The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 545 Heavenly Palace on the Clouds (XI) Attorney Zhang, release that female corpse!
"Teacher Zeng, what's wrong?!"

In the field of corpses beneath the main hall, Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao's expressions changed upon seeing Zeng Xiaoxian, whose face was as bluish-purple as the surrounding corpses; instead, they turned deathly pale.

Zeng Xiaoxian's bluish-purple face was incredibly eerie, and his expression was even more ferocious and sinister. If it weren't for his clothes, he would look exactly like those corpses from a distance. The aunt and nephew were so frightened that cold sweat immediately broke out on their backs.

Tang Youyou tremblingly reached out her hand towards Zeng Xiaoxian's nose.

"Auntie, what are you doing?"

"I...I'll check if Teacher Zeng is still breathing."

"Does he have it?"

"I couldn't sense it."

"..."

Lu Ziqiao didn't know what kind of emotion to show at this moment. Looking at his old friend with whom he had lived for many years, he died right in front of him. After the initial shock, he was overwhelmed with grief and wanted to cry.

"Waaaaah... Zeng Xiaoxian, you deserve to die..."

"Shh!"

Before Lu Ziqiao could finish his lament, Tang Youyou covered his mouth and then pointed at Zeng Xiaoxian's neck.

Upon seeing this, Lu Ziqiao looked down and saw that Zeng Xiaoxian had something wrapped around his neck.

Following the object, the two discovered that among the several bluish-purple ancient corpses behind Zeng Xiaoxian, one corpse was even more bizarre.

The most striking feature of this corpse was its enormous head. Zeng Xiaoxian's head was already the largest among everyone in the apartment, but this corpse's head was almost three times the size of Zeng Xiaoxian's. The facial features were so large that they were obscured by the flesh, resembling an underdeveloped baby with a large head that had been fed inferior formula.

And what was wrapped around Zeng Xiaoxian's neck was an incredibly long tongue that was sticking out of the corpse's mouth!
"Lie..."

Lu Ziqiao's eyes widened, but he only managed to utter one word before Tang Youyou covered his mouth again.

After forcibly calming themselves down, the aunt and nephew exchanged a glance and slowly backed away.

Once they had some distance between them, Lü Ziqiao whispered, "What is that thing?"

"I don't know." Tang Youyou shook her head, her face also showing fear. "Teacher Zeng seems to have been entangled by that thing."

"What do we do now? Could that big-headed corpse really be a ghost?"

"We have to get Teacher Zeng out of here!"

The aunt and nephew were terrified, but they had no way out and couldn't just watch Zeng Xiaoxian meet with misfortune.

After mentally preparing herself for a while, Tang Youyou pulled an entrenching tool out of her backpack, seemingly planning to smash it directly into that big head later.

At this moment, Lu Ziqiao thought for a moment and took out two things from his bag.

"Glutinous rice and black donkey hooves? You actually believe that?"

"We have no choice but to try anything now." Lu Ziqiao grabbed a handful of glutinous rice in his left hand and held the black donkey hoof in his right. "Besides, that big head of his isn't exactly a normal thing!"

Now that things had come to this, the two had no other options when faced with that thing that seemed to be a ghost.

Tang Youyou covered the flashlight with one hand to prevent the light from irritating the thing, and then she and Lu Ziqiao cautiously approached again.

After returning to Zeng Xiaoxian, the two looked at each other and nodded.

The large head kept its eyes closed, seemingly unaware of the arrival of the two people in front of it.

Just as Tang Youyou raised the entrenching tool, the big-headed corpse suddenly opened its eyes, revealing a patch of dark eye sockets.

Tang Youyou, who was about to swing her shovel down, was so frightened by what she saw that her hand went limp and she hesitated to strike.

"I'll start with a handful of glutinous rice!"

Just then, Lü Ziqiao, who was standing nearby, quickly scattered the glutinous rice in his hand.

"hiss--"

Unexpectedly, the glutinous rice actually worked. The large-headed corpse that was sprinkled with glutinous rice let out a shrill scream that sounded like a woman's, and wisps of black smoke rose from its body.

"It's...it's smoking!"

Exorcist Master Lu Ziqiao was startled by the other party's commotion and froze for a moment.

After the large-headed corpse roared in agony, it turned and crawled away, but its tongue was still wrapped around Zeng Xiaoxian.

So when the two terrified aunt and nephew came to their senses, they saw that Zeng Xiaoxian had already been dragged down the slope by the big-headed corpse.

"Oh no! Quick, go after Teacher Zeng!"

Realizing what was happening, Tang Youyou quickly grabbed an entrenching tool and chased after him, and Lu Ziqiao followed suit.

But the place was laid out like a terraced field, densely covered with corpses. As the two chased each other, they bumped into the corpses, which triggered a chain reaction, like dominoes falling.

