C1 The Tomb Escaped

Zhuo Xi woke up from the intense pain.

She seemed to have been running in the darkness. She could faintly hear her grandmother's old and weak voice coming from afar. Xiao Xi, Xiao Xi. She tried to find the source of the voice. But the surroundings were all very dark, with no fingers at all. She didn't know which direction she was going. That voice was faintly discernible again, as if it would disappear at any moment. She could only keep running, hoping to run. She could fall headfirst into that warm embrace. However, she could not run too fast, fearing that she would really fall head first. She would knock down the old granny.

In her chaotic consciousness, she finally felt her body stop, followed by intense pain. It was as if her entire body was broken, from her hair to her heels. There was no place that didn't hurt. It was so painful that she almost wanted to fall into darkness again. She forced herself to open her eyes. Light shone through her eyelids, with just a glance. She immediately woke up. A small white snake was biting towards her feet. She instinctively wanted to reach out to grab it. However, she found that her entire body was limp on the ground, unable to move. She could only watch helplessly as the little white snake attacked her.

He thought to himself that since it was already so painful, it didn't matter if it hurt a little more. But the pain he imagined did not come. She took a closer look and realized that the little white snake was not biting her. It was licking her. To be precise, it was licking the wound on her foot. At this moment, she was leaning against the wall. From afar, she could only see the little white snake licking the blood on her wound, but she could not see that her wound was healing at a subtle speed.

She moved her finger and found a bright red fruit in her hand. Who gave it to her? Was there someone else around here? She tried to make a sound from her throat.

The moment the sound was heard, she did not see the expected figure appear. However, she was surprised to find that the little white snake instantly raised its head and looked at her. She blinked and the little white snake swam over. It used its tiny head to squeeze her five fingers, as if it wanted her to tightly grasp that fruit.

She cleared her throat and realized that she seemed to be able to speak. She said softly, "This is for me to eat?"

The little white snake nodded.

"You understand what I'm saying?"

It nodded again.

"You gave this to me?"

It nodded again.

"What will happen if I eat it?"

It couldn't nod this time. It used its tail to sweep her hands, arms, and head to rub the red fruit.

"Seeing that you're the only living creature accompanying me, cough cough cough" She wanted to say something funny to make herself happy. Her throat hurt so much that she couldn't speak. Since it was already like this, it probably wouldn't be any worse. At most, he would just die. As she thought about it, she raised her hand with difficulty. She stuffed the red fruit into her mouth.

The little white snake seemed to be consoling her as it nodded. It swam back to her feet and continued licking the wound there. She was surprised to find that the burning sensation gradually disappeared from the wound on her feet. Following that, the burning sensation in her stomach also slowly washed away the pain in her limbs and bones.

She lay on the ground and gradually remembered some of the fragments from before the plane crash.

"Feng'er, at the end of this mission, I will create a false appearance of the plane crash. Wait. Our names have all disappeared from the organization's list, then we can be together forever"

"Trust me, I've prepared a new identity"

"You go up first, I'll be right there"

"Remember, the parachute is under your seat. The plane flies together, you wear it. "

"It's about to take off. I'll go to the back and get two bottles of water. "

Those whispers seemed to still be in their ears. Full of mockery.

She laughed self-deprecatingly. What else did she not understand now? All sorts of false appearances, all sorts of new life, all of them were lies used to confuse her. It was a pity that the number one assassin in her organization, She actually foolishly believed in such a lousy game. All of this was because she believed in him too much. In the end, this man called Cang Lang personally sent her to her death. God didn't give her the chance to put on the parachute at all. Because once the helicopter left the ground, it immediately exploded. She could imagine, How Cang Lang would proudly let out a long laugh. Without her, Cang Lang would be ranked first on the assassin ranking. The reward would at least increase by five times. But so what? No matter how much money he had. She wouldn't be able to live an honorable life. All the money she earned had been left to her only family and grandmother. He hoped that she would still be fine there.

