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Chapter 86

Inside the tomb, everything was quiet and brightly lit. There was nothing there.

The candlelight flickered, stretching the shadows of the two people standing at the door.

At this moment, it was hard to even call them human. If anyone else saw them, they might think the two of them were the ghosts.

“We’re here, let’s go in and see if the jade pendant is here…”

As Yi Yun spoke, tears welled up in her eyes again.

“As long as I find the jade pendant, I can go home.”

“My Nannan…”

She stumbled forward, and Lu Yanli stood beside her, walking in with her.

“How could this be? No burial goods?” Yi Yun was still stunned, unwilling to believe it. She suddenly screamed, “Impossible! There must be burial goods!”

“Jade pendant… jade pendant!!”

Lu Yanli followed her around to the back of the coffin, and the two of them were stunned in place at the same time.

Behind the coffin, there were twenty or so corpses wearing the same uniforms, their flesh was blurred, almost rotten, and their faces were still vaguely visible.

They could easily recognize that these corpses… were the archaeological team members who had just lived and died with them!

“How could this be? Weren’t they all…” Yi Yun couldn’t believe it, “Why did they appear here?”

Moreover, everyone was infected with an unknown green fluorescent parasite, but these corpses were clean, with nothing on them.

So, what was everything they just experienced? Were the archaeological team members already dead?

Lu Yanli slowly walked over, roughly estimating based on the degree of decay that these people had been dead for at least three days.

“Three days, so they were actually already…” Yi Yun seemed to be talking to herself, and also seemed to be chatting.

Lu Yanli couldn’t answer her question. Compared to the archaeological team members, he wanted to know where the owner of the tomb had gone.

Before they could come to a conclusion, the tomb door slammed shut, scaring Yi Yun.

At the same time, a candle in the corner suddenly went out. It was as if… someone was standing next to it and blew it out.

But neither of them had noticed it yet.

Yi Yun’s gaze wandered around the tomb.

It wasn’t anywhere, so that only left…

She stepped towards the coffin, reaching out her hand, which was almost reduced to bones, and slowly pushed open the coffin lid.

She found that the moment her hand touched the coffin, it began to decay, and the rate of decay was several times faster than before.

But Yi Yun didn’t care anymore, and the speed of pushing open the coffin lid was a lot faster. When her only remaining eye finally saw the scene inside the coffin, a scream bordering on collapse escaped from her throat.

Lu Yanli followed her, stood beside the coffin, and looked over, immediately understanding why she had collapsed.

The coffin was empty, there was nothing in it.

There were no corpses as they had imagined, no burial goods, and naturally no jade pendant.

It was as if the person inside had already left.

“Why isn’t there anything? We finally made it here… Why is there nothing?”

Green fluorescent liquid with a strange smell flowed from her eye sockets, falling into the coffin. Yi Yun stood there blankly for a long time before she began to think about what to do next.

Turning her head, she saw Lu Yanli walking to the wall, staring at the reliefs on the wall.

Lu Yanli also turned to look at her, his only remaining eye was still as calm as usual, without a trace of fluctuation. He didn’t say anything, just put down the bag behind him, took out the scroll from it, and spread it out on the ground.

He was completing the map.

Several more candles in the corner went out.

“Cen team translated these texts and images.” Lu Yanli recalled.

Cen team told a story of a “god” and a “king”, but on the way he had seen another “god”, could these two “gods” be the same?

He closed his eyes, recalling the wall texts that Cen team translated along the way.

The translation of single characters was simpler, one character one sound. By comparing Cen team’s narration with the wall texts and graphics, Lu Yanli also found some patterns.

“These reliefs are the same as the murals outside, but the texts are uncertain.”

Another candle went out, and the extinguishing route slowly extended towards their direction.

Although the reliefs were exactly the same as the murals outside, the things displayed by the texts were not quite the same.

In Cen team’s narration, the villagers’ “king” and the “god” they worshiped were both kind and compassionate types. They would protect the villagers, and the reason they hid was either because they were injured or because they had fallen into a deep sleep.

But the reliefs and texts clearly gave the opposite answer. As Lu Yanli looked at it, he suddenly felt cold all over.

He knew what was wrong.

They walked from the outside to the inside, so the order in which they looked at the murals was naturally from the outside to the inside.

But what if… the real order was actually from the inside to the outside?

Lu Yanli suppressed the throbbing in his heart and slowly translated, his gaze completely drawn to the relief in front of him.

Reversing the story told by Cen team, it would be…

Yi Yun asked strangely, “Lu Yanli, what are you talking about?”

Lu Yanli’s tone was rarely a little dazed: “The secret of the village, perhaps there is another possibility.”

He continued to look down and read it out in a low voice.

