Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 849 The devil is one foot taller than the saint.

Su Nan's face turned extremely pale, her fair cheeks paled, and a pang of pain shot through her heart. Her beautiful eyes were filled with a sorrowful, self-deprecating smile as she said, "Eliminating hidden dangers...?"

All those deep conversations and emotional connections these past few days, all that tenderness and affection, it turns out, were just a facade.

Last night he said he'd never get enough of playing with them, but now he's turned on you and killed you without hesitation.

"Su Nan, don't misunderstand. Master ordered us to kill these two members of the Wang family. It has nothing to do with you. How could Master possibly hurt you? You brat, can you explain yourself clearly?"

Seeing Su Nan's listless and hesitant expression, Gu Lian, dressed in a black fur coat, immediately realized that Su Nan might have misunderstood something and hurriedly explained in accented Chinese.

"Huh?!" Su Nan, who was heartbroken and with tears welling up in her eyes, was stunned. Then she stared at Li Zhiying, who looked bewildered and didn't know what she had said wrong.

"Is there anything wrong with what I said?"

Looking at Li Zhiying who was staring at her with an innocent expression, Su Nan's lips twitched. She put away her dagger, feeling both amused and exasperated. She glared at Li Zhiying with her beautiful, watery eyes and said coquettishly, "I thought he wanted you to kill me too."

"How could this be—" Li Zhiying's beautiful eyes widened as she hurriedly said, "How could Master possibly kill you? How could you doubt Master..."

"Alright, shut up. If you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all—" Goo Yeon covered Lee Ji-young's red lips and said coquettishly in an annoyed tone.

Su Nan's lips twitched, and she finally said with a wry smile, "Indeed, I was too suspicious. I shouldn't have doubted him."

"Alright, let's dispose of these two corpses." Gu Lian said softly to Su Nan with a smile.

"Hmm." Su Nan looked at the corpses of his two companions with complicated emotions. Their eyes were wide open in death, and he felt somewhat guilty. However, he did not stop Fu Gui and Er Pang from throwing the two corpses to the bottom of the valley.

She knew very well that if her two companions found out she had betrayed the Wang family, they would kill her without hesitation.

At this moment, in the burial mausoleum, seven powerful flashlights illuminated the surroundings. The roof of the hall where Gao Dongxu and his seven companions stood was the roof of the main hall. The eaves were decorated with dragon heads and phoenixes, and the roof ridge was flanked by guardian spirits. The yellow tiles and red beams exuded an imperial aura. The seven people stood on it carefully, trying their best to maintain their balance.

Wang Yue squatted down and tried to lift the tiles with his hands, but found that the tiles and roof beams were frozen solid and could not be pried off at all.

Gao Dongxu made a rope loop, threw it out, and it landed on the dragon head on the eaves. He then pulled hard on it. He then went down the rope to the porch outside the main gate of the Spirit Palace.

The main gate of the shrine was tightly closed and frozen by the cold air. Two rows of bronze cauldrons and bronze lamps were placed in the square, and a huge, wordless stone tablet, three meters high, stood in the center.

Both the style of the bronzes and the design of the mausoleum are full of the style of the Han people in the Central Plains.

There was nothing he could do; both the designer and the contractor were Wang Zanghai, so he couldn't come up with anything else. It seems that wherever Wang Zanghai contracted projects, his designs couldn't transcend the limitations of his own ethnicity and era. Or perhaps, given the national strength of Dongxia at the time, he could only make do by plundering things from the Han people on the border.

"Damn, what kind of weird bird is carved on this door—" Wang Yueban looked at the carvings on the palace door, touching them with his hand as he complained.

After Wu Xie stepped forward to examine it, he recognized the human-faced strange birds carved on the stone gate dancing in the clouds and said to Wang Yueban, "Read more books when you have time in the future. This is the human-faced owl from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It looks like an owl but has a human face, a tigress's body and a dog's tail. Its name is self-given. When it appears, the town will suffer a great drought."

"Based on past experience, this human-faced owl might be the tomb guardian beast of this imperial mausoleum. If we open the door and it's full of these things, we'll be in for a lot of fun," Wang Yueban said with a frown.

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, because Wang Yueban's guess was very likely true.

Imperial tombs of this scale would never be decorated with random carvings or graffiti; everything would be done with a specific purpose.

"Fatty is right, we really might encounter these human-faced owls. If we do, don't panic, try to shoot them before they're disturbed." Gao Dongxu smiled and gave everyone a heads-up, so they wouldn't miss the best opportunity to kill the human-faced owls if they saw them.

"I wonder if ordinary bullets can kill it. Since it's a strange bird recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and has been chosen as a tomb guardian beast, it probably can't be killed by ordinary bullets." Wang Kaixuan also stepped forward to examine the carvings on the door and said with some concern.

“They’ll come down in a bit, fully equipped with heavy firepower—” Gao Dongxu said with a smile.

"Hehe, then I'm not afraid. As long as I have a gun, I'm not afraid of anything," Wang Kaixuan laughed.

"Boss, we've poured water all over the door seams and hinges, and now both door panels are frozen solid. Should we light a fire to melt the ice?"

Wang Yueban, holding a dagger stuck in the ice in the crack of the stone gate, asked Gao Dongxu a question.

