Stabber of Hearts Chapter 8

Lin Yang was suddenly grabbed by the ankle in the water. She forgot to resist for a moment and was dragged three feet away in the blink of an eye. The hand was stiff and rough like a vice, almost crushing her ankle. Lin Yang was angry and kicked the hand that grabbed her ankle with her other foot. Before she could make any further move, she felt a sudden sharp pain in her right arm. A streak of blood slowly spread in the water. Lin Yang was a little anxious. These things moved too quickly. She didn't know if she could get ashore. She had to go up and inform Liam as soon as possible.

After the creature hit the target, it quickly retreated and swam around Lin Yang, but was not in a hurry to attack, as if it was looking for the next flaw. Lin Yang had no time to deal with them. She spotted the gap between the black shadows and swam upwards suddenly. As soon as she moved, another black shadow rushed towards her. Lin Yang stepped on the wall of the pool, used the force to turn around, and directly clamped the two arms that attacked her. The two sides were in a stalemate face to face. Lin Yang saw the monster clearly, with a green face and fangs, bulging eyes, and arms covered with sharp barbs. The nails on both fingers were half the length of an ordinary person's arm, and it could easily tear the prey into pieces. If these could still be barely regarded as "human", then the fish tail in the lower body could not be regarded as a human being in any way.

Before Lin Yang could be surprised, the second "mermaid" had sneaked up on her from below and was kicked away by her. However, the third "mermaid" had also come behind her. Lin Yang was in a stalemate with one of them and could not turn around. Seeing that the mermaid's long and sharp nails were about to pierce Lin Yang's back, a slender and soft white hand suddenly reached out from the side, accurately pinched the mermaid's wrist bone, and bent it in the opposite direction. The arm that was twice as long as an adult's was broken and hung down twisted. The first "mermaid" was also kicked out.

Lin Yang found a chance to turn around and saw Liam floating beside him holding a night-shining pearl. In the dim light, it seemed as if it was she who was emitting soft light. Her long black hair was loose and her clothes were fluttering, which set off her pale face and gave her a unique sense of beauty.

Liam and Lin Yang looked at each other. Liam smiled faintly at her, stretched out his hand and pointed downwards, as if he wanted to leave directly from the opening below. Lin Yang looked up at the shadowy black shadow above his head and nodded at Liam.

Groups of mermaids in the water were still attacking the two. Lin Yang's movements were hampered by being in the water and he could not exert more than 30% of his strength. Liam's old injury had not yet healed and he was even more unable to do it. Fortunately, the two of them supported each other and finally managed to move to the vicinity of the bronze door. When they saw that the bronze door was in front of them, the group of mermaids seemed to be suddenly stimulated by something and rushed towards the two of them like crazy, as if they were extremely afraid that they would enter the door.

The mermaids were like fish in water and they all rushed in front of him in the blink of an eye. Seeing that the situation was critical, Lin Yang had no time to think. He stretched out his hand and pulled Liam in front of him. Putting his hands behind her back, he pushed her into the door. Almost at the same time, he felt a heart-wrenching pain in his back. Lin Yang felt as if a big crack was torn on his back. The burning pain kept attacking his mind and he wished he could faint.

Lin Yang gritted his teeth and turned around. He tried his best to kick away the mermaids who were rushing in from the outside of the cave. He pulled the copper ring with both hands, but the copper door itself was heavy and sunk to the bottom of the water, so it was not easy to close. Lin Yang could only close it slowly with all his strength. Mermaids kept poking their heads in and cutting his flesh with their claws and teeth. Lin Yang seemed not to feel the pain. He gritted his teeth and just pulled the door knocker. Seeing that the gap between the copper doors was getting narrower and narrower, Lin Yang suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which slowly dissipated into a blood mist in the water. The copper door made a muffled "boom" sound, finally isolating the mermaids outside.

As the door closed, Lin Yang felt that she had no strength left. Her chest was stuffy and painful. Her blood dyed everything around her light red. Her body was floating as if she was falling into the mist. She just wanted to forget everything and fall into a deep sleep. If she fell asleep, she would no longer have to suffer so much...

Half asleep and half awake, I felt as if someone was gently holding me in their arms. A cool and soft touch came from my lips. He pried open her lips and tongue very gently, and the rich scent slowly entered my body, relieving the unbearable pain a little bit...

Pain, heart-wrenching pain.

