The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 547 Heavenly Palace on the Clouds (Thirteen) The Apartment Riding Corpse Zhang Weixin's Uninvited Guest

The empty tomb chamber was filled with a somber smell of decaying silk and cold earth.

Under the flashlight beam, colorful murals appeared around the tomb chamber, but the three of them had no time to study them at the moment. Their attention was completely drawn to the image of Zhang Wei riding a corpse in the center of the tomb chamber.

As for why they were able to recognize that the person being ridden by Attorney Zhang was a female corpse, it was because the corpse unexpectedly did not turn into a skeleton.

The female corpse was dressed in a black robe embroidered with golden cloud and phoenix patterns, and wore an extremely gorgeous golden crown with swaying ornaments.

Although she hadn't turned into a skeleton yet, her face was already withered, and her overall appearance was a strange bluish-black, like a skeleton just wrapped in this dry skin.

The female corpse lay on the stone platform, her hands folded over her chest, pressing tightly against a short, gold-sheathed sword over a foot long.

Coupled with the fact that she was currently being pinned down by Zhang Wei, it gave off a sense of a thousand-year-old female corpse defending herself with a knife against being humiliated by a modern lecher.

Zeng Xiaoxian, Lu Ziqiao, and Tang Youyou, who entered, were all stunned by the scene.

After a while, the three of them came to their senses and rushed forward.

"Zhang Wei?! Zhang Dapao?! Zhang Yida?! Snake?!"

"Zhang Wei!"

The three of them came to the stone platform and called out, but no matter how they called, Zhang Wei remained unresponsive, still straddling the female corpse.

Not only that, they couldn't even get Zhang Wei off the female corpse. Zhang Wei was clinging tightly to the female corpse's shoulders, and his body felt extremely heavy.

"Goodness gracious! I never imagined that Zhang Wei, beneath his usual aura of a righteous lawyer, would have such a hidden side!" Zeng Xiaoxian, panting heavily, exclaimed. "He even has necrophilia!"

"I always thought I was wild enough, but I never expected Zhang Wei to surpass me."

"Could this be what they call being bewitched?"

After trying again, the three of them finally gave up, panting heavily.

It was truly difficult to pull Zhang Wei, who had fallen in love, away from the woman's corpse.

"Holy crap, is this love? It's like we're glued together with superglue!" Zeng Xiaoxian exclaimed breathlessly.

However, despite their complaints, the three now realize that something is definitely wrong.

"What do we do now?" Lu Ziqiao said helplessly. "We finally found Zhang Wei, but we can't take him with us."

"I feel like Zhang Wei's situation is somewhat similar to when Teacher Zeng was entangled by that big head," Tang Youyou said, looking at the female corpse that Zhang Wei was pinning down. "Could this be the one that did it?"

"Definitely, but the question is, what can we do?"

"..."

The three fell silent for a moment, when Tang Youyou suddenly noticed something. She looked down and shone her flashlight on the ground, exclaiming in surprise, "Look at the ground! There's so much water!"

Before, everyone was so focused on Zhang Wei that they didn't really observe their surroundings when they arrived at the stone platform.

Zeng Xiaoxian and Lu Ziqiao looked down and discovered a lot of water stains under the stone platform, which appeared to have dripped from the platform.

Following the trail, the three discovered that the woman's clothes were all wet.

"What's going on?" Lu Ziqiao asked, his face full of confusion.

But the other two couldn't answer the question either, so they got up and looked around to see if there was any other way.

The three of them couldn't make heads or tails of the murals on the wall.

Just then, Lu Ziqiao, who was about to eat something to replenish his strength, suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the black donkey hoof from his pocket.

"Hey, how about we try this?"

Seeing Lu Ziqiao pull out the black donkey hoof, Tang Youyou asked with a strange look, "Will it work?"

“Since that big head could be chased away by Nuomi, maybe this can also deal with the female ghost.” Lu Ziqiao walked over with the black donkey hoof. “Anyway, we have no other choice, so let’s try it as a last resort.”

Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao exchanged a glance and then came over, each taking out an entrenching tool and a rope from their bags.

"Teacher Zeng, what are you doing with that rope? Are you trying to play bondage?"

"..."

