Zuo Qingcang felt a strong sense of malice staring at him. It was a feeling he had only experienced in his previous life when someone pointed a gun at his head.
Therefore, he stopped and remained motionless. He was worried that any movement he made would cause the other party to attack him. He could only try his best to use his ears, the corner of his eyes, and the sense of touch on his skin to observe his surroundings in an attempt to find the source of the malice.
However, there was nothing. Other than the sound of his own heartbeat and breathing, Zuo Qingcang could not hear anything else. He could not see any other living creatures either.
This stalemate lasted for about five minutes. Just as Zuo Qingcang's muscles were starting to ache and he was considering whether he should just retreat without caring about anything else, the fluorescent light in front of him suddenly lit up, illuminating the tree hole around him.
In the bright emerald light, the tree hole around him turned into a gloomy green. The whispering female voice rang in his ears again. The next moment, Zuo Qingcang's pupils dilated and his breathing became heavy.
This was because about 30 meters in front of him, the tree hole that was originally hidden in the darkness had become extremely clear under the illumination of the fluorescent light.
The three crystal coffins just stood there. The tree hole was very short, so the upper half of the coffins were wrapped up by all sorts of vines and branches. Zuo Qingcang could only see that in the lower half of the crystal coffins, there was a pair of snow-white and shriveled feet. The upper part of the feet was wrapped up by a long white dress.
'This should be a female corpse...'
Zuo Qingcang could even see the body's long black hair trailing on the ground and landing on the heels of the feet. Among the three crystal coffins, the coffins on the left and in the middle were the same.
However, what really made Zuo Qingcang's breathing become heavier was the coffin on the right. The crystal coffin had been opened by someone and it was empty.
Just then, the rustling female voice that was mumbling to herself was already very close to Zuo Qingcang. It sounded as if she was talking next to him. He could feel that something was lying behind him, blowing into his ear.
The hair on Zuo Qingcang's back stood on end. He didn't have time to think too much. He stabbed the dagger in his hand behind him, making a series of metallic sounds.
After that stab, Zuo Qingcang didn't even look at the result. Instead, he dashed forward like a python. All the muscles in his body moved, and he moved through the tree hole with all his strength, just like the muscles and scales on a snake's body.
Behind him, an ear-piercing female voice shrieked. It seemed to contain infinite anger, resentment, and despair.
Zuo Qingcang forced himself to turn his head and take a look. He could only see a figure wrapped up in white long robes and long black hair. The figure was on all fours, charging toward Zuo Qingcang's back like some kind of aberration.
When the dagger pierced into the other party's body earlier, it was as if it had pierced into a piece of steel plate. Even now, Zuo Qingcang could still feel the soreness and numbness in his arm.
This was another monster that Zuo Qingcang found hard to go up against with his physical body. After coming to this conclusion, Zuo Qingcang ran forward without even turning his head back. He even intentionally circled around the other two crystal coffins.
However, he didn't know if Zuo Qingcang's stab had angered the monster behind him. The female corpse chased after Zuo Qingcang closely. She seemed to be very adapted to the environment here. After getting on all fours, she ran very fast in the tree hole. Zuo Qingcang couldn't shake her off even if he used all his strength several times.
Instead, his physical strength was severely depleted. The female corpse was getting closer and closer to him. Zuo Qingcang could even feel the ear-piercing shriek coming from behind him.
At this critical moment, a pair of withered hands suddenly stretched out from the top of the tree hole. At the same time, an old voice sounded.
"Come here …"
At the critical juncture of life and death, Zuo Qingcang did not have the time to think too much. He grabbed the outstretched hand and felt a gush of power gushing toward him. Together with the force from Zuo Qingcang's stomping on the ground, he was dragged out toward the top of the tree hole.
It turned out that there was an exit of the tree hole in the dark forest. If someone hadn't stretched out their hands, Zuo Qingcang wouldn't have been able to find the exit. He was directly dragged out of the tree hole into a tunnel. The person who dragged him out was a skinny man. After dragging him out, the man directly stretched the torch in his other hand into the tree hole.
The female corpse, whose entire head was wrapped in long black hair, rushed out of the hole and hit the torch head-on. Under the illumination of the fire, she screamed in fear.
The man shouted, "The torch won't stop her for long. Hurry up and bring the stone over to block the hole."
Zuo Qingcang's reaction was very fast. After hearing the man's words, he immediately stood up and rushed to the stone behind the man. He exerted force with both hands and pushed the stone slab towards the hole. After seeing this, the man directly threw the torch into the tree hole. Then, together with Zuo Qingcang, they pushed the stone slab and blocked the hole while the female corpse retreated.
"Ah!!!!"
The ear-piercing shriek and the banging sound constantly came from the other side of the stone slab. Zuo Qingcang and the man next to him could only hold the stone slab with all their might.
After a long time, the collision finally stopped, and the terrifying screams disappeared without a trace. The surroundings once again returned to tranquility.
The man gasped for breath and said, "It's okay. They can't leave the coffin for too long. These damn things should have gone back."
