Tomb Raiders Notes - Zhangjia Mausoleum Keeper

My aunt also raised her eyes and looked at me with a very complicated expression. She must have heard the news of my parents' death, but she didn't expect that a round trip in the mountains would end like this. If I live with my father, the relationship will be deeper.

After going through so many things, I understand the preciousness of life better, and I have accepted the facts calmly, so I raised my hand full of needles to stroke her hand, patted it, and wanted to comfort her, but as soon as I Do, her tears flowed out like a river that broke its embankment, and she collapsed on me and began to cry bitterly. Seeing her like this, I also burst into tears with distressed tears, but my emotions changed. Excited, my body felt like it was on fire, I didn’t catch my breath, and coughed again, and my whole body began to throb with pain from this cough. My aunt said that my lungs and respiratory tract were burned by the poisonous gas. I can only hold back my sadness so that it no longer affects my mood.

Looking at each other without words, only a thousand lines of tears, this feeling, at this moment, only the two of us who have just lost their loved ones understand, Wu Xie and Fat Brother couldn't stop comforting us when they saw us crying.

In fact, there are still many mysteries in my heart that have not been solved, such as the strange construction structure of Zhangjiazu's tomb, the mystery of incorruption inside, and the true identity of the group of camouflage uniforms, etc. Poker bottle seems to have too many The secrets they kept from me, including the secrets they kept from me, when I thought about it, my head ached like it was being torn apart, my mind was confused for a while, and I was a little exhausted, so I closed my eyes and fell asleep for a while.

In this way, in the next few days, due to the uninterrupted infusion, antibiotics and nebulization, I became better, and I learned about what happened from them intermittently. He didn't speak, and fell asleep after eating. The doctor said: "He actually didn't inhale a lot of drugs. He was just too tired and physically exhausted. He urgently needs to rest for a while. You see, he is such a strange person. You Just when I thought he was a god-like figure, he needed a quiet rest to replenish his strength like an ordinary person."

My body also recovered very quickly, and I could get out of bed and move around freely after a week. Sometimes sitting on the bench in the hospital garden, I would feel as if I had passed away, and I always felt that everything in front of me was unreal. My brother said that this is a syndrome after going to the grave, and it will be fine after a while.

Not long after, Pokerfing gradually regained his spirits, and we were discharged from the hospital one after another. It has been almost three months since we entered the mountain. These days, it is really like coming back from a circle in hell.

After we entered the mountain for more than a month, my aunt began to fidget and lost her mind to go to class. She simply quit her job and concentrated on waiting for news in the two small rooms day and night. We still hadn’t heard from us in May, she couldn’t sit still, so she packed up her things and followed into the mountain. She had entered this forest when she was young, so she knew the way very well, and soon found that all the entrances and exits of Zhangjiazu’s grave were blocked After it was sealed off, she didn't know what to do. She suddenly thought that the ancestral grave was connected to another tiankeng on the top of the mountain. She could only go there to try her luck. The movement that came out.

To be honest, without my aunt, we would have died a long time ago. Her kite rope and ladder appeared too timely. I am grateful to her, and also to my parents. They must have guided my aunt to find us. They don’t want to see it. Watching us all die under the demon tree.

I have to explain about that tiankeng. It has some similarities with other tiankengs in other parts of the country, but it is not exactly the same. For example, the most famous Xiaozhai tiankeng in Fengjie County, Chongqing is a karst funnel landform, which is due to the long-term erosion of underground rivers. , and formed a large area of ​​hollows in the ground. Over time, it will collapse if it cannot bear the gravity. This kind of subsidence forms a large-scale tiankeng, and there is nothing under the tiankeng we climbed out of. The underground river, if there is an underground river, has already taken a detour, and the geological environment is logically impossible to form such a large sinkhole. This pit has a long history, and the older generation does not call it a sky pit. The pit, because it cannot explain its origin and formation, is simply called the "immortal pit".

To be honest, if I were to tell you how this crater was formed, it seems to me that it was hit by an external force. Maybe it was hit by an alien meteorite in the long history. To solve the mystery, I am not a professional geologist, and I have a bad memory in it, so I really can't arouse much interest to study that ghost place in detail.

After we were discharged from the hospital, we stayed at my aunt’s house for a few days. I wondered why I didn’t see my uncle. Today, I was chatting with my aunt alone in the room. As soon as I pulled her, I asked, “My uncle has been Where are you going, are you on a business trip?"

After hearing this, my aunt's expression changed, and she sighed softly and said, "Zi Lin, I don't want to hide it from you anymore. In fact, your uncle and I have always been married in physical form, and we are not a real couple."

This answer caught me off guard by accident, and I couldn't accept it at all. I stammered and said, "How...is it possible, you...are gay?"

My aunt shook her head with a wry smile, and then said: "My lover died of illness more than 30 years ago. Your uncle is just a friend of mine. He is the real homosexual. He is afraid of people's words, so he can only pull me to start a family." , and I also need a normal family to hide my identity."

