incomprehensible

As if the heart was wrapped in thousands of thorny vines, an extremely ominous premonition suddenly pervaded, causing Ye Xuehuan's heart to bleed and his whole body to feel cold.

He pinched the palm of his hand with his nails, forcibly calmed down, stepped forward and hugged Lan Qi from behind, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Lan Qi shook his head and reached out to caress the relief on the coffin lid.

The content of the relief is two portraits, a man and a woman, each dressed in the sacrificial attire of the emperor, with their hands folded in front of their chests, and their faces are blurred, but they both closed their eyes and smiled, with a peaceful expression, implying that Xingzu and his Queen Longfeng Shen sleep here.

What Lan Qi touched was the chest of the portrait representing Queen Longfeng. The thumbs of her hands were naturally separated, forming a small triangle with the tiger's mouth. In the middle was an inconspicuous circular hole with wings on both sides. groove.

——The second key to the imperial mausoleum was actually used on the inner and outer coffins; the thing that Empress Chu wanted was actually in Xingzu's coffin, and it was probably held in his own hand!

"no!"

Ye Xuehuan took Lan Qi's hand, dragged him a few steps away, and said in a deep voice, "It's too dangerous, no matter what's inside, don't open it!"

Lan Qi was in a trance, as if he didn't hear his advice, his eyes were still locked on the relief, his lips trembled, and Ye Xuehuan heard his slightly crying murmur when he got closer: "I'm sorry...Rong Cai is sorry...I'm sorry... I didn't expect it to be like this...but..."

"Do you have to open the coffin?!"

Ye Xuehuan couldn't believe it, surprise, anger, disappointment, heartache, all kinds of emotions rushed into his heart in an instant, he held Lan Qi's wrist with one hand and raised it above his head, and pinched his chin with the other hand to force him to look directly at him, "Didn't we agree? Yes, if there is danger, leave the things in the imperial tomb? Why do you..."

Lan Qi just shook his head, his eyes wandered, and he didn't dare to look at him, his eyes were full of tears, exactly the same as when he was beaten to death in Yunshui pass.

——It seemed that as long as Empress Chu was involved, even Ye Xuehuan couldn't make him speak.

Ye Xuehuan's heart suddenly turned cold, and he figured it out all at once, and said in a shy voice, "The queen mother's people have looked for you, haven't they? Who is it? When? Why didn't you tell me?"

Once again, he was overwhelmed by the severe pain of being deceived. The care and love of the past two years could not give Lan Qi enough sense of security. The more life-threatening matters, the more unwilling he was to share them.

Ye Xuehuan suddenly remembered that when he was on the boat, Lan Qi also apologized abnormally and said sorry. Could it be that it was not because of empathy for Yu Tian that it caused a deep pain in his heart, but because he concealed this matter from him, so he felt so guilty?

These days, Lan Qi seldom left him to act alone. When exactly did the Empress Chu's people take advantage of it, and what kind of coercion did he receive to hide the truth from him?

——Or, Ye Xuehuan himself is the bargaining chip for the other party to coerce Lan Qi?

How many people are there in this world who can really threaten him and make Lan Qi willing to accept his coercion?

These thoughts flashed through Ye Xuehuan's mind, and his reaction was delayed by half a beat. Suddenly, Lan Qi hugged his waist, bit his lips fiercely, stuck the tip of his tongue into his mouth, and stirred randomly. The taste was unprecedented. Sour and miserable.

Ye Xuehuan sighed silently, even if he had come to this point, he couldn't blame Lan Qi at all.

This kiss was fierce enough to see blood, and the silver threads dragged out when they parted were all tinged with scarlet.Lan Qi didn't know where the strength came from. He hugged Ye Xuehuan and forcibly retreated a few feet, leaving the range of the platform, and then choked up in his ear and said, "I'm sorry Rong Cai, I will tell you everything when I go back... ...you can punish me however you want."

Before Ye Xuehuan even had time to make a sound, Lan Qi had already broken free from his palm, slid out from his side waist, and rushed towards the sarcophagus in the center of the platform without hesitation.

"Lan'er—!"