“It was a war of mortals, so the Household Guardian Spirit didn’t pay attention, but just fell asleep… A part of the people desperately fled outwards. When they went down the mountain, from the back mountain, an evil spirit that had been bearing their curse all along walked out…”

“The evil spirit also fought with the Household Guardian Spirit. Later, the evil spirit was driven back to the back mountain, and the Household Guardian Spirit became very weak. Before the next sixty-year reincarnation day, those soldiers forced the villagers to build an underground palace…”

Yi Yun, who was extremely sensitive to the term Double Fish Jade Pendant, suddenly raised her head, trying to squint her eyes to see clearly the jade pendant on the relief.

Lu Yanli didn’t agree.

“That king was buried in the mountain as he wished, and a large number of treasures were buried with him. The soldiers killed many, many villagers to be buried with him, they firmly believed that this way, their king could be resurrected. The loyal soldiers have been guarding the village, waiting for their king to be resurrected sixty years later.”

“The boy’s family thought they were living a good life and soon agreed, but his sister was unwilling. The soldiers were very patient and slowly worshiped the boy as their king for a whole year. Until the next sacrificial ceremony, they wanted to let that boy replace their king and let him bear the curse…”

“The boy’s family found out, after they discussed it, they switched the names and birthdays of the boy and girl, letting the sister replace the brother…”

“…The girl was thrown into the river for sacrifice. The Household Guardian Spirits hated that king, so that girl suffered all kinds of torture…” Lu Yanli stared at the relief, which depicted the image of the girl standing in the blood river surrounding the village, exposing half of her body, surrounded by shouting people.

“The soldiers didn’t know. They were afraid that the girl would retaliate, so they nailed her into the coffin, so that she could not enter the back mountain after death. After that year’s sacrifice, the Household Guardian Spirits invited by the villagers breathed a sigh of relief. Because they were still weak, they could only find a girl to possess…”

Lu Yanli recalled the scene of the Upper Immortal Village.

The sister replaced the brother.

Isn’t this the story of Zhang Huixuan?

Therefore, the sister hated the brother, hated everyone in the village, including the Household Guardian Spirits who protected the village.

Behind them, most of the candles had gone out. Lu Yanli was completely immersed in the story of the relief. Yi Yun was trying hard to climb, trying to grab the Double Fish Jade Pendant carved from stone.

Lu Yanli took a step back and found a smaller relief in the corner.

It was a little boy, he was digging a grave.

In the next scene, he opened the small coffin buried in the grave and pulled out a nail.

In the third scene, he buried the coffin back.

So, Zhang Huixuan had a chance to escape, right? She had a chance to kill everyone, including the Household Guardian Spirit possessed by Lili. Was this the last bit of guilt from the brother, or simply curiosity? Lu Yanli didn’t know.

Until this moment, he realized the strangeness behind him.

The light was fading?

Behind him, what was it?

A huge shadow slowly appeared in front of him, covering Lu Yanli’s original shadow. That shadow was still growing, it should be because the owner was gradually approaching.

Yi Yun had climbed to a very high place.

Since the unknown monster behind him was so huge, climbing to a high place was useless. Lu Yanli thought, he calculated the distance between himself and the coffin behind him, and threw the scroll in his hand backwards with force. He only heard a muffled sound with an echo, which happened to fall into the coffin.

Then, he walked forward, limping without looking back.

However, the coldness coming from behind him did not decrease at all. He could almost smell the decaying aura that had been buried for thousands of years.

What to do?

The candles placed in the tomb continued to go out. The shadow behind him gradually darkened, no… the entire tomb was darkening, and in the darkness, the face of the relief gradually became sinister and terrifying.

It was conceivable what would happen after the tomb was completely plunged into darkness.

Yi Yun had climbed to the vicinity of that “king”.

Her body was decaying severely, dragging a long fluorescent trail in the darkness. Yi Yun stretched out her hand to reach the Double Fish Jade Pendant carved out. At this moment, her mind and eyes were full of that jade pendant.

She didn’t take it off.

It was a stone carving, tightly cast in the “king’s” hand.

“No… don’t… I finally found it, I finally…” Yi Yun was in tears, both hands stretched out, trying to take off the Double Fish Jade Pendant made of stone.

She failed.

Her legs were already severely corroded, and she lost her balance. She fell from the top of the relief and fell to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Then, her breath gradually weakened, her eyes were still wide open, staring intently at the top of the relief, trying to see what she was looking for in the darkness.

Lu Yanli leaned closer to listen, and could still hear her weak voice.

“Jade pendant… Nannan…”

The cold breath behind him approached, almost sticking to the human body, and a heart-palpitating feeling came over him.

Before that breath completely descended, Lu Yanli stretched out his hand and placed it on Yi Yun’s neck.

The world spun.

When he opened his eyes again, he was standing in a museum, with parents bringing their children to visit the museum, in a harmonious and happy scene.

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