Corpses fell in droves, but the two of them didn't care anymore. After being knocked to the ground, they slid down like a landslide.

They hadn't expected that something with such a big head could climb up so fast!

Then, as they slid down, the large-headed corpse in front of them suddenly disappeared.

There's a hole there!

Tang Youyou spotted a hole at the bottom of the slope. The big-headed corpse crawled into the hole, and Zeng Xiaoxian's upper body, which it was dragging, also went into the hole.

Seeing this, Lu Ziqiao became very anxious and rushed over to grab Zeng Xiaoxian's feet.

However, as soon as he grabbed it, he discovered that the big head was incredibly strong. Not only did it fail to pull Zeng Xiaoxian back, but it also pulled him in as well.

"Zi Qiao!"

Upon seeing this, Tang Youyou screamed and jumped over to grab her nephew's feet, which resulted in her being pulled into the cave as well.

"Auntie, hurry up and poop!"

"I can't pull it either!"

The cave was pitch black, and it had many turns, so the flashlights couldn't illuminate the area below. They could only vaguely sense that they had passed through several forks in the road.

"Glutinous rice! Quickly sprinkle it with glutinous rice!"

Tang Youyou called out from inside the cave. Upon hearing this, Lu Ziqiao released one hand and reached into his pocket with the other to take out glutinous rice. However, the rice slid down too quickly, and he was very nervous. It took him a while to finally pull the rice out of his pocket.

"Eat my glutinous rice!"

Lu Ziqiao roared and threw the glutinous rice in his hand forward.

"You've gone wrong! Ptooey!"

Although the glutinous rice was being sprinkled forward, it didn't hit the wall at the right angle, and Tang Youyou, who was pulled in from behind, ended up eating a mouthful.

"I can't see clearly, Auntie!"

"Just sprinkle it on Zeng Xiaoxian's head!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Ziqiao quickly grabbed another handful of glutinous rice and then tilted his head back to throw it at Zeng Xiaoxian's head.

The cave entrance led to a downward slope, and when Lü Ziqiao threw the glutinous rice down, it landed directly on Zeng Xiaoxian and the big-headed corpse.

Then, the other person’s shrill scream echoed through the passage, and at the same time, the two of them noticed that the other person’s pulling force had lessened.

"It really works, Ziqiao, hurry up and sprinkle it!"

"Eat my glutinous rice! Eat my glutinous rice! Eat my glutinous rice!"

Inside the cave, Lu Ziqiao's shouts and the shrill screams of the large-headed corpse echoed alternately, as if some strange game was taking place.

Finally, just as Lu Ziqiao ran out of glutinous rice, the large-headed corpse that had been yelling, smoking, and leaking black liquid all the way finally released Zeng Xiaoxian.

However, although Tang Youyou felt the pull had lessened a bit, she didn't stop sliding down. Seeing that Lu Ziqiao had stopped sprinkling glutinous rice, she asked, "Why did you stop?"

"The glutinous rice is gone!" Lu Ziqiao said, pulling Zeng Xiaoxian along. "But that big-headed guy has already let go of Teacher Zeng and run away."

"Then how..."

Tang Youyou was about to ask why it didn't stop, but suddenly there was a sudden stop in front of her, and she almost bumped into her nephew's butt.

Fortunately, she reacted quickly, slid to the side, and grabbed the other person's clothes to stop him.

Tang Youyou, feeling a bit dizzy, took a while to come to her senses. When she looked to the side with her flashlight, she realized that they had bumped into a corner of the passage.

"Ziqiao, how is Teacher Zeng?"

Upon seeing her nephew's head pressed against Zeng Xiaoxian's crotch, she quickly pulled the two apart.

Lu Ziqiao waved his hand and said breathlessly, "I don't know. When I was holding onto him all the way down, he felt cold and hard, like a stone."

After saying that, the two dragged Zeng Xiaoxian over.

"Hey, it doesn't seem to be very hard anymore?" Lu Ziqiao said, touching Zeng Xiaoxian's face.

"Teacher Zeng! Teacher Zeng!"

Tang Youyou hurriedly called out to Zeng Xiaoxian, but it was no use.

"I come!"

After Lu Ziqiao finished speaking, he began to take off Zeng Xiaoxian's clothes.

"What are you doing?" Tang Youyou asked in surprise.

"Help!"

"You know first aid?"

"That's right!" Lu Ziqiao unzipped Zeng Xiaoxian's jacket and began pressing on his chest. "After I found out that Wen Sheng saved Xinling, I specifically asked Wen Sheng to teach me first aid methods, just so that I could also have the opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty in the future."

"..."

