Chapter 022: The Concubine's Masterpiece Diary
Before I knew it, I had been living in the black prison for almost a week, and with Xin'er's company, I thought I had almost traveled through the entire black prison, but Xin'er told me that in the past week, she had used the night and day for an hour, while the zombies were dormant, and the area she took me through was only one percent of the black prison, and at that moment, I realized that the black prison was really big, so big that it was difficult for me to really understand it, let alone escape from it.
Xin'er lived in the black prison for two years, and with the help of Firefly, she didn't completely walk through the entire black prison cave, if Firefly didn't often fly in the air with Xin'er, or if she gave Xin'er ten years, she wouldn't know how big the black prison was.
So far, Xin'er can't say that she knows a lot about the Black Prison, and in Firefly'er's limited memory, Xin'er has only learned about the fifty-four Black Prisons under the Immortal Realm, which are actually fifty-four underground caves.
Each cave has its own small world, and each small world is guarded by an elf, these elves are not mature in thinking, they are some children with five or six years old minds, both men and women, living in these underground caves all year round.
The guardian spirit of Xin'er's cave is Firefly, and Firefly's body is a huge firefly, which can also turn into thousands of small fireflies when needed, and use these small fireflies to form various shapes in the air, and even imitate various forms and movements of people.
Whenever an outsider breaks into the black prison, Hotaru can quickly perceive that she will instinctively fly over, incarnate in various forms to confuse the other party, and then take advantage of the other party's inattention, quietly cast a spell to trap the other party in the pyramid, and every time she traps a person, Hotaru has to fly back to the wooden house to sleep for a week before waking up.
When I first entered the black prison before, the picture of the beautiful woman Fuqin I saw in the air was made by Firefly imitating Xin'er's usual life, and she trapped me in the pyramid, but what Firefly didn't expect was that I actually escaped from the pyramid and came to the vicinity of the cabin, and happened to be rescued by Xin'er.
Xin'er also once asked Hotaru why she trapped every outsider in the pyramid, but she was taken to the cabin, and Hotaru's answer was simple, that is, it was all her instinct, and she couldn't tell the specific reason.
And the reason why she rescued Xin'er to the cabin for the first time was because Hotaru was grateful to Xin'er for saving her from the crystal ball, and she felt very kind to Xin'er inexplicably, so she didn't trap Xin'er in the pyramid.
As for the bee brother mentioned by Firefly, Xin'er guessed that it should be another elf from the Black Prison Cave, but Firefly couldn't tell why her bee brother came to her cave, and then Bee was taken away by a bad guy, but Firefly didn't know what the identity of the masked black bad guy was.
Since she couldn't learn more about the Black Prison from Hotaru'er's mouth, Xin'er had to pay more attention to what she saw and heard every day, and also spent a lot of time carefully inspecting the small courtyard where she lived.
Eventually, Xin'er found a skeleton in the crypt of one of the wooden houses, and a yellowed pamphlet, which looked like a person's diary.
Because the booklet was old, the handwriting was a little blurry, and the text was very old, Xin'er couldn't understand what was written in it at all, so she put it away temporarily, and as for the remains, Xin'er kindly moved them outside the courtyard, dug a pit, and buried the remains properly.
One morning, a week after I arrived at the hut, the dormant Hotaru woke up, and I was not surprised when Hotaru showed deep hostility when she saw me, after all, she had trapped me in the pyramid in the first place.
But to my surprise, when Hotaru flew up to me in a rage and was about to make a move on me, the tip of my left index finger suddenly went numb, and then a killer bee flew out.
Unexpectedly, the moment Firefly saw the killer bee, she shouted excitedly: "Brother Bee, Brother Bee." ”
After the killer bee flew around Firefly a few times, it stopped in the palm of Firefly's hand, and let out a series of strange calls, as if to say something to Firefly, Firefly's expression was a little regretful at first, but then it seemed to suddenly remember something, and flew out of the small yard with the killer bee in his hand, and soon disappeared.
Xin'er and I also looked at each other, but I didn't expect that the bee brother that Firefly knew was actually hiding on me, but what I didn't understand was why the killer bee in my hand was so small and couldn't speak, and the firefly that Firefly incarnated by Firefly was so big, there must be a reason we don't know.
Seeing the originally angry Firefly away, Xin'er also breathed a sigh of relief, she naturally didn't want Firefly to trap me in the pyramid again, after all, I was the only living person she had met in the two years since she was trapped in the black prison, in this desperate situation, one more friend, one more strength, and more vitality.
When Xin'er pointed to the only grave outside the courtyard and told about the experience of accidentally discovering the remains, she found the booklet again by the way, wanting to see if I, a graduate of the Chinese department, could have a chance to recognize the ancient text on it.
At first, when I listened to Xin'er, I didn't have much hope, although I graduated from the Chinese department, but I couldn't help the old words.
Who knew that when I opened the first page of the diary and saw the ancient and blurry fonts on it, I was secretly surprised that I actually knew them all, although it was indeed the first time I had seen the words on it, I felt that I had seen it many times.
After reading it silently for a long time, I finally finished reading the entire diary, and it turned out that the person who wrote this diary was imprisoned in a black prison by the Royal Praetorian Guard more than five hundred years ago, and her identity was actually a concubine of Qin Shi Huang.
She was originally kind, but she couldn't bear it in the palace fight, and in a fit of rage, she used a series of tricks to kill several children of other concubines who jointly bullied her, because these children were still one of Qin Shi Huang's favorite little princes and princesses, causing Qin Shi Huang to be furious and sent her to the black prison and never returned to the palace.
