The second biography of the Song Dynasty - the underground palace
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The moment the door closed, Chris, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the dark, she couldn't wear this ancient dress with a lot of effort, so she simply got up in a white middle coat.
She was puzzled by being pierced by kryptonite and coming to ancient China in a blink of an eye. Now that she is trapped in this palace, she can't do anything, she must find a way to get out of the palace. Sadly, she found that there were always groups of people outside the dormitory during the day, and there were also eunuchs, palace maids and guards at night, and she, the queen mother, would be discovered as soon as she went out.
Chris couldn't help but be a little frustrated, did he have to spend his whole life in this hellish place?
She sighed, her gaze sweeping over the huge bedchamber. In the bedroom, the huge bed occupies the southeast corner, next to the dresser, opposite a chaise longue, and the corner and table are lit with night lights. All the palace maids and eunuchs were driven out of the dormitory by her, and the room, which had been noisy during the day, was now unusually empty and silent.
On the north wall was a low cabinet, and in the corner stood a swarthy cabinet with a large lock. Chris suddenly remembered that during the day, the eunuch named Liang Weijian had withdrawn Xing Yun, opened a secret compartment on the bed in front of him, and found a key. Then he opened the cabinet door, put a large box inside, and put the key back in its place.
Liang Weijian's actions seemed very strange, he seemed to want to say something to himself, but he stopped talking, and the mystery made people feel that this matter was a bit strange. For the sake of caution, Chris didn't ask questions at the time, but now she really wants to see what Liang Weijian put in.
She walked to the small table, picked up a gauze lamp, walked back to the bed, found the hidden compartment where she remembered, fumbled for a while, and then opened it, and sure enough, there was a key inside. She took out the key, walked to the large cabinet, inserted the key into the lock, and heard a "click" as the lock opened.
Chris opened the cabinet door, only to find that there was nothing in the cabinet except for a few pieces of clothing. However, she clearly saw Liang Weijian put things in the middle of the left grid, and no one had entered the house since then, how could the big box be gone? Chris remembers going to England as a child, and in the ancient castle of his great-grandfather's house, a Victorian building, he saw a device, which was a manual lifting platform for servants to deliver food to their masters. On closer inspection, she felt that what was in front of her looked very similar to the food delivery device she had seen.
Chris patted it unwillingly, and suddenly noticed that Muge was shaking slightly. She removed the clothes in the cabinet, and felt a hint of coolness in her fingers, it was the wind! How could there be wind in the cabinet? Could it be a secret passage? She quickly felt a handle in the corner of the cabinet, and turned it slightly, and the wooden grid on the right was actually opened, and she was pleasantly surprised, there was really a secret way!
groping around the corner of the cabinet with his hands, he finally found something like a handle, and when he pulled hard, a hole was immediately revealed, and below it was a wooden staircase. Chris hesitated, but great curiosity prevailed over her. With a lamp in one hand and a wall in the other, she cautiously descended the wooden spiral staircase.
The wooden ladder was very narrow, and it creaked when stepped on, and the cold air from the deep underground palace made her shiver. The gauze lamp magnifies her slender figure and casts it on the dark and mottled walls. As she reached the bottom of the stairs and into the deep darkness of the cellar, Chris breathed a sigh of relief and walked slowly further, where she saw a black iron door in the light.
She held up the gauze lamp and looked closely, there was a pull ring on the iron door, Chris reached out to hold the pull ring, the handle was bronze, and a huge upside-down bat cast on the iron door was held in its mouth, and the bat's face was hideous. But in Chinese culture, the bat and "Fu" homonym, since ancient times is the symbol of "money Fulu", hanging "bat rat" is a sign, take the auspicious meaning of "blessing to the door", two copper coins are hung side by side under the left and right bat wings, which means "urging wealth".
The hideous bat only reminded Chris of a vampire. She clenched the cold tab, but still pulled firmly.
The iron door let out a jerky roar and slowly opened.
The stony rock walls, the paved stone slabs on the ground, extend into the darkness.
Chris thought to himself: It would be nice if this secret passage could lead to the outside.
It's a pity that she guessed wrong, because she quickly came to the end. With two stone chambers side by side in front of him, Chris stopped. One stone chamber is locked, and the other is not. She tried the key she had just given, but she couldn't open it, and she could only enter the unlocked door. She found a wooden device embedded in the stone wall, which was what she had guessed as a manual lifting platform, with several ropes next to it that could be lifted up and down the platform. It seems that directly above this position is the big cabinet.
Walking further inside, Chris noticed a light shining under the wooden door in front of her, and she was a little scared, but pushed the door open anyway to enter. The inside is spacious and bright, this is a small but elegant room, in the middle is a lacquered wood round table, there is a lamp on the table, there are several plates on the ground, next to two benches, a big box on the ground, open layer by layer, it is the big box that Liang Weijian put into the cabinet two days ago.
"Somebody here......" She was interrupted before she could finish her sentence.
"Who?" someone rushed out of another house.
Chris was startled, she jerked around and was stunned to see a young man who looked like a eunuch.
When the eunuch saw her, he immediately shouted: "Why did you run out? I am really unlucky, to take care of you madman, it seems that you have not been taught enough in your daily life." ”
She was taken aback, and the other party not only did not kneel when he saw her, but also rushed towards her.
Because of her long-term training in mixed martial arts, Chris did not panic, she reached out to push the other party's arm away, but she ignored the fact that she was no longer the tall and big Chris who used to be. Although Chris blocked the opponent's arm, he couldn't stop the opponent's movement at all, and he was thrown to the ground. The two fell to the ground hard, and Chris took the yarn lamp out of his hand and fell out.
