Chapter 268 A Matter of Life and Death
“Living well?” A Mo sneered at Leng Changxi’s words, “They are just the living dead without souls. They can’t live well without their supreme faith.”
“But how come you make sure that we must stay here?” Leng Changxi Looked at A Mo with a smile, “you always raise your heels slightly when walking, which demonstrates that you are good at light skills. It’s no wonder that you can go to the crystal coffin in the center from the stone platform to serve your master every day. You must have the highlight skills, but I do not figure out that you are high-skilled. You would fail if you fought with me.”
A Mo raised her head slightly. She just glanced at Qin Yunuan and said to Leng Changxi, “The woman beside you have got poisoned, and people outside are chasing you tightly. You can’t escape here.”
It was apparent that A Mo was shrewd.
Poisoned?
Qin Yunuan got nervous suddenly. She was very careful when she was in the tribe. She knew that the tribe had some connection with the village outside. The village cultivated poisons by using white polar, and there were many tree trunks of white polar around the tribe, which could not exist in the rainforest areas. They must be transferred from other places. That’s why Qin Yunuan paid great attention to the food of the two people very carefully.
“Don’t be doubtful,” A Mo looked at Qin Yunuan and said, “The poison they gave you was not a common kind of poison but the most sinister poison which could enter your blood vessels invisibly. They must give the poison to you guys when you both fell asleep. It was useless only to check your food.”
“The most sinister poison?” Qin Yunuan knew little about poison. Qi had banned such kind of mysterious and abnormal poison publicly, “What kind of poison is it on earth?”
A Mo glimpsed at Qin Yunuan and seemed not to answer seriously. She just said, “You would not believe me even if I told you. You can just wait. At midnight, the poison in you will break out for the first time, and you will get a sharp pain. You will know I am right.”
Having known Qin Yunuan had been poison, Leng Changxi became so nervous and worried. Looking at the indifferent A Mo, Leng Changxi got impulsive and then stopped A Mo who was about to leave. He said in a low and threatening voice, “I am still confused by your words. You can’t leave.”
A Mo stepped back, alertly, “What do you want?”
“Guide us to find the antidote.” Leng Changxi said in a mandatory voice. He got used to speaking in such a voice.
A Mo squinted at Leng Changxi and sneered. She just ignored Leng Changxi and was about to leave, but Leng Changxi took out a long spear to block A Mo in the front, “Miss, your sisters have once saved my life and my wife’s life. But it doesn’t mean that I should pay the gratitude on you.”
“If you are willing to stay…”
“We are willing to stay here.” Qin Yunuan responded quickly. She knew that the girl in black called A Mo was not just a simple girl. They should obey her will under such a circumstance.
A Mo glimpsed at Qin Yunuan. She turned back and said to Qin Yunuan, “Follow me.”
Leng Changxi wanted to follow too but was stopped by A Mo’s unkind words, “You stay here to guard the stone door and forbid others from coming in. If they break into here, you just press the switch on the left side of the stone door.”
Qin Yunuan just looked at Leng Changxi to ease his nerve. Quickly, she was led to a single stone room after they went through winding paths. On their way, Qin Yunuan tried to gain more information from A Mo.
“The whole mountain belongs to the tomb? Sister, are you the only one to stay here?”
A Mo walked in the front and answered coldly at times, but she kept calm all the time, “You came here for the weapon factory, so you must know what it is behind the tomb. As for anybody else here, do you see anyone else here except me?”
“Miss Chen Wan, you have a wonderful foresight. I just think that the rule made by your master was not so friendly. The person who enters the tomb for the first time should obey the rule that the person should stay in the tomb for his whole life. But if the person is ill-intentioned and escapes after he masters the way of making weapons, Miss Chen, what you guard for your whole life will be in vain.”
“No.” A Mo said while searching on a wooden platform by using her slender fingers. There were all kinds of bottles on the platform, including Blue and White Porcelain and pure thin porcelain, which seemed to have been used for a long time. Maybe they were used from the day when the tomb was built successfully.
“We have our own way to avoid that condition.” A Mo smiled suddenly and pinched the jaw of Qin Yunuan quickly. She put a little pill into the throat of Qin Yunuan, and then smiled breezily, “This is our way to avoid the condition.”
“What is this?” Qin Yunuan had swallowed the pill and could not take it out. She could only keep calm.
