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"What did you say?!" Chen Jiuren asked in surprise, "Is it possible that the Queen of Jingjue is still alive?"

"No." Rosen shook his head and said, "To be precise, she might come back to life."

"Why do you say that?" Chen Jiuren did not rush to deny Rosen's seemingly absurd statement. Instead, he asked curiously, "Is there any clear evidence?"

"Do those ghost cave characters on the stone beam count?" Rosen asked.

"Comrade Luo, you really know the ghost cave text." Chen Jiuren had obviously guessed it before, but now that it was confirmed, he did not blame Luo Sen for lying before, but asked: "What exactly is written on it?"

"The Queen of Jingjue died of illness, and the whole country was in grief. In order to express the sorrow and reluctance for her death, and to let all the Guidong people never forget her greatness, she was buried here."

"Because they think that only by staying close to this sacred ghost cave can the Queen of Jingjue have a chance of eternal immortality, or even come back to life," Rosen said.

"Is this true?" Wang Kaixuan looked at the ghost cave writing on the stone beam and said, "There are so many words and this is all you have?"

"The rest are forbidden for outsiders to approach and are not allowed to blaspheme the majesty of the Queen of Jingjue. Violators will be severely punished and cursed with horrible deaths." Rosen said.

“That’s it?!” Wang Kaixuan said disdainfully, “Who are you trying to scare? I’ll open her coffin lid later and see what it can do to me!

"Fatty, stop talking." Hu Bayi said to him, and then said to Luo Sen: "Brother Luo, what does what you just said mean?"

"Yes." Shirley Yang also said in surprise: "Even if it mentions that she might come back to life, how can you be sure that it will come true? In my opinion, this can only be regarded as a beautiful wish, right?"

"Just like many emperors who wanted to be immortal during their lifetime and wanted to become immortals after their death, but in the end, didn't they all just become piles of rotten bones in the mausoleum?" Hu Bayi echoed.

"Professor Chen, do you think so too?" Rosen asked Chen Jiuren, who was thinking with his head down beside him.

"No, no, on the contrary, I think what you said is very likely." Chen Jiuren glanced at Shirley Yang and others who looked puzzled, and said, "There are many historians who speak frankly in the ancient historical records of our country."

"But there is also a tradition of concealing shame for the respected, concealing mistakes for the wise, and concealing illness for the relatives. So if you open a history book, you will find that many powerful ministers and even emperors died suddenly of serious illnesses."

"Is there any problem with this?" Shirley Yang asked in surprise.

"If one person died like this, it wouldn't be a big deal. But if many people died like this, it means their death was very unusual." Chen Jiuren said, "For example, those ministers may have committed crimes or offended the emperor and were sentenced to death, but in order to save face, they announced to the public that they died suddenly."

"As for the emperor, it is possible that he really died of illness, but it is hard to say how he died of illness."

At this point, Chen Jiuren pointed to the ghost cave texts on the ground and said, "According to what Comrade Luo said, I think the Jingjue Kingdom also adopted this way to record the cause of death of the Jingjue Queen."

"Professor Chen, do you suspect that the death of the Queen of Jingjue was abnormal?" Shirley Yang asked.

"That's what the legend says." Chen Jiuren said, "Do you remember the murals we saw in Prince Gumo's tomb on the way here?"

"I remember." Shirley Yang nodded and said, "The last few murals depict the prince's failed attempt to assassinate the cruel and evil Queen of Jingjue. After returning to China, he wanted to continue his plan, but he unexpectedly met a foreign fortune teller."

"The latter suggested that the prince put a slow-acting poison into the golden lamb meat to attack the Queen of Jingjue. Not long after, the news of the Queen of Jingjue's sudden death was heard..."

Shirley Yang said this, and suddenly looked at Chen Jiuren and said, "You mean, the record here that the queen died of illness is false."

"Yes." Chen Jiuren nodded and said, "These words and murals carved on the ground are certainly our first-hand materials for studying history, but we cannot completely trust them. It is best to verify them from multiple sources to separate the true from the false."

"According to what you said, since the cause of death of the Queen of Jingjue is false, then are the words that followed also false?" Hu Bayi said.

"I can't tell whether it's true or not for the time being, but think about it from another angle. These words that seem to be full of respect and remembrance may have other meanings hidden behind them." Chen Jiuren smiled at Luo Sen and said, "Comrade Luo, you think so too, right?"

"Yes." Rosen nodded and said, "The people of Jingjue Country may have hated her brutal rule, but they dared not speak out, let alone resist."

"Even after her death, people still have a strong fear of her in their hearts and dare not say bad things about her, let alone hope that she can be resurrected."

Rosen pointed at the ghost cave text on the ground and said, "So it's best to read these words in reverse. The Queen of Jingjue died suddenly for some reason, and the whole country was rejoicing. In order to express praise and joy for her death, and to keep everyone away from her brutal rule, she was buried here."

"There is a ghost cave here, which can suppress her evil soul and make her never be reborn."

"If the Jingjue people hated her so much, why did they bury her in the coffin of the Kunlun sacred tree?" Wang Kaixuan asked.

"Death is not the end, maybe just a new beginning, but she is trapped in it, unable to live nor decay forever. Isn't this a greater torture?"

As he spoke, Rosen pointed to the thick iron chains wrapped around the giant coffin and said, "If the Jingjue people really hoped that she could come back to life and continue to rule them, they would not have tied so many chains on the coffin, and they would not have planted corpse-scented konjac on it."

"The corpse-scented konjac can certainly protect her body from being disturbed by outsiders, but it is also like an immortal jailer guarding her, keeping her soul imprisoned in her body forever."

Rosen looked around at everyone and said, "Can you understand that kind of pain?"

Several people present couldn't help but shudder.

Wang Kaixuan even said: "These ancient people are really vicious. They say nice things, but they do nothing good."

"We can't blame the people of Jingjue for this." Shirley Yang said, "It's mainly because the Queen of Jingjue ruled too cruelly. The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions once recorded that she forced everyone to worship her and offer sacrifices to her. Anyone who resisted her was skinned alive. Otherwise, people wouldn't have risen up in rebellion after her death and wanted to destroy her tomb, but ended up being buried by the sandstorm she unleashed, leading to the destruction of the country and the extinction of the clan."

"Since you agree with what I said, it will be easy." Rosen said, "What I am going to say next is more important."