Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

"The oil bottle, the oil bottle..."

The incense burner pushed me awake, I opened my eyes and saw his face very close, I was stunned: "What's wrong?"

The bonfire has been extinguished, and the white smoke is lingering, and the layers are scattered like ripples.

It made the whole cave completely white, as if the eyes were covered with a thin mist.

I was thinking about how there was such a thick smoke, but I saw that the outside of the cave was white, and the sky was already slightly bright, and the large cloud of smoke came in from the outside.

The incense burner pulled me up, and I couldn't wait to go out: "Miasma has started to form in the nearby mountains and forests, we must leave here immediately."

I find it inexplicable that this is not a tropical rainforest.The miasma should be the poisonous gas formed by the rotting plants in the hot and humid virgin forest. The mountains here are high and the water is far away, and the temperature is low and cold. Although it is also a primitive forest, it does not have that kind of climatic conditions!

But when I walked outside the cave, I found that we were soon surrounded by white fog, and we could no longer see clearly within half a meter, as if we were in a sauna.

I was surprised: "How could there be such a heavy fog suddenly?!"

"It's ghost fog," said the incense burner calmly, "there are spirits in the mountains, and the place where the spirits gather is the most prosperous, and it will definitely attract lonely souls and wild ghosts."

I remembered that the Dumen Dupai also mentioned this aspect when they taught me geomancy. Spirits and ghosts must support each other and are inseparable from each other. Wherever spirits gather, ghosts must also be entrenched.

It's just that I always thought it was a superstitious statement, and I didn't take it seriously. Now that I heard what the incense burner said, my spirit suddenly cleared up a lot.

I don't think the incense burner is wrong in its judgment, but as a materialistic young man who lives in a scientific and civilized society and deeply rejects superstition, I can't help but feel that the theory of ghosts is incredible.

I couldn't help asking: "Where did the ghost fog come from?"

While walking quickly, the incense burner said: "Tonight is the new moon, the yin is flourishing and the yang is declining, and the evil spirit of the earth gathers, and there will be little ghosts." He paused, frowned and said, "Every geomantic treasure point must be It is also the most dangerous place, and the tombs on the treasure caves may bless future generations with good weather and prosperity, but they will attract unclean things."

When it comes to soliciting unclean things, I remembered that the independent school also said the same thing before.But later, when I went in and out of Fengshui master's tomb, it was so smooth that I forgot about such a thing.

Sure enough, we walked in the fog for a long time, and the incense burner suddenly stopped and I gradually found that the nearby fog became thinner, and the scenery looked familiar.

Then we went around two or three more times and ended up back where we were.

The incense burner frowned slightly.Following his movements, I recognized that this was the place where we dug the hole last night. The hole was still there. In the panic yesterday, we ran away before the hole could be plugged.

At this time, the incense burner stepped on a small piece of mud with his feet, then squatted on the ground and drew a picture with stones.

I leaned over and took a look. It was a diagram of hexagrams, a big circle, with a Yin-Yang fish and Tai Chi diagram in the middle, and ten heavenly stems engraved around the outside.

The incense burner took out ten ancient coins and scattered them on the diagram.

In the countryside, the Dumen Dupai taught me a lot of ancient notebook novels. Now I can see that this is a kind of divination. Consider the development of one thing.

Of course, I don't understand how to tell if a hexagram is a fortune teller.

The incense burner seemed to come to a conclusion quickly, put away the ten ancient coins, got up and looked at the robbery hole we dug last night.

"What are you going to do now?"

"Dou." Cenxiang Lu squatted beside the robbery hole, staring into the hole, "Go down and have a look."

We followed the robbery cave to the tomb of the Feng Shui master, and everything was exactly the same as when we left last night.

The incense burner was lit with a flashlight, and at first it shone on the coffins of the mother and child. Last night, the unique faction discovered that the coffins had been tampered with, and greeted everyone to return in disappointment.But at this time, the incense burner moved the flashlight to the shorter coffin next to it.

He walked over, giving me the feeling that he was very unscrupulous. He used a knife to remove the coffin nails and lifted the coffin lid.

At first I didn't dare to get closer, but I couldn't control my curiosity, so I went to the coffin to have a look.

Sure enough, there was no body in the coffin, but there was a knife.

The incense burner murmured in a low voice: "...So it's hidden here."

His expression was like "I can't find any place to walk through the iron shoes, and it doesn't take much effort to get it", so I paid attention to the knife.

