Chapter 668: The Vampire King
Just like the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there are men and women among these stone figures, but they are different from any race Ye Ling has seen so far, their faces are very pleasing to the eye, the men are handsome, and the women are gorgeous, but they all have a pair of blood-red eyes, emitting a strange red light.
Because the eyes of those statues are inlaid with crystal nuclei that can glow red, at first glance they seem to have come to life, staring coldly at Ye Ling and the other intruders, although they know that they are stone statues, but under this quiet underground where needles can be heard, there are still some creeps.
From ancient times to the present, these crystal nuclei can emit light, and just by the point, you can conclude that they are very valuable.
Of course, this is not the most important thing.
Ellie glanced at the relief murals on the stone chamber, and her face changed: "This is the tomb of the vampire!"
Vampires are an evil race in the astral plane, their appearance and form are almost no different from the human race, as long as they are more handsome, just like the elves, the ugly individuals in the vampires are extremely rare, and any one of them is handsome and beautiful, and the vampires are very graceful, any of them look very gentleman or ladylike, if only in terms of appearance and temperament, the race is very pleasing to the eye.
However, it is not for nothing that vampires are designated as an evil race, they are very scary, because as the name suggests, vampires like to suck blood, and must suck blood for a living, and blood is also an important source of liliang for them, especially the blood of the strong, which can increase the liliang of vampires, just like the Yin and Yang clan can absorb the essence of other people through combination, this way of obtaining liliang is naturally illegal in the eyes of the righteous camp.
Vampires who like beauty, even after death, pursue to arrange their tombs beautifully, plus those vampire reliefs, so this stone chamber is undoubtedly a vampire tomb.
"To be exact, it's the Tomb of the Vampire King!" "The Fox Demon Empress corrected Ellie's mistake in her psychic communication with Ye Ling: "Ordinary vampires can't have such a luxurious tomb!"
If it were to be changed to other places, a tomb of this size would not be too high-level for a vampire. However, don't forget, it was carved out of the ground like pig iron for 3,000 meters, and it can make so many exquisite and intricate reliefs, and the liliang needs to be great.
If the observer is a skilled artist, he will find that the reliefs are actually the work of the same person. Because even if the relief of the same style and pattern is worked out by different craftsmen, there may still be very subtle differences in style, of course, this difference cannot be found by ordinary people.
But Julie is a top-notch artist, and she realizes it.
All the reliefs, and everything in this stone chamber, are all integrated, and even with Julie's eyes, there is still nothing to find fault with, which shows that the craftsman not only has a very strong liliang, but also a very high artistic standard.
The level of art that can be compared to the Fox Empress, this is not something that ordinary vampires can have, it usually belongs only to the nobility.
Moreover, not just ordinary aristocrats.
Many of the details of these burial figures, such as their clothing, can reflect that some of them were nobles of great honor, and that the vampire hierarchy was very strict, and after their deaths, the figures depicted in the frescoes and reliefs represented guardians, who were absolutely below their own rank, otherwise they would be considered disobedient, cursed, and never sleep in peace for their bodies and souls.
And in the murals of this vampire tomb, dare to carve a great nobleman with a very high status, under one person, above ten thousand people, which shows that the owner of the tomb has a status above any vampire, such a person, in each era, there is only one, that is the vampire king!
Ye Ling had also heard the rumors of vampires and couldn't help but be startled.
Mamma Mia, what Lao Tzu wants to dig up is actually the corpse of the vampire king!
Jessica was also surprised: "Vampire's Tomb, I heard that vampires have a premonition before they die, they will return to their hometown in advance, as a place of eternal rest, not to mention, this vampire is obviously a nobleman, and he should pay special attention to tradition, and the ancient wilderness is not the hometown of vampires!"
"It's easy!" said Ellie without thinking, "Because of some reason, such as an incurable serious injury, this vampire nobleman could not return to his hometown, so he opened up this place." However, without the help of other vampires, he opened this tomb alone, and he was seriously injured, Liliang of the tomb owner before his death was really quite terrifying, and it is probably not an ordinary noble! Lord Lord, your original intention of digging this tomb is correct, the nobleman built a tomb and proclaimed himself, and the treasures on his body must not have been taken away by others, but the vampire's treasures, many of the functions are also related to the vampire's ability, unless you find a vampire helper, otherwise it is likely not to be used! ”
Ye Ling smiled and said, "Hehe, even if I don't need it, I can throw it on the black market and sell it, or exchange it for something of the same value that is useful to me!"
Ellie was stunned and said, "Well, that's right, I didn't expect it!"
Ye Ling said in his heart, for me, the most haode thing is not the treasure on the vampire's body, but its corpse, of course, he did not tell the two girls what he thought in his heart, but said: "Come on, let's look for treasures in this tomb!"
After coming to this tomb, the evil aura became even stronger, and as they walked along the aura, everyone soon saw its source.
In the stone bed in the center of the tomb, there was a person lying quietly, but this person was not a stone statue, but a real person!
His skin was not the monotonous gray of the stone chamber, but fair, and he had long red hair, which was not found in the stone statue.
It's just that he's dead.
This unusually tall vampire, reaching more than two meters tall, looked almost indistinguishable from a human, except extremely handsome, snow-white skin, wearing a tuxedo trimmed with black and gold, facing up on his back, his hands on his chest, calm and serene, as if he had just fallen asleep, and if it weren't for the lack of breath, you would even suspect that he was still alive.
This vampire, even if he died, died a dignified death, without the horror or hideousness of facing death at all, and his body also revealed the temperament of an aristocracy.
