The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 553 Heavenly Palace on the Clouds (19) The Forbidden Woman Jian Ning

"Big...big...uncle, is this a person or a ghost?"

Looking at the naked "woman" being dragged ashore, Dali retreated to Xinling's side in fear.

Wen Sheng said calmly, "Half-human, half-ghost."

The Forbidden Woman is a monster that is formed after a living person eats the Corpse-Eating Pill. It's not entirely accurate to say she's dead, but it's even more inaccurate to say she's alive.

In the world of Daomu Biji, the Corpse-Eating Pill can be considered an elixir of immortality in a certain sense.

However, the side effect of this drug is that it can turn people into monsters like the Forbidden Woman, who are neither human nor ghost.

The elixir refined by the Corpse Beetle King is called the Corpse Beetle Pill. In the original novel, many people wanted to use this thing to achieve immortality, but basically no one actually succeeded.

Only someone like the Queen Mother of the West, who relied on a meteorite from outer space to suppress the toxicity of the Corpse Beetle King, could barely be considered immortal.

But for thousands of years, the other party has not dared to leave the meteorite.

After all, strictly speaking, the Corpse Beetle Pill must be used in conjunction with the Meteorite Jade.

Without the meteorite jade, the fate of taking the Corpse-Eating Pill is just like that of the forbidden woman before us.

Although the forbidden woman, who was pulled out of the pool, had no whites in her eyes, so her expression was unreadable, her facial features and the inhuman roar she emitted revealed her extreme resentment.

Wen Sheng glanced at it and thought to himself that if the other person were wearing a white cloth, they could easily cosplay as Sadako.

He held the forbidden woman's hair in his hand, and Wen Sheng could feel the force on her hair, but he showed no intention of letting go.

After a two-minute standoff, the Forbidden Woman, who was sprawled on the ground like a wild beast, pounced on Wen Sheng.

Xinling and Dali exclaimed in surprise, but soon, the Forbidden Woman who had just pounced was punched in the face by Wen Sheng and sent flying back.

"Oh my, why is her blood black?" Xinling exclaimed in surprise.

"So you're not human."

Looking at the liquid on the Forbidden Woman's face, which was hard to tell whether it was blood or black liquid, Wen Sheng clenched his fist. When he hit her face just now, it felt like he hit a water-filled balloon, soft and quite comfortable.

Although he had just held back, the Forbidden Woman was now bleeding from her face and her nose was dented.

He still didn't let go of the hair in his hand.

Seeing that Wen Sheng was alright, Xin Ling breathed a sigh of relief and then sped up to decipher the mechanism on the door.

She has already listened to the pitches of the eighteen pitch pipes, and now she just needs to insert the pitch pipes into the holes according to the score of "Rainbow Skirt".

When she interviewed with Wensheng Company, she said that she knew some music, but what she knew more about was ancient music theory.

Meanwhile, Godzilla, who was chopping vegetables among the corpse beetles, bristled with fur upon seeing the Forbidden Woman, making him look even uglier.

Wen Sheng guessed that it was the corpse beetle king inside the Forbidden Woman that stimulated Godzilla.

The resentment on the old woman's face did not diminish in the slightest, but seeing that she could not get close to Wen Sheng, her thick hair rose up.

Although Wen Sheng was holding a handful of hair, compared to monsters like the Forbidden Woman, she never had the problem of hair loss.

A deluge of hair rushed over, so much so that it momentarily blocked the light from the luminous pearl above the small hall.

Seeing this, Wen Sheng pulled out a dagger and began slashing at the hair that was rushing towards him.

However, compared to the amount of hair the Forbidden Woman had, the amount of hair cut off was a drop in the ocean.

After thinking for a moment, Wen Sheng took out a lighter and shouted, "Dali, throw the wine to me."

"Ah? Oh!"

After a moment of surprise, Dali quickly realized what the uncle was going to do and hurriedly took out another bottle of wine from his backpack.

Seeing Wen Sheng chopping away at the hair, she called out, "Uncle, let me help you."

Luckily, this bottle was one that Lu Ziqiao had opened before, otherwise I wouldn't be able to open the cap even with great force.

Then, to Wen Sheng's astonishment, Dali rushed over with the bottle of wine and poured it onto the clump of hair he was holding. Before he could even pull his hand away to burn it with a lighter, Dali simply took out her lighter and burned the wine-soaked hair.

Although the old woman's hair was very wet from being soaked in the pool, after being doused with wine, she burned off a large clump with a lighter.

The fire spread along both sides, and Wen Sheng quickly let go, looking at Zhuge Dali with a helpless expression.

"Dali, just throw the wine over here, you don't need to come over."

"I don't think you have your hands free!"

"..."

The old woman, after all, came from the water. Although the fire had burned a section of her hair, it was quickly extinguished.

She seemed to realize that Wen Sheng was a tough opponent, so she immediately changed her target and used her hair to rush towards Xin Ling, who was solving the puzzle.

Xinling's attention was entirely focused on the door. Every time she inserted a tuning tube into the hole, a melody of "Rainbow Skirt Melody" would play inside.

