Crown Jewels

Chapter 78

"Princess, it's me—"

The clear voice came, but it seemed low in the cave, but it made Gu Baozhu's whole string relax.

The trace on the edge of the cliff was an illusion specially created by Gu Baozhu by taking off the outer robes of the two of them.

The purpose is to deceive people and delay the time.

Later, the two hid towards the side peak and found this dark cave.

Because it is halfway up the mountain and covered by trees outside, it is difficult for anyone to notice it.

With the help of Song Yan, Gu Baozhu took the lead to hide in the cave.

And Song Yan went out alone to clean up the traces left on the road when the two ran to the side peak.

So Song Yan delayed for some time and came in now.

Song Yan's familiar voice reached his ears, and Gu Baozhu felt relieved.

Gu Baozhu poked his finger into the purse at his waist, and took out a fire pocket from it.

Since the accident that happened when she fell off the horse in the academy, she has developed a habit of storing some emergency things in her personal purse to prevent unexpected accidents.

Opened his mouth and blew lightly, the original little starlight instantly ignited, bursting into tiny flames.

Then, a flame the size of a thumb slowly ignited in the dark cave, and the cave, which could not be seen with one's hand, suddenly opened up a lot.

Song Yan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Gu Baozhu whose eyebrows and eyes glowed against the firelight, and paused with his hands.

I didn't expect that Gu Baozhu would have fire pockets prepared on him.

The cave seemed to have no bottom, only two people breathed lightly.

"Cough-cough-"

Gu Baozhu glanced at the people behind him, pretending to be calm.

"Song Yan, why don't we look inside!"

"Maybe we can find an exit and go out from the other side."

Song Yan looked subconsciously, and saw the girl avoiding his eyes lightly,
Gu Baozhu seemed to be kicking rocks under his feet, but his arms were tightly clinging to the rock wall. After speaking for a while, he didn't raise his legs to take half a step forward.

There was a flash of clarity in Song Yan's eyes, the corners of his lips slightly curved, he took a step with his long legs, and stepped forward a few steps to Gu Baozhu's side.

The indifferent voice echoed in his ears, and Song Yan took the fire folder and looked forward.

"Let's go, look ahead!"

Suddenly there was a warm body temperature around him.

Even though the fire was in front of her and she couldn't see Song Yan's eyebrows clearly, Gu Baozhu still felt that it was a great comfort to have a living person by her side at this moment.

As he walked further in, the occasional light from the entrance of the cave also disappeared, leaving only the torch in Gu Baozhu's hand to hold on.

"Song Yan—"

Gu Baozhu pursed her lips, the cold air hit her, and she shrank uncontrollably.

Looking at the still long stone road in front of her, she pursed her lips, and finally said what was in her heart.

"Song Yan—"

"Tell me why this cave is so long, it always seems to have no end."

Taking the fire folder in her hand, and exploring the way forward, Song Yan showed a solemn expression.

He originally thought that the cave was just a natural landscape, but the further he walked in, he found that there was a man-made secret passage behind the cave.

I don't know where it leads!

Inexplicably, the veins on the back of Song Yan twitched.

He always felt that something seemed to happen today.

Just when she was about to stretch out her arms and let Gu Baozhu tug on her sleeves tightly, her voice came from next to her ear, filled with a bit of uncontrollable panic.

"Song—Song Yan—"

Gu Baozhu trembled, "What do you see in front of you?"

Song Yan's eyebrows condensed slightly, holding the fire folder, subconsciously looked in the direction of Gu Baozhu's finger.

He saw a boxy thing lying horizontally in the dark passage ahead.

Looking carefully, there are dark stone walls all around, and the coffin of nanmu lying in the center.

In this situation, it was as if he and Gu Baozhu were in someone's tomb.

and many more!

Mausoleum, coffin?
Song Yan's forehead was restless, and his eyelids twitched violently.

"Princess, you wait for me here—"

"Don't be afraid, I'll go up and have a look first."

Song Yan's voice was comforting, Gu Baozhu grabbed the corner of his skirt, and just when Song Yan was about to take a step, he grabbed the corner of his robe.

