Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 23 Jade Figures
023 Chapter 23 Jade Figurines

I looked back and saw the little brother standing at the bottom of the steps, covered in blood, and the unicorn tattoo on his body was also visible. His left hand was still throwing out the knife, and his right hand was holding a strange thing. Take a closer look. It's the head of the bloody corpse.

I quickly ran over to help him, and he staggered up the steps. He was breathing very heavily, and his body was covered in scars and blood. It looked like the injury was not serious, and it was a fierce battle.

I asked him worriedly: "Are you okay?" He nodded to me.Apparently to comfort me.

I followed him and he looked at the coffin.Wave at them and whisper, "Get out of the way."

When the fat man heard what the little brother said, veins popped out on his forehead. He jumped up and yelled: "What the hell did you just do!".

The fat man was so angry that he rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward. He was quite scary, baring his teeth and claws, as if he wanted to eat someone. I was so scared that I hid behind the little brother.Dakui hugged him quickly.

Wu Xie hurriedly said: "Fat man, calm down."

When the third uncle saw that the atmosphere was not going well, he hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Calm down, brother must have a reason for doing things. Let's listen clearly first. He has saved your life along the way, right? Just take it easy. Look at the girl. It scared you."

The fat man glanced at me, and after thinking about it again, it was right, and it was not good to fight against Dakui again, and sat down on the ground angrily.

"Okay, there are many of you, so you can say whatever you want, but you have to explain it clearly to me today, otherwise I will never be done with you, Fatty."

The little brother put the bloody corpse head in his hand on the jade bed and coughed.I looked at him worriedly, he seemed to be injured internally.

"This bloody corpse is the previous owner of this jade figurine. King Lu Shang found him when he was fighting upside down and took off the jade figurine, and he became what he is now. Entering this jade figurine, it sheds its skin every 500 years , the jade figurines can only be taken off when they are peeling, otherwise they will turn into blood corpses. The living corpse in front of you now has lived for more than 3000 years. As long as you pulled the thread just now, the corpse inside will rise immediately. We They will all die here."

After he coughed a few more times, I saw blood starting to ooze from the corners of his mouth. It seemed that the internal injury was not serious, and I became even more worried about him: "Brother..."

Pan Zi was already leaning on the side in discomfort, and hadn't spoken for a long time. At this moment, he suddenly said: "Brother, I, Pan Zi, have a straight mouth. Don't take offense. You know too much. If it's convenient, why don't you explain it clearly? Which god is it, you saved my life, if I have my life to go out, I can go to the door to thank you."

The younger brother still remained silent and motioned for me to step back.He walked up to the corpse of King Lu Shang and looked at him with disgust. Suddenly a cold light flashed in his eyes. He quickly grabbed the corpse's neck and lifted him out of the coffin. A scream came from the throat of the corpse. It kept shaking.

The little brother said coldly to the corpse: "You have lived long enough, you can die."

With a burst of veins in the hand and a crack of bone, the corpse's limbs trembled non-stop, and when it kicked its legs for the last time, its skin quickly turned black.

They all looked at him dumbfounded. The little brother threw away the body and jade figurines like garbage. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.I quickly went over to support him and wanted to show him his injury, but Wu Xie grabbed him.

"Who are you? What kind of hatred do you have with King Lu Shang?"

The little brother looked at him for a long time and said, "What can I do if I know?"

The fat man said unconvinced: "What are you talking about? We worked so hard to get down to this tomb and finally opened the coffin, but you strangled us to death without saying a word. At least you fucking You should also give us an explanation!"

The little brother turned his head and looked at the bloody corpse's head placed on the jade bed with a very sad expression. He pointed to a purple jade box at the back of the painted lacquer coffin.

"Everything you need to know is in that box."

They were busy looking at the purple jade box. I helped the little brother get the knife back and helped him sit aside to rest.

Taking out the water and compressed towel in the bag, I handed him the soaked towel: "Let's wipe it first."

He put the knife next to him, took the towel and wiped his hands first. I quickly looked for pills in the medicine bag. Seeing that he was seriously injured, I gave him the dark red one with the strongest effect.I raised the pill in front of him, but he didn't know how to take it. He just stared at the pill. He also stared at it when I applied the medicine before.Then he looked up at me, like a child. This scene is very familiar. He used to be like this too.

I said to him seriously: "The exclusive secret recipe is a must-have for healing. You have eaten it, but you have forgotten it. Come on, your injury is not light, and you cannot resist it forcefully. I will feel sorry for you."

