Chapter 11

 Chapter 11: The Tomb of Hui Wang of Pixian [9]

Translator: Xah

The main tomb was like a palace, and its treasures were very luxurious.

But the atmosphere was somewhat strange. Zhang Qiu was not interested in enjoying the antiques of thousands of years ago. He watched his second cousin, Zhang YuShui, secretly. Since he saw the murals, Zhang YuShui looked a little grim and occasionally stared at the murals for a short time. He had not been with Zhang YuShui for a long time, but he could see that the other side was a man who was quick tempered and indifferent, and took everything lightly.

When Zhang Qiu thought of his brother’s face like that of the little emperor, and seeing the luxurious Pixian Hui Wang’s tomb, a feeling of fate came into being.

Who knew where his knowledge of Scientific Outlook on Development currently went.

“Don’t move anything in the hall.” Zhang YuShui suddenly said.

Zhang Qiu and Zhang ZuoJiu were not greedy people who were enamored by treasures. Their aim was to get the instrument. Zhang YuShui looked at Li Shu, and before Zhang Qiu could understand, his mouth spoke for Li Shu. “Li Shu is not the kind of greedy person.”

Li Shu glanced faintly at Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu recalled the tomb of Gu Mu Country, and his eyes vertically avoided Li Shu’s eyes.

Seeing this, Li Shu sneered, “I take what I want.”  And went straight into the hall.

Zhang YuShui followed closely, somehow nervous, seemingly afraid if Li Shu destroyed something. Zhang Qiu and Zhang ZuoJiu hurriedly followed. The lights of the chamber burning like daylight, the dormitory behind the chamber was decorated, but because of the decay of the silk and whatnot, the remaining jade frame looked cold throughout the place.

The outermost yellow jade wax was carved with dragon patterns, vividly its whole body coiled, and a pair of glaring eyes waiting in position, as if in a blink of an eye, it rushed out to them. Zhang Qiu had never seen such an exquisite sculpture, which was really magnificent, but — “Pixian Hui Wang’s coffin is made of a dragon patterns?”

Rebellious!

Zhang Qiu thought again that his death was not caused by rebellion. But after death, with such a super-standard thing, was he not afraid of the emperor’s family? At the side, in front, Zhang YuShui stood beside the upper coffin. Zhang Qiu suddenly thought that the tomb of Pixian Hui Wang might have been built for him by Emperor Zhang of Han.

The outer coffin was two meters high and very stylish.

“Where is the instrument that Big Uncle mentioned?”

Zhang ZuoJiu swept his eyes at his younger brother, said neither tightly nor slowly: “in Hui Wang’s mouth.”

As he spoke, Zhang Qiu felt a chill and looked up at Zhang YuShui, who had no idea what to say. Zhang YuShui was so strange that he felt like a different person at that moment.

“Little brother, since you see the murals, you seem not quite right. People often are similar, let alone a person who had been a thousand years old. Xiao Qiu is our real blood relatives.” Zhang ZuoJiu persuaded, sensing his younger brother’s paranoid temper, again he said, “Otherwise, borrow it first, and then return it?”

Zhang YuShui was silent when he heard the words of thousand years old. Zhang ZuoJiu was worried about how to persuade him. Zhang YuShui opened his mouth and said, “Big Brother, I don’t know why, but you’re right. It’s important to save little brother.”

Zhang ZuoJiu breathed a sigh of relief and did not delay any longer. The outer panels were heavy and tall. They had to open the lid to open the inner coffin. Zhang ZuoJiu and Zhang YuShui stood on one floor and pushed it. As a result, the jade lid remained motionless. Zhang Qiu pushed, his face redden and Li Shu saw it. Then he came up, with a cold voice said. “Go away.”

Zhang Qiu knew that Li Shu was angry. He was a little guilty, but he was afraid that his guess would come true. He didn’t know how to deal with Li Shu for a while, so he had to take two steps back.

