Chapter 2: The Winter of the Bird (1)

No—this is a celestial map!

In the east, there is a three-legged golden bird symbolizing the sun; There is a jade rabbit in the west symbolizing the moon; There is a splendid Milky Way, but it is by no means a random painting, and each celestial body has a corresponding position, which is far more than the twenty-eight constellations.

The glass fireball circled around the dungeon, and there was a stone coffin in the center of the tomb. There is a beautiful palace roof, two stone doors in the middle, each carved a doorkeeper. A pair of mandarin ducks are engraved on the top, spreading their wings and flying towards each other, indicating that a young couple is buried in the coffin.

And on the broken sarcophagus steps, there was a deer and a cat lying cross-legged.

Deer.

The sika deer, apparently an adult but without horns on its head, is supposed to be a doe.

Qin Beiyang saw that the deer's head was turning, his chest was slightly undulating, his eyes were glowing dimly, and a pool of tears flashed in his eyes......

It's not a statue, it's not a tomb beast, it's a living deer.

Cat.

The black cat, I don't know how old it is, is as black as a ball of charcoal, and as black as a layer of hell.

Those sparkling cat's eyes, both like walnut kernels and sapphires, are indescribably what color they are? That's right, it's like Ouyang Anna's eyes!

It's not a statue, it's not a grave beast, it's a living cat.

Meow ......

The black cat barked, with a bit of warning.

Qin Beiyang fell into a trance, is this a dream? Broke into the tomb of Wu Zetian's granddaughter, Princess Yongtai, and ran into a live deer and a live cat?

He subconsciously looked back at the nine colors, isn't there also a live deer in the body of this small town tomb beast?

Suddenly, a cry sounded in the stone coffin.

This cry made people get goosebumps, even Qin Beiyang, who was born and raised in the underground palace.

The seventeen-year-old princess in the coffin is crying?

No, it's not seventeen, it's not seven, I'm afraid it's seven months at most, right?

Baby's cry......

Princess Yongtai's epitaph says that she died in childbirth due to "the destruction of the moon by the pearl fetus", is this the child who killed the princess and was stillborn? What Chinese folk call "ghost babies"? Siamese sorcery "Kuman Thong"?

This sound is so real, just like this doe, it is definitely not an auditory hallucination!

The door of the stone coffin was opened.

Qin Beiyang half-squatted down, took out his crossbow, and looked in through the bright light of the glass fireball......

Among the two stone doors, there is a beautiful girl sitting upright, who is the half-human, half-bird monster just now. She had long hair and bare breasts, no wings behind her back, and no longer a single feather on her body. And at her feet, a robe full of feathers, in the shape of a rare wing, was missing a small piece. She was scarred, with three holes in her chest that had been pierced by the Three-Eyed Hammer, and marks of being burned through by a glass fireball.

The baby's cry came from the swaddling clothes in her arms.

Qin Beiyang believed that there was no baby at all, the swaddling clothes were empty, or it was just a dummy, and the cry was made by this girlish monster.

However, the half-human, half-bird monster is taking care of the baby, gently patting the swaddling clothes and exposing them to the faint light.

A baby in a stone coffin.

It's not an illusion in front of you, it's not an auditory hallucination, it's real, like a fake, a baby.

Seven or eight months old, with fair and pink skin, and exceptionally bright eyes, he just happened to see Qin Beiyang, who was an uninvited guest.

In an instant, the baby seemed to recognize him and stopped crying.

This is...... Look at the half-human, half-bird monster, and then look at the baby in the swaddling clothes.

Three words flashed in Qin Beiyang's mind - Gu won the bird!

On the side of Qianling, the tomb of Princess Yongtai, the tomb beast of Bird Town.

Qin Beiyang suddenly realized, remembering his career in Japan two years ago, in Sagano, Kyoto, behind the tomb of Abe Harumi, the "Monster Museum", saw a specimen or dried corpse of a Gu Yu bird.

Gu Hou Bird is the soul of a pregnant woman who has lost her child, wearing a sweater is a flying bird, and shedding her hair is a woman, and often steals other people's young children to raise them, so that they can be mistaken for human traffickers.

