Ye Qiu stood at the door. When the stone door was fully opened, the first thing he saw was an earthen tomb.
Then, I saw the second earth tomb, the third, the fourth, the fifth...
There are ninety-nine earthen tombs in total.
Each earthen tomb is three feet high, bare and dilapidated, just like a cemetery in disrepair.
The strangest thing is that there is an ever-burning lamp on top of every earthen tomb.
It makes people shudder.
Ye Qiu stood at the door. Before he went in, he felt a chill coming from his vest.
What on earth is this place?
How come there are so many graves?
Suddenly, Ye Qiu thought of the Nine Palaces and Bagua array he had encountered before, and couldn't help but think of a legend.
Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang's death, ninety-nine tombs were built to prevent people from robbing his tomb. Among them, only one tomb was authentic.
Could it be that this is Zhuge Liang's tomb?
Soon, Ye Qiu denied his guess.
According to historical records, in the spring of 234 AD, Zhuge Liang personally led an army of 100,000 people on the Fifth Northern Expedition to confront Sima Yi. The two sides were in a stalemate for three months. Due to working day and night and overthinking, he eventually fell ill.
Zhuge Liang had a premonition that the disease would be fatal, so he wrote to his later master Liu Chan to report his illness and make arrangements for his funeral. A few days later, Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four.
After Zhuge Liang's death, the entire Shu Kingdom was in mourning. Liu Chan, the later lord, followed Zhuge Liang's will and buried him in Dingjun Mountain, giving him the posthumous title of "Hou Zhongwu".
Dingjun Mountain is located in Hanzhong, thousands of miles away from the northwest Gobi Desert.
It is impossible for Zhuge Liang to be buried here.
Then, Ye Qiu opened his eyes, and his sight suddenly penetrated the first earth tomb, and saw a complete skeleton lying inside.
Strangely, the skeleton is black.
Then, his eyes looked at the second earth tomb, the third earth tomb...
Ye Qiu looked at all the ninety-nine earth tombs with his celestial eye, and finally discovered that there was a black skeleton in each of the earth tombs.
This means that the deceased buried inside all died of poisoning.
"There are skeletons in these tombs. Obviously, this is not Zhuge Liang's tomb."
"But, what exactly is this place?"
"How come there are so many skeletons? And they all died of poisoning?"
Ye Qiu thought for a while, and at this moment, he seemed to have no better choice but to move forward.
So, I took a step forward.
"dumb--"
Suddenly, a shrill cry sounded.
Ye Qiu immediately stopped and looked up, only to see a black shadow flying over his head and landing on a grave.
Only then did he see clearly that the black shadow was a crow.
The crow stood on the grave, staring at Ye Qiu with its dark eyes without blinking, which added a bit of terror to the already gloomy atmosphere.
At this moment, Ye Qiu heard a "gurgling" sound from his abdomen, and he was very hungry.
He looked at the crow and held a golden needle in his palm.
"Why don't you kill this beast and fill your stomach first?"
As soon as this thought appeared in my mind, it disappeared again.
Crows like to eat carrion. If the beast eats something unclean, wouldn't it be disgusting to eat it yourself?
"No matter where this place is, we must find a way to get out as soon as possible. It would be uneconomical to starve to death here. After all, I'm not married yet."
Ye Qiu didn't hesitate and quickly passed through the earth tombs.
He is a doctor and has seen countless corpses of the dead and the methods used by the corpse hunters, so these graves do not scare him at all.
If you are a timid person, you may be scared enough to wet your pants if you come here.
After Ye Qiu passed through the tomb, another stone cave appeared in front of him.
The cave is only one meter high. Standing at the entrance, a wave of heat hits your face, which is completely opposite to the gloomy atmosphere of the tomb.
Ye Qiu stood at the entrance of the cave, opened his eyes, and took a look inside.
As far as the eye can see, what you see is still a cave.
The cave is very deep.
Ye Qiu stepped in, ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters, forty meters...
As Ye Qiu walked forward, the temperature became higher and higher. When he advanced ninety meters, he was sweating all over his body, as if he was in a furnace.
We walked several dozen meters further inside.
Ye Qiu stopped.
He saw a deep pit, which was covered with various vines. In the center of the vine, there was a red bead the size of an egg, emitting red light.
Ye Qiu was keenly aware that the heat wave was emanating from this bead.
"Hey, what is this?"
"Why is there such a burning aura?"
"Could it be some kind of treasure?"
Ye Qiu quietly approached and walked to the side of the deep pit. Only then did he clearly see that the red bead was actually a red fruit. In addition to emitting heat waves, it also emitted a rich fruity fragrance.
Ye Qiu took a deep breath of the fruity fragrance, and in an instant, all fatigue was swept away.
Ye Qiu's eyes lit up.
baby!
This red fruit is definitely a treasure!
He stared at the fruit with his eyes and looked at it carefully without making any rash move.
Because places where treasures grow are usually accompanied by great dangers, especially for a strange fruit like this, there is no guarantee that there are no ferocious birds and beasts nearby to protect it.
Ye Qiu was very careful and took a look inside the pit. He found that the pit was extremely deep and could not be seen to the bottom.
Later, he made a visual inspection and found that the fruit was growing in a deep pit, about three meters away from him.
Ye Qiu jumped into the pit, quickly grabbed a vine, and picked fruits with the other hand.
Seeing that his hand was only ten centimeters away from the red fruit, suddenly a chill ran through his body.
"No, it's dangerous." Ye Qiu immediately retracted his hand and looked down the pit.
Three seconds later, a sharp whistle sounded.
"Ouch——"
The sound is a bit like a wolf's howl, and a bit like an ape's roar, which is very touching.
Ye Qiu's eyes narrowed.
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no more movement from below the pit, so he quickly grabbed the red fruit in his hand.
Suddenly, my palms became cold.
It is strange to say that the red fruit clearly emits a huge heat wave, but when you hold it in your hand, it is like holding an ice cube, freezing to the bone.
Ye Qiu grabbed the fruit and was about to return to the ground. At this moment, another sharp whistle came from below the pit.
"Ouch——"
Immediately afterwards, he saw a soft "chichi" sound coming from below the deep pit, and a fiery red figure quickly came towards Ye Qiu's direction at an extremely fast speed.
Along with it, there is also a strong sense of danger.
Ye Qiu did not hesitate, he tiptoed a little, and his body landed lightly on the ground. When he looked back, he saw that the fiery red figure had climbed out of the deep pit.
