Chapter 829 The Truth - The Tyrant
Clearly, apart from these poisonous jewels, there were no other substantial valuables in this tomb.
Upon hearing this, all three of them couldn't help but look at the boxes.
"Could this be a fake tomb?" Xu Yunzhi couldn't help but ask.
"No, if it were a fake tomb, the tomb owner wouldn't have gone to so much trouble to put so many jewels in it and sprinkle such a deadly poison on it."
Yun Yichen looked at the old man as he spoke, "Moreover, the things that can drive him so crazy must be of much greater value than these jewels."
At this moment, the old man was not paying attention to what the others were saying. His gaze was fixed on the two coffins, as if he was thinking about what to do next.
What exactly do you want to do?
Emperor Wei stood not far from the old man, looking at him with utter incomprehension.
The old man had no time to pay attention to Emperor Wei, but instead beckoned to Mu Fan, "Come on, help me move the coffin."
The old man directed Mu Fan, and the two of them, one at each end, moved the two coffins with some difficulty.
"The coffin must be a mechanism."
Seeing how much effort the two of them were putting in, Gu Shuyan made a guess.
Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, another violent thud came from the ground, and a stone door slowly opened on the wall in front of the coffin.
"Good heavens, this is another illusion. When will this ever end?"
Xu Yunzhi was speechless. This was just a tomb. Why not just put less stuff in there? Why go to all this trouble to design so many traps to keep out tomb raiders?
The group entered the next secret room within a secret room. This secret room was very strange. The furnishings resembled someone's boudoir, with screens, tables, chairs, and shelves. The shelves even had many valuable bottles and paintings on them.
Yun Yichen picked up a piece at random, and it turned out to be a work by a master from the previous dynasty.
"My husband!"
Gu Shuyan was startled when she realized that Yun Yichen dared to touch it.
"Don't worry, it's not poisonous."
Yun Yichen patted Gu Shuyan's head as he spoke, then put the items back on the shelf.
"Judging from the appearance, this tomb was built by a man for his beloved woman, and he also put their everyday belongings inside, probably so that he could live in their most comforting place after death."
"Where did you see the warmth in it?"
Xu Yunzhi also picked up the items and looked at them, but he didn't see the cozy atmosphere in the secret room. On the contrary, he had a creepy feeling.
"You're too young to understand yet, but once you're married, you'll understand what your elder brother means."
Gu Renjie looked like an old man, and Xu Yunzhi wanted to retort, but when he thought that Gu Renjie was about to become a father, he immediately shut his mouth.
Hmph, who wants to get married!
He inwardly scorned the two self-proclaimed elder brothers who were lecturing him, and when he turned around, the group had already walked behind the screen.
Behind the screen was a bed, fully furnished with all sorts of items. The only thing that gave people the creeps was the two black coffins in front of the bed.
This coffin looks somewhat different from the one above. It seems the old man entered first, so he had already opened the lid. Inside were two skeletons, presumably the true owners of this tomb.
"Impossible, why is the item missing?"
The old man searched the coffin thoroughly, but found nothing he wanted.
The Emperor Wei, seeing him angrily push the screen aside, asked again, "What exactly are you looking for?"
This time, the old man finally didn't ignore Emperor Wei. He turned around and looked at everyone. Seeing that everyone's faces were full of confusion, the old man actually turned around slowly, which was rare for him.
Have you ever heard of immortality?
The old man's words were like a thunderclap out of nowhere. He continued, "Legend has it that the last emperor of the previous dynasty sought nothing more than immortality. In order to achieve immortality, the emperor devoted the entire nation's resources to recruiting renowned physicians and Taoist priests, all in the hope of finding the method to achieve immortality."
The reason the previous dynasty perished was precisely because the king was obsessed with it, which eventually led to widespread public resentment. The head of the Lu family led his army to behead the king in the court, and only then did the current Great Zhou Dynasty come to be established.
"Throughout history, how many people have sought immortality, yet in the end, who has truly achieved it? A ruler who does not diligently govern for the people but instead indulges in such absurd talk is undoubtedly a foolish ruler."
Having lived a lifetime, Gu Shuyan, though a believer in gods, found the idea of immortality utterly laughable.
If these words had come from someone else, it wouldn't have mattered, but since they came from Gu Shuyan, the old man couldn't help but look at her. "Nonsense? But the person you see as a tyrant is actually your ancestor."
The old man stared intently at Gu Shuyan, as if trying to discern a particular expression on her face.
Unfortunately, Gu Shuyan was going to disappoint the old man in the end. She looked at him with her usual cold gaze and said, "So what if we are ancestors? Regardless of the fact that my Gu family has been living in the capital since the previous dynasty, even if, as you say, the last emperor of the previous dynasty was my ancestor, he did such a thing, so he shouldn't be afraid of being criticized behind his back."
Gu Shuyan was never someone who was easily morally blackmailed. In her view, pursuing immortality was the act of a tyrant, and so what if the other party was an ancestor? What needed to be said should be said.
The old man never expected Gu Shuyan to be like this. Seeing her staring at him like that, the old man felt a little embarrassed.
The old man coughed and stopped looking at him. "Anyone can talk big. I don't believe you don't want to live forever."
The old man originally wanted to tell them a good story, but given Gu Shuyan's attitude, he didn't want to say anything more.
"Mu Fan, look around and see if there are any other mechanisms."
Having prepared for this for so many years, how could the old man give up so easily?
From discovering gunpowder in the State of Jin to developing it into explosives and gradually improving the experiments, wasn't the ultimate goal to one day enter the tomb and revive Baiyun?
As everything was about to be completed, the old man grew increasingly anxious.
Mu Fan nodded upon hearing this and quickly began searching through the secret room, even checking the bookshelves. Unfortunately, the so-called mechanisms were nowhere to be found.
"My lord, are you sure there really is an elixir of immortality inside the tomb?"
For so many years, Mu Fan believed that the old man could save Princess Baiyun, so he betrayed the Wei royal family, betrayed everyone, and even personally handed the young master over to the old man.
Looking at the secret room where no trace could be found, Mu Fan began to have doubts about the old man for the first time.
"How could there possibly be an elixir of immortality in this world? Even if there were, why didn't those two take it knowing they were going to die?"
Xu Yunzhi found it hilarious; it turned out that the old man's biggest secret all these years was finding the elixir of immortality.
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