Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 151 You are somewhat uncultured
On the outskirts of Backlund, in a fertile field, a river rushed from afar and made a bend beside the cliff in front. One side of the cliff was bare, revealing pure white rocks. From afar, it had an unusually holy beauty.

And at the river bend, there is a hidden underground entrance.

"Is this right here?"

Yu Jin quietly stared at the cave entrance that seemed to be ready to devour someone, and stood there thinking for a moment. Then he pushed aside the weeds and bushes that were covering it and slowly walked underground.

Inside the cave was a mausoleum, a mausoleum of the Amon family, a great noble family that originated in the Fourth Epoch. Klein revealed the information about the mausoleum to him because he thought that Ember might be interested. And this was indeed the case, otherwise Ember would not have come.

The black marble staircase has been washed away by a thousand or two thousand years, and still maintains sufficient hardness without any signs of corrosion. The embers followed it all the way to the ground, and saw the asymmetrical stone pillars and patterns that looked like they were cut by knives and axes, which were very characteristic of the Quaternary Period.

The pillars stood on both sides of a wide road, dividing many shadowy corners shrouded in darkness. Even Yu Jin couldn't help but suspect that a hideous and terrifying monster would jump out of the darkness and pounce on him with a roar in the next second.

But when the embers approached, the holy light emitted by the sunworm helmet on his head immediately dispelled the darkness and illuminated the surrounding roads. There was nothing in those seemingly dark corners, only stone slabs polished with the same black marble.

Finally, he reached the end of the passage. In front of him was a huge, heavy, dark grey stone door. The stone door had cracked open enough for two people to enter and exit side by side, and there was a deep and dark space inside.

"Snapped!"

Yu Jin stopped in front of the door and glanced at both sides of the stone door, as if there were some terrifying monsters hiding behind them. After all, he had been tricked more than once or twice, and the insult was extremely strong.

After a little thought, he took out the ashes.

"Dingling bell~!"

In the dark passage, the crisp sound of bells continued to echo. As the bells rang, three tall silver knights wearing bright silver armor and helmets decorated with horns appeared in the gray mist. Without exception, they all held long swords and heavy knight shields with deep grooves.

Their eyes under their helmets flashed with a deep light, and they understood their duties the moment they were summoned. Amid the metal collision sound of armor, they fearlessly rushed forward into the darkness! Their steps were extremely heavy, but their speed was beyond the imagination of ordinary people!
"Roar!"

The roar of a monster seemed to be heard in the darkness, and in the firing of the bright silver armor, a hideous monster hiding behind the stone door could be vaguely seen pouncing on the tall knight. However, in mid-air, the silver knight hit it from the side, knocked it away directly against the silver knight's shield, and then swung the long sword to stab the monster's body.

More and more monsters pounced on the Silver Knight from the darkness, and then died one after another under the Silver Knight's sword.

However, Yu Jin, who was standing behind the stone door, was not in a hurry to go in. He held the Twilight Amulet given by Siris in his hand. At the same time, the dark energy emitting an unsettling aura began to gather in Yu Jin's palm, and finally flew like a spiral towards the deep darkness behind the stone door.

"Snapped!"

“Sizzle, sizzle~!”

Amid countless tiny rustling sounds, the dark energy that fell to the ground instantly evolved into countless tiny black beetles! They formed a black wave, frantically gnawing at everything in front of them like marching ants!
And this is a rare dark miracle among miracles——

【Erosion of Doris】

[Crazy mentor-Doris's miracle.

Can summon a swarm of insects to devour enemies.

People standing on the edge of the abyss sometimes lose their footing and fall.

At this time, she can get benefits and will definitely indulge in it. 】

"Boom!"

After defeating the enemy, the Silver Knight put away his sword, and his eyes under the helmet revealed a deep light. They did not stop, but rushed forward quickly, and the heavy footsteps gradually faded away. During this time, there seemed to be a heavy collision sound, as if some mechanism was triggered.

Also moving away was the swarm of insects that formed the purest black tide. They would not disappear until they had completely devoured everything in front of them!
Yu Jin nodded slightly, then took a step forward and slowly walked through the stone gate.