Tang Youyou was speechless for a moment. It really is true that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared!
Lu Ziqiao's first aid had an immediate effect. After seeing that Zeng Xiaoxian's complexion had improved, he prepared to perform artificial respiration on him.

"Cough cough!"

Zeng Xiaoxian rolled his eyes, touched his neck, and gasped for breath while coughing.

“You…cough cough!”

Seeing Lu Ziqiao's face so close to his, Zeng Xiaoxian quickly slapped him across the face.

"Damn it! I was just trying to help you, why did you hit me?" "Teacher Zeng, you're alive?!"

Seeing this, Tang Youyou was overjoyed and quickly helped Zeng Xiaoxian up, massaging his back to help him catch his breath.

"You...cough cough...you...save me?"

Zeng Xiaoxian's expression changed as if he had thought of something, and he started gagging while wiping his mouth.

"Don't worry, I haven't had a chance to give you CPR yet!"

"..."

After seeing that Teacher Zeng's condition had improved, Tang Youyou finally had time to look around.

The three of them are currently at the corner of the passage. The passage is quite spacious; even with Tang Youyou's arms outstretched, she is still a little short of touching both sides.

However, upon reflection, she realized that the width of the passage had changed when she slid down, and that she had also passed through a fork in the road.

She raised her flashlight and looked to the other side of the passage, where she could vaguely see three more forks in the road not far away.

"What do we do now? We can't climb back up either," Tang Youyou said, looking back at the slope she had slid down.

Catching his breath, Zeng Xiaoxian remembered the danger he had just faced and hurriedly asked, "By the way, after I fell down through that hole in the main hall, I saw a lot of corpses, and then my neck felt cold and I couldn't move anymore. What happened?"

"It's amazing you still remember this."

Lu Ziqiao snorted and recounted what had just happened.

Upon hearing that he was being entangled by the tongue of a large-headed corpse, Zeng Xiaoxian turned pale with fright, and his bladder felt swollen.

"Then... which way do we go now?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked fearfully, staring at the three dark passageways ahead. "That big head might still be waiting for us somewhere!"

Lu Ziqiao frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "I remember that the big head went into the very middle hole."

Upon hearing this, Tang Youyou stood up and said, "Then let's take another route."

"Oh? But what if we encounter other dangers?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked worriedly.

"But what if they come out again if we stay here? And we don't know how Yifei and the others are doing?"

At this moment, Lu Ziqiao said again, "The glutinous rice is all used up. If that big-headed guy comes again... I don't know if the black donkey hoof will be of any use."

The passageway was quiet. Thinking about how he couldn't move just now, Zeng Xiaoxian shuddered and said, "Then let's go first. They have Yifei and Wensheng with them, so there shouldn't be any problems."

The three people reached a consensus, but when they arrived at the three passageways, they were troubled about which way to go.

After hesitating for a long time, they decided to use the most scientific method to make the decision.

"Whoever the little rooster picks is the winner!" Zeng Xiaoxian's finger stopped at the left-hand passageway.

Lu Ziqiao and Tang Youyou exchanged a glance and said, "OK, let's choose the right side!"

"..."

"Teacher Zeng, if this were a question-and-answer session, I would definitely support you, but in the ancient tomb, your choice is obviously untrustworthy."

……

Shortly after the three entered the right passage, Wen Sheng and his group below the main hall found the hole where the three of them had been dragged in amidst the vast horde of corpses.

"Judging from the marks, they went into the cave."

"Damn, another hole!" Hu Yifei glanced at the ancient corpses behind her and felt a chill run down her spine. "What kind of monster is in this hole this time?"

"They must have encountered some danger when they came down, otherwise the bodies in front wouldn't be sitting perfectly fine, but the bodies behind them wouldn't have fallen down," Xinling analyzed.

Guan Gu Shenqi, gripping his katana again, said anxiously, "No matter what's down there, I have to go down. Youyou is still down there!"

The large hole in front of us actually looks a bit like a well, with neat stone slabs forming the well walls.

At this moment, Xinling held up her flashlight and looked into the cave entrance, saying, "There are traces of chiseling on the edge of this well, so it must have been built by man, but we don't know where this cave leads."

Wen Sheng placed his hand at the entrance of the cave and felt it, saying, "There's wind blowing out from inside; this cave isn't solid."

Thinking that the real Heavenly Palace was located beneath the Three Sacred Snow Mountains in the original drama, Wen Sheng said, "Perhaps this place leads to the interior of the Three Sacred Snow Mountains."

“I didn’t see the entrance to the underground palace in the back hall just now, so the real entrance might be here!” Xinling’s eyes lit up, and after a pause, she added, “When ancient emperors built their tombs, in order to prevent the craftsmen from leaking the secrets, they would often have the craftsmen buried with them after the tomb was completed. This might be an escape passage that those craftsmen secretly dug out.”

