Li Zhuiyuan did not go try to wake Runsheng and the others because, according to his recent personal experience, he knew that the four of them were not encountering ordinary miasma but yin miasma.

The former is comparable to an ordinary haunted house in an amusement park, providing an immersive feeling. The latter, however, is more high-end, with clear interactivity and guidance.

Earlier in the “dream,” someone was clearly deliberately guiding them forward. The most obvious example is that whatever Tan Wenbin said he wanted, it would arrange it for him. The actual purpose was just to make people continually and deliberately immerse themselves in the dream and isolate themselves from what was happening in reality.

In this state, the separation between body and spirit is very obvious. Even he himself couldn’t detect that he was in a walk-yin state, which explains why external physical stimulation is fundamentally unable to reach the spiritual consciousness level.

Furthermore, if he insisted on pushing and shaking them to try and wake them, he could easily push them, who were still standing, into the water. Originally, there was still some time before the water submerged them where they stood. Doing this would be equivalent to giving them a death sentence in advance.

He glanced at Runsheng and the others, then swept his gaze towards the woman opening the door stone carving. Her sinister, mocking smile was so realistic and detailed.

Li Zhuiyuan subconsciously thought of swimming over to see if he could push the stone carving back to its original position or, alternatively, take off his clothes and cover the stone carving’s body, hoping to interrupt its effect.

But when this thought arose in his mind, Li Zhuiyuan immediately shook his head forcefully.

If it were an ordinary explorer, survivor, and so on, following this line of thought would be normal, but this did not depart from the traditional examinee’s thinking.

Li Zhuiyuan did not swim towards the stone carving but towards the stone stairs. Then he walked up step by step, reaching the water surface above. He turned his body, facing Runsheng and the others below and the woman opening the door stone carving further away, and sat down.

His eyes gradually became calm. Various information he had already mastered and could speculate about quickly operated in his brain. He simultaneously re-sorted everything while using feng shui pattern methods to deduce the situation in front of him.

The former did not sort out clearly; it was stuck at the snake tail where the person’s shadow appeared and left.

The latter also did not deduce anything, because the feng shui pattern around his eyes did not have obvious clear changes.

But Li Zhuiyuan did not feel discouraged by this. Failure is sometimes also a kind of trial and error. When a most mainstream line of thought is found to be blocked, then the previous branching paths, even if they seem unreasonable or ridiculous, all mean they could possibly be true.

The person’s shadow in the dream might not be that important because its line of thought was only in imitating and guiding. A room appeared above the stairs, and stone stalactites appeared inside the room, which was already unreasonable enough. The next snake carving unexpectedly used two in a row. Who knows if there will be a third or fourth next?

Such fine and grand carving work, is it really just always used as a ladder? Occasionally taking ancient artifacts and paintings to burn and drink tea can still be called “elegant interest.” Always burning and always burning, that’s a bit mentally ill.

There is subjective guidance, yet it doesn’t feel man-made. After the person in the situation is confused, it even feels a bit ridiculous.

As for that stone carving, since the feng shui pattern deduced based on it is completely invalid, then boldly speculate that it’s just useless.

He had carefully checked the stone carving earlier. What kind of divine craftsmanship mechanism could make the other half of the body that originally didn’t exist suddenly twist and change out?

People’s imagination.

So, he was still not completely awake. This was the second layer of the dream, a multi-layer yin miasma.

Li Zhuiyuan suddenly felt that he could shout to wake Runsheng and the others. He scooped up the still rising water surface under his feet and splashed it on the faces of Runsheng and the other two, shouting:

“Runsheng bro, Binbin bro, Liangliang bro.”

Soon, the three people’s eyelids began to tremble, then they opened their eyes one by one.

“Ah, was I just dreaming?”

“What happened to us?”

“Xiao Yuan, are you alright?”

Li Zhuiyuan’s mouth corner twitched. He did not pay attention to Runsheng and the other two but took care of himself, turning his body over and kneeling on the stairs.

The four of them were facing the stone stairs in a daze, but his own consciousness had been completely attracted by the woman opening the door stone carving earlier. In fact, the truly first thought to be problematic should be these stone stairs, and it was the lowest layer.

Because before entering the situation, the water had just risen, only reaching the soles of their shoes.

