Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1023 A Headless Corpse
Seeing that there seemed to be no mechanisms or traps, Ashina Zhuxie and Wang Shaoqiu looked at each other, and both of them slowly walked forward. Standing behind them was Lei Yu, who had just been protected by Ashina Zhuxie and retreated several steps. She looked at Lu Xiao beside her with concern.

"Are you OK?"

"..."

Lu Xiao, who was always alert, did not say anything at this time. She just looked up at the person next to her with a complicated expression. Finally, she calmed down and nodded to Lei Yu. The two of them followed the people in front of them and climbed back onto the stone platform and surrounded the coffin.

At this time, everyone covered their noses and endured the stench. Finally, they could see the situation inside the coffin clearly, and they could hear low exclamations of amazement.

There was indeed a corpse in the coffin.

Moreover, it was unknown how many years had passed since the corpse was buried. The body had long since dried up and turned to bones, and even the clothes on the body were about to decay and rot, and - Lu Xiao frowned slightly, not knowing if it was her illusion. Although the clothes on the corpse had decayed to the point of almost turning into dust, she felt vaguely that they were familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before.

But all this is not the most shocking thing.

The most incredible thing is that the body is actually a headless body!

What was even more surprising and exciting was that on the broken neck of the corpse there was a golden human head!

Gold is immortal and becomes more and more golden with the passage of time. Several torches shone on the coffin, making the golden head emit a dazzling golden light. The golden light that came out at the moment the coffin was opened was obviously emitted by the human head.

“This, this is gold, right?”

In the tense and surprised silence, someone finally spoke, and the voice was filled with indescribable excitement and ecstasy. Immediately afterwards, a Turkic soldier cautiously reached out to touch the golden head, but before he could touch it, he was stopped by Ashina Zhuxie with a low shout: "Stop!"

The soldier was startled, then immediately came to his senses, hurriedly retracted his hand and lowered his head.

Ashina Zhuxie stared at the golden head with burning eyes, then turned to look at Wang Shaoqiu, whose face was shining with golden light but whose expression was solemn and even a little sad. "What's going on?"

Wang Shaoqiu didn't say anything, obviously confused by the situation.

Ashina Zhuxie asked: "Who is this?"

Wang Shaoqiu said, “I don’t know.”

"Is it Zuo Chenan?"

"Not quite like it."

"why?"

"Zuo Chen'an died of illness, so he should have been buried in shrouds. But this body is wearing what looks like armor."

"armor?"

Ashina Zhuxie frowned immediately, and Lvxiao beside him also gasped. Yes, no wonder she felt familiar with the decayed clothes on the corpse just now. That's why. However, that familiar feeling should not only come from the decayed armor.

Thinking of this, her gaze shifted to the dazzling golden head, and everyone's eyes were focused here.

The coffin was not filled with the gold, silver and jewelry they wanted, but only this golden human head. Compared with everyone's expectations, it was indeed a bit bland. Even wealthy families had more burial objects than this. It could not be called a treasure at all.

But, who's coffin would have no human head in it, but a golden head as a burial object?
more importantly--

The golden head was carved very delicately, with the facial features clearly visible, and even a pair of wide-open tiger eyes, shining brightly under the golden light, as if this person had such a sharp gaze when he was alive, and brought such spirit into the silence after death.

Those eyes, and the look in them, were also very familiar.

Countless memories of the past suddenly emerged in Lu Xiao's mind. Those vivid people, one after another, past events that she could not bear to look back on, all flashed before her eyes like a kaleidoscope. She was lost in the long river of memories for a moment, and was beaten into a trance by the surging waves. One hand involuntarily reached out for the golden head in the coffin.

Just when her slender fingertips were about to touch the golden head, suddenly, Wang Shaoqiu saw that the rotten clothes worn by the dry bones seemed to move.

"careful!"

He shouted and immediately reached out to stop it.

Lu Xiao was startled by his voice. She looked down and saw that the rotten clothes suddenly bulged, as if the dry bones under the clothes raised their hands and then quickly moved towards her hands. Lu Xiao was caught off guard. Before she could retract her hand, she saw a black snake suddenly jumped out of the collar, revealing a few sharp fangs in its open mouth, and bit towards her.

Just when the fangs were about to bite her hand, Wang Shaoqiu hit the snake's head hard.

The snake was hit and tilted a little, as if it was angry and embarrassed, and it coiled up into a ball, with its tongue sticking out and making a sizzling sound, and then it suddenly pounced towards Wang Shaoqiu!
No one around had expected that there would be a snake hidden in the coffin. This sudden change stunned everyone. Before anyone could react, the snake had already wrapped around his neck and bit his neck hard!
"what!"

A scream suddenly resounded throughout the stone chamber. Wang Shaoqiu's eyes turned red with pain. He staggered back a few steps and fell directly off the stone platform!
Ashina Zhuxie was also shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Quick!"

As soon as he raised his hand, the other Turkic soldiers also reacted from their surprise and immediately surrounded him. Wang Shaoqiu covered his neck with one hand and grabbed the snake with the other hand and pulled it down with force. With a hissing sound, a stream of blood spurted out from the side of his neck. The venomous snake actually tore off a piece of skin from his neck, and then he threw it aside with force, and it hit the stone wall.

Several soldiers immediately stepped forward, wielding swords and chopping the poisonous snake into more than a dozen pieces.

Although the snake was dead, the fear it brought increased hundreds of times in an instant. Everyone looked back in amazement and saw Wang Shaoqiu slowly standing up, one hand covering his neck where blood was flowing, as if he couldn't believe it. His pale face was full of fear and panic. He looked at the pieces of the snake and said in panic, "This, this is..."

Before he could finish his words, his eyes were already half dead.

Although it was cut into pieces, everyone could see that it was a highly poisonous silver-ringed black snake!

Just as Wang Shaoqiu's eyes turned black and his already thin body was shaky and seemed about to fall down at any time, a voice so light that it seemed even a gust of wind could blow it away sounded in his ears -

"Why are you……?"