Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Wu Xie and Su Nan quickly found a downward entrance. The history expert, Grandpa Zeng, said that this was likely a temple for worship, and that the underground space was very large.

Mr. Ma, the investor in this treasure hunt, immediately became excited, "Let's go, I want to go down and see for myself!"

His young lover was reluctant to part with him and repeatedly told him to be careful. Eager to find the treasure, Mr. Ma was helped down the cliff by his hired men and jumped in without looking back.

Wu Xie was going down, and Li Cu, as his assistant, naturally had to go down as well.

Ling Yue didn't say anything, but after Li Cu went down, he jumped down, showing his intention through his actions.

The crew followed closely behind, afraid of being left behind and missing out on such great footage.

This was Ling Yue's first time participating in a treasure hunt in the "Dead Man's Territory," but he was quite familiar with going down into underground palaces.

I was initially a little curious, but after going down there and using other people's flashlights, I saw that the stone carvings were made of blue bricks, the roots were densely packed, the ground was full of sand, and the passageway was very narrow.

Ling Yue expressed doubt about the character "宫" (palace) in the underground palace.

Before long, the people walking ahead discovered a pile of human bones, which were pieced together into a strange shape. Ling Yue overheard Wu Xie and Li Cu's hushed conversation.

Wang Meng: "Boss, this is..."

Wu Xie: "Seven fingers."

Li Cu: "On my back?"

Ling Yue: "?"

There was definitely more to the story.

Wu Xie, Wang Meng, and Li Cu's small team seem to have come here for another purpose.

Moreover, Ling Yue discovered something interesting about Wu Xie.

He seemed to have a strange sense of familiarity with certain places here, but this familiarity didn't seem like he had been here himself.

Because when he saw something "familiar" to him, his eyes were somewhat dazed, as if he were comparing and confirming a memory that did not belong to him.

As if sensing Ling Yue's gaze upon him, Wu Xie suddenly turned around, staring at Ling Yue with deep, dark eyes.

Ling Yue calmly turned his gaze away, then curiously squatted down to examine the bones.

Wu Xie frowned, gave her a deep look, pursed his lips, and turned back to observe the reactions of the others present.

He needs to identify all the enemies among this group before deciding whether to find an opportunity to eliminate them or keep them as pawns to advance his subsequent plans.

Historian Zeng quickly discovered a lotus relief with illustrations and text beneath the bones. After cleaning away all the yellow sand from the bones, a clear image of text and patterns appeared before their eyes.

“This is Yuezhi script,” Zeng Ye said, glancing at it before giving a brief translation. “This inscription records the life of the twenty-eighth city lord of Gutongjing. As for the specific content, I need to take a picture of it and study it carefully. Right now, everyone’s understanding of Yuezhi script is not thorough enough, and there aren’t many texts that can be translated.”

Grandpa Zeng then gave a brief history lesson on the Yuezhi: "The Yuezhi were a mysterious nomadic people. Records of their civilization can be traced back to the 3rd to 1st century BC. Their origins are still not definitively determined, but the area they migrated to was extremely vast..."

Unfortunately, no one present was in the mood to continue listening to his history lecture. Mr. Ma interrupted rudely, "Is this the tomb of the ancient Tongjing city lord?"

Wu Xie answered on behalf of the group: "No, it's an underground palace."

After saying that, Wu Xie turned around to look at Su Nan and the others, but when he glanced at Ling Yue out of the corner of his eye, he found her frowning and staring intently at the inscription, reading it word by word, as if she knew the words and could read it very fluently.

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, his eyes sharpened, and countless doubts churned within him.

From the moment they met until now, Ling Yue has maintained a cold and distant demeanor. Both his eyes and expressions have been clearly conveying the same message to everyone around him: Don't come near me, I'm not interested in you.

The same applies to their words and actions.

Even now that he has become Li Cu's temporary bodyguard, he has not shown much enthusiasm for Li Cu. Instead, he always keeps his distance and refuses all of Li Cu's attempts to flatter, win him over, or offer bribes.

He seemed ready to leave as soon as he finished this job.

However, her expression turned serious now. So what information did she get from these Yuezhi texts?

There's no doubt that she cares about some of this information...

Ling Yue did indeed glean some information from the inscription that caught her attention.

The inscription is actually quite simple; it introduces the life of the 28th city lord of Gutongjing, who built this underground palace. In short, it is a eulogy to the ruler.

However, the exaggerated myths and legends mentioned in the fragments, such as soul-capturing, escape from the sky, and the city lord having eight arms and eight legs and being born with extraordinary abilities, bear a striking resemblance to a mysterious ancient country that Ling Yue accidentally learned about in his original world.

After arriving in this world, Ling Yue found a temporary place to stay because he saved people.

It was also in the girl's small rented room that Ling Yue secretly observed and learned how to use the computer in her home.

While the girl was out at work, Ling Yue used the voice search function to look up the history of this world and discovered that before the Ming Dynasty, everything was the same as her original world.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, in her world, a princess with unusual features appeared in the declining Zhu royal family.

Of course, like most people, Ling Yue believes this is a political beautification of the divine right of kings.

This princess appeared out of nowhere, saving the nation from collapse and supporting the country from its humble beginnings. However, due to the unreliability of official historical records, this part of the story has been frequently questioned by later generations.

This is also the only record in thousands of years of history where the official history is even wilder than the unofficial history.

The princess, with her domineering aura, commanded respect from everyone from the emperor and his clan who looked down on her to the pedantic scholars and scoundrels who judged women. They all bowed down to her, submitting to her body and soul.

The princess's disappearance was as abrupt and fantastical as her appearance.

After consolidating her power and rebuilding her prestige, she naturally ascended the throne as empress.

However, after the empress ascended the throne, she seemed to become a completely different person, turning extremely cruel almost overnight and carrying out a frenzied massacre of the royal family.

After killing his own relatives, both near and far, he began to kill meritorious officials and virtuous generals.

At the same time, under the guise of recruiting virtuous people from all over the country to come to the capital and jointly govern the country, he extensively recruited personnel.

These people disappeared without a trace after arriving in the capital.

The outcome is self-evident.

Some renowned scholars and philanthropists sensed something was amiss and did not answer the summons to the capital. They were soon subjected to a frenzied arrest and pursuit by the Empress's henchmen.

This action plunged the country, which had only recently stabilized, into chaos once again.

Afterwards, history returned to normal. The empress disappeared after killing countless people. The rebels fought each other, and finally the ancestor of the Ling clan, to which the prince belonged, obtained the precious deer and established the Yao Dynasty.

Because the historical records about the empress were far beyond what ordinary people could comprehend, after the establishment of the Yao Dynasty, some ministers repeatedly proposed revising the history of the last dynasty.

However, Emperor Taizu of the Yao Dynasty believed that since the previous historians had recorded it in this way, they must have had their reasons, so he rejected the request.

After that, no one disputed it anymore.

They simply treated it as an absurd story.

Ling Yue once thought so too.

However, after traveling through time, I found myself here again, in a Yuezhi inscription recording the name of the ancient Tongjing city lord, where I discovered several words that were somewhat related to that empress.

Rumor has it that the Empress's mother came from a mysterious ancient kingdom that had disappeared hundreds of years ago.

That wild period of official history also hinted, in a subtle and euphemistic way, that the empress possessed some special ability: she could capture people's souls, travel thousands of miles at night, and take the head of an enemy leader in an instant.

Also, regarding the unusual signs that appeared on the Empress's body...