Chapter 688

Therefore, they had to be extra careful. What Yang Lu least wanted to see was that after she led these people into the Ancient City of Jingjue, only she would be able to come out.

Even if the curse were lifted, she would still harbor a hidden sense of guilt in her heart.

Even though everyone knew there would be risks in tomb raiding, they all trusted their team leader, this leader of the Moving Mountain Sect, to be able to avoid many of the risks.

So Yang Lu didn't want to let them down, especially when this disappointment would be interpreted with their own lives.

Zhang Lin could only answer their questions and resolve their doubts, and in many respects, help them avoid dangers they shouldn't touch.

But in the tomb, there were many accidental, and especially many sudden, situations.

If something happened suddenly, it was impossible to ask the official personnel to transmit a message, or for Zhang Lin to happen to be storytelling and see the scene.

But even if Zhang Lin knew how to solve it and told them after this delay, they might have already perished by the time the message was transmitted.

Such things couldn't be blamed on Zhang Lin; if they really died, it could only be blamed on their own inadequate emergency response.

This was like the desert army ants before; if it hadn't been for Yang Lu's quick reaction, the archaeological team would have suffered casualties again.

Yang Lu didn't want to experience the feeling of failing before the battle even began!

This time, quite surprisingly, most of the viewers also understood Zhang Lin's subtext.

【Knowing there is such danger, will the Archaeological Team 2 continue to go down?】

【Nonsense, their goal is the Ancient City of Jingjue; would they still care about face if they turned back now?】

【This isn't a question of face or no face; sometimes you need to know when to retreat in the face of difficulty, but sometimes you must press forward in the face of difficulty.】

【They are in the latter situation now.】

【You say it very easily, but it's not your life that's on the line.】

【Doesn't Team Leader Yang understand better than you? If the danger level were truly that high, Mr. Zhang would definitely point it out directly. Besides, there's no such thing as doing something without taking risks.】

Inside the Crescent Hotel, Zhang Lin continued, "Your first question has been answered. Now, I will explain in detail the information hidden in the lower half of the seventh mural."

Hearing this, everyone sat up straight again, and the barrage of comments also instantly quieted down.

"Look carefully: besides Prince Gumo, what changes have occurred in the eyes of all the little figures compared to the ones you saw before?"

This question was easy to answer; as long as one compared it with the previous murals, the answer could be obtained.

It just depended on who was the fastest.

Suddenly, someone said, "Mr. Zhang, the little figures in the seventh mural have no whites in their eyes; their pupils are completely black."

Zhang Lin nodded slowly and smiled, "Exactly, the answer lies within. Why Prince Gumo was treated this way is explained very clearly."

"These people are his subjects, yet they are not his subjects. Pay attention to those purple light spots; you felt they were very strange the first time you saw them."

"Since I said this is a portrayal of what happened at the time, it proves that everything was real. And under the reality of what happened, it was punctuated with this abstraction, or even near-dreamlike quality—why is that?"

Everyone looked at each other, thinking, who could guess this answer?

If they had guessed it, they would know why Prince Gumo was buried alive by his subjects.

Through this series of narratives by Zhang Lin, they naturally concluded that Prince Gumo was absolutely a future monarch who loved his people.

But under this premise, his subjects still treated him in such a way; the reason for this was absolutely not something they could imagine.

The reason Zhang Lin said this wasn't to ask a question, but just because the conversation led there.

Immediately after, Zhang Lin quickly gave the answer, saying, "Because they were all immersed in hallucinations."

"It was under the influence of these hallucinations that they made such a choice. If the previous murals were divided into two, three, or even four parts, this mural is divided into two layers."

"The upper layer is the purple light spots, and the inner layer below is the scene of Prince Gumo being buried alive by his subjects. This is the difference between appearance and essence. People were influenced by the appearance and made a choice in such an extreme way."

"It precisely proves that they were immersed in a state that did not belong to their own consciousness. The evidence comes from their pupils."