kvmb Chapter 478 Members of the Royal Family
Chapter 478 Members of the Royal Family
The underground palace was originally Zong Yujing's mausoleum preparation for himself.
Once Zong Yujing dies, some mechanism in the underground palace will definitely be triggered, or perhaps the mechanism was activated before Zong Yujing realized he was going to die.
Zong Que no longer had time to think about the reasons. Once the underground palace collapsed, all the craftsmen inside would be buried here.
This has always been the case with imperial tombs; to prevent them from being opened from the outside, all the craftsmen would die inside.
Zong Yujing's mausoleum is not yet completed, so the number of craftsmen trapped inside is unknown.
And behind that slowly crumbling glass wall, if he wasn't mistaken, it must be mercury.
Why did Zong Yujing build his mausoleum next to the cinnabar mine? Because cinnabar can be refined into mercury. Once a large amount of mercury is sealed in the tomb, it has a preservative effect. He hoped to follow the example of his ancestors and seal the coffin with mercury so that it would never decay.
No one knew his identity while he was alive. Perhaps he could still hope that after his death, many years later, future generations might be able to guess which emperor he was from the traces remaining in the imperial tomb.
nerve!
Zong Que no longer cared about closing the coffin; his gaze swept quickly across the entire underground palace, landing on a stone door that was slowly descending in the distance.
The gate of life.
Once the gate of life is closed, the entire underground palace will be completely sealed. The underground palace will not actually collapse, but will be completely closed by the operation of the mechanism. When the gate of life is completely closed, the mercury hidden behind the glass door will slowly seep in and flow into the underground palace.
not much time.
The person who knows about the mechanism of the Gate of Life must be dead. If he wastes time looking for the mechanism now, the most likely outcome is that he won't be able to save anyone.
Without much thought, Zong Que shouted at the craftsmen beneath the underground palace.
"Come out quickly! Go out through the exit! Shout out everyone!"
Without wasting a moment, they quickly found a ladder and rope in the underground palace and threw them down.
The craftsmen had long since become numb from the daily torment, had lost all hope for their fate, and already knew that once they entered the mausoleum, they would never be able to leave alive.
But now someone suddenly wants them to leave.
Really, is it okay to go out?
Seeing that the people were still standing there dumbfounded, Zong Que shouted, "Hurry up! It's too late!"
Only then did some of the craftsmen realize the truth, grab the rope, and understand that there was still a chance; they still had a chance to get out!
"Go, go quickly, we can get out, we can still get out!" As if suddenly waking from a hallucination, the craftsmen shouted one after another, one climbing up to pull another up, and calling over the craftsmen who were still elsewhere.
Zong Que entrusted the task of pulling people out to them, and ordered the men to find something to hold up the exit gate. If they could buy a little more time, once everyone was out, they had to close the exit gate completely, otherwise, once the mercury was poured in, everyone would still die.
The craftsmen moved everything they could, including the dragon throne, and managed to lift it over to prop up the door.
However, at this moment, the glass wall had completely shattered, and behind the glass wall, the huge blocks of ice supporting the ice coffin began to melt, with water flowing down.
One of the craftsmen, witnessing this, cried out in terror to Zong Que, "My lord, my lord! There's mercury behind that wall! Once the ice melts and the ice coffin collapses, the other glass wall blocking the mercury will shatter, and the mercury will pour in! Everyone will die! Everyone will die..."
Upon hearing this, many craftsmen who heard the voice began to panic and flee towards the exit.
Someone advised Zong Que: "My lord, you should leave now, leave quickly, or it will be too late!"
Zong Que knew, of course, that it was almost too late, but now less than half of the people had left. If he left, those with ulterior motives would open the gates of survival, and then most of the people would be unable to escape.
There's still time, and more people can leave.
"Listen up, everyone! Hold up the gate so more people can escape, otherwise everyone will die here!" Zong Que was barely able to stand, but he still took the lead and went to the gate. Together with the craftsmen who were using their own bodies to hold up the gate, he used his shoulders to block the gate from falling, leaving a way for more people to escape.
The craftsmen never expected that this god-like person could do such a thing. Those who were originally panicked and wanted to escape immediately stopped and turned back to bring people out one by one and send them out through the escape entrance.
Meanwhile, Lu Yangyang and Prefect Ling, holding the Taoist priest Shangqing hostage, were walking down the passage from top to bottom.
Master Shangqing was already stunned by Lu Yangyang, especially when Lu Yangyang said that he suspected there was a tomb down there. He dared not cause any more trouble and honestly confessed, "Yes, there is a tomb down there. I don't know the identity of that noble person. I only know that His Highness respects him very much, and the Yuzhou government can't do anything about him. His Highness told me that as long as I use that person's name, I can do anything in Yuzhou and will definitely rise to prominence in the future."
"But I only refined pills for His Highness, I didn't do anything else, I really don't know. I don't dare to go down to that mausoleum easily either. That person, that person is gloomy, and the way he looks at people is terrifying. I'm scared too, so I only occasionally send down some pills. And, and those girls' corpses... I don't know what kind of fetish that person has, he insists on putting all those corpses in ice coffins and then spending a lot of money to seal them with ice, so he can admire those girls' faces every day..."
"Didn't you ask me how those girls' bodies were disposed of? That's how it was done. It really has nothing to do with me. If I really wanted them, I would have kept them secretly, but I'm not that interested in them..."
Master Shangqing didn't dare look at Lu Yangyang's face. He kept pleading and begging for mercy while whispering, "Heroine, sir, I was wrong, I really won't do it again. Please forgive me. I know I've already said it. Those pirates have nothing to do with me. I was just refining pills. Those people are under Lord Wei's jurisdiction. I was just refining pills, really..."
Lu Yangyang thought of what His Highness had said about resolving this matter, and the person he needed to resolve must be the one that Master Shangqing had mentioned.
She turned to Prefect Ling and asked, "Does Your Excellency know who that person is?"
Prefect Ling shook his head: "I've never heard of him, and His Highness hasn't mentioned him either. I only know that such a person exists."
"Perhaps...a member of the royal family."