At this time, Zuo Qingcang was finally in the mood to look around. They were now in a corridor. There was a torch in the corridor. The remaining two ends of the corridor were completely covered in darkness. They didn't know where it led to.
The corridor seemed to be badly damaged. There were broken walls everywhere, protruding tree roots and vines.
Under the illumination of the torch, Zuo Qingcang looked at the man next to him. It was an old man with dry skin and bony skin. He looked like a mummy. The old man's face was full of crisscrossing wrinkles.
Looking at the old man next to him, Zuo Qingcang asked, "Who are you? Where is this place? What was that thing just now? "
"Hehehehe." Hearing Zuo Qingcang's question, the old man didn't answer directly. Instead, he laughed in a low voice. When Zuo Qingcang's face became gloomier and gloomier, he spoke with a heavy accent.
"What's my name? I've almost forgotten it. As for where this place is, I don't know. I'm the same as you. I was stranded on this deserted island after a shipwreck. "
The old man sighed and continued, "As for that ghostly thing just now, it's called the Yin Woman. It was formed by a young woman who died with hatred and absorbed enough corpse energy.
Not only does it walk like the wind, but it's also invulnerable. Its whole body is full of corpse poison. "
Zuo Qingcang looked at him coldly and said, "You were also shipwrecked? How long have you been here? Have you ever tried to go out to sea? "
"Go out to sea?" The old man laughed in a low voice and said, "You don't understand. No matter how powerful you are, you can't get out of this island. There won't be any ships passing by outside. Let alone this island, we can't even get out of this tomb in front of us now.
We're destined to die here alone. "
"Tomb? You're saying that the place we're in now is a tomb? "Zuo Qingcang frowned and said," Who would build such a tomb on this deserted island? "
"Of course, ordinary people wouldn't." The old man's eyes were gloomy and he said with a mysterious face, "But the owner of this tomb is not an ordinary person. When he was buried here, he was still alive."
"Alive?"
Glancing at Zuo Qingcang, the old man patted his butt and stood up, "Let's go. You won't understand if I just tell you. I'll take you to have a look."
Seeing the old man pick up the torch and slowly disappear into the passageway, Zuo Qingcang gave it some thought and decided to follow him. After all, he knew nothing about this place. In fact, he had no other choice but to follow the old man.
The tunnel was very long. It looked like an endless passage to hell. The old man walked in front and said, "I've studied this place for a long time. The buildings here are all in the style of the Western Wei Dynasty. I'm afraid this tomb has a history of more than two thousand years."
"Western Wei?" Zuo Qingcang recalled Liu Zhicheng's memory in his mind. The Western Wei that the old man mentioned was the first dynasty in the Central Plains. The people of the Central Plains who had just left the tribal system and mastered farming, domestication, and other techniques gathered together for the first time and established the first dynasty in the Central Plains. After that, the Central Plains had been divided and reunited for more than 2,000 years before it became the Da Qi State.
For example, the so-called Western Wei was equivalent to the Xia Dynasty in China on Earth. It was a distant and mysterious dynasty.
However, this made Zuo Qingcang even more confused.
"More than 2,000 years ago? Did the people of the Western Wei Dynasty have the technology to come to such a remote island and build such a tomb? "
"It's Taoist magic." The old man said with emotion, "In the ancient times, humans, gods, and demons coexisted. Anyone who was born would have all kinds of incredible magic. They could practice Taoist magic and martial arts. "
"However, as the times changed, the number of people who could practice Taoist magic and martial arts became fewer and fewer. Many powerful magic were also lost. However, in this tomb of the Western Wei Dynasty, there are still many traces of profound Taoist magic that have not been seen until now. "
"This place was not built by humans at all."
"It was built by a group of people who had the most profound cultivation of Taoist magic in the Western Wei Dynasty."
"They came all the way to this barren land and built this tomb of uncanny craftsmanship just to bury one thing."
Hearing the old man's words, Zuo Qingcang did not think much of it. Regardless of whether it was in this world or on Earth in the past, the ancient people always liked to exaggerate the mysterious powers of the ancient people.
He felt that the people of the Western Wei Dynasty had just entered the feudal era and that Taoist magic might have some mysterious powers. However, it was impossible for them to have the technology to travel across the ocean and come to such a remote island. It was more likely that this place was created by a mysterious civilization that was not recorded in history.
The so-called New World was only discovered and colonized after the arrival of the Da Qi State. The imperial court developed maritime and navigation technology vigorously. Before that, the so-called Island of Immortals and the countries across the sea were just legends.
The old man looked at the torch in his hand and said, "Let's go faster. This torch is going to go out soon. This is my last torch."
The tunnel was longer than Zuo Qingcang had imagined. Zuo Qingcang counted silently in his heart. The two of them walked for about three hours before reaching a bronze gate.
The gate was tightly closed, but on the left side of the gate, there was a gap that only one person could pass through. The torch in the old man's hand was only left with wisps of flame. He walked towards the gap. He said, "I couldn't pass through this gate before, but after all, the history of this tomb is too long. After an earthquake, this crack opened and I could go in to take a look."
"Let's go. The secrets of this tomb are all here."
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