Li Zhuiyuan walked down the stairs, dived into the water, and came to the front of the lowest layer step. He first used the flashlight to knock hard on that layer step, then shone it on it.

The originally ordinary stone stairs, at this moment, unexpectedly displayed a translucent quality similar to jade. There were also flocculent things inside, but unlike the fixed flocculent things in ordinary jade, the things inside here were moving, like a long parasite, and also like a small white snake.

Specifically, there was one strip that was just drilling out from the edge of the stone stairs towards the outside, and half of it had already drilled out. If he hadn’t discovered it in advance and always observed it with a flashlight, he would fundamentally not detect when it drilled out and merged into the water.

As it completely drilled out, Li Zhuiyuan stretched out his hand and placed it in front of it. It bit him.

“Hiss…”

Intense pain was immediately transmitted. This pain was deep-level, and it was amplifying step by step.

“Ah…”

“Gulu… gulu…”

Li Zhuiyuan woke up again.

This time, he was in the water, and the water level was already above his mouth, only a little bit below his nose. If it flooded up a bit more, his mouth and nose would be completely covered, and at that time, his real self would fall into a state of suffocation.

When he woke up this time, his mouth was still emitting sounds of painful screams, but he had swallowed several mouthfuls of water.

He turned his body in the water and first looked towards Runsheng and the others. They were still standing there, not awake.

They say that when the sky collapses, a tall person will bear it, but when the water rises, a short person will be drowned first.

He looked behind again, and the woman opening the door stone carving was still in her original appearance, with the cut flat rear half of her body facing him. There was no sinister, mocking smile.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that he was completely awake now, back to reality.

Without bothering to look at anything else carefully, Li Zhuiyuan first dived into the water, held the flashlight, and shone it on his leg. The clear pain was coming from there.

He rolled up his pant leg and shone the flashlight over. A long, thin thing like a white line had its front end on his skin, and its rear end kept floating with the water waves, as if it itself was quite happy and was happily shaking its tail.

The human body is a very precise instrument. In fact, when you are doing normal activities, bone friction and muscle stretching all bring pain, but these are anesthetized by substances secreted by the brain. This is also why for people who like exercise, running can bring you pleasure.

And gentlemen addicts are just because they took too much pleasure at once, leading to a problem with the brain’s secretion as well, mistakenly thinking that you don’t need those painkillers from the body itself. After quitting, there will be very obvious withdrawal reactions, such as ants crawling all over the body.

The role of this “small snake” is also the same. In fact, that bite was very painful, yet it numbed your perception. But the pain was actually always there. Only when you truly realize its existence can you awaken the numbed perception.

It really is, high-end ingredients only need to use simple cooking methods. Highly skilled yin miasma… is directly using Gu.

Li Zhuiyuan stretched out his hand, grabbed it, and pulled it out. It struggled and jumped. Li Zhuiyuan simply pulled with both hands and twisted it off.

In fact, if possible, he really wanted to collect this thing. Later, he could use them to match and research the walk-yin technique.

But first, he didn’t have suitable research conditions, and second, the current conditions didn’t allow it.

Li Zhuiyuan continued towards Runsheng, rolled up Runsheng’s pant leg, and also saw that strip of white thin line, and pulled it out.

Next was Tan Wenbin.

“Thud!”

Runsheng woke up, in pain, and fell down.

“Thud!”

Tan Wenbin also woke up and also fell into the water.

But when Li Zhuiyuan had just rolled up Xue Liangliang’s pant leg and was preparing to follow suit, he discovered that the head of the long white line biting on Xue Liangliang’s leg was surprisingly black!

And it looked lifeless. Even if he didn’t need to pull it himself, this thing probably wouldn’t jump for long.

This also means that Xue Liangliang was able to rely on his own “resistance” to wake up, and very quickly.

But by the time Xue Liangliang woke up, he might have time to save Runsheng and Tan Wenbin, but he himself would definitely be drowned.

He stretched out his hand and pulled.

Xue Liangliang “hissed” once. The pain was not as strong as Tan Wenbin’s and Runsheng’s. Not only did he not fall down, but after waking up, he immediately stretched out his hand to support the boy under the water.

All four of them climbed up the stairs and left the water surface.