Seeing this, Wen Sheng took the remaining half-bottle of wine from Dali's hand and grabbed Xinling's hair again just as the old woman was about to entangle it.

Then Wen Sheng broke off the bottle neck, pulled the old woman closer, and poured the wine on her.

"Uncle, let me do it!"

Wen Sheng, who was about to proceed to the next step, paused upon hearing this, and then saw Dali throw the lighter in his hand.

The aim was excellent; the burning lighter struck the forbidden woman squarely.

"boom!"

Flames rose up and immediately ignited the forbidden woman who was pulling Wen Sheng's hair.

A sharp, piercing scream suddenly rang out. The forbidden woman, who was already afraid of fire, began to roll on the ground after being set on fire, and the struggle coming from the hair in Wen Sheng's hand became increasingly intense.

Behind her, Cyndi continued to break through the stone gate, and the melody of "Rainbow Feather Dress Dance" began to play.

Coupled with the image of the forbidden woman writhing on the ground, burning and screaming in agony, the monster, which should have been dangerous and terrifying, suddenly appeared pitiful.

Moreover, Wen Sheng suddenly noticed that the flames on the other person's body were getting stronger and stronger. After thinking about it, he guessed that the corpse oil inside the body was also being burned.

But just as the fire was burning brighter, the flames on the old woman's hair also burned off the lock of hair that Wen Sheng was holding.

With Wen Sheng no longer there to stop her, the old woman who had been rolling on the ground immediately jumped into the pool with a "plop".

Seeing this, Wen Sheng sighed, but he couldn't very well jump in after him for no reason.

Steaming white mist and bubbles kept rising above the pool, and countless burnt hairs floated on the water's surface, almost completely obscuring the pool's surface.

"Rumble..."

Just then, the music behind them disappeared, and in its place came the sound of a stone door moving.

"Brother Wensheng, the door is open!"

Xinling let out a long sigh of relief and laughed as she opened the stone door. Just now, hearing the shrill screams of the Forbidden Woman behind her, she couldn't help but turn around and take a look. She was quite frightened by what she saw.

However, Wen Sheng and Dali did not show much fear on their faces. Wen Sheng looked at the gradually calming surface of the pool and felt a little regretful. He was quite curious about the Forbidden Woman. If such a thing really existed, he would like to study it carefully.

As for Zhuge Dali, she felt it was a great adventure, and the forbidden woman she had just ignited was, in her eyes, the one she had defeated a BOSS.

This is way more exciting than fighting bosses in a game!

However, now that the stone gate was open, the three of them did not want to linger any longer, so they packed their things and prepared to set off again.

Somewhat unexpectedly, after the stone door was opened, another stone slab was revealed, but there was a hole underneath the slab that had clearly been blown open.

"This was... blown up by the people in front?" Xinling asked in surprise.

Wen Sheng nodded, called out to Godzilla, who was still intimidating the corpse beetles behind them, and then led the two women into the passage behind the cave entrance. Godzilla spread its wings and fluttered like a mother hen a few times as it flew over from the pile of corpse beetles to follow the three of them. Wen Sheng looked back and saw that the corpse beetles had not followed, but had begun to devour the corpses of the other corpse beetles on the ground, and finally slowly retreated back into the music and dance troupe.

At the same time, a large amount of burnt hair rushed out of the pool, sweeping away the corpse beetles' "battlefield" like a mop. Soon, the ground was clean again.

Wen Sheng, deep in the passage, withdrew his gaze, most of his doubts dispelled, but one question remained unanswered—did the people from Digging Heavy Industry open the stone door in the same way before?

Unable to figure it out, Wen Sheng had no choice but to suppress his doubts for the time being and refocus his attention on the spacious yet extremely deep passage in front of him.

It's called a passageway, but it would be more accurate to describe it as a tomb passage, with abstract murals occasionally peeking out from the walls on both sides.

Unlike the previous murals whose content was roughly discernible, some of the murals in this tomb passage consisted of only circles and lines, leaving even ghosts clueless about their meaning.

However, some of the murals were painted in a reasonably normal manner. After examining them closely, Xinling could only guess: "These also record content about war and totem worship, but... I don't feel that they are from the Eastern Xia Kingdom period."

After a pause, Xinling continued, "The creatures that people are worshipping in this painting seem to have human heads and snake bodies."

Wen Sheng frowned as he tried to recall the events of the original novel, but unfortunately, it seemed that there was no such content in the original novel. Moreover, the original novel of Daomu Biji dug countless plot holes that were not filled, which meant that the world was shrouded in mystery, and he could not get any definite information.

The three people and the cockroach rat walked through the tomb passage for a long time, stopping to rest several times along the way, but fortunately they did not encounter any further danger.

Several hours later, the front of the tomb passage turned into a spiral staircase that plunged straight down into an unknown depth of darkness.

After thinking for a moment, Xinling said, "Could this be a path to the underground palace?"

"should be."

Having already come this far, there was no reason to back down. After resting, the three people and one beast carefully descended the stairs.

The extremely deep spiral staircase made Xinling and Dali feel dizzy as they walked, and after resting several times, they finally stood on a wider ground.

