Chapter 264: The Imperial Tomb in the Eastern Suburbs
The Eastern Suburbs Imperial Mausoleum is the burial place of the royal family members of the Southern Chi Dynasty, located in a highland dense forest on the eastern outskirts of Pingyang City. Because it is an important place for the imperial tomb, it is rumored that there are many organs in the dense forest, and if people enter by mistake, there must be no return.
The sky was completely dark, and a few stars hung sparsely in the dark night, and the cold moonlight shone through the thin clouds and scattered hazely in the forest. A gust of wind blew, and the leaves rustled. The swaying of large swaths of light and shadow makes people feel eerie.
A long line of men and horses stopped outside the dense forest, standing still.
Huang Fuchen, dressed in ink-colored clothes, rolled over from his horse and got down, his eyes as sharp as knives, staring closely at the large dense forest in front of him.
After a while, he waved his hand and decisively ordered: "Abandon the horse and enter the forest!" ”
Behind him, Mo Yixia and Feige obeyed the order, and each led a team of men and horses to rush into the forest in four ways, heading straight to the place where the imperial tomb was located.
The forest was even darker and colder, because the branches were so thick that they could not even see a trace of moonlight. Under your feet are soft old leaves, of different shades, and there is no road, which is extremely difficult to walk. As far as the eye can see, it is as if you are in an endless abyss, and you can't see the edge at a glance.
However, at this moment, without warning, a sound of breaking in the sky came from all directions, and the arrow feathers came suddenly like a storm, making it impossible to avoid. Immediately afterwards, the sound of sharp weapons piercing the flesh and the screams of the crowd were heard.
Huangfu Chen's long sword suddenly came out of its sheath, and it was held across his chest with the sword as a shield. In the darkness, only a few cold rays flashed, and countless arrow feathers were cut off.
After a rain of arrows, more than a dozen people died, and many were injured. Fortunately, there was no poison on the arrows, otherwise there would have been heavy casualties.
Feige and Liuxia hurried over, and when they saw that their Highness was not injured, they secretly let out a long breath. But his expression was even more solemn.
"Someone touched the mechanism! Be careful, everyone! The wounded stay where they are, and the others follow me! Mo Yi's voice suddenly came from the darkness, anxious but unexpectedly calm.
Everyone moved closer in the direction where Mo Yi was, and walked more carefully into the depths of the forest.
Huang Fuchen noticed that a tall soldier had been walking side by side with Mo. The man was in good shape, and his steps seemed to be very orderly. From time to time, he exchanged glances with Mo Yi, or whispered something.
Huangfu Chen's eyes flashed slightly, and he glanced in the direction of the tall soldier a few more times, and then concentrated on walking forward.
The grass and trees were dense, the branches were crisscrossed, and Mo Yi and the soldier waved the long sword in their hands in front of them, cutting through thorns and thorns, and finally walked out of a way.
Strange to say, under the leadership of Mo Yi, everyone did not encounter any hidden mechanisms again.
About half an hour later, a faint light came in in the distance.
Everyone was overjoyed, and the front should have reached the end of the dense forest.
Sure enough, Mo Yi's slightly excited voice came from afar: "Your Highness, you're about to leave the forest!" ”
"Well, everyone be careful." Huang Fuchen's deep voice made everyone feel more at ease.
Soon, everyone was out of the woods, and the cold moonlight shone through the thin clouds overhead.
Everyone noticed that the position they were in now seemed to be a huge circular clearing, surrounded by a dense forest of black pressure, which looked like patches of extremely thick and deep ink from a distance.
It's quiet, and it's a little weird. There was no wind, and everyone seemed to be able to hear each other's breathing.
Huang Fuchen's face was grim, and his eyes looked around sharply. And did not see the entrance to the imperial tomb.
At this time, Feige and Liuxia also caught up from behind. Feige's face remained unchanged, and he quickly glanced around, then stood quietly beside Huangfu Chen, without saying anything.
Liuxia didn't have Feige's calm temperament, he walked to Mo Yi's side in a few steps, touched Mo Yi's side with his elbow, leaned over and whispered, "This is the way you lead?" The entrance to the Imperial Mausoleum was eaten by you? ”
When Mo heard this, he turned his head like an idiot, looked at him contemptuously, didn't say anything, and strode forward a few steps.
Liuxia: "......"
Is he being ignored and despised again by the gorgeous?
Liuxia was angry, and was about to step forward to find Mo Yi to scold him a few words, so as to get back some face.
The next second he froze. One of the legs that had been raised froze in mid-air, and the words that were about to be spoken were stuck in his throat, and his eyes were wide open.
From Liuxia's point of view, he saw Mo Yi slowly pull out a sharp dagger, and then ...... Then the other hand actually held the bright white dagger fiercely in the palm of his hand.
In an instant, the red blood immediately flowed through the cracks of his fingers, and fell like a tick on the yellow earth beneath his feet.
Liu Xia felt pain just by looking at it, and the little bit of depression in his heart that was already left was long gone.
He hurriedly stepped forward and took a few steps, grabbed Mo Yi's arm, grabbed the dagger from his hand without saying anything, threw it on the ground fiercely, and said loudly: "What are you crazy about?!" ”
Liu Xia's voice was very loud, which caused many people to look sideways, and even Huangfu Chen turned around and looked in his direction.
Who knew that Mo Yi didn't care about the gaze on him, he glanced at Liu Xia lightly, and his tone was not shocked: "I'm looking for the entrance to the imperial mausoleum!" ”
Liu Xia was stunned for a long time, and spit out a sentence: "...... You kid bleed yourself when you find the entrance to the imperial mausoleum? ”
As soon as Liuxia's words fell, Mo Yi suddenly broke free of Liuxia's palm, raised his arm, and threw out the hand that was still bleeding straight ahead.
The dots of blood spread in an arc and spread over a large area, and then I saw that those scarlet blood beads all stood still in the void five steps away in front of Mo Yi.
The picture was very strange, and where the blood beads were still, there seemed to be an invisible transparent barrier. And this invisible barrier is now slowly eroding by Mo Yi's blood, gradually disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Slowly, the empty and barren scenery in front of me suddenly changed and completely changed.
A huge, closed arched stone door appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The two stone gates stand majestically at nine meters high and five meters wide. At the top of the stone gate, a dragon-shaped relief is born in the clouds, and the dragon body and dragon head loom in the clouds and mist, lifelike.
"Entrance to the Imperial Tomb!"
"It's really the entrance to the Imperial Tomb!"
“……”
Some of the crowd couldn't help but marvel.
Liu Xia also showed joy, patted Mo Yi's shoulder, raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay!" I didn't expect your kid's blood to be of such use?! No way! You're going to leave me some, maybe there's some stealth mechanism in there, I'll use it later! ”
As he spoke, Liuxia grabbed Mo Yi's still bleeding arm with one hand and didn't let go, and the other hand kept turning left and right on his body, as if he was looking for something to hold blood.
Hearing this, Huangfu Chen and Feige, who were a few steps away, also turned their heads sideways to look at Mo Yi at the same time, as if they were also waiting to see how Mo Yi would answer.