Li Zhuiyuan told them what had just happened, and the three of them all showed faces of great shock and a wave of lingering fear.

Then, from the retelling of the three people, Li Zhuiyuan unexpectedly discovered one thing: the dreams of the four people were connected.

They were clearly bitten by four small white snakes, and there was no other connection besides this, yet they could have the same dream.

This made Li Zhuiyuan look at the first layer step again, and his eyes became even more fiery.

This is really a good thing. It can move in the water. If it can be tamed and mastered, won’t it be smoother when combining Wei Zhengdao’s black skin book to control dead bodies later?

Anyway, dead bodies are basically all active near water areas. Even if they go ashore, they will automatically go into the water.

“Xiao Yuan, I’ll go help you smash open the first layer step?”

Runsheng understood the boy.

Tan Wenbin asked with some lingering fear: “Won’t this release more, and then they’ll bite us again?”

Xue Liangliang guessed: “If it’s like this, then not just one strip will come and bite us, but many strips will come up together. I think it’s possible that after being bitten once, people will have resistance, and the second strip biting again will only play a reverse effect and directly pain us awake.”

Tan Wenbin breathed a sigh of relief: “Meaning, this thing has no effect on us anymore?”

Xue Liangliang: “If bitten again, you can just treat it as being stung by a mosquito. If you detect it, just swat it dead.”

Tan Wenbin asked curiously: “Liang bro, why did Xiao Yuan say the strip on your body had already turned black?”

“I don’t know.” Xue Liangliang was also very puzzled.

Tan Wenbin smacked his tongue and sighed: “As expected, nobody becomes a son-in-law for no benefit.”

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at Tan Wenbin: “You also want to go?”

“Ah?” Tan Wenbin scratched his face a little embarrassed, “Someone has to be willing to recruit, and they have to be willing to look at me.”

“You can ask the Zhou family if they recruit.”

“The Zhou family?” Tan Wenbin immediately became interested, “Is it an underwater ancient town like the Bai family?”

“Class monitor Zhou Yunyun’s home.”

Tan Wenbin: “…”

Li Zhuiyuan did not tell them about Uncle Qin’s matter in detail because Liu Yumei still needed to continue living at Taiye’s home.

That night, if Uncle Qin hadn’t gone to attack Bai family town alone, Xue Liangliang wouldn’t have gotten the son-in-law condition either.

Essentially, the Bai family fundamentally didn’t want to recruit a son-in-law, not even counting robbing and occupying the stronghold. What they wanted was just a partner to give birth to children.

Moreover, they played a more extreme set. Not only was it going to the father and leaving the son, it was going to the father and going to the son, leaving only the daughter.

Bai family town only had Bai family madam. Local records and the Bai family town house, they may never see any Bai family young masters or Bai family fathers-in-law. For hundreds of years, where did that group of people go?

Therefore, Tan Wenbin envied Xue Liangliang’s treatment, but this kind of treatment is not replicable. The normal treatment is actually “burn immediately after enjoying.”

At the same time, this also involves another point. After that Ding family banquet ended, Liu Yumei told him about the matters of the Qin and Liu families, and also why she, this old lady, still had the confidence to not give that group of people face.

Li Zhuiyuan felt that Grandma Liu was not deceiving him. What she told him was the truth, but the truth might not be complete.

That is, the inheritance of the Qin and Liu families may have already walked another road. This point can be seen from Yu Shu’s attitude towards Grandma Liu.

This also conforms to the old lady’s consistent style. Hiding under a flashy display of wealth is also a flashy display of clumsiness.

“Xiao Yuan?” Runsheng’s call interrupted the boy’s thoughts again.

Li Zhuiyuan pursed his lips. Since his heart was moved, then let’s act.

“Runsheng bro, but we don’t have any tools now.”

“This is easy to handle.”

Seeing Li Zhuiyuan agree, Runsheng immediately dived into the water again.

In fact, Li Zhuiyuan could also swim. There was a small river on the west side of Taiye’s house. During that period, he didn’t dare to go to other water areas, and even fish were very repelled, but it was still safe near Taiye’s house, so he also let Runsheng teach him to swim.

He learned, but when he encountered danger, he still habitually let Runsheng pull him. Without it, Runsheng’s water nature was too good.