With the soft light of the sunworm helmet, Yujin could see the stains and fragments on the ground. They once belonged to the monsters hidden in the darkness, but now they have been torn to pieces by the swarm of insects, leaving only a few residues to barely prove their existence.

But that's all. Just based on these remaining stains, it is impossible to identify the species of monsters that once lived here, nor is it possible to guess the functions of the mechanisms that were once set up here.

With the Silver Knight and the Swarm of Insects clearing the way, the road behind the stone gate was unobstructed, with only one piece of extraordinary characteristics remaining. While picking up the spoils, Yu Jin continued to go deeper into the mausoleum.

But along the way, Yu Jin began to doubt whether this mausoleum could be just a fake tomb.
After all, according to convention, the tomb of a noble member has more or less things that indicate his status and glory during his lifetime. When the tomb becomes a mausoleum or even a mausoleum with a large enough space, it is very common to use murals to tell the life story of the owner. This was not uncommon in the more ancient and ignorant times, and was even the most common means. The first thing humans learned was painting, not writing.

Even the mysterious island he had visited under Alger's leadership had a large number of murals in its ruined mausoleum. However, in the mausoleum of the Amon family, the walls on both sides of the passage were empty, not only were there no similar murals, but there was even no decoration.

"Clap!"

Finally, after walking a distance, Yu Jin saw a picture frame. It was hung on the wall about seven or eight meters ahead. It was brown in color, with obvious wood texture, and only the side was exposed for the time being.

This is the only decoration along the way, except for the monsters in the dark, and anyone can see its strangeness.

Yu Jin put it away and glanced at the introduction.

【Ghost Frame】

[A magical item from the Amon family in the Fourth Epoch,
As long as you walk into its range and be reflected by it,
The spirit will instantly separate from the flesh and blood, becoming a portrait, and be sealed in it forever. 】

Yu Jin understood immediately that this painting was probably the real trap of this mausoleum. Even if someone was lucky enough to pass through the blockade of those monsters and come here, if they wanted to pass through this corridor, they would have to pass through this painting.

If someone who doesn't know the details comes here, once he stands in front of this picture, he will be instantly reflected in it, and his spirit will be separated from the flesh and blood and turned into a portrait until the death of the body. It must be said that this painting has a kind of "death in the light" attribute. It can be said to be a very good magical item. It is not without reason that the Amon family placed it here.

"But now, the painting belongs to me."

Yu Jin retracted his gaze and continued to walk towards the main tomb at the end of the corridor. At the end of the corridor, the three silver knights and the black insect swarm were all stopped there, and they seemed to be blocked by something.

When the embers got closer, they found that there was a black stone door with patterns that looked like they were cut by knives and axes.

Under the illumination of the Sunworm Helmet, Yu Jin saw the whole picture of the stone gate. In the middle of it was a grayish-white disk, the surface of which was divided into twelve grids, with a black pointer, just like a clock in the outside world. However, the grids were not evenly distributed on the disk, some were large and some were small, which was extremely inconsistent, and half of each grid was covered with shadows.

This immediately reminded Yu Jin of the Time Worm left behind after the demise of Amon's clone. At that time, Amon was stuck in the door and could not move. The Time Worm was eventually left in the outside world and was obtained by the Little Sun, who used it to create the lie that Amon was hostile to the True Creator.

Yu Jin put away his thoughts and slowly walked towards the stone door. Along the way, the insect swarms that covered the corridor pushed aside to the sides, revealing the smooth marble floor that had not changed black after thousands of years, welcoming Yu Jin's arrival like a loyal servant.

Yu Jin stopped in front of the stone door, and without any hesitation, he placed his hands on both sides of the stone door and pushed it outwards with force.

"Crack!"

With the heavy sound of the stone door opening, it slowly opened up a deep passage for two people to pass through. However, Yu Jin did not intend to continue pushing, but left it half open.

"Bang bang bang!"

The Silver Knights stepped into the tomb with heavy steps, and the black beetles followed closely behind. Almost instantly, they completely filled the fairly spacious tomb, searching for anything that might pose a threat.

In the center of the tomb, there was a high platform, on which a dark black coffin was placed. On the surrounding walls, there were iron lamp stands, holding white candles that were still burning quietly. None of the candle flames flickered, and it was so quiet that it seemed like a frozen picture, without any trace of having been washed away by a thousand or two thousand years.

