Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

Chapter 24 Touching the Corpse

"Jiang Laoliu, you don't need to continue acting in your play."

Zhang Rui's cold voice made this sentence have the same creepy effect as "Actually, you were transformed by a ghost".

And I know that Zhang Rui didn't mean that.

But for Caopitou, his words had such an effect, as if the ghost's original shape was revealed by the demon mirror, the expression on Caopitou's face instantly froze and turned pale.

"Hehe," he laughed dryly, "Xiao Zhang, what are you talking about?"

Zhang Rui frowned, his gaze became a little colder, Sopitou's tone softened, and finally he let out a long sigh.

"My old man is also your predecessor. The young people nowadays really don't know the rules, and they don't save face for the old man." Turf said these words with a young boy's face on his head, which was really shocking.But his voice has changed significantly, it has become muddy and hoarse, and he can tell that he is quite old.

Then, he tore off a human skin mask. I thought that the disguise technique was just a mysterious folklore, but I didn't want seeing to believe it, and it turned out to be so miraculous.

An old face was revealed under the mask, and the young boy suddenly turned into a little old man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks.

I remembered the words before the incense burner, which originally meant this.

None of them seemed surprised except me.Zhang Rui said coldly: "You also pretended to be Boss Cheng?"

"Yes."

"What about others?"

"Dead." The little old man smiled sinisterly, and Zhang Rui also sneered: "Jiang Liu, the strange man with thousands of faces, really lives up to his reputation."

"Thank you." Jiang Liu thumped his back, but his face was full of kindness, "I'm old, I haven't tossed like this for a long time."

Zhang Rui also followed suit with a cool smile: "The old man should take care of himself and enjoy the happiness at home."

"Hehehehe..."

The little old man laughed like a ghost, and the sound echoed in the tomb, which made people feel chills all over his body, and then his voice sank, and the kind expression on his face disappeared: "I only heard that the eldest son of the Zhang family has a vicious eye and a careful heart, and he embroidered flowers." You can engrave characters on the needle, and you can pick out fakes from hundreds of official kilns at a glance. I didn't expect that Mr. Zhang is not inferior. Your old man is really partial. Mr. Zhang, how did you recognize me?"

Zhang Ruidao: "Although Boss Cheng is careless, he never lights a cigarette while inverting. Ah Cheng doesn't smoke, and he shouldn't have a lighter on him."

Ah Cheng should be the name of Turf Head.

"Alas, there must be a sparseness in a hundred secrets." Jiang Laoliu sighed.

The atmosphere is also on the line. This Jiang Lao Liu seems to be a murderer without blinking an eye. I listened to their conversation and felt cold sweat, so I couldn't help walking around behind the incense burner.

No, the incense burner put down the ancient corpse, and there was a trace of boredom in his expression: "Call me after you have settled your personal grievances."

He turned around and went to stay in the corner, leaving me in the same place without knowing what to do.

At this moment, the white coat wanted to take the gun placed on the coffin lid, but Jiang Laoliu snatched it first.

Zhang Rui frowned, staring at Jiang Laoliu coldly: "You washed your hands in the golden basin 15 years ago, why did you come out again?"

"Hey hey hey..." Jiang Liu let out a bleak laugh, which made people's hairs stand on end, "For my son. After your Zhang family is gone, I will still have to toss about my old bones."

Zhang Ruidao: "Your son was not killed by us."

"It's all the same." Jiang Liudao, "You just treat me as a stubborn old man and believe that your Zhang family did it."

Seeing that the situation was imminent, I hurriedly said: "Old man, don't be impulsive, when is it time to repay a wronged person, let alone you can't kill a good person wrongly." After I finished speaking, I also felt that it was so vulgar.

Jiang Liu shook the gun barrel, I stared at the cold light on the muzzle, and swallowed stiffly.

Jiang Liu smiled and said, "Young Master Zhang, I'll make a deal with you. Give me the blood jade, and leave my life to you."

Zhang Rui sneered: "So you did it for this blood jade."

