Chapter 51
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When the sound above also returned to silence, the king of Chu helped Xin Hui to stand up, but in the forbidden place of the deep palace, there was neither a candle flame nor a pathfinder in the hands of the two. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xin Hui had only been touching the ground for a long time, and only touched a piece of something that looked like a ring, which was probably torn off from the previous confrontation with Jing Wei, and she dragged it in her hand.
On the other side, the king of Chu got a stick out of nowhere, and he was already slowly moving forward on the ground.
"You follow me, don't move or touch the mechanism." He reminded softly.
Xin Hui nodded, followed closely behind him, because of the darkness, he couldn't see the situation clearly, many times he finally walked all the way, but the front was a dead end, but the king of Chu was not discouraged, he kept standing still, judging the position by the damp and cold wind direction, and then adjusted the way forward.
The further I went, the more pronounced the unpleasant smell became, mixed with the finest spices and *, and although diluted through the ventilation holes, it still made people dizzy.
She followed the steps of the King of Chu, and when he moved, she took a step, following her like a shadow, careful not to let her mistakes put the two in danger.
This time, when she walked to the very edge of the dungeon, even she felt the obvious wind.
As soon as her heart was relieved, her steps became brisk, and she followed the king of Chu, and the almost vague and illusory light that came in from nowhere fell into her eyes, and she was finally able to see some outlines clearly.
She saw a deeper passageway, and to the left and right of the heavy stone door in front of the passage was an old and large lampstand. Underneath the lampstand, shadows were piled up with countless stick-like things.
Finding a way out, Xin Hui couldn't help but smile and said, "I was still thinking, what if we can't find a way out?" ”
"Life and death are the same cave, and nature is born and died together."
"But I heard Mama Liu say, men are hungry, three women are hungry for seven, and a seventy-year-old grandmother is hungry for a month, I will definitely live longer than you, and when you die, what can I do if I am still alive?"
"That's not up to you, just eat me at that time, you should be able to last for half a month......"
"Your meat doesn't taste good."
"How do you know if you haven't eaten it?" His laughter paused, and he said, "But don't worry, I won't leave you alone at that time." ”
Won't leave her alone? What do you mean? Got her before she died?
Xin Hui didn't hear the imaginary answer, and was unwilling: "But I really wanted to live at that time, and I didn't want to die." ”
"Then I'll have to hold on to it." He stopped, tilting his head to look at the stone door.
There was a thin, almost inaudible sound that came slowly from all directions, and it was thin and soft, like water flowing through a channel, but it was much thicker than water.
Xin Hui had goosebumps on his back.
"Did you hear anything?"
King Chu nodded, but quickly remembered that she couldn't see his movements now, so she said again: "It should be from the Naluo Palace." ”
"What a thing?" She looked left and right.
"I don't know, it could be a snake, a worm, something."
"Huh?"
"Don't be afraid, the poison they raise is very toxic, as long as you take a bite, you can go fast."
…… Isn't that the point?
Xin Hui shivered, and wanted to turn sideways in front of the King of Chu, but as soon as she moved her feet, she stepped on a clump of grass next to her, and the unkempt weeds suddenly wrapped her feet, such a terrible and disgusting feeling as if there were countless earthworms crawling on her feet, she bared her teeth and grinned, and used the jade ring in her hand to pluck the weeds.
This touch seems to be more like ......
With a twitch in her brain, she actually stretched out her hand, and this hand touched two big black holes!
Where there is a weed, it is clearly a clump of hair, and where there is a hair, it is clearly a skull......
Xin Hui felt like she was going to cry.
With a thud, the skull fell to the ground, thudging and crunching, and the cascading sounds showed the horror of the darkness.
"Discovered?" King Chu sighed and reached out to stop her trembling arm.
"Don't be afraid, it's all dead." His comforting skills really need to be improved, "I don't know how many years I have been dead, and they are all servant girls who have never been used up in the previous funeral - well, there are also some escorts who have been killed." ”
"If you can't use it...... Xin Hui bit her tongue with her teeth, crying and laughing, "Don't waste it if you can't use it up......"
"But now that you know, it's fine." The King of Chu took out the fire fold from the soft armor, "Wait for me to light the lamp, if you are afraid, look at the sky, or you can close your eyes." ”
In the dim underground palace, for the first time in many years, the lights were lit.
Xin Hui looked at his toes, and as far as he could see, there were old floor tiles that could not be seen clearly, probably because of the geographical location, some places were faintly covered with damp water stains, and then outside were messy and dry bones of different shapes, some of which were dark red and some were gray.
On the other side, there was the slightly embarrassed hem of the King of Chu's clothes and the pathfinder stick he was holding in his hand.
Where is the stick, it is clearly a thigh bone......
It turned out that he had known for a long time, and he had only kept silent for the time being so as not to make her afraid.
But what is even more terrifying than this is that at this moment she can also see clearly that the source of the rustling sound, accompanied by the fishy smell that comes to her face, is a large number of snakes and insects with strange shapes.
It felt as if the two of them were the delicacies on the table, surrounded by the hosts who had set up their utensils and were waiting to eat.
But strangely, since the range of their fire was round, these snakes and insects were just outside and did not come closer.
"What the hell is this place...... After experiencing such a terrible scene, she calmed down strangely, this night, she didn't eat, she was deceived into coming to this place in a daze, and then she was taken advantage of by the disciple of Nadeng, what could be worse than this.
