Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

The Zhang family has an ancient book, and I have actually read that ancient book.

When Zhang Rui was still Zhang Xiaogua, we lived together in the old alley and were neighbors.Sometimes I go to their house to visit, and when I enter the door, I will see this scene: Zhang Xiaogua bends his knees, his small body like a bean sprout occupies a single sofa in the living room, but he always shrinks in a corner of the sofa , holding a notebook with a worn cover in both hands and concentrating on reading it, until I walked in front of him, he would suddenly raise his head and stare at me blankly, looking frightened, but said nothing.

Once I asked him: "I see you are holding this book all the time, what is written on it, does it look good?"

Zhang Xiaogua pursed his mouth, rolled his eyes and lowered his head to think for a long time before timidly handing the notebook to my arms, murmuring, "Don't... don't break it..."

I smiled and said, "It seems to be your baby. It took me a long time to show it to my elder brother."

I turned a few pages in that notebook and became dizzy.

"What's the painting on it, like a strip of earthworms, your graffiti?"

Zhang Xiaogua thought about it for a long time, then bit his lips suddenly as if he had made up his mind, put his little head close to my ear, covered his mouth with his little hand, and said secretly: "It's a ghost story, very scary, are you afraid?"

"Why would I be afraid of ghost stories!" Of course I wanted to put on a prestige in front of my younger brother, and flipped through the notebook again pretending to be serious. I really felt that there were some scribbled lines on it, so I threw it back Zhang Xiaogua.

I thought Zhang Xiaogua was a fool, and his sister also said that I don’t care about the nonsense he talks sometimes. He was a little nervous when he was a child. I think he must have scribbled in the notebook, and ghost stories too. He babbled.

Later, after I experienced many things with the grown-up version of Zhang Rui, I knew that it was an ancient book handed down by the Zhang family, using a "waveform code" to record things about ancient tombs and tomb robbers in ancient notebook novels.

Zhang Rui could read and understand that kind of code when he was four years old. When he was still living in the Zhang family's old house, he would often write that kind of code on the wall, and then squat down and meditate.The servants of Zhang’s family thought he was scribbling, and when he heard some weird pronunciations in his mouth, they thought the child’s brain was not fully developed and he was a fool, so the whole family called him "little fool".Later, the old man found out about this, and for some reason, he ordered the siblings to move out.That's why they moved to live next door to my house for more than a year.

Zhang Rui's birth date is extremely yin and evil, and he was born to be "overpowered", that is, anyone who is older than him will be overpowered by him to death.That's why Mr. Zhang changed his name in front of his elder brother. Zhang Rui has been isolated and raised since he was a child. Not only can he not meet his mother and brothers, but his relatives are as taboo as seeing him.

The only person close to him is his sister, Zhang Yawen.Because Zhang Yawen's horoscope is also extremely yin and evil, and will kill other people's fate.

So, let us go back to the ancient book of the Zhang family.

An ancient book records a story about King Qi Min, the king of Qi State during the Warring States Period, who built ten pieces of jade water mirrors.

According to legend, King Qi Min was a perfectionist, pursuing perfection in everything.Sleeping one day and one night, he dreamed that he led an army to fight against the Yan State, and was defeated by the flood-like army of the Yan State, and returned in a complete defeat.The defeated scattered army retreated all the way and fled to a river, where an old man with white hair and long beard sat fishing, like a fairy.According to the guidance of the immortal, if you build ten jade water mirrors within 49 days, you can turn defeat into victory.

At that time, there were no good carving craftsmen in the court of Qi State. King Min of Qi was afraid that the mirrors he made would not meet the requirements of the immortals, which would anger the immortals and bring disaster to the country and the people, so he sent envoys to look for skilled craftsmen.Later, a master craftsman was found by a big river, and he was brought back to the palace to oversee the construction of ten jade mirrors.

It is said that when these ten water mirrors shine on the moon, they are as if the moon is reflected in the water, transparent and bright.Each one is superbly crafted and lifelike, as if it will be resurrected and turned into a real mythical beast.

King Qi Min was very satisfied after seeing it, and said: "This thing should only exist in the sky, and the monarch and his ministers bow their heads and he will fall to the court." Du Fu's poem also said that it was quoted here.

Qi State really defeated Yan State later.

King Qi Min wanted to be the only one who was equal to the Jade Emperor because no one in future generations could be as perfect as him, so he smashed all the ten water mirrors, leaving only the jade-carved animal statue on the handle of the mirror intact. The beast image was given to different people later, and finally scattered all over the place.Among the preserved documents, there are only ten bamboo slips that designed these water mirrors at that time, with detailed descriptions of ten beast images engraved on them.