After this interruption, the three of them relaxed a little. They nodded and watched as Lü Ziqiao slowly stuffed the black donkey hoof into the female corpse's mouth.

A few seconds later, the three of them, who were extremely nervous, looked at each other.

"Has it worked?"

"I feel like nothing happened at all?"

After hesitating for a moment, the three of them tried again to pull Zhang Wei off the female corpse.

To their surprise, Zhang Wei, who had been clinging tightly to the female corpse, was actually pulled away by them.

"It's moving! It's working!"

Upon seeing this, Tang Youyou exclaimed with delight.

"Quickly, quickly, carry Zhang Wei down."

The three quickly separated Zhang Wei from the woman's body and carefully placed him on the ground.

Fortunately, although Zhang Wei remained on top of the female corpse and his actions were extremely indecent, he ultimately did not take off his pants...

However, when they lifted Zhang Wei down, they found that he was still in the same position and hadn't moved at all, not even changing the lewd smile on his face.

"Zhang Wei?! Zhang Wei?!"

Zhang Wei still did not respond.

Seeing this, Zeng Xiaoxian's voice trembled as he asked, "Zhang Wei... could he be dead?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Tang Youyou said irritably, "Didn't you look like you were dead when your neck was being strangled before?"

"..."

The three people in the tomb looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

"By the way, Ziqiao, don't you know first aid?"

After Tang Youyou reminded him, Lü Ziqiao realized what was happening and quickly unbuttoned Zhang Wei's clothes, then pressed on his chest.

"I hope you didn't kiss a female corpse!"

After pressing a few times, Lu Ziqiao took a deep breath and began performing artificial respiration on Zhang Wei, amidst the complicated gazes of Tang Youyou and Zeng Xiaoxian.

"If Jian Ning knew that her boyfriend had first ridden on a female corpse and then was kissed by Zi Qiao..."

At this point, Zeng Xiaoxian shuddered; the image was too vivid for him to bear.

"It's okay. Don't forget, Zhang Wei and Zi Qiao got engaged and kissed last year."

"..."

Tang Youyou's words made Zeng Xiaoxian twitch, and he suddenly remembered the two videos in the apartment that could be considered the treasures of the place.

One was him brushing his teeth and dancing naked in the living room, and the other was Zhang Wei and Zi Qiao attending someone else's engagement party and ending up getting engaged without their knowledge.

So, does that mean Jian Ning is the third party?
"Hey, are you kidding me? I'm saving people here, and you guys are making fun of me?!" Lu Ziqiao, who was giving Zhang Wei first aid, said irritably.

"Sorry, sorry, please continue."

To the three's disappointment, even after Lu Ziqiao blew so hard that the back of Zhang Wei's ears hurt, Zhang Wei still showed no sign of waking up.

"What should we do? Will Zhang Wei stay like this forever?" Tang Youyou asked anxiously.

Now the three of them were truly at a loss.

The atmosphere in the tomb chamber became somewhat heavy. The three men stared blankly at Zhang Wei, who lay motionless on the ground with a lewd smile.

After a long silence, Zeng Xiaoxian finally said, "If all else fails, let's carry Zhang Wei away from here first. Maybe we can find a way after we find Wen Sheng and Yi Fei."

After exchanging glances, Lu Ziqiao and Tang Youyou could only nod in agreement to Zeng Xiaoxian's suggestion.

So the three of them ate something to replenish their energy and then looked around for an exit.

The half-open door they came through through is definitely not a way out anymore; the other end of the corridor is blocked, there's no way out there at all.

"Huh? There didn't seem to be any gaps here before. When did this one appear?" Tang Youyou asked curiously, standing in front of a wall. Hearing this, Zeng and Lü went closer and discovered a vertical crack in the wall in front of them.

Seeing this, the three shone their flashlights around the area again. Zeng Xiaoxian then exclaimed in surprise, "Yeah, this looks like a door. How come we didn't notice it when we came in?"

"What a hell..."

Lu Ziqiao was about to make a casual remark, but as soon as he said it, the three of them realized something and turned to look at the female corpse lying on the stone bed.

Zeng Xiaoxian swallowed hard and stepped back against the stone door.

"Crack!"

