Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 187 Mutation
187 Chapter 187 Mutation

At this moment, when Wu Xie saw An Ning's expression, he broke out in a cold sweat.

The fat man also became confused. Looking at Aning, he asked confusedly: "What do you mean? Is this body really yours?"

Aning didn't say anything. She stretched out her right hand and handed them the bracelet given to her by her brother, and then stretched out her left hand to show them her own bracelet of copper coins.

Wu Xie looked carefully and found that the bracelet was formed into a whole by patina. He pushed aside the copper mud on the surface. Sure enough, there were several rotten copper coins engraved with the four characters "Guangxu Yuanbao" in vague Wei script. He broke them off again. After opening it a little, I saw the Manchu text inside, and even more carefully checked the pattern on it. It was indeed the same ten copper coins, and the shape of the entire bracelet was indeed the same as the bracelet on Aning's hand. Suddenly feeling horrified, he looked up at Aning.

Pan Zi said "uh" and said calmly: "Aren't they just two identical copper coin chains? Maybe it's just a coincidence. There are many fakes of this kind of copper coins."

Aning shook his head and said: "I can tell you for sure that this is a unique bracelet made of seven ten copper coins minted by Anqing Copper Yuan Bureau in Anhui Province. There will never be a second one in the world..."

Wu Xie was also confused at this moment and said: "Ten copper coins were very rare back then. Different series made in different periods and from different origins have different patterns and words. Each set has its own characteristics, just like commemorative coins. Same, it's not that easy to imitate. The seven pieces in Aning's hand were collected bit by bit over ten years.

The problem is not about the copper coins, but why there happens to be a woman from their company who has the financial resources and channels to buy seven identical ten copper coins, and also has the idea of ​​using them as bracelets, and also A field worker also came here, and we discovered her body. If it was a coincidence, then there would be too many coincidences, but the probability that so many details are consistent is too low. It doesn't make sense. ah. "

At this time, the little brother looked at Aning and shook his head.

Pan Zi said: "Then what is going on? Is it possible that the girl standing in front of us is a ghost? She died here more than ten years ago? How is this possible..." Pan Zi said He looked at An Ning and laughed, but after only laughing twice, he couldn't laugh anymore.His expression suddenly changed, and he stood up immediately and hurriedly touched his knife.

When Wu Xie saw Pan Zi's reaction, he asked strangely: "What's wrong?" After saying that, he turned to look at An Ning, who almost fainted from fright.

In the rain, Aning's face seemed to melt, and became strangely distorted. His eyes were protruding, as if they were about to pop out, and the corners of his mouth were grinned at impossible angles, revealing a mouth full of tiny fangs.

In an instant, Wu Xie's head buzzed and he shouted in his heart: "Fuck!" He touched the dagger at his waist at lightning speed and stepped away. However, in his panic, he forgot that he was On the tree, the retreating man missed the target with one step, and he fell down in an instant.

Wu Xie shrank suddenly, thinking that this was over, he would be seriously injured if he didn't fall to death this time. He hurriedly grabbed the surrounding branches with his hands, but couldn't catch anything.

At this moment, he felt someone suddenly grab the belt around his waist, and there was a pain in his waist, almost to the point of being strangled. The person picked him up and pulled him up.

Wu Xie steadied his body and wanted to look back to see which hero had saved him. When he saw it, his heart was in his throat and he was so scared that he peed his pants.

The person grabbing her belt was none other than Aning. She was looking at her with her mouth open and drooling, as if she was about to be swallowed by her. She was getting closer and closer to them, her The saliva dripped onto his face...

He thought in his heart, "This is really going to kill me"... If he was lifted up by her, he would definitely be eaten by her. His skin and bones would be ripped apart, and his flesh and blood would fly everywhere. Look at her little fangs. I would give him some leftovers, but my life would definitely be in danger. If I fell, I might still have a chance to survive. In desperation, I hurriedly reached out to untie my belt. However, the belt was already tied around my stomach and I couldn't untie it no matter how I tried. open.

At this moment, I was very scared. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I was so nervous that my scalp started to tremble all of a sudden. My brain went blank. Just out of the instinct of self-rescue, I used force to pull open the belt around my waist, pulled and pulled, and heard. Someone was shouting next to him: "Wake up, wake up, what the hell are you dreaming about?"

Wu Xie suddenly sat up and hit his head on someone's chest. As the person said "Ouch", Wu Xie realized that this was Aning. When he bumped her like this, she tilted her body. Wu Xie's conditioned reflex He stretched out his hand to hold her, and suddenly she was back in front of him, and she suddenly woke up. He almost knocked Aning into the tree just now, but luckily he was able to catch her.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, and Wu Xie came to his senses and found himself leaning against a tree. One hand was pulling on his belt, which had been pulled halfway, and the other hand was still holding An Ning tightly. It was the excavation site for snake bones. It was still raining, and the miner's lamps around him were glaring at him. An Ning, Pan Zi, and Menyou Ping were looking at him inexplicably.