If Runsheng could also learn Uncle Qin’s move later and pull out fish gills for him on the spot, then Runsheng would simply be the second Uncle Qin.

Li Zhuiyuan and Xue Liangliang stood up and shone their flashlights on Runsheng. This wasn’t like giving Runsheng light because Runsheng under the water didn’t seem to need eyes much. It was more like giving themselves a look.

Tan Wenbin didn’t do this at first, then he inadvertently lowered his head and looked at the flashlight hanging on his chest. Only then did he realize that his flashlight was only lost in the dream, and it was still there in reality.

But after hesitating, he still decided not to use it, saving some electricity for himself.

He now had a sense of crisis. Xiao Yuan’s role in the team was self-evident, and there was no need to mention Runsheng. Even Xue Liangliang was very useful. Only he himself… seemed to have no use except for livening up the atmosphere when the team’s mood was low.

He didn’t even know the chemical formula for clock milk stone.

And the fate of the marginal people in the team is to be gradually eliminated from the team. Even if they are willing to continue playing due to old feelings, he can’t keep playing.

He had to think of a way to increase his usefulness. Should he operate the small supermarket industry and studios that Liangliang bro left in school to help Xiao Yuan make money… or should he change to taking the exam for Jinling Police College?

Without a handy tool, Runsheng just went and found a stone, then in the water, he smashed the first layer step with a fierce burst.

Exerting force underwater is very much affected, but Runsheng seemed to be born knowing how to avoid it.

After smashing and smashing, the first layer step surprisingly really cracked open, and fragments of a material similar to jade stone kept floating out.

Tan Wenbin swallowed his saliva: “This, isn’t it very valuable?”

Li Zhuiyuan said: “It is jade, but the most ordinary material, not valuable.”

“Oh.” Tan Wenbin nodded, dismissing the idea of collecting it. But he turned and looked at the stairs behind again, thinking that if he found anything valuable when he went up later, he might have to bring some out.

Xiao Yuan and Liangliang were indifferent, like chrysanthemums. Let himself bear that copper smell.

Facts proved again that the most direct is not necessarily the most effective, but at least it will take effect.

Li Zhuiyuan guessed that people should have come here before, but many of them were probably drowned or rushed away after being caught by the “yin miasma” in the end.

Even if some people were able to break the miasma, they probably left in a hurry with lingering fear.

Unlike these four, seeing people trapped well, they just demolished the trap and took it home. Not even bandits would scrape the ground so thoroughly.

The step was smashed open, and many insects scattered out, but they seemed to be able to sense who had resistance, and they didn’t approach the four people again. Even Runsheng, who was right in front of them, they walked around.

However, these insects should also not leave here for too long. Xue Liangliang’s own special nature just accelerated this process for them. After leaving the special environment of the host, they will naturally die out. Some things, relying on themselves, are unable to exist stably in the natural world.

Runsheng floated up to the water surface, holding a piece of jade seal in his hand.

“Xiao Yuan, here.”

Li Zhuiyuan reached out to take it and shone the flashlight on it.

There were characters below, but not four square characters, only one character was carved.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Yong?”

Tan Wenbin looked at Xue Liangliang: “What does that mean, moderation?”

Xue Liangliang shrugged: “Do you believe me when I say I don’t even understand this character?”

Tan Wenbin obviously didn’t believe him.

Xue Liangliang said with a wry smile: “You have to look at the family’s learning. Xiao Yuan understands these things.”

Li Zhuiyuan said: “This is Wanzhou, also called Wanxian. In the Old Stone Age, there were traces of early residents’ activities here, and many relics were left behind. In history, what can be paired with ‘Yong’ here is the Yong country from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but in the Spring and Autumn period, it was jointly destroyed by the Qin, Chu, and Ba countries.”

Tan Wenbin’s eyes lit up: “Is this a treasure from the Spring and Autumn period?”

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: “I don’t know. This craftsmanship looks… and the style of the female skirt hem on that esteemed woman opening the door stone carving, it’s more like something from after the Qin and Han dynasties.”

Xue Liangliang asked: “Xiao Yuan, can’t you determine it?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “I can only recite books. For ancient plays and ancient buildings, just reciting books is useless.”

Xue Liangliang guessed: “Then it might be possible that someone later discovered some secret of the Yong country here, and then built this place?”