The three shone their flashlights around and discovered that they were on a platform with several long corridors outside.

“This should be a connecting corridor. In ancient times, people needed a long corridor to connect the tomb chambers when lowering the coffins into the tomb,” Xinling, the humanoid encyclopedia, analyzed. “However, this kind of place is built at the entrance of a two-story tomb.”

After a pause, Xinling added, "Below the outer corridor, there should be a two-story tomb chamber."

"Sister Xinling, you know so much!" Dali couldn't help but praise.

Xinling smiled and continued, saying that it's good to read more books and study more.

"Uncle, shall we go over there?"

Wen Sheng nodded, then kicked Godzilla to let the two of them move closer to him before sending them ahead to scout the way.

During the previous leg of the journey, the two women's impression of Godzilla had changed considerably. Although the cockroach rat was somewhat ugly, it seemed rather gentle.

At least it's not aggressive.

What surprised them was that the other party seemed to understand what they were saying, but just didn't pay much attention to them, while being very attentive to Wen Sheng.

Now, having received Wen Sheng's instructions, Godzilla took the lead and walked onto the overpass, with the three following behind it.

But after walking a short distance, Wen Sheng noticed something first, signaling the two women to slow their pace, and also told Godzilla to stop and not to make a sound.

The three people and one beast tiptoed along the bridge to its end and found themselves above a giant tomb.

"Turn off the flashlight," Wen Sheng instructed.

Upon hearing this, the two women immediately turned off their flashlights, plunging them into complete darkness.

But soon, after their eyes adjusted to the darkness, the two women noticed that there seemed to be light coming from the tomb below.

The three of them slowly moved forward a few more steps, then leaned over the covered bridge and looked down. The two women were immediately astonished.

“It’s those people from the village,” Xinling whispered in Wensheng’s ear.

Feeling a tickle in his ear, Wen Sheng responded softly, his gaze remaining fixed on the tomb chamber below.

A dozen or so people were surrounding an inverted pyramid-shaped coffin well. Below the well were eight huge black coffins, and in the middle was a semi-transparent giant jade coffin. It seemed they were about to open the coffin.

Most of these people were dressed in uniform and were clearly from Digging Heavy Industry, but a few of them seemed out of place.

A refined young man, a fat man with a face full of scars, and an old man with a full head of white hair.

To Wen Sheng's surprise, the leader of those excavating heavy industries didn't seem to be the yellow, black, and red character from the movie, but rather a rather pretty woman.

"They're going to open the coffin," Xinling whispered in Wensheng's ear.

……

"Damn! Could that hooded man really be a ghost? How come we haven't seen him after chasing him for so long?"

Deep within the passageway behind the canal, Hu Yifei and her two companions, who had crawled into a square cave to track the hooded man, searched for a long time before finally having to admit that they had lost him.

Chen Meijia said regretfully, "What a pity, I haven't gotten this handsome guy's contact information yet."

Hearing Chen Meijia still gushing over her crush, Hu Yifei said angrily, "Please, sister, can you be normal for once? We're in an ancient tomb full of bugs and dead people right now. Can you stop thinking about all that nonsense?"

"Oh, look, it's Sister Yifei here!"

Chen Meijia quickly smiled and reassured her, "I feel very safe with you."

"Although I'm happy to hear you say that, I also feel quite insecure. I don't even know where I am right now!"

"Nani?!"

Upon hearing this, Guan Gu Shenqi exclaimed, "Then why were you leading us here looking for someone just now? We went through several forks in the road just now. I thought you were confident before we rushed in!"

"I've never been here before, how can I be sure?" Hu Yifei shrugged.

"..."

At this moment, the three of them were in a tomb passage that was not too narrow. A huge jade door appeared in front of them, but the door was not closed. There was a gap in the doorway that was big enough for two people to pass through.

After shining the flashlight in this direction, the three exchanged a glance and then cautiously approached.

"Will that handsome guy go inside?" Chen Meijia asked expectantly.

Hu Yifei rolled her eyes: "What? Do you expect them to present you with a bouquet of roses after you go in?"

"That sounds so romantic!"

"..."

Listening to the conversation between the two women, Guan Gu Shenqi suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"I say, shouldn't you be more concerned about whether there's any danger behind this door?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Yifei nodded at first, but then said, "Whatever, we're already here. Are we going to turn back the way we came?"

“That’s right, we’re going to go in anyway,” Chen Meijia chimed in.

"..."

Despite saying that, the three of them remained vigilant. When they arrived at the door, Hu Yifei first shone her flashlight through the crack and, finding nothing amiss, went inside first.

Seeing this, Chen Meijia and Guan Gu Shenqi followed them into the Jade Gate.

The beam of the flashlight pierced the darkness of the tomb chamber behind the door, and the three of them stopped and began to look around as soon as they entered.

However, the three people were immediately stunned when the beams of the three flashlights converged.

"Is...is...is a ghost in that coffin down there?"

"A zombie? The body seems to be very well preserved."

"Why does the corpse in the coffin look so familiar? Is that... Jian Ning?!"

(End of this chapter)