Chapter 444
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Ye Qiu stood at the door. When the stone door was completely opened, the first thing he saw was an earth grave.
Then, he saw the second earth grave, the third, the fourth, the fifth…
There were a total of ninety-nine earth graves.
Each earth grave was three feet high, bare, and in a state of dilapidation. It was simply an old and unmaintained graveyard.
The most strange thing was that on each earth grave, there was also a long-burning lamp lit.
It was really terrifying.
Ye Qiu stood at the door. Before he even went in, he felt a chill running down his back.
What on earth is this place？
How could there be so many graves？
Suddenly, Ye Qiu thought of the Jiugong Bagua Formation he had encountered before and couldn’t help but think of a legend.
Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang died, in order to prevent someone from robbing his tomb, he specially built tombs containing only the deceased’s clothing and personal effects. among which only one cenotaph was real.
Could it be that this is Zhuge Liang’s tomb？
Soon, Ye Qiu denied his own guess.
According to historical records, in the spring of 234 AD, Zhuge Liang personally led 100,000 troops to carry out the fifth northern expedition and confronted Sima Yi. The two stuck ina stalemate for three months. Due to working day and night and overthinking, he finally fell ill.
Zhuge Liang had a premonition that this illness was more ominous than good. He wrote a letter to the later Lord Liu Shan to report his illness and entrust his future affairs. A few days later, Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan at the age of fifty-four.
After Zhuge Liang’s death, the whole of Shu was in grief. The later Lord Liu Shan buried him in Dingjun Mountain according to Zhuge Liang’s will and posthumously titled him “Zhongwu Marquis”.
Dingjun Mountain is located in Hanzhong, thousands of miles away from the northwest gobi (desert).
Zhuge Liang couldn’t have been buried here.
Then, Ye Qiu opened his Heavenly Eye, and his line of sight immediately penetrated the first earth grave and saw a complete skeleton lying inside.
Strangely, the skeleton was black.
Then, his line of sight looked at the second earth grave, the third earth grave…
Ye Qiu used his celestial eye to look at all ninety-nine earthen graves, and finally found that in each earthen grave, there was a black skeleton.
This means that the deceased buried inside all died from poisoning.
There are skeletons in all these earthen graves. Youdaoplaceholder1, this is not Zhuge Liang’s cenotaph.
“But what exactly is this place？”
“How could there be so many skeletons？ And they all died from poisoning？”
Ye Qiu thought for a while. At this time, it seemed that he had no better choice but to move forward.
So, he took a step in.
“Ya——”
Suddenly, a shrill cry sounded.
Ye Qiu immediately stopped and then looked up. He saw a black shadow fly over his head and land on a grave mound.
It was only then that he could see clearly that the black shadow was a crow.
The crow stood on the grave mound, staring at Ye Qiu with its pitch-black eyes, not blinking. This added a bit of horror to the already creepy atmosphere.
Just then, a “gurgling” sound came from Ye Qiu’s abdomen, and he was very hungry.
He looked at the crow and held a golden needle in his palm.
“Should I kill this beast and fill my stomach first？”
Just as this thought appeared in his mind, it disappeared again.
Crows like to eat carrion. What if this beast ate something unclean and I ate it again? Wouldn’t it be very disgusting?
“No matter what place this is, I have to find a way to get out as soon as possible. If I starve to death here, it would be too uneconomical. After all, I haven’t even gotten married yet.”
Ye Qiu didn’t hesitate and quickly passed through those earthen graves.
He was originally a doctor and had seen the corpses of countless dead people. He had also seen the means of corpse carriers. So these earthen graves couldn’t scare him at all.
If a timid person came here, he might be so scared that he would wet his pants.
After Ye Qiu passed through the grave mounds, a stone cave appeared in front of him again.
The stone cave was only one meter high. Standing at the entrance of the cave, a wave of heat rushed towards him, which was completely opposite to the gloomy atmosphere of the grave mounds.
Ye Qiu stood at the entrance of the cave, opened his Celestial Eye, and took a look inside.
As far as his eyes could see, what he saw was still the stone cave.
The stone cave was very deep.
Ye Qiu stepped in. Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters, forty meters…
As Ye Qiu walked forward, the temperature got higher and higher. When he advanced ninety meters, his whole body was sweating hotly as if he was in a furnace.
He walked dozens of meters further inside.
Ye Qiu stopped.
He saw a deep pit. In the deep pit, all kinds of vines were growing. In the center of the vines, there was a red bead the size of an egg, emitting a red light.
Ye Qiu keenly noticed that the heat wave was emanating from this bead.
“Huh, what is this thing？”
“Why is it emitting such a scorching breath？”
“Could it be some kind of treasure？”
Ye Qiu quietly approached and walked to the side of the deep pit. Only then could he clearly see that the red bead was actually a red fruit. Besides emitting a heat wave, it also exuded a rich fruity aroma.
Ye Qiu took a deep breath of the fruity aroma. Instantly, all his fatigue vanished.
Ye Qiu’s eyes lit up.
Treasure！
This red fruit is definitely a treasure！
His eyes fixed on the fruit, and he carefully took a look, not making a rash move.
Because the place where treasures grow is generally accompanied by great danger, especially for strange fruits like this. There is no guarantee that there are no fierce birds and beasts guarding it nearby.
Ye Qiu was very careful. He took a look into the deep pit and found that this deep pit was extremely deep and bottomless.
Youdaoplaceholder0, he also observed ed that the fruit was growing in the deep pit about three meters away from him.
Ye Qiu jumped into the deep pit, quickly grabbed a vine, and with the other hand, he went to pick the fruit.
Just as his hand was only ten centimeters away from the red fruit, suddenly, a chill swept through his whole body.
“Not good, there is danger.” Ye Qiu immediately retracted his hand and looked down at the bottom of the deep pit.
Three seconds later, a shrill whistling sound rang out.
“Ao wu——”
This sound was a bit like a wolf howling and a bit like an ape roaring, thrilling people’s hearts.
Ye Qiu narrowed his eyes.
After waiting for a few seconds, there was no more movement from the bottom of the deep pit, and he quickly grabbed the red fruit in his hand.
Immediately, his palm was icy cold.
Strangely enough, although the red fruit clearly emitted a huge heat wave, after being held in the hand, it was like grabbing an ice cube, cold to the bone marrow.
Ye Qiu was holding the fruit and ready to return to the ground. Just at this time, the shrill whistling sound came from the bottom of the deep pit again.
“Ao wu——”
Immediately after, he saw a burst of “chi chi” soft sounds coming from the bottom of the deep pit, and a fiery red figure quickly came towards Ye Qiu’s direction at an extremely fast speed.
Accompanying it was also a strong sense of danger.
Ye Qiu didn’t hesitate. With a little tap of his toe, his body lightly landed on the ground. Looking back, the fiery red figure had already climbed out of the deep pit.
In an instant, Ye Qiu’s expression became strange.