It was good that she had transmigrated, no matter where she was. To her, it was always a new beginning, a beginning where she could live under the sun. She took a deep breath and was surprised to find that the pain in her entire body had been greatly reduced, almost negligible. She stood up, took small steps, and looked at her surroundings.

She had to find an exit to leave. If there was no water or food, she would not be able to survive very quickly.

She was in a long alley. The walls on both sides were made of huge rocks. A luminous pearl was embedded in the wall every few meters, providing a weak light source for the space. She listened carefully, but there seemed to be no other sound. It was quiet, very quiet. When a person was in an overly quiet space, it was often easy to hallucinate.

She hurriedly patted the little white snake's head and asked, "Little White, do you know which direction you should go?"

The little white snake turned around proudly and nodded its head in front of it.

She heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Little White was there. She knew that if she had not made a sound in time, she would have gradually heard the sound of her heartbeat and the sound of her blood flowing through her ears. . .

She slowly followed Little White forward. No, she was slowly walking forward. As she walked, she searched for tools that could be used to protect herself.

When she passed by a corner, she seemed to have stepped on something. It seemed to be a little hard, but it also seemed to have some elasticity on the surface. Her reflex stopped and she retreated. When she looked at the ground, she could not help but suck in a breath of cold air. It was a person's hand that came from the other side.

"You must die, Little White. Won't you give a hint if someone is here?"

Lil' White saw her stop and turned his head to look at her innocently, as if to say: That was just a dead person. What was there to be afraid of? To it, a dead person was no different from a wall.

"Alright. Looking at you. . . " She suddenly fell silent, because she could smell the thick scent of blood coming from the depths of the alley.

She asked softly, "Do you smell it?"

Little White excitedly turned around and swam forward.

"Why are you so excited? You're not a wolf. "

She muttered softly, carefully bypassing the corpse on the ground. She saw that it was a young woman, Her neck was almost completely cut off, her head leaned against a bit of flesh and pulled to the side. Her eyes glanced at her arm. But then she stopped and turned around. She saw a few tattoos on her wrist. She looked at her wrist. There were three tattoos. The first pattern was three vertical lines, and the second pattern was two vertical lines. The third pattern was one vertical line and one horizontal line. The woman on the ground had two patterns, Four vertical and one horizontal and two vertical. She looked at it for a while and roughly had an idea.

The further she went, the more corpses she saw. They all died in different ways, but they were all lethal weapons. Little White led her forward. Along the way, they passed by a few hearing rooms, but she did not mind. They took another turn. When she passed by an ear room, she called out to Lil 'White. She slowly returned to the door of the ear room. She seemed to have heard a weak breathing sound.

She began to think that she had misheard. Sweeping her gaze, there was only a sarcophagus in the middle of the earroom. She carefully examined it and found that the sound of breathing seemed to come from that sarcophagus.

Even though she was an assassin in her previous life and had killed many high-ranking officials and nobles, she had never entered the tomb. She was not afraid of dead people. But this was the first time she had seen a dead person who was breathing. She felt sweat on her palm as she slowly approached the sarcophagus.

She held her breath, but she could hear that the breathing on the other side of the sarcophagus seemed to have gotten heavier.

She knew that curiosity killed the cat, but as an assassin, she could never leave her back to the enemy. She had to eliminate all possible dangers.

Right at this moment, Little White slipped past her feet and rushed towards the back of the sarcophagus.

Just as she was about to stop Little White, she heard a scream from behind the sarcophagus.

She let out a sigh of relief and asked softly, "Who? Who are you? Come out. "

Lil 'White widened his eyes and stood up straight.

"Don't, don't kill me. " A child's voice came from behind the sarcophagus.

Zhuo Xi walked to Little White's side and saw a little girl curled up behind the sarcophagus. Her arms were covered in blood.

