Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

"I can only make a rough guess. If we want to know the details, we have to ask Captain Huang for advice."

"So what do we do now?"

"According to what he said, solve the mystery of the Buddha jade. Now, even if you rush out and say that this jade is yours, no one will believe it. Why don't you see what kind of medicine this captain Huang sells in the gourd?" , What do you want to do with this Buddha jade?"

Li Qiu nodded and began to ponder.

Speaking of "flooding the knees of the giant Buddha", the first thing that people think of is another famous cliff carving statue at home and abroad-Sichuan Leshan Giant Buddha.The Leshan Giant Buddha is located on the east bank of the Minjiang River. It was first used to suppress floods. The local people use the water stains left on the feet of the Buddha statues to judge the water level during the flood season, but it is still difficult to submerge above the knees.

Now the Longmen Buddha in front of you is facing only a small Yihe River. Although summer is rainy season, the water potential is still so low that you can't even cover the river, let alone touch the Buddha statue.

Everyone communicated and communicated, walking around, the night was dark, but with the lights all over the sky in the distance, everyone was very comfortable.

However, no one expected that the accident would happen on this night.

Ah Jiu led Li Qiu to a high place, the two had no specific purpose, and the latter followed the former.Walking to the top of the mountain, Ah Jiu stood on a high rock, facing the harsh mountain wind, and muttered: "It seems that there was a mountain fire here."

"Wildfire? How do you know?"

"On the growth of trees, only the trees on the cliffs and far slopes are messy and lush, but on the mountainside and the top of the mountain are very neat. This is not a scenic spot. No one will bother to take care of the vegetation all over the mountain. There have been large-scale mountain fires. is the simplest explanation."

Li Qiu seemed to understand, but also stood in Ah Jiu's place to look, but there was no flashlight, and he could only see blackness in his eyes. "I remembered, your eyesight was very good before, you can see things clearly at night, right?"

Ah Jiu nodded, paused for a second, and suddenly looked to the east.

"what happened?"

"Someone."

"Really, where is it?" Li Qiu couldn't see anything, so he could only follow Ah Jiu's line of sight and look forward.

"Don't be curious, the ones who appeared on this mountain at this time must be members of our team." Halfway through Ah Jiu's speech, the corners of his mouth were raised with interest, "But he walks the mountain road in darkness, why doesn't he turn on the light?"

"If you don't turn on the lights, maybe people want to find a place to go to the toilet. Hey, don't look at it, it's so embarrassing for others to see."

Li Qiu stubbornly turned Ah Jiu's face back, Ah Jiu smiled and shook his head: "Hey, I don't even have to peek at other people going to the toilet. Besides, look at this mountain..."

Li Qiu blinked curiously, and didn't wait for the second half of the sentence, "What's wrong with this mountain?"

Ah Jiu's gaze passed through Li Qiu's shoulders and landed on the undulating cliffs behind him, his body slowly circled around in one direction, and finally showed a clear chuckle.Surrounded by mountains and rivers, where the wind and energy are stored, the place that can be selected by the royal family of several dynasties to build temples is undoubtedly a place of auspiciousness in terms of geomantic omen.

"So it turns out that this mountain top is a huge burial ground."

Ah Jiu took a step forward, knowing that Li Qiu would definitely ask, so he explained a few more sentences: "Think about it, Buddhism was prevalent in the Tang Dynasty, and the concept of good and bad luck in Buddhism and the concept of prophecy in Feng Shui have some similarities. They were all learned and propagated by the geomancy masters of later generations, so it is not ruled out that that dynasty would choose to bury and build tombs in places where Buddhas practiced."

"But this is a Buddhist cave," Li Qiu didn't quite understand. "In that era, those who could occupy the entire mountain as a burial place were either famous families or royal relatives. Ordinary people certainly couldn't, but people like them Such a person with social status should not attach the most importance to the feng shui of the yin house, how could he entrust the well-being of future generations on a Buddhist holy land."

Ah Jiu raised the corner of her mouth, "You missed one possibility, and there is another kind of person who is most likely to choose to sleep here forever."

Li Qiu was stunned for a few seconds, and immediately understood: "It's an eminent monk who has attained the Tao—this mountain is where the Buddha is buried!"

Thinking that he might be standing on a huge eminent monk's tomb, Li Qiu suddenly felt uncomfortable, and moved behind Ah Jiu calmly.Ah Jiu didn't care, and continued: "The idea of ​​the Buddha's burial is just my guess at the moment, but compared to this, the existence of your piece of Buddha jade is more suspicious."

"Why, do you suspect that my Buddha jade is an antique product from the Longmen Grotto?"

Ah Jiu nodded, "Didn't the bald man surnamed Wei say that the Buddha jade is exactly the same as a certain Buddha in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave below, and the unearthed age is also the same, such a coincidence, who would believe it.

Li Qiu understood what he meant, "Let me think about it, assuming that in a certain year of the Tang Dynasty, the royal family came to Longmen Mountain for pilgrimage, and as usual offered a new Buddha in the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave. After returning, they turned around and ordered the craftsmen Create a miniature version of Buddha jade that is exactly the same as the new Buddha, and wear it on your body? It doesn't make sense, there are so many Buddha statues in Longmen Grottoes, why did they only make Buddha jade for this Buddha?"

