C23 (1/2)

It was a pair of eyes that peeked out from behind the crack in the door without any warning. It was a pair of eyes that peeked out from behind the crack in the door without any warning.

There was someone behind the secret door! And it was a living person!

This thought immediately popped into my mind, but I was woken up by the sound of the sea beside me. The two Beastmen were already riding on his neck, their sharp claws grabbing towards his eyeballs, while the other Beastmen were crazily smashing apart the vats. In an instant, the sound of the vats shattering filled the entire cabin!

Following the shattering of the jar, the dense crowd of not completely dead Beastmen started to grow black hair. After that, they slowly got up and let out bursts of roars. The sound of the beastmen's roars could be heard from outside the cabin.

Pfft!

I was in no mood to think any more. I jumped to the side of the sea, twisted my dagger, and thrust it into the chest of one of the orcs.

We backed away from each other until we reached the dark door. The sea asked me why I didn't squeeze in, and when I told her about my eyes, the sea was stunned for three seconds. I couldn't help looking back, but the pupils behind the door were gone.

The situation in front of us was too dangerous. We didn't have time to figure out if we were seeing things or not, so we had to focus fully on fighting the beastmen to the death.

Creak!

At this moment, a sound came from the secret door behind us. We subconsciously turned around and saw that the secret door had been forcibly opened to reveal a gap the width of a person. A valiant and formidable face appeared behind the door.

I was stunned, her face had a straight nose and small mouth, her eyes were big and lively, her sharp eyebrows gave off a heroic vibe, it was actually Zhu Yingqiong!

Hai Yang was also completely shocked, she just couldn't understand why Zhu Yingqiong would appear on the Ancient Ship.

Seeing the both of us in a daze, Zhu Yingqiong shouted anxiously, ”Don't just stand there, come in!”

Zhu Yingqiong was quick to react, and hastily closed the secret door, and moved a few large things from the side to block the door, only then did I realize, there were actually several corpses!

Phew...

After finishing everything, Zhu Yingqiong panted heavily, and looked at me. I looked at her at the same time and asked: ”Why are you here?”

Zhu Yingqiong asked in unison, ”Why are you two here?”

After saying that, the three of us stared at each other, feeling a little awkward. After a long while, I said faintly, ”Can this door stop the beastmen outside?”

Zhu Yingqiong shook her head, and said in a clear voice: ”I don't know!”

Her voice was cold and straightforward. I was stunned for a moment, then realized that Zhu Yingqiong's pitch black eyes were staring straight at me, as if she wanted to see through me.

Zhu Yingqiong definitely knew what was going on and was about to speak, but Zhu Yingqiong said directly: ”I know what you want to ask, but you all should first take a look at where this is, and then I'll slowly tell you the rest!”

Hearing her say this, I swallowed the words at the tip of my tongue. I quickly looked back at the entire hold and saw that it was dark and extremely narrow. It was about the width of a bedroom.

In the darkness, I could see several figures standing around me. My heart thumped, thinking to myself, could it be that all of them were Zhu Yingqiong's people?

However, after carefully scanning the area with the flashlight from the sea, I was able to see clearly that the silhouettes were all corpses that couldn't stand up. Like javelins, their expressions were stiff and the most important thing was that their clothes didn't oxidize.

There were about seven or eight bodies, all lined up in a circle around a rectangular object, and I didn't look at it closely because I was all drawn to it.

Damn it, all of these corpses were actually dressed in Imperial Guard's attire, and there were even Embroidered Spring Blades by their waists, they looked exactly like the ancient people. I turned my head to look at the secret door, and realised that the things that Zhu Yingqiong had moved over to block the door were all these stiff corpses that had yet to rot.

”What's going on?”

I looked at the corpse and asked Zhu Yingqiong in shock.

Zhu Yingqiong stared at me with a smile that was not a smile without saying anything. Hai Yang touched the corpse and smacked his lips, ”Damn, all of it was irrigated with mercury. No wonder I said why corpses do not rot.”

”Mercury?”

Hai Yang carried over a body of Imperial Guard, pointed at the top of his head and said, ”Come over here and take a look yourself. All the corpses have a small hole in their heads, the mercury is poured in from here.

I took a closer look and realised that it was true. There was a small hole in the top of each corpse, which should be the entrance to the sea to water mercury, but using mercury to keep the corpse from rotting was a taboo method in ancient tombs. Why would it appear on a Ancient Warship?

Martyrs were a part of the Qin and Han dynasties' funeral system. It meant killing the concubines and servants at the side of the deceased, then continuing to serve the deceased as a ”waiter” in the underworld.