The white coat laughed sarcastically: "Master Jiang, I will give you blood jade. We don't care about this thing at all. But, just because you are afraid that you will seek wealth and kill yourself, and you will backtrack later, you should send us all to the west."

"Don't bargain with me, the old man." Jiang Liu squinted his eyes and smiled sinisterly, his eyes rolled and turned, and turned to me, "Help me take out the jade."

I was taken aback, dumbfounded: "Hehe, I've never touched a corpse..."

"There is a first time for everything. Young people should be brave to try. What is a century-old corpse afraid of? Hurry up!"

I echoed the dry smile on my face, but I was brooding in my heart.You are not afraid, why don't you take it yourself!

When I drove the ducks to the shelves, I couldn't escape, and I didn't dare to think too much. When I touched the corpse in the coffin, it was not only cold, but also as hard as a rock.I am not very afraid of an undoubted dead thing, but I just feel that this corpse is weird and frightening, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable.

The incense burner in the corner said: "You can't take that piece of jade. This is the center of all the burial pits. The stars are arched against the moon, and the energy of yin and yang intersect here. That piece of jade is used to suppress evil. If you take it, you will turn into a dead body." .”

He is an expert, and Jiang Liu didn't dare to question what he said.I also retracted my hand with peace of mind, and raised my eyebrows at Jiang Laoliu: Look, people say you can't take it!

Jiang Liu didn't give up, looked at the corpse struggling, and suddenly smiled at me: "He touched the corpse, and he was the one who looked for it when it was picked up."

Damn, this old man is vicious enough!

I have no choice anyway, just about to start, Zhang Rui stopped in front of me: "I'll do it."

He moved quickly, he put his fingers into the mouth of the ancient corpse, dug out the round and clear blood jade, stared at the ancient corpse intently for a long time, and let out a soft breath.

Just as we relaxed our vigilance, the ancient corpse suddenly jumped up, opened its mouth and bit Zhang Rui's neck!Startled, Zhang Rui pinched the ancient corpse's cheeks with his thumb and middle finger, and pulled its head away. There were two rows of blood marks on its neck. Zhang Rui covered his neck with one hand, frowning slightly.

Jiang Liu raised his gun and ate a bullet into the head of the ancient corpse. The gun in the white coat was specially used to deal with the rice dumpling. With one shot, it exploded the rice dumpling's head, and the green and black liquid overflowed, making people sick to the stomach.

I was scared out of my wits, and it took me a long time to come to my senses: "Zhang Rui, don't worry!"

"It's okay." Zhang Rui wiped off the blood on his neck and collected himself, but his face still looked not very good.The white coat said: "Be careful of the corpse poison." Zhang Rui said: "It's okay, the master has a secret recipe, the corpse poison won't kill me."

Jiang Liu's gaze was firmly fixed on the jade in Zhang Rui's hand, his eyes were flooded, and he couldn't wait to take it.Zhang Rui withdrew his hand and held the blood jade in his palm: "Jiang Lao Liu, after you take the jade, don't trouble our Zhang family again."

Jiang Liu couldn't hide the greedy look on his face, and licked his lips: "That's natural, a piece of jade can exchange your lives, you don't lose money. Give me the jade!"

I quickly grabbed Zhang Rui's hand and said, "No, he will kill us if he takes the jade!"

Zhang Rui raised his eyebrows and smiled at me: "With your incense burner here, you don't have to worry about anything."

I think his words are really groundless, sour, and I don't know which vat of jealousy has been overturned.

I looked back at the incense burner, and he was sitting on the ground silently, as if in a daze or thinking about other things.This guy can still be distracted at this time.

When I turned around, the jade was already in Jiang Liu's hands. He wiped the jade on his clothes and wanted to put it in his mouth, but he hesitated for a while or gave up.

2.

At this time, the tomb suddenly shook, and there were booming sounds from all directions, as if something was collapsing.

The ground shook, Jiang Liu staggered, the blood jade in his hand rolled to the ground, the white coat gave Zhang Rui a wink, and rushed towards Jiang Liu, Zhang Rui turned to chase the blood jade.