"Special, or in other words, necessary." The gradually clear thoughts made Ah Jiu's eyes flicker slightly, "The new Buddha statue back then may be different from the rest of the Buddha statues in this grotto. Let's go back to the camp and ask Ask the bald man surnamed Wei, which one in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Cave does the Buddha Jade correspond to?"

The two returned immediately, halfway through the journey, they gradually felt something was wrong.

When they left, someone in the camp had a light, so when they came back, just follow the light to find the direction of the camp.But the mountains and plains in front of me are pitch black, except for the artificial colorful lights on the grottoes in the distance, there is no light at all.

"Ah Jiu, did we go the wrong way?"

"No, the camp is just ahead." Ah Jiu walked forward with certainty, and pressed the flashlight that Li Qiu planned to use.

The two walked in the dark all the way, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Li Qiu finally saw their camp—a camp immersed in darkness, like a dead place.

The tents in the camp had already been set up by the yellow team, but the bonfire was extinguished at some point, there was no light, and there was no one, it was dark and eerily silent.When they left, there were at least a few members of the yellow team who remained in the camp, so why did everyone disappear in just a short while.

Ah Jiu narrowed his eyes and silently stretched out his finger, Li Qiu knew he was pointing to him - beside the extinguished bonfire, a man was lying face down on the ground.

In normal times, Li Qiu would have rushed over to check the situation immediately, but right now, the campsite is inexplicably dark under the dark sky and dense forest, with weird people lying on the ground, and the mountain wind is blowing, which makes one's hair stand on end.

But the person lying here must be someone from the team, right?

Ah Jiu stared at it for a while without saying a word, then bent down to pick up a palm-sized stone, and weighed it in the palm of his hand.

"Wait ah Jiu, don't you think..."

Before Li Qiu finished speaking, Ah Jiu swung his arm and threw a stone, hitting the people on the ground.

The stone hit the red heart, and the people on the ground let out a distorted scream, jumped up and disappeared into the grass in an instant.The eerie sound and the quick movements made him look more like a wild ghost than a human being.

"That... what is it..." Li Qiu gritted his teeth, the strange man's screams were sharp and ear-piercing, which made people feel chills all over his body.Ah Jiu frowned, as if he was judging the origin of the thing, suddenly his eyebrows jumped, and he pushed Li Qiu away.

Li Qiu lost his balance and fell firmly to the ground, only to see the strange man who disappeared just now appeared behind the two of them at some point, with his hands hanging on his chest, hunched over, approaching step by step like a zombie.

The next moment, the strange man showed a row of thick white teeth, and rushed towards Li Qiu who was on the ground.

In a critical moment, Ah Jiu raised his leg and kicked the strange man several meters horizontally.

"You find a place to hide!"

Li Qiu gritted his teeth, turned his head and ran to the camp, he knew that he had become the target of this monster, and staying where he was would only drag Ah Jiu down in vain.Ah Jiu snapped off a branch and blocked the strange man's way before he got up.

That weird man was quick to move, and he needed at least one handy weapon to deal with him. Li Qiu quickly found his tent, got in, and grabbed the bulging luggage bag without any explanation.However, he pulled it vigorously, but the luggage bag did not move at all.

There was a chill on Li Qiu's back, because he saw a fluffy black hand firmly clasped on the top of his luggage bag.Following this hand is an arm, a neck, and a strange flat and long face that are also covered with black hair.

In his tent, there was actually a "person" squatting at this moment.

What's even more incredible is that this "person" is wearing a men's suit, with thick hair protruding from the cuffs and neck like weeds, especially the "human face" covered with black hair, which is twice as long as a normal person , slightly sunken inward, as terrifying as it could be.

One person and one "person", just staring at each other silently, holding on to the only luggage bag on the ground, and no one let go.Li Qiu's temples were throbbing and throbbing, if someone else had bumped into this terrifying scene suddenly, he would have screamed and fainted.But he can't, let alone, run his mind rapidly at the same time, analyzing the situation in front of him.

Now there are two weirdos, and they each have a division of labor and act separately.The first weirdo lay down on the ground of the camp, disguised as a living person, and ambushed other team members who came back at any time.The second weirdo lurks in everyone's tent and is responsible for collecting the luggage they brought.

Li Qiu bit his lip, now there is only one strange person in front of him, one-on-one, no foreign aid.

After a few seconds of stalemate, the strange man slowly opened his mouth, revealing the same white fangs as the one outside.

Li Qiu woke up suddenly, put the flashlight in his hand into the strange man's mouth quickly, and kicked the strange man's abdomen like Ah Jiu did—of course, the strength was much worse than Ah Jiu's.Being hit up and down, the weirdo really loosened his grip on the luggage, Li Qiu rolled on the spot, and rushed out of the tent with the luggage in his arms.

In the next second, the tent collapsed, and the strange man tore the sturdy outdoor tent into pieces with his unusual hands, and chased after him.