Chapter Forty-Eight: The Stone Tablet

Cut, it's just a sitting skeleton, and it's so mysterious.

Aside from the skull, the inner chamber was empty, and I was a little disappointed.

I walked around the wall again, and there didn't seem to be any other secret door.

It's just a broken bone, so much so that Fan Lian is so nervous?

I walked over to the skeleton with a stomach full of questions.

The bones of the three hundred and sixty-five joints were well preserved, with no missing or broken bones.

The pelvis is thick, wide and narrow, and the pubic symphysis is high, and the initial judgment should be male.

Looking at the bone age, it should be around twenty years old when you die.

The bone color deepens and turns black-gray, which should be caused by chronic poisoning, but ordinary poisons do not change the bone color, and only the bones of people who have been taking lead pills for a long time will become this color after death.

It takes about two to three years for a person's body to become completely ossified after death, indicating that the person has been dead for at least one year.

The clothes on the skeleton have been weathered, but judging from the fragments, the material is high-grade, and gold threads are sewn, so this person's identity should be either rich or expensive.

There are only a few kinds of prisoners who are locked up in the Zongren Mansion, either they are traitors and evildoers, or relatives of the emperor and the country, and then there are spies of other countries.

The only person who can be locked up in a secret prison and enjoy special treatment is the royal family, and the level of the relatives is not enough for such a big battle.

The bones of the two hands of the skeleton also held a sandalwood box, which did not have any decorations or patterns, and looked very ordinary.

I don't know what is inside, this person is carefully protected in his hands when he is dying.

I was about to reach out and pick up the box when a voice stopped me abruptly, "Don't touch it!" ”

I was startled and hurriedly turned my head to check, but not a single ghost, let alone a person.

"I'm at the girl's feet."

I quickly lifted my foot and looked at it.

Hey? Nothing.

"The other foot."

Oh.

I lifted my other foot.

Still nothing.

I lay on the ground and searched carefully.

I looked at the cracks in the bluestone slabs, and there wasn't even an ant.

"Ask the girl to turn the soles of her shoes over and take a look."

I sat down on the floor as I was told, then took off my shoes and turned the soles of them upside down.

There's a cockroach stuck to it.

I carefully pinched the cockroach's foot and brought him to my eyes to take a closer look.

The little cockroach spun around in my hand, then stopped, its wings flapped twice, and it broke free from my hand.

The cockroach fell lightly to the ground, and actually stood up on its two hind legs and made a gesture to me, "Xiao Zhang has seen Uncle Shi." ”

It is really rare for cockroaches to become refined, and this Taoist friend can be regarded as a wonderful flower in the world of cultivating immortals.

I respectfully asked, "Why do you call me Senior Uncle?" ”

"My master's immortal number is big."

It turned out to be Dabo's apprentice? Dabo can even accept apprentices!

"Master asked me to save my uncle."

"How did you find me?"

"My second cousin has lived here for a long time, and is very familiar with this place, it was it that led me here, and I have been following my uncle since I came, but I have never found a chance to talk to you."

Oh, there are many relatives in the cockroach family, and it is indeed not difficult to find one.

"Why did you tell me not to touch that wooden box?"

"I have a very good relationship with my cousin, she told me about this secret prison before, that box is very evil, Uncle Shi had better not touch it."

I immediately became interested, "Then do you know who this skeleton was when he died?" ”

Xiao Zhang nodded, "This person's name is Li Qiao, who was originally the eldest prince of Kang Jingguo and the elder brother of the current emperor of Kang Jingguo." ”

I was surprised, "Since you are the prince, why are you locked up here?" ”

Xiao Zhang sat cross-legged, stroked the long beard on his head with his front paws and said: "This matter is a long story, the old emperor of Kangjing gave birth to a total of three sons, the eldest prince Li Qiao, the second prince Li Wu, the third prince Li Tong, the old emperor wrote an edict before he died, and passed the throne to the second prince Li Wu, but in order to control the power of the dynasty, Su Yi hid the edict privately, and then assisted Li Wu, who was still in infancy, to ascend the throne. For the second prince, Li Yi was murderous, although the second prince was only two or three years old at the time, as for whether the second prince was dead or not, there was everything in the market. ”

People in the world are greedy for longevity, but they are unwilling to cultivate their self-cultivation and cultivate their nature, and they blindly believe in pills, but they don't know that the pills made by mortals contain lead and mercury, which is harmful to people and has no benefit, and the elixir that can really benefit longevity and peiyuan is made by immortals using spiritual power in the immortal magic weapon, and an ordinary elixir needs to consume at least a hundred years of spiritual power of immortals, so those mortals who use broken copper and iron drums to make out are not elixirs at all, but chronic poisons.

I guess the wooden box in Li Qiao's hand should be the elixir he refined, what does the baby look like, what evil can that broken thing have?

Thinking so, I took the wooden box from Li Qiao's hand nonchalantly, and just as I was about to open it, Xiao Zhang screamed and got into the crack.

I complained in my heart that Xiao Zhang was making a fuss, and my hand had already opened the lock on the wooden box.

