187 The secret of the sarcophagus

"Why are you here?" A trace of surprise appeared on Bai Xijing's face, which seemed to be a little unbelievable. She subconsciously glanced at the visitor, clenched her hands tightly into fists, and then took a step back.

"Xi'er, I should ask you this, right? Didn't you go to Sheng'an Temple to listen to the scriptures? Why did you bring a group of people here? Is there any master of scriptures here? A faint tone, but inexplicably with a trace of unspeakable anger.

As people kept lighting the torch, and the night pearl in Bai Xijing's hand when facing the man happened to outline the personal figure. When they saw the man's face, everyone was shocked, and then knelt down one after another and asked An, "See you, king, noble peace."

Bai Ziyu glanced at the others faintly, and finally his eyes fell on Bai Xijing: "It's cold below. Princess Xijing is weak. Du Kang, send the princess back to the palace!"

"I won't go back." As soon as Bai Ziyu's voice fell, Bai Xijing grabbed Du Kang's sleeve and shook his head. She took a deep breath, and then turned her head to Bai Ziyu and said firmly, "We have come this far. We have no choice, Wang!"

She called him king, not her brother, and the meaning of her words was very clear. Bai Ziyu looked at Bai Xijing fixedly. Her expression was very cold, but there was always a faint warmth between her eyebrows. She was not the most obedient person since she was a child. She had her own ideas. Even if everyone thought her ideas were wrong, she was stubborn to the end.

He couldn't stop her. Looking at her look, he understood.

"Please put the overall situation first." When everyone saw Bai Ziyu's cold face, they knew that he did not intend to sacrifice Bai Xijing, but... they knew that in order to save Bai Xijing, he had to sacrifice. They came for the White Country. How can they go back like this? Thinking of this, everyone gritted their teeth and knelt down and begged.

Looking at the person kneeling in front of him, Bai Ziyu couldn't help frowning. He didn't think that Bai Xijing had told them all this. She made up her mind to come here. He can't take her away. No, he has made up his mind to come here: even if he uses force, he will take her away, even if he is scolded as a faint king!

"Du Kang, take the princess! Don't let me say it again!" Bai Ziyu said with a strong attitude, his head raised slightly, and his eyes were full of sharpness and persistence.

Du Kang looked at Bai Ziyu, then at Bai Xijing, and finally asked Bai Xijing in a low voice, "Princess, what do you plan to do?"

"I won't leave, Du Kang, will you listen to me or his?" Bai Xijing looked at Du Kang with fixed eyes, and there was a trace of anxiety and tension in his voice.

Du Kang naturally knew what Bai Xijing was worried about. It would never be an accident for Bai Ziyu to come here. When he could follow here, he said that someone inside revealed the news to Bai Ziyu, and that person may also be Du Kang. So she panicked.

Du Kang smiled gently, reflecting the fluorescence of the night pearl in Bai Xijing's hand. His smile looked particularly amazing. He nodded to Bai Xi's scenic spot and said, "Du Kang said that only the princess is the master. Since the princess can't leave, how dare Du Kang resist the order?"

His voice was not loud, and he looked at Bai Xijing with burning eyes. That look and sound made Bai Xijing's heart slowly calm down. She turned her head to look at the altar still a distance away from here. Because the torch could not be approached, it could only be vaguely now. I saw some vague shadows. Bai Xijing took a deep breath: "Du Kang, take me there."

"Xijing!" Unexpectedly, Du Kang would not listen to him. He subconsciously stretched out his hand and went to catch Bai Xijing, but he was avoided by Bai Xijing. Watching Du Kang hold Bai Xijing and go to the altar, Bai Ziyu gritted his teeth and followed. When they moved like this, the people in the whole underground palace did not dare to follow, but also quickly followed to the sacrificial platform.

Du Kang quickly came to the sacrificial platform with Bai Xijing in his arms. Bai Xijing stepped on the stage and quickly went to the sarcophagus. For some reason, she always felt that there was something familiar in it, as if something was calling her.

"Xi'er!" As soon as Bai Ziyu fell on the altar, he chased Bai Xijing regardless of anything else, but he didn't expect that he had just taken only two steps. Du Kang suddenly turned around and made a long sword out of its sheath and made a fierce sound. Du Kang looked at Bai Ziyu and said, "Your Majesty, I don't want to point the sword at you. If possible, please stand still first. It's better to move."

"Du Kang, how dare you." Bai Ziyu raised his eyebrows.

"Why don't I dare?" Du Kang looked at Bai Ziyu quietly, and there were no emotional ups and downs in his voice. If Bai Xijing is destined to die here, what else is he afraid to do and what he can't do?

