Chapter 12: The Chamber of Secrets
The passage of the underground tomb was deep and long, and Ye Jinchen firmly held Qin Man's hand and walked in front cautiously. The size of the tomb was beyond their imagination, and the two walked for more than half an hour before reaching the end of the passage. The flashlight was running out, and the faint light flickered like fireflies in the dark passage.
Ye Jinchen looked at the stone wall in front of the two of them suspiciously, logically speaking, the secondary tomb should be the main tomb after it, how could a wall suddenly appear in the middle. After the two of them carefully groped up and down for a while, they did not find any mechanism.
"Stand Back"
Ye Jinchen pulled out the soft sword at his waist, poured internal force into the sword body, and then slashed towards the stone wall. Where the tip of the soft sword pointed, the stone shattered in an instant.
Ye Jinchen quickly turned around and blocked in front of Qin Man, covering the dazzling light that came from the other side of the stone wall.
They guessed correctly, behind the stone wall was the main burial chamber of the underground mausoleum. The walls around the main chamber are made of uneven, crystal-like bricks.
On the shelves in the middle of the burial chamber, dozens of night pearls, large and small, are neatly placed. The light emitted by the night pearl hit the wall and refracted to the surroundings, and the tomb, which should have been pitch black, was as bright as day under the action of light.
There is a circle of calligraphy and paintings hanging around the wall of the tomb, the years of these calligraphy and paintings are very extensive, from the pre-Qin to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the authentic works of the major families of the past dynasties are available. In order to prevent the calligraphy and painting from fading and damage, the owner of the tomb brushed a special transparent rubber protective coating on the surface.
Judging from the large amount of gold, silver and jewelry piled up in the sub-tomb, it is easy to give birth to the illusion that the owner of the tomb was a nouveau riche during his lifetime. It wasn't until I came to the main burial chamber that I knew that the identity of the person who could collect so many of everyone's authentic works must not be simple.
"Man'er, come and have a look."
Qin Man stopped to admire the calligraphy and painting and walked to Ye Jinchen's side. The coffin of the owner of the tomb is made of the same material as the walls, and the bones contained in the transparent coffin are smooth milky white.
The slender, unusual finger bones reveal the identity of the tomb's owner, who, like them, was a vampire. Qin Man carefully looked the bones in the coffin up and down, secretly calculating the age of the tomb owner.
While Qin Man was studying the coffin, Ye Jinchen had been repeatedly studying the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. From the first time he saw these calligraphy and paintings, he always felt that there was something wrong with them.
After Ye Jinchen roughly scanned it from beginning to end, he was surprised to find that these calligraphy and paintings were not only simply listed according to the change of dynasties, but also involved the seasons described in the calligraphy and paintings.
No wonder he felt that something was wrong, it turned out that the "Seeing Joy" and "Wave and Sand Order" of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty on the wall, were reversed.
Since the owner of the tomb can arrange calligraphy and paintings according to the season, there is no reason why he would ignore such an obvious mistake. Ye Jinchen curiously stepped forward to open the two calligraphy and paintings, and his eyesight was amazing, and he found that the degree of wear and tear between the adjacent wall tiles under the two calligraphy and paintings was more serious than that between the other bricks.
Ye Jinchen used a knife to pry open two wall tiles, and after prying them open, he found that there was a dark groove behind them. A cone-shaped jade was placed in the dark trough, he stretched out his hand to turn the jade, and with the sound of the stone door rumbling up, another secret room appeared behind Qin Man.
Qin Man, who was about to step into the next secret room, suddenly stood at the door for some reason. Ye Jinchen, who noticed Qin Man's strange appearance, nervously followed. Ye Jinchen followed Qin Man's line of sight, and a huge blood-red eye was imprinted on the opposite wall.
Ye Jinchen held Qin Man's hand and turned around to block her view. Qin Man's hands were very cold, and his whole body trembled slightly because of fear.
"Man'er, don't be afraid. It doesn't matter, it's all in the past. With me, I will always be by your side to accompany you and protect you. ”
Ye Jinchen held Qin Man tightly in his arms, kissed her forehead gently, and kept whispering comfort in her ear.
