Chapter 228: Mausoleum
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
The Green Guardian stopped outside the cave. They were not qualified to enter the mausoleum.
Su Ying and Xiao Jin exchanged looks with each other and slowly walked into the cave.
The cave didn’t look big from the outside, but when they walked in, they found that the cave was very spacious. There were pearls inside to illuminate the cave, leading them all the way down.
The path inside the cave was winding, and the two of them walked cautiously for nearly a quarter of an hour before arriving in front of a stone door.
Xiao Jin examined the surroundings near the stone door. Finally, he gently turned a shelf with a pearl on it.
Click! A crack appeared on the stone door in front of them. After a while, a stone door that could allow two people to pass side by side appeared in front of them.
Just as Su Ying was about to walk in, Xiao Jin pulled her back.
She looked back at him with a baffled expression.
Xiao Jin didn’t say anything. He pulled her behind him and walked in the front.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows and looked at his firm and broad back. She felt as if her heart had been scratched by a cat.
Behind the stone door was a row of winding stone stairs. The stairs led downward. The two of them walked for a long time before they arrived in front of another stone door.
After triggering the door mechanism to open the stone door, an intense golden light burst out from within the stone room, almost blinding Su Ying.
Su Ying narrowed her eyes slightly and only opened them slowly after she got used to the light. She followed Xiao Jin in.
Even though the two of them had seen the world and experienced many things, they were still blinded by the mountains of gold, silver, and gems inside.
This wasn’t a mausoleum. This was clearly a treasure vault. No wonder the previous Empress didn’t allow anyone to come near this place.
Out of curiosity, Su Ying even went up to pick up a golden cup and weighed it in her hand. After confirming that all these things were real, she suddenly wanted to laugh out loud.
“Damn! I’m rich!” she thought.
Xiao Jin collected his thoughts and shifted his gaze to a large bookcase at the side.
He walked over and picked up a book to flip through. It actually contained writings on how to control people and some unique secret techniques.
“A book on puppet techniques?” Su Ying casually picked up a book to read. Wasn’t this the method she had seen them using on the children at the training ground the other day?
“The rulers here have used all kinds of training to block those people’s thoughts, making them lose practically all their abilities to think for themselves. They only know how to obey orders and be loyal to the Empress.” However, the rulers had forgotten that although they only had one empress, many people could become the empress.
This was also why those people were able to acknowledge her as their master so quickly after she captured Wei Ji.
Su Ying turned to look at a large and thick book. She walked over and opened it curiously. It recorded the origins of the Sky Alpha City.
A hundred years ago, this was already a place where criminals were exiled, but there weren’t that many of them. Thereafter, a woman suddenly appeared and gathered all the criminals. It took them a full thirty years to build the Sky Alpha City. Following that, she appointed herself the Empress.
However, it did not take long for the Empress to realize that as she grew older, the people around her became more and more scheming. Some even had thoughts of rebellion. In order to prevent the Sky Alpha City that she had painstakingly built from being overturned, she found a secret puppet technique from somewhere and began to recruit young children into the city without any restraint. She began to train them, turning them into mindless puppets whose life and death were under her control.
This way, she would not have to worry about her throne being snatched away.
However, one day, she would still die of old age. When she felt that she did not have much time left, the Empress chose a person she liked to succeed to the throne. This person was the previous empress before Wei Ji.
The previous empress inherited the tenet of the preceding empress and continued to implement the puppet technique. The normal people in the city either died or were gradually expelled. From then on, the Sky Alpha City turned into what they saw today.
However, it only recorded the deeds of the previous empress, and there was no record of Wei Ji after that.
The book did not state who the previous empress had chosen to succeed the throne either. In fact, it did not even mention this matter.
Su Ying calculated the time that had lapsed. When the first empress passed away, it was about thirty years after the Sky Alpha City was completely established. The second empress was not very old when she took over the throne. Until the end of the records, she was less than thirty years old. Compared to the lifespan of the first empress, the second empress’s reign was only about half as long.
It was also recorded in the book that the new empress would be able to succeed to the throne after defeating the previous empress. It was an official contest, unlike the ferocious battle she had with Wei Ji.
However, there was no record of Wei Ji in the book. It was very likely that this woman had usurped the throne.
Su Ying closed the book and continued to flip through other books, hoping to find some records regarding Wei Ji. However, after searching through everything, she couldn’t find even a single word that mentioned her.
It was as if this person had appeared out of thin air in the Sky Alpha City.
“Xiao Jin, do you think that the Sky Alpha City was given to us by the heavens?” Unable to find any clues, Su Ying no longer dwelt on this matter. Instead, she closed the book and looked at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin looked at her and suddenly laughed.
Su Ying was stunned when he laughed. She had to admit that he looked really attractive when he laughed.
“What are you laughing at?”
“You just said ‘us’.”
Su Ying frowned. Was there a problem with this phrase? Could it be that this rascal wanted to monopolize this city?
“Rascal, you better not have any dangerous thoughts, or 1’11 turn you into a puppet.”
Xiao Jin was not afraid of her threat at all. “It’s not impossible for me to be your puppet.”
Su Ying looked at his dark eyes, which were getting increasingly brighter, and felt that there was a hidden meaning behind his words.
She changed the subject and said, “The book doesn’t record how these gold, silver, and gems came about.”
“Who cares how they got here? It’s all ours now.”
Su Ying felt that his words made sense, but she was still a little worried about leaving these things here. Next time, she would have to find an opportunity to hide some of them in her interspatial store. The interspatial store was the safest place.
As they walked further in, they found a coffin inside. The surface of the coffin was also extremely luxurious, and it was inlaid with all kinds of gems.
Su Ying felt that this should be the coffin of the first empress.
However, there was only one coffin, which made Su Ying even more certain of her guess. Wei Ji’s position as Empress could not have been obtained through normal means.
“Let’s go out first.” The path in the mausoleum ended at the coffin.
Su Ying nodded and followed Xiao Jin out of the cave.
When he saw the two of them walk out, the Green Guardian stepped forward respectfully.
“Let’s go back first. Gather the people I came with and go to the main hall.”
“Yes.”
Su Ying had already taken down the Sky Alpha City. The next step was to take over this place and turn it into her own territory.
Qiao Yang and the others had also walked one round through the city. The buildings here were very majestic. One could imagine how much manpower and material resources were spent on its construction back then. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this city was built on corpses..
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