Ye Xuehuan turned around to stop him, but could barely touch the corner of his raised cloak.Lan Qi deliberately distanced himself from the sarcophagus by a few feet to calculate the instant reaction and speed difference; Ye Xuehuan had no time to pounce on the sarcophagus for a second time, only a few strands of soft rabbit fur remained on the ground. fingertip.

This scene was strikingly similar to a night long ago, when he was also like this, he could only watch Lan Qi slip through his fingers, no matter how he shouted, he couldn't get him back.

The past and reality overlap unexpectedly, as if...he never kept Lan Qi.

The instinct of the body is faster than all thoughts. When Ye Xuehuan came back to his senses, he had already pressed Lan Qi tightly on the coffin lid. There was a loud bang.Lan Qi hit the edge of the coffin lid with his lower abdomen, gritted his teeth in pain and moaned, unable to move.

However, it was still a step too late after all. The small golden phoenix pendant with wings had been perfectly fitted into the slot that had been waiting for it for thousands of years.

Yu Tian heard the movement coming out of the ear room, and what he saw was the two people stacked on the sarcophagus in an extremely ambiguous and indescribable posture. With red eyes and anxious and hateful face, he held Lan Qi in his arms with one hand, and scratched desperately at a certain part of the coffin lid with the other hand.

"...what's the matter?"

She was suddenly puzzled, but the expressions of the two of them made her extremely uneasy. She wanted to come over to check the situation, but Ye Xuehuan yelled sharply: "Don't come over!"

Yu Tian knew that the situation had changed, but Ye Xuehuan's aura was too majestic. She had accumulated power for many years and had completely exploded. She even had a bloody smell that would only be seen on the battlefield. Her voice was so hoarse that it changed its tone. He fell to the same spot, one heel was still lifted in the air, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

In the stalemate between the two phases, the light click was particularly clear.

The pendant was sunk deep inside the hole, and Ye Xuehuan couldn't even put a finger in it, let alone dig it out again.At this time, the pendant did not know what mechanism was triggered, and the wings on both sides were broken, leaving only a round golden bead, which fell into the coffin lid from the hole slot, and the rolling sound of bones rang half a circle along the edge of the inner coffin, With a final push, he touched the mechanism in the deepest part of the inner coffin.

The sarcophagus trembled, although the movement was extremely slight, it was enough to set off a storm in the hearts of several people.Ye Xuehuan picked up Lan Qi by the waist and retreated. Yu Tian also backed up to the wall in shock. Seeing the coffin lid slowly slide away to the side, the blood in his body seemed to be frozen and solidified, and all his usual calmness was lost. Out of nowhere, he screamed at Ye Xuehuan: "Are you crazy?!"

Ye Xuehuan has no time to pay attention to her for the time being. Since ancient times, the imperial mausoleum has been a place of narrow escapes, and no one is allowed to disturb the emperor's long sleep; Xingzu is special, leaving a way for future generations to survive, but he will be taken into the coffin , must be the thing he values ​​the most and is least willing to show others, even if he left the key for others to pick it up, how could it be so easy?

Who can predict what will happen after the lid is opened?

Ye Xuehuan turned her head and shouted into the ear room: "Tong Xuan! Bring someone out!"

From the depths of the ear chamber came Mo Ran's yelling with an echo: "Don't yell! A little more I will be enough! Will you die if you wait so long!"

He has already found where the Guanghan Jade is. The coldest part of the entire ear chamber is at the top of the middle cabinet, almost touching the ceiling. From the highest point, there is a trace of cold air radiating to the entire ear chamber.

That position was too high, and a group of personal soldiers could only reach it with a ladder. Tong Xuan was being stepped on the bottom at this time. The ladder was overturned; fortunately, there were soldiers around to support him, otherwise Mo Ran would have been thrown into a permanent disability.

Ye Xuehuan didn't know how to explain to this evil thing, they might really die in such a short period of time; but if there was really something extremely dangerous in the coffin, if he called people out, he might just die sooner or later the difference.

He stared at the gap that was getting wider and wider, and Lan Qi also grabbed the back of his hand that was strangled around his waist.Ye Xuehuan could feel the cold and greasy sweat in his palm, no matter how angry he was for lying, she still instinctively protected him, held his hand instead, and gave him a little comfort that was better than nothing.

