WuxiaWorldEU

Chapter 66

It was like he was in great pain, a scream so loud that it was as if his life had suddenly faded away. This mournful piercing cry hurt Qin Cheng’s eardrums and made his heart tremble.

The voice that came from behind was clearly Wu Hai’s voice!

“Wu Hai—–!”

As Qin Cheng shouted out loud, he turned around. However, when he turned around, he only saw Wu Hai peacefully following behind him, unharmed…..

The only thing different in him was that he was suddenly frightened by Qin Cheng’s scream, leaving an expression of surprise on his face.

“Qin Cheng, why the fuck are you screaming so loudly?!”

This time, it was Qin Cheng’s turn to be stunned. As he looked up and down at Wu Hai, he saw that he was, indeed, fine. At this, Qin Cheng said: “Are you all right? I heard you scream just now.”

As Qin Cheng said that, he realized that something was wrong. But when he observed Wu Hai carefully, he didn’t find any difference….

“What scream? I’ve been following behind you all the time.” Wu Hai was also quite confused by Qin Cheng’s question. This chamber was so quiet that even if a needle was dropped, you would be able to hear it. But, why did Qin Cheng say that he heard a scream when Wu Hai didn’t hear anything?

Wu Hai’s expression looked terrified when he remembered that Qin Cheng was able to see ghosts: “Did you see something? I just remembered that you can see ghosts.”

As he shook his head, Qin Cheng took a deep breath and said: “I didn’t see any ghosts, it’s just that I heard your voice, as if you were in danger. I thought yo-….”

Before he could finish what he wanted to say, his words came to an abrupt end. This chamber was quite wide, so even if they had searchlights with them, it was hard to see at the distance. As Qin Cheng talked, he casually looked behind Wu Hai, and with just a single glance, his heart stopped. Not that far away, at the entrance of the tunnel they just passed, Qin Cheng clearly saw two people who couldn’t crawl out of the tomb, motionless, with their hands hanging inside the mouth of the tunnel. Their expressions were hideous as if they died in great pain the moment they stepped inside the chamber.

Even if this tomb wasn’t bright enough, Qin Cheng was sure that these two people looked…. exactly the same…. as Wu Hai and himself….

As he stared wide-eyed, as if they were about to fall out, Qin Cheng took a deep breath of cold air and stepped backward.

Qin Cheng’s sudden change made Wu Hai feel that he was right, that he saw something behind him that was so horrible that it made Qin Cheng’s face suddenly turn blue.

Wu Hai didn’t have the guts to look back, so he could only stare at the stiff figure of Qin Cheng as he asked him: “What’s behind me?”

“Don’t look back….”

Qin Cheng’s mind was a mess at the moment. If the ones standing over there were Wu Hai and himself, then who were the ones standing here at the moment?

Qin Cheng was sure that they were clearly standing in their current positions. So what are those two over there?

At this point, there was only one possible answer, that those two were, in fact, Wu Hai and Qin Cheng’s corpses….

The knowledge of this made Qin Cheng grin, and his heart instantly fell into darkness. ‘ Did I…. actually die? When did this happen? ’

‘ If I’m dead, then how did I die? I still want to know what happened to the Xu Dynasty. I want to know if there really was a period of time in Chinese history that has been lost and whether there’s a period of history that has disappeared throughout time! I haven’t even figured out how I died yet! ’

‘ This isn’t happening. ’

‘ It’s impossible. ’

‘ I haven’t…. haven’t even told Su Jingmo, the man who’s been lonely for 1600 years, how his era disappeared, how his Dynasty collapsed…. ’

‘ I haven’t even told him that I’m really in love with him…. ’

As he tried to recall what happened a moment ago, Qin Cheng wanted to find any possible clue that would confirm that he was still alive. But soon he found that his head was blank!

“Wu Hai, where are we?”

“Where?” Wu Hai froze. “Aren’t we inside a burial chamber?”

“A burial chamber? What burial chamber?”

Wu Hai soon found that something was wrong: “Qin Cheng, what’s wrong with you? We’re here to find the so-called Xu Dynasty’s Imperial Mausoleum. We were almost killed by a group of grave robbers before we came in. What’s the matter with you?”

“What grave robbers?” As if heard something unbelievable, Qin Cheng’s eyes widened: “How do you know about the Xu Dynasty?!”

“You told me about it! What’s wrong with you?!”

‘ I told him? ’ Qin Cheng was slightly stunned when he heard this. When suddenly, he found that his head hurt as if it was about to explode as if there were thousands of insects gnawing at his brain, tearing it apart and biting at his blood vessels and meridians. As he clenched his teeth, the unbearable pain made Qin Cheng clench his hands into fists and beat his own head.

“What’s going on?! What is it?! Why aren’t you able to remember anything at all? Where we are, why are you here and why did we come in the first place? How could I possibly know about the Xu Dynasty otherwise?!”

But, Qin Cheng’s mind was getting worse as time passed. Wu Hai then realized that from the moment Qin Cheng turned around shouting his name, the problem wasn’t with him, but with Qin Cheng all along!

‘ What kind of evil is this?! ’

Wu Hai couldn’t care less as he hurriedly took a few steps forward to grab Qin Cheng’s self-abusing hand. But, before he could touch Qin Cheng, Wu Hai found that the picture in front of him had suddenly changed.

In front of him was no longer the dark tomb, but a sunny afternoon rooftop. The warm sunlight made one feel lazy, and with the desire of not moving even for a bit. The ground was full of shadows due to the tall trees, and the soft breeze blew up the skirt of a young woman in front of him.

The long skirt swayed with the wind as the young woman with shoulder-length hair turned back. Her fingertips plucked away the hair at her temples as she smiled brightly at Wu Hai.