"You want that little Jizi to bring me here?" She suddenly remembered such an important matter, and looked around at the white bones left and right, "What kind of heart do you have?" ”
The king of Chu raised his head and just rested his head on the top of her head, and she shook it, but she didn't shake it off.
"Didn't you already know my thoughts? Zhen'er, since you returned to the Chu Palace, as you have seen, internal and external troubles, and tonight's night banquet must be extremely dangerous, my most elite secret guards and enemy assassins are doing the same thing in the name of each other in the palace. After tonight, the Chu Palace will uproot the old roots of the major wealthy families in the palace, at this time, it is better to indulge in vain, and the innocent will inevitably be connected, except here, there is probably no place to be safe. ”
There was a moment of silence.
"So, no one will have time to save us......" Xin Hui was a little desperate.
"Well, at least tonight."
"Are we going to die, then?"
"Possibly."
"You're not nervous at all."
"Nervousness doesn't help change either. Besides, with you, if you die, you will die. ”
"If, as Wu Anjun said, the old practice in the Chu Palace, killing the mother and establishing the son, if, I mean, if there really is such a day, what will you do......"
Even if the king of Chu in the past dynasties is as grand as the king of Chu Zi, he has not changed this ending, and in the traces of his parade, the female officials in the harem have jointly completed the disposal of the queen with the ancestral training of the Chu palace, and the one who did it himself is said to be the queen's aunt.
After that, the deeper the female officials in the palace are dormant, but the greater the power, in the harem, the major families are each constrained, from the concubine to the palace people, intertwined, and the real hidden deepest rotten root system is the female official who is almost not exposed.
"There won't be a day when you won't get pregnant, at least until I'm sure." King Chu straightened up, his keen gaze did not stop searching because of his words, "Since my mother's incident, since the day I returned to the palace, I have already made up my mind, and I will not allow others to leave my beak in my family's affairs." ”
Xin Hui hesitated for a moment, and asked seemingly casually, "What about the other women?" ”
King Chu's originally cautious face suddenly softened, he looked at her with a smile, and finally laughed, Xin Hui frowned, with a silly and unwilling face, and volatilized the sour taste that welled up in his heart and was wrapped in indifference.
His eyes followed Xin Hui's expression, and he inadvertently saw the jade ring in her hand.
In the faint light of the fire, she looked really embarrassed, her hair was disheveled, her clothes were torn, and her white face was stained.
There was a rumbling sound pouring out from the depths of the underground palace, and this time, even the King of Chu changed his face.
"They opened the Broken Dragon Stone - no wonder he chose this place, it turns out that he already knew it." The King of Chu muttered to himself in a low voice, and then thought of something, looked up, and in the rumbling sound, the entire hall seemed to be experiencing a huge vibration.
Xin Hui was supported by the King of Chu with one hand, and he also looked up.
The entire long corridor, the glimmer that was still shining from the oblique top has all disappeared, and the originally gloomy wind in the underground palace has stopped blowing, and the entire underground palace has become a new tomb isolated from the world.
And those poisonous snakes that were originally surrounded began to move around as if they had just woken up from a dream at this moment, but no matter how they moved, they absolutely avoided Xin Hui and the King of Chu.
"The person who controls the Gu is dead, and these Gu snakes are now ownerless, as long as they are tamed, they can belong to them." King Chu frowned, this is a large hidden force, but he didn't say much, but took Xin Hui's hand, went straight forward, and went straight to the previous stone gate.
"The underground palace, or the same cemetery, as long as the craftsman builds it, will leave an escape road. There are also many such roads in the Chu State Palace, and the Chu Palace is very strict, because it is built secretly, so it has been used for two purposes, and it has always been found in another way to be safer. ”
He explained that the door was pushed open from the outside to the inside, and most of these piled corpses retained the force and direction of the door from the inside out, just like a tree begging for a fish, and it was completely impossible to have a result.
With some effort, they moved the skeleton away, revealing a wide, eerie portal.
Xin Hui looked at the door, it was all made of huge stone bars, and now I don't know if it was because of the moving of the skeleton, the entire stone door was full of fine and dense damp and rancid smell, Xin Hui wrinkled his nose and carefully looked to see if there was any mechanism, what stone statues, doorknobs, or lampholders, or something, but there was nothing.
I don't know if it's their delusion, after experiencing the rumbling vibration, the entire hall seems to be falling apart, and those snakes and insects that have lost their control with Gu people are now like headless flies, scurrying around.
"Can you really pull it apart?"
"It's not my big words, (the next 100% big talk) I have been in the army for so many years, and there are not hundreds, but dozens of tombs in the Chu Palace, when did I make a mistake." The king of Chu was full of confidence.
As soon as he finished speaking, he really found a movable stone brick.
Xin Hui was overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the two of them used all their strength, and the stone moved bigger and bigger. King Chu looked at Xin Hui proudly, and she smiled back.
The next moment, all the stones were turned, and the stone gate burst open, and immediately after, the icy lake water poured in.
Xin Hui was slammed on the head by the stone gate, her head was bleeding, and she didn't faint at such a painful moment.
She saw the stunned face of the King of Chu being washed away by the water, and at this moment, ten thousand wild horses galloped past her heart.