The Invincible Doctor of the Female Village Chief-Chapter 586: Beauties, Delicacies, and Wealth
No wonder Zhou Madman was screaming, the scene before him was indeed quite eerie.
After opening the door, there was a corpse hanging from the beams, more precisely, a skeleton with long hair attached to the skull, suggesting it was a woman in life. Below the skeleton was a pile of clothing nearly decayed to dust.
More startlingly, under this skeleton, two people were fighting.
At first glance, one might think they were alive, but Liu Zixuan, upon closer inspection, realized that every move of these two people was mechanical, continually repeating the same fighting pose.
Liu Zixuan rolled his eyes at Zhou Madman and pulled him forward: "If you’re not scared by them, you’ll be scared to death by yourself. Can’t you be a bit more steady?"
"A-are they alive?" Zhou Madman mumbled, not daring to look directly.
"Alive my foot. If they were alive, they would have turned around when we came in. Look carefully," Liu Zixuan pointed at the two fighting figures.
Zhou Madman, with a frightened face, turned his head and suddenly narrowed his pupils, finally seeing the mechanical fighting.
In a fit of anger, he dashed over and kicked one of them: "Damn it, you’re dead and still scaring people..."
"Squeak..."
Before Zhou Madman’s words were finished, the person he kicked slumped to the side, but a sliding sound echoed in the room.
A bad premonition arose suddenly, and Liu Zixuan quickly grabbed Zhou Madman by the shoulder, dragging him to the doorway at once.
Rumble!
Where they originally stood suddenly collapsed, and more importantly, above those two fighting figures, fine strings suddenly appeared!
"Are these... marionettes?" Zhou Madman murmured.
Liu Zixuan squinted his eyes, using those fine strings to control the fighting of two dead people, indeed similar to traditional marionettes, but marionettes require someone to operate them behind the scenes.
Clearly, there was no one in this room, so they weren’t marionettes!
"No, these are string-controlled humanoid puppets!"
Whoosh!
Two arrows suddenly shot out from beside the hanging corpse, and at the arrow tips, a burst of flame appeared as they sped forth.
Liu Zixuan took a glance, swiftly pulling Zhou Madman to crouch on the ground, the arrows whistling past over their heads and embedding themselves into the outside wall.
Zhou Madman was filled with post-fear, cold sweat drenched his body.
"This place is so profound, I really can’t believe no one is controlling things here."
Liu Zixuan shook his head and walked over there, sensing the danger was temporarily resolved.
Upon approaching, the collapsed place revealed a small wooden mechanism, precisely controlling the two humanoid puppets.
Liu Zixuan chuckled and explained: "Don’t scare yourself, all of this can be completed with just mechanisms."
"What about those arrows igniting on their own, it seems like only modern technology could achieve that," Zhou Madman still didn’t dare to approach.
Liu Zixuan laughed: "That’s because the arrows brushed against the hair on the skull when flying. After years of transformation, the hair contains a large amount of phosphorus. When the humidity and the speed of collision and the metal friction meet, fire erupts."
"What?" Zhou Madman was bewildered.
"Go back and read more books. With such little knowledge, you still dare to tomb raid? I really can’t imagine how you managed to survive from those previous tombs." Liu Zixuan commented with annoyance, looking towards the hanging skeleton. From the hair and bone joints, it seemed to be a woman who had a good figure, likely a beauty in life.
Liu Zixuan stroked his chin and murmured: "Using humanoid puppets to fight in front of a hanged beauty, what does this imply?"
"To die for women, to strive for women one’s whole life. Just like the modern world, how many good men compete for women," Zhou Madman instinctively mumbled.
Liu Zixuan snapped his fingers: "I think there’s truth to what you said!"
"I was just talking nonsense," Zhou Madman waved his hand, tiptoeing forward and grabbing a handful of the clothing ashes under the skeleton. After close observation, he said: "It’s pretty close to our previous assumptions."
Liu Zixuan nodded and began examining the surroundings. This was not like a tomb, but there was a corpse inside and no coffin, using such a way to hang the dead from the beams. It’s worth noting that the door of the house could only accommodate someone one and a half meters tall, but the skeleton was clearly taller than that.
Murmuring, he said: "I feel there should be some deep meaning to this."
"What’s the significance? Apart from the humanoid puppets and this woman’s skeleton, there’s nothing else in this house. Looks like we’ll end up empty-handed this time!" Zhou Madman said with dissatisfaction.
"Aren’t there still three houses?" Liu Zixuan smiled and walked out of the first courtyard towards the second.
The same specifications, the same decor, but the second room presented a different scene.
There were no mechanisms in the second room, but it was filled with six or seven large tables, and the tables were piled with bones that had corroded away.
"What’s with these bones? Feeding dogs?" Zhou Madman cursed, pinching his nose.
"No, you need to understand that bones aren’t easily decomposed, but the flesh on them corrodes quickly. Back in those days, these tables would have been laden with all sorts of delicacies." Liu Zixuan pointed to one side: "Look at those vessels, they’re probably for wine."
Zhou Madman approached for a closer look. Some unopened jars indeed contained wine, albeit with a fruity aroma quite different from modern-day wine.
"Beauty? Delicacies?" Liu Zixuan stroked his chin and smiled intriguingly: "The next thing in the wine room might be of interest to you!"
"Interesting to me?" Zhou Madman laughed aloud: "What’s that?"
"Go take a look and you’ll find out!"
Before Liu Zixuan could finish, Zhou Madman rushed to the third room, and as soon as he opened the door, he shouted: "I’m about to become the world’s wealthiest man!"
Liu Zixuan was right, this place had everything Zhou Madman loved, neatly arranged large boxes, eight in total. They were filled with various diamonds, jewels, and gold and silver ornaments.
At a glance, these items could be worth billions, maybe even tens of billions.
Beauty, delicacies, money...
Liu Zixuan murmured and suddenly brightened: "These are the things that most reveal human desires, so what could be in the fourth room?"
