The tenth year of the Republic of China, 1921, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival.

Bailuyuan, the tomb of the Rubik's Cube in the Tang Dynasty, the land palace of Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, the little prince, under the golden well.

Xiaomu is here.

The leader of the tomb robbery village who fell from the sky, the man who aspired to become the tomb robber king, his face was pale, cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, and he stared at Qin Beiyang's bulging chest.

Qin Beiyang realized that he was naked: "Hey, what are you looking at?" ”

"Oh...... I'm watching...... The man under the golden well......"

Before the words fell, Xiao Mu's complexion changed-Ah You had quietly walked around his back, the dagger against his throat, and he was about to cut his trachea.

"Wait a minute."

Qin Beiyang stopped Ah You's murderous actions. He remembered that twelve years ago, on the night of the destruction of the German Concession in Tianjin, it was this dagger with an ivory handle that killed his adoptive parents. Now the dagger in Ah You's hand, the luodian pattern inlaid on the ivory handle, is not "comet hitting the moon", nor is it "white rainbow through the sun", but an eagle swooping down on an imperial palace.

Ah You deliberately exposes the full picture of the luodian on the handle of the knife - the palace pattern reflecting the metallic luster of seashells, with the simple and desolate style of the pre-Qin period, just like the Xianyang palace before Qin Shi Huang.

"The thorn of the husband is also the king, and the comet strikes the moon; Nie Zhengzhi's assassination Han puppet also, Bai Hong Guanri; If you want to leave the thorn Qingji, the eagle strikes on the palace! ”

Qin Beiyang read out the famous sentence of "Tang Sui does not disgrace his mission", the murder weapon left at the scene of the murder case twelve years ago, the dagger stained with the blood of his adoptive mother, inlaid with the luodian pattern of "comet attacking the moon"; Later, he also saw the dagger of the "White Rainbow Penetrating the Sun" Luodian many times, but the "Cangying hitting the palace" in Ah You's hand was the first time he had seen it!

"Brother, that's good."

Only the Assassins' masters were allowed to wield the dagger.

"Let Xiao Mu finish his words first, and then it's not too late to kill him."

The dagger in Ah You's hand loosened slightly, and Jiu Se had already used his antlers against Xiao Mu's vest.

"I say! I say! Xiao Mu dared to take a breath, and his white and tender skin suddenly turned red again, "Beiyang, I am here today, and I have no malice!" I'm not here to rob graves. I swear to God, I'm the only one with no help. ”

"Last winter, people said that you were in the ghost town of Loulan in Lop Nur, but I believe you are still alive."

"Yes......" Xiao Mu, who had eaten Xu Fu's elixir of immortality, just wanted to say that he was immortal, so he forcibly swallowed it back, "I was locked up in the ghost town for three months, but fortunately, the tomb beast of Mirage Town never woke up, and I survived by eating dead corpses." ”

Of course, this is a lie on the part of Kogi - he doesn't need to eat anything, or even drink water, and by greatly reducing his metabolism, he can survive like an animal hibernating.

This spring, a sandstorm hit Lop Nur, blowing open the salt crust at the bottom of the lake basin and giving Xiaomu a ray of life. He escaped from the underground world and walked east along the desert for dozens of days, finally arriving at the Dunhuang Oasis.

Xiao Mu traveled all the way east, almost stepping on the footprints of Qin Beiyang, passing through the Hexi Corridor and the Loess Plateau, entering the Guanzhong Plain, until the Bailuyuan outside the city of Xi'an.

He didn't dare to go back to the grave robbery village, and even though it was the dead of night, he still missed the ama, including the two children. I left Luoyang last year, and I took twelve young offspring with me, but now the whole army has been wiped out and died in the ghost city of Loulan in Lop Nur, how can I explain it? Unless he does another big vote and exchanges enough gold and silver treasures to compensate the parents of those children, this is the old rule that the tomb robbery village can maintain after thousands of years, otherwise not only will the gang be dispersed, but people will have to die with him.

Back in front of the tomb of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Mu still remembered that four years ago, the warlord blew up the reference object at the entrance of the tomb - the crooked neck ancient locust tree, as long as he dug three feet down. He didn't want to steal the treasures in the palace of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. He just wanted to go in and have a look, maybe it would help him find the coffin of the little prince?

But he also saw Qin Beiyang, and Jiu Se was guarding the tomb of the little prince.