Most of the ancient knives before the Ming Dynasty did not exceed three feet, and the blades were straight and narrow. For example, the knives of the Tang Dynasty were the original shape of Japanese knives.The style of this knife seems to be earlier than the Tang knife, but in the Qin and Han Dynasties, all bronze knives were made, so it doesn't look like it.The knife is as long as five feet long, and the handle and blade seem to be carved from a whole piece of white jade, but the whole body is transparent and does not resemble the texture of jade.

This is a bare knife without a sheath.

The incense burner took out the knife, and his movements were extremely cautious. I noticed that there was a loving and gentle expression in his eyes, as if he was staring at a long-lost friend.

He put down the flashlight, held the handle and blade with both hands, and said softly, "Do you know "Bai Ze Tu"?"

I froze, and nodded in surprise.

Bai Ze is a mythical beast on the Kunlun Mountains. It is covered in snow and is an auspicious beast that can turn evil into good fortune.According to legend, it knows the names, appearances and methods of exorcism of all ghosts in the world. When the Yellow Emperor met it while hunting, he told the Yellow Emperor all the knowledge about ghosts and ghosts. The Yellow Emperor benefited from this and did not let the ghosts take advantage of it. harm his country.

And "Bai Ze Tu" is a book that records the information of those ghosts.

The incense burner stroked the blade slowly, and that action made me feel more gentle and meticulous than treating someone I love deeply.However, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his gloomy eyes were glistening, as if there was a deep emotion hidden in them.

"This knife is called 'Bai Ze'," he said clearly, "it's a ghost-slaying knife."

I didn't comment, so I just nodded again.He turned to me, and put the knife horizontally in front of me: "Last time, that bronze knife was left in King Ming's tomb, now take this knife instead, you can keep it."

The knife was so heavy that I had to hold it in both hands, dumbfounded.

I don't know who the owner of this knife is, but this guy, the incense burner, came out of the coffin and wanted to give it as a gift. Is this appropriate?And I'm a modern person, with such a long knife by my side, people think I'm poisoned in costume dramas...

I forced a smile, and the expression on the incense burner made me dare not say no.

Then, he put back the coffin lid, clapped his hands, took the flashlight and said, "Let's go out."

I was dumbfounded: "Is this all right?"

Censer lowered his eyes, thinking about something, then looked at me calmly and said, "Tuoyouping, let me tell you a ghost story."

I froze for a moment, and thought to myself, why do I suddenly want to tell a ghost story?

He said: "Once upon a time there was a young man who was walking alone in the mountains at night, and then he lost his way due to heavy fog. But he wanted to go home quickly, so he hurried on the road without stopping, when suddenly he heard someone calling his name behind him. He looked back Go, there is a white figure at the end of the mountain road, a pale but very beautiful woman with long hair."

"Well, I see, that young man never walked out of that forest again, and when the villagers went up the mountain to look for him, they only found a pair of bones lying beside a big tree." I interrupted the incense burner and put it on After finishing the second half of the story, he rubbed his temples.

Xianglu, you are as good at telling ghost stories as you are at lying. I can make up such jokes at the age of eight.

Probably because I was robbed of the words, the incense burner looked at me and remained silent for a long time.

I coughed twice and spread my hands to him: "Excuse me, just keep talking about yourself."

The incense burner sighed, and said, "I want to tell you that there used to be a thousand-year-old demon fox living in this tomb, and Zhang Rui probably drove it out when he came."

I thought to myself, it's strange, handsome Zhang is mighty, even the thousand-year-old fox has nothing to do with him.

The incense burner was silent for a moment, probably sorting out its thoughts: "There is a spirit on the ghost-slaying knife, which resides in the soul of the owner of the knife, that is, the memory. And demons have the ability to communicate with spirits. That demon fox has lived in the tomb for a long time. Now, under the influence of the Ghost Slaying Knife, it slowly swallowed the memory attached to the knife, and now, it has transformed into Bai Ze."

"Hmm..." I wondered, "So?"

"It's nearby. I chased it last night, but I lost it." The incense burner walked slowly towards the robber's cave, and said at the same time, "The reason why Bai Ze can exorcise ghosts is because it will call the names of ghosts first. , The ghost answers it, and it can swallow the ghost. The meaning of the story I told just now is that after a while, you follow me, no matter what sounds you hear, don’t look back, and you can’t answer in your heart.”

The incense burner went straight into the robber's hole, and I followed closely with the knife in my hand, feeling chilly in my heart.