"Oh, it's no wonder you have never had children. I have always wanted to ask a question, but I really didn't have the courage to ask it. I can't care about it now. Auntie, how old are you this year?" I was startled, I looked at her nervously.

"78 years old, do you believe it?" My aunt said with a smile.

"Seven...?" I couldn't believe it, looking at her fair skin with elasticity and almost no wrinkles, let alone no spots, her eyes were as clear as autumn water, her figure was slender and well-proportioned, and she had the most mature and elegant temperament I'm in my 30s, what is the concept of 78 years old, I should have lost all my old teeth!

I leaned against the wall weakly, unable to believe what I heard. My aunt knew that it was difficult for me to accept, so she fell silent. After a while, I asked again: "Then how old am I this year?"

Growing up is already a vague concept for me. When I was a child, I must have been the kind of rough-and-tumble person who didn’t care about anything, so my aunt and uncle lived in such a seemingly inseparable relationship. I lived under the same roof every day. Even the people who are still there didn't notice anything wrong. If I was young and ignorant, then... I didn't dare to think about it anymore, my heart was beating so fast that I felt like I was about to jump out.

My aunt saw that I was about to cry, smiled "puchi", patted my head, and said with a smile: "Silly boy, you are 23 years old today, and your father met your mother when he was 60 years old." , I gave birth to you later, don't worry! Your age is fine."

I was a little relieved when I heard her say this, "But why why? You don't grow old, or you age so slowly. Is there really the art of eternal youth?" I shook my aunt's arm excitedly. This phenomenon is really shocking.

"Impossible, we will die eventually, but the death rate is slower than that of ordinary people. This is related to our genetics. Our ancestors are a very mysterious nation. This nation has little contact with the outside world. They have their own way of life. It is said that the men and women in our clan are very handsome and beautiful, and their appearance and lifespan can also last longer. I can’t say the specific reason. This secret may only be known by the patriarch.” Auntie After speaking calmly, he took my hand and asked, "Zi Lin, do you know how old our patriarch is?"

This question really baffled me, Poker Bottle looks about the same age as me, and if you add in the time he spent before, it is probably no more than thirty!I don't have much confidence, and I can only hear bits and pieces of his past from their chats. After making a rough guess, I shook my head, indicating that I don't know either.

The aunt's expression suddenly became very strange, and she sighed helplessly and said, "Maybe he is really only in his twenties as he looks like, or he may...be...a hundred years old, or even hundreds of years old Already." My aunt spoke slowly, as if she had been testing my ability to accept.

I suddenly had goosebumps all over my body. I couldn't accept the thought that Poker Face is a Tianshan boy who is hundreds of years old. I exclaimed, and hurriedly asked, "I... can our life span be hundreds of years?"

The aunt shook her head and said, "We can't, but the patriarch can."

My heart was flustered, and I immediately lowered my head and started thinking wildly. What my aunt said was really hard for me to digest.

"If Poker-Face is hundreds of years old, can I still love him? Isn't that the biggest age difference in the world? No wonder I can't see through his mind at all. Am I childish and idiot in his eyes? Sigh ~These questions make me very depressed." I kept moaning unconsciously.

As if seeing through my thoughts, my aunt poked my forehead with a smile and said, "Silly girl, you have to trust your own feelings, why do you think so much!"

"Trust the feeling? What does this mean?" I was even more confused when I heard it.

My aunt just smiled without saying a word, got up and patted the clothes, and said that she was going to cook, leaving me alone in the room to continue to struggle.

In the mountain city in autumn, it is already a bit chilly in the morning and evening. The clothes we brought with us are either torn or burned, and they are scattered. My aunt bought a lot of new clothes for the few of us, and finally looked decent. After dinner one night, we sat in the yard in front of my aunt’s house, drank tea, chatted and looked at the stars. The house in my aunt’s county town can be regarded as a quiet place amidst the hustle and bustle. There are many people.When I was in it, I regained some sense of stability in this world and the tranquility of time.

Fat brother is addicted to alcohol and doesn’t want to drink tea at all. He doesn’t know where to make a few bottles of Erguotou and drink it as tea. After drinking it, it becomes a doggerel. To say it is a poem is actually nonsense, such as the bright moon According to the photo, the stars smiled at me and asked me where I got rich, and I said to go to the sea.It's all messed up, my aunt, as a people's teacher who used to teach and educate people, shook her head when she heard it, but I secretly praised it in my heart. Although my fat brother has no education, when it comes to an open mind and a free and easy outlook on life, that No one can match him.

Chatting and chatting, everyone's topic became hotter. After sweeping away the haze of escape from death before, Wu Xie pestered Poker and asked him about those mummies in the Thousand Coffins and what happened after they were separated. The small chair also moved close to Poker Bottle, and listened carefully with his ears pricked up.

