After I was resurrected from the dead, I turned from an old man to a peerless beauty

The moment they stepped into the secret passage, the darkness submerged the four people in the slender passage like a tide.

At the very beginning, the air in the secret passage was still tinged with scalding heat—presumably it was because the secret passage had its own ventilation holes that communicated with the outside world, and the scorching air flowed into the secret passage along with the ventilation holes. .But as the four of them walked deeper into the secret passage, the air became increasingly cold.

Maybe it's because no one has set foot in it since the day it was built. There is no dust here, but there is still an old and dead atmosphere.A row of bright pearls are regularly inlaid on the stone walls on both sides of the secret passage, and each pearl emits a faint and gloomy gaze.

When I first stepped into the secret passage from the outside world, I felt that the light was slightly invisible, but after the eyes gradually adapted to the darkness in the secret passage, the smoothness emitted by the beads was enough for people to see clearly the way in the secret passage.

Chang Xiaoqing's eyes paused for a moment on those two rows of pearls.

This kind of pearl is often called "Shark Pearl". It is said that it is not different from ordinary bright pearls when seen in sunlight, but its peculiarity is that it can emit a faint light in the dark.

According to the records of ancient books, the faint light can last for tens of thousands of years.

In the past few decades, although these shark beads were very precious, they were not rare, but for some unknown reason, it seemed that all the shark beads in this world disappeared overnight.

In this way, in the next few years, the value of Shark Beads has jumped, and one can be exchanged for a thousand pieces of gold.There are also rumors that even Emperor Yun wanted to put four shark beads in his mausoleum for lighting, so he had to secretly pry open the tomb of the first emperor and empress, and take out the shark beads used for burial. .

When Chang Xiaoqing first traveled the rivers and lakes, he just listened to these gossips and rumors in the rivers and lakes casually, without paying attention to them.Unexpectedly, now that he followed his master into this secret path, he seemed to have inadvertently solved a great mystery in the rivers and lakes.

And with this shark bead on the side, the jade board and gold bricks that they are stepping on, although they are also very extravagant things, they are not rare when you look closely.

The group of people walked in the secret passage for an unknown amount of time, the long and dark corridor seemed to go on endlessly, but with Chang Xiaoqing's keenness as a martial arts practitioner, he could naturally faintly notice that the secret passage was actually sometimes It goes down, sometimes it goes up, and sometimes it makes a slight turn.Moreover, there are many forks in this secret road, and if you don't pay attention, you will turn to the wrong place.Every once in a while, Lin Mao would stop suddenly, staring at the same jade board and gold patterns on the wall on the ground for a long while, and then he would carefully instruct the three people behind him how to walk.

Lin Mao didn't say much, but judging from his cautious attitude when he was looking for the way, the dangers in this secret path were by no means small, and it was also under Lin Mao's leadership that the four of them could move forward like this safe and sound.

When the breath of Zhang Qiong's youth became weaker and weaker, as if all the blood in his body had been drained, Lin Mao stopped, and his back looked a little more relaxed.

"Let's rest here first."

He said softly, then raised his hand and gently pushed a shark bead on the wall.

"Zizi-"

Immediately afterwards there was the sound of a mechanism running, Chang Xiaoqing's muscles tensed up, and he turned his head to see the wall of the secret passage retreated a foot flatly. Lin Mao looked back at Chang Xiaoqing, probably seeing him Feeling nervous, he couldn't help but comfort him, "Just follow me, don't worry."

After finishing speaking, Lin Mao had already walked behind the moving wall stone first.

"Where is this place?"

Yao Xiaohua seemed a little frightened, so she quickly followed Lin Mao in, leaning on Lin Mao's side.

As Lin Mao said, there is nothing to worry about here.

Chang Xiaoqing and Yao Xiaohua only heard a slight rustling sound from Lin Mao's place. After a while, there was a flash of orange light in front of their eyes. The grease lamp was lit.

Whale blubber fire is rumored to be worth every centimeter of fat in the Jianghu, and the price is extremely expensive. Since it is so expensive, it naturally has its advantages-the advantage is that the whale blubber lamp is smokeless, odorless, and bright.

Sure enough, now that Lin Mao turned on the lamp, the flame illuminated the environment behind the wall as if it were daytime.

"Wow, it's so nice here..."

In the silence, Yao Xiaohua's exclamation was particularly obvious.

Here is a well-repaired stone room.

The floor is covered with a thick Western Region bombardment carpet, which is as soft and thick as that fine animal fur, and even the back of your feet will sink into the carpet when you step on it.In the center of the stone room stands a wide low couch that looks like a bed but not a bed, on which soft cushions and quilts are carefully placed, and glazed crystal lamps hang down from the four corners of the room. It's like the boudoir of a lady from a rich family.I don't know what mechanism was built in the room. It has been so many years, but the display in this room is still the same as before, not even a little dust.