This perception was the only thing left in her consciousness, torturing her mind. After struggling for a while, Lin Yang finally opened her eyes slowly. What she saw was a corner of the dark coffin, which exuded a long-lasting stench. She looked at it for a long time without coming back to her senses, and then closed her eyes again. Why could she still see the coffin? She should have entered the door before she fainted, and closed the door against the monsters. Then, she...

"you're awake."

A soft voice came from the side, gentle and soft. Lin Yang looked in the direction of the voice, and a pair of white boots caught his eye first. Lin Yang raised his eyes with effort, and met Liam's calm eyes. Her eyebrows were like distant mountains, and she was graceful. But looking at her current posture, she was squatting on the ground and talking to her. Lin Yang frowned and looked at her for a while, realizing that something was wrong.

"...Why do you want me to lie on the ground?"

Liam lowered his eyes and glanced at Lin Yang's back, his voice cold, "You don't want to lie down."

Speaking of the back, the thrilling scene at the bottom of the pool came back to Lin Yang's mind. The dullness of waking up was gradually replaced by pain, which developed to an unbearable level in a few breaths. Lin Yang tried to raise his shoulders, and immediately felt a sharp pain on his back rushing straight to his forehead. He groaned and fell to the ground motionless.

"Don't move, your back is badly injured." Liam avoided the wound and pressed on Lin Yang's shoulder. He opened his lips softly, and his eyes inevitably fell on the bloodstains on Lin Yang's back. The injury on Lin Yang's back was indeed very serious. The entire back was split diagonally from the left shoulder to the right abdomen. When he found Lin Yang, she had completely lost consciousness, and her body was dyed red with blood, which was shocking.

Liam's eyes sank slightly. She had her reasons for Lin Yang being so injured. At that time, she was pushed into the door by Lin Yang first. She was worried that she would be a hindrance and a burden to her, so she swam forward first. When she looked back, she didn't see Lin Yang catching up. Instead, the smell of blood in the water became stronger and stronger. When she turned back to look for him, she saw the scene of Lin Yang slowly sinking with blood all over his body.

The wound on Lin Yang's back had already damaged her tendons and bones. An ordinary person could not withstand such bleeding. However, there was no medicine available in the tomb at this time. Liam had no choice but to take off his coat and bandage her. However, this was not a solution after all. Both of them could not delay any longer.

"Then where are we now?" Lin Yang recalled what had happened and asked the most pressing question at the moment. He originally thought that there was running water in the pool that was connected to an underground river, and that he could escape with the water after entering. Now it seems that he is still within the scope of this tomb.

Liam said calmly, "It should be the real back room of this tomb."

Lin Yang thought of the coffin he saw when he first woke up, and turned around to take another look. "Have you checked the coffin? Do you know whose tomb this is?"

"I have seen them," Liam's tone sounded a little strange for some reason, "and I have seen more than one."

"More than one? Is this a joint burial tomb?" Lin Yang was slightly surprised. The mural clearly only recorded the life of one person, but he never thought that it was a tomb for two people.

"No," Liam still said very little, "If you count carefully, it should be a 'hundred burial tomb'."

"Hundred Burial Tomb?" Lin Yang thought he had seen many tombs, big and small, but he had never heard of a Hundred Burial Tomb. Could hundreds of people be buried in one tomb at the same time? Wouldn't that make it a sacrificial pit?

Considering Liam's status as Ling Xiao's eldest disciple who did not care about worldly matters, Lin Yang explained to her, "Did you see the burial pit? The one in the coffin is the owner of the tomb."

"More than a hundred bodies, all in coffins."

Liam's voice was calm, but it sounded like thunder to Lin Yang. What kind of tomb would contain a hundred coffins? It was impossible that all these hundred people died in one day, or someone deliberately gathered all these dead people in one place?

Lin Yang was anxious after hearing this, and didn't want to lie on the ground "playing dead" anymore, so he looked up and said to Liam: "Help me up first, I need to take a look at these coffins."

Liam was not moved at all. "You shouldn't get up now. I'll tell you what you want to know."

Lin Yang knew that she was doing this for his own good, but he couldn't just sit there and do nothing. "I don't know what's here, but maybe I can find clues if I see it with my own eyes." After waiting for a while, seeing that Liam didn't reply, he continued, "I know that my back is seriously injured, but in our current situation, we can't deal with the hordes of corpses in the tunnel. If we don't find a way out from now on, we will be trapped here to death. Why don't I get up and take a look? It's also for my own life."

