Chapter 89 Archaeological Data No. 003
The world is like a chess game. There are always intricate connections hidden in unrelated places.
A chariot moving sideways might be for setting up artillery. A pawn moving forward might be for flying horses... Jiang Xian never expected that the next place would be connected to Shenzhou. He looked at Song Yunshen for a long time before nodding, "Okay."
"I was waiting for you to say that." Song Yunshen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Take a good rest first, and I'll prepare some information. It's not easy to find the person involved in the Earth Burial Sutra right now."
He covered Jiang Xian with a blanket and walked out of the room.
Jiang Xian rested for a long time. His injuries were not serious, but the bullet in the stomach almost took his life.
Lin Ruoxue came every day and was never late. Jiang Xian asked him to help adopt the son of Hong Si Niang and Ba Bi Luo Han. After looking at the information, he found that he was only fourteen years old and was a boy.
He transferred a sum of money, not much, just 10,000. Although this amount of money was a drop in the bucket for him, Hong Si Niang and Babi Luohan died because of him, so what he had to do was not only to raise them, but also to treat them as his own children.
But he did not go to meet the other party. First, his body did not allow it, and second, he had not thought about what attitude, identity, and language to use to face the boy. After all, the other party's parents died because of him.
"They had already retired..." He closed the information and sighed.
Lin Ruoxue did not interrupt. Sometimes, she was as domineering as a queen. But sometimes, she knew very well when a man needed silence.
She gently peeled an apple and handed it to Jiang Xian: "It's all over."
Jiang Xian took it and took a bite. The apple was a little sour, and he felt a pricking sensation in his jaw muscles. This feeling was like a snake, drilling from the muscles to the heart. After a long time, he sighed: "Yeah... It's all over..."
If the next clue still can't break his curse, then... he will keep looking.
During this period, he would also look for some famous people to help him. Maybe... he would also look for the two masters Tianting Dishi who had retired more than ten years ago. He would offer the most generous conditions, but his life and death would still be his own responsibility.
You can be sad, but you can't wallow in it. Only by moving forward can he hope to break the two thousand years of curse.
"I've talked to Grandpa." Lin Ruoxue gently wiped his hands: "If you want to go downstairs again, I'll go with you."
"No." Jiang Xian said without even thinking.
"It's not up to you." Although she said those overbearing words, Lin Ruoxue smiled. She looked very pretty when she smiled, like a blooming ephemeral flower. Quiet and bright.
"You've never been down there."
"I can learn and I can listen. Wu Sandao may not be my opponent." Seeing that he wanted to speak, Lin Ruoxue pinched his lips and said with a smile: "My family has a long history of martial arts, and I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child. If I am not qualified to go down, how many other people are qualified?"
Jiang Xian was about to say something, but Lin Ruoxue shook her head, her voice faded, and she said calmly: "I know you want to say it's dangerous. Of course I know it's dangerous, but...if you die there, I can at least help you collect your body. Or would you rather believe others than me?"
She stood up and raised her eyebrows. "It's decided. By the way, you can be discharged from the hospital in a week at most. Mr. Song has already gone directly to Dengzhou. Various materials were also transported yesterday. You, lying on the hospital bed, have no right to give orders to the exploration team."
Dong... The door closed and Jiang Xian sighed countless times.
The more favors he owed, the bigger they became... He simply covered himself with the quilt and wriggled around in his bed like a maggot. Why on earth did it become like this?
Obviously, he should have refused when Lin Ruoxue asked to stay with him in bed... Although refusing was useless, it was better than the increasingly ambiguous behavior between the two of them now...
Lin Ruoxue is definitely the kind of woman who can make his heart beat wildly at first sight. Their family backgrounds are well matched, and the man is in love with her and the woman is willing to marry him. If it weren’t for the damn curse...but he doesn’t mind and still dives in.
As long as you live, I will accompany you.
If you die, I will collect your body.
“This is fucking…” After more than ten seconds, he finally showed his head and sighed for the third time: “It’s the hardest to accept the kindness of a beautiful woman… So this is what it means…”
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A week later, Jiang Xian was discharged from the hospital on time, and his whole body had recovered to its best condition. However, after more than a month of bed rest, his muscles were still a little loose. His bones were aching from idleness, but he obviously didn't have time to exercise again. Just when he was discharged from the hospital, a car took him directly to the airport, and a ticket to Wancheng was attached.
Dengzhou City does not have an airport and is administratively under the management of Wancheng... In the first-class cabin of the plane, Jiang Xian was reading the information about Dengzhou City and 003 - of course, what was given was only superficial, and some things would never appear even in the literal sense.
Just as Jiang Xiangang took a few glances, his eyebrows slightly raised. He keenly discovered that... Dengzhou City actually has an Archaeological Bureau!
Archaeological bureaus are usually set up in ancient cities that are hundreds of years old, or in places where important historical events took place in ancient times, or in places where some powerful forces are located. Wancheng has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, so it is not surprising that there is an archaeological bureau there. But Dengzhou is under the administration of Wancheng, so why does it have an archaeological bureau?
Moreover, this Archaeological Bureau is actually on the same level as Wancheng. Otherwise, it would be an Archaeological Research Institute.
Finally, the location of this archaeological institute is very remote. It is not in the urban area of Dengzhou City, but in a place called Zhangcun Town in the southwest.
"Interesting." He pushed up his sunglasses and reviewed the geography of Dengzhou City. Then, he opened the kraft paper bag No. 003.
