Chapter 258: Eating Up All the Money
Chapter 258: Eating Up All the Money
The passage was pitch black.
Liang Qu opened his golden eyes and saw an oil lamp hanging on the wall.
He took the tinder handed to him by Ke Wenbin, unscrewed the lid and blew away the sparks.
Sparks splashed onto the oil surface and ignited flames.
Ke Wenbin was amazed at Liang Qu who was moving freely and unhindered in the darkness.
"How many techniques have you practiced? How come you seem to know everything?"
It was dark, with houses and tunnels, a triple weakening. Without any light, even he had some difficulty seeing things here.
Adding to the previous method of warding off evil spirits and that weird hearing ability, none of these techniques are easy to practice.
But all the attention was focused on Liang Qu, who was not yet an adult. If it was a middle-aged man, he would not be so surprised.
“I’m gifted.”
"That's true."
Ke Wenbin touched his chin thoughtfully.
He didn't take this as a joke, he really felt that way.
"Don't be stunned. It's early morning now. We have to hurry back before it gets dark."
Xiang Fangsu handed over a torch.
Liang Qu also took one.
The corners after entering the passage were all filled with torches with cloth strips wrapped around the heads. It was obvious that the ghost mother had taught people to keep them for their own use, which was convenient for them.
The fire flickered, and the blue bricks reflected a clear white light.
Xiang Fangsu walked in front, Ke Wenbin walked behind, and Liang Qu walked in the middle.
The entire corridor was not wide and one could touch the top with one's hand. The terrain sloped downward and one could occasionally see one or two steps, which meant that they were going deeper and deeper underground.
Liang Qu silently estimated the distance and walked about five hundred steps. The firelight illuminated a dark cave entrance.
Ke Wenbin crossed the Liangqu Canal and leaned against the sides of the passage with Xiang Fangsu.
They looked at each other and rushed out at the same time.
"no problem."
Two voices were heard in the darkness, and Liang Qu followed out.
He looked around. At the end of the corridor was a huge space. The light from the torches could only illuminate the blue bricks under his feet.
There was a half-step protruding from the wall, and inside it was an oil ditch. Liang Qu lowered the torch and ignited the cotton rope soaked in oil.
The flames spread along the oil channel, the golden oil burned fiercely, and a flood of light splashed out, illuminating the empty and dark hall.
The first thing that catches your eye is an alchemy cauldron that is a meter high.
The tripod is square and pitch black in color, with a tightly closed lid. There are nine black dragons carved around the tripod, holding a round bead at the top together.
The black dragon was extremely lifelike. If you didn't stare at it, you would actually think it was alive!
“Black Dragon Ten Thousand Square Cauldron!”
Xiang Fangsu looked up with amazement in his eyes.
"I've only seen the artist's albums in the sect before, but I didn't expect to see the real thing today." Ke Wenbin couldn't help but touch it. Unexpectedly, his expression changed slightly as he touched it, and his eyes revealed disbelief, "There's dust on it?"
He raised his hand in surprise and rubbed the black ash on his fingertips, wondering if he was hallucinating.
Then he grabbed the sleeve and wiped it on the tripod. The whole black spot was particularly eye-catching, as if piercing Ke Wenbin's childhood dream.
Xiang Fangsu wiped it as well and also left a black spot.
"There was no alchemist in the Ghost Mother Cult who was worthy of it, so it was abandoned."
Not only was it dilapidated, there wasn't even a servant to clean it!
Liang Qu had never attended a clan school, but he could guess that the large tripod in front of him was some kind of heirloom.
He stepped over the black tripod. Further away there were several large tripods, each with a different shape.
On the other side of the alchemy furnace are the tools used to refine equipment.
The square hammer with mysterious patterns and the furnace several feet high, even if no one has cared about them for decades, still have a breathtaking beauty.
If any item in the hall were to leak out to the outside world, it would probably cause alchemists and blacksmiths to pursue it crazily.
But now they have been buried on an uninhabited island for decades following the Ghost Mother Cult.
One can imagine the decline of the Ghost Mother Cult in recent years.
The big goods that Xu Yuelong mentioned must be these things.
