A Terrifying Night at Qianling

[Tomb Raiding] [Mystery] [Thriller]

1300 years ago, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng joined forces to lay a trap. In the 21st century, two groups stumbled upon it at the same time. As Li Bao's searchlight swept across the underground palace ceiling, the eyes of a painted court lady suddenly moved. Just as Zhao Liangming's Luoyang shovel touched the coffin, what seeped through the crack wasn't rotwater, but a black-and-crimson peony. The flower crawled up Xu Shengming's ankle. He screamed as it dragged him into the darkness, leaving only half his face stuck to the wall: "The flower... it's eating people!" Wind from the Qianling Mausoleum swept in, carrying the stench of corpses. At last, they understood the eight characters carved into the tomb passage: "Those who enter live; those who leave die."

Something strange has been happening beneath Qianling lately. The old tomb keeper says he hears clappers sounding in the underground palace at night. A flower farmer found the wild peonies on the back hill suddenly blooming blood-red, with human fingernails still clinging to their petals. Li Bao's expedition arrived with the latest equipment to solve the "Mystery of the Wordless Stele," while Zhao Liangming's tomb-raiding gang came armed with explosives, ready to "crack the coffin and strike it rich." Then A Liu's Luoyang shovel unearthed half a Tang-dynasty sleeve embroidered with peonies, and Liu Yiming touched something sticky on the coffin lid. It wasn't mud at all, but the drool of a corpse that had turned into a zombie. When the first blood peony coiled around Li Bao's neck, he finally understood: Qianling wanted no secrets. It wanted... living sacrifices.