Paris, night.

The hot air balloon departs from the forest on the outskirts. There is no moonshine. Almost hidden in the dark. In the pod under the hot air balloon, Ouyang Anna wore a bulging coat. Dr. Holstein asked her why she was dressed like this. It's still summer, after all.

"This is the necessary costume that Qin Beiyang taught me to enter the tomb."

Anna replied calmly, looking down on the crowd of Paris. The Seine becomes a dull belt, and only the Montmartre plateau sings and dances. Holstein steads a hot air balloon with a motor driving the propeller and takes advantage of the wind to get closer to Notre Dame Cathedral.

The towers are already at your feet, there are countless bats flying in the night, and the little monster sculpture of Notre Dame Cathedral. The Doctor lowered the balloon's anchor chain, hovered over the Northwest Tower, and lowered a soft ladder.

Ouyang Anna grabbed the soft ladder first and climbed to the pane at the edge of the tower. Holstein also came down. Thankfully, the black-clothed man of the Artisan Alliance was not on the tower, presumably still guarding the staircase, who would have thought that the divine soldiers would descend from the sky?

A large bell hangs inside the tower, and there is an iron door in the depths. Holstein pulled out his tools and quickly sawed the copper locks, facing a wave of rot. Anna didn't go inside, but lit up the wall with a flashlight, and found a line of letters in the corner of the wall—

'ANAΓKH

This is the Greek word meaning fate.

The two skeletons were still lying there, a petite woman and a deformed man. This is Victor Hugo's description of Quasimodo, the bell tower eccentric, and Esmeranda, a gypsy girl, in "Notre Dame de Paris".

There is also an iron door in the secret room, and a sarcophagus can be faintly seen. As described by Qin Beiyang, it is a ship-shaped coffin in Chinese style.

Anna's flashlight shone out of the stone tablet under the iron gate, revealing a line of Yanti Chinese characters-

Epitaph of the Great Venerable Qin Jin of the Craftsman Alliance

This is the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, and it is also the epitaph of Qin Jin, the authentic descendant of the Qin tombsmith clan.

She saw that there were still six Chinese characters in the body of the epitaph—

Love, non-attack, and rescue

This is the way of Mozi, and it is also the way of craftsmen and rangers.

Ouyang Anna knelt and kowtowed to this coffin on behalf of Qin Beiyang, chanting words, praying for forgiveness from the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance in the Heavenly Spirit - what she did was not blasphemy, but for the sake of the successors of the Qin Tombsmith Clan for three thousand years, in order to save Qin Beiyang's life.

She snatched the tool from Dr. Holstein's hand and destroyed the iron door with three strikes and five by two, and the doctor said in the back, "What if there is a grave beast?" ”

"Then let's all die together!"

Ouyang Anna swung a hammer and smashed it into the sarcophagus with all her might. Like a thunderbolt, the hammer smashed a large pit in the sarcophagus, cracking several cracks, and raising hundreds of years of stone debris and dust, making a deafening loud noise.

Holstein didn't expect this Chinese girl to be so reckless. He took a bite of the ashes, coughed and retreated outside the iron gate, for fear of being caught by the tomb beast and shattered into pieces.

Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps behind me. The two black-clothed men guarding the staircase rushed up following the voice.

Holstein pulled out his pistol and fired two bullets. There was a scream from the tower - he hit only one of them. The Doctor tried to shoot again, but a flash of sword flashed overhead, and the Craftsmen Union was about to take off his head.

The Doctor was about to die, only to hear the sound of metal piercing through his flesh. Then the sword fell, and the whole man pressed down on Holstein. A hard steel arrow, its feathers grazing the doctor's cheek, snapping to the ground along with them.

Ouyang Anna held a crossbow, which was a weapon given to him by Qin Beiyang, and also a weapon of the Russian Trap Master of the Craftsman Alliance. She hid herself in case she needed it, and when she saw that Holstein had only hit one person, she quickly shot a steel arrow to save the Doctor, whose life was on the line.

Karl Holstein crawled out from under the dead body, covered in blood. He checked in horror on the other guy, who had been shot in the chest and had his last breath. The doctor shuddered and retrieved his pistol, and was about to fire a second shot when Anna fired a second steel arrow that pierced the man's heart.

The doctor was horrified and said, "You are so ruthless! ”

"If I don't be ruthless, you're dead. Besides, I am mercifully helping him to end his suffering. ”

Anna was her lips, but she was terrified in her heart. She has lived a career as a husband and goddaughter for more than ten years, and it is not easy to kill people with her own hands. Just now, he took the lives of two people in a row, I'm afraid it was the genes of the boss of the Shanghai Tang Green Gang.

Holstein wiped the blood from his face and stumbled to the sarcophagus that Anna had smashed. The dust cleared, and under the strong flashlight beam, the tomb owner inside the coffin was exposed......

Ouyang Anna forced herself to widen her eyes, even if she saw a rotten dry bone, or a well-preserved corpse like a little prince of the Tang Dynasty, or even a bunch of maggots and poisonous snakes parasitic on the rotting corpse......

However, what she saw was a tomb beast.

But it does not have the limbs and body of a beast, but it has the arms, legs, and facial features of a human. It was topped with a beastly helmet armor, shaped like a ferocious lion, and clearly made of steel. Two lion's eyes were staring at the top of the helmet, and their heads hung down with fluffy golden manes. The whole body is covered in armor in the shape of a beast, and is carved with intricate patterns. Only the two huge oval mirrored iron armors on the chest, which had been smooth and brilliant after hundreds of years, immediately illuminated the faces of Ouyang Anna and Holstein.

After all, Ouyang Anna graduated from the history department of Peking University, and she saw that this tomb beast was wearing Tang Dynasty Mingguang armor, and its arm and knee joints looked like the plate armor of a European medieval knight. In particular, the helmet has a large steel mask, carved in the shape of a lion's face, which completely covers the face, which is also the specification of European knights' plate armor.

But this armor is much larger than the European aristocratic plate armor seen in the museum and the Japanese Sengoku period. It was as if a giant with a height of two meters and a weight of more than three hundred catties was wrapped in a steel shell, and it was really necessary to use a beast-like shape to completely protect "his" body.

"Is this a grave beast or armor?" Holstein asked, "It seems to be a fusion of Chinese and European style armor, gathering the most powerful steel protective equipment from the East and the West." ”

"Humanoid Armor Tomb Beast."

Ouyang Anna gave an answer. Before she set off from China, Qin Beiyang told her the secret in the coffin outside Suzhou - the lost skills of the Qin tombsmith clan, which was only mastered by Qin Jin, the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, and it was also the pages that were torn out from the "Qin Tomb Craftsman's Guide" that Qin Beiyang saw.

But only by opening Qin Jin's coffin and witnessing the owner of the tomb in the coffin can he understand this truth - Qin Jin made himself a tomb beast.

It's a pity that more than 600 years ago, Qin Jin was assassinated and seriously injured before he made himself into a tomb beast. Just like Jiu Se is also a living tomb beast, using the ancient divine deer as a living body, plus the artificial materials of the Qin clan's tombsmith clan. Nine colors can survive in the tomb for thousands of years, but Qin Jin cannot escape death. Having lost the soul of a living body, even if there is still a spirit stone of the tomb beast, it is just a pile of dry bones and steel machinery.