At that time, the longan wall was broken, and hundreds of mummified corpses were about to be picked up. Poker bottle saw that there would be another fight if things went on like this, and they were all from the same clan. I was able to jump over a few rows of coffins, jumped to the edge of the longan wall, took out the Dragon Yin and wiped some blood on my hands, and sprinkled it on the longan wall to frighten these mummy corpses of the same clan. Those mummy corpses smelled the blood of the patriarch The taste and meaning all froze there, and when there was no movement, Poker-Face chanted some spells and drove them all back into their respective coffins.

"Oh my god! Poker-finger is still a mortician. I've never seen how many skills he has." I thought to myself, and asked in a hurry: "How can you tell the difference between those people who have become mummies?" Are you the patriarch? And what is the difference between the blood of the patriarch and the blood of ordinary people?" My questions were almost one after another, because there were too many mysteries in my heart that I urgently needed his help to solve.

But I didn't expect that Poker-Face just shook his head, he didn't know if he didn't know or didn't want to answer me at all.

Unwilling to give up, I continued to ask: "Then have the corpses of my parents been recovered? And why are their corpses still in good condition, but those long-time elders of the same clan have become mummies?"

Poker-Face shook his head again, and finally said, "They won't turn into corpses, and they won't turn into mummies."

"Why...why?" My tone changed.

At this moment, Poker Bottle looked at me with a complicated expression, and suddenly shut up and didn't speak.

I was almost pissed off by him, Wu Xie waved my hand to signal me not to keep interrupting, and told Poker to continue talking.

Poker bottle obviously lost the interest just now. He just said briefly that after he stabilized the mummies, he jumped down the robbery cave to look for us, but he couldn't find us, and then he met again in that big cave.

"Did you go into that black stone passage? It's the passage of endless loop." Wu Xie asked.

"What kind of endless loop channel?" Poker Bottle shook his head, expressing that he didn't know.

What this kid said was full of loopholes, and I suddenly didn’t believe a word, because the loopholes were very obvious, he dug that robbery hole himself, it’s impossible for him not to know where it leads, Wu Xie and I looked at each other, and the two of us They all frowned, I believe that Wu Xie must have the same doubts as me, but Poker Ping has already said so, we can't get entangled anymore, and there is another thing that is particularly difficult for me to accept, that is, the materialized When Poker-finger was about to kill me, this Poker-finger came out of the bronze door. In my memory, Wu Xie kept secret about the bronze door. I would try to stop me in every possible way. I really want to know if he knew Poker-finger came What would it be like to come out of it.

I suddenly asked in a tone that was obviously against Poker Fever: "What is in the bronze door? Why did you come out of it?"

Poker Bottle held a cup of tea to his lips and was about to drink it. When he heard my words, he froze there, as if he had been acupointed. The aunt who was making tea trembled and knocked over the cup , Wu Xie also stared at me with big eyes and looked at me in surprise, as if he didn't know me.

I was terrified by them, but I scolded in my heart: "You all know it, and you just treat me like a fool. The most abominable thing is the stuffy oil bottle. I could go in and find out by myself. It knocked me out, and I still can't get over it when I think about it."

After a dead silence, Poker-Face slowly drank the cup of tea as if he didn't hear what I said, and got up and went into the room. Wu Xie and Fat Brother also stood up immediately, smiled at me, and said: "It's getting late, go to bed early."

After they left, my aunt also started to clean up the teacups without saying a word. I felt so angry in my heart. I couldn't explain the feeling clearly, as if I was squeezed out by my companions who were born and died. I didn't bother to talk to my aunt anymore, anyway. She wasn't there at the time, even if she knew something, with her current attitude, she was as if she wouldn't say anything. I picked up the bottle of Erguotou that Fat Brother hadn't finished and drank it all while she wasn't paying attention. , the spicy wine was poured into the stomach, and there was a burst of pain. After the pain, there was a feeling of ecstasy, and then a burst of heat rushed straight to the head. I suppressed the tears in the corners of my eyes. , Why?I am the same, can't I be a little more stupid, a little stupid, and less cranky?

Sometimes I blame this, sometimes I blame that, but the result is meaningless, I still can't get the answer, I am very tired and pester the people around me, but why can't I ignore their deliberate intentions? I subconsciously feel that this matter of concealment is related to me, and it is probably a very bad thing... I think if I continue to torture like this, I will go crazy sooner or later.

It's just that I didn't expect that half of Erguotou, which I drank willfully, sent me to the hospital again in the middle of the night, with acute gastric bleeding, and I stayed in the hospital for another week.Wu Xie and Fat Brother had already messed up their business in Hangzhou, so they couldn't delay any longer, so they had to go back first.Although Boyouping stayed, it seems that the boring disease has relapsed, just like when I first saw him, every day he either stared blankly at the ceiling or slept, and he was unwilling to talk, which made me extremely depressed and doubted the way I saw men. Vision is definitely a problem.

But the more he is like this, the more my desire to conquer is aroused. Poker bottle, you are an iceberg, and I will try to find a way for you...