Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

When they walked up to Zhang Hanyan, she was looking at the relief on the wall that had been eroded by wind and rain and had become blurred.

Her slender fingers, like scallions, carefully stroked every part of the relief, stringing together the stories told on the reliefs.

"Han Yan, what are you looking at? Is this... a snake? Hey... there is actually a person being pulled by eight horses, and there are also infantry and cavalry..."

Wu Xie looked at the relatively conspicuous reliefs one by one, frowning and pondering the relationship between the people in the reliefs and the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West.

"Tian Zhen, this relief seems to depict a war. These people are obviously here to invade the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West. Look here, these pheasant necks are fighting with them!

No wonder...these venomous snakes helped Queen Mother Xi defeat the invaders, so they are raising these venomous snakes. "

The fat man thought he had discovered some incredible truth, and his words were full of pride.

"Who are these people who invaded Queen Mother's Kingdom? Judging from the style of their clothes, they look like Loulan..."

Wu Xie looked at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out what it was, so he had to look at Zhang Hanyan, who had been studying it for a long time.

"Han Yan, you've been looking at it for a long time, do you understand it?"

Zhang Hanyan nodded, then shook her head. Amid everyone's confused gazes, she slowly spoke.

"I don't know. The things recorded here are different from what I know. I don't know which one is true and which one is false."

"Then tell us what's on the relief first, and then tell us what you knew before, and we'll compare them."

"That's right, we want to know both stories. Please tell us both."

Wu Xie and Fatty sang in unison, while the others remained silent and just waited quietly.

"The relief shows that it was King Mu of Zhou who invaded the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West. His army was defeated by a group of snakes. Therefore, these snakes have a very high status in the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West and are specially raised by people."

After she finished speaking, she pointed to the circular relief in the center and continued.

"The carving on it shows a mating scene. The giant python is mating with a female snake that is even bigger than it. Due to the huge difference in size between them, the crested snakes nearby have to hold up the python to help them complete the mating.

The rest of the reliefs have been eroded by wind and sand, and nothing can be seen at all.”

"Then Hanyan, what was that story you knew before?" Wu Xie asked impatiently.

“Now that I think about it, that story is more like something King Mu of Zhou made up himself after he was defeated in battle.

The story goes that King Mu of Zhou fell in love with Queen Mother of the West, and she taught him the secret of immortality.

Later, King Mu of Zhou left the country of Queen Mother of the West and promised to come back to Queen Mother of the West after he had dealt with state affairs, and to live forever with her for all eternity.

The Queen Mother of the West believed him and let him go. She had been waiting for him to come back, but King Mu of Zhou never set foot here again.

"So, the real reason why he didn't set foot here is that he was defeated and was afraid of the snakes here, so he didn't dare to come again, right?"

Aning stared at the relief on the wall and asked softly.

Zhang Hanyan shook her head. "I don't know. These things have happened thousands of years ago. Who can tell whether they are true or false?"

Zhang Qiling lowered his head and frowned. The love story between Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou made two unfamiliar words emerge in his mind.

A scumbag, obsessed with love.

What do these two words mean? Why did they appear in my mind for no reason? Who said these two words to me?

"Well, there's nothing to see here. It's daybreak. Let's follow these traces to find Pan Zi and the entrance to the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West."

Zhang Hanyan picked up the flashlight that was placed on the ground and put it away, then strode forward towards the traces left by the snakes.

Zhang Qiling followed her closely, glancing at her from time to time. He always felt that the closer they got to the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West, the worse her mood became.

They walked behind a huge rock and the traces of dragging disappeared.

Next to the boulder is a downward cliff with various trees growing on it, and under the cliff is a bottomless pool.

"He should be down there. The entrance to the Queen Mother of the West Palace is also down there. Be careful when you go down there. My brother and I can't protect every one of you all the time."

"it is good."

Everyone responded in unison. Zhang Qiling and Zhang Hanyan took the lead, grabbing the vines and branches on the cliff and climbing down.

The people behind them also slowly walked down in the direction they were heading.

"What is this...?"

Wu Xie stepped on the hair floating on the mud. He turned his head and saw that the mud in front of him was full of dead people, all of them were half buried in the mud.

The corpses were piled up in large numbers, and it was obvious that they were piled here intentionally.

"Could it be? Those snakes brought these corpses here? What do they want to do? Are they going to eat them?"

After Wu Xie finished speaking, he looked at the others whose expressions weren't much better.

"We have reached someone's food storage area!"

"Don't panic, they are not food. They just want to use these corpses to hatch their offspring. To be precise, this is a huge hatching pool."

Zhang Hanyan said this lightly, with a nonchalant look, as if he didn't take the difficult situation in front of him seriously at all.

"Then... where is Pan Zi? He can't be in this mud, right?"

Wu Xie looked at the rotten and smelly mud and thought to himself, forget it, for Pan Zi, even if I have to drill into the mud and dig him out, I will do it!

Just as he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to take action, Zhang Qiling grabbed his outstretched hand.

"He's not here. There are rotting corpses under the mud. They look like they have been buried for a long time. The corpses on top are still fresh. They must be recent.

Pan Zi was dragged away by the snakes last night, so he should be on top of the corpses."

"Then..." Wu Xie looked around, "There's nothing here either!"

"Go forward, there should be more ahead."

After Zhang Qiling finished speaking, he walked in front to lead the way. Zhang Hanyan glanced at Zhang Mo, who was walking at the end of the team, then turned around and continued forward.

During the march, the team gradually dispersed, looking for the missing Pan Zi.

"Here it is! Tian Zhen, I found Pan Zi!"

The fat man shouted and turned over the prone Pan Zi. He was still alive, but his condition was not good. There were several bloody holes on his arms where they were bitten by snakes.

As soon as Pan Zi was turned over, he opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of fishy-smelling green water. In the green water, there was some gel similar to egg drop soup.

There are some egg-like things in the gel.

"Damn it! These snakes actually lay eggs in human stomachs. They use the residual heat from the human body to incubate the eggs."

Fatty cursed inwardly, carried Pan Zi on his back, and walked towards Wu Xie who was rushing over.

"Tian Zhen, we can't stay here for long. Tell others, let's leave quickly."

"Okay! Let's go quickly. Brother and Hanyan are a little far away from us. Let's go and meet up with them."

Wu Xie helped to hold up Pan Zi who was sliding down, and walked with Fatty towards where Zhang Qiling and the others were.