We were walking in the thick fog, and we couldn't tell the direction in all directions. I just followed the incense burner without thinking.Slowly being dazzled by the vast white field of vision, his eyes became dizzy and his head became dizzy.

There are faint and clear voices from behind, as if brought by the wind, light and soft, with a bit of sweetness, calling my name.

Li Langyu... Li Langyu...

I thought it was a ghost, how did it know my name?The more skeptical I was, the more I felt that the voice was gripping my heart, making my heart ache and itchy, my mind was full of its echo, and I really wanted to turn around and take a look.

Thinking of the warning from the incense burner, I bit my lower lip hard to wake myself up, and walked forward with my head buried.

Suddenly, there seemed to be something wrapped around my neck, and it felt cold to the touch, one by one, like human fingers, and they were slowly pinching into the flesh.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and stopped in my tracks immediately, my whole body stiffened like lead.

The ghostly voice seemed to be shouting in my ear: "Li Langyu..."

Not very clear, but the pronunciation is very similar.

I remembered that since the knife in my hand was a ghost-slaying knife, it should have some effect on ghosts, so I wanted to fight it.

I held the knife in both hands and swung it behind me.

At this time, only the incense burner yelled: "Don't look back!"

It was too late when he yelled, and I saw a tall, thin figure standing half a meter in front of me, as thin as paper, covered with snow-white gauze, which fell to the ground layer by layer.The loose long hair hangs straight down, half covering the pale face like a curtain.

I can't tell if it's a man or a woman, I just know that "it" is grinning, the corners of its mouth hooked into crescents, and it's smiling at me.

For a moment, I felt my body was floating, my consciousness was in a trance, and I felt like I was going to fly into the sky in a chaotic state.

And at this critical moment, the incense burner squeezed my arm hard, the pain brought me back to my senses, and the heavy weight of my body seemed to return.

The ghost suddenly drifted away, and pointed at me. His fingers were pale and skinny, and the elder's thin and sharp black nails said: "One thing for one thing, he took the knife, and he will leave the soul."

The incense burner stood in front of me, facing Bai Ze and said coldly: "I took the knife, you can't touch his soul."

Bai Ze shrank his fingers, then pointed at the incense burner and laughed: "Then, you can keep yours."

The incense burner frowned and said nothing.Bai Ze floated in front of him in the blink of an eye, raised his slender and pale hands, and gently rubbed his nails against the side of his neck.

I stood by and wanted to scream, but I was so frightened that my mind went blank.

I don't know what the ghost is going to do with the incense burner.

The ghost seems to enjoy the feeling of slowly crushing a living thing, and its fingers are wrapped around the neck of the incense burner, closing them up bit by bit.

The incense burner remained motionless, with a frozen expression, like a jade sculpture.And suddenly, the ghost seemed to see something in his eyes, his lips trembled slightly, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

The next scene I saw was that Bai Ze's hand slowly retracted into the white gauze. Although its face could not be seen, its movements seemed to express surprise, and then it knelt down in front of the incense burner.

"I'm sorry."

It bowed its head, looking respectful and humble.

Such a sudden turn of events, I couldn't believe my eyes!

The incense burner grabbed my hand and turned around: "Go!"

We galloped through the woods with a breathless pace under our feet.The incense burner held my hand tightly all the time, with a cold back, and a faint gentleness in the silence, it made people feel that even though he was a person who was not good at expressing, he looked cold and hard, but his heart was very soft.

Afterwards the fog cleared away slowly, and we found a road stepped on by people. We walked along the road for a long time, and the sun became brighter, and a house made of wood appeared in front of the road.

It is a mountain village that is almost isolated from the world, with only a few families in total, and the people living here are Bai people.

A woman dressed in Han Chinese clothes wrapped in a headscarf enthusiastically brought us a bowl of hot vegetable root soup. Of course, the incense burner and I didn't care too much, and gulped it down.

The woman can speak Chinese and came to seek medical treatment by taking the cableway from the opposite side of the mountain.

She pointed out to us that the so-called "cableway" is actually a rope spanning between two mountains, with a pulley on the top and a hook tied on the bottom. The hook is tied to the waist of the person. Slide to the opposite mountain through this simple and crude "cableway" device.

Between the mountains is a fast-moving river, looking down, I thought, this is not the Nu River, right?

I took a short rest at the farmhouse with the incense burner, and felt that I had strength again, so I used this cableway to reach the opposite mountainside.After that, we met Shen Er and the others who came back to look for us on that mountain road.