Chapter Seventy-Six: Into the Den of Thieves
In such a dry place...... Why would I step on a crab?
With this question, I couldn't help but kick the crab again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Under this kick, I suddenly realized that the thumb-sized crab was actually just an empty shell.
The shell is still green, but the meat is gone, as if it were ...... Eaten by life?
Surprised, my phone gradually lifted and began to search around.
Soon, I saw the remains of more creatures in the graveyard......
Everywhere the light went, the corpses were everything, and at a cursory glance, I found the horns of cows, the intestines of pigs, the bones and ...... of dogs The head of a mouse?!
In the narrow alleyway of the burial chamber, the corpses of these animals of various sizes were scattered irregularly on both sides, and their corpses were rotting to varying degrees, some of them were only white bones, and some were still covered with blood and flesh.
Although the species are different, they all have a distinctive feature, that is, they are all "raw", and there are obvious traces of human bite and food on them.
I looked at the fragments of the wreckage scattered here and there, and combined with the marks of human bites and cat's claws on it, and immediately realized a very horrible fact.
All of this was left over by the Heaven Breaker and his cats and grandchildren.
This also means that the Heaven Breaker is indeed the same as Xiao Ah Si's description...... Eat raw food alive!
There is only one explanation, otherwise I would not have been able to convince myself.
The image of the person who broke the heavens was once again subverted in my heart.
Originally, I thought he was just a liar, a scoundrel greedy for money, a demon, nothing more.
But this time, he was equated with the "cat demon".
Isn't his so-called "Six-Vein Divine Sword" just a sharp cat's claws? can talk to cats, and the "spell" that can make people cheat corpses, plus the habit of eating raw meat and the cat's tail in the crotch...... Isn't all this characteristic of cats?
ā¦ā¦ Is the Celestial Breaker a "human" turned into a cat, or a cat transformed into a "human"? I can't understand it, and I can't understand it.
And if I want to know the truth, I have to go deeper into the tomb.
Just when I was surprised by all this, Zhao Shuihe and Xiao Ah Si also walked down the thief cave one after another.
Looking at the "scenery" in front of me, Zhao Shuihe was as surprised as I was, and at the same time she whispered to me: "I didn't expect it...... Things can get so serious! ā
When I saw something in her words, I asked, "To what extent?" What the hell do you know? ā
Zhao Shuihe didn't answer me immediately, but stretched out his hand and pointed to the fire at the end of the tomb, leaned close to my ear and said, "Go over first, and stop the Heaven Breaker from talking." ā
I looked up at the firelight, nodded hurriedly, and then took a brick from the ground and took my saber out of my pocket to take the lead.
In this way, the three of them walked step by step towards the shining place in the tomb.
As we approached, the three of us held our breath and stopped, for fear of making some excessive noise or touching some terrifying mechanism.
I don't know how long it was, but I first moved to the light of the tomb.
The tomb road turned a bay here, and the stone bars and fragments that sealed the tomb were still preserved at the bend.
I could tell that there used to be a stone door to seal the main burial chamber, but it was blown open by explosives.
The "masterpiece" of the Japanese, the lair of the Broken Heavens.
I was about to enter the tomb, and my mood suddenly became nervous, so I adjusted my breathing before leaning against the wall, slowly reaching the corner of the tomb and looking through the shattered stone door.
The glowing stone chamber immediately appeared in front of my eyes.
At this point, my eyes suddenly opened.
At the end of the tunnel, the chamber was the size of an ordinary bedroom, with no one inside, and in the center was a sarcophagus that had been transformed into a table filled with canned food, clothing, luggage, banknotes, and flashlights.
The light we see also comes from the flashlight on the coffin.
Obviously, this is the lair where his Heaven Breaker is hiding, but compared to this discovery, my eyes are more focused on the sarcophagus.
The sarcophagus is simple and elegant, with an inexplicable mysterious style, which is easy to associate with something.
From my point of view, the sarcophagus is very distorted, obviously knocked by external forces, and judging from the uneven surface texture of the sarcophagus, the owner of the sarcophagus has a very high status.
I had never been so close to this kind of coffin, so I was very curious for a while, and I couldn't help but pull my hand on the coffin lid.
A strange touch immediately entered my palm.
I suddenly felt that there were words on the lid of this coffin!
Curious, I hurriedly picked up the flashlight on the lid of the coffin and shone it on the font I touched.
There was an "epitaph" on it.
Because of the age, the epitaph is not very accurate, and there are no punctuation marks in the ancient inscriptions, so although I understand the words, I basically don't know the meaning.
But even so, I immediately knew who the sarcophagus was, because I could only understand the first sentence on the coffin, and in this sentence, there was the name of the sarcophagus owner.
It reads: "In the seventh year of the Emperor's Ming Dynasty, the Jingguanglu Temple Treasure Department is from the Liupin Department of "Zhao Huo", and the ancestral home is Yimeng, Shandong......"
I understand everything in this sentence.
The old squad leader told me before that in ancient times, the so-called "imperial chef" was just a general term for official chefs, and these imperial chefs had a very professional title and division of duties in the palace, and the most formal title should be "Aojiang" or "Zhanggu".
These people belong to the special institution of the imperial court to organize banquets, and this special institution is called "Guanglu Temple".
The old squad leader also said that his ancestors started from Zhao Killing Chicken, and has been serving in the institution of "Guanglu Temple", from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty, more than 500 years, without interruption, and the last time he was also a "fire man".
Among these ancestors of the Zhao family with superb cooking skills, there are many people who have been serious court officials "because of cooking", although these officials are some small officials such as "acting Zheng" and "supervising food envoys", but they are also serious "civil servants", and they are considered to be leaders.
It is also because of this court background that the Lunan Zhao family is famous in the Five Organs Temple and has its own inheritance history.
And the sarcophagus in front of me is obviously the coffin of the last court chef "Zhao Huo" of the Zhao family in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, I turned around and said to Zhao Shuihe: "This is the coffin of your ancestor Zhao Huo!" Is that the Zhao Huo who cultivated the first cat demon Huo Wei Lian? ā
Zhao Shuihe listened to my words, hurriedly walked over, looked at the first line of words on the sarcophagus, and looked shocked and regretful.
After a while, she sighed softly and said, "It seems that the legend is true, Zhao Huo felt that he had no face to see his ancestors before he died. He buried himself in a sarcophagus, and buried with him, as well as the taboo of the Zhao family's refining of cat demons. ā
I wondered, "What legend?" ā
Zhao Shuihe thought for a moment and told me: "Legend has it that after Zhao Huo refined the cat demon, he gradually realized that he had made a big mistake! And this mistake will sooner or later make the Zhao family lose their children and grandchildren. ā
Soon, Zhao Shuihe told me the second half of Zhao Huo's story.