A clear sound rang out, and Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao looked at Zeng Xiaoxian in confusion, while Zeng Xiaoxian looked down at the stone bricks that had been stepped into by him.

"Rumble..."

At this moment, a noise came from the stone door behind Zeng Xiaoxian. He was so frightened that he immediately left. Then the three of them saw the stone door in front of them slowly moving to both sides.

"The door is open?" Lu Ziqiao asked in surprise.

"Be careful, there might be something dangerous behind the door," Tang Youyou warned, gripping her entrenching tool.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ziqiao and Zeng Xiaoxian tensed up again, but then they remembered Zhang Wei still lying on the ground, so they quickly helped him up and put him on Lu Ziqiao's back.

With a rumbling sound, the stone door in front of them slowly opened, but behind the stone door was still pitch black.

Tang Youyou mustered her courage and raised her flashlight to look inside, but under the light, the three of them could no longer see anything clearly, only a suffocatingly dark blue reflected in the light.

"Hiss—it's so cold!" Zeng Xiaoxian said, rubbing his shoulders.

Not only him, but Tang Youyou and Lu Ziqiao also suddenly felt the temperature drop significantly. Even though they were wearing warm clothes, they still felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

After waiting for a while and seeing that there was no further movement, the three of them carefully carried Zhang Wei through the door.

Unsure how long the passage behind the stone door was, the group felt increasingly cold. After walking for about half an hour, they finally entered a new space.

Upon entering, the three were stunned by the sight before them.

A chill even more biting and pure than before rushed towards them, and under the beam of their flashlights, the three of them could see that above them was a huge, dark blue dome, and below the dome hung countless icicles.

The reason why the flashlight beam was a ghostly blue when I came over was because, in addition to the ice dome, the surrounding walls were also frozen solid.

What shocked the three of them the most was that in the center of this frozen place, a coffin entirely carved from black ice sat quietly on a natural ice platform.

The coffin was not transparent, but rather had a mysterious deep black color, like black jade, with intricate carvings faintly visible on its surface.

Here, it seemed as if even sound was frozen. The three of them were walking on a smooth ice surface, and they had to be extremely careful with every step.

“I thought ice burial was what I saw before, those corpses thrown into the cracks. Now it seems, this is what real ice burial is all about,” Lu Ziqiao said softly as he entered the larger tomb chamber.

Shh, be careful!

Tang Youyou pointed her flashlight at the coffin and whispered.

After being in the tomb for so long, the group encountered swarms of centipedes and then hordes of corpses, but they have finally found a coffin.

Having experienced those previous encounters, the three of them didn't think the coffin before them was anything to be trifled with.

Enduring the biting cold, the three walked carefully on the ice. To prevent Lu Ziqiao, who was carrying Zhang Wei, from falling, Zeng Xiaoxian deliberately leaned over to support him.

The three were extremely wary of the coffin in the middle. They not only treaded lightly for fear of disturbing something, but also deliberately kept their distance from the coffin, almost hugging the wall as they went around it.

Tang Youyou shone her flashlight on the wall next to her that was frozen solid. Through the dim blue light, she discovered that these walls were also covered with colorful murals.

However, the content of the murals in both the previous tomb and this one is different from the content we saw before about the wars and the worship of the centipede dragon in the Eastern Xia Kingdom.

Although she couldn't quite understand them, she could barely make out that the murals depicted an emperor meeting a woman, except that the woman had a human head and a snake's body.

Tang Youyou didn't understand, nor did she care to think about these things. Now that she had found Zhang Wei, she just wanted to hurry up and meet up with Wen Sheng and the others.

However, the three of them walked along the wall three times in this huge, icy tomb, but still couldn't find a way out.

"What's going on? There's no road again?!" Lu Ziqiao, carrying Zhang Wei on his back, said breathlessly, "Let's rest for a bit."

Seeing that Lu Ziqiao was tired from carrying her, Tang Youyou and Zeng Xiaoxian had no choice but to agree to rest first.

"What do we do? We can't find our way!" Tang Youyou frowned. "Should we go back the way we came?"

"There's no way back the way we came!" Zeng Xiaoxian shook his head. "Let's look again."

"I've searched three times already, but there's not even a crack in the door, let alone a door!"