Jiang Liu was in a hurry, and he picked up the gun and threw it at the head of the white coat.The white coat tightly hugged his waist, and before he could dodge, his head suddenly burst into blood, the two of them scuffled, the white coat was full of rough mouth, Jiang Liu couldn't get the blood jade by himself, and Zhang Rui wouldn't let him take.The scene was terribly chaotic, and I wanted to help, but I couldn't.

At this time, we heard the sound of rushing water coming from around us, like a torrent rushing in.Zhang Rui took a flashlight and shone it. We saw that there were also water tanks on both sides of the tomb, and the water inside was overflowing, like a small waterfall, and was rapidly spreading in all directions of the tomb.

After a while, the water under our feet had reached our ankles.

The sound of rushing water is not only the sound of water in the tomb, we also found that some came from outside.

The white coat got up from the water and said in surprise: "Could it be another mountain torrent?!"

I have long felt that these water tanks that can be seen everywhere are a bit weird. They seem to be arranged in various places throughout the tomb, and they may even extend from the original tunnel, extending in all directions and connecting with each other.

Zhang Rui said in surprise: "It looks like this place will be submerged... Be careful that there may be dragon lice in the water!"

We were terrified of the dragon lice, and a group of people hurriedly looked down at their feet.

A thought suddenly flashed in my mind, only to hear the incense burner murmur: "Fate, reincarnation once every 120 years, the end time has come."

I was startled, and the words that Tong Bo wrote on the letter flashed in my mind: fate is approaching, a bad omen...

At that time, I thought that Tongbo's "fate calamity" referred to the catastrophe of his own fate, but now I think of it, there seems to be a saying in Buddhist language that "fate calamity" is a cycle, 120 years in Liangjiazi!

I had a vague premonition and asked the incense burner: "Is the whole tomb about to be flooded? There are water tanks everywhere here. Did the water flow in from the tunnel? What happened in 120 years?"

There were too many questions all of a sudden, my mind was in a mess, and I asked many questions incoherently.

The incense burner was right next to me, but I felt that his answering voice seemed to come from far away.

He said: "King Qi stole the design of other people's tombs. After all, he himself is only a half-baked Feng Shui master. He made a mistake in his calculations, and when he was buried, he corrected the tomb passages by others. Otherwise, this tomb should have ended in the torrent of a hundred years ago." Middle. They are all dead and they don’t want others to see through their tricks.”

them? ! Who is "they"?

I looked at the incense burner, there was a trace of sadness and desolation in his faint eyes, but I didn't know why.

My scalp was numb, and I said anxiously: "Then what should we do now, the outside may have been flooded, how can we get out?"

The incense burner suddenly knelt down, kowtowed to King Qi's coffin, got up and said, "Give me that bronze knife."

I froze for a moment, not knowing why he suddenly wanted a knife.Seeing that I was not moving, he took out the knife from my skirt and walked towards the jade coffin without making a sound.

There is an altar in front of the jade coffin, and there is a socket in the middle. I didn't expect the incense burner to point a knife at the socket and go straight down, and it fit perfectly.

In other words, this knife should have been inserted on this altar!

I paid a little attention to it, but I couldn't see what kind of stone the altar was carved, but the whole body was carved with taotie patterns, which were about one meter high.

At that time, I thought it was strange, but I didn't have time to think about it.

There were muffled noises outside, like stone pillars falling from the sky and smashing into the water.

The incense burner came to me again, but his gaze was on the dark void beyond the entrance of the tomb: "The door can only be closed for a while, so hurry up and get out of that robbery hole. I dug it and it can lead to the outside."

He said as he walked forward, and finally his voice gradually weakened and he couldn't hear clearly.I saw that he didn't seem to intend to go with us, and tried to hold him but failed.

My heart was inexplicably to the apex, and I went in a big circle. There is a hole here that can go straight to the outside? !

"Censer!" I yelled anxiously.

"You go first."

