Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

Later, I recalled that the peculiar fragrance may be a kind of spice that is special in Yunnan.

Yunnan spices have always had a mysterious color. It is said that certain scents can cure all diseases, while others can make people irritable. The scent you smell has the effect of opening up your mind.

As for why that person has this kind of fragrance, I will talk about it in detail later, so I won’t show it here for the time being.

In other words, what I thought at the time was that I might have made a mistake in thinking.

Whenever we see a box, what is the first thing we do?

That's right, we'll quickly figure out the top and bottom of the box.I did the same when I saw this wooden box.

Because one of its sides has no pattern, I naturally think that this is the bottom, then the cover must be on the opposite side, which is the case according to common sense.

But the man in the suit said that ordinary methods can't deal with it, and the person who designed this box didn't play cards according to common sense, so the "opening" may not be where it should be!

Thinking of this, I overturned my previous thinking and searched for traces of the "opening" again.Soon, I discovered another mystery of this box.

I finally know why the patterns on the surface of the box are carved so intricately and meticulously, because these "patterns" are just a way to hide the "opening"!

Every texture of the pattern on the box surface is finely carved and deeply engraved.In this case, the visual attention is immediately attracted by these patterns, and the light in the private room is so dim, so I didn't realize that some of the engravings are actually very delicately fitted "gaps"!

With this discovery, I next found a total of 27 seams on the surface of the box, divided into nine groups.

Nine groups...is this a coincidence?It seems that since Shen Er told that story, the number "nine" has been lingering in my mind.

My heart lit up and I counted, sure enough!

A total of nine dragons are engraved on the wooden box!

I put the wooden box back on the tea table, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "This is a 'Nine-turn Universe Box'."

Grandpa has a lot of research on the mechanism box. I heard from him that this kind of wooden box engraved with nine dragons was originally called "Nine Dragons Fushou Box", which means immortality.Later, the white jade carving "Jiuzhuan Qiankun Ding" unearthed in the Ming Dynasty was very similar to this kind of casket, so it was thought that they might be from the same ancestor, so the casket was renamed with a different meaning.

They all looked at me, and I continued: "I don't know how to open this kind of box, but I know a person who can open this kind of box. He opened an antique shop on 'Laohuai Street'. You can go to him and say I introduced it. Don’t go too many people, he is very old, in case you are frightened by you and something happens, I guarantee that you will not be able to find a second person who can open the box in a short time.”

That old man has a lot of fate with me, I often bring a jar or two of Xifeng wine to honor him.The old man is already ninety years old, I shouldn't have involved him in this matter, but in order to solve the immediate troubles, I have no other choice.And I didn't think too much about it at the time, how could I know that things would snowball and get bigger and bigger.

I copied the address to them, and the man in the suit seemed uneasy after reading it, saying that he would take Shen Er hostage.

I'm unarmed, and I'm not Kino Reeves, so I have to feel sorry for Shen Er.

"Don't forget to give him food and drink, and don't beat him, this kid doesn't know anything."

The man in the suit nodded, and the man in the white coat grinned and said that he would not embarrass this little brother.I looked at the man in the white coat, and stretched out my hand: "What about my benefits? At least give me some referral fee?"

The man in the white coat laughed and said: "Hey, you're quite affordable!" After that, he stuffed me with a stack of little pinks, and I counted them. It's weird. I didn't expect them to be quite rich, and I think they have a lot of background.

I silently glanced at Shen Er for the last time, and then looked at the dark corner.

The man had his back against the wall, his legs resting straight on the back of the sofa, and he never raised his head from the beginning.I smacked my lips, that posture is not something that people with long legs can’t do, it’s really tiring to look at it, it’s really strange that people have strange habits.

When I got home, I sealed the tips in an envelope and put them under the drawer. This is from some detective films.In case something happens to Shen Er, maybe the fingerprints left on the money can come in handy. Of course, I'm not sure if this trick will work.

Two days later, Shen Er called me and asked me to go clubbing. This kid was alive and well again. It seems that although those people are not kind, they are also trustworthy.

I asked Shen Er what happened afterwards, and whether they went to Laohuai Street.Shen Er said that when he woke up, he found that he was thrown downstairs in his house, and he didn't know anything else.Damn, how long has this kid been asleep?

Two days later, I received a courier package. When I opened it, it turned out to be the ancient saber that my father had given me.I laughed dryly, those people are really kind, they can still remember the looted things and return them to Zhao.

There was no sender's name and address on the courier, so I didn't think about it, and put the ancient saber back to its original place.

Afterwards, I would still think of that red sandalwood box from time to time.

To break the mechanism of the "Nine-turn Qiankun Box", the process is very complicated, and special tools are required. It is the most complicated type of all wooden mechanism boxes. It uses a lot of Zhouyi principles and has thousands of variations. It can be said that each "Nine Turns Qiankun Box" is different, and it cannot be opened without certain knowledge of Zhouyi Fengshui.

Otherwise, I really want to see what's inside, why I shake it a few times, but I can't hear anything inside?What did the prince show Shen Qianjiu?The notes describe their actions so mysteriously, is there some secret hidden in it?Or have other intentions...