"Could it be that we've overlooked something?"

"How is that possible? The three of us searched three times, how could it have been missed..."

Before she could finish speaking, Tang Youyou's words caught in her throat. Lu Ziqiao and Zeng Xiaoxian also realized something, and the three of them looked at the black coffin that had been quietly placed in the middle of the tomb.

We've searched every other part of the tomb, except for this mysterious coffin in the middle.

Zeng Xiaoxian swallowed hard, his legs trembling as he spoke, whether from the cold or from fright, he couldn't tell.
"You're not going to... open the coffin, are you?"

……

Just as the three-person team, no, now the four-person team, was struggling with whether or not to cosplay as tomb raiders opening a coffin, Wen Sheng and his group finally embarked on the road to the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top.

As the group descended the cliff and walked along the stone-paved path leading to the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top, their eyes were filled with wonder and awe.

Looking at the black, fortified building ahead, fear, curiosity, and excitement mingled in everyone's hearts.

"I never imagined I'd be able to enter an imperial mausoleum in my lifetime!" Chen Meijia exclaimed. "I've never even seen Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army before!"

"I heard that the tomb of Qin Shi Huang in your country hasn't even been properly excavated yet," Guan Gu Shenqi said. "I've never even heard of this Dongxia Kingdom, yet they can build a tomb this grand... First of all, how magnificent must the real tomb of Qin Shi Huang be!"

“Something’s not right,” Xinling said. “If this really is the tomb of the emperor of Dongxia, it would be impossible for them to build such a royal tomb, given their national strength. Moreover, Dongxia only existed for a few decades, so it’s even more impossible.”

Hu Yifei said, "Since we're already here, maybe we can find out by going in and taking a look."

Although the main goal of the group was to find the three people who had gotten separated and Zhang Wei, they had already come this far and had to go inside eventually.

After walking along this sacred path, the six of them arrived at the first stone gate, which was very tall and somewhat resembled a memorial archway.

“This is called the Heavenly Gate,” Cyndi Wang, the walking encyclopedia, explained. “It is said that this gate was once the place where coffin bearers and funeral processions were slaughtered. After the encoffining ceremony, everyone who came out of this gate would be slashed with a knife, so it is also called the Severed Gate. Remember to walk backwards when you come out, so as not to bump into the Severed Gate.”

"Wow, you know that too?" Hu Yifei asked in surprise.

Xinling smiled sheepishly: "I read a wide variety of books."

After passing through the Heavenly Gate, every five meters along the Sacred Way are white stone figures and horses, much like the Terracotta Army of Qin.

"Look, Meijia, now you've seen the Terracotta Warriors."

There are six stone gates in total on the sacred path. The group gradually quickened their pace, and when they reached the end of the sacred path, an altar appeared before them. Behind the altar were stone steps leading to the main gate of the imperial mausoleum.

The group first stood below, marveling at the sight before them, then climbed the steps and quickly entered the main gate of the imperial mausoleum.

The gatehouse behind the main gate is very spacious, with bronze chariots on both sides to welcome the emperor. Behind it, along the deep wall, are two black statues, which are very similar to the sinister statue seen in the main hall.

However, at this moment, Wen Sheng, who had been leading the way, spoke up: "Wait."

Everyone stopped upon hearing this, and Hu Yifei asked, "What's wrong?"

Wen Sheng did not answer directly, but instead raised his flashlight and shone it on a large pillar next to him.

As the beam of the flashlight rose, everyone's gaze was drawn upwards, and soon, a corpse came into view on the beam above the gate.

"Ah..." Chen Meijia was about to exclaim when Hu Yifei covered her mouth, afraid of disturbing something.

However, Wen Sheng paid no attention to these things, and just squinted at the corpse hanging on the beam.

At this moment, Xinling came to his side and said in surprise, "Huh? The other person's attire... looks like those people that Dali and I met in Yingshan Village before."

Hearing this, Dali mustered up his courage and looked up, then said, "That's true."

Upon hearing this, Hu Yifei and the others realized that the corpse on the beam was dressed in modern clothes, unlike the previous corpses dressed in ancient costumes.

However, Wen Sheng discovered something even more unexpected in the corpse.

"Digging Heavy Industries?"

(End of this chapter)