Tan Wenbin didn’t understand: “It can still be like this?”

Xue Liangliang explained: “This practice is quite common. Just like many scenic spots now have exhibition halls developed and rebuilt on the original old site. In essence, isn’t it the same thing?”

Li Zhuiyuan gently shook the seal in his hand. Jade emphasizes a watery润. Here, it’s simply a large supply, seeming like glue and liquid, and there are also fine granular shapes inside, which should be the snake eggs of that kind of small snake.

Those snakes were hatched from this seal. Normally, they should also maintain this state and will only hatch some when they receive some stimulation and perception.

So, will the hatched snakes return to re-lay eggs?

Is there a fixed quantity produced each time, or is there some special trigger mechanism?

Looking at it now, it should be that after Runsheng broke the step, the host environment was destroyed, and the eggs inside will also no longer hatch.

“Runsheng bro.”

“Um.” Li Zhuiyuan handed the Yong seal to Runsheng to keep. This thing can only be researched again after they leave here.

Subsequently, the four of them looked towards the stairs above again.

The water rose more and more severely, and everyone could only walk up.

Li Zhuiyuan reminded: “Everyone, keep an extra eye out, be careful.”

Tan Wenbin immediately responded: “Okay, I’ll pinch my thigh hard every once in a while.”

Everyone went up step by step again.

This time, they didn’t walk far before seeing a platform. There was no longer that house with a door, but a huge snake head carving with a wide open mouth. Everyone who entered here seemed to be swallowed by it.

Xue Liangliang said: “Look, the people of the Yong country believed in snakes.”

After entering the snake’s mouth, what appeared was a very wide and flat surface, without the snake body stairs, but one stone pillar after another. When the flashlight shone over, it was like an underground palace here.

But it was not magnificent at all. Instead, it appeared very primitive and rough, and there were not many furnishings, making it look very empty.

After walking forward for a while, the sound of the four people’s footsteps began to echo here. Even though the four people were extremely careful and tiptoed after detecting it, it was still useless, and the echo became louder and louder.

In the end, it was no longer an echo because the four people had already stopped, but the sound still continued on its own and became increasingly intense.

Finally, a green light appeared in front.

Li Zhuiyuan shone the flashlight forward, and the green light quickly hid. What appeared was a fierce tiger about to pounce down.

Everyone was startled and all backed away. Runsheng, who was standing at the very front, lowered his center of gravity as he backed away and clenched both fists. He was ready to fight the tiger.

But soon, everyone realized that the tiger was dead. It was located on a stone platform. Although it was still lifelike after such a long time, it was essentially still a specimen.

But the disappeared green light floated up again, and the tiger’s eyes were instantly filled with green light, as if the fierce tiger had revived.

However, the four people who had already discovered the tiger’s essence would only subconsciously think that there was something inside the specimen, and would not really think that the tiger had revived.

Li Zhuiyuan suspected that this should be due to the equipment. The flashlight was much more efficient than torchlight, which also greatly reduced the effectiveness of these arrangements originally used to scare off outsiders.

As the flashlight moved, they discovered that on many platforms nearby, there were various fierce beasts, some species of which are no longer active in this area.

The most peculiar ones were two people. From their outer shape, it could be clearly distinguished that one was male and the other female. They wore leather armor and bronze snake-shaped masks on their faces, standing in the middle of the hundred beasts, like their king who commanded them.

However, both arms and hands of the male and female were in a posture of holding up something, but they were now empty.

Sweeping the flashlight under the platform twice, they could see several piles of decayed things. Like the unearthed terracotta warriors, the things they originally held in their hands had all rotted away.

Only the female’s right arm was raised high, and she should have been holding some weapon. Combined with the bronze spearhead that fell on the platform surface under her feet, she should have been holding a long spear in her hand. But her left hand was palm up, and she should have been supporting something, not a weapon, but more likely some kind of religious object.

But there were no corresponding traces below the platform surface. Was it completely rotten, or was it taken away by someone?

Up to now, there were actually no traces of anyone having come here before.

The eyes of the male and female also gradually lit up with green light, but these green lights would have an obvious sense of avoidance under the flashlight. Basically, after the flashlight shone over, they would be suppressed, and as soon as the flashlight moved away, they would light up again.