As I spoke, I put it towards his mouth. Then I smiled at him and put it directly on my lips. I tapped his lips twice before he would open his mouth and eat. As a result, I unconsciously patted the top of his head with my hand.He also said: "So good~" The little brother looked at me blankly, which was quite cute.

After that, I soaked another towel and prepared the medicine.Suddenly it occurred to me that I seemed to have done something like pulling out a tooth from a tiger's mouth. If he blows his beard and stares at me, I will burp and catch a cold... But I think it is quite effective, and the dumb look is quite cute. Can't help but smile.

She walked up to him with a towel and said to him with a smile: "Let me help you." She first wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and face, and then went about wiping off the blood that was still on his body. .Be extremely careful when wiping the edges of the wound.

While wiping, he whispered to him: "You have too many wounds on your body, but fortunately they are not too deep."

I gave him the medicine very seriously, but he continued to look at me blankly. Perhaps it was because he felt that the scene seemed familiar and gave him a sense of intimacy. He looked at it particularly seriously and his eyes were particularly soft.

After the wound was taken care of, he was allowed to rest for a while. He lay on the edge of the jade bed and stared at the body of King Lu Shang silently, his eyes blurred.I sat next to him and watched him quietly.

On the other side, Wu Xie and the others were studying the purple jade box. The box should be placed in a position where it should be used as a pillow for the corpse.This box was dug out of a whole piece of amethyst, and its value is continuous.They carefully took out the box and put it on the ground. The box was unlocked. When they opened it, there was a roll of golden silk. Wu Xie unfolded it and saw that the line from the left read "The Book of the Underworld King Shang". It's small print.He and his third uncle sat down next to us with silk books.Wu Xie looked through it carefully.

The fat man was more interested in the jade figurines, so he muttered and went to study the jade figurines.

With Wu Xie's understanding of these texts, he could only understand some fragments. After a while, he sorted out the two most important things. One was how King Lu Shang obtained the Ghost Seal, and the other was how he obtained the jade figurines and silk books. It was written relatively briefly, so he sorted it out and read it out.

I have read this story many times in books, and it is slightly more concise than Wu Xie’s translation. The focus of the story is that King Shang of Lu succeeded his father’s official position at the age of 25 and robbed tombs for the Lu army.

Bao collects military pay.I once found a giant snake in a coffin in a tomb of unknown age, chopped it up with a knife, and disemboweled it to obtain a purple gold box.

Then in the dream, the giant snake came to take revenge. Unexpectedly, King Lu Shang was extremely violent and slashed his soul. The giant snake wanted to exchange two treasures for the safety of his soul, so he taught him one by one how to open the purple gold box and how to use the treasures in the box. Unexpectedly, Lu Shang didn't expect it. King Shang felt that this matter should only be known to God and should not be spread to the world, so he chopped off the snake's head with one knife.

He used the treasure quite smoothly. In order to prevent others from knowing about it, he killed everyone who knew about it, including the child who was just one month old.

In the following decades, with the help of his two treasures, he was invincible, invincible in battles, and became famous for a while.In his later years, the emperor thought that he was old and frail, and that he did not need to deal with military affairs when he lost military power. He could only fight on the side.Later, he dreamed of a giant snake saying that his time was coming, and all the people he had killed were waiting for him in the underworld.After waking up, I was very scared and asked the military adviser Tie Mian Sheng for advice.I learned that in ancient times there was a kind of jade figurine, which when worn on the body can make people rejuvenate and make them immortal.

After reviewing the literature, more than 3000 people were mobilized and it took half a year to excavate the mountain, and finally found the Imperial Tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty.Tie Miansheng knew how to restrain the bloody corpse. He used a unique method to take out the male corpse from the human figurine and sealed it in the sarcophagus in the auxiliary tomb.

King Lu Shang followed all the plans set by Tie Miansheng and faked his death in front of the emperor. The emperor thought that he could really come and go freely between the Yin and Yang realms.

In order to appease him, the emperor gave him a higher tomb treatment than ordinary princes and kings. He led his cronies to secretly build a fan-like tomb on the Western Zhou imperial mausoleum on the pretext of digging a tomb. He was familiar with various techniques of tomb robbing. So he spread doubts everywhere, left seven fake coffins, and hid himself in the thousand-year-old tree in the Western Zhou Tomb.

Before he entered the coffin, he killed everyone involved in the project, pushed them into the river, and then poisoned all his followers, leaving only two loyal confidants, a man and a woman, to bury him. After finishing everything, he took poison and died.

After reading it, Wu Xie had a question and said to his third uncle: "What happened to Mr. Iron Mask in the end? It doesn't seem to be mentioned here. Could it be that he was also buried to death?"

