Tianjin people will never lose SAN

Chapter 483 A vivid acting lesson (4k+)

Under the mysterious crypt in the desert, Millie Tang and Yasmine were huddled together face to face, hiding in the darkness of the dead end diagonally above the room.

On one side of the two men's bodies were piled with various tools they had brought in, and on the other side was a long and narrow dark corridor.

A ray of light rose from the darkness with the footsteps of someone coming. The person looked sneaky and was holding a torch. After coming in, he looked around cautiously. It was Liu Yonglu.

Following behind him was the grim-faced Grand Duke Zahir. When Yasmine saw him, her breathing became noticeably faster, as if she was particularly afraid of her biological father.

The last person to come in was a tall fat man dragging a wooden box. His expression was the same as usual. He held the hemp rope in one hand and took out a piece of naan from his robe pocket and stuffed it into his mouth with the other hand.

Senior disciple Shani!
"What should we do? Should we go out and help now? Or should we wait until they go in and then sneak away?"

Perhaps because of her excitement, Yasmine spoke incoherently under her heavy breathing. Millie Tang felt uncomfortable standing next to her. She looked down and said in a low voice unhappily:

"Don't panic yet, wait for that guy's arrangement."

"Your husband?"

"kindness……"

I don’t know if it was because Yasmine said it or because she squeezed it, but Millie Tang’s cheeks turned red.

After Liu Yonglu came in, he first lit a few torches, and then lit them one by one along the outline of the room and hung them on the wall, acting like a complete slave. The reason why he rushed to work was that he was afraid that Grand Duke Zahir would discover any clues.

When Liu Yonglu touched the iron ring on the wall that fixed the torch, he indeed felt a slight warmth. It seemed that Mi Li'er and the others had just left not long ago, or they had not left at all and were hiding in a dark corner of the room.

He glanced towards the horn corridor where Millie Tang was hiding. Millie Tang also felt his gaze and suddenly felt confident.

"Grand Duke Zahir! You brought us to the crypt to observe your ancient relic. You don't intend to sacrifice us to some god, do you?"

After solving the lighting problem, Liu Yonglu let out a strange cry and pointed at the device in front of the stone gate with trembling hands. It would have been too fake if he had no reaction at this time. It must be said that Liu Yonglu's acting skills are absolutely experiential. On the way here, he put himself in the shoes of the other party and thought about how to play the role of a cowardly translator.

"Sacrifice... Hehe, you two are not qualified."

Grand Duke Zahir glanced at Liu Yonglu calmly, thinking that he would have to concentrate on completing the ceremony before opening the door, he continued:
"There is an old saying in our Upper Kurt that when an eagle sees a warrior, it should land on the warrior's shoulder instead of letting the warrior put the knife on the eagle's neck before it."

"I know, I know. In our country, there is a saying that a man who knows the current situation is a hero."

Liu Yonglu nodded and bowed like a coward, thinking to himself, "Old BK, you'll be in trouble after the door opens."

Yasmine in the dark corner hesitated and whispered:

"Millie Tang, your husband wouldn't really side with Zahir, would he?"

She had never dealt with these two investigators before. Seeing Liu Yonglu's unfortunate fawning behavior, she felt a little nervous, worried that these two people would sell her out again.

"Hmph, keep pretending. Don't worry, no one in this world who believes his lies will have a good ending. Just watch him act... It's bad!"

Millie Tang was just explaining calmly when her expression suddenly changed. With the help of the firelight, she suddenly saw a lighter on the floor of the hall. This was the lighter she used to light the torch when she first came in. She accidentally dropped it on the floor when she evacuated in a hurry.

"Ricky, you and your apprentice open the box... eh?"

Zahir saw the lighter on the ground before Liu Yonglu! Liu Yonglu also had a quick mind! The moment he saw the lighter, he immediately guessed what was going on:

"I was wondering why I couldn't find it. Turns out I dropped it here."

As Liu Yonglu spoke, he walked over naturally, bent down, picked up the lighter, and lit a Cosmos brand cigarette:

"To answer your question, I'm a heavy smoker. I wanted to smoke a cigarette just now, but I couldn't find my lighter. After a long time, I dropped it on the ground when I was trying to light it. Do you want to smoke? This cigarette smells so good."

