Chapter 344 - The Mantis (1/2)

A woman lay in the jade coffin with no clothes on She was entirely naked, and her skin was snohite and bloodless; she looked like she was sculpted from ice She looked exactly as depicted on the relief on the stone door, and was elegant beyond coure was slender and she was ample where she should be and plump where she should be in a very sexy way She lay silently in the jade coffin, quiet and serene, giving one the impression that she was not dead but asleep

Xia Lei was beyond surprised ‘This Princess Yong-Mei looks barely older than 20 Did she die young?’

The ancient book of the White Hun Tribe had not recorded when the princess had died, and all the history books of China, history and even folktales had no record of a ‘Princess Yong-Mei’ There was no way to verify when and how she died

Xia Lei’s gaze stopped at her neck She had a gold necklace around her neck and the pendant of the necklace was not a precious geold pointer-needle Jewels and precious jade lay around her, every piece an exquisite work, but he did not see any greenrelated to ‘AE’

‘There’s no alloy Ning Jing talked about or any bronze book There’s just a needle Why? Did Princess Yong-Mei hide the alloy and bronze book in another place?’ Xia Lei head was full of guesses as he then exerted his strength and pushed open the lid of the jade coffin

Xia Lei did not need to use his X-ray vision to see Princess Yong-Mei in the jade coffin and with the lid open, he could see her even -Mei’s skin was even ined, like pure white flower petals He reached out a finger and poked her thigh The flesh on her thigh was depressed, but quickly sprang up again

‘There’s elasticity too?!’ Xia Lei was gobsh, he suddenly saw some movement under her eyelids out of the corner of his eye, as if she had opened her eyes a crack This shocked him and he hurriedly took a step back He was afraid that Princess Yong-Mei would rise fro

However, Princess Yong-Mei did nother eyes was but a hallucination

Xia Lei observed her for a while more and stepped back to the jade coffin He reached out to take the necklace fro-Mei’s neck and put it carefully in his backpack The needle was related to the next treasure location and was very i that, he stuffed all the precious gems and jade into his backpack These ancient burial items were very valuable and no one would know if he took them anyway They were also a nice co this mission

Xia Lei’s attention returned to Princess Yong-Mei’s body after he searched the jade coffin He hadher body and the initial shock had worn off a little His thoughts started whirring

‘There’s no preservation -Mei’s body so well-preserved? There’s no decay even after hundreds of years This doesn’thidden in her body?’

Filling the body with preservatives could stop the body fro Methods like this were present in ancient tiyptian ht in mind, Xia Lei’s left eye twitched and he started a deeper observation of Princess Yong-Mei There were no preservatives in her body anywhere, not even her stomach; he could even see her perfectly intact intestines He then looked at her chest Her lungs were also perfectly preserved without any preservatives He aze to her head last, and what he saw shook hireen ue A closer look told hi had described!

The ancient alloy in Princess Yong-Mei’sit look like a six-pointed star It was fairly strange and -Mei Please, blame Boss shi+ if you want to bla to do with me…” Xia Lei babbled He reached to pull her chin doards and re-Mei’s lips dried up rapidly after the metal left her mouth

“This…” Xia Lei could not believe his eyes He was so shocked he could not speak

It wasn’t just her lips Princess Yong-Mei’s skin also lost its pale translucence and quickly turned grey, then black in the blink of an eye What was even more bizarre was that her body beca away at a visible speed

Yes,to disappear was her lips, then her nose and her whole face Her high and fir from the tips, then the base and finally the ribs

The entire process was complete in under five minutes The perfectly preserved body of beauty was now a pile of ash Even her bones had fallen apart, beco white ash!+

Xia Lei could only watch, dumbfounded and motionless as it all unfolded before hi-Mei was ash He wiped at his forehead - cold sweat had beaded it

What had just happened was probably so that couldn’t be explained, not even if the world’s best biologists and archaeologists gathered!

‘So Princess Yong-Mei’s boy was preserved for hundreds of years because of this?’ Xia Lei’s gaze went to the ancient alloy in his hand He was filled with shock and awe

Humans had an inborn fear of the unknown and Xia Lei was no exception This ancient alloy which he was interacting with for the first time was like an existence equal to the Gods to him!

There were no Gods in this world, of course, but he did not knohat the heck this mysterious and ancient alloy was