Sky Curtain: The opening scene explains the four major cases of the Ming Dynasty plus the early Ming

Zhu Dijun's analysis, like the sharpest scalpel, tore apart the last fig leaf covering the Daoguang Emperor and even the entire late Qing officialdom.

The truth is far more hurtful than a lie.

An incompetent loser is more likely to drive a dynasty to despair than a hypocritical schemer.

The Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty.

Daoguang knelt on the ground, completely unable to speak. His entire figure swayed precariously in the flames of humiliation, as if he would turn into smoke at any moment.

on site.

The farce is over, and the cleanup is proceeding smoothly.

The two skeletons were carefully separated and numbered, and together with the sinful opium pipe, they were sent into a mobile experimental cabin to await the most rigorous scientific evaluation.

The water inside the underground palace began to be pumped out by high-powered water pumps.

As the water level receded, the entire floor of the underground palace—the coffin bed paved with huge stone slabs—was finally revealed.

"Captain, the skeletons have been cleared, and the coffin remains are about to be hoisted."

A team member reported.

Zhu Dijun nodded:

"After hoisting, the coffin bed will undergo a 3D laser scan to create a model and archive it."

"yes!"

The massive crane emitted a deep rumble as several sturdy steel cables slowly descended, securing the dilapidated black coffin.

Under the watchful eyes of millions, this coffin, which had witnessed countless absurdities and humiliations, was slowly lifted from the place where it had lain for nearly two hundred years, and finally disappeared outside the cave entrance.

The coffin is gone, the land is empty.

All that remained was a wrecked stone coffin bed.

Technicians immediately stepped forward, set up the 3D scanner, and the red laser beams began to slowly sweep across the stone slab.

On the computer screen, a precise model of the underground palace's base is being generated little by little.

"Um?"

The technician in charge of the operation suddenly let out a soft exclamation.

"What's wrong?" Judy immediately went over.

"Captain, look here."

The technician pointed to a spot on the screen.

"The paving stone in the very center of the coffin bed... its density seems different from the surrounding ones. Radar signal feedback suggests that beneath it... it appears to be hollow!"

empty? !

Upon hearing this, everyone's hearts jumped into their throats!

Could this shoddy construction project have even had its foundation built with substandard materials?

"Clean up the surface silt!"

Zhu Dijun immediately gave the order.

Two team members immediately stepped forward and used a high-pressure water gun and a brush to wash the huge central stone slab clean.

When the entire stone slab was exposed to the bright lights, everyone gasped!

That was not a simple paving stone at all!

Around the perimeter of the stone slab, a ring of extremely subtle grooves is clearly carved, forming a perfect square!

This isn't a trap, but it's even better than one!

This is clearly a movable cover!

"My God...this...this is a tomb within a tomb? A coffin under a coffin?"

The old professor on the archaeological team was so excited his voice was trembling.

"Beneath the emperor's underground palace, there's another underground palace? This...this is against regulations! This is unheard of in any dynasty!"

"Holy crap! Holy crap! What did I just see? A secret room! There's a secret room in Daoguang's underground palace!"

"Exciting! The plot has taken a turn! I knew an emperor's tomb couldn't be that simple!"

"What's hidden down there? The treasures of the Qing Dynasty? Or some unspeakable secret?!"

The live stream chat exploded instantly!

The plot, which had just calmed down, was pushed to a boiling point again by this sudden discovery!

Zhu Dijun's gaze also became more solemn than ever before.

He walked to the stone slab, squatted down, and tapped it with his hand.

"Thump...thump..."

The dull, hollow echo confirmed the technician's judgment.

Below, it's really empty!

"Heavy-duty robotic arm, ready!"

Judy Jun stood up and gave the order decisively.

"Open it!"

No complicated deciphering is needed; in the face of absolute industrial power, all clever tricks and schemes are futile.

A small hydraulic crane boom was brought down, and a huge mechanical suction cup firmly held onto the massive boulder weighing tens of thousands of kilograms.

"Buzz—"

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding scraping sound, the stone slab that had been silent for nearly two hundred years was slowly lifted up inch by inch!

A dark, bottomless square hole appeared before everyone!

An even colder, more decaying aura than before gushed out of the cave entrance.

Everyone held their breath, staring intently at the opening.

A more powerful searchlight was pushed over, its bright beam piercing the deep darkness like a sharp sword!

Under the beam of light, everyone's pupils instantly contracted to their maximum size!

Below that cave entrance, surprisingly...

There really was a coffin still sitting there!

It was a size larger than Daoguang's black coffin, and its entire body was a strange dark red color!

The coffin's design is that of the highest-ranking "Emperor's Coffin"!

"Holy crap!!!! There really is a coffin!!"

"My God! I'm terrified! How many secrets are hidden in the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty?!"

"Who is this person?! Who is qualified to be secretly buried beneath the Daoguang Emperor?!"

Beneath the sky, emperors of all time and space felt a bone-chilling cold!

This is beyond their comprehension!

This couldn't possibly be a funerary offering!

The only explanation is that this is someone who cannot be publicly buried, yet must be buried with imperial rites!

A... demon emperor!

The Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Daoguang was completely dumbfounded. He stared blankly at the red coffin beneath his mausoleum, his eyes filled with a fear and bewilderment a hundred times stronger than when he had discovered the opium pipe!

he does not know!

He really didn't know!

He was a complete joke as emperor! He didn't know that someone was stuffed into his coffin, or that people were buried under his mausoleum!

"Open...open the coffin!"

Zhu Dijun's voice carried a hint of barely suppressed excitement.

He knew that he might have touched upon the most core and darkest secret of this dynasty!

The robotic arm operated again, reaching into the cave and, under the watchful eyes of countless tense people, firmly securing the lid of the dark red coffin!

"Squeak—"

A deafeningly loud bang.

The coffin lid was slowly lifted!

The beam of the searchlight instantly illuminated everything inside the coffin!

That instant.

The whole world seemed to have stopped breathing.

Everyone who saw the scene inside the coffin, whether modern viewers or ancient emperors, went completely blank!

Inside the coffin lay a corpse that had long since turned to skeletal remains.

Covering the skeleton was a similarly decayed garment, but its form was still discernible...

A dragon robe adorned with twelve symbols and golden dragons coiled around it!

However, what truly shattered everyone's worldview was not this dragon robe!

Instead, they were burial objects scattered around the remains!

Those are not traditional Chinese gold, silver, or jade artifacts, nor are they antiques or calligraphy and paintings!

That was a Western-style sword inlaid with jewels!

A gold pocket watch with a cross drawn on it!

There's also... a telescope carved from ivory, which has long since turned yellow!