After the eunuch fell to the ground, he rolled over and straddled Chris's body, and without saying a word, raised his fist and struck it down.
Chris was in a hurry, resisting with one hand, touching the ground with the other, and was touching the yarn lamp that had just fallen to the ground, she waved it and hit the other party's face, and the other party fell to the ground. Chris desperately tried to get up, and the blow was quite heavy, and the man's forehead broke.
"Ah!!! it hurts me. The man covered his head with his hands, screamed in pain, and lunged at Chris again, "Dead slut, I'm going to kill you!"
"Damn, I, I'm the Queen Mother. Chris was knocked to the ground by the man again, looking at the other party's crazy eyes, hoping that his identity would scare the other party.
"Hahahaha, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother will let us all die below......" The eunuch laughed maniacally, pinching her with both hands. He had a lot of strength, Chris was choked by the throat, and soon he had no strength to resist.
Seeing that the person had fainted, the eunuch suddenly seemed to remember something, looked at the room he had just come out of, and then looked back at the person lying on the ground, and said to himself, "Queen Mother?"
He suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly shrank on the ground, but in less than a second, he raised his head again, his eyes were red, and he knew that he was going to die this time, so he simply didn't do anything, and while getting up, he took out a knife from his boots, and stabbed Chris in the chest without hesitation.
The knife stabbed down, but there was no blood splattered, but as if it had touched a hard stone, and the eunuch's eyes widened in surprise.
I saw that the punctured clothes were shining, and the skin that should have been snow-white emitted a faint dark light. The flesh that collided with the knife turned into a geometrically structured hard object, like black dragon scales, wriggling with the texture that covered it. The black hard object wrapped around the tip of the knife slowly opened, and the shape was like a black crystal lotus, and a black mist emanated from the center of the stamen, and it climbed up along the tip of the knife, until it reached the eunuch's hand.
It emits an extremely high temperature, and the skin that has been touched is as if it has been scalded by boiling water, but it does not leave any signs of burns. The eunuch was already stunned by the scene in front of him, and he didn't have to shout out when his mouth opened wide, but watched as the black shadow spread and crawled up along his arm like a giant snake.
What is it?
A heart-piercing pain suddenly came, and the place where the black shadow crawled was like an iron, which was the pain of burning skin and tearing flesh.
He was about to wail in pain, but found that the voice was blocked in his throat, and a dark shadow swam rapidly, along his shoulders and up to his neck, wrapped tightly in one, two, and three circles, and tightened tighter and tighter.
In an instant, other black tentacles climbed up his head and burrowed into his mouth like living creatures.
Entering more and more, faster and faster, the corners of his mouth were about to tear.
The eunuch's eyes were wide open, bloodshot and staring at the constantly moving black tentacles, and his eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets, he guessed...... This must be the black snake demon, who has done too much evil by himself, and he wanted to kill people just now, and retribution will come in a blink of an eye. He felt his face burn, and his whole skin was going to fall off. At the moment, he only hoped to be devoured by the snake demon soon, and he could no longer endure such torture.
Suddenly, the rampaging black shadow suddenly slowed down, and even compared to before, it could be said to be a kind of stagnation, slowly spreading like bee's jelly hanging on the wall, very slowly, very slowly, and it seemed to be very tacitly overflowing evenly, and gradually crawling all over every pore without leaking......
The eunuch's pupils gradually turned black.
At the same time, the ears and nostrils were also invaded, and everywhere they went turned black.
No matter how fast you die, all the processes are not emissionable, so all the pain will never be reduced. Perhaps it was too much pain to wake him up, and the eunuch began to writhe incessantly, shaking his head as hard as he could, shaking without any rhythm, as if he was dodging something, but it was all in vain.
The eunuch's body fell, and when the torso became stiff, all the blackness gradually receded......
I don't know how long it took, Chris woke up, she pushed away the heavy body pressing on her, and slowly got up, feeling like she was prostration, and her clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
Turning her head, she saw the stiff corpse of the eunuch, with a hideous face and a terrifying death. He still held the knife in his hand, and his body twisted into an extremely strange position, as if he had just fought a python with all his might.
Chris couldn't stand on his feet because his legs were weak, so he sat down on the floor and gasped for air.
Looking at the corpse in front of her, I killed this person? Her mind went blank.
After a while, Chris slowly stood up and walked into the next room, which must have been the room of the dead eunuch, and there was also a locked room, the key hanging prominently on the wall of the doorway.
Chris opened the door and entered, there was a bed in the dark corner, she saw a woman in white lying on the bed, her face was withered and pale, Chris found that this woman's face was very similar to her own, she seemed to understand something.
True or false Queen Mother?
Could it be that I am the fake queen mother, and the woman in front of me is the real queen mother? This thought made her back chill, and her heart was full of doubts and uneasiness.
As Chris approached the bed, the woman shuddering like a wounded creature letting out a low roar of its body, hoping that the predatory beast would not come any closer.
"Don't be afraid. ”
The low roar was even deeper, and the sweat and tears had beaten the woman's hair wet and clung to her scalp.
"I won't hurt you. ”
She finally stopped growling, just kept shaking.
Chris came closer, not knowing what he could do for the poor woman, but trying to comfort her as much as he could.
"I won't hurt you, and I won't let anyone hurt you, I swear. Chris cautiously and slowly approached her, reaching out slightly, placing his palms on her shoulders until her defenses faded and were replaced by sad sobs.
"It's okay. Chris sniffed, the voice so small that she needed to get close to the woman's ear and let the comforting words pass in slowly.
The woman began to weep bitterly, and Chris took her in his arms and said it over and over again.