Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 237 Marks
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Seeing Uncle San's look, I whispered: "Brother, they also found the entrance to the cave."

The little brother was stunned for a moment and said: "It's okay. There are many of them and they are not as flexible as us. They won't be able to get down for a while. Let's find a place to rest before that. You can't move any more."

I nodded against his head. You know, lying on my little brother's body was warm and comfortable, and I felt safe enough. My own little head was empty all of a sudden, and I was dumbfounded, relying on him.

After being stunned for a while, the little brother suddenly asked me in a soft tone: "Girl, are you still angry?"

I closed my eyes, raised my head to him, and said to him slowly: "If you stay with me, I won't be angry." As I said this, I rubbed my head against him.

The little brother was stunned for a moment and said: "Okay."

After a while, Wu Xie followed his third uncle and the others to the entrance of the cave. He looked around and muttered: "The geology of the Gobi here should be sand. It is a bit deep here, and the soil should be relatively hard. The gap directly cracks into the sand." The soil layer may have been caused by earthquakes. Along the way, you can often see traces of earthquakes here. Obviously, this place has experienced several catastrophes over the past few thousand years. It is not surprising to have such traces. "

Third Uncle said: "The interesting thing is inside."

Wu Xie saw a crack in the hole that was almost as wide as a person, but the flashlight was not bright enough to shine through, and he could not figure out the reason for the time being.

The few people who were kicked awake by Third Uncle woke up within a few seconds. When Third Uncle told them what had happened, they immediately got ready without saying a word.

Looking at the gap, Wu Xie was a little worried. He felt that the gap was too narrow, and the inside of the gap was very rough. If he climbed down, even if he shrank himself, he would not be able to reach where he climbed. The feeling of being stuck somewhere.

At this time, a waiter said: "It turns out that there is a layer of sand and mud outside this seam. I was peeing on it, and the mud was washed away, and the seam was exposed."

The black blind man covered his mouth and nose, waved his hands to stir up the air in front of him, fanned away the pissed air and said, "You've been very angry recently."

The guy said with a grimace, "I've been going through this for so long. I don't know how long I can last with my head stuck in my belt. Can I not get too angry?"

The third uncle stared at the gap and said: "Don't talk so much nonsense when you join this business. It's your turn to make good money? Clean up and help me carry the rope. The blind man and I will go down and have a look."

Wu Xie still felt something was wrong and immediately stopped his third uncle and said: "There may be snakes in this gap. In such a narrow environment, you can't even escape if you encounter a snake. Why are you in such a hurry? Or wait until dawn ?”

The third uncle looked at him and said, "You nerd, the sun doesn't shine here. You have to use a flashlight when it's dawn. It doesn't matter when it rains."

The guy on one side has already tied the rope.The third uncle tied the other end to himself.

Wu Xie was still worried and said: "You can let me go down and explore first. You are an old man. What can you do at this time?"

The third uncle smiled strangely, as if he was helpless. He unscrewed a sulfur smoke bomb and threw it inside. Then he took the miner's lamp and said to him: "Your third uncle, I am sensible. I will take a look as soon as I go down and come back immediately." "

At this time, the black blind man on the side had already put on a tight suit, holding a brimstone bomb, and descended on a rope with the third uncle to provide support for the third uncle.

Wu Xie's heart kept hanging above him. Although the opening of the canal was not narrow, it was tilted at a very large angle. He watched his third uncle and Black Glasses pull the rope and slip down bit by bit, entering the darkness, and they walked further and further. The farther away he went, the more Wu Xie felt nervous that something was going to happen.

Within a few minutes, I saw that Third Uncle and Heixiazi had arrived at that place, and the gap was already beside them.

The people above stopped placing the rope. At this time, several shadows were stacked on top of each other. Looking down from above, it was no longer clear what they were doing.I could only see the flashlight swaying and sliding across the stone wall, creating light and shadow.

They paused for a while, and then the black blind man sent a signal up. When they saw the signal, the guys pulling the rope were stunned for a moment.

Wu Xie asked them: "What signal is that?"

