Chapter 10: The Hidden Tomb
"Isn't it strange that such a large underground palace was built just to hide treasures? My gut tells me it's most likely a mausoleum. "Li Chu is knocking here and there and searching carefully, maybe there is a hidden mechanism somewhere.
In the past, Li Chu liked to read tomb robbery novels such as "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", so Li Chu is very excited now, and even wonders if he will encounter "zongzi" or something.
"Well, it's a mausoleum indeed." Looking at Li Chu, who was inexplicably excited, Yun Mo chuckled, "Song Yu of Molong Kingdom." β
I didn't expect it to be a mausoleum, but the group of people tossed for so long before, almost the entire underground palace was rummaged, but they didn't find the tomb, and it was really hidden deep enough. However, no matter how deep I hide, I have to find it out, Li Chu is full of energy.
"Hey, what are you looking for?" Xia Ziheng, who finally caught up, looked at Li Chu, who seemed to be looking for something with great interest, and asked curiously.
"Find a coffin, come and help." Li Chu's tone was brisk.
"What? Coffin...... Coffin? Xia Ziheng suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing on his back.
Chu Jue understood, and sneered at Xia Ziheng, coward! Putting away the fan, he began to look at the glittering room.
Several people looked for a while, but to no avail, Li Chu sat at the table a little dejected, "Is it really not here?" By the way, who is Song Yu? β
Yun Mo pondered for a moment, "Molong Kingdom is a big country thousands of years ago, among them there is a king with a different surname, Song Yu, this person is a martial arts strategy, a military general, because of his outstanding military merits, he was named a king with a different surname, his business methods are even more first-class, he was the richest man in the world at that time, but he disappeared not long after being sealed, and Song Yu disappeared soon after the Molong Kingdom perished, and there is not much record of this person in the history books. β
For Song Yu, there are many legends handed down by the folk, in addition to the pitiful records in the history books, there are several versions of Song Yu's sudden disappearance.
Some say that at that time, Song Yu was jealous of the royal family because of his high merits, and he was secretly executed. Some say that Song Yu was tired of this kind of life, so he scattered his family wealth and took his family to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests. What's more, it is said that Song Yu has cultivated to become an immortal.
However, it is said that soon after Song Yu's disappearance, chaos began within the Molong Kingdom, and it did not take long for it to perish. Later generations can't help but speculate that the demise of the Molong Kingdom must be inseparable from Song Yu. In short, Song Yu is quite a legendary figure.
"Is this really Song Yu's mausoleum? Is this burial chamber also deeply hidden, or is it not here at all? β
"Perhaps."
Yun Mo was not interested in Song Yu, it was a coincidence that he found this underground palace, although the battle five years ago was a draw with the three major sects, he was also seriously injured. Later, he was chased and killed by a group of mysterious people and entered the forest of no return, and it was at that time that Yun Mo met Chu Jue, who was trained in the forest, and Chu Jue could be regarded as helping himself and getting rid of the pursuit. But it was also because of Chu Jue that he accidentally fell into the cave, so he discovered the existence of the underground palace and found the treasure by mistake.
Xia Ziheng sat on the chair and picked up the book on the table, "What is this?" The next moment he froze, and the book, shattered, fell from his hand piece by piece.
Li Chu, Yun Mo, and Chu Jue all looked at him silently.
"Uh, me, I didn't mean to." Xia Ziheng's voice became smaller and smaller in the eyes of the three of them, "Who knew it was so fragile." β
Li Chu laughed out loud, seeing that he scared the second junior brother, he rarely kindly helped him, "Okay, it's not an important thing." β
Xia Ziheng patted the frightened little heart and looked at Li Chu gratefully, "That's good, it scares me to death." β
"Huh," Li Chu stared at the table, looking at the place where the book had been placed before, where there was a faint golden ring.
Li Chu blew hard, blowing away the dust in that place.
"Ahem", Xia Ziheng, who was sitting opposite her, was unlucky, and suddenly became disgraced. was about to glare at the culprit, but when he met the warning gaze of his senior brother, Xia Ziheng was stunned, lowered his head and silently wiped his face with his sleeve.
Li Chu studied the circle with a large and slightly concave cup mouth, and found that it could be rotated, and there was no movement after turning back and forth a few times, is there any law?
