Situ Mei knelt in front of the skeleton with tears in her eyes.
"Great grandpa... When you were a child, you often told me stories, taught me how to practice warfare, and even gave me candy secretly.
Later you suddenly disappeared, I cried for a long time, so you are here! Grandpa, what's going on?"
Situ Mei sobbed, like a child who was wronged, crying in front of her great-grandfather who loved her the most.
Li Xuan stood quietly aside, feeling secretly in her heart.
If you guessed correctly... Li Xuan looked deeper into the cave, where there should be more people from the Situ family inside.
Situ Mei cried for a while, finally calmed down, kowtowed three times to Gu Yinghua's body, then stood up and said, "Huo Xuan, what's going on? Can you tell me?"
Li Xuan said: "Only your grandfather knows the specific situation.
But I can probably guess that every generation of the patriarchs of your Situ family are responsible for the heavy responsibility of defending the bottomless corpse cave. While they are harmed by the incomplete Suzaku tactics, they are fighting against the zombies that are constantly coming, and many people are sacrificed.
Here.
They were unwilling to be buried after their death, so they left their bodies here to tell their descendants that even if the Situ family died, they would still serve as a defense line for Youzhou City!”
Situ Mei looked shocked, and after a long time, she said tremblingly: "Why should our Situ family bear these?"
Li Xuan said lightly: "Then I don't know...but someone will always take on this kind of thing."
Someone always has to bear it! There are too many difficult, dangerous and painful things in this world, and there are more than just the Situ family who are carrying the burden.
The Situ family did sacrifice a lot, but who is not?
"You will understand in the future that we have no choice but to do so."
Li Xuan sighed and patted Situ Mei on the shoulder, "Stay forward, maybe you will see more ancestors."
Li Xuan was right. The two of them walked along the way and found more corpses.
Twenty-three generations, twenty-two generations, twenty-first generations... Every few dozen meters, you will encounter a skeleton lying or sitting. Each of them has tablets behind them, recording generation and name.
Whenever Situ Mei meets someone, she will kneel down and kowtow.
The genes of these people flow in her blood, and it is precisely because of their sacrifice that she exists.
Thirty-three! Walking all the way to the third organ, Li Xuan and Situ Mei encountered a total of thirty-three skeletons.
Two more mechanisms were found on the road, which were larger and more precise than the iron cable bridge gears, and had more astonishing lethality.
But they were already rusted and made a harsh sound when driven, making people wonder if they would break down the next second.
It can be seen from the various scars on the mechanism that they have been destroyed by zombies many times and repaired. It is a miracle that they can last for five hundred years.
Li Xuan frowned.
It is easy to judge from the degree of damage to the mechanism and the location of the corpses of the ancestors of the Situ family throughout the ages that the Situ family's suppression of the bottomless corpse hole is getting weaker and weaker.
The 33rd skeleton is located outside the third organ and is the second generation leader of the Situ family, named Situ Chengzhi. He even has incomplete skeletons.
Li Xuan could imagine that at that time, the Vermilion Bird's tactics were quite complete, and Situ Chengzhi could suppress the annual corpse tide without the help of the authorities.
But after Situ Chengzhi, perhaps it was the reason for the incompleteness of the Zhuque's tactics, perhaps it was the Situ family's strength becoming weaker, or perhaps it was the zombies becoming stronger and stronger. Even with the help of the mechanism, the zombies' offensive was still approaching little by little. In the end, the zombies' offensive was still approaching.
After breaking through the third mechanism, the second mechanism... One day in the future, the zombies will continue to break through the iron chain bridge gears and break through the seven iron gates. At that time, it will be a catastrophe in Youzhou City! Fortunately, Li Xuan is here.
"You stay here, I'll take a look forward."
Li Xuan looked at the deep front and said.
This place is very close to the real origin of the bottomless corpse cave and will encounter danger at any time. Li Xuan doesn't want Situ Mei to follow her into the dangerous place.
"I'm going too!"
Situ Mei said firmly, "I want to go and see what it is to kill my ancestors!"
Li Xuan persuaded her a few words, but she didn't persuade her.
The two continued to move forward, darkness pounced from all directions, and the light shining from the night pearl could only extend five meters and be torn to pieces.
There was a faint gust of cold wind passing by in my ears, and there seemed to be whispers, wails, screams, and curses in the wind... Situ Mei felt a cold air covering her whole body, and she couldn't help but stick it to Li Xuan's side.
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Suddenly, Li Xuan stopped.
Situ Mei was about to ask him how to stop, but she suddenly covered her mouth.
She suddenly saw a figure standing at a fork in front of each other.
It was like two door gods, one guarding the left and the other guarding the right. God knew how many years they had been in this dark underground.
"This should be the first generation..." Li Xuan sighed.
The light of the night pearl shone on them, and it was indeed two broken bones. The reason why they could stand still was because they died with weapons to support their bodies.
There are no tablets beside them.
Without a name, the clothes and items on his body have long been eroded by time, and even the weapons supporting his body are damaged so that they cannot see their original appearance.
"who are they?"
Situ Mei suddenly realized something.
Li Xuan did not answer and walked over silently.
"Thank you for your hard work."
Li Xuan stood in front of them, suddenly bent down, bowing deeply to pay tribute.
These are the 34th and 35th skeletons found in the bottomless corpse cave. The Situ family uses this to prove that they have been trying their best for the past five hundred years.
No matter what their reasons are, they are worthy of respect! Situ Mei also guessed the answer vaguely and couldn't help but say, "They are the ancestors of the first generation of the Situ family?"
Situ Mei couldn't believe it.
According to the records passed down by the Situ family, their ancestors settled here even earlier than the establishment of Youzhou City.
Since the first generation of ancestors, the Situ family was the most prominent family in Youzhou City. They have various businesses, occupy many resources, practice top tactics, and even have the strongest cultivation talent.
But the patriarch of the Situ family always dies young, and some people suddenly die, resulting in the family's inheritance becoming incomplete, gradually surpassing other families, and finally becoming lost among many ordinary families, without showing any signs of the mountains or showing off.
It was not until now that Situ Mei understood why the Situ family had the longest history but had never developed better. It turned out that all resources were invested in suppressing the bottomless corpse cave.
Situ Mei knelt in front of two skeletons and kowtowed heavily.
After getting up, she said to Li Xuan: "From now on, I will shoulder the responsibility of protecting Youzhou City!"
I don’t know how courage it takes to say this, especially after seeing the corpses of generations of Situ’s family, Li Xuan looked at her with admiration.