Several points of light were still wandering outside, but they dissipated after wandering for a while, and should be something in the firefly class.

They lived in the body specimens of the fierce beasts and people. When disturbed by the outside, they would light up, thereby creating a “shock” effect.

Since they knew what it was, there was nothing to be afraid of. They just purely treated it as visiting a museum.

The four people continued to walk forward, and the echo seemed to be encouraged, accumulating again.

By the time they passed through the hundred beasts stone platform, without waiting for the flashlight to shine far away, in front of them, a huge green light suddenly rose up, and a huge, towering white bone pile appeared in front of the four people.

Within it, an unknown number of fireflies lived. The echo at this moment was actually just the layer upon layer of their internal revival, which would thoroughly wake up and flap their wings, like the eerie ghost fire burning on the white bone pile.

Inside the white bones, the outermost layers were horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens; the middle layers were tigers, deer, bears, apes, and birds.

Respectively corresponding to the six domestic animals and five poultry.

There were many scattered bones around, but most still maintained complete structural splicing, otherwise, it would not be so easy to recognize.

In the very middle, also supporting the height of the white bone pile, were people.

One human-shaped skeleton after another, like building blocks, you dragged me, I supported you, climbing upwards. This was the main support of this white bone pile.

Xue Liangliang opened his mouth, his eyes full of shock. Professionally, what he saw was a beauty that combined mechanics and aesthetics.

Perhaps, among the four people on the scene, only Tan Wenbin could deeply feel the cruelty and unbearableness.

Human sacrifice, or the so-called artistic products formed with human life as a carrier, can always make people feel sorrow for their kind.

However, Tan Wenbin looked left and right. Runsheng was still the same expressionless old appearance, and Xiao Yuan and Liangliang were even more appreciative. He just kept silently chanting in his heart: it’s all over, it’s all over.

After silently chanting, he still conveniently pinched his thigh hard. He pinched too hard, and tears streamed out from the pain.

Xue Liangliang noticed and stretched out his hand to pat Tan Wenbin’s shoulder, comforting him: “Take it easy, it’s all past ignorance.”

These fireflies, besides emitting light, did not have an attacking posture. Moreover, because of their appearance, they illuminated a large area here.

Behind the “white bone fire pile,” more than ten layers of steps appeared upwards.

Above the steps, there was a huge bed, with gold thread as the curtain on the bed. Both, under the light, also played a very good visual isolation effect.

But looking at the style of this curtain, even without seeing inside, one could still imagine the scene of a woman sitting inside.

Most importantly, behind the big bed, was a slightly ajar big door.

In the entire underground palace, this was the only place that looked like it went upwards, and it was also the key for everyone to leave the underground and return to the ground.

The four people bypassed the white bone fire pile and came to the bottom of the steps.

Subsequently, the three people froze.

Xue Liangliang then asked curiously: “Why is there still a shovel here? Did someone come over?”

Tan Wenbin said: “It seems like our Yellow River shovel.”

Runsheng bent down and picked up the shovel: “It’s our Yellow River shovel, the same model.”

With two “clicks,” Runsheng originally wanted to assemble it a bit, but the shovel broke directly. It was rusted.

Tan Wenbin said: “So, did our predecessors come over here?”

Xue Liangliang asked: “Are they corpse salvagers or tomb robbers?”

But soon, Xue Liangliang changed his words again: “Oh, not right, this is not a tomb either. There is a bed, but no coffin.”

Immediately after, Xue Liangliang added: “Perhaps your predecessors entered here to deal with that big thing, wanting to eliminate harm for people.”

Li Zhuiyuan said: “Liangliang bro, you don’t need to be so nervous. This time we came down here by accident, but if I had known about this place beforehand, I would have wanted to come down as well, although I would have made good preparations in advance.

Moreover, there is a group of people called water monkeys. They specialize in robbing water burials. Although I don’t recognize them as colleagues, what they learn is actually the same as us.

Saying that, Li Zhuiyuan reached out and took the broken Yellow River shovel from Runsheng, checked it a bit, and confirmed that it was from his line, not a Luoyang shovel.

This means that predecessors from this line did indeed enter here, and the details can be seen from the rusted and broken shovel. The original thing was very professional and the same as the standard Yellow River shovel configuration in Wei Zhengdao’s book.