At this time, Yun Mo said lightly, "Water." β
Li Chu felt that it made sense, otherwise how could he have sunken down, "Do you have any alcohol or anything on you?" β
The three big men shook their heads, and Xia Ziheng silently took out a small porcelain bottle, "Is the potion okay?" β
Not sure, but give it a try.
Li Chu poured the potion down, but he didn't expect a word to gradually appear in the circle, and the handwriting slowly became clearer, it was the word "raccoon".
Li Chu was puzzled, "Raccoon? What does that mean? Is it referring to foxes?
As soon as the words fell, suddenly there was movement on the ground, and before he could react, he was about to fall, and Li Chu secretly said that it was bad, and he was going to fall again. At the last moment, Yun Mo quickly pulled her to the side, away from danger.
Chu Jue's reaction was not slow, a flying body had already flashed to the side, and only Xia Ziheng, who reacted slowly, fell down firmly along with the chair.
Li Chu hugged Yun Mo tightly, his heart was still beating fast, it was terrifying.
"Alley?" Yun Mo called softly, it seemed to scare her.
Li Chu came back to his senses, only to realize that he was still holding Yun Mo, his face was slightly hot, he coughed lightly, and pretended to push him away as if nothing happened. Looking at the place where the four of them were sitting just now, the floor around the table disappeared, and the chairs naturally fell down.
At this time, Xia Ziheng crawled out in embarrassment, why was it himself who was unlucky every time, looking at the three people who had no conscience with resentment, and he didn't know how to pull himself.
Looking at Xia Ziheng's disgraced face, Chu Jue gloated and laughed at him, "Haha, you deserve it, who made you react so slowly." β
Li Chu didn't laugh at him, because she was now thinking about what was underneath, "What's down there?" β
Xia Ziheng patted the dust on his clothes and replied honestly, "It's too dark to see anything." β
Li Chu took a candle from the wall and gave it to him, "Here, let's go down and have a look." β
Xia Ziheng took the candlestick indifferently, because he didn't take it well, a drop of wax oil dropped on his hand, Xia Ziheng exclaimed, only then did he react, how could he bully me, and was about to refute, when he suddenly glanced at his senior brother lightly. Forget it, a manly man can bend and stretch, and the so-called heaven is a great responsibility, and it will be painful...... Chu Jue kicked him down, "Go down, don't delay my meal." β
Fortunately, it was not deep below, Xia Ziheng turned over and stood firmly, and his hand subconsciously protected the candle flame. "Surnamed Chu, don't think I can't do anything to you."
Chu Jue looked at him condescendingly, his expression was very unbeatable, "Then come, I'll wait." β
Xia Ziheng choked, looked at his senior brother with a sad face, what should he do if he couldn't beat him, and asked for support.
Yun Mo ignored him, wrapped his arms around Li Chu's waist and jumped down with her in his arms, followed by Chu Jue.
Li Chuyi snatched the candle flame from Xia Ziheng's hand and began to look around, Yun Mo was afraid that she was in danger, so he followed her to protect her.
Chu Jue poked Xia Ziheng with a fan, "Where did this girl come from, haven't you seen her before?" β
Looking at Yun Mo's appearance towards her baby, this girl is not simple.
Xia Ziheng replied to him angrily, "How do I know." β
Over there, Li Chu quickly found the mechanism, and pressed it without even thinking about it, because she was so excited now that she forgot that there was such a thing as a hidden weapon and a trap.
However, even if there is danger, Yun Mo will not let her be harmed.
Suddenly, with a "click", the floor under her feet opened, and Li Chu began to fall down, but fortunately, Yun Mo wrapped around her waist in the next moment, and performed light skills to take her down gently.
Li Chu glanced at Yun Mo gratefully, fortunately he was by his side, "Thank you." β
It's just that the people who built this place are too much, how can they keep falling down, if they are alone, I am afraid that they will fall to their deaths here.
Yun Mo let go of her and chuckled, "It's all a family, you're welcome." β
Senior brother, what about the good coldness? Li Chu's face was slightly hot, and he didn't pay attention to him anymore, looking around, and he was stunned when he saw it. It looks like a large hall, with rows of night pearls embedded in the walls, and the contents are clearly recognizable, and two rows of stone statues are neatly arranged on both sides, each holding a spear in his hand, carved vividly.
