
At the beginning, he was playing hide-and-seek with his mother, but he fell asleep hiding in the rockery.
When I woke up, I found myself in the crack of the rockery.
I saw countless corpses lying in the yard, all of them burning with flames.
In the end, they all turned into charcoal.
Jiang Ciyou unraveled the mystery bit by bit, and the ideas in his mind became clearer and clearer.
"Perhaps it wasn't the other three families who wanted to embezzle the treasure, but rather your Shangguan family, after obtaining the treasure map, didn't intend to share it with the other families. That's why you fabricated a scheme to wipe out the entire family and completely wipe out the Shangguan family and the treasure map from this world."
"Those thirty-eight people who died were likely the Shangguan family's carefully selected replacements. Li Yunting, you said the villa on Gongji Mountain was once the Shangguan family's old residence. Have you ever wondered why there was a water dungeon there? It must have been used to hold these replacements, ready to be used as scapegoats when needed."
"Also, there's actually a secret passage in the water dungeon. It opens when a certain amount of pressure is applied. I'm afraid you haven't discovered it yet. Master, Ash, and I all escaped through that passage. Do you know where the exit is?"
Jiang Ciyou said, "It's in the abandoned well near the foot of Chanxin Temple."
Countless images have formed in Jiang Ciyou's mind.
"Isn't this obvious? The Shangguan family faked their own death and used thirty-eight scapegoats. This could be a deliberate and elaborate scheme to deceive everyone."
"The assassins who came to kill the Shangguan family were probably arranged by the Shangguan family themselves, so that they could shift the blame to the other three families. As for why those people died before the assassins arrived, I guess it must be that the substitutes resisted. So it is very likely that those 38 people were killed by your Shangguan family, and then burned to destroy the bodies and mislead others."
These are Jiang Ciyou’s guesses.
In fact, Jiang Ciyou couldn't be completely sure.
But now, she just wants to shift the responsibility away from the four major families and her master.
But what is the truth? Who hired the killer organization?
I'm afraid this secret will never be known.
"That's absolutely not the case." Shangguan Qinghuan simply refused to believe it.
Jiang Ciyou continued to speculate: "As for why you were left behind, perhaps they simply didn't find you when they planned. They couldn't have changed their plans just because of you, so you were abandoned by your tribe."
Jiang Ci began to criticize him: "Mr. Shangguan, the people of your clan you've missed your entire life, the people you've spent your entire life avenging, are the ones who actually abandoned you."
"Your life is pathetic. It's a complete joke."
"And your Shangguan family, with their evil intentions, saw wealth, but was also harmed by it, and ultimately all of you died tragically here."
Jiang Ciyou didn't know what happened that year.
Shangguan Jiaqi did not collect all the tokens, but was able to open the door to the treasure house.
Why were they all trapped here after opening the door and eventually died tragically?
What exactly happened here is unknown.
Perhaps they had another way to open the treasure house, but in the end they all paid the price with their lives.
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