Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

We walked out of the house, and there was a stone-paved road behind. I saw that this road connected several houses in the terraced fields, passed a small bridge, and led to the village on the opposite side where the incense burner pointed out that it was "Six Courts".

The incense burner walked quickly ahead without making a sound, and I followed him closely, not bothering to speak on the way.

He seems to be quite familiar with the people in the village. After crossing the small bridge, he said a few words to a man in the village. house.

After entering, the layout inside is similar to that of Grandma's House. The outside room is lit, but only a faint candlelight can be seen from inside the curtain, and it is basically too dark to see clearly.

The man who led the way pointed to the back room, and the incense burner took an oil lamp and led me inside.

Because of the addition of a lamp, the back room looked brighter.I looked around subconsciously, and there was a woman sitting by the window.

I immediately thought that this woman was Hua Jinglan who wrote that strange letter to me. In my imagination, she should be younger, but in fact she is not very old, but I don’t know what she has experienced. Haggard, disheveled hair, listless and dazed, with empty eyes looking out of the window, so she looks much older than her actual age on the surface.If she didn't blink her eyelids occasionally, she would be like a dummy placed by the window.

She was wearing Miao clothing like us, and the incense burner bowed her head in front of her and shouted, but she remained motionless and did not respond, and the incense burner yelled a second time before she turned slightly towards us.

Her expression was blank, with a confused expression on her face, which is often seen in mental hospitals.

I could tell that her mental state was not stable, she might have been stimulated, her dry eyes were lifeless.Seeing me, she asked in confusion, "Are you here to take me away? Is it...my time is up too?"

Her voice was extremely vicissitudes and hoarse, and those two words made people feel uncomfortable, as if there was a heart-pounding message hidden in them.

I looked at the incense burner, and the incense burner half knelt down in front of Hua Jinglan, gently holding her hand between them, the movement was very gentle, I frowned.

"He is the person you want to meet." Fen Xianglu said to Hua Jinglan with his back.

Hua Jinglan stared blankly at me for a long time: "You are..."

I hurriedly said, "I'm Li Langyu. You once sent me a letter, which said that you wanted me to help you open a trick box. That trick box could endanger the lives of you and your husband."

I took out the letter and went over to put it on the table.Hua Jinglan looked down, her eyes suddenly opened, and a stunned expression flashed across her face.At that moment, there was still a trace of fear, as if many terrifying images suddenly flashed in her eyes.

"Yes, yes..." she said, nodding, tremblingly, "the box is in a safe place...in a...very safe place...no one can get it, no one..."

The incense burner gently stroked Hua Jinglan's hand, stared at her and said, "Didn't you say that there are many things that must be told to Li Langyu personally? He is here now, and you can speak slowly."

I have never seen the incense burner speak to a person so gently, nor have I seen his eyes so calm and peaceful, as if they have the effect of soothing the soul.Suddenly, my mind exploded, thinking, is Hua Jinglan's husband the incense burner? !Impossible, the two of them are so far apart in age!

There was a deep anxiety in Hua Jinglan's expression, but every time the incense burner finished talking to her, that expression eased a lot.

After a while, she retracted her hands and put them on her lap, sitting upright, looking at the empty air in front of her: "Let me think about it, where should I start...?"

"Her husband just passed away a few days ago. She was stimulated and emotionally unstable. If you had come earlier, what you saw would not have been like this."

The incense burner walked back to me, and there was a trace of sadness in his words, but he had no emotion, and was indifferent all day long. I think the sadness was only because the situation of Ms. Hua in front of me was really pitiful, which made me feel sad. It seems that the incense burner is expressing regret.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and apologized to Hua Jinglan, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Hua, I'm late."

When Hua Jinglan wrote the letter, her husband was still alive. Judging from the contents of the letter, she hoped that I would save their husband and wife.It's a pity that I stayed in the country during that time, and by accident, when I returned to Shanghai and read the letter, I arrived here a few days late, and everything was irreparable.

I can't help but feel a little guilty. People I could have helped have died because of my delay. I feel very uncomfortable.I looked at the incense burner, but there was no emotion on the face of the incense burner, and said lightly: "It has nothing to do with you, don't bother others."

He has always spoken curtly and without emotion.But this time the tone is more gentle, I think this should comfort me?

Hua Jinglan sat for a while, her mind seemed to be clearer than before, and her face gradually became more lively.The candlelight shone on her face, which seemed to be a little rosy.

She smiled desolately: "The ending of everything was doomed 15 years ago. When the decision was made at that time, I knew that none of us could escape. I won't blame you for being late. These things have already been decided." It has nothing to do with you, it’s just our own greed and attracting ghosts.”

The last few words in her words made me shudder, and the shadow slanting on the wall seemed to be a ghost, haunting Hua Jinglan tightly.

It sounded like Hua Jinglan was also related to the downfall of the Zhang family organization 15 years ago. I hurriedly asked, "What happened 15 years ago? Why did you write this letter to me?"

"I originally hoped that you would help me open a mechanism box. There is something very important to us... but it is no longer necessary." Hua Jinglan said here, with a deep sadness on her face , and she tried her best to restrain that emotion, and said calmly, "As for what happened 15 years ago, you sit down and I will tell you slowly. Those things are intricate but fragmented, involving many people, including your father Li Haiyan .In retrospect, I don’t even understand why things became like that and developed like this. Even the people who participated in that inversion didn’t know what happened at that time..."

The more Hua Jinglan talked, the more bizarre and weird, but I didn't expect my father to be involved in that incident.

Zhang Rui's sister died at that time, and Jiang Laoliu's son also seemed to be related to it; the Dumen Dupai also said that all the people involved in the inversion and the nine ridge beast stone statues died Due to Gu poison; and not long ago we saw with our own eyes that the person related to the tenth ridge beast also died of Gu poison.

In the dark, it seems that there is a devil's hand that binds everyone's lifelines to a thread, and a terrifying force lurks in it. Ms. Hua said, if she didn't think she had to tell me herself, she wouldn't want to think about it everything at that time.

I took a deep breath and focused on listening to her continue.

She said: "I think, one day in the future, you will know what happened at that time, but by that time, everything may be irreparable. I don't want you to watch tragedies happen repeatedly like us, and you can only sit quietly." Waiting for death quietly, nothing will change."

I found a chair and sat down, collected my mind, and said solemnly: "Please tell me."

Hua Jinglan nodded, and then told us about the large-scale fighting 15 years ago.She said that the people who fight against each other are not afraid of retribution, but the retribution they get is much more terrible than imagined.

What Ms. Hua said at the time was only part of the incident 15 years ago, the most intuitive part from her perspective, and some of the broken and incomplete parts were only gradually cleared up after we experienced some things.

I just want you to understand that because there are so many people involved in that incident, there are many branching events, like branching out, with a main cause leading to subsequent twists and turns, which happened to different people, different places and There are also differences in time. If you look at the whole thing from the beginning to the end, the time span is very long, and inside it seems to be an independent incident, and there is almost no commonality when separated from each other. After analysis and induction, a sequence was sorted out, and it was found that they were all related to each other.

For the sake of your reading fluency, I think it is better to arrange these events in chronological order, and then write it down as a complete story.