From spring to midsummer, after traveling all over the country, Ah You drove the nine colors to the south and searched along the interior of the Korean Peninsula.

Qin Beiyang can only survive in ancient tombs, and they pay special attention to various mausoleums or monuments. Fortunately, the funeral customs in North Korea are close to those in China, and they are not all cremated like in Japan. Lao Jin used an iron pickaxe to rummag dozens of tombs from the Silla and Goryeo periods, but he did not find any signs of tomb beasts, and the treasures in the tombs were much inferior to those of China.

In September, they came to the southern part of Gangwon Province, waded across the upper reaches of the Han River, and re-entered the mountainous area of mountains. Yin Ji said in a northeastern dialect: "Further on, there is the Xiaobai Mountain Range, a branch of the Taibai Mountains. ”

Lao Jin said thoughtfully: "The southern foot of China's Taibai Mountain flows the Han River, and the North Korean Taibai Mountain is the birthplace of the Han River, maybe there is some origin. ”

Suddenly, the nine-colored glass-colored eyes widened.

It spread its hooves and galloped through desolate canyons and up lush forests to the rocky mountainside. The geography here is similar to that of China's Taibai Mountain, except that it is close to the sea and the climate is more humid. The town's tomb beast led Ah You and Lao Jin through a winding mountain path, looking at the vast sea of clouds in the distance, until they reached the top of the mountain, and they could almost see the vast Sea of Japan.

"Where is Qin Beiyang?"

Ah Yu screamed in rage, and Nine Colors struck a rock at the top of the mountain with his hooves.

"Little Lord, the Nine Colors are right at our feet?"

Lao Jin spat twice into the palm of his hand, grabbed the miner's pickaxe wheel, divided it by two, and smashed the boulder, revealing the two iron doors underneath. This riveted door is printed with lines of Japanese, a product of modern industrial civilization. Nakayama carefully pried open the iron door, revealing a grave passage that went down the tunnel.

"In addition to the forgeries of the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang that we built on the top of Taibai Mountain, my old Jin also encountered the ancient tomb built on the top of the mountain for the first time."

Lao Jin carried a horse lantern and an iron pickaxe to explore the way, paying attention to the murals and ornaments on both sides of the tomb. The colors are bright and intense, the figures are somewhat abstract, the faces are blurred, and the brushwork is elegant and chic. It feels like entering a Tang Dynasty tomb, which is the largest and best-preserved one of the tombs since Lao Jin dug up so many ancient tombs in North Korea.

Jiu Se rushed to the front again, turning into a young Qilin Town Tomb Beast, with that terrifying pair of antlers, covered in metallic light, which made the young man Zhongshan behind look a little frightened.

However, there is no smell of a newly opened tomb, just a suffocating rancid smell. It indicates that the tomb has been excavated long ago, or there are signs of the presence of living people.

Passing through the two tomb doors, Yin Ji found a mural under the eaves of a door, with a few lines of dense words written on it.

Lao Jin asked curiously, "Is it Korean?" ”

"It's Chinese." Yin Ji held the lamp in his hand and carefully read the interpretation, "It has peeled off and faded a lot, and I can only guess the approximate meaning - this is an ancient tomb from the Silla period, and the owner of the tomb is the prince of Kim Famin, the king of Bunmu." ”

"Silla? Equivalent to the Tang Dynasty? ”

Yoon Gil-jo was a broken family of two classes of nobles, and he read the history books of China and Korea since he was a child: "Well, the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo and Baekje, but finally unified the Korean Peninsula by Silla, and the great king of civil and military affairs, Kim Famin, was the great monarch, who was in the same era as Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian. The prince failed in his bid for the throne and committed suicide after being exiled to Taibai Mountain. King Wenmu built this tomb on the top of the hill for him, and he is still buried according to the highest specifications of the royal family. ”

"Why are they all Chinese?"

"Hangul was created in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and Hangul has been the official language of Korea since ancient times." Yoon Ji exclaimed, "It's a blessing to see a well-preserved Silla tomb." ”

Lao Jin discovered the underground palace, but there was an open steel door - not an antiquity from 1,200 years ago, but a later generation reinstalled it, like a prison.

Nine Colors reacted strongly, and it was the first to get in, followed by Ah You.

I saw the glass fireball illuminating the secret room, the walls were Vermilion Bird Xuanwu and Three-legged Wu, and the dome was covered with twenty-eight constellations. Twelve hundred years ago, the air had run out, and only broken coffins and bones remained.

Ah You smelled her husband's scent, the stench of a man who had not bathed and washed his hair for a long time was like the pungent smell of a livestock shed. She closed her eyes, breathed, breathed deeply, and let the darkness of the dungeon drown herself, as if the man was still here, even if it was just a ghost, wrapping around her hair and skin, burrowing into every pore and vein.