Needless to say, this kind of handwriting... like the priceless shark beads outside the secret path, must have been arranged by someone himself.

Chang Xiaoqing vaguely reflected a figure in his heart, for some reason, he suddenly felt a little stuffy in his chest.

"Put this person over there first..."

Lin Mao didn't have time to pay attention to Chang Xiaoqing's silence. At this moment, his attention was on the bleeding boy.

Chang Xiaoqing and Yao Xiaohua followed what he said, and put the young man on the gorgeous and soft low couch.

Lin Mao stepped forward and took the pulse on the young man's wrist, with a serious expression on his face.

He then took out the Hidden Sword from the boy's cuff, and then cut the boy's robe with the sword.

Seeing the bright yellow brocade robe that the young man was wearing, there was still a little dragon pattern on the corner of the robe.That Yao Xiaohua looked normal on the side, but Lin Mao's hand paused involuntarily.

"Xiaoqing... Go to the corner and have a look. If you guessed right, there should be some medicine stored here."

Lin Mao was stunned for a moment, then he lowered his eyebrows, frowned and looked at the bloody wound on the boy's body, and said to Chang Xiaoqing.

There are several jade water tanks, low cabinets and other furniture and utensils placed near the walls of the stone room.Chang Xiaoqing cautiously stepped forward to check, and found that there were clean water and some dry food stored in the water tanks.

Probably because the container is made of high-quality jade, even after decades of storage, the water inside is still as clear as before, but the dry food has been rotten and smashed, and it can no longer be eaten.

Next to the food and water are a few well-crafted low cabinets, which contain some books on travel and ghosts, and under the books are some chess pieces made of gold, silver, jade and jewelry, such as chain locks, which are obviously used to relieve boredom.Looking at a low cabinet next to it, it was indeed as Lin Mao said, there were some high-quality pills, medicine powder, spirits and other things in it.

Chang Xiaoqing's eyes fell on those objects, but a strange feeling flashed across her heart...

The display and furnishings in this stone room are all meticulous and ironed, but it is this detail that is exactly the same as Chang Xiaoqing's daily preparation of sundries.As soon as this idea flashed, Chang Xiaoqing subconsciously reached out and picked up a flat-mouthed porcelain bottle in the corner of the low cabinet.If it was him who put the medicine for golden sores, he would probably choose such a porcelain bottle and put it in this position in the cabinet.Taking the porcelain bottle, Chang Xiaoqing glanced down, and sure enough, the name of the medicine in the bottle was burnt out at the bottom of the bottle—vital blood coagulation powder.

Seeing that the medicine in the bottle was as he had thought before, Chang Xiaoqing was not surprised at all, and then he found bandages, needles and thread and other healing supplies in the hidden place without any effort.If very Xiaoqing knew that he had never been here before, maybe even he himself would have doubts, thinking that he had arranged everything inside the stone room with his own hands.

With such a situation, it is inevitable that Chang Xiaoqing's doubts will grow stronger.But at this moment, the life of the young man in the fancy dress is at stake, but there is not much room for Chang Xiaoqing to think deeply.

"Xiaoqing..."

"I come."

Chang Xiaoqing returned to the low couch as usual, the cushion that had been carefully arranged many years ago had been stained dark red by the boy's blood.Lin Mao cut off the cloth around the wound on the young man's shoulder, chest and thigh without hesitation. The wound was dripping with blood, and there was an abnormal feeling in the blood lingering in the cold and stagnant air. The stench.

Chang Xiaoqing and Lin Mao looked at each other involuntarily—the boy's wound was faintly black, the blood flowed profusely and the blood was too bright red, no matter how stupid a person was, he could still see the murder weapon that stabbed the boy at this time It must have been poisoned.

【There is actually someone in this world who wants to use such cruel means to deal with a young man...】

Lin Mao thought in his heart, his face was very ugly.

The bright yellow brocade robe with dragon patterns, the sudden fire that could not be extinguished, and the city gate that was blocked by someone from the outside world, combined with the corpses all over the ground in the back garden.

If it was said that the fire was not aimed at the comatose boy, Lin Mao would never believe it.

"Hold him down."

Facing the blackened fatal wound on the young man's body, Chang Xiaoqing whispered calmly.Lin Mao and Xiao Hua quickly pressed the boy's neck and shoulders, and then saw Chang Xiaoqing smash the seal of a wine bottle, pouring all the clarified spirits in the bottle onto the boy's wound above.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

The young man had obviously passed out due to blood loss, but the pain from the strong wine washing the wound still made him struggle and tremble unceasingly, and he even made hoo hoo noises and sobbed endlessly.