Imperial Treasure

Chapter 575 - 371 Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, King vs. King!

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In this world, encountering a place covered with corpses while fleeing for your life is naturally one of the most terrifying things. Looking down at those corpses, with a snap, a head fell off.

The first reaction of everyone was to freeze, then the fatty asked, "Heroine Sui, what are you doing?"

Xue the Skillful Hand: "I think it could have been done more gently..."

Too rough.

Sui Yi glanced at these people who seized the opportunity to make sarcastic comments, her hand turned, and the head was facing their eyes.

Uh... The head’s neck was facing them, all bloody, but it didn’t have the disgusting scene you’d see in a horror movie, where ketchup mixed with tofu brains spills out. There was just a hole, and you could vaguely see the eyeballs still hanging in the sockets...

What a scene that was...

"The heads over here are the same... all severed!" The others examined the remaining corpses, and sure enough, a touch caused them to roll away.

—The heads were already severed.

"The cut is very strange... It looks like it was sliced off in one breath, but there’s no blood spray, which means the heads were severed after death... and there’s almost no brain matter or blood left in the skulls... I don’t think there’s anyone here twisted enough to collect brain matter and blood..." Yhan Qingwu analyzed.

So it is...

Third Lady Yin, with a stern face, said, "I also don’t think it’s any less perverse for a person or some twisted creature to behead the dead and then suck out their brains.."

Mount Mover, after inspecting the scene and clapping his hands, sighed, "It’s not particularly twisted... This creature clearly has a rather peculiar intellect, to suck out the brains and then meticulously place each head back on. However, it did a half-baked job, as the heads are all placed incorrectly, no wonder the bodies all look so strange."

Heh~

The expressions of everyone became quite rich.

This journey has truly been extreme in its gruesomeness.

"Was it that Demon God?"

"What else could it be? It seems the first group killed the second group and the Demon God took the opportunity to reap the benefits... I do hope it took out that group as well~... Let’s go, we’re getting closer to its lair by the minute, Miss Sui, what do you think?"

Throughout this journey, Mount Mover had been especially courteous to Sui Yi, seemingly recognizing her identity as a member of the Wu Clan.

Sui Yi didn’t say much, but at that moment, she looked around the tomb chamber and at the few coffins whose lids had already been lifted off...

The chamber was a bit of a mess...

"These tracks are fresh, it must have left not long ago, and we’re now closer to the main chamber, so be careful..."

Sui Yi, an archaeology expert, had some knowledge about Warring States ancient tombs, and she felt they were now at the shoulder area of the Warring States Tomb, above which lay the throat, and then the rooms of the ears, nose, and mouth...

Those were indeed the most terrifying, dangerous, and critical places inside the entire tomb.

It just left!!

The fatty’s cheeks twitched violently, and he silently followed behind Sui Yi...

But he didn’t notice that Sui Yi and Xiao Qi exchanged a look, the latter seemingly hesitant to speak, yet also enduring something.

Then, she exchanged a glance with Yhan Qingwu.

Among these corpses, several belonged to members of the Palace Family... but there were a few who should have reacted yet showed no response at all.

Only Xiao Qi reacted.

So...

The two women said no more, Sui Yi walked in front, while Yhan Qingwu and Xiao Qi walked together, sticking to the side, Mount Mover leisurely on his own, Skinny Waist and Xue the Skillful Hand together, Third Lady Yin alone, members of the Palace Family in a group...

Seemingly without realizing it, they had split internally.

Clearly delineated.

Because the closer it got to such times, the more mistrustful and restless they became...

As the group passed through the long corridor, the spotlight shone inside...

Footsteps echoed around them...

As though echoing inside...

"There’s a chamber ahead..."

Everyone smelled the scent of fresh blood~~

Click-clack!

The sound of guns being loaded...

At the click-clack, Sui Yi, at the forefront, had already reached the edge of the corridor’s exit...

A cold gleam came hurtling towards her face!

Sui Yi already side-stepped, with Demon Que held horizontally!

Clang!

As the weapons clashed and sparks flew, in that faint light, the group saw a pair of eyes—extremely cold, devoid of any human emotion, just indifferent.

The fleeting glimpse of those eyes caused their hearts to skip a beat, but the swordplay and dagger combat were very real.

The fatties only heard a ripping sound, as if two weapons had sliced into the wall...

It turned out Sui Yi was the stronger one, immediately overpowering her opponent, stabbing the Long Dagger into the wall and slicing through with the Demon Que in one fluid motion.

Thud!

The light shone, revealing a three-centimeter-deep gash on the wall...

Wow, cutting through iron like mud!

The fatty exclaimed, the light then shone on both Sui Yi and her opponent in turn.

And with that light, they caught a glimpse of the person—a woman, with short hair, which was very refreshing. Perhaps due to the intense fight, her jet-black, finely chopped hair fluttered past her face, creating a contrast with her snow-white skin and further highlighting the icy coldness of her eyes.

In that instant, she performed a tricky sword twist, pushing Demon Que away, while her left hand was raised...

A gun!

The bullet was already flying out...

