Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 202
202 Chapter 2 There is someone in the tree
After the heavy rain, before sunset, such a thick fog suddenly appeared in the sea of ​​trees, which they had not expected.

It was already extremely dark under the dense canopy of trees, and now coupled with this strange fog, the visibility was extremely low. This darkness was like night. They turned on the miner's lamp and could only see clearly things within one meter.

The surrounding temperature dropped, making the entire sea of ​​trees feel gloomy.

They all felt very uneasy as they could not see the road clearly and could not tell the direction.

According to Pan Zi's estimate, if he drove there overnight and no major accidents happened, he would be able to reach the signal smoke before midnight after walking for another five or six hours. But now, it was definitely impossible. Although Pan Zi was very anxious, he could reach the signal smoke before midnight. Seeing the situation in front of them, he still said to them: "We can't go any further. The fog is too heavy. If we go like this, something will happen. Let's find a place to rest first."

Then, they searched nearby and found a rotten tree that had collapsed in the mud and withered. The fat man said, "Hey, there happens to be an empty space here. Let's take this." The fat man climbed up in a few moments and said: "Come on, Tianzhen, come up." He turned around and stretched out his hand to pull Wu Xie up.

Pan Zi looked around and said to them: "This may not be able to make fire, it will catch fire easily."

The fat man looked at it and said, "Can't you just take the fire prevention measures well? If you don't bake it, it won't be dry. You know, it's uncomfortable. It's soaked and soaked, and you can easily get sick." After that, the fat man stood up and said to them. : "I'll get some dry branches or something, and I'll light a smaller fire later. It'll be better than it is now. Just wait."

Then, the fat man collected some dry branches and dead vines nearby, dug some mud and put them at the bottom to prevent fire. He set up branches on the mud, put the dead vines on them, and poured oil to lighten the fire.

"Whew!" Black smoke started to appear everywhere. Wu Xie coughed and said, "Fat man, did you do this..."

The fat man covered his mouth and squinted his eyes and said: "No matter how dry things are in this place, it will be damp, which is good. Logically speaking, the mud at the bottom should be dried first, but the conditions are limited. It's done. After a while That's good, let's dry these branches here first, and we'll have real dry firewood later." The fat man put the other branches aside to dry, curled his lips and said: "Little comrade, don't be impatient, dry firewood goes with the fire. , the more it gets, the more prosperous it becomes.”

After a while, the dry branches and vines dried up, and the bonfire became more prosperous. The fat man threw the dried branches into the bonfire. Seeing that the fire was stable, the fat man couldn't hold it anymore and found a more comfortable place. The ground fell silent, and then everyone took a rest.

Wu Xie took off his shoes and socks. The socks were worn and tattered like a net bag, and the soles of his feet were full of blisters. He sat there listlessly, massaging the muscles on his soles and calves.

Pan Zi was anxious, but had no choice but to stop, frowning, looking sulky, and said to them in a daze: "This kind of fog will gradually dissipate after nightfall. Let's start again when the fog subsides a little." , let’s take a good rest first.”

The fat man said: "Come on, let's redistribute the equipment and give me all the bags." He took out the things from Wu Xie's backpack and continued to move them into his and Pan Zi's backpacks.

Wu Xie was a little embarrassed, but he also understood that if he continued like this, he would die of overwork if his small body could not protect his body. He would be exhausted to death, so he would no longer try to be strong.

The fat man said to him while tidying up: "Innocent, don't be so nervous and stretch yourself so hard. The more you rest, the more tired you will be. Get some sleep, we are here."

Wu Xie nodded and closed his eyes obediently, but the strange atmosphere around him made him extremely uneasy. After squinting for a few minutes, he just couldn't sleep. He was so confused that he had to close his eyes to rest.

Outside the sea of ​​trees, my brother and I were lying comfortably on the platform he had set up among the branches.

At this time, the temperature in the woods began to drop a bit. For me, whose fever had not completely subsided, this temperature felt a bit cold.

The little brother put my coat under me as a cushion, and put his coat on me to use as a quilt.

Although we were tired after walking for a day, none of us fell asleep at the beginning, we just lay quietly.

At the beginning, the little brother hugged me and looked up.I also hugged him, huddled in his arms, raised my head slightly and looked at him, feeling his warmth.

Soon, my body became warmer and warmer, and my eyelids became heavier and heavier.

After a while, Wu Xie just felt a little sleepy when he heard the fat man chatting softly with Pan Zi. The fat man said: "Da Pan, to be honest, when we get to the ground, if the third master is not there, what are your plans?"

Pan Zi sighed: "You want to see people alive, and you want to see corpses when you die. Why are you thinking about these?"