As soon as he opened it, his eyes became serious. Because inside was a photo of an insect he had never seen before, and the label below was: Unnamed, new species: A-12.
A-12... does it mean there are A00-A11 ahead... Jiang Xian looked at it solemnly. He knew very well that due to geographical anomalies, once an underground world or an island or lake independent of the rest of the world appeared, it was very likely that some...unimaginable things would appear.
The Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace was like this, but the things there were not the most terrifying. After all, roughly speaking, there were only mutant lampreys, emperor gibbons, bat groups, luminous plants, and giant black snakes.
These things roughly and simply formed a food chain. Such an ecological relationship is very fragile. As long as one link collapses, the whole chain will collapse. However... if dozens of organisms appear in a natural or unnatural environment, then... the result will be completely different!
It is very likely that... a monster that no one could imagine would be born. Just like the Socotra Island.
He looked at the photo carefully. It was an insect with a slender tail, somewhat similar to a mosquito, but without any mouthparts. It was completely black. On the attached data card, it was clearly written: They live in caves and become transparent when exposed to sunlight. Their mouthparts are hidden in their slender abdomens. They feed on blood, and once they are full, their abdomens will swell more than a hundred times. And they become unable to fly. They are solitary creatures.
"It's a form I've never seen before... and it lives in a cave, where does it get the blood to absorb?" Jiang Xian frowned and continued reading.
Next, there was a creature that looked like a silkworm. It was terrifyingly large! It was marked to be two meters long. It had a row of blood-red eyes on its sides and a sharp mouthpart. It was lying on a huge spider web.
"A-07... grows in darkness, is afraid of strong light, and can secrete a spider-like product. It devours everything..."
The more he looked, the tighter his brows furrowed. It was still unknown what the situation was in Dengzhou, but after taking a dozen photos... all creatures had one characteristic.
Omnivore!
"To be exact... they devour everything." He closed his eyes and murmured, "This can only happen under extremely dangerous circumstances... According to the autopsy report, these creatures have almost no redundant organs. All organs serve only one purpose..."
He opened his eyes and looked at the bright clouds outside the window without saying those three words.
Stay alive.
What kind of horrific environment could allow a creature that lives only to survive to grow?
How hungry and thirsty are they normally? To have survived till now?
Although I haven't set foot in Dengzhou yet, a strong sense of crisis has already appeared in my heart.
The place we are going to this time...I'm afraid it's not simple at all!
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More than an hour later, the plane landed at Wancheng Airport. As soon as he got off the plane, someone from Shenzhou picked him up and drove him all the way to Dengzhou.
Soon, the car drove into Dengzhou City. As part of Wancheng, an important city in Yuzhou Province, Dengzhou City was also thriving. But no one had time to look at these. The car drove out of the main urban area and headed straight for Zhangcun Town.
Even the road leading into the village was a standard national highway. It was already eight o'clock, and the street lights on both sides of the national highway were already on. But the lights in the village were not too bright, and with the houses a hundred meters apart and the dark night sky, it was as if we were walking on the road to the underworld.
As they slowly entered the heart of Zhangcun Town, the giant beast called darkness slowly lifted up one corner of its clothes, revealing a continuous strip of lights underneath - that was the exploration team that arrived early, with more than a dozen tents standing on the ground. Jiang Xian was taken all the way to the tent in the center, and the car stopped.
"Mr. Jiang, you're finally here." The person who opened the tent door and came out was Song Yunshen. He shook Jiang Xian's hand tightly: "It's good that you're here... It's good that you're here. Come, let me introduce you."
The tent was brightly lit. It was already January, but it was warm as spring. There were soft sofas and black carpets. If there were no tents around, I wouldn't feel uncomfortable.
The pursuit of such things is ingrained in our bones.
Right next to the desk, there were two old men sitting. Both were very thin and dressed quite ordinary. One had a square face, and the other had a long and thin face with a beard. Song Yunshen nodded to the two old men, coughed lightly, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, this is Mr. Jiang. He is the discoverer of the Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace. It was him who broke into the entire Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace."
Swish... The two old men seemed to have no energy left. After hearing this, they finally raised their heads and looked at Jiang Xian. But after a few seconds, they looked away together.
"The Underground Palace of the First Qin Emperor... I saw it..." An old man looked at the top of the tent and said faintly: "It's great... Really..."
"There are traps everywhere. It's amazing to be able to get out of there..."
"But it's different here!" His voice began to tremble. No...even his body was shaking: "There's something down here...there must be something down here! I'm not lying! I'm not lying!!"
"Down here... is the underworld! There are no traps!! Only weird things you can't imagine!!"
His voice became more and more shrill. Immediately, two people rushed in from outside the tent, held each other down, and fed him a bottle of medicine.
"The survivor of No. 003 has had some brain problems since he came out. It is said that he suffered a great mental shock." Song Yunshen whispered to Jiang Xian, tapping his temple with his finger: "He needs to take tranquilizers frequently. It took me a lot of effort to get him out of the sanatorium. As soon as he arrived in Dengzhou... No, as soon as he arrived in Zhangcun Town, his condition became worse and worse. He always said some inexplicable things."
Jiang Xian put down his backpack and said calmly, "Oh? What did you say?"
"There are ghosts." Song Yunshen's voice became even deeper: "He said... down there is the underworld, there are countless evil ghosts, waiting for people to enter."