The coffin lid was opened to about three-quarters of the way and then stopped, and the general rested on the coffin without falling; all the poisonous arrows, poisonous smoke, and poisonous Gu that Ye Xuehuan imagined never appeared, only a strong A sweet aroma that could almost turn into substance came out.

The taste is so sweet that it turns bitter, straight to the forehead, but it does not cause dizziness and nausea like ordinary poisonous gas. After inhaled, it turns into rain, which is very refreshing.

Ye Xuehuan finally recalled that the fragrance was exactly the same as Lan Qi's blood fragrance, but it was more than a thousand times stronger.

He suddenly remembered the rumor that Yu Wushuang once said, that Xingzu himself was the Qizhu, and brought his host into the imperial tomb; A coffin, isn't it true that, as Yu Tian guessed, Queen Longfeng was his host—or, in other words, Longfeng was the origin of the deed Gu, and finally turned the Gu into a puppet in order to wake up the ancestor.

Although there was no sign of poisoning, Lan Qi suddenly lost his mind and his hands and feet became weak. For some reason, he had a strong desire to get close to the sarcophagus, but he didn't dare to show it too obviously, let alone break free from Ye Xuehuan. , I could only squeeze his hand to flatter me.

Just now he was sobbing and apologizing to accept the punishment, but now he is coquettish again, as if he was not the one who put the key into the coffin lid desperately.

But Ye Xuehuan really had nothing to do with him. After the initial anger and heartache passed, his short-sighted faults intensified, transferring the faults that should have been attributed to Lan Qi to Xingzu and Empress Chu; The coffin has been opened, and it seems that there is no danger at present. Let's just see what it is that can make Xingzu bring it into the coffin, so that the people of Empress Chu will not hesitate to use him as a bargaining chip to blackmail Lan Qi—he must know I lost to something, so I can punish Lan Qi after I go out.

He hugged Lan Qi, and slowly approached the sarcophagus; Yu Tian on the other side felt the unprecedented frenzy and excitement that seemed to explode his scalp, and the four natal Gu flew out of the body uncontrollably. The sarcophagus hovered and danced rapidly, as if it had obtained unparalleled satisfaction and joy.

It was an inspiration from the depths of her blood. She could even clearly recognize that the most primitive and purest alien blood really existed in the sarcophagus a few steps away. She traveled through thousands of years to talk to her directly, and sent her kindness and kindness. inquiries and invitations.

Compared with the Feng family, Longfeng is the real ancestor in her mind, and it is the source of her blood that she is proud of but considered heretical by others.The moment the scent of blood entered her nostrils, the strong sense of belonging and identity almost brought tears to her eyes, and she couldn't help walking forward, kneeling respectfully beside the sarcophagus, and kowtowed three times.

After the big ceremony, Ye Xuehuan and Lan Qi just came over. The three of them looked at each other, and they all looked inside cautiously.

Unsurprisingly, the inner and outer coffins are double-layered, with bluestone on the outside and white jade on the inside; the coffin lid is also two-layered, but they are tightly glued together.The white jade coffin lid on the inner layer has a small ring, but the edge is covered with tenons that have been pushed in. There are corresponding mortise holes on the inner wall of the jade coffin. If there is no mechanism to push the tenons in from the inside, the coffin lid will never be It may have been forcibly pried open from the outside.

This is a simple but delicate design, using mortise and tenon structure instead of coffin nails, which shows that Xingzu did intend to let someone open his coffin.

No one could understand what this lunatic ancestor was thinking, just as they couldn't understand the situation inside the coffin at this time.

There are two corpses lying side by side in the jade coffin, the one on the left has become a mummified corpse, the shriveled and blackened flesh is tightly wrapped around the withered skeleton, and it is impossible to distinguish its face in life.It is not sleeping peacefully like the relief on the coffin lid, but lying on its side and curled up next to another corpse, its posture is like a baby leaning on its mother, or like a believer worshiping a god, both humble and pious, both Greedy and nostalgic.

The other one is even more astonishing. All the flesh and hair are still fresh and full. It is offensive to say that you are young, but it is more appropriate to say that it is young and tender; the skin is as white as fat, the hair is as black as ink, and the lips are as red as blood. He closed his eyes quietly, not even a bit of the blue-gray color that a dead body should have. If he was not lying in a coffin, it would be no different from falling asleep.