Seeing that Liu Yonglu fiddled with the lighter after smoking, which was obviously a favorite thing he often used, Zahir's suspicion was put to rest. He stared at his face, but could not see any guilty look on his face, so he gave up.

Xia Ni looked at Liu Yonglu, as if to ask whether he wanted to open the box.

His brain wasn't very good, so he just did whatever his master told him to do. Liu Yonglu quickly took a sip, looking anxious to work. After taking seven or eight puffs, he threw the half-smoked cigarette on the ground and chopped his feet twice.

"When the plate is broken later, we will open the whip from the back. Since the Duke has said so, open it!"

Shani nodded, and Millie Tang whispered in the dark:
"This is Ricky's code. It means that once the door is opened, we will attack from behind."

"Is this the code word between you and your husband? Very interesting."

"Yeah, he taught me the slang."

Mr. Shani never uses a master to do this kind of physical work. Although the box is valuable and made of fine wood, the lid of the box has no switch and is completely sealed with nails.

Mr. Shani grabbed the edge of the box and pulled it hard. "Ka Ba Ba", the lid of the box was pulled open by him, revealing a living person inside.

The box was filled with cushions, with a boy of seven or eight years old lying in the middle. I say seven or eight years old based on his face, but judging from his height and limbs, he was only about three or four years old. I guess his age was caused by malnutrition from living in the box for a long time.

The boy was completely naked, but he was covered in a lot of spices. The most obvious thing was that there was a khaki insect lying on his heart.

The insect's body is the size of a fist, and its joints are covered with a bumpy shell. Liu Yonglu feels like a fat version of a mantis shrimp.

The most incredible thing is that such a small insect has long legs that are far larger than its body size. The long legs are as thick as chopsticks but as long as an adult's arm. More than a dozen of them tightly bound the boy's body.

The skin on the boy's chest where the insect had come into contact had turned purple and ulcerated, with a slight amount of yellow mucus oozing out.

The little boy's eyes were closed and it was impossible to tell whether he was dead or alive.

Grand Duke Zahir, you really lack virtue. Liu Yonglu guessed that this was one of Zahir's biological sons. Old BK, there are many wicked parents in this world, but those as cruel as you are rare!
A fleeting sneer flashed across Liu Yonglu's face. He opened his mouth in surprise at just the right moment and quickly stepped aside to let Zahir continue his ceremony.

Zaheer walked over to the box, put on special gloves, and picked up the boy and the bug with one hand.

He walked slowly to the device, groped on the wall, and soon found a hidden handle. As he turned the winch, the huge iron cage above his head slowly fell down.

The insect seemed to sense its ominous fate and screamed desperately:
"Father...please..."

The insect's mouthparts actually made a human voice! Millie Tang, who was hiding in the dark corner, felt terrified and had goose bumps all over her body.

She looked at Yasmine who was close at hand. The little girl was about to cry, obviously thinking of her sad past. To comfort her, Millitang held Yasmine's hand tightly. Grand Duke Zahir ignored the screams of the insects and threw the little boy and the insects into the cage. Then he turned the capstan again and the cage was hung above his head.

The cave shook slightly, and the insect seemed to be affected by some mysterious force behind the stone door. Its body was pulled out from the boy's chest, and thick yellowish juice dripped into the stone bowl under the iron cage.

"Tap, tap, tap."

"Squeak, squeak, squeak."

As the thick juice dripped, the stone door slowly opened.

Liu Yonglu, Mr. Shani, Millie Tang, and Yasmin were all ready for battle, while Grand Duke Zahir ignored the sacrifice above his head and the two lackeys behind him, and stepped into the space at the stone gate.

Before coming here, Liu Yonglu had imagined what the scene behind the stone gate would be like. Would it be magnificent and splendid like a royal treasury? Or would it be like the basement of Baldwin Monastery, with countless skeletons and strange buildings?

But everything he saw was far beyond his expectations.

Behind the stone gate was an incredibly messy and huge garbage dump!

There was everything in there, from carriage sheds and wooden beams of houses to teapots for eating and brushes for bathing, and even some gold and silver utensils here and there. In short, all the valuable and worthless items were piled together, forming a small hill.

At the top of the hill, a dim beam of light came from nowhere, and in the light, there was an irregular concave stone slab...

Liu Yonglu looked up without thinking, and the moment his eyes swept across the stone slab, he seemed to fall into some complex and turbulent memory again.