Sensing the movement, Song Yan turned around in surprise.

Against the faint light of the fire, Gu Baozhu pursed her red lips slightly, her eyes clearly contained uneasiness, but she still firmly looked at him and said.

"Song Yan, let's go together!"

As far as Huozhezi's starlight is concerned, Gu Baozhu didn't bother to care about it at this time, and took the initiative to grab Song Yan's arm.

The identity of the princess and the reservedness of a woman are all left behind by her at this moment.

None of these fame and admonitions have the strength that the warmth of the young man can bring her.

The closer to the coffin, inexplicably, the faster Gu Baozhu's heart beat.

At this moment, she herself did not know why, but her heart was filled with an unspeakable panic.

The two walked along the gap in the middle to the other side of the coffin.

Song Yan raised the fire folder in his hand, and carefully looked at the horizontal coffin with deep eyes.

This coffin is made of high-quality nanmu, and its specifications are much larger than ordinary coffins.

Gu Baozhu wrinkled his nose when he got closer to smell the pungent smell, and suddenly seemed to think of something.

"Dinsha! Song Yan—"

"This is the smell of cinnabar. I once smelled this smell when I worshiped my ancestors in the imperial mausoleum."

"cinnabar?"

Gu Baozhu nodded, "That's right, this kind of cinnabar is used to keep corpses from decaying."

"It seems that it was accidentally extracted from the alchemy of the former Taoist priest when he was refining alchemy."

"Because the quantity is very small, it is only used to provide to the royal family to keep the corpse from decaying."

Song Yan's eyes flickered, and he lowered his eyes for a long time.

"So, if the body doesn't rot—"

"Then after the coffin is opened for autopsy, maybe there is still a chance to know who is lying inside?"

"J!"

After Song Yan finished speaking, Gu Baozhu shook his head resolutely.

Against the backdrop of the fire, her lips were a little pale, as if they had lost their nourishment and were far from their usual redness.

Digging someone's ancestral grave is an extremely detrimental thing, not to mention opening a coffin for an autopsy after they are clearly buried in the ground.

Looking at the patterns carved on the nanmu coffin, Gu Baozhu put aside the strangeness in his heart, glanced at Song Yan, and said softly.

"Let's go--"

Song Yan raised his eyebrows, looked at her deeply, didn't say much, just prepared to follow Gu Baozhu's will and leave.

At this moment, the sound of boulders moving came from the narrow strip.

The movements that were not intentionally light were heard in the ears of the two of them, as if the flat bottom had suddenly exploded into thunder.

Song Yan and Gu Baozhu looked at each other, their pupils suddenly constricted.

Song Yan quickly extinguished the fire, pulled Gu Baozhu to hide behind the coffin, and listened to the movement at the entrance.

The sound of chaotic footsteps echoed in the dark passage, accompanied by bright torches, and the stone wall at the corner reflected the dim light.

"My lord, the team under the cliff is still looking for the bodies of those two—"

"There are no traces left on the road. They shouldn't come here."

The voice of the guard's report echoed in the cave.

Hearing the movement ahead, Gu Baozhu's heart suddenly tightened in the darkness.

She could understand that these people turned out to be the group of guards chasing them in the monastery!

Gu Baozhu touched the outer wall of the coffin and quickly calmed himself down.

The arm followed the coffin, and when it touched the bottom, it really felt the gap between the coffin and the ground.

Without further hesitation, Gu Baozhu directly held Song Yan's hand, pointed to the gap, and signaled to him.

The woman's warm and slender hand held him, Song Yan's body was slightly stiff, but he nodded decisively at the next moment.

Seeing that Song Yan understood, Gu Baozhu didn't dare to delay, and lay down along the position of the coffin.

Gu Baozhu was just about to think about how he should get in, when the strength of two big hands came from his body.

Song Yan squatted down, directly dragged Gu Baozhu's back and legs, and slowly lifted her up and stuffed her into the gap under the coffin.

　Second update today.

　　The thrilling moment is coming,
　　Happy reading everyone!

　　
　
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