"Du Kang, don't forget why I'm here!" Bai Ziyu's voice became colder and colder. After saying that, he took out all the pile of paper in his arms and smashed it fiercely at Du Kang.

Du Kang did not avoid allowing the paper to hit him. Although this side only relied on the night pearl in Bai Xijing's hand to have a slight light, and it was not too clear to see anything, Du Kang knew what those papers were, and he knew better than anyone else.

"I'm just giving the princess the last chance to make a choice. Now that she has chosen, all I can do is to help her complete everything she wants to do, that's all. King, but did you misunderstand what Du Kang meant by passing the news to you? Du Kang stood upright in front of Bai Ziyu, gently stroked the sword body with one hand, and the sword made a slight cry.

Bai Ziyu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words. He didn't seem to expect Du Kang to say so. He thought that Du Kang also didn't want to see Bai Xijing die, so he did so, but... he said so. For a moment, he seemed to understand something. He wanted to say something, but suddenly Bai Xijing in front of the sarcophagus suddenly screamed.

"Princess!"

"Xi'er!"

Bai Ziyu and Du Kang were shocked and didn't care about other things and turned to Bai Xijing. However, they saw that the night pearl in Bai Xijing's hand had already rolled in front of the sarcophagus and illuminated the sarcophagus very brightly. Even after three steps, they could see that the sarcophagus had turned dark brown blood stains, and most importantly, on the sarcophagus The totem is clearly from Dazhou and... Bai Guo!

"What's going on?" Bai Ziyu had a bad feeling. He slowly squatted down and patted Bai Xijing on the shoulder soothingly before carefully measuring the sarcophagus.

"Open the coffin." Bai Xijing's expression was a little erratic. She looked at the sarcophagus and subconsciously grasped her heart. She didn't know why she always felt her heartbeat. She vaguely guessed what was in the sarcophagus, but... she couldn't believe it.

Bai Ziyu took a look at Bai Xijing and saw that her face was pale, so he helped her stand up and take two steps back. Then he said, "Open the coffin, be careful of organs."

Everyone answered when they heard the words, and then slowly approached the sarcophagus. Two of the men who seemed to be leading touched around the sarcophagus and nodded to the others, and everyone pushed the sarcophagus away together.

With the "rumbling" sound, a thin stone debris rose along the contact of the sarcophagus. Everyone covered their faces with sleeves and waited for the debris to settle down. Then they picked up the night's pearl and looked inside to take a photo. In this photo, Bai Xijing and others heard a man exclaim: "It's a child's skeleton! And the death is a little... strange."

"What?" Bai Ziyu frowned and was about to walk forward, but he didn't expect that Bai Xijing, who was beside him, had already rushed over when he heard the man talking, clasped his hands on the sarcophagus and leaned to look at the situation inside the sarcophagus. Bai Ziyu felt that Bai Xijing's performance was a little strange, but he didn't care what to say, so he also walked towards the sarcophagus.

"Princess?" Du Kang, who followed Bai Xijing, saw that Bai Xijing's face was a little abnormal, and his eyes were wide, but there was no brilliance. He couldn't help calling out with some worry.

However, Bai Xijing did not have any reaction. He just fixedly looked at the small body in the sarcophagus without blinking. The feeling was like being afraid, not afraid of the body, but afraid that the body would disappear in the blink of an eye.

Bai Ziyu looked at the situation inside the sarcophagus and couldn't help frowning. The body had already decayed and turned into a white bone, but even so, the five long nails on the white bone showed the tragic situation before the child's death.

The five long nails were nailed to the hands, feet and necks of the body. It seemed that they were nailed to the altar in front of the coffin, and they were slowly killed by blood.

"This is a life sacrifice! I have read the birth sacrifice of Dazhou in ancient books. Someone suddenly said.

"Oh, my God, it's so cruel. Look at the appearance of the skeleton, the child is only five or six years old. Someone sighed.

"Is Princess Xijing also going to be sacrificed like this? No...no..." Just now, he vowed to let a younger-looking man who put the overall situation first could not bear to speak.

However, no matter what the people around her said, Bai Xijing seemed to be inaudible. She slowly bent down, picked up a piece of white cloth in the coffin and pinched it in her hand. Her body shook, and then she stood firm and slowly raised her head to Bai Ziyu and said word by word, "Brother, this is Xiyue. Ah! It's Xiyue lying in here!"

As soon as this word came out, Bai Ziyu's face was also pale, and everyone present fell into a terrible silence.