Imperial Treasure
Chapter 400 - 272: Three Doubts_2

Chapter 400: Chapter 272: Three Doubts_2

Three-point analysis made Ye Changan nod, "So I just felt something was off, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Your analysis has clarified it a lot."

"However, I’m just speculating. I can’t actually figure out the answers to these questions," Xiao Yu flicked the dagger in her hand, squinted her eyes, and suddenly looked towards Sui Yi, who had been silent all along.

"Sui Yi, what do you think?"

Sui Yi looked up, glanced at the two of them, and said, "First, the Prophet must really exist. I don’t believe in the so-called talent of foreseeing the future, but it’s not impossible for someone to deduce the situation, look at the celestial phenomena, and gain some insight. If their logic and thinking are extraordinary, they could possess predictive abilities, but there’s another possibility... that the Prophet might actually be part of the Black Iron Army."

"Second, Mohammed might be a prophet under the Prophet’s command, also possessing such skills and knowledge. Look at his corpse’s clothes, a black robe with special patterns on the cuffs and collar; ordinary people don’t dress like that."

"Third, murders are generally due to passion, vengeance, treasure, or madness. A crime of passion is highly unlikely—all signs don’t match; it’s ruled out. Vengeance leads to premeditated massacres, but there’s no need to clean up the city, spending effort arranging these Loulan people’s bodies so brutally that it’s both laborious and time-consuming. Naturally, it doesn’t fit the psychology of an avenger. The madness in murder, where killing is unconscious and emotional, wouldn’t be organized so neatly. As for ’demonic,’ it points to sacrifices—from some elder organizations’ pure ritual needs, sparing no effort in slaughtering and arranging these bodies to fulfill its ceremonial needs, or it could be called a malicious curse. In the context of Loulan’s cultural group and that era, the existence of such organizations isn’t surprising. The last reason could be treasure" (I’m not great at logical reasoning, just jotting it down).

Having said this, Sui Yi stopped speaking.

Ye Changan and Xiao Yu understood what she meant.

"So the Black Iron Army slaughtered the city for a ritual or to seize treasures?" Ye Changan’s eyes sparkled,

"It could also be for the treasure, with the ritual serving as a convenient curse. The motives might not be singular," said Xiao Yu calmly.

Many people who break into homes to rob develop a momentary sense of hatred or fear towards unfamiliar victims, leading to brutal treatment of the bodies...

The human heart is unpredictable.

"If we are to discover the truth, we can only visit the Royal City to see for ourselves and also check the whereabouts of the royal bloodline mentioned by Mohammed."

The trio was sensitive and speculated that Mohammed’s abrupt mention of the royal bloodline was not just out of concern, but also carried a certain sense of anticipation, as if foreseeing that the royal bloodline might escape this calamity.

Knowing that everything stemmed from the Royal City, yet the trio had no intention of entering it now.

Because...

"Find some food and see,"

The trio went to the kitchen and were immediately hit by the sight of various ingredients lying on the chopping board. Of course, there were also bodies sealed inside the wall, along with that strange creature. Once understood, this creature was not hard to deal with—a shot into the wall, and it was killed on the spot!

"Hey, this jerked meat is still good," Ye Changan used a clean spare knife to cut the dust-covered jerked meat ham, slicing out chunks of still well-preserved meat.

In the desert region, meat is primarily consumed, with various kinds of cured meats especially popular, but even so, such well-preserved states still gave the trio an...

eerie feeling.

"The slaughtered ancient city, the misaligned times..." Sui Yi frowned. She actually hadn’t disclosed to the others that she had detected, through Magnetic Sensation, that these utensils dated back over eighteen hundred years, indeed aligning with the Eastern Han Dynasty historical records of Loulan vanishing from public view. But the nine thousand years, the uncorrupted corpses, and the perfectly preserved buildings still made her sense immense mysterious forces manipulating the age of this ancient city.

Time stopped? The flow of time slowed down?

The thought bubbling up in Sui Yi’s mind was so incredulous that even she found it hard to suppress once it emerged...

After ensuring the food did not carry any toxic bacteria, Sui Yi and the others each carried a significant amount of food, although she and Xiao Yu shouldered more, while Ye Changan picked a few special pastries.

The trio quickly left the residence and didn’t check the other houses, as Gong Jiu and their group were still waiting for them to return.

The plan was to return with the main troop later since they were limited by the equipment they had and didn’t possess the extensive knowledge like Professor Ye, making any investigation into this city highly challenging.

"Can we exit through the main door?"

"It seems possible, this here is the latch, Sui Yi, come lift the handle, we’ll open it together,"

This front part was quite simple, without any mechanisms, just a bar resembling heavy iron and made of a special mineral across the back of the door.

"So heavy, who knows what material this is made of,"

"Could it be meteorite iron? It must weigh a thousand pounds, right?"

"Not necessarily,"

"Maybe your military should send a helicopter over to transport this meteorite iron out..."

Sui Yi’s comment made Ye Changan and the other person laugh. That could be something.

After all, the value of meteorite iron is immeasurable, let alone that from the Ancient City of Loulan’s iron bar.

Boom!

The bar, now propped against the wall by Sui Yi and the other, opened the door.

They saw that long river.

Looking up, they could see the original riverbank they had been at...

Riverbank?

From here, it wasn’t very clear to the average person, but Sui Yi’s vision wasn’t ordinary; at first glance, her face slightly changed.

Where are the people?

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"Since the era marked by falling meteorites and nine purples ascending to the throne, the era of the Emperor began, yet the Emperor’s disposition transformed, becoming much more ferocious, mercilessly slaughtering everywhere, his iron cavalry reaching extremes, massacring towns and feeding corpses to these raised gu creatures and spirits, sparing nothing to extremes. The world was in turmoil, and finally, in our Loulan," Ye Changan paused, then read, "The signature is Mohammed; and the recorded time" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)