Star Trace Gate

Tomb of Princess Anping.

After a cold night, everyone successfully cleared the level.

The blurry scene gradually solidified, and the dizzy feeling of dizziness dissipated. Ren Ye and other nine players had been teleported into the fourth floor of the princess's tomb when they opened their eyes.

[Congratulations to all players, you have successfully entered the fourth floor of the tomb of Princess Anping. This floor is focused on information collection and has a low risk factor. I wish you all a happy adventure. 】

[Warm reminder: After Unity Time today, the passage to the fifth floor of the Princess Tomb will be opened. All players must leave at that time, otherwise they will die...]

The cold notification tone of the Star Gate rang in everyone's ears. Everyone was stunned for a moment before slowly coming back to their senses.

In the narrow tomb passage, nine players immediately used fire sticks to light up torches and everlasting lamps to disperse the darkness.

The fire light danced, and after everyone only looked at each other, they immediately stood beside their teammates, and unconsciously divided into two camps.

The scholar, Guo Caier, the groom, and Xing Tao all looked at Ren Ye with wary eyes and tense muscles, as if they were ready to fight for their lives at any time.

Not far away, Ren Ye, with two men and two women, was also looking at the four people opposite him with cold eyes.

The original joy after clearing the level disappeared at this moment. The cramped and dark tomb passage was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

Liu Jishan paused for a moment, his tone was arrogant, and he cursed at Guo Caier with vulgar words: "If you look at me again, I will whip you into a top. Do you believe it?"

"...!"

Five meters away, the groom held the scholar's wrist tightly: "Remember what you said in the extremely cold place. Don't be impulsive. If you do it now, you may lose employees. It's the same for us and them."

The scholar stared at Ren Ye, gritted his steel teeth, and did not conceal the hatred in his eyes, but still greeted him more rationally: "Let's go."

"Let's go!" Xing Tao nodded and backed away slowly.

The footsteps gradually faded away, and the figures of the scholar and the other four people and the light of the torch slowly disappeared into the darkness.

As soon as they left, Ren Ye and the five others breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, anyone who is not a smart person will definitely not want everyone to "fight" right now.

Hand-to-hand combat is completely non-technical and uncontrollable, and neither side is sure of victory or has an absolute advantage.

5 versus 4, who dares to say that he will definitely win? Who dares to say that after this is started, the number of members in his camp will not be reduced? And the most important thing is that you can't get any rewards at all if you work hard now, and it won't help to clear the level. Once a fight breaks out, the situation will be uncontrollable, and you may end up with GG in the end.

This is why the scholar, Guo Caier, was able to hold back the hatred in his heart and chose to leave first.

After waiting for a while, Li Yan also greeted: "It's the right thing not to do it. The woman opposite has never spoken to her, which is a bit strange."

"Maybe it's because of her identity card." After Tang Feng hugged Li Yan for warmth last night, he also recognized this old guy in his heart, and completely lost the embarrassment he felt before: "I discovered a pattern."

"What's the rule?" Ren Ye asked.

"You see, the first floor of the princess's tomb is an inn, which requires voting and fighting; the second floor is for information collection, and everyone is safe; the third floor is an extremely cold place, requiring win-win cooperation; now we have arrived at the fourth floor, This is information collection again." Tang Feng paused for a moment: "If we follow this rule, there should be no danger in the even-numbered floors, just to prepare for the next level; while the odd-numbered floors are generally missions with a death mechanism. Game. What do you think?"

"It makes sense." Li Yan thought for a moment and patted Tang Feng's butt familiarly: "You are so smart...!"

"Ouch, you are so annoying." Tang Feng replied coyly.

"Can you, Brother Liu, take a photo too?" Liu Jishan requested politely.

"When the opportunity arises..."

While chatting, the five people walked out of the long and narrow tomb passage and arrived at the center of the fourth floor of the tomb.

What comes into view is a huge male statue, more than three meters high.

The statue is tall and straight. The man stands with a sword behind his back and a wine bottle in his left hand, looking cool and uninhibited.

No need to ask, this must be the statue of Li Mu, the sword fairy in white. It seems that Princess Anping is really passionate about it.

The statue stands in the center of the four-story tomb, and the surrounding tomb passages extend in all directions, and there are murals in each tomb passage.

Ren Ye and others did not dare to search separately for information, fearing that they would be attacked by the scholar and others when they were alone, so they walked together to one of the tomb passages and observed the murals on the wall.

……

After nearly five hours, everyone checked the entire fourth floor and finally came to a tomb for a short rest.

This tomb does not have any burial objects, nor does it have any resemblance to an ancient royal tomb. Instead, it looks very much like an ancient "office".

There are wooden desks, tables and chairs for official business, beds for resting, book boxes, sword stands for long swords, and various rotten and shapeless books.

Ren Ye also illuminated the tomb wall with firelight and saw a portrait of Li Mu holding a sword hanging on the back of the wooden case.

"Sure enough, this should be the place where Li Mu lived or handled his official duties when he went to Shangyu County as the county magistrate after becoming an official." Ren Ye looked at Li Mu's portrait and couldn't help but sigh: "Princess Anping This is a one-to-one restoration of his former office location in the tomb.”

In the nearly five hours of information collection, everyone has reached a consensus, that is, the entire fourth floor of the tomb was built only for Li Mu.

The murals in each tomb passage all focus on recording various major events that occurred in Li Mu's third year as magistrate of Shangyu County.

That year, Emperor Wu Zhu Xun rose up and secretly united the southern Xinjiang tribes to prepare to attack Shangyu County.

This information is also mentioned in Princess Anping's life, but the record is rather careless, with only a few sentences.

But this level describes in detail how Li Mu resisted the enemy, how he led 300 strong men in Shangyu County, actively ambushed Zhu Xun's rebel army, and finally protected the villagers' retreat.

That year, when the southern Xinjiang army attacked, the corrupt Jingguo court failed to provide the most timely support. At the same time, many officials and squires in Shangyu County ran away or secretly surrendered when they heard that Zhu Xun had raised tens of thousands of troops and was going to attack here.

At the time of internal and external troubles, Li Mu, as a county official, did not run away timidly, nor did he accept Emperor Wu of Daqian's bribe of "ten thousand gold for a city".

Li Mu felt that the tribes in southern Xinjiang had deep grudges with the Central Plains and had been hostile to each other for a long time. After they captured Shangyu County, they would definitely launch their troops to plunder and feed the war with war.

As long as Shangyu County is conquered, the hundreds of thousands of villagers will definitely face the situation of family destruction and death.

Strong men will be exiled to the army, women will be raped, and food and property cannot be protected. Those old, weak, sick and disabled will definitely die under the iron heel of the southern Xinjiang tribe.

How can the parents of a county bear to see their own people suffer such hardships?

In the end, Li Mu decided to face death and personally selected 300 strong men who knew some kung fu and boxing. He set up an ambush outside Shangyu County next to the gathering place of the southern Xinjiang tribal troops and waited for three days and nights.