Li Shu put his hand on the heavy jade cover, his straight hand didn’t seem to have much strength. Just heard a snort noise, and the top cover of the outer panel was pushed straight away.

“Don’t break it.” Zhang YuShui saw Li Shu pushing the lid to the ground and subconsciously blurting it out.

Li Shu didn’t speak either, just an impatience flashed through his eyes. He turned his hand lightly to let the lid slip slowly without any damage.

Zhang ZuoJiu frowned at his younger brother acting this way and thought he would go back and draw talisman to calm his younger brother.

The inner coffin was exposed with black and red lacquer, the carving patterns were simple yet complicated. There were not any decay, and the bright colors were not like those of thousands of years ago. Zhang YuShui’s heart pounded, but his face remained cold, and he said to Zhang ZuoJiu, who was about to open his mouth, “I’ll take it.” He looked at Li Shu again. The man was very unpredictable and didn’t know what he would take.

“Rest assured, I don’t want to be in that mouth.”

Li Shu said, put his palm on the edge of the inner coffin cover, and with a little movement the lid slowly opened. Who knew what was going on with Zhang YuShui, half of his body had been in. Zhang Qiu, who stood not far away with concentration, looked at it as if the coffin would reach out a hand and shouted, “Be careful!”

At the same time, the tomb’s lights, which like a candle light in the daytime suddenly disappeared. In the dark, Zhang Qiu felt only a gust of wind and a cold body temperature approaching him. He shivered, his nose tip smelled the familiar scent, and he called out, “Li Shu?”

The other side did not respond. His waist was held tight and pressed on the wall. The sound passing his ears were gunshots.

“Little brother! Xiao Qiu!” The voice was Zhang ZuoJiu’s.

Zhang Qiu just responded to the sound but was hit by something, and was held in the cold arms.

“Don’t move.”

It was Li Shu’s voice. Zhang Qiu’s just tightened string suddenly loosened, put his back against the wall. His eyes slowly adapted to the darkness, only to hear fights and screams.

“Have you got LaoSi’s things?”

“Big Brother, let’s go! Ah!” LaoSi screamed.

It was the missing Jin LaoDa. Zhang Qiu was trying to see through the voices when he was caught by a wet hand. His nose was filled with a strong bloody smell. Zhang Qiu kicked his foot no matter what the excitement was. He was held by a cold hand around his waist. It was Li Shu.

The bloody hand was gone.

In a split second, the tomb was quiet again. In another direction, a beam of light hit him, Zhang Qiu’s pupil retracted subconsciously, until he saw the other side, he sighed of relief. “Big MaoGe.”

Zhang ZuoJiu was relieved when he saw Zhang Qiu. He looked around and called Zhang YuShui’s name without a sound of respond.

Zhang Qiu’s heart jumped. He looked around in the light. At his feet was LaoSi’s body. His death caused by bleeding eyes. Zhang Qiu face was twisted in fright; his heart stopped for a second.

Li Shu held Zhang Qiu’s waist and pressed on his hand. Zhang Qiu looked back and heard Zhang ZuoJiu’s thankful voice. He found Zhang YuShui.

Near the coffin, Zhang YuShui fainted and his lips looked bloody as if they had been bitten by something. Zhang Qiu frowned. Who is so perverted that he bites people’s mouths specially? Is it LaoSi or Jin LaoDa?

“What about Jin LaoDa?”

“Run away.” Li Shu had a voice of anger.

Zhang Qiu just remembered that Jin LaoDa had mentioned something just during the fight, he grabbed Li Shu’s sleeve and said, “Did you take what you wanted from Jin LaoDa?”

“No.”

Zhang Qiu supposed it was ‘without you to kill people’ manner, he listened to Li Shu said coldly, “It was taken away by another man.”

“Is there anyone else in this tomb?” When Zhang Qiu looked at Li Shu, he didn’t answer; assuming that Jin LaoDa dawdled with other friends. He asked, “Is it important to you?”