One person said to him: "The third master said that they will continue to go down."

Wu Xie felt restless. He watched the two people go in very reluctantly. He stood on top and was anxious, but he felt in his heart that his third uncle must have discovered something to make such a decision. He was extremely tangled in his heart.

The rope continued to go down, but it did not go vertically. Instead, it crawled into the cracks in the sand.

Soon, the third uncle and the blind man were no longer visible. Only light flashed out from the deepest part of the gap from time to time. Even the person pulling the rope began to break out in a cold sweat.

After a while, all the people who were not asleep on one side gathered around, and the surrounding atmosphere naturally became solemn.

In this way, they waited up there for about an hour, and they were almost petrified. Only then did the third uncle send a signal from below, and those people immediately pulled the rope.

Gradually, the blind man was pulled up by them, but his third uncle was nowhere to be seen.

Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, and just when he was about to speak, he heard the blind man, who smelled of mud and urine, say to him: "Little Third Master, Third Master said, I want you to get down immediately."

Wu Xie was a little confused. Why did the third uncle ask him, the person with the worst physical fitness, to go down? He would definitely not be asked to do physical work. He must have his reasons for making this decision, but...

When Wu Xie smelled the smell of the canal, he really didn't want to go down from the bottom of his heart.

I smiled slightly and said, "Wu Xie must have refused in his heart, but his third uncle must have asked him to go down. He must have wanted to see something, something that only he could recognize or understand. What could it be, little brother?"

The little brother said: "You will know in a while."

I said "Ah", thought for a moment, smiled slightly and said, "Oh! I already know."

The little brother said "yes" softly.

Driven by curiosity, and because there was no room for what the blind man said, Wu Xie really couldn't refuse, so he had to bite the bullet and face the difficulty. He endured the unpleasant smell and was protected by the blind man. Then, he descended along the crack.

As soon as he got down there, Wu Xie was immediately hit by the strong smell of urine and couldn't breathe.The angle in the channel is very large. Although the third uncle seemed to have descended quite smoothly just now, it seems now that he must have used a lot of strength.

As soon as Wu Xie slid down, a large amount of mud and moss mixed with urine immediately stuck to his body, and he couldn't help but frown.

You really don’t blame me for being mysophobic. Just looking at it and thinking about it makes me sick to death. Wu Xie must be suffering so much at this moment. That’s why the little brother just now chose to pinch me until I fainted, even though he knew I would be angry and sad. I understood the reason for bringing me down, so I didn't get angry.

The blind man looked at Wu Xie and smiled: "I'm sorry, buddy, but urine is good for the skin."

Wu Xie cursed: "Damn it, it's a good thing you didn't let them poop here."

The black blind man laughed. When the people above heard this, they thought something had happened, and the rope stopped immediately. He immediately sent a signal to the top to let them continue to let go of the rope.

The canal was pitch black and extremely narrow. He couldn't even lift his head and could only see the light of the blind man's flashlight.

Wu Xie has always been curious about why this man with black glasses always wears sunglasses at all times. At this moment, he couldn't help but ask him: "Can you see with that thing on?"

The black blind man smiled at him and said, "Debbie can see clearly without wearing it."

Wu Xie looked confused when he heard it, not knowing what he meant, but the blind man didn't want to explain, so Wu Xie didn't ask any more questions.

As a blind master like me, the secrets of his eyes and himself are huge. It is not easy to guess his secrets.

The two of them went all the way down and soon reached the opening of the crack in the sand.

They looked inside, and Wu Xie felt that there was a gap that could only be crossed by one person's front and back. The gap was narrow and deep, as if a huge mountain had been split in half.

The walls of the cracks are filled with pits like Buddhist niches in grottoes. They are everywhere. In each depression is a ball of dried mud cocoon, which is stuck in the depression with mud and entangled with the surrounding roots. The mud cracks. It looks like dry soap.

