[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

As a person who has been declared dead, Nan Xing can no longer return to his home.

After Zhang Qiling left, all the news about him came from Zhang Ruixue.

The archives are like the Zhang family's gossip center, gathering all reliable and unreliable gossip, and Zhang Ruixue has a natural affinity for Nan Xing, so as long as there is anything about Zhang Qiling in these gossips, she will tell her.

After he became a spirit person, the Zhang family soon entrusted him with the difficult task of going to the ancient city of Sizhou to retrieve the bronze female bell.After getting back the bell, he went to the ancient building of the Zhang family and the bronze gate successively, and saw the ultimate.Since then, the mission and meaning of the Zhang family's existence have been completely bound to his life.

Over the years, even though he has no intersection with his life, Nan Xing still knows the general experience of his various stages.This is the reason why Nan Xing has been staying in the Medog Archives with peace of mind. Only here can he know his recent situation at the first time.

Because of Zhang Ruixue's status as the person in charge of Medog, under the banner of monitoring Nanxing, she took Nanxing back to the tribe from time to time.Life in Bukaluo is very peaceful, and Nan Xing is freed from the anxiety of losing her memory day by day. In her inadvertent smile, she can already glimpse the thrilling look in her previous life.

One morning ten years later, Nan Xing still woke up from Zhang Ruixue's house.

When he came out to wash, he didn't see Zhang Ruixue.

Zhang Ruixue, as an elderly member of the Zhang family, has a routine similar to that of ordinary elderly people. She goes to bed early and wakes up early without exception.

Feeling puzzled, Nan Xing knocked on Zhang Ruixue's door after washing.

Unexpectedly, the door of her room was ajar, and it opened as soon as she knocked.Nan Xing looked inside, but did not see Zhang Ruixue.

The quilts in the room didn't even have time to fold, so they were piled up on the bed indiscriminately.Zhang Ruixue is very particular about tidiness on weekdays, even if she is in a hurry to go out, she will tidy up the room.

Nan Xing suddenly realized something, quickly went back to the room, grabbed a coat and put it on, then went out and rushed back in the direction of the archives.

After arriving at the archives, as soon as the door was opened, Dong Qiu was eating breakfast inside. When she saw Nan Xing coming in, she put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hand and called her: "The old devil left early in the morning. He seems to be in a hurry. Tell me I won't be able to make breakfast for you in the next few days, and I bought you dry food and put it in your room."

Nan Xing took a breath, grasped the key information in the words in an instant, kept a calm face, and entered the room with a "hmm" as if answering casually.

He opened his cupboard, and there were three bags of tsampa in it, two cans of ghee and two cans of koji beside it.

"I left dry food for you" was the secret code that Zhang Ruixue and her had set before, and I specially chose a very everyday sentence in order not to arouse others' suspicion.

The type of dry food, container type, and quantity left behind are another code, corresponding to the page number and line number in a book, and used to convey key messages.

After closing the cupboard, Nan Xing took out the book from the bookshelf and flipped through it quickly. After flipping through, the three words he found formed a place name - "Bai Le Jing".

Bai Lejing, Nan Xing just happened to see this place when he was sorting out the files.

Bailejing is located in Guangxi. Another more down-to-earth name is Jinya Cave, which is a local settlement called Adagger.The Adagger ethnic group is a regional ethnic group after the local Miao and Yao people mixed together. In fact, there are four to five ethnic groups living together. The Jizhai is built on the mountain. There are six large villages, and the outer village has more than 3000 households. A place where the Han people live together.People in this cave regard gold teeth as their beauty, and they will paint their teeth with gold powder on holidays and go to the street to gather, so it is called Jinya cave.

The reason why this place appears in the records of the archives is because a strange incident happened there three years ago.

The deep mountain behind Bailejing, not to mention outsiders, is difficult for even the Han people in Bailejing to enter. There are five villages in it. In addition, there is a cave in the deepest part of the valley, whose name is not even known to others. , I only know that there is a kind of spring water in that cave, which seems to have a special purpose, so I have to call it Guishui cave.

