Chapter 9 Snake (3)

  Xia Yunfei was not used to thinking about how her words would affect others, she was too accustomed to living alone, working alone, and even being alone in life and death. Lan Ruoxue once got drunk with her on the night they returned to the city after barely escaping with their lives from a fight, and pointed at Xia Yunfei with an empty beer bottle, saying "Xia Yunfei, did you leave most of your emotions behind when you were born? Otherwise, how can you trust no one but yourself?"

  At that time, she calmly took the beer bottle from her opponent's hand, and at the same time used her teeth to open a bottle of iced beer for herself. She also poured out Lan Ruoxue's wine glass and let the waiter refill it with freshly squeezed orange juice. Then, she slowly drank her own beer and spoke in a tone that seemed unrelated to the matter: "Who said I don't trust others?"

  It's just that once you're used to doing everything with one person, you won't trust others completely again.

  Now, in the dimly lit tomb chamber illuminated only by a flashlight, she suddenly remembered this matter, and then shook her head with a self-deprecating smile before throwing herself into studying how to open the tomb door.

  She is no longer the Xia Yuanfei who would cry alone in a corner years ago.

  Before touching the tomb door, Xiaoyan flew over her body again, trying to find out her most commonly used pair of gloves. After all, she didn't know what mechanism was on this tomb door and didn't want to take any risks. As a result, it did not exceed her expectations. Before entering the mountain, she had indeed put those gloves into the zip pocket on the outside of her backpack for convenience.

  After sighing, Xia Yunfei could only tentatively use her fingertips to carefully examine the heavy tomb door from top to bottom. Ao Yuan, who was wandering around behind her, tried to challenge her by wrapping himself around her wrist. Xia Yunfei looked down at him coldly: "Go wrap yourself around the pillar in the back, I don't have time for you now."

  After saying that, she seemed to remember something and opened her mouth again: "Wait a minute, this fight... damn it's troublesome to change the subject, what kind of background does the owner of this tomb have, do you know or not?"

  When she searched all over her body, she had already learned from Ao Yuan's mouth that the reason why she was transferred from that snake room to here during her coma was because she used Ling Qi and was finally sensed by Yin Yang Dragon Jade. This pair of ancient artifacts thus produced a response, transmitting herself who was in a coma and unable to resist into this place to complete the opening ceremony of Yin Yang Dragon Jade.

  Xia Yifei's mouth twitched after hearing this, deeply understanding the essence of the phrase "those who bring trouble upon themselves cannot live".

  Taking advantage of her successful speech, Ao Yuan wrapped himself around Xiaoyan's arm several times and was quite satisfied with this posture. He directly stuck his head on Xiaoyan's arm, while the girl who was being wrapped muttered countless times, unable to feel that sticky and slippery feeling through her clothes: "Grave owner? There is no grave owner here at all."

  No tomb owner?

  Xia Yifei's mind flashed through countless possibilities, such a good location, such a magnificent underground palace, yet... there was no tomb owner?

  Seeing her, Ao Yuan's tone revealed the fact that he was extremely pleased: "When Gui Jun first sealed me here, there was only this one tomb room. No, it can't even be considered a tomb room, the place where you are... is called Snake Mound."

  "This place was originally where ordinary people living in the depths of the mountain raised snakes," Ao Yuan's clear and cold voice produced a significant echo due to the tomb, which made it sound especially eerie, "You should know what kind of creature a Gu is."

  Ao Yuan guessed correctly, and Xia Yu Fei really did know what Gu was.

  According to the "Theory of Causes and Symptoms of All Diseases - Gu Du Hou", it is recorded: often taking insects and snakes, storing them in containers, letting them devour each other, only one thing remains, which is called Gu, can cause confusion, follow wine and food, and bring disaster to people.

  Xia Yanfei had once gone to Xiangxi with Xia's gang and got into a fight, at that time she was still young and reckless, far from the rich experience she has now. What prompted her transformation was that fight, she still remembers the tragic end of those companions who died under the hornets, if it wasn't for Zhang Xuan from the Zhang family being there, she and the remaining few people would have also been left in that dark and damp place by those swarming hornets.

  However, this snake gall was in that pot at that time, and she wasn't unfamiliar with it. But listening to the tone of the snake rice ball, the snake gall here seemed...

  Ao Yuan seemed to have noticed her confusion and continued: "The snake Gu is actually not much different from ordinary Gu. It's just that those mortals in the vessel don't know what they're mixing, making those snake Gu able to transform mortals into creatures with full-body purple-black scales, red eyes, long and sharp fingers like knives."

  After listening to Ao Yuan's description, Xia Yifei immediately thought of the standing corpse before entering the cave.

  Now that I think about it, the standing corpse was probably not a normal one. It's very likely that it was created by its companions who were waiting above and saw this monster crawling out of the thief hole, so they had to take action first.

  This can also explain why the tomb was covered up and in such a hurry. Thinking of this, Xia Yu Fei sped up her inspection of the grave door. She didn't want to waste all that effort finding Lan Ruo Xue and Fang Ying only to end up using even more energy fighting those two ghost-like people, and judging from their appearance as standing corpses, it was clear that these things' combat strength would be far higher than ordinary humans.

  After checking back and forth twice, Xia Yanyi's mouth corners brought up an imperceptible smile.

  This stone gate and the one she had seen in an ancient book that someone else had asked her to forge, seemed to be seamlessly connected to the surrounding walls. However, there were several natural-looking depressions on the door that appeared to be the location of a hidden mechanism. As long as you followed the eight trigrams' positions to find these depressions, you could open the mechanism.

  Xia Yifei grew up abroad with her father when she was a child, but she didn't miss out on learning the Eight Trigrams and other things. Using the Eight Trigrams to find hidden mechanisms was a simple task for her, and before long, she had already found those fake natural depressions.

  According to the ancient book, if the opening method is not correct, this door will produce eight different results. These eight results correspond to Xiūmén, Shēngmén, Shāngmén, Dùmén, Jǐngmén, Sǐmén, Jīngmén and Kāimén. Xia Yàn licked his dry lower lip and carefully began to decipher the mechanism according to the method mentioned in the ancient book.

  In the narrow tomb, a silence fell, and even Lao Yuan stopped making a sound, only quietly shaking his tail against Xiaoyanfei's arm to alleviate boredom.

  After putting the last mechanism in place according to the method, Xiaoyan's sharp ears caught the sound of the bowstring vibrating. She secretly cried out that something was wrong - the mechanisms in this tomb were actually driven by mercury, and they had not corroded for many years!

  She didn't have time to think carefully, and she almost fell backwards at the same time as the short arrow shot out of the door. Ao Yuan found that this girl's waist had leaned back to an incredibly large angle, and he couldn't help but secretly admire her flexibility.

  Luckily, Xiaoyan had such flexibility to dodge the sudden dark arrow, and she could even feel the stench of the arrow flying over her cheek, the blue arrowhead swaying to tell everyone that it was poisoned.

  All this happened in the blink of an eye. Xiaoyan sprang to her feet, wiping away the cold sweat on her forehead, and gazed at the dark depths revealed by the shifting tomb door. She let out a soft "tsk" as she slid two short knives from her sleeves into her hands, entering combat mode: "If you want to entangle me, do it properly; if I fall later, don't expect me to care about you."

  She licked her lips: "This door has been tampered with, I opened it according to the living door method. But looking at this situation, it's likely that I've opened a dead door."

  Along with Xiaoyan's words, a faint beast roar actually came from the darkness!