Some time after the weapons of mass destruction were released, the surroundings of Lin Chong and the others returned to quiet.
Lin Chong looked around by the glow of the night pearl. There was already a circle of black corpses on the ground. Lin Chong imagined that he had been among them just now and couldn't help but shudder.
Duanmuling poked him with the hilt of his sword: "Hey! Don't pretend to be dead. Don't you know what's going to happen next?"
Lin Chong came back to his senses: "Ah... Oh, yes, I know now. Don't scare me. If you scare me, I might forget it."
Duanmuling wiped his sword: "Really? Forgot?"
Lin Chong looked at him and suddenly screamed strangely. Duanmu Ling was startled: "What happened to you again?"
Lin Chong scratched his hair: "It's nothing, it's just that from this angle, I suddenly feel that you look familiar, a bit like a child I picked up."
"The child you picked up? What child?"
Lin Chong thought for a while: "I forgot exactly where I picked it up. That kid looks like a good baby, but he is actually full of evil ideas and is very evil!"
Duanmu Ling, even in his dull state, could guess who he was talking about, not to mention that he was very quick in reaction. He folded his arms and followed Lin Chong in the catwalk: "I didn't say that you would keep such a child."
With you? Maybe I will bite you back at some point and drive you away." This saves me, the eldest brother, from having to worry about him.
Lin Chong shook his head: "Such a child is so rare, why should we get rid of him? I was able to sneak out only because of his clever ideas and bad intentions. As for biting me back, he wouldn't even dare to do it if I lend him two courages."
Duanmu Ling laughed out loud: "Are you so sure?"
Lin Chong was proud: "After all, I am the one raising the child. I still have to have this little confidence."
Duanmu Lingxin said that you have wiped out the Duanmu family's more than ten years of upbringing in one fell swoop, and the person has been transferred to your name. If the seniors of the Duanmu family know about it, they will be angry and have a good chat with you.
No longer talking about children, he brought the topic back to the present. Lin Chong really didn't trigger any mechanisms along the way.
Duanmuling was curious: "Have you been here before?"
Lin Chong shook his head and said honestly: "I don't know where this secret passage leads to, but it seems like we have entered a tomb?"
Duanmu Ling was surprised: "Then how do you know how to take this road without triggering the mechanism?"
Lin Chong glanced at him: "It's just... what I saw on that jade..."
Duanmuling didn't believe it: "There is nothing on the jade at all. I have carefully confirmed it many times."
Lin Chong nodded: "Indeed, there is nothing, because what I remember is the pattern on the jade pendant. Didn't you notice that this pattern is strange?"
Duanmu Ling was speechless: Who in the right mind would deliberately remember the lines on the jade pendant!
Lin Chong smiled sheepishly: "I was too embarrassed to break your jade pendant at that time, so I had to observe it carefully from the outside a few times. I accidentally remembered the lines on the jade pendant. When I looked at the route you took today, I realized that it happened to be the same as the jade pendant.
The lines overlap."
Duanmuling didn't expect that he could remember such a detailed thing just by accidentally reading it a few times. He couldn't help but give him a high look: "Then do you know what Yu Perry's drawings are about?"
Lin Chong shook his head honestly: "I don't know, shouldn't I ask you this question? What is the purpose of Tiandimen's recent activities in the capital? And whose tomb belongs to it?"
Duanmuling pondered for a moment: "This tomb belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty."
Lin Chong's eyes widened: "What? Ming Taizu's? Do you dare to steal this? This is illegal, okay! I mean doing this is against the law of the court, and it is a serious crime!"
Duanmuling looked indifferent: "Even His Majesty the Emperor is here with me, what do I have to be afraid of? Isn't the old saying true, the emperor breaks the law and the common people are equally guilty, right?"
"I..." I don't know, okay! I stole the tomb of Ming Taizu and let Emperor Chongzhen and Wang Chengen, the old eunuch, know about it and why didn't they chop off my head!
"What are you looking for..." Before they finished speaking, their eyes lit up. They actually walked through several tombs peacefully. The one in front of them was most likely the main tomb of Ming Taizu.
"This secret passage was originally built by the craftsmen to leave a way for themselves to escape. It's a pity that they died suddenly, so the secret passage naturally had no chance to be used."
Lin Chong's eyes were completely attracted by the scenery in front of him. Although he knew that they were underground, if he didn't look carefully, he would really think that they were under the sky.
A whole canopy decorated with large and small luminous pearls illuminates the entire cave as bright as day, and even the arrangement is exquisite and subtle.
Not to mention the lifelike guards under the mausoleum. The swords in their hands looked extremely sharp. On the side, a group of people with different expressions were kneeling on the ground. The frightened expressions on their faces were so lifelike that people dare not
Look directly.
"These people..." Lin Chong muttered to himself, in disbelief.
"Yes, these people should be the craftsmen who built Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum. They poured lime directly on it, which perfectly preserved their expressions before death, which was lifelike."
For the first time, Lin Chong felt that the word "lifelike" sounded so weird. Although he had seen this kind of criminal law on TV countless times, once he saw it with his own eyes, the feeling was really uncomfortable.
Lin Chong looked away. Most of the people buried in the main tomb were favored concubines. Being buried next to Ming Taizu might seem like the highest honor to others, but thinking about those young girls who were in their bloom but were forced to commit suicide and be buried with them, Lin Chong
I couldn't help but feel sad for them.
Duanmu Ling seemed not to be interested in these at all. In fact, he was not even interested in gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and porcelain.
Seeing him rummaging here and there without any care, Lin Chong couldn't help but bow to the coffin several times: "What are you looking for?"
Duanmu Ling stopped for a moment: "A sword."
Lin Chong looked around: "There are many swords here, which one are you referring to?"
Duanmuling shook his head: "It's not those."
He focused his attention on the coffin in the center with a serious look on his face.
Lin Chong couldn't help but trembled: "What do you mean, you won't push it away, right? I'm telling you, it's hard to say what will happen. If there is a big rice dumpling inside, you and I can't handle it. We have to do it today."
I entrust my life here."
Duanmuling also seemed to be hesitating, and he did not speak.