Ordinary concubines make mistakes, even if they are beaten into the cold palace of the palace by Qin Shi Huang, if they are lucky, they will still have a bright future, but once they are beaten into the cold palace of the black prison, there will be no hope forever.
Because the black prison has always been a hellish world that you can only enter and not leave, and even if you live in the black prison, it is better to live than to die, so this concubine has only been sad alone in the black prison for only a month, and she was overly frightened by the zombies that often surround the yard, and after hiding in the basement and writing her last diary, she committed suicide.
From this diary, I also learned more about the Black Prison, as Hotaru told Xin'er, there are indeed fifty-four Black Prisons in the Immortal Realm, and each Black Prison has a small courtyard, and each courtyard has a few cabins.
Since there is a special ban on the periphery of the courtyard, which can resist the invasion of zombies, the only place that can survive in the black prison is this small courtyard, which is planted with various vegetables and fruits all year round, which is enough for people's daily needs.
In the twelve hours of the day in the black prison, only the noon hour is daytime, and there are eleven hours at night, and the zombies will sleep at night and at noon during the day, and the people in the yard can only leave the yard and go out to roam freely during these two hours, and by the way, they can hunt some wild beasts and fish back and improve their food.
Of course, the only way to hunt wild beasts and fish is during the day, because at night the Black Hell is full of poisonous black sand and translucent pyramids, the climate is harsh, zombies are rampant, and all desert oases will dry up.
Only in the noon daytime, there is a clean yellow sand, blue sky, pleasant climate, those desert oases can also be encountered from time to time, wild animals and fish can be seen everywhere, so only this hour of the day is the sunniest time in the Black Prison.
There is also an amazing secret mentioned in the diary, that is, more than 2,000 years ago, each of the fifty-four black prisons was guarded by an elf, and these elves generally lived in the black prison, and occasionally left the black prison to live in the world for a period of time. However, since Qin Shi Huang captured fifty-two elves one after another five hundred years ago, no one has ever seen elves, and there are still two elves whose whereabouts are still unknown.
The reason why Qin Shi Huang captured these elves on a large scale was because he accidentally heard that a merchant captain who sailed in the sea of blood all the year round had a treasure map, and according to the text on the treasure map, it was said that in the depths of the sea of blood, a mysterious woman was secretly imprisoned, and this woman was called the Black Prison Angel.
If anyone can gather fifty-four black prison elves, they will have a chance to find this black prison angel, and once they successfully rescue the black prison angel, with the help of the black prison angel, they can enter the legendary heavenly realm.
Although it is already possible to live forever in the Immortal Realm by taking the Immortal Pill, it is limited to the normal lifespan after the body is healthy, and once the person is fatally injured, the person will still die.
In other words, in the event of a major disaster or an extremely rare serious illness, even if he eats the Immortal Pill, he will inevitably die, so it is naturally difficult for Qin Shi Huang to sit back and relax.
Although the Immortal Realm has been unified by him, there are still many forces secretly ready to move, especially among his own children, who are also ambitious and covet his throne.
Therefore, the assassination activities against Qin Shi Huang have not stopped, and since coming to the black prison, Qin Shi Huang's goal has changed from the original immortal to immortal.
The immortal body is only the body organs that will not age, and under the sudden external injury, it will still die, but the immortal body is different, even if the body is completely destroyed, it can still be reborn in an instant, which is the real immortality.
And once he has an immortal body, he has the qualification to ascend to the heavenly realm, which is the life that Qin Shi Huang dreamed of. Therefore, five hundred years ago, after Qin Shi Huang learned of the rumors of the Black Prison Angel, in order to prevent too many people from looking for the Black Prison Angel and ruining his eternal life plan, he specially issued a decree that no one was allowed to mention the legend of the Black Prison Angel again.
Qin Shi Huang also brutally killed the captain and all the crew members on the ship who had seen the treasure map, and snatched the treasure map, and since then, according to the contents of the treasure map, Qin Shi Huang has sent his cronies to secretly search for the Black Prison and secretly capture the Black Prison Elves.
In this treasure map, there is not only the exact location of the Black Prison, but also the secret methods of entering and exiting the Black Prison, as well as the living habits of each elf and special trapping methods. It's just that these methods require a lot of manpower and material resources, but for Qin Shi Huang, who once built the Great Wall, it is still a piece of cake.
Whenever the elves in the black prison were captured, Qin Shi Huang would send people to build a small courtyard and a few wooden houses inside, and then leave only the entrance, destroy all the exits, and transform these black prisons into special cold palaces.
used to imprison the concubines who were once the most favored but committed great crimes, and they couldn't bear to kill them, and they couldn't forgive their mistakes, so they simply exiled them here and left them to fend for themselves.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of a small part of the treasure map, the trapping method of the two elves was lost, causing Qin Shi Huang to try his best to capture the last two elves.
After reading the diary, I was worried and glad at the same time, worried that once Qin Shi Huang got the last two elves, he would be able to get the Black Prison Angel, and my mother had reminded me that I must take back the Black Prison Angel that belonged to me, otherwise I would never see my mother again.
Fortunately, although I was trapped in the black prison, I accidentally found the last two elves that Qin Shi Huang dreamed of, that is, Firefly and Bee who flew out to play together just now, but I also understand that the way out in the future is still very slim.
Although I got the last two elves, I didn't know how to get out of here, because the exits had already been destroyed by Qin Shi Huang. And even if I go out, it will be an impossible task to recapture those fifty-two captured elves from Qin Shi Huang......