She said softly, "I won't kill you. Come out. "

The little girl shrank even more. "They, they are all killing people. I, I don't want to die. "

Zhuo Xi sighed, "They have already left. Come out, I will bring you out. "

"Then you, tell your snake to go away a little. "

"Little White, let's go out. "

The little girl walked out, her body covered in blood.

"Are you alright?"

The little girl touched her injured arm and said, "It hurts here. "

Zhuo Xi looked at the wound and it had stopped bleeding. She said, "Don't touch it. When you go out, Big Sister will give you medicine. "

The little girl looked up. "Can we go out?"

"Of course we can. We have Little White. " Zhuo Xi said casually.

Walking out of the earroom, the little girl hid behind Zhuo Xi, "Elder sister, you go first. I'm afraid. "

Zhuo Xi patted her head in comfort and continued to follow Little White.

But suddenly she heard the sound of a sharp blade piercing through the air behind her ears. She dodged reflexively and grabbed that tender hand with a backhand. She held a crude dagger in her hand. The little girl looked at her in panic.

"Why did you want to kill me?" Zhuo Xi was furious.

"You, didn't you bring me out to kill me?"

Zhuo Xi was so angry that she laughed, "Why would I want to kill you?"

"They are all dead. This place doesn't allow living people. If you don't want to kill me, then why did you bring me out?"

"Then tell me, why did they want to kill you?"

"I, I am a burial item, look. " The little girl stretched out her injured hand, the same vertical pattern was also engraved on her wrist.

"So it is a burial item. " Zhuo Xi smiled. "You see, I have one too. " She also stretched out her other hand.

"Sister, why didn't they kill you?" The little girl exclaimed.

"I was poisoned and fainted earlier. They probably didn't notice my existence. " Zhuo Xi took the dagger from her hand and discovered that it was actually a beast tooth. She held the little girl's hand and said, "Don't worry, we will all leave alive. "

"Sister, I'm sorry. "

Zhuo Xi held her hand.

The more they walked forward, the more corpses there were. Finally, they turned around and arrived at a huge indoor space. A tall stone pillar, layers upon layers of stairs, like a palace.

"It's here, just now, they were killing people like crazy" The little girl said with a trembling voice.

Inside the room, no matter if it was the platform in the middle, The whole room, whether it was the platform in the middle or the stairs on both sides, was filled with corpses and blood. Some of them flowed along the patterns on the floor, as if they were painting the entire hall. The blood had not dried yet. The color was also very fresh, and it seemed like this massacre had just ended not too long ago. These people had been killed with knives. Along the way, It was as if she had seen how these pitiful people had run and fought back. Blood splattered on the spot. There were so many people. Even she had killed quite a number of them. Seeing this scene, she couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.

These people were all wearing coarse linen clothes, and there were tattoos with vertical symbols on their wrists. Judging from the style of these stone buildings and the clothing on the corpses, it was possible that they were in the era of slavery. The candlesticks on the walls were also made of bronze, and iron had yet to be found.

They walked along the steps paved with corpses and passed through the left path. Usually, the owners of such luxurious tombs were either rich or noble. Among the slaves who were killed and buried with them, there must have been a craftsman who built this tomb, and they would leave a way out for their escape. The little white snake brought them to a huge stone door.

There was a corpse lying on the ground in front of the door, its hands tightly clutching its chest. There were four statues of armored soldiers standing at the door. The little girl ran over and shouted, "Dad, dad, wake up!"

"He's your dad?"

"Yes, he used to be a craftsman who built this place. I didn't expect them to not even let go of a craftsman. " The little girl said hatefully.

Zhuo Xi did not say anything. If it was her, she would not let go of the craftsmen who knew the tomb like the back of their hand. Just their understanding of the tomb path was enough to keep their mouths shut forever. Zhuo Xi probed his body but did not find any map or anything like that.

