Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 60
boom!
Accompanied by the sound of the explosion, Lao Yan and I jumped forward suddenly, and then, regardless of what was going on behind us, we got up and sprinted towards the place where the monster came out.

Behind us came the sound of poisonous snakes running, and they caught up with us in a short while. The poisonous snakes were pale and told us to move faster, the grenade was useless against monsters.

As soon as his words fell, I heard the thunderous footsteps, and the speed picked up again.

"Stop, stop!" I was sprinting, and suddenly I heard Lao Yan growl. I turned my head and looked at him puzzled, only to see him stretch out his hand towards me with a terrified expression, as if he wanted to grab me look.

Before I understood what was going on, I felt that my body was falling vertically. Lao Yan rushed over and grabbed my hand, but the force of the landing was too great, and he was also pulled down directly.

Boom!

The two of us fell heavily on the ground, but fortunately the ground here was as soft as sand, which gave us a buffer, so we didn't suffer too much damage.

"What happened just now?" I got up and asked puzzled, obviously when I ran, I didn't realize that there was no way ahead.

Lao Yan said with a dark face that he didn't know. He also saw that the road disappeared suddenly.

We looked at each other in silence, and after a while I broke the silence: "Where are the blind men?"

"I don't know, but they are behind us, they should find another way when they see us falling." Lao Yan said.

I nodded, and I was relieved a lot at first, and then I realized that even if they were on it, it would not be so good, after all, there is still a monster with a human face...

"Get up and have a look." Lao Yan stood up and patted his clothes, then turned on the flashlight.

This is a deep pit, I'm not mistaken, there is indeed a layer of sand under my feet, but there are still a lot of bones in the sand.

"It should be a kind of sky burial." Lao Yan rummaged through the sand, randomly tore a piece of bone, and found that it was connected into one piece.

I looked up and said that the ancient country of Long Night is really weird. There is actually a mass grave behind the queen's tomb. Isn't it afraid of causing corpses to be piled up here if the dead subjects are piled up here?

"Look, why are there so many children's bones in this area?" Lao Yan called out to me, and I leaned over to take a look, and saw that the area under his feet was full of babies' bones. Seeing that the bones were smaller, the newborn , the older ones are no more than two or three-year-old foreign devils.

I frowned and didn't speak. With so many children's bones, I can only think of one possibility——sacrifice!

In ancient times, many countries used children as sacrifices, but using so many children as sacrifices has never been heard of since ancient times.

wheeze...

We were looking at the bones of these children when I suddenly heard a slight breathing sound.

I hurriedly fell silent, and made a gesture to Lao Yan, who nodded slightly, then pointed to the side, and said softly: "I just noticed that there is a ladder there, let's go from there."

I thanked him, and walked lightly to the stairs with him.

The sound of breathing was getting closer and closer, and my palms were sweating, but luckily the stairs were not far away, and when the sound of breathing was about to catch up with us, Lao Yan had already stepped onto the steps.I followed closely behind, and I didn't care about anything afterwards, and ran up with all my strength.

The sound of breathing still followed, I couldn't hold back my curiosity and glanced back, only to see a thing shrouded in darkness, only a black shadow was following us.

It seemed that the thing was roughly in the shape of a human being, but two green lights came out from the eyes, which scared me so much that I almost slipped down the stairs.

"Come up quickly!" Lao Yan had already climbed up the stairs, turned his head and stretched out his hand towards me, pulling me up as well.

The black shadow has been following us and chasing us away. Old Yan and I turned around and fired shots from time to time, but it had no effect on it at all.

"Lao Yan, hurry up, there is a door ahead, go in quickly." I ran out of breath, and when I saw the door in front of me, I shouted in surprise.

In fact, I didn't need to shout, Lao Yan had already rushed over. Fortunately, the door didn't seem to be closed, and he pushed it open with a slight push.After I followed him and squeezed through the door, he slammed the door shut and took something from the side against the door.