There was a young man in the outer village. His newly married daughter-in-law had been in good health, but one day she suddenly had a fever and fainted, and she didn't wake up for several days.Doctors changed one after another, but couldn't diagnose the cause, so they pinned their hopes on metaphysics.

There is a legend in the village that the spring water of Guishuidong can cure difficult and miscellaneous diseases. The young people did not believe it before, but when they were desperate, they decided to give it a try.

So I bought a bottle from Neizhai and fed it to my daughter-in-law.

Really useful?

Unexpectedly, his daughter-in-law's fever subsided quickly, and she woke up in one afternoon.

Things went straight to the absurd direction.

This kind of joy of lost and found did not last long, because he found that his daughter-in-law seemed to be different in some places.

Especially the way she looked at him always made his back sweat from the cold, cold and empty, that kind of feeling, as if what was alive was just a shell, and her soul had been replaced by something else.

The young man told his neighbors about the situation, and the next day after he finished talking about these doubts, the neighbors discovered that the young man was crazy at home.

When the neighbors found the young man, he shrank in the corner, haggard, with sunken eye sockets and bloodshot eyes, as if he had aged ten years overnight, repeating tremblingly: "She is not human...she is not people…"

As soon as the neighbor was about to help him up, he rushed over, kicked the neighbor out, closed the door, and then yelled inside, repeating the same sentence: "Don't let her see you! Taken away!"

Immediately afterwards, the neighbor heard the sound of slapping the door panel from inside the house. The slapping sound was urgent and heavy. Hearing this, the neighbor was terrified. After hesitating for a moment, he went to open the door, only to find that the door was locked from the inside.

Not long after, there was a sharp scratching sound coming from inside, and the neighbor hurried to call the villagers to help break the door open.

When I entered the door, I saw the young man lying flat on the ground.

The neighbor went in and found that he was not lying flat, but lying on the ground, but his head was completely turned around by someone. If you don't look carefully at the condition of your body, you will subconsciously think that you are lying flat.

The villagers searched all over the young man's house, but they couldn't find his wife.

Later, people in the village spread the rumor that the young man was murdered by his wife.

Not long after, when the young man's neighbor went to the back mountain, he saw the young man's daughter-in-law on the back mountain. She felt someone behind her after tens of meters away, and turned her head to look.

This turning around scared the neighbor into panic, because the way she looked back was exactly the same as when the young man died.

The information in the archives is only recorded here.

Is Zhang Ruixue's going to Bailejing related to this strange incident?What is the purpose?

And, since she left a clue, it should be hoped that she will also set off for Bailejing in the future.

Nan Xing put the book back on the shelf, and began to think about the plan to go to Bailejing.

Ever since Zhang Ruixue took over the Medog Archives, Dong Qiu didn't pay much attention to the surveillance of Nan Xing, because even if something happened, Zhang Ruixue was to blame.

Moreover, in the past few years, with the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the feudal social system has completely disintegrated, and the basic contradictions in society are constantly promoting changes. The Zhang family, which has lost its belief in longevity to maintain cohesion, has been washed to the brink of collapse in such a tide of change. Not as good as before.

He was too busy to take care of himself, and he didn't pay as much attention to Nan Xing as he did at the beginning.

Whether to leave Medog or not depends entirely on whether Nan Xing wants to.

So Nan Xing left without any obstacles.

In the early days of the Republic of China, the national conditions were chaotic, and the journey from Nanxing to Bailejing was not so smooth.

In particular, her temperament looks too much like a young lady from a wealthy family who is now in a poor family, so it is even more time-consuming for people who trouble her along the way to follow her.

In order to save trouble, Nan Xing had no choice but to wear a human-skin mask to pretend that he would not be found out among the refugees, so the journey went smoothly.

A month later, finally arrived at Bailejing.

It's much more lively here than she imagined.