There was a moment of silence beside him. Lin Yang was tired of looking up, so he rested his chin on his arm. After waiting for a while, he heard the man beside him whisper: "I'll help you get up, just bear with the pain."

Lin Yang smiled, and at this time he even had the mind to tease himself, "Don't worry, I have been strong since childhood, such a minor injury...hiss!" He was interrupted by a sudden sharp pain in the middle of his words. Lin Yang was shaking with pain, and the hands that were supporting Liam were shaking uncontrollably. By the time he stood up completely, a fine layer of cold sweat had already seeped out of his forehead, and he leaned weakly on Liam.

"Can you hold on?" Liam didn't dare to touch Lin Yang's back. He could only support her body with his arms. Lin Yang smiled at her with a pale face, closed her eyes tightly to make her vision a little clearer, pursed her lips and observed the tomb.

The room in front of him was broad and deep, and was undoubtedly the real back room of the tomb. Within an area of   a hundred steps, there were hundreds of coffins arranged in a vertical and horizontal pattern. They were all pitch black and monotonous without any distinctive patterns. A narrow waterway, two people wide, ran across the coffins. From the hole in the tomb wall on one side, a mighty column of water gushed out, rushing into the bottom of the tomb wall on the opposite side, and finally flowing to an unknown place. It seemed that they had just come in from here.

The three coffins closest to the two had been opened, with three dry bones scattered inside. There was nothing else. Even the clothes on the bodies were exactly the same. Lin Yang frowned and looked at Liam unwillingly, "Open two more coffins. They won't be exactly the same. There must be something unusual about this tomb."

However, until Liam opened the seventh coffin, the contents inside the coffin remained unchanged, and not even a single burial object was found.

Lin Yang's brows were furrowed tighter and tighter. It was unreasonable to put a hundred identical coffins in the same tomb. However, he didn't know why it was unreasonable. Just when he was getting annoyed, Liam's gentle and calm voice came from his side again, "These hundred people may not have died on the same day. Maybe they were deliberately collected and buried in one tomb. Is there a precedent for such a custom in the previous dynasty?"

Lin Yang shook her head, "In the burial traditions that I know of, there has never been a precedent of burying hundreds of people together..." Before she finished speaking, she suddenly fell silent, her eyes fell on the bones in the coffin. Liam knew that she had made some discoveries, and did not disturb her. He silently watched Lin Yang pick up the brocade clothes in the coffin and shake the bones down. Lin Yang's eyes were heavy. When she first saw the things in the coffin, she had always had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but when she thought about it carefully, she found nothing. After being reminded just now, she finally recalled that these people were indeed collected, and this brocade clothes was the best proof. She had seen this brocade clothes before, in the hall she just passed. At that time, she had not finished reading the murals, but her attention was attracted by the clay sculptures, and she could not see the rest of the pictures, but she had an impression of this dress. The people who bowed to the tomb owner in the last picture were wearing this dress.

"Do you remember the murals we saw in the hall?"

"I remember." Liam nodded slightly, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, "These people are the ones who are worshipping the tomb owner in the fourth picture." He paused and continued, "So the tomb owner might be a vassal king, but he was licentious and tyrannical, and dragged all his ministers to be buried with him."

"Not a minister." Lin Yang stared at the clothes in his hand, half of his face hidden in the darkness, revealing a bit of eerie ghostliness. "At first, I also thought that the fourth picture was about the emperor and his ministers paying homage to each other. However, since ancient times, all ministers have performed the ceremony of kneeling when entering the court, and the civil and military officials stood on both sides of the hall. The people in the painting are standing in five rows, bowing their heads to the tomb owner."

Five in a row. Liam narrowed his eyes slightly. The coffins in the room were neatly arranged, exactly five in a row.

"If you are not a subject, then who are you?"

Lin Yang raised his eyes and looked at Liam, with a half-smile on his face, "Do you think the clothes worn by the people in the hall are similar to the clothes that the tomb owner was given when he was crowned?"

When Liam heard this, a hint of surprise finally appeared in his calm eyes, "Are these people his descendants?"

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In fact, it can be seen here that Lin Yang knew a lot about the tomb, but he just deliberately concealed it from Liam.

The two of them have "intimate contact", order a song for the first experience of love