At this time, I still hadn't gotten over the shock and inexplicable sadness after seeing the murals. I followed Xue Ru into the corridor like a puppet. Because Xue Ru's master wanted to see me, Zhang Jin Ya and Wu Pangzi had to stay in the front room. Although they seemed reluctant, facing this bad-tempered Xi Gui Xue Ru, they could only hold back their reluctance.
This time, Xue Ru took me straight to the main tomb chamber. When we arrived, I found that a man in armor was standing at the door of the main tomb chamber, waiting. The man was pale and gloomy. As soon as I approached, I was stimulated by his breath and got goose bumps all over my body. Obviously, this man was not a human at all. His armor is very distinctive. The armor on his shoulders and chest is wrapped with animal skin. This kind of armor has too much nomadic color. In the entire Chinese history, except for the dynasties established after the ethnic minorities entered the pass, no other dynasty used such standard armor. The armor of soldiers in the Qing Dynasty and the Mongol Yuan Empire was almost not covered with metal, which was different from his. I couldn't help but be interested. I thought that the armor on this man should be the standard armor during the Tuoba Tao period. I silently remembered all this in my heart.
I actually had some guesses about the identity of this man in my mind. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be the soldier who was buried alive with Hua Mulan. Although Hua Mulan was a woman, it can be seen from the murals in the front room that she was very fierce in battle and always rushed to the front in every battle, so she was deeply loved by the soldiers. After she committed suicide by taking poison, there must be a few loyal people willing to be buried alive with her. This was almost a routine in the ancient army. When Li Shimin died, it was recorded in history that hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority soldiers wanted to commit suicide and be buried alive with him. However, because Li Shimin was kind and loving, he issued an edict on his deathbed to prohibit all human sacrifices, so those ethnic minority soldiers were ultimately unable to commit suicide and be buried alive with him. In the end, they scraped their cheeks with a knife to mourn for him. In ancient times, the ancients were very concerned about their appearance. Life could be taken away, but hair and skin came from parents, so they dared not damage them. It can be said that the way of mourning by scraping cheeks was more uncomfortable for those soldiers than being buried alive with them, but they still did it. This shows how much influence the generals had on the soldiers in ancient times. Hua Mulan was a very outstanding general during the reign of Tuoba Tao in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although she was not recorded in the official history because she was a woman, she definitely had a great influence on the army at that time. It would be really strange if no one was buried with her.
"Boy, you are finally here."
The man looked up at me, and a smile slowly emerged on his pale and dull face, and then he said grimly: "The general has been waiting for you for a long time."
This voice... so familiar!
I looked at the man in disbelief, and finally remembered where I heard his voice. On the night when I received the Baipi Knife, I was in bed with ghost pressure in the middle of the night. At that time, I heard three voices when I couldn't open my eyes.
One was Xue Ru's, I have confirmed it.
Another voice was a man's voice, isn't it the man in front of me?
In addition, there was a very cold female voice. Now that I suddenly realized it, I finally gradually recalled that the cold female voice was Hua Mulan's. No wonder I felt her voice was very familiar every time she spoke to me.
"What? Remember?"
The smile on the man's face became more intense, which made my scalp numb. People say that ghosts' laughter is better than ghosts' cries. Although I also know that the smile of the man in front of me is different from the smile of those ghosts who want to kill me, he should be expressing goodwill, but I am still a little uncomfortable, but I still nodded. The man patted my shoulder and told me to find him if I have any problems in the future. His hand was like a big ice cube. Just patting me made me feel uncomfortable all over. I got goose bumps all over my body and even shivered. The man noticed the difference between him and me, looked at me apologetically, and then pushed open the heavy stone door of the main tomb to let me in. The power made me a little scared. If this hit someone, wouldn't that person die on the spot! ?
Boom!
Anyway, the stone door of the main tomb chamber was finally opened. I stopped chatting with the ghost man guarding the door and walked into the tomb chamber with a nervous heart. As soon as I entered, the tomb door slammed shut.
I then noticed that there were torches lit all around the main tomb chamber. Although the lighting effect was not as good as modern incandescent lamps, I could barely see the furnishings inside. Although it was a little hazy, it was not blinding.
This main tomb chamber was actually similar to the general main tomb chamber. It was square and about 200 square meters. In the middle was a huge coffin, which was a stone skin coffin. There was not much to see.
After I came in, I just looked around, and then my eyes were fixed on a woman next to the stone coffin. The woman was facing away from me, wearing a complete set of armor. If it weren't for her slender back, I wouldn't have known that she was a woman. She sat with a knife in her arms, and there was no gloomy feeling on her body. She was just like a person. I knew that this was actually because of her high level of Taoism, just like Bai Wuchang, Bai Erye, who didn't have a ghostly feeling on him, but Bai Erye died in an ugly way, with his tongue hanging on his chest, and he was wearing strange clothes, with a tall hat on his head with the words "You are here too", so you can tell at a glance that he is not a person.
There is no doubt that the woman sitting with her back to me is Hua Mulan. When I saw her in person, I still felt a little like I was in a dream. I didn't expect that this heroine who was widely circulated among the people did not enter reincarnation after her death, and finally appeared in front of me after a long time.
"You're here."
From beginning to end, Hua Mulan did not turn around, but sat with her back to me, and said slowly: "Have you seen the murals in the front room?"
The cold voice that made me obsessed and crazy was right beside my ears. I was stunned for nearly ten minutes before I finally reacted. I quickly suppressed my excitement and said: "I have seen it and understood your life. Now can you tell me why you want me to come here?"
"Because...something wants to kill you!"
Hua Mulan sighed softly: "Just before you entered me, it had already left the main tomb. In order to prevent you from being harmed by it, I can only let you hide here."
Main tomb?
I was moved. Could it be the thing in the main tomb of the Ten Deadly Tombs? When we entered the Qinling Mountains, we encountered a tomb tiger on the road, that is, a living dead. At that time, Qingyi deduced that the thing in the main tomb might have come out. I didn't expect it to go out to kill me! ! !
But at this moment, I was not so concerned about my own affairs. What made me most curious was the woman in front of me. So I looked at her slender back with some hope and asked a very nerdy question, which made me blush even when I think about it now: "Can you turn around? I want to see what you look like..."
Hua Mulan's body twitched violently. Obviously, she didn't expect me to ask that. In fact, let alone her, I didn't expect that I, who had no control over my mouth, would ask such a nerdy question. I blushed a little at that time, but what I didn't expect was that Hua Mulan actually stood up slowly and turned around. Her face was covered with a layer of black veil. I could only see her eyes like cold stars. They were the most moving and deepest eyes I had ever seen. Even now, I can't forget the surprise that her eyes brought me when she looked at me for the first time.
However, when she turned around, many things that had been puzzling me suddenly became clear.
When the Smiling Corpse pretended to be Uncle Li and came to my shop to kill me for the first time, the mysterious woman wearing a cloak who came to my door and killed the Smiling Corpse was Hua Mulan!
When the Smiling Corpse pretended to be Zhang Jinya and tricked me into the back mountain of Dingtao Village to attack me for the second time, the person who blocked my side when I was unconscious was also Hua Mulan!!!
Because, the body shape and temperament of the mysterious person who attacked me in those two times were exactly the same as Hua Mulan, and I was sure of this the moment she stood up!!!
It turned out that... she had been protecting me secretly and saved me three times in a row!!!
I looked at Hua Mulan stupidly, and for a moment I didn't know what to say, and Hua Mulan hesitated for a moment, raised her hand to reach for the veil on her face, and pulled it off at once...