The fat man said: "When Xiao Wu is awake, Fat Master, I don't tell you how I feel about taking care of him. I'm here to make a fortune, not to wipe your ass. Now he didn't act according to the plan and ruined the whole thing. I've always said ugly things. If your third master is really gone, I'll take my share of equipment and do my business alone. This forest is so big, I won't follow you to find those people."

Pan Zi sneered and said: "Let's break up? This forest is extremely mysterious. If you really encounter a situation, can you handle it alone? Besides, the desert is hundreds of kilometers outside. Even if you touch something and get out alive, you can go through it alone." Out of the Gobi?"

The fat man laughed and said: "What kind of person am I, you fat man? These guys all have their own plans. I just want to say hello to you in advance so that you don't have to worry." His tone was very firm, as if he was confident.

Pan Zi shook his head and sighed: "I won't force you to do this. Once you get the equipment, you can leave as you wish. However, don't expect us to rescue you when you are in trouble. Don't expect to get a share of anything we touch." .”

The fat man made a "cut" sound and said with a smile: "After all this time, you are still bluffing me, and you still don't ask me, and you are bluffing me, fat man, that I am an ancestor. Alas, your third master is not here to touch the underworld at all this time. Damn it, I said that right."

The fat man stretched and said, "Oh~" and continued: "When it comes to touching good things, I can only do it alone. I have to learn from our little brother. He dumped us the first two times. Here we are. He just disappears for fun, he is a spirit, he has a girl with him, he can touch the underworld, and he can also enjoy the world of two people at the same time, I think he has already made a lot of money."

When Wu Xie heard this, he couldn't help but laugh. He said to himself, "I don't dare to say anything else. Men You Ping and Xiao Xun definitely didn't leave us because of money. We are in a world of two. You can't envy that."

When the fat man saw that Wu Xie was not sleeping, he said: "Hey~ this kid, what do adults say and children listen? Go, go, go to sleep." After that, he didn't talk about it anymore.

Wu Xiejue's fat man knew that he was faking his sleep, so there was something in his words. It felt like he had noticed the disappearance of Menyou Ping and Xiao Xunlao, and had some questions.But in this situation, there was no way to avoid Pan Zi. It was better to wait for the opportunity to talk to him about this matter alone.

After that, everyone fell into silence again and took a rest.

Three hours later, Wu Xie woke up in a daze. At this time, the fog around him had faded a lot. Although he didn't sleep for long, he was still very energetic. The worst thing was that his whole body ached even more. incredible……

He stood up to relax his muscles and saw the fat man sitting there, looking up at a tree.Pan Zi didn't know where he was, so he asked him, "Where is Pan Zi?"

The fat man immediately made a silent gesture to him and pointed to the tree.

Wu Xie squinted his eyes, pressed his waist, and stood up with a grin on his face. He walked to the side of the fat man and looked up. A thin mist enveloped the lonely moon. Under the hazy moonlight, he saw someone on the tree.

Wu Xie asked in a low voice: "What's going on with him? Is he resting in a tree like a monkey?"

The fat man said softly: "There was some movement just now. He climbed up to take a look."

Before they finished speaking, there was a "shush" from the tree, telling them to stop talking. After waiting for a while, Pan Zi gestured to them to get up the tree immediately.

The two of them moved their hands and feet. Wu Xie looked at the tree and saw that the tree was very tall. The trunk was covered with moss. Although there were many footholds, it was easy to slip.

The two of them climbed up carefully and came to Pan Zi's side.Pan Zi was looking at the thing under the top of the tree crown, where the branches were relatively sparse.Wu Xie asked Pan Zi softly: "What's going on?"

Pan Zi said in an extremely low voice: "There seems to be someone on the tree over there."

The fat man asked Pan Zi softly: "Which way?" Pan Zi pointed to a direction and made a gesture: "About 20 meters, on the branches."

The fat man narrowed his glasses and looked over, asking: "The moonlight here is so dark, and the other end is so dark, how can you see it? Could it be a little brother or a girl?"

Pan Zi frowned and made a gesture to ask the fat man to speak softer: "Originally I couldn't see it, but it moved just now, so I discovered it. Although it was blocked by leaves and couldn't see clearly, it shouldn't be Brother, if it’s a girl, that thing is a bit bigger.”

Pan Zi pushed aside the dense branches, pointed to the tree crown in the distance and said, "I'm not sure. I'll take a look."

Wu Xie squinted his slightly short-sighted eyes and looked around in the dense canopy of trees, muttering: "Where is it?"

The fat man's sharp eyes saw him immediately. He patted Wu Xie and gave him a finger, and said softly: "Holy shit, there is such a person."