What is strange is that there are no embalming measures such as freezing here, but this vampire corpse has not shown the slightest sign of corruption after thousands of years, and even exudes a strong evil aura, although the temperature of this stone chamber is not low, Ye Ling and the three of them all feel a little chilled in their bodies.
Next to the vampire, there is also a line of large characters engraved in blood, but it is ancient characters.
Ellie and Lucy both have the common memory of the Dark Celestial Maiden, as well as a wealth of knowledge, she also recognizes this ancient text, and after a glance, she reads it: "Although my Immortal Ghost King is dead, my will, my body, will never die!"
"Ghost King!" Jessica gasped, "This guy was actually a vampire king when he was alive! That necromancer also claimed to be the Eternal Lord, so he should have something to do with him." ”
"Immortal Ghost King, Immortal Ghost King......" Ellie muttered to herself, as if it felt a little familiar.
Inheritance cannot pass on all the memories of the Celestial Maiden to the next generation intact, and some things will exist very vaguely, and you need to think carefully about searching before you can remember them.
Suddenly remembering something, Ellie blurted out: " Immortal Ghost King, I've heard of this vampire, it's a ghost king from ancient times, named Nicholas, there are records in the literature, it is said that Nicholas is a rare variant of vampires, with a very strong regeneration ability, some powerful opponents have beaten him to the point that there is no head left, he can recover as before, with this ability, although he was not the strongest vampire in Liliang back then, but he defeated one competitor after another, and finally became the vampire king!"
Jessica said with some interest: "Then he will later suffer serious injuries and die here without recovery?"
Ellie Jie groaned: "It should be that he has suffered a soul-level trauma, even if his body regeneration ability is against the sky, and his soul is fatally damaged, he will not be able to live." However, this body is also too strong, it seems to be able to exist without relying on the soul, just like a plant, so even after death, it can still not decay and emit evil energy.
Jessica sighed in admiration, "It's amazing, even our highest-level holy warriors of the Protoss don't have such a reincarnation ......"
Before he finished speaking, the eyes of the corpse of the vampire king opened suddenly, and the blood-colored pupils were like rubies, extremely beautiful, but they were strangely beautiful, staring straight at the three of them, and the eyes were extremely sharp, like a blade, as if they would penetrate people.
Compared to the walking dead who were enslaved by necromancers, it was a very different feeling.
It is said that the eyes are the window of the soul, and the eyes of the vampire king make people feel that he seems to still have a soul and a mind.
Ye Ling and the three of them were all frightened by this strange scene, and they jumped aside almost at the same time, and their fighting spirit was instantly raised to the limit to prevent a sudden change.
But after waiting for a while, there was still no movement, and the three of them had the courage to approach again, and found that the ghost king's open eyes were gradually closed again.
"It's just...... It's just a reflex!" Ellie sighed with relief and explained: "His soul is gone, but the fighting instinct of his body is still there, and he senses our breath and wakes up from his slumber. Well, how to describe it, it might be more appropriate to say that he is a living dead. ”
Although Jessica is not a person who is afraid of death, but after all, the corpse in front of her is an ancient corpse with a history of more than 1,000 years, or a vampire king, she always felt a little hairy in her heart, patted her chest and muttered: "It's really scary, I said, he shouldn't become a zombie, dear lord, don't expect me to dig something on him, I want to look for you, I don't know if when I meet him, I will catch me reflexively, then I will have a nightmare!"
"Jessica, you're scared too, forget it, let me come!" Ye Ling was embarrassed to let the two ladies do it, so he had the courage to reach out to the corpse and search for a semen, but there was no reflexive seizure during the process.
After everything was done, Ye Ling took off all the crystal nuclei embedded in the statue's head as eyes, and the stone room suddenly darkened, and the sense of mystery became even stronger, Jessica urged: "Let's go quickly, I don't want to stay here for too long!"
"Okay, wait a minute!" Ye Ling's palm wiped over the stone bed, and the vampire king's body disappeared.
Jessica knew that he had put the body in the storage space, and was surprised, "What do you want this horrible shell for?"
"Research!" Ye Ling touched his nose and said, "I think this Immortal Lord's regeneration ability is really amazing, there must be some mystery in it, if I can figure it out, it may be of great benefit to me!"
Jessica scoffed: "Come on, if it is as Ellie Jie said, this immortal ghost king is a rare individual that vampires rarely encounter in a thousand years, this involves the issue of racial bloodline and mutation, unless you are a god, it is impossible to study anything." ”
Ye Ling laughed dryly: "It's okay, anyway, he looks more terrifying, but it's actually nothing." ”
Jessica was about to say something, when the ground suddenly shook, and cracks appeared in the rock, which was as hard as iron.
Ellie's face changed: "There seems to be some unknown secrets between this corpse and the stone chamber, you take it away, this stone chamber will collapse soon, we had better leave as soon as possible!"
The shock became more and more intense, and some stone fragments began to fall, and the three of them hurriedly launched the light body technique to the limit, flew out of the cave along the original road, and looked over the mine, and found that the entire mountain peak was constantly shaking, as if there was a big earthquake, and after a while, only a huge sound was heard, and the mountain peak collapsed, and the stone chamber was completely filled, and if they walked slowly, the three of them might also be buried in it.
The loud noise quickly alarmed the people behind the mine, and several black dots approached quickly from far and near, Ye Ling didn't have to think about it, he could guess that it should be the Four Wizards and Hua Xin.
At this time, it's better not to meet!
Thinking of this, Ye Ling flew in another direction, and soon disappeared in the rainy night.