Chapter 24: Cannibalism
Seeing that Ban Cuntou was still a little angry, the third uncle patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's the end of the matter here, it's time for us to leave." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
Out of respect for him, the third uncle not only ordered his subordinates to put his body back in its place, cover the coffin, and even the robbery hole in the tomb was completely sealed, including the exit.
After returning to his temporary residence, the third uncle took out the two ancient books.
On the cover of one of the ancient books is written eight characters of "Qimen Dunjia's Sharp Battle Chapter", and the other ancient book is written with four characters of "Liu Family Genealogy", both books have thirty or forty pages, and the fonts on them are all handwritten.
After seeing the titles of these two ancient books, the third uncle was disappointed in his heart, because he could already roughly know the contents of the books from the names alone, and it was obvious that these two books would definitely not involve the whereabouts of Tianshi.
Although he thought so, the third uncle still opened the two ancient books and began to look at the contents.
Although ancient books have been passed for hundreds of years, under normal circumstances, even if they do not decay, at least there are signs of deterioration. However, these two ancient books are well preserved, although the paper is a little soft and yellow, but there is no sign of mold, and the third uncle estimates that the paper should be soaked in medicine.
As the name suggests, the book "The Sharp Battle of Qimen Dunjia" is written about Liu Bowen's actual combat examples of using Qimen Dunjia to deploy formations in his life, as well as some strange formations that he improved according to Qimen Dunjia.
The book is a strange book, but the content in it is jerky and difficult to understand, and the third uncle is not very interested in this aspect, so after reading a few pages, he felt bored, so he put down the book and picked up "Liu Family Tree" to read.
The "Genealogy of the Liu Clan" records the location of Liu Bowen's ancestral hometown, as well as the reproduction and migration process of his clan, and there are many names of people and places written on it.
This genealogy was written from Liu Tingqing, the seventh ancestor of Liu Bowen, and continued to be written until the end of Liu Bowen's grandchildren. Of course, Liu Bowen's descendants are far more than three generations, but Liu Bowen only had these descendants when he died.
It stands to reason that when I saw this, the book would be over, but in fact, there were more than a dozen pages in the back, and there were words written on it, which was actually Liu Bowen's life deeds.
This discovery made the third uncle suddenly excited, and he thought that Liu Bowen would definitely write the search for the elixir in it, and maybe the whereabouts of Tianshi would be mentioned in it.
The third uncle began to look at Liu Bowen's self-description carefully, and this time it was enough to watch it for an hour.
The third uncle was right, Liu Bowen's self-report not only mentioned his great achievements, but also mentioned his tomb robbery process, as for the final whereabouts of Tianshi, the self-report also explained very clearly.
Liu Bowen's tomb robbery plan was described in detail in Song Taibao's epitaph, but the last tomb robbery, that is, the trip to the tomb of King Dian, was very vague. So here we focus on what happened to Liu Bowen after the tomb of King Dian, as for the previous tomb robbery, I will not repeat the description.
Liu Bowen worked hard to finally find a bottle of Jindan in the underground mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West, but through various tests, it was finally proved that Jindan was not only not an elixir, but also contained extremely powerful corpse poison, so several people who tested the medicine died.
Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and even suspected that Liu Bowen wanted to use Jin Dan to poison himself. However, Song Taibao, the leader of the guards he trusted the most, vouched for Liu Bowen, proving that after Jin Dan was discovered, he had always taken care of it and had never been opened, so it was impossible for Liu Bowen to do anything with Jin Dan.
Zhu Yuanzhang has great trust in Song Taibao, and since Song Taibao said so, Zhu Yuanzhang dispelled the doubts in his heart and let Liu Bowen go.
Zhu Yuanzhang knew everything in the underground mausoleum of the Queen Mother of the West, and he thought that the golden pill he got this time was fake, and it was used by the Queen Mother of the West to hide people's eyes and ears, so the real elixir of immortality was hidden in that strange tomb, so he urged Liu Bowen to quickly find the key to open the tomb.
However, in Kunlun Mountain, Liu Bowen has been hit by extremely powerful corpse poison, although he is well-informed and has found a variety of drugs to treat himself, but he can only delay the onset of corpse poison a little, and cannot completely expel the corpse poison on his body.
Liu Bowen knew that his time was running out, and he had no clue about the whereabouts of the key, so he planned to use the remaining days to spend his old age at home, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not give him this opportunity. When Zhu Yuanzhang was talking to Liu Bowen, he vaguely threatened Liu Bowen in his words, to the effect that if he didn't do his best to handle this matter, Liu Bowen's family would not be able to escape the involvement.