Li Shu looked at the direction of the door, half squinting and looked murderous, but his word was faint. “Dispensable.”

The two went to the outer coffin, Zhang Qiu looked curiously at the inner coffin. “Why, this is also an empty coffin.”

There were no corpses in it except the silks covering the coffin, but it was strange that the thick layers of silk were turned upside down and did not decay.

Before Zhang YuShui woke up, Zhang ZuoJiu heard about the empty coffin and said, “A wild-goose chase, come on, go out first.” He picked up Zhang YuShui, the Five Emperors Bronze Sword in his hand was inconvenient to take. He threw it to Li Shu, “Bro, help me take it.”

Zhang Qiu suddenly remembered that the Five Emperors Bronze Sword was designed to ward off evil Jiangshi. Just when he was about to say that he would hold it, Li Shu took the sword lightly and even played it in his hand. There was no other effect. Zhang Qiu felt a little lost, but more than that, he was happy.

Li Shu was not a Jiangshi, Li Shu was just a very ordinary person.

Zhang ZuoJiu saw Li Shu walking in front with his sword and slightly relieved his breath.

As he went out, Zhang Qiu saw the dead LaoSi on the ground, he looked at the exquisite tomb, thinking and said, “Shall we take him out?” It’s weird to put him here.

Li Shu had no objection. He took LaoSi’s body in one hand, went out of the mural tomb and threw it directly into the corner of the edge.

They went out through the robber’s hole from ten years ago and met several zongzis and white bones along the way. They were all tomb raider’s bodies. Li Shu solved them easily with his Five Emperors Bronze Sword. Zhang Qiu suddenly thought, “Why did LaoSi go mad in the tomb tunnel then? And how did LaoWu become a zongzi?”

“Spider’s poison.” Li Shu said.

Zhang Qiu remembered that only the three men were bitten by spiders when they were chased by spiders on the mountain. Among them, LaoWu was the heaviest casualty, his wound flesh was black and blue, bleeding black. LaoWu was just sterilizing and beating the blood serum. Later, he was conscious and nobody took it seriously.

“This kind of poison will be effected in the tomb, causing hallucinations, and the heaviest poisoning is easy to die.”

“I said LaoSi saw me again at that time and was scared to death.” LaoSi had the least toxic. It might be good and bad. Zhang Qiu looked at Li Shu and they were out. Zhang ZuoJiu’s car was parked not far away. “Where are you going? We’ll give you a ride. ”

Li Shu shook his head and refused, “No need.”

Zhang Qiu was disappointed to hear that, he didn’t know where the emotion came from. He kicked the stone at his feet and said, “We don’t know how long it will take to get to the county town yet. Let’s take you to the county town first.”

Li Shu touched Zhang Qiu’s face. The sudden movement frightened Zhang Qiu. His heart thumped violently and he was stiff all over.

“I have something to go to.”

When Zhang Qiu returned back to his senses, the back figure of Li Shu was getting farther and farther away. Hey hey hey! You don’t know where I live yet!!!

He was absent-minded and drowsy in the car for a while, but in the tomb everything was fine and he was spirited. Under the sun, he was listless.

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“The tomb is thick with Yin, it shared with you. Now the thing in your stomach is absorbing Yin taken from you.” Zhang SanLian looked grave. “I don’t know how this ghost can turn your Yang into yin. I was thinking of letting your two brothers borrow a magic instrument for you. I didn’t expect this kind of mistake. When you go down the tomb, the thing in your stomach is more stable. Now at any time it’s endangering your life, not to mention removing the fetus, it need to stay stable or else you — ” he sighed, “the tomb is an empty coffin, in the end where is the spirit bead…”

Zhang Qiu’s eyes softened when he saw that everyone was worried about him. He wanted to say that no matter what happened to him, it’s alright. However everyone did everything for him. he would be sorry if he gave up.

“Big Uncle –”

“Dad, someone sent a box, do you think this is the spirit bead?” Zhang ZuoJiu took the box and hurried in.

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