“Use as little fire as possible here. Don’t you think that Wang Zanghai chose this place to build his burial mausoleum not only to take advantage of the terrain, but also to take advantage of the temperature here?”

"Since this shrine is frozen, there must be a reason why it's frozen. If I'm not mistaken, that cunning old fox Wang Zanghai has definitely set up a lot of traps using temperature. As soon as the ice melts, the house will definitely collapse—" Gao Dongxu warned again in advance.

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed, because what Gao Dongxu said was highly likely. As experienced tomb raiders, they knew very well how insidious and cruel the traps the tomb owner had set up to prevent theft. About an hour later, Su Nan, A Ning, and the others rappelled down and met up in front of the spirit hall square.

Gao Dongxu, carrying Hu Bayi and the other two on his back, took out two large travel bags of weapons and threw them on the ground, letting everyone choose for themselves.

Soon everyone had an assault rifle. Gao Dongxu then explained his guesses about the human-faced owl tomb guardian beast and temperature, so that everyone had a clear understanding. He then asked Fugui and Erpang to take ice axes and clear the ice off the jade stone door.

Fatty and his nephew, along with Wu Xie and Pan Zi, stepped forward to help. With a forceful push of their ice axes, the ice on both hinges of the door burst open, smashing the ice in the crack. Soon, the stone door was pushed open with a gap.

However, a black mist surged out, and everyone quickly covered their mouths and noses to get away.

Hu Bayi frowned slightly, then explained, "Don't worry, this is all moisture-proof paint. It's frozen into powder now, and it just flew out when the air circulates—"

Although Hu Bayi's explanation reassured everyone, it also reminded Gao Dongxu, who immediately made everyone put on gas masks.

After the palace door was pushed open a crack, it could not be pushed any further, as if the hinges had rusted shut. Gao Dongxu told the others to step back, and he stepped forward, gathered his strength, and pushed hard. The stone door made a piercing cracking sound as Gao Dongxu forced it open.

Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan's mouths twitched when they saw Gao Dongxu's superhuman strength. They exchanged a glance and swallowed hard.

The hall door was pushed open, creating a space that could be easily entered. Gao Dongxu shone a powerful flashlight into the space, but he couldn't see anything in the empty hall; the darkness inside seemed to absorb light.

"Throw glow sticks inside first, check the situation before you go in—" Gao Dongxu stepped aside and said to Wang Yueban, who was eager to enter.

“Okay—” Wang Yueban and the others immediately took out glow sticks, lit them up, and threw them into the main hall.

Gao Dongxu then turned and walked towards the two rows of bronze tripods displayed in the square.

He remained true to his style of ruthless scavenging, leaving nothing behind. Instead of letting the plants freeze and gather snow here, he might as well take them out and exchange them for money.

Wang Zanghai thought that setting a trap with an empty hall would break the tomb raiders' defenses, but little did he know that Gao Dongxu could make oil pop out of a stone.

Yang Xueli, whose view was intentionally blocked by the girls, was very curious about Gao Dongxu who suddenly walked to the back. Just as she was about to turn around to look, she was stopped by A Ning next to her.

"Miss Yang, curiosity killed the cat—"

"Hehe, I understand—" Yang Xueli gave an awkward, hoarse laugh, quickly suppressing her curiosity.

At this moment, Wang Yueban and Pan Zi could no longer hold back. You see, five or six hundred years ago, they were among the first people to step into this imperial mausoleum. There was no idea how much gold and silver treasure was inside. As the hall area was slowly being illuminated by glow sticks, the two of them stepped over the knee-high threshold and took the lead in entering.

At this moment, Gao Dongxu also put away all the bronze artifacts, picked up the Liquan Spear, and followed closely behind, crossing the threshold. The others also followed him in.

As Yang Xueli stepped through the door, she subconsciously glanced towards the square, then her eyes widened in disbelief.

The bronze tripod and bronze lamp that were previously displayed in the square have all disappeared.

In an instant, countless question marks appeared in Yang Xueli's mind. However, she suppressed her wildly beating heart, walked into the main hall, and then her beautiful eyes involuntarily stared intently at Gao Dongxu's back.

She knew that the disappearance of those bronze tripods was definitely related to Gao Dongxu.

"Holy crap, why is it even colder in here than outside? This huge hall is completely empty except for the pillars!"

At this moment, Wang Yueban's complaints made Yang Xueli subconsciously look around, and then a chill made her shiver; it was indeed colder than outside.

"There's nothing here, which means there's no danger. Let's go, let's keep going." Knowing there was no danger, Gao Dongxu took the lead and strode quickly inside.

Without hesitation, the group quickly followed. After walking for about five or six minutes, they saw a jade platform with several huge bronze vessels with human heads and bird bodies standing in rows.

There is also a bronze statue that looks like a giant leech, with its head tilted back, lying on the stone platform.

"No wonder it's so cold, turns out there's a constant stream of icy air coming out of here—" Wang Yueban complained, looking at the several dragon heads that were constantly spewing out icy air.

"Also, are the Dongxia people crazy? Their gods don't look like that, do they? They look like leeches..."

While listening to Wang Yueban's complaints, Hu Bayi began to study the huge bronze leech statue. However, the more he looked at it, the more serious and ugly his expression became.

(End of this chapter)