After much speculation, the final conclusion is that this place is highly likely to lead to the real underground palace.

Regardless of the speculation, the main purpose of everyone was to save people. So after making preparations, Wen Sheng was the first to slide down the hole, and the others followed in turn.

"What are these dark things? And why is there glutinous rice in them?"

Not long after they went downstairs, Chen Meijia's voice rang out.

Hu Yifei said, "Ziqiao was the one who brought the glutinous rice. We've come to the right place. As for these dark things... I don't know either."

"Why is there another fork in the road?"

"Don't worry about it, just follow the trail."

After a long while, Wen Sheng stopped at the corner where Tang Youyou and the other two had stopped earlier.

The others behind asked, "What's wrong?"

“The traces disappeared here.” Wen Sheng looked at the three passages beside him. “They must have entered one of them.”

The slope had disappeared, and the group got up and walked to the three passages.

Which lane did they enter?

The group each shone their flashlights into the cave entrance, but they could see nothing but darkness.

Wen Sheng walked to the right-hand passage, looked around carefully, and said, "They should have gone in through this one."

With most of his body leaning into the central passage, Guan Gu asked, "Why..."

Before Guan Gu could finish speaking, a long tongue emerged from the middle passage and wrapped around his neck.

……

The three of them walked for an unknown amount of time in the passage on the right, only to find that the originally wide passage became narrower and narrower until finally it was barely wide enough for one person to pass through.

And then suddenly it turned downhill, so the three of them had to play on the slide again.

After a long while, Lu Ziqiao, who was leading the way, suddenly felt the beam of his flashlight scatter, revealing a pile of round things at the bottom of the slope.

"What is that? What is that?! It's a skull!!!"

As Lu Ziqiao finished his three increasingly emotional sentences, he reached the finish line and fell straight into a pile of skulls.

But this time he was experienced, and as soon as he landed, he flipped over to get out of the way.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Ouch!" Zeng Xiaoxian, who had become a human cushion, exclaimed, "Youyou, as an actress, you should control your weight."

"Bullshit, I'm very light, okay?"

Tang Youyou snorted before getting off Zeng Xiaoxian.

After the three of them got up, they saw a large pile of skulls at their feet and quickly moved to the side.

They then shone their flashlights around and discovered that they were in an empty corridor. The hole they had slid down through was in the wall, and below it was a pile of skulls.

"Where is this again?" Zeng Xiaoxian asked.

"Hey, there's toilet paper here!"

At this moment, Tang Youyou called out from the corner of the wall.

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao quickly went over and saw a wad of toilet paper on the ground under the light of Tang Youyou's flashlight.

Lu Ziqiao asked with a strange expression, "They had toilet paper in ancient times?"

"Please use your brain, this is obviously modern," Zeng Xiaoxian said irritably. "It must have been left behind by someone who lived before us."

Tang Youyou picked up the crumpled paper and unfolded it, finding a pool of blood inside.

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and then Zeng Xiaoxian said in a trembling voice, "Could this be... something Zhang Wei used?"

"..."

Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao did not answer, but it was clear that they had guessed the same thing, and their hearts immediately felt heavy.

"The blood isn't black yet, so it must have been lost in the last couple of days." Tang Youyou continued to scan with her flashlight and soon saw a line of footprints extending into the depths of the corridor.

“We’ve found the right place. Let’s go. Maybe Zhang Wei is just ahead.”

This time, Lu Ziqiao and Zeng Xiaoxian didn't say anything more. Even though they were very scared, there was no turning back now.

The three followed the footprints deeper into the corridor. Tang Youyou carried an entrenching tool, Lu Ziqiao carried a black donkey hoof, and Zeng Xiaoxian... carried his cell phone, which had now turned into a brick.

After walking for nearly half an hour, a stone door appeared in front of the three of them. The stone door only blocked the upper part, and it was obvious that the door was closed from top to bottom.

What could be behind that door?

"There shouldn't be... any of the monsters from before, right?"

Tang Youyou and Zeng Xiaoxian were extremely tense. Then they saw Lu Ziqiao next to them holding a black donkey hoof and chanting, "Demons and monsters, leave! Demons and monsters, leave!"

"..."

The two of them twitched their lips; they were no longer in the mood for complaining.

Tang Youyou crouched down and peered through the half-open stone door, but couldn't see anything clearly.

After quietly adjusting their posture for a few seconds, the three of them crouched down and crawled inside.

However, as soon as they entered, the three of them stared at each other, and their entrenching tools, black donkey hooves, and cell phones all fell to the ground.

"Fuck!"

"Zhang Wei?!"

What are you doing to the corpse?!

"Come down quickly!"

(End of this chapter)