Qin Man was comforted by Ye Jinchen, and the thoughts in his mind slowly recovered from chaos to clarity. Qin Man, who came to his senses, felt that he was very tired. She reached out and hugged Ye Jinchen back, closed her eyes and rested in his arms. Qin Man, who was extremely tired at this time, didn't notice that Ye Jinchen had already crossed the line just now.
"Let's get here today, you're tired too, let's go back and rest." Ye Jinchen looked at Qin Man distressedly, Qin Man's current mental state was not suitable for continuing to stay here.
"No, I'm not leaving. There are some things that cannot be escaped, and sooner or later they will have to be faced. I want to figure out, after all these years, what exactly are those people doing now? ”
After the two entered the secret room, they seemed to have come to a new world. Inside the chamber were dozens of glass containers about the same height as the chamber, filled with an unknown dark green solution.
Qin Man and Ye Jinchen walked through the middle of these huge containers, and these bubbling green solutions were soaked in many species, including cats, dogs, mice, babies, adults, vampires, and even some meat balls that had been skinned and could not be seen in their original appearance.
The central area of the chamber is filled with all kinds of experimental instruments, and the whiteboard next to the instruments is full of various chemical formulas that cannot be understood.
Qin Man looked at the experimental report record in his hand, and his face became extremely solemn. Damn, these people were experimenting on the living, and those glass containers were full of test subjects.
'Can ordinary people be transformed into vampires through drugs?' ’
'Can low-level vampires rely on medicine to break through the bloodline limit and explode super potential?' ’
One research topic after another, Qin Man was furious, what did these madmen do?
Just as Qin Man and Ye Jinchen were concentrating on reading the experiment report, a fierce fight suddenly came from the side door of the laboratory. Ye Jinchen opened the side door and found Xiao Kun, Jin Hao and a group of white coats fighting inside.
It turned out that after Xiao Kun, Jin Hao, and Xia Zuming separated from Qin Man, they traveled less than 300 meters along the right passage and found a small house.
The house is littered with the bones of people and small animals, and if you look closely, you can faintly see that the bones have been gnawed by teeth. The timid Xia Zuming was frightened by the scene in front of him, and with a bang, he fainted directly with his legs.
"Hey" Jin Hao kicked Xia Zuming, who fell to the ground, without any reaction.
"Wouldn't it, that scares you? What to do? Jin Hao turned his head and asked Xiao Kun beside him.
Xiao Kun looked helplessly at Xia Zuming who was lying on the ground: "What else can I do, I can't carry him away." This place is not far from the exit, and we haven't encountered that monster in so long, so there must be no danger here, so let's leave him here first. ”
"Good"
Jin Hao, who was also unwilling to bring a burden by his side, readily agreed to Xiao Kun's proposal. The two finally decisively left Xia Zuming in place and continued to move forward.
The two of them walked for about ten minutes when they saw a light coming out of the window not far ahead. The two walked lightly to the door, they leaned on the window and looked in, and were surprised to find that there was actually someone in the room.
On the laboratory table in the middle of the room lay a man covered in tubes, a group of white coats surrounded him, constantly injecting various colors of potions into his body.
On the wall opposite the experimental table was a blood-red eye that was the same as what Qin Man had seen in the laboratory, Jin Hao looked at the eyes on the wall, and always felt as if he had seen it somewhere, with an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Jin Hao was very distressed, as long as his head began to recall things related to his amnesia, it would hurt very badly. What really happened in the past? And what does this eye in front of you symbolize?
"Ahh
The eye on the wall, like a pair of invisible hands, seeped into Jin Hao's head, constantly rolling and stirring inside.
"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Kun didn't understand why Jin Hao, who was fine just now, suddenly had a headache.
"Who?"
When Jin Hao covered his head and bent over, he accidentally hit the door, alarming the bodyguards guarding the door. After the two were discovered by the bodyguards, they directly started to fight with the people inside.