And that face is astonishing as heaven, and it is so beautiful that it is so weird and strange. I can't tell what it is, but the first time I see it, I can't take my eyes off it. It is almost not like a human thing; Lu Yao Compared with this number one beauty in Danlu, she can only be a mortal full of fireworks.

"This is...Long Feng?" Yu Tian murmured, "It is indeed completely Gu-formed, so it can maintain the appearance before the Gu-formation, never die or live, and survive for a thousand years. It's just..."

She frowned suspiciously, "How could it be a man?"

In fact, it is impossible to tell the gender of this puppet just from its appearance, but the clothes on it are indeed men's style.A more horrifying detail is that although the two corpses are wearing the same bright yellow clothing, and the material is softer and brighter than the silky texture seen before, the collar on the mummy is the left lapel, while the collar on the puppet is the left lapel. It is the right lapel, implying that it has not really "died".

It is true that the gender of this Gu puppet—or Longfeng in other words, cannot be judged by clothing alone, and it is impossible for Yu Tian to take off his pants for a body check just for this little detail.In any case, Longfeng had given birth to an heir, otherwise the blood would not have been passed on for thousands of years, and it is still flowing in Yutian's body.Some unofficial biographies have said that Longfeng often dressed up as a man when he accompanied Xingzu to fight in the world. It is very likely that Xingzu was grateful for the bad love back then, so he specially dressed Longfeng as a man for funeral.

At this moment, Yutian has no time to pay attention to why Lan Qi opened the coffin and how to open it. In her eyes, the so-called emperor through the ages is nothing more than an old mummy. There are countless immortal legends left behind, but in the end, it is not lying in the coffin miserably and powerlessly, being watched condescendingly by the people of later generations like them.

She was short of breath, her heart was beating like a drum, even though she couldn't see anything unusual on her face, the excited light in her eyes was like the four natal Gu above her head, and she couldn't hide it even if she wanted to.

She doesn't dare to do anything outrageous to Longfeng's puppet body, but if she can take a little of the purest blood back, it will definitely be better than countless records in ancient books, and it will allow her to understand this strange blood more intuitively. the essence of energy.

——It is not easy to inherit different blood, and survival is even more difficult. If the old ancestor had a spirit in heaven, he would understand her, right?

She was thinking in her heart, Ye Xuehuan and Lan Qi were also carefully looking at every corner of the coffin, trying to find that important thing that they didn't even know what it was.However, the entire coffin was so clean that one could see to the end at a glance, there was nothing but the two corpses, unlike ordinary tomb owners who put the most valuable things in the coffin and wore them on their bodies.Of course, there are other customs in Feng's tomb, such as plugging all the acupuncture points of the body with jade, including the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, belly button and...

Longfeng is not considered to be death in the true sense, probably there is no such thing, but what about Xingzu?Will this old lunatic, according to funeral customs, lock himself up and down before he dies?

——Could it be possible to fish out this old mummy, clean it up and check it one by one?

The three of them each had the idea of ​​being extremely disrespectful to the deceased, and their faces were cloudy and uncertain; Mo Ran came out of the ear room just at this time, the corners of his eyes and brows were full of joy, holding a well-tied He laughed loudly and said, "Finally let me find... my day!"

Before he had time to share the joy of finding Guanghanyu with everyone, as soon as he went out, he saw the three people surrounding the sarcophagus with the lid wide open, their eyes fixed on the inside of the coffin, their smiles froze on their faces, and they cursed : "What the hell are you doing? I'm looking for something, so I won't leave you so idle that you want to open coffins, right?!"

Tong Xuan was thinking about Ye Xuehuan's previous summons. Although he saw that there was no danger at this time, he stood behind his master with the sword on his waist, and he got stuck in his throat only halfway through shouting "Prince", and was caught by the strange man in the coffin. The scene left me speechless for a while.

Ye Xuehuan was restless and didn't have the mind to deal with Mo Ran, so he reluctantly raised his head to look at him, and said perfunctorily, "Just find Guanghanyu, let's go out in a while."