They squeezed into the gap. Wu Xie touched the sand inside and found that it was as hard as stone. This should be the soil deposited by the sand. It was very moist and rich in water. If he squeezed in again, he would When he got down to the edge of a mud cocoon, he was about to touch it when the black blind man shouted: "Oh! Don't touch it. Be careful, don't touch these mud cocoons."

Wu Xie asked: "What is inside these cocoons?"

The black blind man looked at one of them and said, "Dead man."

Wu Xie took a look and saw that it was a broken mud cocoon.White bones were exposed inside.

Heixiazi said: "The crooked-limb burial may be the most primitive shaft built by the ancestors at that time. There are no stones, only some cracks in the mountain that were smoothed with mud. It was later used as a tomb."

"A tomb? A place like this?"

The black blind man continued: "Many people will definitely die in building this kind of project. These may be slaves captured by other countries. They died here. It is impossible to transport them out and bury them. They just bury them on the spot. There are many beside the Great Wall." After a pause, he said, "We're here."

Wu Xie looked down and saw that the gap was bottomless, but on the stone wall on one side of the gap, the boulder continued to crack into a gap, and there was a flashlight flashing. It was obvious that the third uncle was inside.

The black blind man signaled up, and the rope stopped. They climbed down carefully. When the third uncle saw Wu Xie, he stretched out his hand and pulled him in.

This gap was only about half a person's height and was very narrow. Wu Xie had to bend down to get in. His feet hurt terribly and he sat down on the ground as soon as he entered.Then the blind man also ducked in and went in.

On both sides of this crack, there are tiny tree roots and mud cocoons wrapped in dry mud, shrunk in the depression and lined up on both sides. From this position, you can still hear the sound of water flowing under the ruins.

Looking further inside, Wu Xie found that this gap was cracked in another stone shaft. The earthquake caused the sandy soil layer here to crack. The cracks connected the two shafts that were very far apart. The inside of the shaft was in a mess, and everywhere It's cracking.

Wu Xie asked his third uncle, "Why did you let me come down?"

The third uncle motioned for Wu Xie to follow him and said, "Let me show you something." They squatted and walked for a few times in the short gap. The third uncle pointed with his flashlight at the sandy soil wall behind the tree roots on one side. He sees.

Wu Xie was confused. He didn't understand what it meant and couldn't see clearly what was there.

There were many tree roots stuck to the sandy wall in front of him. When he looked closer, he saw that someone had carved a line of words on it, which seemed to be several English letters. Wu Xie was suddenly shocked and grabbed his third uncle's hand and let him I took the photo accurately, identified it carefully, and then said "Oh!"

Third Uncle said: "Look, is this the same mark that I saw in Changbai Mountain?"

Wu Xie nodded hurriedly and said: "This is the mark that Menyouping carved in Changbai Mountain." He cursed in his heart, damn, did Menyouping come here just now?Then he asked his third uncle: "How did you find out?"

The third uncle wiped the mud from his face and said, "Don't worry about this. Are you sure this is my brother's handwriting and not similar marks carved by others?"

Wu Xie nodded to express his certainty. The third uncle immediately waved to the blind man and said, "Blind man, tell the people above to get down. We have found the entrance."

The black blind man responded, retreated, and then sent a signal to the superiors.

Wu Xie asked: "What happened to the third uncle?"

The third uncle said: "Look carefully at this mark and feel how it is different from the one carved on Changbai Mountain?"

Wu Xie said: "Different?" But he didn't understand what Third Uncle meant, so he had to look closer and muttered: "This mark is carved on sand, and this kind of sand is not suitable for carving anything. Because although it is hard, it is very brittle. If you use too little force, you will not be able to carve a mark. If you use too much force, the whole piece of sand may crack. This mark is a bit complicated, so you must be very careful when doing it. , and this gray color is a trace of the oxidation of the sand over the years. The gray tone in the mark is almost the same as the surrounding sand, which means that the mark has obviously been carved here for a long time...

That's not right, this is an old mark?Let me take another look..."

The third uncle said: "You don't need to read it. Since the handwriting is, it's correct. This is what he carved. But it was not carved in the past few days, but what he left when he came here last time."

(End of this chapter)