Old Jin also came in, and he saw the coffin, which had long been shattered, and there were only broken bones inside.

But there were no living people.

"Little Lord, come and see!"

Zhongshan who finally came in shouted, and he found that on the stone wall of the underground palace, three shallow notches could be vaguely distinguished-

The craftsman dies, but the work lives on

Five steps to bleed, the world is vegetarian

If you don't go crazy, you won't survive

The first line, the motto of the Craftsman Alliance, comes from the first generation of the Great Venerable Qin Jin.

In the second line, Qin Beiyang selected the Assassin's Creed for the League of Assassins last year.

The third line is the sentence that Qin Beiyang listened to his father in the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu since he was a child.

And the handwriting of this inscription is also Qin Beiyang's, as if it were fake, and what kind of tools did he use when he was imprisoned in this ancient tomb prison?

Lao Jin was good at this, carefully checking the details of the nicks, including the texture of the stone walls, etc., and even the residual blood stains and nail fragments, confirming that Qin Beiyang carved them with his own fingers.

The wicked man who imprisoned Qin Beiyang would never give him any hard objects, and it was also to prevent him from committing suicide. Although Qin Beiyang has practiced in the underground palace since he was a child, and has practiced the "Assassin Dao" and "Dungeon Dao" over the years, he will not have the "iron finger skills" that can only be found in martial arts. On top of that, he has been imprisoned here for a whole year, since the Great Kanto Earthquake last September. The so-called "water drops and stones wear", Qin Beiyang has extraordinary willpower, Lao Jin has been with him these days, he has long known that he has a stubborn temper that does not hit the south wall and does not look back, full of strength, day and night, minute and second to pick this stone wall, and finally formed these three lines of aphorism, a total of twenty-three Chinese characters.

The careful old Jin found a few pieces of leftover food in the corner of the wall, he actually twisted a piece and stuffed it into his mouth to chew, spit it out and said: "Little Master, I should have eaten it in a day or two, and it is not completely rotten. ”

Ah You held back his nausea and stared at Wu Youyou's eyes: "You mean, Brother Beiyang just left?" ”

"Yes, the master should have left here yesterday, we are only one day away! It's another pass. ”

Yes, Jiu Se was pacing back and forth in the dungeon, and the burning glass-colored eyeballs showed that Qin Beiyang had not gone far......

Regardless of who rebuilt this prison, at least the wicked people who imprisoned Qin Beiyang have already touched his life-only in the ancient tomb can he live.

Everyone rushed out of the underground palace in a hurry, and there was only one way down the mountain, unless Qin Beiyang walked from the sky.

Arriving at a small village at the foot of Taebaek Mountain, Yin Ji inquired with the local people, only to learn that yesterday evening, a group of strange people came down from the mountain, transported a dilapidated coffin, and went in the direction of Seoul - called the capital during the Japanese occupation, and now called Seoul.

"Coffin?"

Ah You frowned, this is the assassin's favorite hiding tool, who will inspect the coffin?

"Little Lord, is it Ahaita......"

"Ah Hai knew that Brother Beiyang had to survive in the ancient tomb, so he used a coffin dug out of a certain ancient tomb to transport him, like a condensed underground palace, Brother Beiyang could survive for a long time." Ah You lowered his head and touched the nine-colored mane, and affectionately bit the ear of the town's tomb beast and said, "Nine-colored! Nine colors! Can you feel the smell of the host? ”

The nine-colored eyes lit up and ran down the Han River to Seoul, the heart of the Korean Peninsula.

Three days later, they arrived in Seoul. Jiuse smelled the scent of his master and arrived at Gyeongbokgung Palace, the Forbidden City during the Joseon Dynasty.

Why did you get to the palace?

The Lee dynasty, which ruled the Korean Peninsula for more than 500 years, has long abdicated as the so-called "King Lee" of the Japanese Empire and moved to Changdeokgung Palace.

Yin Ji walked in the unguarded dilapidated palace, lamenting the misfortune of being a slave to the country, and suddenly remembered something: "Ah You, I heard that our master is a descendant of the Manchu royal craftsmen, who have built mausoleums and tomb beasts for the Chinese emperor for generations, could it be that the Japanese imprisoned the master and asked him to build a mausoleum for the Korean royal family?" Our abdicated emperor of the Korean Empire is under house arrest by the Japanese, and it is said that the imperial body is not long in peace......"

Ah You shook her head, and she and Jiuse's eyes turned to the northwest direction: "If you say that the emperor abdicates, there is another one in the Forbidden City in Beijing." ”