According to the ancient books of the Zhang family, the ten scrolls of bamboo slips were finally sealed in King Qi Min's coffin as funeral objects, but they were not in King Tian Qi's tomb.

The last sentence is the key, and it is also very incredible.And next to that sentence, there is a red-letter note written by Zhang Xian, who is called "Antique King" by the Zhang family, and it is the only one written in the form of no password. If you find these stone statues, you can find the treasure of King Qi Min.

So there are ten ridge beasts, and there are ten stone statues in total, which represent "perfect".

Over the past few decades, the Zhang family has gradually collected a lot of rubbings of silk scripts of the Warring States Period, including the fragments of rubbings of the ten bamboo slips, which aroused the Zhang family's interest in King Qimin's treasure, and then spent another three years After collecting nine stone statues and comparing them with the descriptions on the fragments, it was found that the legend seemed to be true, and it was out of control.

The collection process during this period naturally triggered many independent stories one by one. Those stories have nothing to do with our story, so I won’t go into details here.

In short, there is still no clue as to where the last stone statue "Xingshi" went, but there are already nine of them, and the information on the fragments is quite considerable. The Zhang family decided to gamble with the nine stone statues and those fragments. Gamble to see if you can find King Qi Min's treasure.

Although ancient tombs have had the custom of thick burials since the Shang Dynasty, certain specifications were formed and there are documents to follow. It was when Qin Shihuang built the mausoleum.Before that, there were turbulent times, seven kingdoms separated each other, and different countries had different cultures and languages. Many documents at that time were destroyed because of Qin Shihuang's unification of the six kingdoms.

Although King Qi Min's tomb should be in King Tian Qi's Mausoleum, according to those fragments and Zhang family's ancient books, it seems that King Qi Min built a huge underground palace before his death.

There are few landmarks in the cemetery of that period, it is not so easy to find a specific underground palace, and the clues left in the literature are of little use.

The Zhang family thought of a way to make several copies of the rubbings of the ten scrolls of bamboo slips, and then spread out the nine stone statues and hand them to nine people. They only told them to find a Warring States period according to the stone statues and the copies of the rubbings. Tomb, if something is obtained after a few years, we will gather again to share the spoils.

In the tombs before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were often priceless treasures buried inside, which were an irresistible temptation for those who were fighting.However, things are not as simple as they expected.Those nine people searched for treasure independently, but there was no news for several years.

In fact, there is a record about King Qi Min's "Hall of Hades" in the ancient books of the Zhang family, but those pages were lost several generations ago.

So, 15 years ago, Mr. Zhang discovered that the ancient book was in Zhang Rui's hands, and at some point, the lost pages were inserted again. Zhang Rui was still young at that time, and he was very afraid of Mr. Zhang. What did the old man ask? He didn't say anything, so he couldn't ask how he got those pages back.

With that record, the Zhang family summoned the nine people who had been entrusted before, because it had been many years since the entrustment, and some of them had been passed on to the next generation. It took a lot of time for the owner.

Hua Jinglan's natal family, Hua's family is one of the nine stone statues.

The Hua family has been archaeological for generations. Hua Jinglan was originally an archaeologist, but after she got married, she changed her career to become a history teacher in order to live a stable life.

Originally, the Zhang family has never found the stone statue in Hua Jinglan's hand, because the Hua family has no successors, and Hua Jinglan has not cared about the trend of the archaeological world for several years, and her life has nothing to do with Dao Dou of.

However, she knew my father, and my father knew Mr. Zhang.

In this way, my father built a bridge and included Hua Jinglan in the Zhang family's treasure hunting plan.Because Hua Jinglan was very interested in the secrets of the stone statues and had to give my father a face, she finally agreed to join the fighting team organized by the Zhang family and participated in this treasure hunting game.

This is called by the Zhang family, "Turning Back Time, Exploring the Past" - the largest tomb robbery activity in the history of the Daodou world.

When Hua Jinglan said this, her eyes were a little moist, soaked in the desolation in her eyes.I can see the deep-seated feeling that she hides in her eyes, which is irreparable and regrettable.

She said: "The ancient tomb is the last freeze frame when life ends, and the moment we end for a person of a different era from ours consumes a life that we cannot repeat again. Therefore, since the tomb is the end of a person You shouldn’t go to wake it up again.”