Mo Ran was very dissatisfied with his attitude, not to mention that he was also an unwilling person, his curiosity was all caught up, and he snorted and walked towards the platform, insisting on seeing what happened.

Yu Tian has been doing psychological construction for herself for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage. Two blood gus melted from her fingertips and poked towards Longfeng's neck; Lan Qi also seemed to see a group of unusual drums under its palm. Get up, reach out to look through.

No one paid any attention to the magnificent Xingzu next to him. All the secrets of thousands of years ago seemed to be in Longfeng's body now.

Just when the two hands were about to touch Long Feng, the pair of crow-feather eyelashes trembled suddenly, and the Gu Puppet who had been sleeping for thousands of years opened his dark eyes without warning.

Mo Ran had only taken a few steps when he saw the expressions of the four people around the coffin suddenly changed, and they jumped back like rabbits whose tails had been trampled on. Ye Xuehuan held Lan Qi in his arms, and Tong Xuan drew his sword to block him. In front of the person, Yu Tian's blood gu couldn't be released, and their chests heaved violently, and they stared into the coffin far away in shock.

Mo Ran didn't see the scariest scene, but what happened next was already scary enough.

Slowly sitting up under the open coffin lid was a "corpse" who didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost, whether it was dead or alive. It was as stiff and ashen as the corpse figurines outside, delicate and beautiful as a doll; rather than a corpse, it was a body with flesh and blood but no soul, an orphan who had lost its master but could not be freed Ghosts.

Mo Ran's hair stood on end, and he leaned back against the wall, shouting hoarsely: "Ye Xuerong picks you and my [-]th generation ancestor! It's okay to open a coffin! What the hell is going on!"

"How the hell do I know!" Ye Xuehuan also cursed angrily, "Can't you shut up!"

Now that things have happened, he can't and has no time to blame Lan Qi; Mo Ran believes that he opened the coffin, so he can only take the blame and deal with the sudden situation in front of him first.

But having said that, he actually didn't know how to deal with it, and he didn't dare to act rashly.

Longfeng in the coffin has already stood upright. It is tall and tall, with arms in wide sleeves hanging down by its side, and two long legs lightly straddling the edge of the coffin, which is half a person's height. In fact, it is a very awkward posture, but It looks extraordinarily elegant and colorful.

It doesn't have consciousness, but it seems to be driven and guided in the dark; its eyeballs can't move, its eyelids can't blink, and it may even have no vision at all, but as the neck twists, the pair of dark eyes The words swept across everyone's faces, and then seemed to have a real gaze, lingering on Yu Tian's face for a moment, and finally locked on Lan Qi's body—or, in other words, his heart.

Then it opened its legs and walked towards Lan Qi step by step.

Lan Qi's heart almost rose to his throat, and he subconsciously wanted to shrink into Ye Xuehuan's arms, but he soon calmed down.He has always had some kind of wonderful sense of connection and disobedience since just now, and it became stronger as Long Feng approached, as if a certain part deep in his body was resonating with the gu puppet in front of him, clamoring to return to where it belongs.

In the past 16 years, it was the first time that he recognized the existence of Deed Gu so clearly, and it was the first time that he felt so strongly that there was a part of his body that did not belong to him - because this part should belong to Long Feng.

Yu Tian's conjecture is correct, the deed Gu did originate from Longfeng herself, and was refined from her different blood; this fact does not need any document records to prove it, the deed Gu residing in his heart is itself Is engraved on this distant memory.Even if it is sealed for thousands of years, even if it recognizes another master, it will always remember its original origin.

Lan Qi looked at Long Feng who was walking towards him, and suddenly understood the real reason why Empress Chu planted deed Gu on him.

——The so-called thing that can control the fate of the world is in Longfeng's body in all likelihood. The Gu puppet she transformed is the real last "lock", and the deed Gu that originally came from her is the one that unlocks it. The "key" to the lock.

Whether he will be in the same heart with Ye Xuehuan, whether he will recognize the Lord for the second time, or even whether this thing will be handed over to Ye Xuehuan in the end, these are not important. Empress Chu just needs him to make the key .

That's why Yu Wushuang handed him the key to open the coffin without hesitation, because no one in this world could bring that thing out of Xingzu's coffin except him.

