At this moment, there is a grave beast running wild on the ground in Paris, and there is also a tomb beast crouching in the catacombs of Paris.

Qin Beiyang, Qi Yuanshan, and Fangzi, surrounded by countless skulls, three pairs of eyes stared at this Western Town Tomb Beast.

Why is it said to be a Western Town Tomb Beast? Because, Qin Beiyang recognized this divine beast - griffin - Griffin.

The upper body is an eagle and the lower body is a lion, which appears in ancient Babylonian and Assyrian mythology, followed by ancient Greek mythology, which depicts Zeus, the sun god Apollo, and Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance. Its chest is full of eagle feathers, and a sharp eagle's beak that will peck people's eyes at any time. It is said that the griffin is an excellent hunting animal, and its favorite food is horses. The griffin is brave and fearless, brutal and bloodthirsty, but absolutely loyal to its owner.

The griffin crouched there obediently, its two wings standing up behind its back, showing no signs of moving.

Qin Beiyang pulled out the Tang knife and cautiously approached the tomb beast, carefully examining its shell and joints. He remembered the tomb of the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian found in Biyun Temple in Xiangshan, Beijing last year, among which was a pseudo-tomb beast that had trespassed.

That's right, this so-called griffon town tomb beast is another "pseudo-town tomb beast".

Westerners don't have the concept of a tomb beast at all, it's just an ornament in the tomb, like the ancient Greco-Roman statue full of cows.

This "tomb beast" has a line of French sentences engraved on its chest, which Yoshiko actually translated: "When the bell rings, the dead will be reborn." ”

Imagine that the six million bones of the catacombs, overnight, were resurrected en masse and took over all of Paris.

However, if hundreds of emperors in Chinese history, from Qin Shi Huang to Yuan Shikai, were collectively resurrected and crawled out of the mausoleum separately, it would be even more terrifying! The so-called history is always repeated.

Then, Qin Beiyang found the king's coffin.

Behind the griffin "Tomb Beast", there are two sarcophagi. On the lid of the marble coffin, a sleeping figure is carved.

A man and a woman, the man wears a crown and robes, and looks like a stone statue of a king.

There was a beautiful woman lying next to her, with a solemn demeanor and jewels, and she was naturally the queen.

Judging from the size and shape of the coffin, it is the level of a king and a queen. But Western European kings were usually buried in churches, and they didn't build large mausoleums like Chinese emperors, so how could they be in the catacombs of Paris?

Qin Beiyang saw that the side of the sarcophagus was engraved in French, and pulled Fangzi over to translate-

"Hello past friends, I'm Louis XVI, please don't grieve for me, if I'm still alive, it's you who will be inside!"

"Louis XVI? The king who was guillotined by the French Revolution? ”

Qin Beiyang recalled this sentence, and always felt that it was some kind of resentment and curse.

"Well, and his queen, Marie Antoinette. On January 20, 1793, Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette were sentenced to death by the National Convention and escorted to the guillotine. And this ingenious mechanism was invented by King Louis XVI himself. The king was beheaded by a guillotine. The citizens of Paris frantically washed their hands with the blood of the king and even licked them with their tongues. ”

Qin Beiyang sighed: "Just like our Ling Chi execution, watching the lively people compete for the blood and limbs of the deceased, and even be sold for a high price by the executioner." Who would have thought that this kind of thing would still happen in China today. The Europeans say that we are barbarians, and they are not necessarily much more civilized than us, each other. ”

Queen Marie Antoinette also went to the guillotine. Fearing that the cemetery of the king and queen would be destroyed by the republicans, the royalists did not dare to bury them in the church of Saint-Denis, where the coffins of the French kings were kept, sent the remains to the catacombs of Paris. The royalists built an underground palace out of skulls and made two marble sarcophagi according to the king's specifications. In the end, a statue of a griffon was made, hoping to protect the king for thousands of generations. ”

Fangzi seemed to know everything, but Qin Beiyang found that between the two marble coffins, there was a small glass box hidden, and there was a strange thing inside, which seemed to be soaked in alcohol.

He crouched down and looked closely, and was shocked to realize that it was a heart!

But this heart is small, maybe a child? Yoshiko found a line of text in front of the glass box: "This is the heart of Louis XVI, the youngest son of Louis XVI and the Queen." ”

"The heart of the little prince?"

Speaking of the little prince, Qin Beiyang naturally remembered his birthplace, the tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan, the little prince 1,200 years ago.