There is a river in front of Bailejing, which leads to Shanxi on one side and directly connects to Hongshui River on the other. It is a river transport trail leading to the Central Plains on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road. Therefore, Bailejing is very developed, and people from various industries work here. There is an endless stream every day, and the number of people is actually several times higher than the three thousand households.

At night, the street is full of lights, and it looks like a Milky Way in the mountains from a distance.Because there are all ethnic groups, there are various ancestral halls, clothing, snacks, and bathhouses, which are very lively.

Nan Xing entered Baile Capital on such a colorful evening. It seemed that there was some happy event in the city today. There were colorful lights everywhere and some people set off firecrackers.

Nan Xing asked a seven or eight-year-old child who ran past on the side of the road. The child told her that today the city is holding a marriage selection for Fei Kun's father, and the most beautiful girl in Bailejing will be the most beautiful girl in Bailejing. Lu's thanks, dedicated to him as a bride.

"Fei Kun's father?" Nan Xing thought for a while.

Palu means warrior, and it is a title in mythology.

"The entire ten miles and eight villages here offer sacrifices to Fei Kun's father, he is the god who saves us." The child looked devoutly.

"Since you are a god, how can you get married?" Nan Xing tilted his head.

The child gave Nan Xing a strange look, and said, "You don't understand even if you tell me."

The corner of Nan Xing's eyebrows twitched, it was the first time for her to be despised by a child.

"My sister invites you to eat candied haws. Can you tell my sister about it?" Nan Xing decided to use his banknote ability.

The child's eyes lit up, and he completely ignored what his parents taught "don't eat what strangers give him". He raised his chin and began to bargain: "Then I want ten skewers."

"Deal." Nan Xing called to stop the passing vendors.

After receiving the candied haws, the child began to tell Nan Xing about the legend of Fei Kun's father Lu.

Unexpectedly, the deeds of Fei Kun's father are also related to the spring water of Guishuidong.

After the woman who was revived by drinking the spring water at the beginning, there were often missing people in Baile Capital, and those people drank the spring water of Guishuidong before they disappeared.

Everyone thinks that as long as they don't drink the spring water, nothing will happen, but the disappearance of the city residents doesn't stop just because they don't drink the spring water.

The number of missing persons is increasing.

People say that there are really evil spirits in Guishuidong, and Baile Capital is cursed.

For a moment, the entire Baile capital fell into panic.

Baile Capital has never been so quiet. Even in the daytime, few people dare to go out again, for fear that they will be the next one to disappear.

Until one day, a young man came to the city.

He asked the townspeople about the location of Guishui Cave, and then went directly to the back mountain.

Everyone thought that man was crazy, and he must have gone and never returned.

To everyone's surprise, three days later, the man came back unscathed, and found nearly a hundred city residents who had disappeared before.

Since then, there have been no more cases of missing citizens in Baile Capital, and everything has returned to normal.

And that man entered Guishui Cave again, and would come back only occasionally.

"Come back?" Nan Xing felt a little strange when he heard this.

"Yes, Fei Kun's father Lu will come back every once in a while to buy food." The child answered vaguely, chewing on candied haws.

Nan Xing found it interesting, so he asked, "You actually let the gods buy food?"

"Of course not! That's why we built the Feikun Palu Temple in the entire Baile capital, and we put the freshest offerings in the temple every day." The child became so excited that he didn't even bother to eat the candied haws.

"He knows it's his temple? Will he really eat it?"

The child nodded seriously, "He has only been to the Feikun Temple closest to Guishuidong."

After finishing speaking, the child added: "Although it was only once, it also shows that Fei Kun Palu accepted our offering. So we decided to return him a richer offering."

Nan Xing smiled, "So you just sent the beauties directly? Are you afraid that he will offend the gods if he doesn't look back?"

The child patted his chest, "I will definitely accept it. Our sisters in Baile Capital are all beauties. And Fei Kun's father Lu is the best-looking fairy I have ever seen. Such a good-looking fairy, for sure I also like the beautiful sister."

The author has something to say:

Hahahahaha, everyone must know who Fei Kun's father is, right?