Sandyul took the parchment scroll handed to her by Song Ying, and familiar handwriting appeared in front of her eyes. Tears welled up in her eyes before she could read the contents clearly. The elegant and noble lady was so graceful even when she cried.

Song Ying looked around and saw that there were no tissues around her, so she took out a pack of tissues she had already opened from her backpack, took out two and handed them to her.

"You should still read the content, please don't be too sad."

Sandyul calmed herself down before reading the parchment scroll seriously. Song Ying originally thought that she would be very sad upon learning the news of her son's death, but unexpectedly, she became calmer and calmer as she read on. She was not crying, but from the way she tightly grasped the parchment scroll, it could be seen that her mood was not as calm as she appeared.

"Bean, go to my room and get me the red lacquer box." Sandyul calmly called out to Butler Bean who was standing not far away. The butler bowed before going upstairs.

"You may not know this, but ten years ago I offered a reward. I would give a gift to anyone who could find information about Abel. It was something about the King's Tomb. I originally thought that no one would claim this reward, but I didn't expect to get information about Abel after so many years. Thank you very much."

Song Ying was a little surprised. The diary did not have a specific date written on it, but it had been so long since it told Ian to go and see if he could find Abel's body. It was estimated that there would be nothing left after so much time had passed.

"I left Ian a map of the diary oasis. I thought I might be able to find him if I looked for him, but if so much time has passed, maybe..."

Song Ying didn't finish her words, and silence fell between the two. At this time, Butler Bean came back with a crimson box. Sandyul didn't take it but let Butler Bean give it to Song Ying. Song Ying couldn't open the box and check the goods in front of others, so she kept it and went back to the room to check it later.

Sandyul was still very sad, and didn't say anything afterwards. He just asked the housekeeper to take Song Ying to have dinner and go back to the room to rest.

After Song Ying had her big meal, she returned to the room assigned to her. She did not relax immediately. She first walked around the room and checked to make sure there were no extra people before taking out the red box.

Inside was a parchment scroll, a golden ring, and a black wooden block.

[King's Ring: This is of course the ring that the king wears]

[Black Wood: I don’t know what it’s used for, but I’ll keep it.]

There was no explanation on the parchment scroll, so Song Ying opened it directly. It was a more detailed map of the King's Tomb than the one she had obtained before, and even a method to make the King's Tomb appear again. Time was running out, and she had to go to the vicinity of the tomb and enter the tomb as soon as the sun rose.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Song Ying said goodbye to Sandyul, saying that she had somewhere else to go and left first.

She was not sure what the locals thought of the royal tomb. It would not be good if they respected it and did not allow people to touch it. It would be better to keep it secret.

Sandyour didn't care where Song Ying was going. He just asked Butler Bean to prepare some food and water for Song Ying to eat on the way. After thanking Sandyour, Song Ying left the castle with a much heavier backpack on his back.

The king's tomb is on the west side, so Song Ying went out of the city directly from the west gate. Unlike the bustling east gate when he entered the city yesterday, there were very few people living on the west side of the gate, let alone any stalls or shops.

It was even more desolate outside the west gate. There were still many green plants outside the east gate, but there was not even any dead grass here. When leaving the city, the soldiers guarding the city reminded Song Ying that this was the king's tomb and that disturbing the king would be punished.

Song Ying said that he knew about it and gave him an apple, a rare fruit in the desert. The soldier was so happy that he kept saying thank you.

In areas filled with yellow sand, Song Ying could only use the mask function of her protective clothing and cover her hair to minimize the chance of sand entering her hair.

After walking out of the west gate and walking for a distance, Song Ying could not see the road in front of her clearly as the sand was flying all over the place. She turned around and looked behind her, but found that she could not even see the west gate.

There was no way to retreat, Song Ying could only move forward. The parchment scroll he saw yesterday said that only by walking through the strong wind would there be a chance to open the royal tomb. In order to go back, he had to rush forward.

Song Ying looked at the time on the system panel and found that he had been walking in the raging sand for an hour, and there was no end in sight. Song Ying thought about the props he had obtained: the golden key, the scepter, and the ring.

Not sure which one to put on first, she put it on directly and held the scepter in her hand. Afraid of losing the golden key, Song Ying tied it together with the rope of the peace token she brought in earlier and hung it around her neck.

Soon the ring began to warm up slightly, and the flying sand around Song Ying became much smaller. Song Ying took advantage of the weaker wind and continued to move forward.

The further she walked, the hotter the ring felt, until Song Ying walked out of the strong wind area. Her fingers, which felt like they were about to be burned, finally cooled down. As soon as she got out of the strong wind area, Song Ying sat on the ground to rest. It was really tiring to walk against the strong wind.

After eating something to replenish his strength, Song Ying began to observe this windless area. It was empty and there was nothing there except a two-meter-high stone tablet in the center. There were no other plants or animals. That stone tablet must be the entrance to the royal tomb.

Song Ying walked over to observe the stone tablet. When he looked closely, he found that there was not a single word on the stone tablet, but there was a round hole in the center.

At first Song Ying thought it was the position of the key, but he found that the round hole was much larger than the key. After walking around the stone tablet twice, Song Ying suddenly remembered that he had a scepter in his hand. The end of the scepter was a dragon head, and the lower end was a simple circle.

He raised his hand and poked the bottom of the scepter in his hand into the round hole. It fit perfectly, but the scepter was pushed all the way in. However, the stone tablet was at most 20 centimeters thick, and the scepter was one meter long. Song Ying walked around the stone tablet curiously, but did not see the scepter poked in from the back.

Song Ying returned to the front of the stone tablet and held the dragon head of the scepter. There seemed to be no activated mechanism nearby. Thinking that the scepter was not in place, Song Ying pressed the scepter again to make sure it had reached the bottom, then turned the scepter and found that it could be turned, but she did not turn it rashly.

She took out all the parchment scrolls she had obtained before and searched for them. Unexpectedly, she actually found it. There was a line of small words on the parchment scroll found on the Wolf King: "The scepter opens with the mouth, left one, right two, left three, right and half a circle." Song Ying pressed the scepter to the left, one circle, right two circles, left three circles, and right half a circle.

After completing all the circles, a "click" sound was heard in the originally quiet environment. A stone slab was bounced up from behind the stone tablet, and with a "bang" the stone slab fell not far away. A big hole appeared where the stone slab was originally located, and there were stairs leading down.

Song Ying did not dare to go down rashly. She waited for a while to make sure that nothing was coming up from below. She had a protective suit that could filter out all poisons, so she was not afraid of any poisonous gas below.

She still wanted to take the scepter and tried to pull it out but failed. Finally, she had to give up. Now, there was only a golden key left out of the three props, and a piece of black wood. She was not sure what it was and where it was needed.

The space below the stairs is not as cramped and dark as imagined. There is a corridor for three people, and the walls on both sides are inlaid with many beads emitting a faint light.

Song Ying tried to knock on the wall with a pickaxe but it didn't leave any marks. He also tried to use a Tang sword but still couldn't break through. He wanted to take out some glowing beads but was not allowed to do so.

Song Ying walked deeper into the corridor while looking at the map. The mechanism diagram on the map helped Song Ying avoid some fatal mechanisms. When she walked to the end of the corridor, she saw a golden door emitting light.

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