Aning said to him: "Don't let go yet."

Wu Xie said "Ah", laughed awkwardly and let go of his hand. Aning leaned against the tree trunk and hurriedly restored the belt.

At this time, he could see clearly that a waterproof cloth had been set up over the snake bone, and the miner's lamp was placed on the surrounding branches. The oil bottle was holding the sleeping Xiaoxun beside him, and Pan Zi sat there and looked at him and smiled, The fat man was sleeping next to him, snoring loudly, and Aning was clutching her chest... Wu Xie realized that she was obviously in pain from being hit by him.

Fortunately, the dream just now was just a dream. I let out a sigh of relief and raised my hand to touch my forehead. I didn't know whether it was cold sweat or rain, but it was still wet anyway.

Only then did I slowly remember that after listening to Xiaoxun’s speculation, everyone started digging out snake bones, but they encountered some problems. The snake bones had been entangled in vines for at least more than ten years. They were crisscrossed inside and extremely strong. They didn't dig out anything for a long time, and then they took turns to rest. Unexpectedly, they were too tired from the whole journey, so they lay down and fell asleep.

I waited for them to dig that thing, but it was getting very late. The longer I waited, the more sleepy I became. I couldn’t bear it anymore and fell asleep. I woke up in a daze and saw my brother picking me up. Then he took me to the place where there was no rain. I sat down where I was dripping and leaned against him. It felt good, and then I fell asleep like that.

Not long after, he vaguely heard An Ning shouting, as if something had happened, so he tilted his head, opened one eye, squinted through a small slit, and saw Wu Xie smiling awkwardly, He stood up, wiped his face, and walked over.

Pan Zi smiled mischievously and asked: "Little Third Master, what were you dreaming about just now? Why do you still have to take off your pants?"

Wu Xie patted him, and he understood that Pan Zi must have thought that he had reached his age and dreamed about marrying a wife. Anyway, it was reasonable this time and he couldn't explain it clearly, so he thought it was better not to respond, so as not to cross the line. The darker the outline.

He looked at his watch and saw that he didn't sleep much longer. Light sleep is indeed prone to nightmares, but he finally slept for a while and felt much better.

It's just that the plot of this dream is a bit strange, too real... They say that dreams are the reaction of people's subconscious. Could it be that in my subconscious, I have an extremely powerful fear of this woman, Aning?Forget it, it's just a dream, so why are you taking it seriously? Just smile lightly.

Wu Xie turned back to look at Aning. She was already resting against the tree trunk. She had her eyes closed and looked a little haggard. At this moment, she was more feminine and much cuter than her usual aggressive look. But When I see her now, I always think of Aning in the dream just now, and I can't help but feel a little scared.

Wu Xie turned back to look at their progress, but found that there seemed to be no new progress, so he asked: "How is it? Have you found anything? Why don't you dig anymore." Pan Zi picked up the miner's lamp on one side and dug into the bones. He looked inside and said to him: "It's so rotten that it breaks into pieces when touched. Look at those."

Wu Xie looked at it and smiled and said: "It's true, this snake has been mineralized, and its scales have spread out to the size of a palm, just like paper money in ancient times."

Pan Zi laughed and said: "No, this man's bones are almost rotten and will break when touched. So, we couldn't get this body out, so we didn't dig it up anymore. But the most important thing is because We found this thing, look down."

Wu Xie looked down under the light of the miner's lamp. He saw a bundle of things deep in the snake bones and where the vines were tangled. He blurted out: "It's as dark as chicken legs..." He couldn't see clearly and lay down. Taking a closer look, this thing is black with a layer of rust on it. The three tied pieces have rusted into a whole. This thing is still inserted into a black armed bag and is carried on the back. On a corpse... He immediately knew what it was and said: "Holy crap! This is an old-fashioned grenade!" Wu Xie couldn't help but sucked in a breath of air, became nervous, and stepped back cautiously.

Pan Zi said to him: "Don't tell me, Fatty's eyes are poisonous. Fatty discovered this first, otherwise we might all be blown up to the sky by now."

Wu Xie said in surprise: "Who is that corpse? Wen Jin and his team should carry equipment and explosives instead of grenades. This old-fashioned grenade with a wooden handle is completely a weapon for actual combat. It is used to kill and injure people." It is for human purposes and is basically useless for engineering blasting.”