Xiao Mu waited patiently in the abandoned farmhouse in Bailuyuan for two days, until under the scorching sun of the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a little girl next to the shirtless Qin Beiyang - A You.

When Qin Beiyang and Ah You found the crooked-necked old locust tree and dug the entrance to the tomb, Xiao Mu effortlessly followed behind their footprints.

But he didn't see the traces of Qin Beiyang and Ah You again, nor did he encounter the endless maze, let alone so many forks in the road and tomb doors, but went straight through the long tomb road and easily opened the underground palace of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, just like leading the warlord to dig the tomb four years ago.

In this matter, Xiao Mu did not lie to Qin Beiyang.

When Qin Beiyang and Ah You were still going around in the square grid of the Rubik's Cube Tomb, and were almost eaten by thousands of tomb beasts, Xiao Mu had already broken into the core of the Rubik's Cube.

But he did not dare to approach the golden well, and the experience of robbing tombs told him that there were usually tombs in the golden wells, but there were also powerful auras that could kill people.

Finally, Qin Beiyang and Ah You came.

Xiao Mu quietly hid in the corner of the deep underground palace, panicked and frightened. But since he had eaten Xu Fu's elixir, his breathing style was different from others, and he often held his breath for a long time, as silent as a dead man, and even his body temperature and pulse were gone. Often in the middle of the night, the ama screams in fright, thinking that the man is dead.

When Qin Beiyang, Ah You, and Jiuse were sucked into the narrow golden well by a scorching air current. Xiao Mu hesitated for a long time, did he run for his life? Or do you simply close the gold well with earth or stones?

But he chose to go down the well to save people.

Xiaomu doesn't know why he chose this? Qin Beiyang hated him, Ah You hated him, and Jiuse simply wanted to burn him.

But he understands that in the whole world, only Qin Beiyang can find the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty because of his face.

According to the habit of tomb robbers, Xiao Mu wrapped a rope around his waist to connect the nails in the underground palace, and then he turned his heart horizontally, closed his eyes, and went down to the golden well......

Under the golden well of the Rubik's Cube Tomb, Ah You stared at Xiao Mu's eyes and asked, "What have you become?" ”

Qin Beiyang and Ah You fell into Jinjing and turned into crested ibises dancing together, so what will Xiaomu become? Grave robbers, rats or rabbits, perhaps? Or vultures that eat carrion?

"I ...... I became a tomb robber in the Tang Dynasty and dug up the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han on Bailu Plain...... But I fell into the golden well under the coffin of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and I ended up here. ”

Xiao Mu is still unsatisfied with the adventure of robbing the tomb just now. But he tugged on the rope around his waist, connecting not only the dungeon and the underground, but also the two ends of time.

Or rather, the two ends of life and death.

Ah You saw the clue: "Can you go back?" ”

"I'll have to give it a try."

"Let's go first."

The Assassin's dagger continued to be pressed against the mouth of his neck.

"Is this a deal?"

Xiao Mu's expression changed, but he wouldn't use the word "trade".

"Yes, buy it with your life."

"Deal."

In fact, Xiaomu has to take a great risk. Even if you can really escape, the strength of the rope is limited, and you must climb up one by one, and whoever falls on the last one may be cut by someone and trapped in the ruins of history forever. In the past, most of the infighting between tomb robbers came from this.

Ah You tugged the rope: "Is it strong enough?" ”

"The lifeline we use can not only hang two or three men, but also carry large sums of gold and silver treasures."

"Okay, the nine colors go first."

The eighteen-year-old girl, with the demeanor of a leader, had made a plan in an instant.

The nine-colored tomb beast of the town, which is both a hound and a fawn, has become a big cat climbing trees, with four paws clutching the rope, swaying and swaying, looking thrilling, but in fact it is stable.

Then there is Qin Beiyang, who is shirtless, and on the back of his neck, a pair of red antler-shaped birthmarks are dazzling. He wiped two mouthfuls of saliva into the palm of his hand, and clenched his Tang knife with his teeth, like a monkey climbing a rope.

Seeing that the nine colors have disappeared, maybe they have escaped from the entrance of the Jinjing Cave, or maybe they have reached another dimension, and the ghost knows.

Ah You then put away the dagger and jumped on the rope lightly, like a fairy in a Dunhuang mural.

In the end, it was the turn of the bitter Xiaomu.

Tomb robbers are themselves a profession with their heads pinned to their belts, and they are left to fate......