He walked forward without looking back, his figure was ethereal in the water, his voice became very weak and faint, as if there was nothing there.I was inexplicably scared, thinking that he would just disappear into this world, and I would never have the chance to see him again.

The water was up to my knees, and I jumped a few times, striding forward with difficulty, trying to catch up.Zhang Rui suddenly stopped me: "Bottle! Where are you going?!"

Before he finished speaking, a stone beam fell from the top of his head, splashing a huge splash of water, which immediately drenched us to the inside and outside.

I was anxious and shouted at the swaying figure in the darkness: "Censer! Come back! Let's go together!"

After this delay, the incense burner was already far away, and he was also in the water, but he jumped out like a fish swimming as if he was not hindered by the rapids.I saw him dipped into a hazy darkness, as if there was a huge mouth there, swallowing him.

I was not only anxious, but also furious.I still have a lot of things to ask the incense burner, I can't let him just disappear.In desperation, I didn't care too much, and planned to climb over the stone beam to chase after him.

Zhang Rui hugged me and pulled me in the opposite direction: "It's too late, the cave will be flooded in a while, and we won't be able to get out!"

"Damn it, I still have something to ask him, you go first!"

Zhang Rui simply didn't talk nonsense with me, and dragged me to retreat towards the robber's cave.I refused to go and wanted to get rid of him, but he was so strong that no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't get rid of him.

I said anxiously: "You guys go first! I'll chase that guy back!"

"Student Tuoyouping, escape is the most important thing, what big problem is more important than your life! Since you have become a Tuyouping, be more dedicated! Damn it, why is the water rising so fast!" Feeling down and out, he turned the water and came and Zhang Rui carried me away.

I said angrily: "But, the incense burner—"

"He will come back." Zhang Rui didn't say a word, picked me up, stuffed me into the robbery hole, and followed him and the white coat.

The water has poured into the robber's hole, we are eager for oxygen in the water, and we can't help going upstream along the robber's hole, and finally broke through the water. I took a deep breath, as if reborn.

The robbery hole was not over yet, I climbed up a few steps, and Zhang Rui and the white coat came out of the water one after another.We took a short break to recover, seeing that the water level was slowly rising and was about to submerge us again, so we hurriedly climbed up the cave at a faster speed.

I don't know how long I've been climbing, I'm exhausted, I just feel unconscious and muddled, but my hands and feet are still moving numbly and mechanically.

The three did not speak.

The entrance of the cave was covered with thorns and vines. We cut the vines and it took a long time to clear a hole for us to get out.

I have a lot of life. Although I am a cannon fodder passerby, I finally didn't get a lunch.

We all came out alive!

Where did Jiang Lao Liu go?I also thought about this problem afterwards, but at that time the situation suddenly changed and we were all in a hurry to escape. I didn't pay attention to this person's whereabouts at all, and even two or three days after I came out, I didn't think about this person.Probably only the white coat who was wrestling with him at that time might know something.But this person is irrelevant, let's not pursue it for now.

After we came out, we saw a sparse forest outside, and the lights were dim in the distance, like a mountain village.

After all the tossing and tossing before, we were all exhausted, and the three of us collapsed at the entrance of the cave and fell asleep directly.

Later, when Zhang Rui patted me awake, it was already dawn.

I squinted, the shadows of the trees were mottled, his silhouette became a silhouette, and I lowered my head and said to me: "There is a village under the mountain. Let's go to the village to see if there is a place to rest. Now we have nothing on us. We need a contact person to pick us up." I have to think of a way to make a long-term plan when I go back, and this place is remote, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave within two or three days, so I have to find a place to sleep first."

He finally smiled, his bright eyes were like the morning sun, he looked at me and said: "I think you are too tired, if you let you go on your way, I'm afraid it will kill you."

I straightened my face and said, "I'm starving."

People regard food as their heaven, and the conscience of heaven and earth, if I can put a bowl of Yangchun noodles in front of Lao Tzu, my life will reach its peak!The incense burner and everything are floating clouds...

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