So, the predecessors who entered were also professional.

But, did they enter really just to make a fortune?

The group began to go up the steps. Besides the Yellow River shovel at the beginning, they didn’t find anything else.

By the time they reached the top, and were level with the big bed, they discovered that there was a circle of square grooves around the bed, filled with white and green liquid.

An inexplicable smell, at first, couldn’t be smelled at all. Only after standing up did it begin to enter their noses.

This smell was too familiar. Without Runsheng needing to remind them, even Tan Wenbin could blurt out: “Water corpse smell.”

Runsheng added: “Very thick, very pure.”

Li Zhuiyuan reminded: “Let’s walk from the side, don’t touch anything.”

The side was very narrow, only enough for one person to move sideways. Everyone moved carefully, bit by bit.

Even though Tan Wenbin’s eyes were hot for the gold on the big bed’s curtain, he didn’t dare to even think about taking half a point. It involved a dead body, and a dead body of this specification in this place. Greed was not appropriate.

Without surprise or danger, everyone bypassed the bed and the pool around the bed and came to the rear.

The big door was just above. Walking up, they should be able to find a way out.

The four of them couldn’t help but turn their heads to look behind them. The previous bed, viewed from this angle, looked more like a small boat located in the center of a pool of water.

Tan Wenbin regretfully said: “What a pity, so much gold.”

Xue Liangliang gently patted his arm and asked: “What, are you tempted?”

Tan Wenbin was straightforward: “Um.”

Xue Liangliang reminded: “You can’t take anything from here.”

Tan Wenbin: “Amount…”

“What Xiao Yuan took was something that almost killed us. It has a grudge against us, so taking it away is justified.

Moreover, when this place is archaeologically excavated later, leaving that thing below, who knows if it will cause harm to our archaeological comrades? It must be removed in advance.”

Tan Wenbin felt that Xiao Yuan probably didn’t think that much himself.

“Liang bro, you are good at finding justifications.”

“I am being realistic.”

“Actually, I don’t think about taking these gold to make a fortune. Look at the bone pile inside, so many human sacrifices. Although this is not a tomb, this is all people’s fat and people’s ointment. Other cultural relics are fine, but if gold is brought out, we won’t use it to improve our lives. Leave a little bit for Xiao Yuan bro to use as research funds, and donate the large portion to Wanzhou government projects and hope primary schools. That way it counts as taking from the people and using for the people. It’s better than leaving it underground to gather dust.”

Xue Liangliang laughed: “You’re still saying I am, you are really good at finding justifications.”

“Not at all.”

“Gold made into ornaments is also a cultural relic.”

“Fuck.”

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said: “Let’s go. After we go out, we will report this place…”

Before he finished speaking, a woman’s face unexpectedly peered out from the side of the slightly ajar big door.

She appeared so strange, so abrupt, and without any warning.

Especially when everyone had just crossed the big bed on the platform and thought they were safe and started to lower their guard.

This was the real woman opening the door picture.

All four people were startled by the appearance of this face, but Runsheng’s stress reaction was to hold the half of the Yellow River shovel in his hand and hit the woman’s head behind the door directly!

Whatever ox ghost or snake god you are, take a shovel from me first!

“Pa!”

The woman’s face disappeared, and Runsheng’s shovel only smashed into the edge of the door.

“Giggle giggle…”

The woman’s face peeked out from behind the door on the other side again. This time, her upper and lower lips began to close back and forth, emitting a silver bell-like laugh.

If they heard this laugh in the afternoon park, they would feel very sweet, but in the current environment, it could only make people’s hearts seize with panic and their scalps tingle.

Runsheng raised his shovel and smashed again.

“Pa!”

The woman’s face disappeared again.

But her laughter became louder and louder, no longer limited to here, but spreading open, gradually echoing throughout the entire underground palace.

The originally green fireflies, the light on their bodies began to turn red, rendering the underground palace like a sea of blood.

The originally white and green water pool around the big bed also began to bubble up with “gudu gudu” sounds, as if it were boiling.

Even the golden curtain on that bed, at this moment, also shook without wind. Now, there was no need to imagine; they could see a woman wearing luxurious red clothes sitting inside.

