False evidence

Chapter 335 Fishing for Spiritual Bones at the Dragon Ascension Pavilion (6)

The thought of the gruesome appearance of that medicine figurine sent a chill down my spine.

Fortunately, Liu the Blind did not describe the situation in detail. He only said that after observing the surroundings, he saw that the place below where I was trapped was a sunken ship. So he made a quick decision, pulled out the medicine figurine, and used the suction to get into the ship.

Liu Hong said in a low voice, "At that time, you were not moving at all, and we didn't know if you could hold on, so we had no choice but to take the risk."

I felt grateful, but also curious: "Didn't the cabin take on water?"

Blind Liu said, "Since it's a boat tomb, there are naturally mechanisms to prevent river water from flooding in. That's not the point of discussion; let's find the remains first!"

Liu Hong also said, "We have no problem breathing now, but it's uncertain how long the air here will last. We must race against time."

I also realized that the situation was not optimistic, so I said no more.

From the cabin where I woke up, I went down three floors via iron stairs and found that each floor was about one-third larger than the one above, and there was no sign of partitions on any of the floors.

I couldn't help but wonder, aren't ship cabins supposed to get narrower as you go down?

Why does it get wider as you go down?
After going down another floor, I saw a wall on one side and suddenly realized what was going on.

However, at that moment, the flashlights in Liu Hong's and my hands flickered twice and then went out.

I instinctively grabbed Liu Hong, who was walking in the middle.

But then they heard Liu the Blind say from ahead, "I don't have night vision, what good will it do you to catch me!"

As he spoke, a flash of light appeared.

Only then did I realize that I had indeed grabbed Liu Hong, and Liu Hong had his arm around the blind man's shoulder.

In Liu the Blind Man's hand, he held a glow stick that had been bent into a bright light.

"it is as expected."

Liu Hong said something, released the blind man, squatted down, opened the hidden clasp on the leg-binding knife sheath, and pulled out two glow sticks.

He handed me one of them, saying, "There are only four in total, so don't separate them. Use them one by one."

The dagger strapped to my right leg had long since fallen off, so I lifted my leg and stuffed the glow stick into the leather sheath.

Using the green light from the blind man's hand, I turned on the flashlight, but there was no water inside, so why didn't it light up?

Liu Hong said, "Do you still remember that floating crowbar?"

I realized: "It's a magnet! This iron boat is magnetic!"

Liu Hong said, "I saw the crowbar spinning and that's when I realized that, which is why I came down a little later. There's no light source underwater, and if the water gets muddy, it'll be hard for us to find you. It's lucky that the little girl had this thing with her... The key is that I didn't expect to go into the water, let alone have a boat. I thought the torches we prepared would be useless..."

"An Xin?"

That night at the hotel, she knew something was going to happen, so it was understandable that she prepared glow sticks to light the way.

She only found out what we were going to do when she arrived at the destination. Why did she still bring glow sticks with her?

I looked around with questions in mind, then turned my head back and instantly felt as if I had been electrocuted, my whole body trembling and I jumped half a foot up!
The stairs we descended were made of riveted iron bars and plates, with gaps between each section.

In other words, through the gaps between the steps, one can see what is underneath and behind the stairs.

Before I had even reached the bottom, I glanced back casually and suddenly saw a greenish-blue face peeking out from the gap in the steps behind me!
"I'll do it again..."

I almost twisted my ankle.

The two Lius turned around and both saw that face.

Blind Liu walked at the front, being the furthest from the stairs and having the most comprehensive view, and said in a deep voice:

"Don't be so alarmed, he's been dead for hundreds of years..."

Although he spoke lightly, his voice trembled slightly.

I jumped down the stairs and followed him around to the side of the stairs.

Upon closer inspection, a chill ran down my spine. I don't know much about history, but having watched many period dramas, I could tell from the clothing alone that the person behind the stairs appeared to be a eunuch.

Judging from his age, he should have died in his thirties.

The body was quite intact, and the clothes were still in good condition.

That's why his face, twisted with extreme fear, looked so terrifying.

What was most chilling was that the eunuch had his knees half-bent, his face pressed between two steps, and his hands gripping the sides of one step tightly...

We just stepped down from between his hands, right in front of his wide-open eyes!
The corpse had no wounds on its surface and its face was bluish-green, which was not solely due to fluorescent light.

Liu Hong took a half step back and said, "He must have been scared out of his wits and died of fright."

"What did he see?" Liu the Blind murmured.

After a few short breaths, I used the fluorescent light to observe my surroundings.

This layer is clearly more than twice the size of the layer above.

However, it is also an open floor with no partitions.

"We were on the deck before, but now we've gone down into the dark compartment."

I now have a general understanding of the structure of this ship tomb.

I don’t know which level my cabin was on, but I can tell it was on one of the levels above the deck.

This ship-shaped tomb is described as a ship, but it doesn't quite resemble the ancient ships I'm familiar with.

Due to limited shipbuilding technology in ancient times, even warships or pleasure boats built by the government would not have more than two decks of cabins above the deck.

However, this ship tomb, counting down from the floor where I woke up, is now on the fifth floor.

The first four floors are just like ordinary rooms, with flat walls on all sides.

On this floor, as soon as I came down, I saw that one of the walls had a curved shape that was wider at the top and narrower at the bottom.

This curvature is in line with the ship's structural design.

In other words, the previous few decks were all open decks, located above the deck.

Only after going down to this level do we reach the dark compartment, which is below the deck and the actual main hull!
That's why this floor is so spacious!
Liu the Blind stared at the eunuch's corpse for a while, then turned around and threw the glow stick in his hand towards the other end of the cabin.

He applied just the right amount of pressure, and the glow stick landed precisely on the opposite side, at the bottom of the stairs leading to the next floor.

"Although you are physically disabled, all beings are equal... The dead should be respected, eunuchs... Eunuchs are people too, some of them are arrogant, like that Nine Thousand Years Old from the same dynasty as you..."

After throwing out the glow sticks, Liu the Blind did something that most people couldn't understand.

He muttered to himself as he tried to lay the eunuch's corpse down.

The corpse was originally half-squatting, and could only stand upright by holding onto the stairs with both hands.

Once his stiff fingers were loosened, his head jerked forward, and the square top he was wearing, whose name he didn't know, tilted forward as well.

The body was eventually laid flat, but the tall hat, because of the strap, was covering the nose.

Liu the Blind was clearly suppressing a laugh, but he still tidied the corpse's clothes before standing up and turning back to say, "Let's go, downstairs!"

Later, when this detail was mentioned to Xiao Shen San, Xiao Shen San smiled faintly and said:

“My second brother is a forensic doctor and has great respect for corpses; he and my second brother have been through life and death together several times, and he has been subtly influenced by him; the key point is... when he saw that Ming Dynasty eunuch, he must have thought of my eldest brother. The emperor is ten thousand years old, but my eldest brother is nine thousand nine hundred years old…”

How Xiao Shensan explained Liu the Blind's actions at the time is another story, but there is one thing that I never thought of at the time.

That is, the eunuch who was frightened to death, and his actions regarding Consort Li and the boat tomb, held extraordinary significance...

(End of this chapter)