Chapter 524: Remaining Intact for a Thousand Years
Images seemed to flash before his eyes.
The flickering candlelight in the room, the intricately carved dragon bed with its openwork design, where the man’s heavy breathing and the woman’s soft moans came from amid the overturned red waves.
The noble bright yellow of the Dragon Robe, the Dragon throne at the pinnacle of ten thousand people...
His head was getting more and more painful, the images before his eyes increasing, and it was as if a silver vase had suddenly shattered in his mind, with certain memories trapped inside about to burst free from their cage.
It hurt so much, as if a steel knife was about to split his head open!
Lu Hualiang pressed his hands against his head, his eyes filled with bloodshot vessels because of the intense pain.
Just as he was about to succumb to this excruciating pain, a thumping sound came from beside him.
He snapped back to reality and saw that Xia Weibao had fainted on the ground.
Only then did he realize that he had broken out in a cold sweat, and his mind was a blank, nothing left behind.
Seeing her faint, his whole heart was thrown into chaos.
He hurriedly picked her up.
Before leaving, he took one last look at the two people inside the Jade Coffin.
He felt strange, but the stabbing pain was no longer as intense as before.
With no time to think further, he ran to the hospital with her in his arms.
The Ancient Tomb was a thousand years old, the air filled with too many impurities, a medical check-up was a must.
The woman on the hospital bed had a pallor as white as paper, seemingly about to blend into the stark white sheets.
The tears at the corners of her eyes seemed never to have dried.
Her frail body also exuded desolation.
He couldn’t understand why she was so greatly disturbed.
What exactly had triggered her so much in that Ancient Tomb?
Could it be Emperor Xia Liang?
She couldn’t possibly be a history buff.
Lu Hualiang pondered deeply.
There were so many mysteries about her, even though he had already decided not to look into her past.
But every time he saw her behaving abnormally, he couldn’t help wanting to understand.
He took a wooden comb from her hand.
It was just retrieved from the Ancient Tomb.
Belonging to the national relics, it wasn’t supposed to be taken, but she was clutching it so tightly, impossible to pry away.
So it had to be taken out for the time being.
What puzzled him was that the experts just then couldn’t unbend her fingers, but in the hospital, as soon as he reached for her hand, she loosened her grip.
Thinking back to the tomb, where she sat tearfully next to the Jade Coffin, expressionless yet combing her hair, it was quite a spine-chilling sight.
He was finding her harder and harder to read.
And this comb, what material is it?
To last a thousand years without decay, it was somewhat terrifying.
Moreover, for some reason, holding this comb, he felt a sense of familiarity.
It was as if something had brushed past his heart, a very strange feeling.
Looking at the woman lying on the bed, the doctor said she would need at least two more hours to wake up.
So Lu Hualiang called Yang Li, instructing him to take the comb for analysis, to ascertain its material.
Anything related to Xia Weibao was a matter Yang Li did not dare neglect, promptly taking it for testing.
The results showed that the comb was made of ordinary peachwood.
How could ordinary peachwood last a thousand years!
He thought there was a mistake in the analysis, so he switched to another institution.
After changing several, even taking it to archaeological experts for identification, the ultimate conclusion was still peachwood.
And it was that most ordinary kind of peachwood from the woods.
This was truly miraculous!
Archaeologists were overjoyed, obviously very interested in this comb that had withstood a millennium without decay.
Being a historical artifact, and now that it had been brought out, it naturally could not be taken away again.
Thus, it was taken by the archaeologists.
When Xia Weibao woke up, she was a little disoriented.
She blinked, her thoughts hazy.
Turning her head, she saw Lu Hualiang sitting by the bed.