2.

A month later.

One day, I talked to a friend about the wooden box, and the friend laughed and said, "Why don't you just smash it, or saw it open, no matter how hard it is, it's still a piece of wood!"

I was speechless.

"...'Nine Turns Qiankun Box' is an antique after all, if you want to smash it, you can smash it!" If it was possible to do that, those people would not have imagined it?

"Okay, everything is about fate, you shouldn't know it, so stop thinking about it, what are you thinking about it? I heard what you said, that group of people may have a lot of background, maybe if you If you read the contents inside, you might be silenced by them. This kind of people are all crossing rivers and tearing down bridges, killing people without blinking an eye."

I couldn't help but shuddered, thinking that it was broken!

If the old man opened the box for them, he must have seen the contents inside, would they...

This thought made me more and more afraid, I hurriedly dialed the phone to the old man's shop, the phone rang for a long time and no one answered, I called again, my hands were shaking.Suddenly, I saw the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen: [-]:[-], and slapped my forehead.Hold!At eleven ten in the evening, of course there was no one in the store!

The old man doesn't have a mobile phone, and I don't have a home phone.I lit a cigarette, lying on the bed and thinking about it, I couldn't feel at ease. If anything happened, it would be my fault.After thinking about it, he jumped out of bed and hurried out, planning to visit the old man's house.

The old man's home is in the alley next to "Laohuai Street".

There are old houses there, the alleys are very old, and the lights are dark inside. I walked in in the dark and found the house numbers along the straight alleys.

When I got to the door, I was so nervous that my heart jumped into my throat.I knocked on the door, and when it opened, a young man poked his head out.

When I saw that it was the great-grandson of the old man, I pretended to come to visit and said, "Hey, Xiao Tong, is your great-grandfather at home?"

Xiaotong knows me, and I am very enthusiastic when we meet, but today he has a bitter face: "It's too unfortunate for you to come, Grandpa Zeng is not here."

I froze: "Where did he go?"

Xiao Tong shook his head: "I don't know, he didn't say anything, he probably went back to the countryside. Last time, a group of people came to find Grandpa Zeng, and then Grandpa Zeng was weird, nagging that he couldn't live here any longer , I got up early today and said I was going to leave, but my mother couldn't persuade me."

I thought to myself, it seems that those people came to look for Tong Bo, Tong Bo probably thought that he had seen the things inside the wooden box, and he was afraid that those people would come back and trouble him, so he left Shanghai in a hurry.

"Did Bo Tong say anything before he left?"

Xiaotong rolled her eyes, suddenly said "ah", and ran into the room, and handed out a letter after a while: "This is from Grandpa Zeng."

Things seemed to be getting more and more mysterious, so I immediately tore apart the letter and opened the letter paper.The alley was completely dark, and it took me a long time to recognize the handwriting of Tong Bo on the moonlight.

There was only one sentence in the letter, 21 characters, which read:

The catastrophe of fate is approaching, and there are ominous omens, so go far away, don't look for it; the Yellow Mausoleum of the Western Land, let's ask the universe.

The first half of the sentence should tell me that in order to avoid the catastrophe in his life, Uncle Tong left his hometown and asked me not to go to him.But what does the second half... mean?

Why did Tong Bo write such a sentence to me?

Below this sentence, Tong Bo also drew a large sketch, which took up almost three-quarters of the letter paper.

This sketch is very strange, it seems to be some messy lines, criss-crossing and irregular.I took a closer look, and felt a bit like a hideous ghost face.I turned it upside down again, and turned the paper over to see it from the back through the moonlight, but I didn't see anything.

Alas, this Uncle Tong doesn't know what he's doing. After all, I'm just a writer. What can I see when I make such a profound thing?

I stuffed the letter back into the envelope, thinking about going home and studying it slowly.Xiaotong also saw that weird painting and asked me what was going on, but I couldn't figure it out myself, so I could only laugh and talk a few words.

I asked Uncle Tong if he had any other explanations, Xiao Tong thought about it for a long time, then shook his head and said no.He said that Grandpa Zeng left very suddenly. His mother was washing vegetables in the kitchen, and she was still talking to grandpa at one moment, but at the next moment she heard the door closing.

The letter was given to my great-grandson in private by Uncle Tong the night before, asking him to pass it on to me.

Tong Bo left in such a hasty manner, he obviously expected that staying in Shanghai would be bad luck.But what I find strange is that it happened a month ago, why did Tongbo leave temporarily today?

If those people wanted to trouble Tong Bo, they should have done it earlier, right?Was there any twists and turns in the middle?

It was past three o'clock when I got home, and I was so sleepy that I just wanted to take a shower and go to sleep.Unexpectedly, when I stepped into the house with two feet, I just reached out to turn on the light when someone gave me a blow in the back, and I fainted with stars in my eyes.

Damn it, I have to find the property to settle the score this time, and said that the house is equipped with a burglar alarm, and the security guards are on patrol 24 hours a day!What the hell!