vstars Chapter 19 The Tragic Fatty Wang
Chapter 19 The Tragic Fatty Wang
Yan Huai paused in his sprint. "Did you have to issue this mission when I had no pants to wear?! This is revenge, isn't it?!"
"System notification: Host, there is the body of a foreign mercenary in the Seven Star Suspicious Coffin Tomb Chamber, ten meters to your right front."
"It's not my business!"
The system was exhausted, as its host needed to be very direct for it to understand: "What the system means is that the corpse has pants."
"..." Wearing the corpse's pants, Yan Huai glanced down at his own loincloth and thought, "It's not impossible!"
Half a minute later, Yan Huai was forced to grope the mercenary's corpse leaning against the coffin. However, he was so focused on his task that he didn't notice that in a corner of the tomb, a fat figure was witnessing this... half of it.
Well, from the perspective of that fat figure, he could only see the mercenary's bare lower half of his long legs, as well as Yan Huai's seemingly unsatisfied expression. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: The world is going to the dogs, and people are cold-hearted!
The person who sighed was Fatty Wang. He squatted in the corner, not daring to move. After all, Yan Huai didn't look small either, and he might not be a match for him. If he was accidentally discovered, he would probably suffer the same treatment and be silenced.
Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate, and Fatty Wang's plans didn't come to fruition.
After changing his pants, Yan Huai, not wanting the mercenary to lose face, reached out and lifted the lid of the coffin the mercenary had been leaning against. He then placed the mercenary inside. However, before Yan Huai could even offer a couple of prayers, the coffin floor flipped the body down, along with the corpse itself. When it flipped back up, it was no longer recognizable as human...
sorry!
Yan Huai's eyes widened. How could this be?!
The system that detected all of this in Yan Huai's mind had its data disordered. If it could complain, it would have yelled at the top of its lungs: "Did a dog eat your maxed-out mechanical skills?!"
Just as Yan Huai was in a daze, footsteps suddenly came from outside the tomb. He recognized them as Zhang Qiling and the others.
"I'm doomed!" Yan Huai thought to himself. He didn't care about appearances anymore and quickly ran over to pick up the coffin lid that he had overturned earlier and gently put it back on.
As the footsteps grew closer, Yan Huai glanced around and quickly ran towards the side passage where Fatty Wang was hiding.
As Yan Huai happened to pass by Wang Pangzi, he muttered something that almost made Wang Pangzi lose his composure: "Why does it smell like someone?"
After Yan Huai left, the room fell silent. Fatty Wang waited for a while longer, and just as he was about to come out, someone else entered the tomb chamber.
Fatty Wang was in a terrible mood! First, he encountered a pervert, and then he was surrounded by a group of colleagues whose allegiance was hard to tell. He must have forgotten to check the almanac before going out today!
"Third Master, why are there so many coffins here?"
Da Pan turned on his miner's lamp and scanned the jade door that had already been opened. He then discovered that there were so many coffins in the tomb chamber.
Wu Xie also mustered his spirits and peeked into the tomb chamber. He noticed that the stone coffins seemed to be placed in a specific order, which was not conventional.
Under the light of the miners' lamps, the group saw that the ceiling of the tomb chamber was a large mural ceiling, and its sides were stone slabs covered with ancient characters. The stone coffins also seemed to have characters from the same period.
Seeing that there was no immediate danger, Da Pan and Da Kui entered first at Wu Sansheng's signal, while Wu Xie followed his third uncle. It was Zhang Qiling, who was at the back, who made the discovery.
Along the way, Zhang Qiling noticed that the dust on the ground suddenly increased after passing a fork in the road. It was definitely not Yan Huai who had run away who made those marks. Further ahead, they should encounter other people who had entered the ancient tomb, whether dead or alive.
Upon entering the tomb chamber, Wu Sansheng took a general look at the stone coffins on display: "These coffins are arranged in the order of the Big Dipper."
"The Big Dipper..." Wu Xie murmured, his eyes lowered. The Big Dipper... He seemed to have seen it somewhere before, but what was it about?
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Wu Xie's mind: "It's the Seven Star Suspicious Coffin."
"Young Master, what is the Seven Star Suspicious Coffin?" Da Kui scratched the back of his head. He was a rough and uncultured man and really didn't understand these things.
Just as Wu Xie was about to explain, Wu Sansheng suddenly interrupted him, twirling the dagger in his hand and saying meaningfully, "Who cares about the Seven Star Suspicious Coffin or the Six Star Suspicious Coffin? If anyone can't control their hands, I'll give their arm a good thrashing with this dagger!"
Da Kui awkwardly shut his mouth and looked up to examine the murals on the ceiling of the tomb.
Wu Xie stopped talking and focused his gaze on the ancient characters on the stone coffin in front of him. Unexpectedly, upon closer inspection, he actually discovered something interesting: "Third Uncle, look! This stone coffin records some information about the life of the tomb's occupant."
"Oh ho! Can you tell who the tomb's owner is?" Wu Sansheng smiled and walked over.
"It seems to be a feudal lord of the State of Lu. This record contains some of his military achievements during his lifetime. It is said that he was born with a seal on his body. Because it could command the ghost soldiers of the underworld, it was also called the Ghost Seal. Over time, this title was established. This feudal lord was appreciated by the Duke of Lu at the time and was enfeoffed as King Shang of Lu."
"Moreover, this King Lu Shang has never been defeated since he started fighting on the battlefield. It is said that this is because his Ghost Seal can silently summon ghost soldiers to serve him. However, one day, King Lu Shang asked to see Duke Lu, saying that he had borrowed troops from the underworld for many years. Now that the underworld is in rebellion, he needs to repay the debt of gratitude he owes. So, after Duke Lu agreed, King Lu Shang kowtowed in gratitude and passed away."
"And the Duke of Lu, in order to commemorate King Lu Shang and to express his gratitude to the people, ordered the construction of this underground palace here, so that King Lu Shang could continue to serve him when he returned one day. The rest are some detailed accounts of King Lu Shang's battles," Wu Xie said, and suddenly laughed, a very sarcastic laugh. "Some people also say that as long as King Lu Shang takes out the Ghost Seal on the battlefield, the enemy army will have their souls devoured by the ghost soldiers he summons from the underworld, leaving only their shells."
"The ancients loved to boast!" Da Pan scoffed. "If they were really that powerful, there would have been no need for the Qin state to unify the six kingdoms!"
Wu Xie raised an eyebrow slightly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. He walked towards another stone coffin, which recorded almost all of Lu Shang Wang's life story, even down to how many cups of tea Lu Shang Wang usually drank in a day. It was really a waste of time!
"Hey? Third Master, come quick!" It was Da Kui's voice. He stood beside a stone coffin, his face contorted with surprise. "This coffin has been opened!"
"This coffin over here also shows signs of being opened!" Just as Da Pan was about to walk over, he noticed that the coffin next to him was also a bit strange. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the coffin lid had been pried open with a small crack.