She saw the little girl take out a thin rope from between her father's fingers and pull out a thin rope from her neck. Zhuo Xi looked. No, no, it was a jade plate with a rectangular pattern in half. It was not a jade plate, but like the bones of some kind of animal. It was grinded white and looked like ivory. Zhuo Xi put them together. It could not be closed, but it was the opposite. The gap in the middle was tightly closed. She loosened her grip. However, he loosened his grip again. When they were combined, they were in the shape of two square parts overlapping each other. She vaguely felt that this jade plate and the pattern seemed to be somewhat familiar. . .

The little white snake swam over and Zhuo Xi joked, "Yo, little white, you saw something good? You are also open-minded when it comes to money?"

Little White stared at the jade pendant and drew a circle on the ground. Zhuo Xi looked. Oh, it was the pattern on the jade pendant. It turned out that it was a family emblem or something like that? She carefully observed the pattern. The pattern was actually very simple. It was a square shape with two round corners, where the two parts overlapped. The overlapping parts formed a new rectangular shape. The edges of the switch were high, low, and uneven.

"When I came in, Dad gave me this and wiped the blood on my body. He told me to hide under someone else's body, so I escaped. I didn't expect him to. . . "

" What's this pattern? " Zhuo Xi interrupted her muttering.

"This is a mark that can only be used by the royal family of the previous dynasty. This is the tomb of the late king. The late king died seven days ago. Today, he moved the coffin in and buried it. This is his coffin. "

" Only the royal family of the previous dynasty can use it? That's why your father split it in half?"

"Maybe, but I don't know what this is for. "

She looked at the stone door in front of her.

Zhuo Xi reached out and pushed the stone door, but it did not move.

The four stone statues in front of the door held their swords and glared at her, as if mocking her for overestimating herself.

The little girl wiped away her tears and stood up. Her head touched the arm of one of the guards. The arm actually made a slight cracking sound.

Zhuo Xi heard it and carefully held onto his arm. She discovered that it could actually move. She turned once, but the door still did not budge. It turned out that this arm was akimbo in a right angle. Now that it was raised up by Zhuo Xi, it looked a little funny. Zhuo Xi walked around in front of the four statues. She stood further away and looked at the bone plate in the little girl's hand. The little white snake circled around by the side. It also had no clue.

Zhuo Xi went forward and touched the arm of the other stone sculpture that was leaning against the inner side. She discovered that it could also rotate. She was overjoyed and turned her arm in a certain direction. The other two stone statues had the same arm on the inside. She put her four arms together in a certain direction. She found that their palms formed a small rectangular shape and passed through the rectangular shape to face a brick on the wall.

Zhuo Xi reached out her hand and pressed down on the brick. Sure enough, the stone door opened with a loud bang.

The door opened and the little girl was about to charge in. She pulled her back. She looked at the corpse lying on the ground and apologized. She took off the straw shoes on the corpse. Zhuo Xi weighed it too lightly and put the bone dagger on the straw shoes. She threw it in but there was no movement. So her toes stepped on the floor tile of the straw shoe. She repeated it several times and gestured for the little girl to follow her footsteps. The two of them stepped into the tomb chamber.

In the middle of the burial chamber was a huge sarcophagus. On top of the sarcophagus hung a huge luminous pearl. It looked incomparably expensive. She speculated that it should be the coffin of the so-called late king. On the east side of the wall was a row of weapon racks. There were all types of weapons placed on them. Zhuo Xi used her straw shoes to dig out two bricks and jumped over to pick up a beautiful dagger embedded with gems. She thought that if she needed money when she went out, she could also use it to exchange for money. She also took a spear in her hand.

After walking back. The little girl copied her footsteps and went to the shelf to take a long saber. Just as she was about to jump back, the little girl's blade accidentally hit the brick beside her. A huge iron cage instantly fell from the top. Zhuo Xi immediately pulled the girl over and jumped over. The spear in her hand hit the wall again. She triggered another mechanism and instantly shot out several arrows. She waved the spear and protected the little girl as she retreated from the door.