Pan Zi said: "Do you still remember that the old woman who ruled Dolma told us that in 1993, a group of reactionary armed forces engaged in nationalist separatism fled into Qaidam, and the militiamen chased them deep into the Gobi. This team has disappeared? I think these skeletons are those of the group at that time, and they probably wandered into this swamp by mistake. This group of people has not appeared again for more than ten years, so they should all have died here."

After hearing this, Wu Xie began to think wildly, and muttered: "Maybe they were not all dead at that time, and maybe they stayed here for a while and left. It's also possible that they settled here. If we meet, we will have to fight. We have no guns or cannons. If there are any casualties, I will be sorry for what happened before, but after many years, their weapons should have been scrapped..."

I couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing, then I twisted my little face and buried myself in my little brother's arms. Pan Zi looked at him and laughed.

At this moment, the fat man woke up and said "Hey" and said: "Little Tianzhen, you just think too much, be careful of getting old and bald, I tell you." He stretched.

Wu Xie glanced at him and said, "If you want to be bald, you have to go bald first."

The fat man shook his slightly messy hair and said to him: "Don't think about it, you fat man, I have thick black hair, and it's stuck at the root, so it won't fall out that easily."

Wu Xie said: "Bah! Do you think you are a hedgehog or a cactus? You are still strong. I will go back and plant a fruit for you."

I kept laughing, and my little brother patted me, meaning to have a good sleep again.

Wu Xie said to Pan Zi, "You go and sleep for a while. Fatty and I will take a look again."

Pan Zi shook his head and said, "I won't sleep. It's so humid. I'm old. If I sleep, there will definitely be something wrong. There are a few things here and dead people. Let's not think about it anymore. , you guys take a rest for a while, and when the rain abates, we will leave here and walk forward, it will be daybreak, then we will find a better place to light a fire and rest slowly."

After that, they huddled together, smoking, looking at the darkness outside, and listening to the sound of wind and rain.

Pan Zi wiped his gun and said: "This place is really humid. We only have one gun this time, so we have to protect it. If I had known, I would have brought two more."

A few people were chatting, and Wu Xie found that Menyou Ping fell asleep.Later, Pan Zi told Wu Xie what happened during the war.

He said: "I was very young at the time and was in the cooking class. Once, our logistics force encountered the Vietnamese special forces. We only had cooks and porters. How could we defeat those Vietnamese who had been fighting with the Americans since childhood? people?

We had no choice, and then we were forced into a swamp. The Vietnamese abused the prisoners. We were unwilling to fall into their hands, so we decided to die with them. The guard company that protected us at that time sent a grenade to each person. .

But these Vietnamese are too thieves. They don't show their heads, they are scattered in the jungle and lurking towards us. We just fire a shot here and a shot there so that they don't know where they can come from.

We fought and retreated, and finally retreated into the mud in the center of the swamp. When we stepped down, the mud was wrapped up to our thighs, and we couldn't walk. At this time, the company commander gave us an order to prepare, everyone Holding the grenade, he retreated into the mire, his face covered with mud and only his two nostrils were exposed.

But this time, the Vietnamese panicked. They seemed afraid to enter the swamp, so they fired at the swamp with their guns. After the bullets were almost exhausted, they retreated.

But we didn't dare to move in the swamp, fearing that it was a trick of the Vietnamese, so we endured it all night. When we saw that the Vietnamese had really left, we cautiously came out.

However, when we counted the number of people, we found that two people were missing. At first we thought they had sunk into the mud, so we used bamboo poles to search in the mud. As a result, we hooked out their bodies and found that these two people had already died. I don't know what was eaten away, leaving only a piece of transparent skin, and I don't know what is still stirring in my chest.

From then on, I began to be afraid of swamps. Later, I was transferred to the sharp knife platoon to fight in the rear of Vietnam. When the whole platoon was ambushed and killed, only me and the signal soldier were left. We fled to the edge of a swamp again. That time, I I would rather go out and kill all the pursuers than step into a place like this again. "

As Pan Zi talked, he kept yawning. Wu Xie also felt hazy, his eyelids only twitched, and he fell asleep again.

Half asleep and half awake, I felt someone shaking me and slowly picking me up. I opened my eyes and saw that it was my little brother. He seemed to be looking at something.

Wu Xie was staring in confusion when he was woken up by someone. He wanted to push the person away and continue to sleep. Not only did he miss, the person also covered his mouth. He opened his eyes and saw It was Aning who was covering his mouth.Then I looked at Pan Zi who was gently shaking the fat man to wake up. Several people seemed to have just woken up and were looking at something on the side.

Looking along their line of sight, the strong wind was blowing a branch above our heads, and the huge tree crown was shaking constantly, as if the wind was about to blow. However, there was no wind around.This was wrong. I woke up immediately, my eyes widened, and I looked above my head at a giant brown python, snaking around from another adjacent tree.

(End of this chapter)