It was not an elixir, but a necklace, and it was not a precious material, the chain was made of silver, which had been blackened, and the pendant was a stone plaque with some strange words engraved on it, which looked like a ghost text.

When I practiced in Mangdang Mountain, the language and literature of the Three Realms and the Code of the Three Realms were both introductory courses, and they were the basic knowledge that every Taoist who was beginning to have spiritual consciousness must learn.

If you haven't learned these things, you will be looked down upon by your fellow practitioners in the future, if you are illiterate, if you are legally illiterate, it will be over, and if you accidentally violate the Three Realms Code, it is not a joke, and then you won't know how your life will be gone.

But the ghost text written on this stone tablet is not a popular way of writing for the ghost clan.,It should belong to the ancient ghost text.,This is a bit profound.,I really can't understand what is written on it.。

The stone tablet is not big, it just holds it in the palm of my hand, and I play with it in my hand, but I really don't understand what is so unique about this thing.

My fingers rubbed the words on it, and it felt like it was supposed to be a magic weapon.

Even if it is a magic weapon, it will not be a high-level magic weapon, because high-level magic weapons cannot be made into jewelry, and most magic weapons such as necklaces are flashy, at most they are used to eliminate disasters or... Illuminating?

Dabo once made a necklace for lighting, and after reciting the spell, the necklace would glow, and she even used it to show off to me.

I was a little excited, and was about to put the necklace back, when suddenly a puff of black smoke diffused from the words of the stone tablet, and I was surprised and wanted to throw it away, but the black smoke turned into a wisp of rope and wrapped around my hand, no matter how I shook it, I couldn't shake it off.

I quickly shouted for help, "Xiao Zhang! Xiao Zhang! Help me! ”

Xiao Zhang's voice came from the roof of the shed, "Throw it away!" Throw it away! ”

I yelled angrily, "If I could lose it, I would have lost it, and I still need to say it!" Don't you see this smoke on my hands! ”

Xiao Zhang lamented, "I told you not to touch it, but you didn't listen to me." ”

The black smoke was already wrapped around my waist along my arm, "Xiao Zhang, you should think of a way!" ”

Xiao Zhang replied: "Now I have nothing to do, I can only go back and ask the master, please ask me to see, if the living uncle can't get it back, can the dead uncle pay the errand." ”

The black smoke wrapped all the way up around my neck, and I couldn't speak, and Xiao Zhang didn't move.

I was in a hurry, and the black smoke was like a big snake, wrapping around me tighter and tighter, as if it was going to strangle me to death.

When I was desperate for survival, Fan Lian woke up at some point, saw me like this, hurriedly ran to my side and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you?" ”

I couldn't speak, so I could only use my eyes to signal him to help me remove the stone tablet from my hand.

But he didn't understand what I meant, and he couldn't see the black smoke on me.

He muttered to himself, "They say you are sick, but I don't believe you, but it seems that you are not lightly ill." ”

Why are you sick!

My legs were kicking wildly, my face was bruised, but Fan Lian didn't know what to do when he saw that he was in a hurry, and then he simply pinched my middle with his hand, pressed my temples, and when he saw that I still had no complexion, he smashed my chest with his fist.

I'm really dumb and eat Coptis chinensis, I can't say what I suffer, wait a while, I didn't get strangled to death by this black smoke, and I was beaten to death by Fan Lian first.

"Hey, what is this?"

Thankfully, Fan Lian, a fool, finally found the stone tablet in my hand.

I blinked at him desperately with the last of my strength.

"Can't move?"

Forget it, I'm still dead.

I hung my head in despair, disheartened and ready to die.

"You want me to take it down for you?"

I jerked my head up and blinked hard.

I didn't have much hope, but I just thought that the dead horse was a live horse doctor, and I wanted Fan Lian to try it, but I didn't expect that as soon as Fan Lian's hand touched the stone plaque, the black smoke disappeared in a flash.

As soon as my body loosened, I immediately sat up from the ground and threw the stone tablet out of my hand.

Fan Lian asked hesitantly, "Are you okay?" ”

I exhaled and replied, "If Master Fan is stupid, I will die." ”

"Are you complimenting me?"

I wanted to scold you, but I didn't dare.

"Master Fan is witty, I'm naturally praising you."

"What just happened?"

"I can't explain it either, but it has something to do with the stone."

Fan Lian got up and walked over to the stone, bent down and picked it up.

I subconsciously took two steps back.

Nothing happened, and the stone plaque was surprisingly well-behaved in Fan Lian's hands.

Fan Lian walked towards me with the stone plaque, he took a step, I took a step back, until Fan Lian glared at me fiercely, I didn't dare to retreat anymore.

"Where did you get this stone tablet?"

"That's... You fainted suddenly, I was in a hurry, I thought about coming here to see if there was anything that could help you treat the wound, and then I didn't know what was going on, the stone tablet jumped out of the box that the bone was holding in his hand, and as soon as I took it, a puff of black smoke appeared, and it choked my neck. ”

Fan Lian frowned and stared at me, and asked threateningly, "You'd better be honest, did it really jump out on its own?" ”

I was forced to ask by Fan Lian in a panic, and said incoherently: "I didn't move, I didn't move, I really didn't move the bones of your eldest prince..."