The woman’s hair was surprisingly still black and appeared very smooth and bright, scattered down her back and spread out behind her.

Moreover, along with the curtain shaking, the woman’s arms began to twist strangely, and even her hair also began to slowly sweep and turn.

Soon, the woman’s two arms straightened out. Her hands, which were originally in front and not seen, now appeared in the rear, facing the direction of Li Zhuiyuan and the other three.

And the sweeping of her long hair was more like the twisting of her head.

Although it was covered by hair, they couldn’t see inside, but based on the feeling, she should have already twisted her head around.

Originally, she was sitting facing the palace. Now, she was facing the big door.

In front, on the other side of the door, the woman’s face was peeking out and still laughing.

Behind, the woman in the middle of the bed, which was supposed to be safe for the four of them to jump over, had also “woken up.”

This made the four people caught in the middle unable to advance or retreat.

However, Li Zhuiyuan understood the reason for the structure here. This underground palace was not a tomb but more like a sacrifice place.

Relatively speaking, the woman opening the door pictures drawn on the walls of later tomb main chambers could only be considered a kind of clumsy imitation.

These people personally built this place for themselves and opened the real door, just waiting for the “woman opening the door” inside the big door to lead her into the blissful world!

It was the woman peeking her head out from behind the door that triggered all this.

But what exactly was she? Why didn’t she trigger it earlier or later, but only when the four of them wanted to go through the door did she appear?

If you had led people away earlier, it would have saved a lot of trouble. How good would a bald, safe underground palace be? Anyway, the four of them were just avoiding danger and borrowing a road.

“Xiao Yuan?”

Runsheng held the half-shovel and inquired.

Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin also leaned tightly against Li Zhuiyuan’s side. The three of them subconsciously protected the boy in the middle.

But now, they had to come up with a plan.

“Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz!”

Below the water pool, the sound of heavy objects rubbing was transmitted, and the entire bed also began to be lifted up.

From under the pool water, eight people appeared. They all used their shoulders to carry the bed up.

The people under the four edge positions were all males wearing leather armor, very similar to the male they saw in the middle of the hundred beasts when they first entered the underground palace.

After floating to the water surface, their eyes were closed, but liquid was still flowing out from the corners of their eyes, mouths, and noses. Unlike the water that flowed out of other dead bodies, what flowed out of them was silver liquid, like mercury.

“Mercury refined corpse…”

Wei Zhengdao’s “Jianghu Strange Records” recorded this type of dead body, which was specifically placed in water burial sites to guard the tomb owner.

Normal corpse salvagers would not touch this type of dead body because they do not rob tombs. Only water monkeys would specifically research how to deal with this.

Besides the four people wearing leather armor, who looked like they were left with the woman in the middle of the bed when it was first arranged here, there were also four other people. They wore tight long gowns, and each person had a long braid behind their head.

These four Qing dynasty people were very likely the four fellow predecessors who left the Yellow River shovel.

Li Zhuiyuan recognized that they were predecessors and not water monkeys because water monkeys generally move in groups, like the group of people with Ding Dalin last time, twenty people was considered a small gang. Here, there were only four people, and no other people’s corpses were left behind.

The pool water with the dense water corpse smell earlier should have had a similar anti-corrosion effect because these people and the clothes on their bodies were not rotten or swollen. They were still very fresh.

The eight people carried the bed, left the water pool, and stepped onto the upward steps. Every step was neat and brought a terrible pressure.

“Giggle giggle… giggle giggle………”

Behind the slightly ajar door, the laughter was still continuing.

“Xiao Yuan!”

Runsheng shouted again. It was time to make a choice.

Actually, at this time, Runsheng was already making a move to rush towards the door. Xue Liangliang and Tan Wenbin were also ready to do the same.

Compared to the eight people carrying the bed below and the mysterious woman sitting on the bed, normal people would all choose to rush towards the door. After all, there was only that face behind the door!

But at this time, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly saw that among the four Qing dynasty people who were supporting the big bed, the one on the right side, although his body and hands were very stiff and he still maintained the action of supporting and advancing, his eyes were turning, constantly moving towards the left and back, and at the same time, his mouth was opening and closing, making silent mouth shapes:

“Walk this way… walk this way… walk this way…”