Chapter 35: The Beheaded Queen

On the eve of the Treaty of Versailles, the Catacombs of Paris, the World Congress of the League of Assassins.

Surrounded by countless skulls, under the noses of the griffons, the French anarchists and avoidists pried open the sarcophagus of the decapitated king Louis XVI.

Unsurprisingly, inside the sarcophagus was a lead coffin. But it wasn't welded shut, just a large and delicate lock. During his lifetime, the king loved locks enough to join the Guild of Craftsmen, a hobby that continued into the guillotine.

The lock was rudely smashed, and a puff of smoke and dust rushed out of the lead coffin. The Assassins covered their mouths and noses and shone their lights into it, as skilled as tomb robbers.

It's a pity that they only saw a pile of rotten bones, scattered in lead coffins, without the legendary embalming. There are no crowns on the stone carvings, and no burial goods can be found. The only thing that can prove the identity of the owner of the tomb is that there is no skull.

Because the king died on the guillotine.

If the husband is discovered, will the wife be far away?

The Assassins opened the queen's coffin, first the sarcophagus and then the lead coffin. The moment he heard the coffin lid collapse, Qin Beiyang was inexplicably distressed. A cloud of white smoke rose from the coffin, and the noisy people fell silent.

Marie Antoinette, the queen is sleeping, her skin is snowy, her face is still lifelike, and there is no sign of decay! Only a head full of white hair of 3,000 zhang, the fate seems to be long?

A noblewoman in her thirties, with Germanic features. She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor and met six-year-old Mozart at the age of seven. The little genius said seriously: "I will marry you in the future!" ”。 Later, the little princess became the queen of France, and the Palace of Versailles held a grand wedding, and women all over Europe envied her as a fashion leader of the last generation. Someone made up a joke - when the French people could not eat bread, the queen innocently said: Then why don't they eat cake? These jokes led her to the guillotine. She stepped on the executioner's foot and said, "I'm sorry, you know, I didn't mean to." "Then calmly go to death.

The Beheaded Queen.

Between the neck and the body, a black necklace hung from the body of the corpse, dotted with lines of pearl gemstones......

Qin Beiyang looked at it again, what kind of necklace it was, but the needle and thread where the wound was stitched. It is also common in China that the families of beheaded prisoners have to ask a craftsman to re-stitch the head and body before burial, which is called ending up with a whole body so that they can be reincarnated in the next life.

Chop off the Emperor's head!

Somehow, this sentence lingers in my ears again? Why did they open the coffin? Exposing the bodies of kings and queens? Just to admire the incorruptible body of the decapitated queen?

The answer was in front of the two sarcophagus, and the sound of Gegege's gears turning......

The assassins looked at each other, and a scream erupted - where had the heart gone?

The heart is in the griffon's hawk's beak.

The Griffontown Gravebeast, opening a pair of eagle eyes, steel beak dripping with blood, tore open the chest of an assassin. Its two wings waved, and its talons and legs scurried, attacking every living person in the tomb.

It is not a statue, but a machine with the ability to kill. When the Assassins pried open the coffin of the tomb owner and desecrated the remains of the king and queen, it triggered the mechanism of the tomb beast. In its eyes, everyone who intrudes here is a tomb robber.

Qin Beiyang thought of a possibility - Qin Jin, the first generation of the Great Venerable of the Craftsman Alliance, passed down his craft in Europe?

Someone pulled out a weapon to resist, but in vain in front of the griffin, the talons, the beak, and even the two wings were all murderous weapons. Screams followed, blood flew across the tomb, and a large body fell next to the coffin. Qin Beiyang pulled out the ring-headed Tang knife, and Qi Yuanshan also took out a pistol.

The Griffontown Gravebeasts cornered the Assassins to the edge of the walls, and some of them were as light as swallows, even jumping onto the skull-strewn ceiling. When Qin Beiyang was also leaning against a pile of bones, suddenly a stick strangled his throat. He began to struggle violently, and then more and more sticks came to him, and a few pairs of wizened fingers. When I looked down, it was full of dead human bones.

The skull on the opposite side opened its mouth and bit the Assassins' necks. Fortunately, Qi Yuanshan helped and broke several bones before pulling Qin Beiyang out of the wall.

The catacombs of Paris were in turmoil, with countless bones of the dead piled up on the walls, all of whom were royalists who guarded the tombs of kings and queens, perhaps all of whom died in the guillotines of the Revolution and were buried with their loyal monarchs to create a Bourbon dynasty in the underworld.

The Tomb Beasts are killing, the Royalist bones are killing, and the entire tomb underneath is killing......

Assassins all over the world are bleeding, this is the so-called "Assassin Trial"?

Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan hid in Tibet, and they also had to protect the little girl Fangzi. He felt that it was a conspiracy, a conspiracy against the vast majority of the Assassins, or rather a purge within the Assassins. Either exclude dissidents, or weed out the weak, or sacrifice the living of the tomb owner!

Ah You, Ah Hai, Daddy, Tuo Huan, and the ghost mask, these five Chinese assassins, who seemed to have been prepared, hid far away when the coffin was opened, avoiding the first wave of attacks from the griffin town tomb beasts, and the second wave of attacks from the Royalist skeletons, and so far unscathed.