Yongtai princess Li Xianhui died in childbirth, and the Qin tombsmith clan, who was ordered by the emperor to build a tomb beast for her, naturally remembered the myth of Gu Won Bird. Using the soul of the princess during her lifetime, she created this vivid tomb beast of Gushu Bird Town. For 1,200 years, this Gu Shou Bird has accompanied the bones of Princess Yongtai and her concubine, endured the pain of the two lives of mother and son, and missed the unborn child in her womb. This tomb has been dug out of the hole many times, although the tomb robbers were all wiped out by Gu Yu Bird, but it gave her the opportunity to escape from the underground palace and fulfill the last wish of the tomb owner - just like the legendary Gu Yu Bird, to steal other people's children to raise.

Sure enough, Qin Beiyang looked into the corner of the underground palace, and there were countless small skeletons, which were clearly the skull of a small baby, as well as the miniature femur, tibia and fibula, and pipa bone......

Gu won the harmless heart of the bird, but caused the separation of other people's flesh and bones, and the baby died in vain! I'm afraid this is not what Princess Yongtai wishes in the spirit of heaven.

At this moment, the baby in Gu Xuaniao's arms must be a nearby peasant child, who has recently been stolen by her to the underground palace to raise.

"Hand over the child!"

Qin Beiyang shouted loudly, but Gu Huoniao's eyes widened, and he let out a terrifying roar, and a burst of black smoke swept through the tomb, making people can't help but retreat. But he suppressed the impulse of the town's tomb beast Nine Colors, lest it hurt the child in the fight, like a rat trap.

However, her wings have been injured by Tang Dao, and her torn feather coat has been unloaded on the ground, and she may no longer be able to fly.

He crawled alone close to Gu Kuo Bird, and said softly with his eyes, "Yongtai! Yongtai! Do you recognize me? Do you recognize me? ”

Gu Xuaniao's gaze became puzzled, tilted his head, hung his hair, and carefully examined Qin Beiyang's face. Even the little baby in her arms, those watery eyes seemed to say: Wow, so familiar.

Finally, Gu won the bird—no, it was Princess Yongtai Li Xianhui, and she recognized the face.

Her cousin, the sixth son of Ruizong Li Dan, the king of Zhongnan County, Li Longqi.

In an instant, Gu Huoniao's face was full of various expressions, joy, anger, sorrow, sorrow, and bitterness, and tears in his eyes. Both are the grandchildren of Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, separated by 1,200 years, and the sister and brother reunited under the netherworld.

"Yongtai, let me tell you a secret—you have turned into a soul and died in the Western Heaven Elysium." Qin Beiyang spoke in the half-baked Chang'an pronunciation of the Tang Dynasty, and a few words used the Japanese "Hanyin", and he went on to make up a lie, "Listen to me, I am the father of this child!" Please give him back to me. ”

Gu Yu Bird will be suspicious, and then look at the baby in swaddling clothes. Unexpectedly, the kid blinked, nodded again, and agreed with Qin Beiyang's statement.

Qin Beiyang grinned at the child, and Jiuse smiled in the same way.

In the depths of the underground palace of Princess Yongtai's tomb, this happy atmosphere is a little weird......

So, the tomb beast of Gu Bird Town handed over the baby to Qin Beiyang's hands.

Instead of crying, the child gave him a smile.

A beautiful baby, with black and soft hair, a soft face shape, and looking at those eyes, it must be a little girl.

Suddenly, Gu Xuaniao remembered something - in the duel just now, it was Qin Beiyang who cut off her wings with a Tang knife.

She once again showed a fierce light, stretched out her nails as sharp as the tip of a knife, and rushed to the back of Qin Beiyang's neck, wanting to take back the little baby girl in her hand.

Jiu Se stretched out her snow-white antlers to block her nails in time and saved Qin Beiyang's life.

At the same time, a ball of glazed fireball hit Gu Yu's chest again.

This time, I'm afraid it hit the heart of the tomb beast - the spirit stone.