Such fast speed! Such amazing swordsmanship! Such ferocious intent to kill!

As the sword shadow loomed, the bullet was shot!

Towards the center of Sui Yi’s forehead...

The bullet struck the Demon Que Sword Edge, which scraped it, making the bullet ricochet off the sword’s hilt towards the opposite side!

Dodging to the side, the bullet whizzed past her ear, and suddenly, her body bent, and Sui Yi flashed backwards.

Why?

Because there was another person behind her!

The chubby ones had only just noticed there was someone else.

A woman.

They hadn’t seen the woman’s appearance clearly, just like they hadn’t really seen the short-haired girl clearly, remembering only a pair of eyes. And this woman...seemed to have long hair, and she was holding a long sword.

The long sword was slightly dark green, yet it felt completely metallic. The edge gleamed with lineated silver light, flashing like jade as the sword thrust swiftly!

At Sui Yi?

More like at the short-haired girl...

But as the short-haired girl dodged, it was heading towards Sui Yi...

Sui Yi stepped back to avoid it, her eyebrows furrowing, as the sword abruptly twisted and glided back towards the short-haired girl!

Boom!

The two were simultaneously repelled.

Inner Strength scattered and pulsed.

Both had Inner Strength not less than three hundred years old!

Sui Yi stood in the middle, the Demon Que shaking and humming.

Yet she remained unmoved.

A triangle!

Three powerful women, making the chubby ones’ teeth chatter with fear, stood off in the darkness, amidst the crisscrossing light of the searchlights...

A confrontation?

There was no time for a stand-off, because from the fork ahead came the dreadful sounds of screaming!

The short-haired girl furrowed her brows, her gaze seemingly grazing over Sui Yi before quickly vanishing into the darkness.

Whereas the long-haired woman glanced at Sui Yi and the others, that look a bit peculiar, some deep meaning behind it.

Yet she said nothing and went straight after the others.

Sui Yi paused for a moment, then lifted her foot and followed.

The others naturally followed suit.

The Main Tomb Chamber, they hadn’t expected to get there so quickly, so easily, because all the mechanisms in the ear-nose room had been triggered and destroyed. One could imagine how powerful the group ahead of them was!

It was a pity that there were several other groups...

Just as Sui Yi and her group had anticipated, this Warring States Tomb was indeed lively!

The moment they emerged from the corridor, they were taken aback to see three groups of people with murderous intent facing off on the central platform of the huge Main Tomb Chamber!

Three groups of people...

One group donned black clothing and exuded a chilly aura, including quite a few foreigners. Though there were several Asian faces, they didn’t seem to be Chinese people, while another group was from the Ghost Teeth, Wei Feng’s men.

The third group, and the one that surprised Sui Yi the most.

When Sui Yi saw Luo Xiuxian and Rui Ziling, her surprise was hidden inside, only a flicker in her eyes, but the two opposite were genuinely astonished.

They couldn’t hide that expression no matter what.

After all, they were still young. In contrast, a middle-aged man in their team was much more composed, glancing at Sui Yi and her party and said indifferently, "A Warring States Ghost Tomb has really blown up all the unusual shrimp soldiers and crab generals we don’t usually see."

Shrimp soldiers and crab generals...

A collective disdain.

Luo Xiuxian and Rui Ziling both frowned slightly, but said nothing.

Wei Feng laughed, turning to look at Sui Yi, "See... these so-called reputable factions also don’t have very likable ways about them. I think you should consider an alliance with us more seriously..."

Yhan Qingwu was right, Ghost Teeth’s greatest skill was — according to basic national conditions, to formulate reasonable policies...

Sui Yi did not speak, merely casting a light glance over the first group, the one with the most fear-inducing aura.

The short-haired girl was among them, looking down and holding her Long Dagger, silent as a statue of ice, while by her side stood a man with gold hair and blue eyes, extraordinarily handsome by both Chinese and Western standards.

He was silent too, but his expression was intriguing...

And the other side seemed to feel her attention, glancing her way...

Just one look, and the corner of his mouth curled.

Sui Yi’s brow then furrowed.

She didn’t much like his look.

However, the leader of this group was not the young man and woman, but another man, with brown hair, speaking in an accent from London and awkwardly uttered a phrase in Chinese.

"Good evening, my friends from China, welcome to the Warring States Ghost Tomb."

The typical tone of a host at a Chinese New Year’s gala...

And a ghost tomb is one where it is impossible to discern the identity of the tomb owner, with no information about the identity mentioned in the tomb, as if there is no tombstone or the tombstone is nameless.

This is called a ghost tomb.

It is also a mysterious tomb.

Moreover, he also said, "I think we should not be in a hurry to kill each other... After all, meeting is fate... By the way, does anyone know how to take down that coffin above us..."

Heh!

Is this guy here to crack jokes?

Still, many looked up.

There, hanging from the immense, domelike ceiling of the tomb, was a rectangular box...

To say it was a box because it didn’t resemble a coffin, but the size was too large and yet similar to that of a coffin, so the foreign man’s reference to it as a coffin. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)