——But what about the price?

The two imperial tomb keys were locked, divided, and recovered by the machine after they were used. Then, his last key, will he also be left in the imperial tomb?

Without waiting for Lan Qi to think about it, Long Feng had already walked in front of him.Ye Xuehuan stood sideways to block him behind, and several personal soldiers all guarded them left and right, drawing their swords and pointing forward, ready to explode, with awe-inspiring murderous aura.

However, the ignorant Long Feng was naturally not threatened, and took another step forward lightly; Tong Xuan's eyes flashed coldly, and the long sword in his hand pointed directly at Long Feng's heart.

In fact, he didn't know whether ordinary swords could hurt these things beyond common sense, so the attack was a killer move, and the tip of the sword was as fast as thunder; Long Feng just stretched out his right hand in his sleeve, and his movements seemed slow and dull. Instead, he was one step faster than Tong Xuan, sideways avoiding the point of the sword, and then grabbed his wrist holding the sword.

That hand was slender and white, with well-defined joints and long and narrow nails. It really looked like a woman's hand, but its strength was astonishing. The five fingers clasped Tong Xuan's wrist tightly like an iron hoop, and one could even hear the bones of the wrist. The squeaking sound of being squeezed.

Tong Xuan's face was pale, the long sword was involuntarily removed from his hand, and he wanted to break off those fingers with the other hand; but Long Feng's target was not him, so he didn't tangle with him, he just pulled and pushed it directly Tong Xuan threw it out.

The brave and combative commander of the guards flew upside down with his feet off the ground. He didn't even react when he was supported by his own soldiers. Five bright red fingerprints were visible on his wrist, and his entire forearm was almost paralyzed. Everyone is a little confused.

"Don't move yet!" Yu Tian didn't dare to be easily tempted again, and hurriedly stopped, "It shouldn't have any malicious intentions, so don't take the initiative to attack."

When she saw that Longfeng was only going towards Lan Qi, she understood it. Although she knew that Lan Qi's motives for entering the imperial tomb were impure, she never expected that he would directly open the coffin, let alone that the deed Gu would become the awakening of Long Feng. The chance of the wind.Lan Qi obviously didn't expect the situation to develop to such a situation, but all of this must have been calculated, starting from Xingzu's legacy about the imperial tomb and deed Gu, leaving two keys to the imperial tomb, Longfeng is in this coffin, waiting to be awakened to complete its final mission.

——How Deed Gu is related to the world, the answer to the mystery will be revealed soon.

Knowing that he couldn't escape, Lan Qi lightly shook Ye Xuehuan's forearm, and walked up to Longfeng on his own initiative, within an arm's length away, and looked at it quietly.

It is actually not accurate to say that, Longfeng's pupils are much larger than normal people, there is almost no white in the eyes, and the pupils have also spread to the maximum. At a glance, it is as bottomless as the abyss and night, which shows that it is indeed unable to see. So there is no talk of "look at each other".

But Lan Qi somehow feels that there seems to be endless tenderness and nostalgia in its eyes, as if looking at the distant past through him, reminiscing about the time that can no longer be looked back.

The right hand that could only throw Tong Xuan casually was gently covering his heart at this moment, as if feeling the regular and powerful pulsation under the skin; through the thick cloak, the coldness in its palm did not It cannot be transmitted to Lan Qi, and Lan Qi's body temperature cannot be transmitted to it.

——As if separated by thousands of years, the part that once belonged to it can no longer return to it.

Its palm slowly stroked and drew a circle on Lan Qi's heart, and the heart under the palm throbbed suddenly as if responding. The rapid heartbeat caused Lan Qi's blood to surge up, his breathing to be short, and an abnormal look appeared on his face. It was flushed, but it was followed by great sorrow and pain.

This feeling does not belong to him, but the extra part of his body, which is saying a final and complete farewell to the original owner; but as the "container" sandwiched in the middle, this sadness must be held by him. to carry.

Tears fell from his eyes uncontrollably, and for a moment, he even felt that Long Feng conveyed his last wish through the Deed Gu in his body, through his body.

Then, it raised its left hand that had been hanging by its side, and spread out its palm to Lan Qi.