usatvline Chapter 298 An Encounter with a Blood Corpse
Chapter 298 An Encounter with a Blood Corpse
At this moment, Zhang Qiling stepped forward and placed his hand on the stone door. As he exerted force with his foot, the stone door was slowly pushed open.
The secret passage leading downwards was revealed.
The entrance to the secret passage is just wide enough for one person to pass through, but the inside is spacious enough for four people to walk side by side without feeling crowded.
The stone walls on both sides are flat without any pits, and the steps underfoot are stone steps carved directly into the rock, which must have taken a lot of manpower at the time.
After entering the passage, the group of five walked down the stone steps.
After walking about ten meters, the group saw another stone gate.
This time, Hei Xiazi took the initiative to step forward and forcefully pushed open the stone door.
That means it's just the two of them. It would take at least three people to achieve the same level of strength as an average adult.
"Such a heavy stone door, they didn't find it troublesome to open it back then."
After entering the stone gate, Hei Xiazi looked around and muttered to himself.
This is a long and narrow tomb chamber with a straight bluestone path in the middle, several tens of meters long, leading to the entrance in front.
Both sides were lined with coffins made of gray stone, neatly arranged one next to the other.
Roughly calculated, there are more than thirty stone coffins on both sides of this stone-paved road.
“These stone coffins all look like they were carved from the same mold, which doesn’t seem to be the kind used by high-ranking people.”
After observing for a while, Chen Wenjin spoke.
“If it were an ordinary person, they wouldn’t be entitled to their own coffin, so there must be something strange about this stone coffin.”
Black Bear approached a stone coffin, his eyes behind his sunglasses fixed on the crack in the coffin lid.
He quickly retreated to the group and said, "There are rice dumplings inside. Let's leave here as soon as possible."
Cheng Feng's senses were more acute; as soon as he entered, he smelled the same stench as the blood corpses in his memory.
Although there are only a few dozen here, which is still far from the target number, there's no reason not to let them go now that we've encountered Cheng Feng.
"It might take a while, as the things inside are one of the targets I'm here to eliminate."
Cheng Feng called out to the group that was about to leave.
Hei Xiazi wondered when Cheng Feng had set his goal, but out of respect for Cheng Feng, he didn't intend to pry.
Although Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling also had some doubts, they naturally gave their unconditional support to their man's goal.
Only Zhang Qiling didn't care about any of this; he simply gripped the Black Gold Ancient Blade and prepared for battle.
"Do you need my help to open the coffin?"
Hei Xiazi placed his hand on a stone coffin and asked.
Cheng Feng shook his head: "No need for that. Just come behind me and I'll handle the rest."
After the group left the stone coffin, Cheng Feng raised his hand and began to prepare a wind blade.
After a full minute of concentration, Cheng Feng suddenly waved his hand at the stone coffins on both sides.
Two invisible blades sliced through the stone coffin in an instant, leaving two huge gaps in the wall a hundred meters away.
Before Hei Xiazi and Zhang Qiling's shocked eyes, dozens of stone coffins were simultaneously ripped open by blood-red rice dumplings.
"Blood corpse!"
Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling recognized the special kind of zongzi at a glance.
A red flame ignited at Cheng Feng's fingertip, and he flicked his finger lightly at the charging blood corpse.
The undying dragon fire instantly transformed into a line of fire, igniting all the blood corpses in the tomb chamber.
The two blood corpses closest to Cheng Feng roared in agony amidst the dragon fire, flames gushing from their throats and quickly burning them to ashes.
The other blood zombies followed closely behind.
In less than a minute, the tomb became quiet again, and the once hideous blood corpse was now just dust on the ground.
The others, except for Cheng Feng, couldn't help but wonder if they were hallucinating.
"All done, let's move on, everyone."
Cheng Feng spoke calmly, as if he had just casually crushed an ant.
Hei Xiazi responded and then walked to the front of the group. From an angle where no one could see him, the corners of Hei Xiazi's mouth curled up, and he seemed to be very happy.
Having lived for so long, he suddenly felt that life was becoming more and more interesting, unlike before when he was just living for the sake of living and didn't care about anything.
When they reached the end of the tomb chamber, Hei Xiazi and Zhang Qiling took a special look at the two notches that Cheng Feng had left on the wall.
Even after cutting open dozens of stone coffins, a crack more than ten centimeters deep was still torn in the wall.
This power exceeds that of conventional firearms.
Silently leaving the tomb chamber, Cheng Feng and the others arrived at a reservoir.
Once you get to this point, the only way to go forward is to wade through the water, which is mixed with yellow mud, so you can't tell how deep it is.
Cheng Feng took a dry vine that wasn't too crooked from the side and handed it to Chen Wenjin.
Black Bear silently took a few steps back.
He really didn't want to use a guide cane anymore.
Chen Wenjin took the vine and, without saying a word, walked ahead, leading everyone forward through the water step by step.
The reservoir wasn't deep; it only reached just above the calves.
Without stopping, the group quickly reached the tomb passage on the opposite side.
As soon as Chen Wenjin entered the tomb passage, he was drawn to the murals on both sides.
"Give me a hand, clear away these vines."
As he spoke, Chen Wenjin began clearing away the vines with his knife.
Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi also noticed that the mural depicted something unusual, and they all stepped forward to help cut the vines.
After a while, the murals in the tomb passage came into full view of everyone.
"The woman with a human body and a snake's tail should be the Queen Mother of the West. She entered a stone full of holes. This stone should be a meteorite. In order to achieve immortality, she began a thousand-year slumber, just like King Mu of Zhou."
Based on the murals, Chen Wenjin guessed that the Queen Mother of the West might still be alive, but her condition wouldn't be very good.
Otherwise, there would be no reason why the group had remained so calm throughout the journey.
"Meteorite jade..."
Zhang Qiling frowned, and some memories began to surface in his mind.
"Zhang the mute, what have you remembered?"
Hei Xiazi noticed Zhang Qiling's unusual behavior and asked him about it.
Zhang Qiling snapped out of his daze, looked up at the honeycomb-shaped meteorite in the painting, and said, "There is something very important to the Zhang family inside."
"what?"
Upon hearing Chen Wenjin's question, Zhang Qiling replied, "I can't remember. I need to go inside and take a look once I find the meteorite."
After confirming that no important information had been missed, the group continued walking along the tomb passage.
After leaving the tomb passage, Cheng Feng and his group of five arrived at a spacious tomb chamber.
Apart from a few oil lamps that had long since dried up, there was nothing in this tomb chamber.
The ground is flat and dry, making it a good place to camp.
"Let's rest here for a bit and have something to eat to replenish our energy."
At Chen Wenjin's suggestion, everyone took off their backpacks and began to set up camp.
Just then, a strange voice rang out from above: "Boss... Boss."
Cheng Feng couldn't help but laugh out loud, patted Hei Xiazi on the shoulder and said, "Blind Man, does this sound familiar?"