Although Liu Bowen was very angry about Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude, he had to think about his own people, so in desperation, he embarked on a journey to find the key.
After more than two years of visits and tomb robbing, Liu Bowen finally found out the whereabouts of the key, and finally knew the origin of the key, so there is a Tianshi key.
At that time, the corpse poison on Liu Bowen's body was not far from the day of the outbreak, and the skin on his body began to slowly turn cyan, but things had come to this point, and he couldn't care about it so much, so he took Song Taibao and others into the tomb of King Dian.
It was even smoother than Liu Bowen imagined, their trip to the tomb of the Dian King this time only took five days, and they did not lose any members during the period, and they easily obtained the legendary Tianshi Key.
In fact, Liu Bowen was originally a strange man in feng shui, and he had a wide range of knowledge, plus he had been in and out of countless dangerous tombs over the years, and the accumulated experience of tomb robbery was unimaginable to the world, so the various dangers in the tomb of King Dian were not a big deal for him at all, and it was natural that this trip was extremely smooth.
After getting the Tianshi Key, Liu Bowen and Song Taibao were overjoyed, thinking that the hard days of running around were coming to an end, however, at this moment, an unexpected change happened.
The allure of the elixir of life is not something that ordinary people can resist, and this is the case with one of Song Taibao's subordinates, this person's name is He Yan, a small leader among the guards with a knife, and he is very skilled, not under Song Taibao.
This person was worried that he would not be able to achieve great things because of his weak strength, so he instigated some of his highly greedy subordinates to rebel with him, and promised that after the matter was completed, everyone would go to Kunlun Mountain to steal the elixir of life and share immortality.
In the middle of the night on the way back, He Yan, who had been plotting for a long time, couldn't hold back any longer, so he led people to launch a surprise attack on Liu Bowen and others.
Liu Bowen and Song Taibao never dreamed that such a terrible thing would happen, and without any defense, the result can be imagined.
That night, many of the guards with knives were killed by their companions in their sleep, and they may not have died painfully, but they definitely died in an unknown way.
By the time someone woke up the others with a voice when they were dying, there were less than ten people alive on Liu Bowen's side, and there were nearly twenty people left on the other side.
Song Taibao knew that if he continued to fight, his side would inevitably be wiped out, so in desperation, he had no choice but to harden his heart and let four loyal subordinates act as dead soldiers, blocking the way of He Yan and others, so that he and others could escape.
The four guards with knives had no complaints about Song Taibao's arrangement, driven by anger, they had even forgotten about life and death, and the only thought in their hearts now was to kill He Yan's side, because they could not tolerate the betrayal of the other party.
With a full of anger, the four guards with knives raised their sabers in their hands and resolutely rushed towards their former partners, now their enemies. It was precisely because of their madness that Song Taibao and others took the opportunity to escape into a dense forest, where they hid for three days before finally escaping.
At this time, there were still four people left on Song Taibao's side, and in addition to himself, only Liu Bowen and two guards with knives remained.
This incident hit Song Taibao very hard, in just a few days, he seemed to be in the prime of life and suddenly aged more than ten years, his face was full of deep tiredness, and his eyes revealed deep self-blame and remorse.
At the beginning of the search for the elixir of life, there were 500 guards with knives, which was huge, and Song Taibao at that time thought that letting such a strong team steal a few ancient tombs was as simple as eating and drinking, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was overkill.
It was precisely because of his contemptuous mentality that when he first entered the ancient tomb, he lost more than thirty of his men, and it was from that day that he suddenly realized that this mission was much more dangerous than he imagined, and it was also much more arduous, so he did not dare to take it lightly again, because he was responsible for the lives of his men.
In the past five years, Song Taibao has entered no less than fifty large and small ancient tombs, and because of these ancient tombs, his men are almost completely killed and wounded, and only the last fifty or so people remain, which is a result he never expected before.
On the day he got the Heavenly Stone Key, Song Taibao secretly told himself in his heart that now he was left with the last step, as long as he opened the underground tomb of the Queen Mother of the West to obtain the elixir, then everyone's hard life would come to an end. But he never imagined that at this most critical time, there would be a tragic incident of fratricidal brothers, which made him unacceptable at all.
In order to find the legendary elixir of life, only the last fifty or so people were left among the five hundred people, but these last fifty or so people also killed each other because of the elixir, and in the end only a dozen people remained, although more than half of these dozen people were damned people. (To be continued.) )