Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

Zhang Qiling looked at the four black earplugs in Zhang Hanyan's hand in confusion, remembering that it was these things that were stuffed in his ears just now that successfully blocked all the bronze bell sounds.

He reached out and picked up two of them, looked at them carefully, and pinched them tentatively. He couldn't understand how this small, soft thing could be so magical.

"Han Yan, what exactly is this thing?"

Zhang Hanyan smiled and picked one up and put it in his left ear. "This thing is called an earplug. I got it... by accident. It took me a long time to figure out that it can block out sound."

After she finished speaking, she plugged Zhang Qiling's other ear with an earplug to completely block out the ringing sound.

After both of them put on earplugs and prepared themselves, they stepped over the high threshold together and walked into the most mysterious and secretive courtyard of the Zhang family, the patriarch's courtyard.

The moment they walked in, the huge vermilion door slowly closed again.

Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling walked side by side, passing through countless screen walls and courtyard gates, breaking through countless mechanisms and obstacles, and standing in front of the gate of the deepest courtyard.

As long as they push open the black door in front of them, they can see the secret that the Zhang family has kept for thousands of years.

"Brother, let's go in."

Zhang Qiling nodded slightly, reached out and pushed open the long-closed door in front of him.

The two dark doors slowly opened, revealing a huge bookshelf that rose from the ground to the roof blocking their way.

They walked around the bookshelf and found that this room was five stories high, and the bookshelves and books inside were arranged in an orderly manner.

There is a spiral wooden staircase in the corner, leading to the second floor, the third floor...

There are innumerable hidden mechanisms in the house. If you take a wrong step, you will face eternal damnation.

"Young man, stand here and don't move. I'm going to stop the mechanism inside."

Zhang Hanyan saw that the mechanism on the ground was arranged according to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, but it was completely reversed.

The gate of life becomes the gate of death, and the gate of death becomes the gate of life.

If you try to crack it using traditional methods, you will definitely die inside.

Zhang Qiling, who was standing at the door, watched Zhang Hanyan, who was standing in the center of the formation, walk towards the death gate step by step.

He did not say anything to stop it, because he also saw the key to breaking the formation.

Zhang Hanyan walked to the death door and twisted the bronze lampstand at the front of the bookshelf.

The sound of mechanisms rang out in this huge room, and the bookshelves were constantly rotating and moving.

Zhang Qiling and Zhang Hanyan looked at the moving bookshelf calmly, not feeling panicked at all.

One minute later, the moving bookshelf gradually stopped and moved to the designated position.

"Brother, come here, all the mechanisms have stopped working."

Zhang Qiling walked around the tall bookshelf and walked up to her side.

"Han Yan, where do you want to start?"

He looked at the few sparse ancient books on the top layer and asked softly.

Zhang Hanyan followed his gaze and saw the books on the top that were almost broken into pieces.

"Let's look from the top down, otherwise the ones above will be shattered into powder after we finish looking at the ones below."

"it is good."

Zhang Hanyan took the lead and walked forward, with Zhang Qiling following closely behind her.

This is a small habit that the two have developed over the years. Zhang Hanyan likes to walk in front, and Zhang Qiling always follows behind her.

The two men were only one step apart.

The reason for keeping such a distance was that Zhang Qiling wanted to be able to reach out and protect her in time when danger came.

The two men went up to the top floor, climbed up the wooden ladder and carefully took down several ancient books.

The movements were so gentle that they were afraid of damaging the ancient books.

"Young man, let's just sit here and watch. Pick out the important ones first, and finish early so we can leave early."

Zhang Hanyan pointed to two cushions in the corner. Although it was a small corner, there was a skylight above it and the light was very bright.

"it is good."

Zhang Qiling walked over holding the book and put it on the ground, "You choose first."

She had no choice but to pick up the top book and start reading.

The ancient book is written in bronze inscriptions from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The content of the book records in detail the entire process of King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West meeting, falling in love, giving medicine, and separating.

Zhang Hanyan roughly flipped through all the books placed on the ground. They were all records of stories about King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West.

"Brother, there's nothing interesting about these things. They just record the story of a scumbag and a love-brained man."

"Scumbag? Love-brained?"

Zhang Qiling looked at her in confusion, his eyes full of doubt.

"Yes, King Mu of Zhou deceived the Queen Mother of the West who possessed the elixir of immortality in order to achieve his desire for immortality. He was hypocritical and played tricks just to get the elixir that could make him immortal.

The Queen Mother of the West was deceived by his tricks and gave him a way to achieve immortality. She believed that he would come back after he had dealt with state affairs, and she waited for him eagerly.

But what did she get after waiting for thousands of years? In the end, it was all just a deception and delusion."

Zhang Hanyan threw the book in her hand to the ground in disgust, raising a cloud of dust.

Zhang Qiling looked at the book in his hand. This book recorded the things that the Zhang family had guarded for thousands of years.

The one they are protecting is King Mu of Zhou!

The... scumbag that Zhang Hanyan mentioned?

What they prayed for was the resurrection and immortality of King Mu of Zhou.

Including the holy baby who died in the Zhang family and lived for three thousand years, his existence was also for the resurrection of King Mu of Zhou.

The Holy Infant died, and Zhang Qiling became a substitute for the Holy Infant and was deified by everyone in the Zhang family.

Later, he was betrayed by his own master, and the truth was revealed, causing him to fall from grace.

The real reason behind all the misfortunes and sufferings he endured in the Zhang family was actually because of King Mu of Zhou who lived thousands of years ago.

Zhang Hanyan's forward-thinking remarks made Zhang Qiling's heart begin to waver. He kept wondering whether the Zhang family's persistence for thousands of years was right or wrong.

"Han Yan, according to you, the Zhang family is no longer necessary to exist?"

“No, no, no, it is still necessary. At least, the things behind the bronze door cannot be known by anyone other than the Zhang family.

No, I should say that we cannot trust anyone, including some people in the Zhang family. People’s hearts are hidden, and we cannot trust someone easily.”

Zhang Qiling quickly turned to the page about the bronze door, which recorded the centipede, the human-faced bird, the Western Xia Wannu King, the altar...

"These things...really can't be known by others."

He said in a low voice, his two unusually long fingers resting on a totem of a five-clawed golden dragon drawn on the book.