The third uncle shook his head and said: "This kind of person is very smart. He should have expected that King Lu Shang would kill people to silence him. He should not be foolishly buried with him."

The younger brother said calmly: "Of course he won't, because in the end, the one lying in the jade figurine is not King Lu Shang, but himself."

Wu Xie was surprised: "Could it be that at the last moment, the two of them switched places?"

The little brother nodded and looked at the corpse: "This person is deliberately trying to achieve his goal of immortality by leveraging King Lu Shang's power."

"How do you know this? It seems like you have experienced it yourself."

The little brother shook his head: "When I was fighting a few years ago, I found a complete set of silk books from the Warring States Period in a Song Dynasty tomb. This thing is actually the autobiography of Mr. Ironface, who taught all the plans of King Lu Shang After that, he set fire to his family and killed all his family members. He threw a beggar's body into the fire and pretended to be himself. Then he pretended to be a beggar and escaped death. Although King Nalu Shang knew that something was fishy, ​​he didn't do anything. Method. Finally, after he waited for King Lu Shang to be buried, he easily sneaked into the tomb, dragged the already defenseless King Lu Shang out of the jade figurines, and lay down in it himself. This King Lu Shang worked hard, but in the end he did it for others. When it comes to making wedding clothes, I’m afraid he himself wouldn’t have expected it.”

Wu Xie felt strange: "The corpse of King Lu Shang was dragged out. Isn't it another bloody corpse? Then aren't there two here?"

"He didn't write this in his book. Maybe it's because the time that King Lu Shang entered the figurine was too short and he couldn't turn into a blood corpse." The younger brother's eyes were a little uncomfortable. "It's an autobiography. He only mentioned these a little bit. No. There may be detailed records.”

I saw that Wu Xie and Sanshu didn't seem to believe what the younger brother said. They made eye contact with each other.

After the little brother said this, he seemed to have completed the task and returned to his expressionless face.

Wu Xie thought that the lies had been made up and there was no point in trying to expose them, so he didn't plan to ask further questions.

I didn’t realize it when I looked at my notes before. When they talked about it today, I seemed to have connected some key words in the notebook. Although it may not be correct, I am hiding something, but... if that is the case, not only King Lu Shang The ghost seal is gone, and the ghost seal is gone. I saw Tie Miansheng's autobiography in the Song tomb. If this Song tomb is the Song tomb... I couldn't help but whisper "Ah~", but it was quiet in the tomb, and it seemed that the voice was quite loud. Big one, I still had a look of realization, and I instantly felt Wu Xie squinting at me.

The little brother glanced at me, and I winked at him to show that I knew I was wrong. He thought that I might have remembered something, and it was quite embarrassing to see me stuck there. Anyway, the time was almost up, so I could find a way out. Kill two birds with one stone.

Then he stood up and said, "It's almost dawn, we should go out."

I breathed a sigh of relief and thought, Great job!
But in the end, the fat man said: "No, we haven't found Guixi yet. Look, there are so many good things here. Isn't it in vain to leave now?"

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he added another sentence: "What if that woman and her group of people turn around and find her."

Aning, who had been silent for a long time, said: "What we are looking for is not Guixi. Guixi is nothing."

The fat man waved his hand: "Who can say for sure? I don't believe it."

Aning was too lazy to pay attention to him and glared at him.

Wu Xie suddenly said: "I believe it."

The fat man thought Wu Xie was ridiculous: "Are you mentally ill? Do you believe her? Don't believe me?"

The little brother gave him a cold look, seeming to be a little hostile to the fat man.

The fat man shrugged his shoulders: "Okay, okay, but why don't you take this jade figurine away? There may be only one thing like this in the world. Fatty, I think about everyone."

The third uncle slapped his butt and said, "Then why are you lingering? Let's make a quick decision." After that, he walked towards the jade figurines.

Wu Xie was no longer interested in any of this. He walked over to An Ning and handed her some water.Sit next to her and comfort her, then ask her quietly.

"Do you know the guy over there?"

An Ning told him without even looking: "I don't know him."

"What about Xiaoxun? How do you know each other?"

"We met once. Our boss originally wanted to cooperate with Qilin Pavilion, but Pavilion Master Zhang refused."

"Then what exactly are you looking for here?"

Aning said coldly: "Don't ask, I won't tell you."

I couldn't talk any more, so I came back and sat down. I just wanted to close my eyes and take a rest.Suddenly a few drops of water fell on his face. At first he thought it was raining. When he looked up, he saw that the strange face of a bloody corpse had poked out of the jade bed. Two eyes without pupils were almost attached to his. On the eyebrows.

(End of this chapter)