After waiting for a while, I didn't see any movement from the black shadow outside the door. I bravely peeked out from the crack of the door, but found that it was gone.

"What is this place?"

I didn't notice where we were until I was sure the shadow outside the door was far away.

Under the light of the moonstone, I can see that this should be a hall, which looks like a place for banquets.

"Look here." Lao Yan stood aside and waved at me.

I walked over and took a look, only to find that this wall was full of murals. I looked at other walls and found that except for the side of the door we came in, the rest of the place was occupied by colorful murals.

Lao Yan pointed to a painting on the left and said, "It should start from here!"

I asked him how he knew, and he pointed to the mural, saying that because it was the celebration of the Queen's enthronement, it seems that these murals should tell about the Queen's life, and the Ancient Night Kingdom is really a feminist country.

In fact, there are written descriptions on the side of these murals, but Lao Yan and I have difficulty deciphering the written words of the country, so we can only rely on guesswork.

While taking pictures with the camera, Lao Yan explained the content of the mural: This is the enthronement ceremony of the new queen of the ancient country of Changye. The queen is barefoot, and her beautiful figure is faintly visible under the white gauze.

Under the guardianship of the knight, she walked up the steps step by step. When she caught the crown, her veil was blown back by the wind and smiled, and she was immediately loved by all the subjects.

"Is this knight the owner of the ancient tomb?" I pointed to the man who was following the queen. I was very impressed by his pious appearance.

Lao Yan nodded: "That's right, let's continue watching."

The next mural depicts the scene of joy in the Long Night Kingdom all night after the queen ascended the throne, but because they have been living in darkness, this mural is not much different from other murals.

"The text should describe the queen's beauty." Lao Yan stroked the text on the mural and said.

"Can you recognize it?" I looked at the string of strokes rather than words, and looked at Lao Yan in surprise. I remember that he didn't know these things before.

Sure enough, Lao Yan shook his head and said that he could only recognize a few of them, which he presumably meant.

Moreover, this mural indeed depicts the subjects' crazy obsession with the queen, which also led to the fact that the Queen of the Long Night usually does not take off her veil, because once she takes off her veil, everyone who sees her will be fascinated.

"It seems that she is indeed beautiful."

Looking at the mural, I thought of the statue of the woman on the city gate before, and I thought she was the queen described in the mural.

Next, Lao Yan and I slowly went through all the murals and connected them into a complete story. This story made us feel that the ancient country of Long Night is becoming more and more mysterious:
The queen prides herself on her beauty, and spends a lot of time on maintaining her beauty every day. However, her beauty will decline sooner or later. When her beauty was at its peak, she thought of a way: to study the elixir of life.

This is similar to Qin Shihuang's approach. One is to send people to look for it, and the other is to recruit people to refine it.

However, the elixir of life is not so easy to find. It should be said that there may not be such a thing in this world.

Therefore, three years passed in a flash, and the queen had nothing to gain, but her age was aging a little bit.Even though she is still beautiful, she is afraid that she will be replaced by a new king when she grows old, and she always hopes that she can stay young forever.

So the queen, who couldn't find the elixir of life, started to take a slant, and even started to drink human blood, especially bathing with baby's blood, to keep her skin white, tender and delicate!This made the subjects start to fear her, and even the knights who had always guarded her gradually became disappointed in her.

However, the queen ignored it, and while relying on folk remedies to maintain her beauty, she still ordered people to find the elixir of life.

"It turns out that the group of baby bones we just saw was caused by the queen." I touched the mural, and it was hard to imagine that a person could do such a tragic thing in order to live forever.

Lao Yan looked inexplicable: "In ancient times, the lives of subjects were worthless."

As he spoke, he continued to interpret the contents of the mural.

For the queen's actions, the subjects were already desperate, thinking that under such a queen's rule, they would perish sooner or later, but one day, all this was broken by a masked man in Tsing Yi!

(End of this chapter)