False evidence

Chapter 189 The Land of Black Sweetness (Part 1)

Lu Zelin said that Zang Zhiqiang walked to the top of a mountain. The sun was high in the sky. Looking down, he saw that the valley was densely packed with ancient soldiers. There were tens of thousands of them.

After the extreme shock came immense excitement.

Zang Zhiqiang's first reaction was to take out his camera from his bag and start snapping pictures of the soldiers and horses below the mountain.

Instead of trying to approach the soldiers, he changed his film and impatiently continued on his way.

At this moment, even the most priceless burial goods were worthless in his eyes. He only thought about recording everything here with his camera, no matter what.

He spent nearly seven days (calculated according to the time of day and night in that location) traversing mountains and valleys, surveying the local environment. During this time, he discovered several more military camps similar to those he had seen before.

At this moment, Zang Zhiqiang fell into extreme confusion.

Because what he most wanted to find, he could never find.

He has determined that this is an unprecedentedly large underground burial site.

He had even figured out who the tomb's occupant was.

But what about the coffin?
Where is the main burial chamber?

Where is the coffin of the true emperor who was the greatest in history?

Three more days passed, and Zang Zhiqiang had already broken down.

He used all the teachings he had received from his master, but still couldn't find the main tomb chamber.

He knelt on the cliff, crying out hoarsely, "Grandmaster, please show yourself! Tell me where the main burial chamber is! Where is the coffin! I'm already here, please let me see it even once!"

The sound echoed continuously in the valley, so mournful.

Perhaps startled by the echo, countless large and small 'silver dragons' soared out of the river one after another, a spectacle so magnificent that no language in the world could describe it.

Faced with this once-in-a-millennium spectacle, Zang Zhiqiang felt only despair.

Watching the 'silver dragon' still soaring and tumbling, only one thought occupied his mind.

The tomb's occupant must be here. My inability to see his coffin is due to my incompetence. I have failed my ancestor; I deserve to die.

Just as the thought of dying arose in his mind, another idea suddenly popped into his head.

He sealed all the film he had taken, along with his camera and the soul coffin passed down from his master, in a sealed bag and hid it in a place he considered safe.

Then, he did something very childish.

He even used his digging claw to carve on the rock where he had collected the items: "Zang Zhiqiang of the Cangyin lineage visited this place on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year."

After doing all this, he laughed loudly three times and then jumped off the cliff!

……

Seeing that Lu Zelin remained silent, Xiao Shen asked again, "Is he dead?" His tone was clearly sarcastic.

Lu Zelin seemed to wake from a dream and immediately said, "Of course not! Otherwise, where would I be!"

He then added, "It's fortunate that Master wanted to die at the time, otherwise he really would have died."

I said softly, "Tell me what happened next."

Lu Zelin nodded: "Master originally intended to jump into the river to commit suicide, but after jumping in, he suddenly heard the sound of 'splashing' water. And then...and then he opened his eyes."

They discovered that he was still in that tomb chamber, and the sound of water was real because he was close to the tomb robbers' hole and it was raining heavily outside, so he could hear it.

The Heavenly Official Wall was still there, and all the Heavenly Officials remained unchanged. Only then did he realize that it had all been a dream. Hearing the rain lessen, his master immediately sensed danger. "How do you dig a tomb raider's tunnel… I don't know how to explain it to you. My master raids tombs alone; a heavy rain could easily wash away the tunnel, and then he would truly be buried alive."

The monkey nodded and said, "Luckily, he woke up in time."

Lu Zelin nodded again: "Master escaped death back then. After that, he experienced more things, and the answers to some of the things he didn't understand back then became clear."

Take the Heavenly Official Wall, for example. It wasn't revealed because a mechanism was triggered; it was always there. However, it was covered with black insect eggs.

Those insect eggs can remain underground for many years, just like cicada larvae. Once air circulates, they will quickly hatch and fly away as flying insects.

So when the master went in, he only thought it was a wall; when he came out, he saw that wall of celestial officials. As for why he saw such a terrifying scene, it was because those porters had a kind of drug that could bewitch people.

One of the porters, the celestial official my master was most concerned about, was hollow in the middle, with air holes in his ears and mouth. Just then, a gust of wind came in, like a whistle, and the celestial official 'smiled'.

The one with the real mechanism is the 'Heavenly Official with a Human Head,' which works on the same principle but emits a crying sound.

The combination of the two different sounds created a frequency that shattered a membrane inside the 'Heavenly Official with a Human Head.' Then, the intoxicating fragrance wafted out.

Lu Zelin turned to me: "Did you understand what I meant?"

"I understand. The aphrodisiac fragrance hidden in the Heavenly Official with the human head is the Land of Dark Sweetness."

Lu Zelin nodded vigorously: "Yes! Yes! After Master finished speaking, he immediately realized that he would go to another ancient tomb. Actually, it was because he had a dream and fell asleep in the land of dreams."

The monkey shook its head: "Many drugs can make people drowsy, and dreaming is just..."

“My master slept in the tomb for seven days that time,” Lu Zelin interrupted him.

The monkey stared in disbelief for a moment, then shook its head again: "Won't he starve to death?"

"He didn't die. It was like he took a nap. He woke up feeling quite energetic," Lu Zelin said.

But then he added, "My master's greatest wish and regret in life, besides the Yin-Yang Fan, was that he never managed to find the Land of Dark Sweetness again, no matter how hard he tried. Now that my master is gone, the Yin-Yang Fan doesn't matter to me, since this is how I look anyway. But I must find the Land of Dark Sweetness!"

Xiao Shen glanced at me and said, "So what if we found it?"

Lu Zelin bit his lip: "I want to go to the large tomb that Master saw in his dream, find the coffin, and offer it to Master's spirit in heaven!"

Hearing this, both the monkey and the preserved egg became interested again.

Pidan asked, "You said it yourself, he was just dreaming. Could there really be such a tomb? If so, whose tomb would it be?"

The monkey then said, "Zang Zhiqiang is a professional; even in dreams, he can't be an amateur. So where exactly is the tomb owner's coffin?"

I asked Pidan, "Have you ever seen the Terracotta Army?"

"I've seen it on TV, but I've never been there. My classmate went before and said it's just a pit, with a bunch of mud figures, and then..."

Pidan suddenly realized: "You mean that's the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor?!"

I said, "Besides the First Emperor's tomb, the only other place that could drive tomb raiders crazy is probably the tomb of 'the Great Khan.' Who else could have so many soldiers and horses amassed after death?"

Xiao Shen San suddenly asked, "Let's just imagine, what Zang Zhiqiang dreamed of was really the scene inside the First Emperor's tomb. Do you think the emperor's coffin is hidden there?"

Seeing him subtly nod at Lu Zelin and wink at me, I immediately realized what was going on.

I thought about it very seriously, and said in a very certain tone:

“Actually, as soon as Zang Zhiqiang went in, he could already see the main burial chamber, and he should even be able to see the coffin.”

(End of this chapter)