In the straight line from the stone gate to the coffin, there were corpses lying one after another. Some of them were wearing black woolen coats and half-high silk hats, while others were dressed like ordinary workers with peaked caps. It was obvious that they were people who had entered here in recent years.

Without exception, all of these corpses had sparse white hair, dry and wrinkled skin, and obvious spots, like old people in their 80s or 90s. There were no obvious wounds on their bodies, as if they had died of old age, and had just died not long ago, and had not yet had time to rot.

"The authority of time?"

Yu Jin raised his eyebrows slightly, and immediately thought of Amon's ability - Amon's clone would leave behind the Time Worm after his death, and in the Silver City classics introduced by Little Sun, there were eight angel kings around the Creator, one of whom was the Time Angel. And this Time Angel was most likely Amon, holding the power to control time?
The only question is, how did these people get in?
There are countless monsters in the tomb, ghost frames in the corridor, and a heavy stone door at the end of the corridor that has never been opened. These obstacles were intact before the embers arrived. How did these people quietly bypass those mechanisms and traps to reach this tomb?
Even if they were lucky enough to bypass those monsters and successfully pass through the trap of the ghost frame, what about the closed stone door? Could it be that after they died here, someone thoughtfully helped them close the stone door?

Or, there is another possibility——

"An extraordinary person with special abilities."

Yu Jin looked at the corpses and frowned slightly.

Among the extraordinary paths he knew, the Gate Path could do everything mentioned before - even if he was just an apprentice, with the ability to pass through walls, he might be able to pass through the blockades and traps of the monsters intact.

There is no need to open the door, you can directly pass through the stone door and enter the tomb. But if this is true, then what are the extraordinary characteristics of these corpses? It can't be that all the people who come to this tomb are ordinary people, right?
Yu Jin looked forward and stopped at an upside-down picture frame at the bottom of the platform. The black tide of insects stopped around the platform, forming a circle around it, leaving a large gap with the platform as the center. Because any insect that entered this "gap" would die instantly and return to nothingness.

Yu Jin thought about it, then slowly took a step forward and walked towards the platform at a leisurely pace.

One step, two steps, three steps. As he got closer and closer to the platform, Yu Jin could clearly feel a certain force affecting his body - it was the power of time. If he were a normal person, he would have aged at a speed beyond imagination, with all his teeth falling out, his hair falling out, his skin dry and wrinkled, and he would soon die.

However, this method had no effect on Yu Jin. Although the force was constantly affecting his body, Yu Jin's pace did not slow down. He just walked to the platform step by step, bent his knees, bent his back, and turned the upside-down picture frame over.

"Wow!"

As the picture frame flipped, a wind suddenly blew up in the sealed mausoleum, blowing away the invisible confinement and silence. The candles on the iron lamp holders burned quickly, becoming extremely bright, but soon reached the end of their lives and melted away. The old corpses on the ground rotted quickly, emitting a foul smell. At the same time, the extraordinary characteristics in the corpses slowly condensed, and some even combined with a certain part of the body to form a magical object that made people terrified.

Yu Jin did not rush to move forward, but looked down at the turned-over picture frame in his hand, which was a portrait of a young man with a smile on his face, black eyes, black curly hair, a broad forehead, a thin face, a crystal monocle, and a black peaked soft hat.

Ember had seen this man before, had seen him stuck in the door, his name was Amon.

Yu Jin frowned slightly, put away the picture frame, and continued walking along the stairs to the platform, toward the black coffin. He stretched out his hands and pressed on the lid of the coffin, pushing hard.

"Squeak!"

With a tooth-grinding heavy friction sound, the lid of the coffin was slowly opened. But there was no body inside. The inside of the coffin was empty, with only a layer of light golden cushion at the bottom, on which was embroidered a worm with twelve rings on its body.

Yu Jin thought for a moment, then put away the golden cushion - after all, he was here, he couldn't go back empty-handed, right?
Just as he had put away the cushion and was considering whether to take the coffin away together, a voice suddenly came to his ear.

"Isn't this a bit rude of you?"

(End of this chapter)