"The Ghost Mother Cult we are fighting is probably not the same as the one Duke Xu fought back then."
"Let's switch gears. The Ghost Mother Sect lost half to us and half to time." Liang Qu suddenly asked, "How many branches of the Ghost Mother Sect have fled to the Great Marsh?"
"It has been verified that there are eighteen meridians." Xiang Fangsu replied, "The branch we are fighting against was also a duke in the past, with the surname Huang, so many of the direct descendants here have the surname Huang."
"There are seventeen more like this?"
Liang Qu was shocked. The wealth of one branch was so huge. The total wealth of the eighteen branches...
"Wrong!" Ke Wenbin shook his head. "There are only nine groups like this. Of the remaining eight, five are vassal kings, two are princes, and one is a member of the family! They are much stronger than the one we eliminated. Perhaps it will take the arrival of the Martial Saint himself.
But now is different from before. In the past, the Ghost Mother Cult was united as one, but after more than 60 years, it is hard to say.
Maybe the credit for completely eradicating the Ghost Mother Cult will fall on you and me, and then my father will be promoted to a higher rank."
After exclaiming in amazement, the three of them continued walking along the corridor behind the hall.
When we arrived at the second hall, the painting style suddenly became strange.
Several corpses were leaning in the corner, their faces a mottled gray-yellow color, their muscles and skin shrunk and clung to their bones, even their eyeballs were dehydrated and empty, their sights cast into the infinite darkness.
The most eye-catching thing is the corpse's open ribs that look like two shaky doors.
Liang Qu was very familiar with this.
Mountain ghost.
After being sucked by the mountain ghost, it appears like this.
There is a stone door on the left side of the hall. When you push it open, you will see corpses lying all over the place inside.
It is impossible to count the number of Liangqu (a stream of water flowing into a canal) there, perhaps dozens, or perhaps hundreds. Dried bloodstains are scattered on the brick and stone floor, making it impossible to even think of going in and exploring.
The three of them quickly browsed through it and came to the third hall. The contents inside were refreshing.
Long sword, broadsword, armor, arm guard, long skirt...
Liang Qu released his perception and realized that almost half of the things inside were spiritual weapons!
Ke Wenbin walked past the two of them and rushed to a piece of clothing.
"Phoenix Singing Colorful Clothes and Feathered Wind! Damn, these are the last few treasures of Master Shao Jiyi's life! They are so damn beautiful, even better than in the painting!"
Ke Wenbin couldn't let it go and reached out to take it down.
Xiang Fangsu was surprised: "Two for one person, you don't want to take this, do you? Give it to your fiancée? Think about it carefully."
Ke Wenbin became conflicted upon hearing this.
"Listen to my advice, wait and see before deciding. If there is nothing suitable, come back and get it."
Ke Wenbin was persuaded and put down the clothes in his hands.
Love makes people blind.
Liang Qu sighed.
They came to the fourth room and pushed open the door. A faint fragrance wafted in. Cabinets were lined up and small medicine bottles were placed on many shelves.
Bo-sik, Bo-dan!
The most valuable thing!
Weapons and armor are good, but they are external objects after all. The root of everything lies in strength!
The three of them ran towards a container each.
Liang Qu pulled one out, and it was empty.
He was stunned, thinking it was a coincidence, but when he opened another one, it was still empty!
Liang Qu quickly pulled away a few people nearby.
empty.
empty.
All empty!
He turned to look at Xiang Fangsu and Ke Wenbin, and the three of them met their eyes in mid-air at the same time.
“Why is it all empty?”
“It was used?”
Everyone was stunned, and then their expressions twisted when they thought of the alchemy furnace covered in dust.
If there is only outflow and no inflow, then isn't it empty?
There are still a lot of metals and weapons left over. After all, spiritual weapons can self-repair and grow, and the consumption is much less than medicines.
Baozhi and Baodan are completely living off their savings!
There is not enough food for ourselves, let alone leaving it for those who come later.
Liang Qu and others did not give up. They searched through all the boxes and cabinets one by one. In the end, they only found things in two cabinets.
(End of this chapter)