Sergeant Xavier of the Paris Police Department, a "mole" who had infiltrated the League of Assassins, had been wounded by the Grave Beast and was bleeding profusely from his arm. In the panic, his cap and fake mustache fell off, just in time for the French anarchists to recognize their faces.

"Mole!"

The people around him looked at him, and Sheriff Xavier endured the pain and raised his gun to kill the assassin in front of him. When he leaned his back against the skull wall, two bony arms hooked around him, and the burly sheriff couldn't escape. The Assassin Ah Hai quietly approached, swinging his dagger in a dashing manner.

Xavier's throat was slit, his trachea was exposed to air, and his eyes widened in despair as he stared at the scar on Ahai's face.

At the same time as the sheriff died in the line of duty, Qin Beiyang felt that the opportunity had come. In the pot of porridge between the assassins and the tomb beasts and skeletons, he can take advantage of the chaos to kill Ah Hai with his own hands and avenge the destruction of the Tianjin German Concession ten years ago!

He hid the Tang knife behind him and quietly approached Ah Hai from the side, close to the side of his cheek with the scar. When he pointed his knife at the back of Ahai's neck, the blade was only half a foot away from the carotid artery, and a sharp eagle claw flew in front of him.

If Qin Beiyang hacked Ah Hai to death, at the same time, the griffin's talons would also crush his neck.

In an instant, he changed his mind and pulled Tang Dao backhand, blocking the Tomb Beast's blow.

The griffin fluttered its wings and flew up in the tomb. Although the ceiling is not high enough, it was able to leap through the air and take the head of the Assassin from a high position.

But Qin Beiyang had a feeling that the griffin didn't see him, and was purely doing repetitive mechanical movements. It's not improvisation like other grave beasts. Sure enough, Louis XVI's tomb beast flew up again, swooping down towards the ground, seemingly intending to destroy all living people.

During the day, he was still dying, but now Qin Beiyang is alive and well, as if he has gained infinite strength from the tomb. The nightmare of more than a year ago became clearer, and a certain round ruin flashed through my mind, and tigers, stags, monkeys, crows, and bears ran into my heart again......

In an instant, he imitated the movements of these five animals, and jumped high against the griffin town tomb beast, wielding a three-foot Tang knife, bravely and fearlessly dueling between man and beast.

"Brother!"

The master of the assassins, sixteen-year-old Ah You, recognized Qin Beiyang's face.

The corners of Marie Antoinette's mouth smiled strangely, and Qin Beiyang flew over her coffin, the ring-headed Tang knife was boiling hot, with its own strength, dodging the griffin's eagle claws, and just slashing at the face of the tomb beast.

The catacombs of Paris, with the sound of metal colliding......

Sparks splashed on the faces of Qin Beiyang and the Guillotine Queen, a thunderous shockwave, and all the assassins fell to the ground in response, like a volcano erupting from the ground, and a comet hitting the moon.

As if his whole body was surrounded by demons and fell into the hell of the flames, Qin Beiyang first felt a sudden tremor in his hands, and then the excitement was overwhelming, and the adrenaline and blood gushed out on the top of his head.

The Griffontown Gravebeast split in two, a red light exploding from its body, and then falling to the ground in pieces.

Qin Beiyang fell down in amazement, this Tang knife used by An Lushan pulled out the mountain and split a tomb beast with all his might.

The tomb was silent, and the skeletons and skeletons either retreated to the walls and returned to their original positions, or fell to the ground and rotted.

The broken griffin, the beheaded king and queen's tomb beast, all the organs and lungs have been exposed, only gears, conveyor belts, clockwork, escapements, etc., just like the large Swiss clocks that my father had seen in the Qing court, the same mechanical principle. The clocks also feature eighteenth-century figures and landscapes, all of which move on time, and are called "tricks and tricks" by the Chinese.

But he didn't find the spirit stone.

The spirit stone of the tomb beast is not only extremely unique in appearance, but for Qin Beiyang, as long as it is close, there is a burning feeling.

The Griffon Town Tomb Beast didn't, and in the final analysis, it was still a "pseudo-Town Tomb Beast". It does not possess the power of the tomb beast in a Chinese mausoleum, because it does not have the soul of the tomb owner, and relies purely on the delicate mechanical technology of a clock.

This "pseudo-tomb beast" is a mechanical body, not a "soul mechanical body".

Everyone stared straight at Qin Beiyang. Ah You stopped Ah Hai and Daddy and the others and prevented them from getting close to Qin Beiyang.

Qin Beiyang coughed violently, inserted An Lushan's Tang knife back into his back, and returned to the two coffins. He said to the king and queen, "Je suisdésolée." This is a formal apology in French.

He then re-cloned the lead coffin. Unable to weld, he used the broken parts of the griffon town tomb beast to make nails one by one and drove them into the coffin lid in turn.

When the lid of the decapitated queen's coffin was closed, Qin Beiyang had an illusion that Marie Antoinette had opened her eyes.

Only by covering the coffin and letting the king and queen sleep again will the Royalist skeletons stop attacking them.

Finally, he picked up the bottle of alcohol from the heart of the little prince Louis XVII and put it to his lips and kissed it gently.

Qin Beiyang thought of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longqi, the king of Zhongnan County, who did not know where to go in the coffin.