This should be the tomb, Li Chu looked at the suspected coffin on the stone platform in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh, this Song Yu is really a local tyrant, so many night pearls, as if he didn't want money.
At this time, Chu Jue and Xia Ziheng also came down, and they couldn't help but be surprised when they saw this scene.
The four of them walked along the stone statue, Li Chu was vigilant, these stone figures will not move suddenly, well, this is how TV dramas are played.
It wasn't until he walked smoothly to the front hall that Li Chu wiped the sweat that didn't exist, cough, I really watched too many TV series.
There are several steps ahead, and above it is a stone platform, on which the coffin is located. It was a jade coffin, and the outline of it could be faintly seen.
Walking up the steps, the four of them circled around the coffin, observing the jade coffin, well, don't ask them why they are spinning in circles, because they are following Li Chu. As for Li Chu's thoughts, well, don't act rashly, judging from my years of experience in watching TV series and novels, there must be fraud here!
"Tsk, this is a thousand-year-old ice jade." Chu Jue sighed lightly, this Song Yu is not simple, the emperor can't use this thing yet, he actually used such a good thing to make a coffin? It's a terrible thing.
"Millennial Ice Jade? What is it? "It's the first time I've heard of it, and it seems to be very tall.
Chu Jue put the fan away, "Good thing, it is said that sitting on it and practicing can increase your strength, wearing it on your body can be intoxicated, and the corpse can be placed in it to keep it from decaying for thousands of years." β
"So amazing?" Li Chu suddenly felt itchy and thought about the possibility of moving back, but this thing is not very lucky, so forget it.
After a few turns, Li Chu suddenly stopped, and Yun Mo stood still beside her. And Xia Ziheng didn't expect the person in front of him to stop, didn't brake, and crashed into Chu Jue.
Chu Jue pushed him away in disgust, Xia Ziheng already felt hairy in this gloomy hall, and he didn't stand firm under Chu Jue's push, and lay on top of the jade coffin, under his impact, there was a click, and the lid on the top opened a little, Xia Ziheng was startled, and quickly straightened it, muttering in his mouth, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, don't come to me." β
Chu Jue slapped him with a fan, "Izumi, is it so terrible?" β
Xia Ziheng covered his head, gritted his teeth and glared at him viciously.
"Is he wearing a golden jade robe?" Although the coffin was only opened a little, Li Chu still saw it with sharp eyes.
"Hey, you know the golden jade clothes? That's a good thing, why don't you open it and take a look? Chu Jue was eager to try, put the fan on his waist, rubbed his hands and prepared to do a big job.
Li Chu hurriedly waved his hand, "Forget it, don't disturb his old man." β
Although Li Chu is very interested in tomb robbing, he is not interested in thousand-year-old corpses at all, what if he becomes a refinement, so when he really faces it, he is still cowardly, so let's look at something else.
"Really don't look at it? Maybe there's something good going in there. Chu Jue tried to tempt her.
Li Chu shook her head, it was unlucky to have good things to use, she was still very resistant to the contents of the coffin.
"Yes, my sister-in-law is right, let's not disturb his old man." Xia Ziheng hurriedly echoed Li Chu.
Sister-in-law? Yun Mo glanced at him appreciatively, it seemed that the junior brother was not too stupid, and he still had some eyesight.
Li Chu glanced at him lightly, "Huh? Who is your sister-in-law? β
Xia Ziheng was startled, and begged his senior brother for help under Li Chu's oppressive gaze, senior brother, help me!
Yun Mo coughed lightly, turned his head and pretended not to see it.
"Humph!" Li Chu snorted lightly, glanced at the serious Yun Mo, and turned his head to study the other things in the main hall.
Chu Jue, who was watching the excitement from the side: This is the end? Alas, it's really boring, I thought I could fight.
The four of them studied the hall carefully, this hall seems to be an ordinary hall, there are no gold and silver treasures to accompany the burial, there is no person to accompany the burial, and there is no danger, it is just some ordinary things, Li Chu guessed that these should be the things used by Song Yu during his lifetime.
Li Chu was a little disappointed, this tomb was too ordinary, uh, except for the unusual coffin and the night pearl, of course. There is no danger at all, it's not like what I imagined. Li Chu rummaged through the things on the table and found a piece of parchment, which was full of some kind of writing, uh, I couldn't read it.
