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Chapter 251 The Terrifying Basement

"What?" Bigan's pupils widened in shock, and he immediately ran out of the palace. He could hear the sounds of fighting coming from outside the palace, growing clearer and clearer.

"Master, something terrible has happened!" A messenger stumbled into the palace. "Feilian and Elai opened the city gates and let the thieves in."

"What a bastard!"

"traitor!"

“The king has treated them, father and son, well, yet they are so disloyal and unjust.”

The ministers all spoke at once, vehemently condemning Feilian and Elai.

"Enough, enough. The king has made a mistake in choosing his men and has been tyrannical and willful. This is the end of the Shang Dynasty's fate." Bigan waved his hand and walked calmly toward the palace gate.

"Emperor Xin has been captured! You all must come out and surrender at once!"

King Wu of Zhou personally rode a horse, holding a white banner and a yellow battle-axe, and shouted loudly in front of the gate of the Shang royal palace.

Bigan opened the palace gates and saw King Zhou's eyes, as well as the King Zhou imprisoned in the prison cart.

Along the way, King Zhou attempted suicide, but his hands and feet were tightly bound, and his mouth was gagged with cotton cloth, leaving him in a very sorry state. Upon seeing King Zhou in this state, the remaining spirit of the Shang court vanished, and they all surrendered.

Surrounded by his soldiers, King Wu of Zhou entered the palace and sat in the seat that had originally belonged to King Zhou of Shang. King Zhou's former officials stood in the hall, while strings of palace servants, bound with hemp ropes, were led to the hall's entrance to await their fate.

“Any servant or laborer in the palace who voluntarily surrenders will be given a string of copper coins and sent back to their hometown.”

As soon as King Wu of Zhou finished speaking, a chorus of cries erupted at the door. Some were frightened, some were saddened, and many more wept with joy.

"Your Majesty, we are willing to submit to the Great Zhou. We beg Your Majesty for mercy." Fei Lian and E Lai were the first to kneel down and kowtow. Some ministers followed suit, while others stood still.

"Was it you two who opened the city gate?" King Wu of Zhou looked down at him.

"Yes, yes, yes, my son E'er said that we should open the door to welcome Your Majesty," Feilian said with a fawning smile.

"Since you two are willing to submit, I will grant you a fiefdom in the future."

Fei Lian and E Lai, having narrowly escaped death, kowtowed repeatedly.

"Brother Zheng, did those two help you so much just because you are their descendant?" Su Jiahe asked in a low voice.

“Alas, eight hundred years have passed, how could they recognize me as their descendant? It was I who told them that the Shang Dynasty was destined to perish, and that King Wu of Zhou would kill E Lai. Only in order to save their lives did they decide to rebel.”

"As expected of Qin Shi Huang, he has everyone under his thumb." Wang Mang secretly gave a thumbs up.

"Your Majesty, what should be done with Emperor Xin?" Jiang Ziya stepped forward and asked.

"Lock him up first, then you may all come with me to the Deer Terrace."

Upon hearing that King Wu of Zhou was going to the Deer Terrace, King Zhou, whose face was ashen, suddenly struggled violently and made a "woo-woo" sound.

What do you want to say?

King Wu of Zhou ordered his men to remove the cotton cloth from King Zhou's mouth, and King Zhou immediately began to curse loudly.

"Ji Fa, even my Deer Terrace is a place you frequented! You plotted rebellion and murdered the emperor; aren't you afraid of divine retribution?"

Seeing King Zhou's strong reaction, King Wu of Zhou became even more curious, turned around and walked out of the main hall, heading straight for the Deer Terrace.

The Deer Terrace wasn't particularly luxurious in appearance, but it was three stories high, making it quite magnificent for Shang and Zhou dynasty architecture. When King Wu of Zhou and his entourage entered the Deer Terrace, they found the furnishings to be very simple, consisting of only a few pieces of everyday furniture and several large chests containing some clothes and jewelry.

"Men, dig up the ground!" King Wu of Zhou immediately ordered. "Your Majesty, please wait," Ying Zheng suddenly said. "Although I have never seen the bronze cauldron, I suspect that there should be an entrance to an underground palace here."

"Where?" King Wu of Zhou looked around but found no entrance.

Ying Zheng opened the boxes one by one and took out all the contents. Sure enough, one of the boxes had a ring embedded in its bottom, tightly connected to the ground. As the ring rotated, a black hole appeared in the floor.

"Ouch!" The modern-day Daji happened to be standing at the location of the black hole and couldn't dodge in time, so she fell in.

"Daji, are you alright?" Su Jiahe called out into the cave.

"I'm fine. It's low down there, you can just come down." Daji had fallen on her bottom and was just getting up from the ground.

The group jumped down one after another, only to find that there was a basement under the Deer Terrace. The basement was not high, and people who were slightly taller had to bend over, especially Ying Zheng, who almost had to squat to walk.

"Brother Zheng, how did you know about the mechanism? Did King Zhou tell you about it?" Su Jiahe asked.

"The entrance to my underground palace was designed like this, they're all pretty much the same."

"I know, I'll rob your tomb when I get back, haha." Wang Mang laughed.

"Can't you be serious for once?" Ying Zheng immediately frowned.

"Stop arguing, look, this is a bronze cauldron."

Su Jiahe held up his flashlight and shone it ahead. Although the light was dim, it was clear that there was an ancient-looking bronze cauldron in the basement, engraved with strange patterns, exuding a primitive and mysterious aura unique to ancient times.

"Wow, this bronze cauldron is so beautiful." The modern-day Daji had only seen fragments before, and couldn't help but exclaim the moment she saw the real thing.

"That's right, it's this cauldron." Ying Zheng excitedly reached out, wanting to touch the bronze cauldron, but tripped over something under his feet and fell.

"Ouch, what is that? It's poking my bone."

Ying Zheng reached down to his knees and touched a round object. He picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but shudder.

It turned out that what tripped Ying Zheng was a skull.

"Ah!" Su Jiahe couldn't help but cry out when she saw the skull in Ying Zheng's hand. The flashlight in her hand fell to the ground, illuminating a patch of stark white bones.

"Ah—" Many people screamed, and the echoes lingered in the basement for a long time.

"How could there be so many dead people here? Do you know Daji?" Wang Mang looked at the corpses scattered on the ground and felt his hair stand on end, but he tried his best to appear calm.

"You ask me? How would I know?" The modern-day Daji hugged He Shuangqing with one arm and pulled Yingying with the other, curling up into a ball.

“I asked another Daji. She’s lived in the palace for so long, she should know what’s going on.”

"I don't know either. I've never been here before, and I didn't know there were things under the Deer Terrace." Shang Dynasty Daji was terrified and clung tightly to Su Jiahe's arm.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. Let's carry these bones out first." King Wu of Zhou frowned as he looked at the skeletons scattered on the ground, inwardly cursing King Zhou for his callous disregard for human life.

Working together, it took everyone half a day to finally move all the remains out of the basement. Many of the remains were already weathered and incomplete, so the number could only be counted based on the skulls, which came to nearly one hundred.

"What a tyrant! He harmed the innocent!" Everyone who saw the remains shook their heads and cursed King Zhou.

Ying Zheng squatted on the ground, carefully examining each skeleton.

"Guards, take these remains to the outskirts and bury them in peace," King Wu of Zhou said with compassion.

"Your Majesty, please wait," Ying Zheng suddenly stopped King Wu of Zhou, "I have discovered something strange about these remains."