Chapter 898: Chapter 898: This Is Truly a Tale from Arabian Nights!
Xuan Xu was looking for Long Yue and Li Qingmu when he suddenly heard a loud noise beside him. Then, with a rumble, a wall in the passageway shattered.
A large bird appeared overhead, circling for a moment before heading away.
Xuan Xu’s gaze lingered on the large bird for a moment and then fell on the two people across from him.
"Prince, Princess Consort?"
Finally, he had found them. Xuan Xu was very excited and was about to approach when the people opposite suddenly gestured, "Stop!"
Xuan Xu was taken aback. Stop? Why were they telling him to stop?
He was puzzled, but out of habit, he stopped.
Long Yue and Li Qingmu exchanged a glance and then looked at Xuan Xu. Long Yue asked, "Are you Xuan Xu?"
Xuan Xu looked confused. "Prince, Princess Consort, are you... are you possessed?"
Oh, to ask such a question, it must indeed be the real Xuan Xu.
Long Yue shook her head. "No, someone pretended to be Jiang Wen before, so we have to be cautious."
"That Jiang Wen couple is problematic!"
Mentioning Jiang Wen, Xuan Xu’s pupils shrank dramatically, expressing shock.
"Your Highness, did you... did you encounter Jiang Wen before?"
"Yes, he led us into this tomb."
"But I just encountered the Jiang Wen couple above, and mysteriously, I ended up here." After a pause, he said, "Yes, I was inexplicably absorbed into this place."
Now things were becoming clear.
That Jiang Wen, someone might have made many paper effigies of Jiang Wen to deceive them.
And Xuan Xu encountered one and was tricked into this underground tomb?
However...
"How did you get here?"
Li Qingmu was very puzzled. To get to this place, they had to turn three or four times, not exactly life-and-death, but they’d encountered a lot of trouble. Xuan Xu?
"Honestly..." Xuan Xu hesitated for a moment but then said, "I originally exited from here!"
"Hmm?"
Li Qingmu was stunned, showing an incredulous expression. What did he mean by that?
Long Yue was also astonished, looking at him in surprise. "Xuan Xu, clarify what you mean!"
Xuan Xu awkwardly said, "I and the others were the soldiers entombed here long ago. We were buried alive. In other words, we were made into terracotta warriors while alive!"
As Xuan Xu spoke, Li Qingmu and Long Yue both felt a chill run down their spines. To think that living people could be made into terracotta warriors? The key point is, this person... hundreds of years later, no, perhaps even longer after so many years, could still come back to life?
This is not just incredible; it’s practically a fairy tale!
Such a thing, if it weren’t Xuan Xu whom Li Qingmu and they knew, would likely be dismissed as pure fabrication!
But even believing him, the couple still found it very unbelievable.
"This is quite unbelievable, right? Actually, I feel the same, but since it happened to me personally, and when my brothers woke up at the time, they also found it very surprising. However, not everyone could wake up."
Xuan Xu said, falling into memory. "A total of ten thousand of us were buried, and each person’s soul was immersed in a special medicine and sealed with another drug, the purpose being to allow us to survive, even if it spans countless years, we could still live."
"What was the purpose?"
Long Yue asked.
"The purpose?" Xuan Xu chuckled and said, "Back then, when Daying was on the verge of destruction, our leader devised this method so that we could survive and one day see the light of day again, to revive the nation!"
"Wait, hold on!" Long Yue caught on to a detail. "Daying? Isn’t it supposed to be Daxia?"
"Daying was before Daxia."
Li Qingmu suddenly responded to her.
Mentioning this, Li Qingmu suddenly said, "Precisely because you were from Daying, and Daxia was your enemy who destroyed you, so as the Emperor of Dazhou who overthrew Daxia, you have a favorable impression?"
Uh... Long Yue was taken aback by her husband’s train of thought. But, it makes sense?
She looked at Xuan Xu, finding him earnestly nodding. "Correct, although we remained in a lightless underground tomb for so long, with many grievances in our hearts, we did it voluntarily at the time, so our feelings for Daying remain very deep. Even knowing that rebuilding the nation is hopeless, we still cherish it."
This is probably a sense of belonging.
Li Qingmu pondered for a moment and said, "Don’t you want to rebuild the nation?"
This question was quite bold, something only Li Qingmu would dare to ask. If it were another prince, Qi Yun would probably have killed them.
In fact, Xuan Xu also thought this prince was remarkably audacious, but he liked that straightforward personality.
He said, "Yes, we have thought about restoring the nation, but back then, among those who were buried alongside us, only one thousand of us remain. What would we achieve? Moreover, the world today is... quite stable, and I think nobody wishes to plunge back into the chaos of war."
"That’s just one of the reasons, right?"
Li Qingmu suddenly smiled.
Seeing this prince, Xuan Xu suddenly felt very flustered and awkwardly nodded. "Yes, that’s only one reason. Also, many brothers waited in the endless darkness for so long to wake up. Finally becoming human again, they wouldn’t agree to fight again, but..."
"But what?"
"There was a conflict among us. Actually, when we woke up, there were a total of twelve hundred of us, and we all wanted a peaceful life, but one hundred and eighty were absolutely stubborn about restoring the nation. Then, a civil dispute broke out."
"Those one hundred and eighty died, and you lost twenty of your own?"
"Yes, Your Highness."
Li Qingmu suddenly fell silent. This issue was somewhat heavy, and he quickly said, "I’m sorry."
"It’s okay, Your Highness. So many years have passed, and we have come to terms with it. Mainly, our leader treated us well, allowing us to find a second home in this Dazhou."
Li Qingmu smiled. What he said was true, and Qi Yun was really good to his people, very kind.
"When did my father come here?"
Li Qingmu was puzzled. How could he not know about this? Moreover, there was no record of this in the official documents? This was very strange.
However, Li Qingmu immediately thought of a possibility, and Xuan Xu explained without reservation, "Back then, the leader was young, even younger than you, Your Highness."
Li Qingmu: "..."
"The leader was just eighteen at the time, and he wasn’t at this entrance but at the Nanyuan Palace side."
"In that burial pit?"
"No, no, it wasn’t a burial pit. That pit wasn’t there previously, it was artificially created, most likely by Pang Wenzheng’s group. As for the entrance where the leader went in, it was in the mountains on the Nanyuan Palace side, but that entrance should have been destroyed. We destroyed it when we came out."
Li Qingmu fell silent. It seemed his father’s little secrets were many, and this might just be the tip of the iceberg?
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