In this world, from birth to death, the images stored in the brains of every life were opened to him without reservation. Interestingly, Liu Yonglu could actually see many people he knew in them.

Axolmama, Bishop of Lorraine, Lewis standing in the wax museum, the young Baldwin, Medeas...

Their figures revolved before his eyes like a kaleidoscope, and this experience reminded Liu Yonglu of the portrait of the saint he had seen in the basement of Axel Monastery.

I only stood in front of the portrait for a few seconds, but it seemed as if I had crossed through eternity and experienced tremendous changes.

"Ricky, Ricky!"

The voice of the old saint interrupted his thoughts, and countless figures turned into that huge gold foil ball, and the voice of the old saint came from it.

"Old Saint, hey, I didn't expect to see you here today."

In front of the golden ball, Liu Yonglu took out a cigarette and wanted to pass it to her, but when he thought that the saint in front of him had no body and could not smoke, he could only put it back awkwardly.

"How did you come?"

Liu Yonglu never saw the Saint again after their last meeting. With the resurrection of the Virgin Mary, the Saint's will was also affected and she fell into a deep sleep.

"I don't know. I came to the South Continent to do some business, and somehow I entered a cave..."

Liu Yonglu kept his words short, and the Saint in the space listened to the whole story and said slowly:
"A small piece of stone tablet is preserved here, which contains very dangerous knowledge of gods. Both gods and ordinary mystics can use it to create terrible power."

"Oh, then please give me some pointers. What should I do?"

Liu Yonglu, floating in front of the golden ball, lit a cigarette and thought, it would be nice to let the old saint smoke some second-hand smoke to satisfy her craving.

“You don’t have to pay attention to it. The ring of the Lost Sea will be restarted soon. When most of the stone slabs appear, this small piece will naturally be attracted and try to complete the will of the Virgin Mary.

My soul is inextricably linked to the Virgin Mary, and that is why you can hear my voice now."

"Okay, then I'll hide for now? Don't meet up? We'll get in touch later?"

After finishing speaking, Liu Yonglu felt that his words were not brotherly enough, so he quickly restrained his smile and said seriously:
"Don't worry, old Saint, I will definitely break the cycle and let your soul out this time."

"Well, I'm waiting for that day."

The saint's tone clearly showed that she didn't quite believe Liu Yonglu could do it, but as a companion in the same trench, she could only comfort and encourage him.

The next second, Liu Yonglu found himself in front of the waste pile again, and Lord Zahir turned his head to look at him.

"Special Envoy Richie, he really is quite capable."

Zahir's body also changed at this time. Half of his body was still the stable flesh as usual, but the other half was gradually pulled towards the stone slab, blurring the edge outline. The organs in his body just floated in the center, beating vigorously.

Many people had been brought into this room by Grand Duke Zahir before, and all of them became his experimental subjects.

But any living creature that dares to look directly at the stone slab, those with strong wills will fall into madness in the blink of an eye, while those with weak wills will be torn apart by the ancient memories contained in the stone slab and directly turned into a pile of deformed organs.

It was the first time that Grand Duke Zahir had seen someone like Richie who was fine after watching it.

"I have the Saint Lady's blessing, so of course nothing can happen to me."

Liu Yonglu straightened his back, reached out and took out the black stone from his robe, "You bastard, I've been pretending for so long, it's time for me to settle the score with you!"
"Shani, and both of you, don't look at the slate!"

But first Liu Yonglu had to issue a warning. He couldn't guarantee whether the old Saint Lady could save other people, so he decided to give her instructions first.

Grand Duke Zahir picked up a black jar from his hand without hesitation and threw it at Liu Yonglu.

“Whoosh! Bang!”

What does Mr. Shani do? Seeing that the master was in danger, he rushed to the front and the jar fell heavily on him.

But the strange thing was that the jar did not break when it fell to the ground, and Mr. Shani was fixed on the spot without moving.

"Yasmine! Go!"

Liu Yonglu heard Millitang's shout from behind, and then two figures rushed towards Grand Duke Zahir from the left and right. They were Millitang and Yasmine.

"Humph, so you are my unfilial daughter. You have indeed joined forces."

Grand Duke Zahir was not at all flustered. He clapped his hands twice, and immediately a broken sword and a piece of dirty scalp with long hair flew into his hands:
"Do you know how many ancient relics there are in this space for me to use?"

(End of this chapter)