“…..Xiaomei ……”

Wu Hai couldn’t help but whisper out the young woman’s name.

The young woman was slightly stunned as she turned around and stepped on the high platform. But, in an instant, when she looked at Wu Hai’s smiling face, she spat out malicious curses.

“Wu Hai, I’ll never forgive you. I died because of you…..”

Accompanied by that sentence, Zhang Xiaomei leaped off the high platform and her white figure disappeared in front of Wu Hai.

“Xiaomei!!!” Wu Hai struggled to jump over, but he could only touch the corner of her skirt. In the blink of an eye, the skirt was stained with blood, and Zhang Xiaomei’s dead eyes stared right at him.

“Aaaaaahhhhh-” Wu Hai squatted down, hugged his head, and shouted loudly. But, in the end, no one could respond to him. The picture in front of him kept changing until he saw the picture of Zhang Xiaomei’s father passing away last year. He saw himself not accompanying Zhang Xiaomei, who was distressed, to her home. He saw Zhang Xiaomei at the station looking at his back with resentful eyes.

Zhang Xiaomei left college for a month to deal with family matters, and when she came back, she was a different person. She became extreme and controlling, wanting Wu Hai by her side all the time, even if Wu Hai’s work required him to go back.

Wu Hai felt depressed, he was unable to understand and felt quite annoyed. He didn’t want to pay attention to her in that state.

People tend to see only themselves and forget to see others. Wu Hai was the same. He felt depressed with Zhang Xiaomei and he wanted to find something to relieve himself. At this time, he met a girl who understood him, someone to share something with. But, he didn’t know that Zhang Xiaomei had already found out.

After the memorial Day of her relatives at the beginning of the year, Zhang Xiaomei came back only to see Wu Hai being with someone else.

Wu Hai broke up with Zhang Xiaomei, but she didn’t reply. After that, she didn’t go to college for two months, and the news that a post-graduate female student had jumped from a building due to depression spread across Xi’an. That news also shocked Wu Hai’s heart.

He went to her funeral, at Zhang Xiaomei’s home, to see her for the last time…. but he was scolded by Zhang Xiaomei’s mother. He even saw Zhang Xiaomei’s mother nearly collapsing as she fell to the ground.

‘ All because of you .’ Zhang Xiaomei’s words echoed in Wu Hai’s ears. Wu Hai, who was still inside the tomb, couldn’t bear this memory, or the fear hidden inside his heart. He sat on the ground and burst into tears.

‘ Everything was my fault…. my fault….. I killed Xiaomei….. ’

Qin Cheng and Wu Hai, who were trapped in fear and grief, couldn’t see that in the middle of the chamber, the huge sarcophagus moved away from little by little, until a bright jade light came out from the coffin, brightening the whole burial chamber.

When the sarcophagus fully opened, it seemed like a man was standing up slowly, wearing a silver helmet with four corners of black iron, bright silver armor, and boots decorated with gold and jade. He was holding a Liquan spear 1 , looking heroic and magnificent with that beautiful and unusual armor.

Just like an ancient General’s attire. But, this beautiful armor wasn’t for the battlefield…..

…

As if he sensed a bad fluctuation, Tang Jiaming, who was outside the tomb, woke up the people who were dozing off: “Wake up! Now is not the time to sleep.”

Tang Jie was pushed by Tang Jiaming and almost fell off the chair.

“Fuck! Tang Jiaming, weren’t you paying attention? I was sleeping well, why are you pushing me? Are you looking for death?ª”

“Shut up if you want to live!”

“What does that mean?”

Tang Jiaming has been in poor health recently. After staying up all night, when he saw that a part of the sky was mysteriously lit, Tang Jiaming felt that something was wrong. He had a bad feeling inside his heart.

He calculated today’s date. August 24, Yiwei 2 year [the year of the sheep], Yiyou 3 month and Yimao 4 day. It’s advisable to not do anything else; avoid visiting a sick person. The day is not suitable for anything other than controlling one’s path, don’t do anything else.

Meaning that you can only mind your own business. You can’t do other things, otherwise, you will commit taboos.

Such a day wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good either. Even though it’s a relatively normal day, why does he have the feeling that something will happen to this tomb?

What kind of person is Tang Jiaming? He’s a rare member of the Tang family because he knows the art of Qi Huang and can see ghosts and spirits. This boy has had a mature expression since he was a child, and no one has ever seen him frown like this before. Tang Yihong was able to guess that something wasn’t right if Tang Jiaming anxiously asked Tang Jie to stop talking. At this, Tang Yihong walked forward to ask: “What is it? Did something happen in the tomb? Or is it because your health got worse?”

Tang Jiaming opened his mouth ready to reply, but suddenly, he felt the qi of a stranger, and this qi was…..

When he realized who it was, his pupils suddenly contracted.

“Someone! Someone is coming our way. Their speed is quite fast as well! Hurry up! Hide!”

Qin Cheng and Wu Hai are in great trouble!!!

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Footnotes

<ol>Looks like THIS . 乙未 yǐ wèi ; The 32nd year B8 in the Sexagenary Cycle of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The Sexagenary Cycle is a cyclical number system of sixty combinations of two basic cycles: the 10 Heavenly Stems ( 天干 tiān gān ) and the 12 Earthly Branches ( 地支 dì zhī ). In ancient times, the year, month, day, and hour can all be represented by the Heavenly Stems + the Earthly Branches. For example, 乙 yǐ = is the 2nd Heavenly Stem (it can also be referenced as ‘B’), 未 wèi = is the 8th Earthly Branch. More info HERE . 乙酉 yǐ yǒu ; 22nd year B10 in the Sexagenary Cycle. 乙卯 yǐ mǎo ; 52nd year B4 in the Sexagerany Cycle.</ol>