"In the past, after the death of European royal families, they had to go through complex preservation procedures, similar to ancient Egyptian mummies. They are to be eviscerated, squeezed out of the blood, carefully smeared with sesame oil, then wrapped in a shroud, clothed and placed in a sealed lead coffin, and then placed in an oak coffin, to ensure that the body will not decay for one or two hundred years. ”

"You mean that if we open these two coffins, Louis XVI and his queen will still be lifelike?"

"They died on the guillotine and were not treated so well." Yoshiko glanced at the little prince's heart again, "The heart of the royal family is soaked in an alcohol bottle, and cinnamon, myrrh, and benzoin are added and packed in a sealed lead box. After the French Revolution, the king's coffin was opened, and his heart went to the people, many of them into the hands of painters. ”

"Why does the painter want the heart of the king?"

"The dissolved oil of the corpse and internal organs produces a strange sheen when applied to the canvas. Jews had the habit of anointing corpses with incense, and some specialized in digging up Jewish graves and selling the oil to painters. ”

Qin Beiyang couldn't help but said: "God, China's tomb robbers are for gold and silver treasures, and Westerners are actually for corpse oil, which is even more disgusting and perverted than us." ”

"It is said that Louis XIV's heart was partially used by the painter, and many kings' hearts were smeared on canvas, and they are still on display in the Palace of Versailles."

At this point, the telephone rang in the tomb......

Qin Beiyang glared at Qi Yuanshan, Qi Yuanshan glared at Fangzi again, and Fangzi glared at the marble reclining statue of Louis XVI on the coffin.

Deep in the catacombs of Paris, in the tomb of Louis XVI, surrounded by thousands of skulls, the telephone rings incessantly.

Qi Yuanshan patted his ears vigorously: "I have hallucinations? ”

"No, I heard that too!"

Qin Beiyang replied. But where did the ringing come from? Will there be a telephone line in the tomb? Is it a signal to another world? They searched everywhere for the source of the bell, and Qin Beiyang touched the griffin "Tomb Beast", only to find that line of French "When the bell rings, the dead will be reborn." ”

When the bell rings......

The bell was ringing in this catacomb, Qin Beiyang looked at the countless skeletons around him and above his head, if the six million dead were reborn?

Finally, Qi Yuanshan found a telephone in the corner, and he dragged the telephone line to the center of the tomb and placed it on the lid of Queen Marie Antoinette's coffin.

Qin Beiyang is facing a thorny problem - receiving? Or don't pick up?

The phone continued to ring, and he closed his eyes, and grabbed the phone receiver with a heartbeat.

A young girl's voice rang in her ears, speaking only one French word: "Ne bouge pas!"

Qin Beiyang happened to know the meaning of this sentence in French: "Don't move!" ”

He put down the phone and obediently stood at the heart of the little prince Louis XVII.

A few minutes later, Qi Yuanshan heard the sound of hurried footsteps, and he raised his pistol in horror, only to see a group of Europeans breaking into the cemetery.

These men were not police officers, but dressed in civilian clothes, with a pentagram on their chests, the emblem of the Assassins.

Yoshiko pressed down on his arm and said, "They're here for the League of Assassins' conference." ”

Then the Koreans came, and their target was Japan. Then there were the Yugoslavs, the Poles, the Hungarians, the British Indians, the Dutch East Indians, the Turks......

One after another, the Assassins arrived and entered the catacombs with the pentagram as a basis. There were two or three Assassins from each country, almost the same as the countries represented at the Paris Peace Conference. The difference was that most of these Assassins came from small and weak countries, or colonies that did not have the right to participate in the peace conference, such as Vietnam and Korea. There were also Assassins from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, and other countries. A few months earlier, the French comrades had just done a big job and almost succeeded in assassinating their prime minister, Clemenceau.

Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan mingled among them, putting on a mustache and raising their collars to cover themselves. Most of the Assassins were accustomed to wearing disguises or hoods on purpose, not wanting to be seen in front of them.

The strange phone rang again, and now no one dared to answer it, and there were five more people in the tomb.

All the lights were lit up as if it were day, and the five men stood in the most prominent position, in front of the coffins of Louis XVI and the Queen.

The first was Ah You, the master of the Assassins, who was still dressed as a Chinese girl and had black braids at the age of sixteen.

The second is "Daddy", who is the real master of the assassins - Qin Beiyang guessed that he was also his father-killing enemy.

The third is Ah Hai, the scar on the right side of his face will never be forgotten, Qin Beiyang's mother-killing enemy.

The fourth is to get out of the way, which is as strong as a high wall, making the people around him retreat.

Fifth ...... How can there be a fifth? The size of a young man, dressed in black, with a ghost mask on his face.