“Take it easy. It won’t hurt you,” A Mo put away a Blue and White Porcelain slowly, “There is weak air circulation in the tomb. You cannot feel it in a short time, but if you stay here for a long time, you will not bear it. This is the pill developed by my master. You will adapt to the air condition if you take a pill once a day. But your body condition will still be influenced if you stay here for a long time. You will not adapt to the air condition outside. You maybe die due to suffocating or lose the ability to speak. My two sisters stopped taking the pills for getting out of here early and attempted to adapt to the air condition in the tomb by using their inner Qi. It’s funny. Their ability of martial arts must have degraded when you saw them.”
Qin Yunuan covered her throat by her hands unconsciously, “I have never known that Hu Shiniang can play martial arts.”
A Mo shook her head immediately and sigh, “So, they are so poor.”
A Mo stayed in the tomb and guarded the reachless dream alone for a long time. The silent and speechless crystal coffin guarded by A Mo alone had brainwashed A Mo apparently. She always thought that she had the supreme mission, and all people who could be selected into the tomb should feel grateful to her.
Qin Yunuan Knew her mind and was not about to contest with her. She just asked tentatively, “So, how about the poison in my body?”
A Mo pulled the arm of Qin Yunuan suddenly and raised her sleeve. A thin black wrinkle sprawling down along a blood vessel emerged on the fair arm of Qin Yunuan, somehow, but Qin Yunuan had never noticed this.
“So serious.” A Mo glimpsed at her arm and suddenly found detail about the belt of Qin Yunuan. The original belt of Qin Yunuan was used to bind up wounds for an injured soldier. This one on her waist was given by an old woman. It was woven with the traditional way of the tribe, which looked rough but extremely solid.
A Mo got alerted suddenly, “Are you in the same group with them?”
“What?”
“In the beginning, I found that you were poisoned and thought you were fighting against those demons. All who fight against demons are my friends. But the belt on your waist,” A Mo said and then took out a dagger hidden in her boot. She pointed at Qin Yunuan by the dagger, “How dare you play the Battered-Body Trick!”
Qin Yunuan touched the belt on her waist and immediately understood that the demon A Mo said was Chen Jingrui. Actually, Qin Yunuan always felt curious about the relationship between Chen Jingrui and Chen Wan. The two people’s surname was Chen, and Chen Jingrui always showed a complicated face each time people talked about Chen Wan. His face was full of admiration and resentment. What kind of person did Chen Jingrui loved but hated?
“There is a mistake,” Qin Yunuan explained slowly, “We were threatened by Chen Jingrui to be here together with him. Or how come I got poisonous? As you said, the poison will break out at midnight tonight. Even if I played the Battered-Body Trick, I would die when I miscalculated the time of entering the tomb or failed to see you. I won’t make a joke about this.”
“Funny. I know that the guy whose surname is Chen has made much effort to come in. He can do anything.” A Mo said in a strained voice still, but her heart had been stirred.
“What’s on earth the relationship between Chen Jingrui and Chen Wan?” Qin Yunuan asked quickly, “A Mo, you must know it.”
“He is a snob. Nothing to say.” A Mo did not want to continue this topic, apparently.
Suddenly, a harsh voice came from the distance, which seemed to be from the outside of the stone door. The cries with the sound of iron-plate-grilling-like noise sounded frightening.
“What happened?” Qin Yunuan became nervous.
“It seems that someone has tried to come in from the outside, and your husband has pressed the switch near the stone door.” A Mo looked not so strained, “I remember I have told you that the bloody water outside is infiltrated from the mud in the mountain. Actually, it’s not. It’s a kind of weak vitriol that is safe in normal condition, but when the switch is pressed, nitric acid will outflow from the tubes near the corridor. Vitriol and nitric acid will produce a neutralization reaction and generate aqua regia, which can corrode all things such as gold and silver.”
Qin Yunuan was listening to the explanation of A Mo and the cries outside. She could imagine that the slave who walked in the front got his feet corroded by aqua regia. Qin Yunuan leaning against the stone platform, he could not help but vomit when thinking of the scene.
“They are seeking trouble.” A Mo looked outside. She said to Qin Yunuan when she made sure that people outside could not enter, “The man called Chen Jingrui is the biological nephew of our master.”
“Biological nephew?” Qin Yunuan recalled the previous things quickly. Chen Wan was from Yao in the last dynasty. Calculated by the age, Chen Wan was likely the nephew of the master. But how could the two people from the same family have such huge disputes?
But the words A Mo said next astonished Qin Yunuan more, “He did not only want to be the nephew of our master. He had had a strange affection for our master. He loved our master, and the love was not a kinship but a love between men and women. And even he wanted to occupy our entire master crazily, even including her corpse.”