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Chapter 271 - 267 Tomb 2

Chapter 271: Chapter 267 Tomb 2

To be honest, Mu Ying couldn’t shake a sense of familiarity upon considering this speculation.

Hadn’t she done the same thing?

In the beginning, to hide her identity as a noble Lord, she’d rented out Tree House No. 1 to Oak Grocery and then rented No. 2 for herself, disguising herself as an ordinary tenant.

If there was no deeper Royal Tomb layer here, then if the Queen of Guland had prepared a tomb for herself, it might also be on this level or deeper down.

The Guland Underground City thrived for thousands of years, and its sole ruler was always the Queen of Guland; she must have been quite young at the start, at least in her prime.

A young woman in her prime wouldn’t hastily reserve a tomb for herself during the early development stages of the Underground City, right?

Even if she had the same concerns about her identity as Mu Ying did, she wouldn’t have tampered with the tombs so prematurely.

Moreover, these tombs were arranged in the order in which the people had died; by the number of years the Queen had lived, her number should be quite late in the sequence.

That makes the missing Tomb No. 1 quite suspicious.

Such an obvious absence of a number—if it’s just to hide Tomb No. 1, they could’ve simply excluded the hidden tomb from the sequence, right? That would’ve been even more covert, with no one guessing there was a hidden one.

So, a more likely possibility is that it’s a ruse designed to deliberately start from No. 2, then lead people to believe in a hidden treasure, Tomb No. 1, guiding them in the wrong direction.

If we put aside this questionable existence of Tomb No. 1, then what remains as the most suspicious area might be what this ruse is actually trying to protect?

What else could it be?

Naturally, it’s No. 2.

If they had followed normal numbering, this first tomb would always be the most conspicuous. But with a disappearing Tomb No. 1, everyone’s attention was diverted away from Tomb No. 2.

The death date of the occupant of Tomb No. 2 is over a decade earlier than that of No. 3, and it’s also several years earlier than the opening date of Guland Underground City.

According to 559, the Underground City grew gradually, and naturally, it must’ve accumulated over time before opening.

Therefore, someone who died before the opening and was buried here, though only in his twenties, must be related to the Queen of Guland.

Considering that the numbering was altered for this tomb, it’s possible that there was a very close relationship. Venturing a bold guess, the epitaph seems to be written from the perspective of the person who buried him. Could that person be the Queen of Guland herself?

The more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

She must find a way to get into this tomb!

But the door was fixed with a Secret Magic Lock, a type she couldn’t open.

And the door was a bronze door; even if she wanted to forcibly break it open, it would be quite troublesome.

However, ’troublesome’ just means it wasn’t completely without a solution.

Even for the other Noble Tombs, it was the same.

Firstly, only the doors of these tombs were enhanced with Secret Magic Locks; there were none on the surrounding walls.

When the Underground Core was still intact, the walls of the Underground City were heavily fortified.

The Underground City is a kind of architectural living body, with these walls, floors, and even ceilings akin to the body of the Underground City, so one could trust the level of their self-protection.

On the other hand, the protection system added to the doors they built themselves was independent, resulting in the doors’ protection still being in place even after the destruction of the Underground Core.

So, with a little inconvenience, she could circumvent these locks by digging through the walls and potentially plunder all of these tombs.

Even if that wasn’t an option, a forced destruction based on the material of the doors was still possible.

Mu Ying walked a few meters beside the bronze door of Tomb No. 2 and performed the Stone Shaping Technique on the wall.

The stone wall gradually turned outward, revealing a depression, and she continued to dig with the Stone Shaping Technique.

It had to be said that the material used in the Noble Tomb was indeed more exquisite than that used in the civilian tombs.

Although the protective ability of the Underground City was gone when it was still intact, the thickness of this wall alone showed much more attention to detail. Mu Ying had to use the Stone Shaping Technique three times before she broke through.

There was actually light inside!

Mu Ying peered into the hole.

Inside was a small living room with a carpet, sofa, ornaments, bookshelves, and a fireplace; she even saw a dining room.

The light came from the chandelier on the ceiling, the table lamp on the desk, the floor lamp beside the sofa, and the wall lamps on the walls.

How was this like a tomb? It was entirely like a place for living in!

If it weren’t for the thick layer of dust inside, she would have thought there were living people still inhabiting it.

Mu Ying carefully entered, reasoning that such a tomb was unlikely to have any rockfall or fire traps; arbitrarily setting a trap might not necessarily kill an intruder, but would instead risk destroying the meticulously decorated tomb.

But she still exercised extreme caution, not daring to touch any of the furnishings.

Her attention was drawn to a model on the carpet beside the desk.

It was an irregular model, larger on top and smaller below, roughly in the shape of an upside-down pyramid, with six levels.

The first level was the largest, presenting a large maze with miniature monsters and figurines. The second level contained various buildings, giving the impression of a small city, while the third level featured a small maze shrouded in mist.

The fourth and fifth levels looked somewhat familiar to Mu Ying—weren’t these the civilian tomb level and the current Noble Tomb level?

The distinctive long corridors in the middle were too unmistakable.

Even though the tombs on both sides of the corridor were different, she counted meticulously and found that the number of tombs on the fourth level exactly matched the number in the civilian tombs.

The number of Noble Tombs on the fifth level also precisely corresponded.

Thus, what this object was became self-evident.

It was a scale model of the Guland Underground City.

Seeing this, Mu Ying knew she had come to the right place.

The full appearance of the Underground Core should look similar to this model, but the one before her eyes was obviously not it.

This couldn’t just be a collectible of an ordinary Underground City noble because, in the model, although every tomb only had a frame, what was specifically inside each was not represented.

But the size and shape of each tomb matched the tombs outside exactly—how would anyone know the specifications of the other people’s tombs without being an insider?

And the Guland Underground City was a true central-authority stronghold, with the Queen of Guland as its sole ruler. It seemed that this tomb truly had a close connection with the Queen of Guland.

Could it really be that this was a tomb built by the Queen of Guland for her lover?

That’s why the inside was decorated like a home?

No, Mu Ying noticed that although they were ancient, the items in the tomb were well-preserved, but some still showed signs of use.

For instance, there were marks of wear on the cups on the coffee table, traces of handling on the books in the bookshelf, and signs of wear on the utensils in the cabinet.

It appeared as though someone had truly lived here.

And the last level, the sixth level, the smallest, contained only one room, located right below Tomb number 2.

Mu Ying’s heart skipped a beat, "Could this place be the Core Chamber?"