"Come and see what's written on it."
Xia Ziheng shook his head, what is it?
Li Chu looked at Chu Jue, and Chu Jue spread his hands, indicating that he could not do anything. Li Chu had no choice but to pin his hopes on Yun Mo.
"This seems to be the text in the Mysterious Soul Realm." Yun Mo really lived up to expectations.
"What's written on that?" Li Chu looked at him with hope.
Yun Mo shook his head, "I only saw this kind of writing when I was a child, and I only recognized a few of the words, Qianqian, Yue, Su." β
ββ¦β¦ So what is this mysterious spirit secret realm? β
"Legend has it that the aura in this secret realm is rich and can be cultivated into immortals. However, the secret realm disappeared thousands of years ago. β
But why did this text appear in Song Yu's mausoleum a thousand years ago, and who is this Song Yu?
In the end, the four of them silently returned to the upper room, because they found no other way out, so they had to go back the way they came.
"It's resplendent here, but it's so shabby down there, it's not reasonable at all, okay?" I don't know what Song Yu thinks, Li Chu muttered quietly, and suddenly smiled at Yun Mo, "Forget it, no matter, Yun Mo, let's go out first." "Uh, hungry.
Yun Mo also smiled back at her, "Okay." "That look, how gentle and gentle.
Chu Jue was stunned, these two people are showing affection?
When they went out, the water on the table dried, and with a "click", the mechanism was back to its original state, uh, a few chairs missing, and it looked weird.
No one knew that after they left the underground palace, the jade coffin in the burial chamber was opened.
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The group returned to the town, and at this time, Li Chu, Yun Mo, Xia Ziheng, and Chu Jue occupied one side of each side of the square table, no one spoke, and a strange atmosphere spread.
Xia Ziheng looked at the senior brother who was looking at the girl who appeared inexplicably gently, and then at the girl who was staring at the senior brother, and finally couldn't help it, "Senior brother, who is this?" β
"I'm right here, why don't you ask me?" Li Chu withdrew his gaze from Yun Mo's face and said dissatisfiedly, "I'm your senior sister." β
"Teacher, senior sister?" Xia Ziheng asked his senior brother for confirmation, why did he come to another senior sister.
"Hmm." Yun Mo nodded lightly.
"Good junior brother, call senior sister to listen." Li Chu's voice was smug.
Xia Ziheng is too aggrieved, not long ago, there was a little brother, and now there is another senior sister, senior brother, are you deliberately fixing me? You're really not my own brother.
"Li Chu, my fiancΓ©e." Yun Mo thought about it and still wanted to declare his ownership, so as not to have a long eye on Ah Li, he glanced at Chu Jue like a warning, that guy kept staring at Ah Li, damn it.
Chu Jue was a little aggrieved, he just looked familiar, and he just looked at it a few more times.
"What fiancΓ©e, I didn't say yes." Li Chu retorted, inexplicably what happened to the sudden addition of a fiancΓ©.
"There is a family token, and my mother-in-law agreed." Yun Mo was very calm.
Li Chu twitched, but he still didn't bother with this goods, and ate violently.
"Ah Li eat slowly, no one will grab it." Yun Mo smiled faintly.
Li Chu choked, "Ahem." "Glared at Yun Mo resentfully, Senior Brother, your cold personality has collapsed.
Suddenly, Xia Ziheng slapped the table, "Ah, by the way, the little senior brother hasn't found it yet." "Why did you forget him, Xia Ziheng patted his head, "Senior brother, I'll continue to look for it?" β
"No need to look for it." Yun Mo looked at Li Chu with a smile.
Xia Ziheng looked at his senior brother in surprise, could it be that the senior brother likes the new and hates the old, and wants to abandon Xiao Chuli?
"Ahem, Senior Brother Xia, am I not here?"
"What?" Xia Ziheng couldn't react in a daze.
Chu Jue, who was watching the excitement on the side, understood, it turned out that she was a little Lili, no wonder she looked familiar, but she suddenly grew up. No wonder Yun Mo is very strange, he likes children and women.
"I mean I'm Chu Li, and my real name is Li Chu." This thing is too slow to react, I have to say it so clearly.
Xia Ziheng stood up suddenly, "How, how is it possible?!" β