Chapter 69: If The Problem Isn’t Wu Sansheng, Then Who Is It?
Zhang Qiling nodded and sighed: “Looking back now, that corpse smiling was wrong in itself! But I didn’t notice it at first and went up to touch the corpse, which probably triggered the mechanism at that moment! In an instant, those luminous pearls all went out except for the few against the four walls, and our flashlights were turned off because of the previous light, creating shadow effects on the four walls with images appearing! If I didn’t see wrong, it should be that Cloud Top Heavenly Palace!”
Hearing Heavenly Palace, Fatty got interested: “Did you see where the Heavenly Palace was built? Did it say what treasure he put in the Heavenly Palace?”
Zhang Qiling disdainfully looked at his sudden money-grubbing appearance and shook his head: “No specific position drawn, only knew it was on a snow mountain!”
Snow mountain, Lin Yan thought thoughtfully, the part he remembered about Cloud Top Heavenly Palace position was only left on the snow mountain, if he didn’t remember wrong it was called Saintess Peak? But Saintess Peak this name is so common, nine out of ten mountain ranges in China have names like Saintess Peak, how to find it? Isn’t Zhang Qiling guarding the bronze gate? He himself doesn’t even know where the bronze gate is? Is this amnesia so thorough?
He carefully observed Zhang Qiling’s expression, good guy, he really doesn’t know! This amnesia is really thorough, even doesn’t remember where his own mission is! Isn’t it miserable every time he loses memory and has to find again? Not to mention losing memory again after finding! If he didn’t remember wrong, this should be their family bloodline hereditary disease? But why does he lose memory again when encountering something related to the bronze gate? Doesn’t this mean he can never recover his memory?
Lin Yan looked at Zhang Qiling with gradually eerie gaze: So, why doesn’t he find a notebook to write it down? If kept close to body, he doesn’t think anyone can rob things from Zhang Qiling’s hands!
At this time, they had approached the end of the tomb-robbing hole, shining the flashlight, but found two exits, one of which was sealed with bricks and stones. Wu Xie made a slight deduction and said: “We go this way, that side by direction should be the side chamber where you encountered the female corpse and zombie before.”
Wu Xie studied architecture, his sense of direction should be the most accurate among the few. The few had no objection to Wu Xie’s decision, so still Zhang Qiling led the way crawling outside. Wu Xie crawled a few steps, somewhat couldn’t hold back, there were still too many doubts in this story: “Then what you said before, what was the matter with the coma? And that mechanism that turned the life gate into death gate, I don’t think that’s something A Ning could change, from my observation she might not even understand mechanisms.”
Zhang Qiling’s body stiffened for a moment, but soon relaxed: “What happened next, to be honest I’m not very clear. These years, I’ve also been searching for the truth. After I saw those murals interwoven with light and shadow, I discovered Chen Wenjin and they were carrying a mirror, saying they saw your Third Uncle’s figure flash by behind the mirror. After we moved the mirror away, we actually found a tomb-robbing hole! When we walked in, there was a very strange fragrance, but by the time we realized it was too late, everyone fell one by one including me.”
At this point, he fell silent. Wu Xie couldn’t help asking him: “Then what happened later? How did you all get out?”
Zhang Qiling said: “The problem is here, I don’t know how we got out. Before I fainted, I only vaguely saw your Third Uncle squat down staring at me, then when I woke up I was already in the sanatorium behind, and I had lost the memory of this period, only sporadically remembered a bit months later. A few years later, I discovered something wrong with my body.”
Wu Xie originally wanted to ask if it was discovering his body doesn’t age, Zhang Qiling seemed to know what he wanted to ask and directly interrupted him: “After that, these people from the expedition team, I never saw again, also can’t remember who they are, until months ago encountering your Third Uncle I discovered he indeed has problems.”
Wu Xie was speechless, all the clues matched up, as if his Third Uncle was really the mastermind behind planning everything, but what was Wu Sansheng plotting by doing this? He recalled the past twenty years getting along with Wu Sansheng, suddenly felt the impression of Third Uncle gradually blurring, as if he never understood that Third Uncle who always liked to fight, craved excitement, like a big child.
He wanted to speak up to defend Wu Sansheng a few words, but couldn’t say it, if the fact truth is really as Zhang Qiling said, then Wu Sansheng’s plan lasted at least 20 years! Then after 20 years passed, why did his Third Uncle return to this underwater tomb? Should he continue looking for him?
But Zhang Qiling’s voice was still continuing, Wu Xie suddenly had an impulse to block his ears. He would rather know Wu Sansheng just disappeared, than believe his Third Uncle is the mastermind behind planning all this! So to speak, him coming to this underwater tomb was also planned by his Third Uncle? What exactly does his Third Uncle want to get, even scheming to calculate his own nephew into it?
“That silk manuscript under Lu King’s Palace, you should have taken it for appraisal, right? Is it fake? That should be changed by your Third Uncle! He and Da Kui two people dug tomb-robbing hole to under the bronze coffin, one step ahead of us changed the silk manuscript, this is also the reason Da Kui must die!” Wu Xie at this time heart in turmoil, wanted to refute that it was Zhang Qiling who changed it, but couldn’t open his mouth, because Da Kui indeed died in the underground palace.
Yeah, what reason does Zhang Qiling have to change the silk manuscript? That silk manuscript was still translated by him, if really changed, it should be changed for him to see! Before this Zhang Qiling didn’t even know who he is, how would he specially change the silk manuscript to deceive him?
So, it’s really all Third Uncle! Twenty years ago expedition team all perished is Third Uncle, Xie Lianhuan’s death is also Third Uncle, Mute Bottle amnesia for twenty years is also Third Uncle, him coming here is still because of Third Uncle!
What exactly does Wu Sansheng want to do!
Wu Xie bit his lips until bleeding, thoughts in brain scattered in a mess one lump, only feeling splitting headache——suddenly he remembered what Wu Sansheng said to him before leaving, that he also doesn’t remember twenty years ago during the expedition there was Zhang Qiling this person! Before going under Lu King’s Palace, he even didn’t remember who Zhang Qiling is! Accurately speaking, in his impression, this expedition was almost without incident and ended! Why can two people’s memories differ so much? Could it be——
He inhaled a cold breath, could it be his Third Uncle also got plotted against? At the scene there was another person, a person who looks exactly like his Third Uncle——Xie Lianhuan’s corpse was found stuck dead in the coral reef that year, this is what he heard Grandfather say personally, if it wasn’t his Third Uncle who planned this matter, then there is someone impersonating Wu Sansheng’s identity pretending to be him scheming all this!
Suddenly, he remembered Lin Yan’s previous words——What if Xie Lianhuan didn’t die?
Right, Xie Lianhuan looks extremely like his Third Uncle, if Xie Lianhuan didn’t die, it was Xie Lianhuan who planned all this, then who is the one dead in the coral reef?