Pan Zi gave the binoculars to Wu Xie, and Wu Xie looked in the direction of the fat man again. Now he finally saw that in the gap in the tree crown, there was a shape similar to a human figure. The body was huddled in the tree crown. That person's Hands, full of mud.

Wu Xie asked: "Could it be Wen Jin? Brother, they didn't catch her yesterday?"

Pan Zi nodded: "It's possible, that's why I asked you to keep your voices down. If it's really her, you'll run away when you hear the sound."

The fat man kept urging: "Hey, let me take a look." Wu Xie handed the binoculars to the fat man and said to Pan Zi: "If she is really Wen Jin, do we have to catch her."

Pan Zi looked at the surrounding terrain, shook his head and said: "I think it's a bit difficult. It's more than 20 meters from here to there. If she runs when she hears the sound like last night, she won't be able to see anyone after a few runs. In this environment, we can't catch up. The best way is to sneak under the tree, block her in the tree and catch her. We have to do it as soon as possible. The fog is about to lift now, so we can't delay. Too much time, after catching her, we still have to rush to the third master."

Wu Xie thought for a moment and said, "Okay, there's no time to hesitate. I just have to do it first and then talk about it." He patted the fat man and tried to pull him down from the tree.

The fat man hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Wait, wait, wait."

Pan Zi shouted softly: "Stop looking, catch her and let you see her as much as you can."

The fat man continued to look, not in a hurry, but moving while looking.

Pan Zi was already impatient, but he suddenly became angry and went up to grab the fat man's binoculars.But he was pushed away by the fat man. "Wait a minute! Something's wrong!"

When they saw that the fat man was so serious, they might have seen something, so they waited for a while.

After a while, the fat man took a breath of cold air, put down the telescope and cursed: "Damn..." Then he gave the telescope to Wu Xie and said to him: "Look carefully at her hands."

Wu Xie hurriedly took it and looked at it carefully. The fat man was standing next to him and said, "Look behind the leaves and your wrist. Look carefully."

Wu Xie squinted his eyes and looked hard. In an instant, his heart thumped, and he took a breath and said, "What the hell! This is Aning's copper coin bracelet!"

The fat man shook his head and said with an incredulous look on his face: "Did those snakes transport her body here?"

Seeing their expressions change, and hearing about An Ning, Pan Zi immediately took the binoculars over to take a look. Wu Xie reminded him, and after looking at them for a moment, he also frowned and tilted his head thoughtfully.

The fat man guessed and said: "I feel that these snakes are social animals like the bees and ants. It is estimated that there is a snake queen hidden in their snake nest, and these corpses are transported to the snake queen as a snack."

Wu Xie said "Huh?" and said without understanding, "What is the Snake Queen?"

The fat man said: "It's the same thing as the queen among bees and ants, the one responsible only for laying eggs. The cockscomb snake here may also have the same social deconstruction, that is, there is a snake queen in this forest, these little snakes It’s all born of it.”

Wu Xie didn't seem to agree with this idea, but he didn't have a clue.

The three of them were silent for a while, and then the fat man said: "I think we'd better leave right away. It's true. The body is here, and there must be a lot of snakes hiding nearby."

Wu Xie said unhappily: "Don't care about her now? Now that the body has been found, either..."

The fat man shook his head and said to him: "Don't even think about it. You are trying to snatch something from a poisonous snake's mouth and you are seeking death, you silly boy."

Wu Xie said "I...", thought for a while and stopped talking, and said: "Well, this is really not a good idea. We can't afford to offend even one of the snakes here, and maybe Aning doesn't want us either. See what she looks like now. Amitabha, I shut up."

At this time, Pan Zi, who had been silent, never put down the telescope, his hands were sweaty and his face was blue.

Wu Xie was startled, walked up to him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Pan Zi put down the telescope, feeling a little strange, shook his head and said to him: "It's nothing."

Wu Xie took the telescope and looked in that direction again, but found nothing.He had doubts in his heart, and when he saw that the fat man had already left the tree.Finally, he took another look into the distance and climbed down with the fat man.

Pan Zi went down to the tree, and his face had completely returned to normal, but he still looked in that direction from time to time.

The three people immediately packed their things and put on their backpacks. Pan Zi corrected his direction and prepared to leave.

Just as he was about to set off, Pan Zi looked in that direction again and suddenly stopped. The fat man also looked confused and asked him, "What's wrong?"

Pan Zi raised his hand and pointed in that direction, making a gesture to speak individually.

They all stopped, and in a daze, they heard slight human voices coming from the woods in a certain direction around them. The sounds were very abrupt, as if someone was talking, so they listened carefully. It felt like the intermittent voice was a woman talking in a low voice, and all three of them suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)