Chapter 100: The Cat Killer
Unlike before, the current underground palace is brightly lit.
The road stretched downward, and all the traps on both sides were now naked in front of the three of them, and the messy traces scattered all over the place reminded them that someone had been here before.
The ground beneath his feet was densely packed with countless arrows, and there were so many that it was difficult to settle down.
The ornamentation on the ends of these arrows makes them look more like strange plants growing out of the ground. Born in the dark underground palace, it has been growing like this unknown wanton, silently waiting for the day when someone will find out.
But it's a good guide.
Tang Xiaobai and the three of them followed the distribution of arrows all the way in.
Since the other party has brought them here, they will never let them leave easily. It is better to follow the guidance of the other party directly, saving time and effort.
The more the three of them walked, they found that this underground palace was very large, among which there were many gardens and pavilions, which were not much better than the scale of the palace. It can even be said that this is the original copy of the palace underground.
The only difference from the palace is that there are no living creatures here, and there is a golden splendor everywhere.
There are golden flowers blooming in the flower bed, the petals are as thin as cicada wings, and the veins between the leaves are clearly visible.
The golden palace maid walking on the ground, her eyebrows and eyes were meticulous, and the corners of her clothes were fluttering, as if there was really a wind blowing at this moment.
A few golden sparrows on the eaves were fighting for a worm, blowing up their wings and their feathers standing upside down, and a fight was inevitable.
The three of them walked along the way, seeing many wonders in the underground palace, and the layout of each place was unique and unique, and they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
The horses raised in the horse pen, the firewood and dried herbs piled up outside the imperial dining room, the eunuchs holding the dust in their hands, the palace maids drying clothes outside the Huanyi Bureau, and the patrolling teams of royal forest soldiers...... Everything is lifelike, as if it were truly alive and will continue to live in this way.
It is hard to imagine how much manpower and material resources were spent behind the construction of such a large underground palace.
The three of them followed the arrow's guidance, and walked for about a stick of incense, passing through the ornate palaces in front of them, and the arrow led them all the way to a remote and inconspicuous courtyard.
Judging by the layout, it should be the dormitory of a low-level concubine in the harem, but I don't know why the other party brought them here.
Could it be that this concubine has something to do with the demon clan?
The three of them decided to disperse in the temple to look for clues.
"Here it is. Jing Yu, who was squatting under a golden tree, suddenly opened his mouth to call the other two.
There was a fur under the tree, which looked like a cat's.
The fur is in an air-dried state, and it should have been dead for a long time, but for some reason it was put in this underground palace.
"Check the identity of this concubine. Tang Xiaobai said.
Since it is related to cats, it cannot be a coincidence.
Hyun Gyu got up and looked around, but there were not many clues in the courtyard, so he simply pushed open the door of the dormitory.
A puff of dust hit his face, choking him on his feet.
Unlike the glittering beauty of the outside, the inside of the room was littered with old blood and ashes, and the entire interior was in tatters, and the parts of the tables and chairs fell to the ground, as if there had been a bloody battle here a long time ago.
Hyun Gyu stepped through the door and looked around the room, when his eyes suddenly met a bronze mirror in front of him, and in the bronze mirror there was another face besides him......
The face was standing right behind him.
Outside the house, Tang Xiaobai and Jing Yu only heard Hyun Gyu shouting at the top of his voice inside, "My day." ”
“... Why the hell is this woman put in such a strange position behind the door!" Hyun Gyu was furious, remembering that it was this golden crying face with a paradox that scared him so out of shape in front of people, and he became more and more angry.
"This woman ......" Tang Xiaobai looked at the familiar golden statue a little stunned, it seemed a bit like Zhao Yuejiu.
Although the age of the clothes is different from Zhao Yuejiu, it is not difficult to see that this person's face is extremely similar to Zhao Yuejiu.
"Look. ”
Jing Yu walked past the screen and looked at it, then withdrew, brushing it and completely pushing the screen of the room partition open - there were five dried corpses lying neatly on the ground behind the screen, and the same sentence was written all over the wall with blood: Cat killers must not die well.
The blood had dried up, taking on a dull black-red color, and the scene in front of him was still shocking enough to imagine what it was like when it happened.
Tang Xiaobai walked over to check the five corpses arranged on the ground, these corpses were old and young, all of them were women, the oldest was about fifty years old, and the youngest was about ten years old.
"These people didn't die on the same day. Tang Xiaobai judged, "There should be at least twenty years or more in between." ”
She frowned and checked that the first corpse should have been dead for at least two hundred years, and the last one twenty years ago.
What kind of person is it that will keep choosing to kill people here for a hundred years......
And what did the other party say when they brought them here?
She pondered in silence, always feeling as if she had missed some crucial detail.
Hyun Gyu was not interested in the corpse, took a look at it and walked away, at this time he was carefully observing the gold-plated man outside, and sighed, "This person is really strange, I look at the other gold people in the dungeon are all smiling, why is it crying?"
Crying......
Crying?
Zhao Yuejiu!
Tang Xiaobai suddenly remembered what the queen had said when she was in the palace.
A cat is an obsessive animal.
Whoever kills a cat will not die well for seven lifetimes.
Tang Xiaobai looked at the five dried corpses on the ground, turned around and walked back to the golden statue of Zhao Yuejiu behind the door.
As Hyun Gyu said, the figure was indeed crying, and its facial features were distorted, as if it had been frightened by something.
Tang Xiaobai asked Xuan Gui to stand farther away, pinched a trick in his hand, and directly punched a few ice cubes into it, and the portrait began to crawl full of cracks, and with a few soft noises, the gold leaf and soil were all peeled off in the next second, revealing a woman with red lips and white teeth inside.
The woman and Zhao Yuejiu were born the same, but the expression on her face was painful and desperate, and her mouth was wide open, as if she could scream in the next moment.
Her body quickly shriveled and grayed out after being contaminated with air, and then turned into a dried corpse.
Seven lives and seven lives... Six corpses... Tang Xiaobai sighed.
If you are not mistaken, Zhao Yuejiu in the palace should be the seventh person who is about to be killed.
“......”
Hyun Gyu looked at the corpse in front of him and scratched his head, "How do you know that there are corpses here?
Tang Xiaobai shook his head, "There should be only this one." ”
She briefly explained the general reason to the two of them, and was silent for a long time, "Let's go, Zhao Yuejiu should be just one of the links, and the other party must have more things to tell us." ”
The three of them walked out of the courtyard, but they were surprised to find that the arrow that had led them to the place had changed direction at this moment.
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