Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 288 Black Iron Box
288 Chapter 288 Black Iron Box

The old wooden building with stilts in front of me is where my brother once lived when he was called "A Kun". The roof is covered with black tiles, and the wooden building still has yellow mud walls.

I thought it would be the kind of stilted wooden building where the entire building was made entirely of fir wood, with the four walls made of fir boards slotted and closely paneled, and the inside and outside were coated with tung oil.

The black tiles and yellow mud walls of this building are all a thin layer, which looks quite thin, and it looks smaller than other wooden buildings.

The location of the building is very traditional. It was chosen in an area with a gentler slope. Half of the building is built on flat land, and the other half is built on wooden pillars of different lengths to stand in the air against the mountain.

Agui's daughter thought we were strange and asked, "There is nothing here, what are you doing here?"

I held my brother's arm with one hand, reached into my bag with the other and took out a camera and said, "Photography, these green mountains and green trees, the photos are so artistic. Don't look at this dilapidated wooden building, if you can take photos But it has a different flavor. How can we not take some unique scenery photos when traveling." Then I turned to look at my brother, shook his arm and said, "Brother, I want to take some more group photos."

The little brother nodded slightly and said, "Yes."

Wu Xie hurriedly cooperated and said: "Bring me the camera and I will take pictures for you. Just stand there." He casually pointed to a direction for us. The little brother took my hand and walked in that direction, asking Wu Xie to Xie took pictures of us.

The fat man took the opportunity to give Agui's daughter some money and sent her away.

While we were filming, we moved back to the bottom of the wooden building. I whispered: "Have you noticed that there are wooden buildings that look like this one? It seems that no one lives in them. It makes the surrounding area very deserted."

Wu Xie whispered: "These houses are mixed with other houses in the village. They look very inconspicuous, but they look a bit..."

I said, "A little weird?"

Wu Xie frowned and said, "Yes, but I can't tell where the blame lies."

I added: "I always feel that these houses are deliberately built and placed here. They are a bit thin if they are used for long-term living, but they are quite strong if they are temporarily built."

Wu Xie nodded hurriedly and said, "I feel that way."

The little brother looked around and said softly: "There is no one around, let's go in."

They started to find a suitable position and tried to climb in. I saw that the back of the wooden building was close to the mountain, the windows were all broken, the door was locked tightly, and there was a faded door god painting on it.

Wu Xie pushed twice but couldn't even push the door open. He asked his brother: "Do you have any impression of this wooden building?"

The little brother touched the wooden pillars and doors and shook his head. Wu Xie sighed.

I thought, based on time, my brother will remember things earlier this time, about three to forty years ago. During this time, I know for sure that he has lost his memory four or five times. It’s not good. Looking back...

I muttered: "I think this house looks too ordinary, has no characteristics, and cannot stimulate memory."

At this time, the fat man had already cocked the window on one side and waved to us: "Quick, you can go in here."

Wu Xie looked at him and cursed: "You are so skilled, have you fucking done this before?"

The fat man said: "Look at your rare and strange appearance. What kind of person am I, you fat man? This is too childish. Do you understand by analogy? There is only one word difference between tomb robbing and theft. Okay, hurry up and go in." The fat man said while Said, urging us.

The fat man watched the wind, and the little brother took the lead. One by one, we secretly climbed in through the window. I followed closely behind the little brother. We both entered the house smoothly, and then looked back.

Wu Xie was followed closely. Unexpectedly, he was too nervous and rushed in in a panic. Then he heard a "squeak" sound, and his pants were caught by something. The man had already come in, but his pants didn't keep up with him and instantly separated from his body. Wu Xie panicked and grabbed his own underwear with one hand, but his pants didn't have time to grab it. In an instant, I seemed to I saw two big white legs dazzling in front of my eyes. I was stunned in surprise. I took a breath and stiffly turned around to face my little brother. Upon seeing this, my little brother hugged me into his arms, caressed my little head, and looked at me. Wu Xie sighed softly.

After entering the room, he hurriedly reached out to grab his pants and pulled them up, thinking, "It's so fucking embarrassing!"
After the fat man came in, he closed the window, suppressed laughter, looked at him with squinted eyes, patted his shoulder and said: "I'm innocent, what kind of skill are you doing? We haven't stolen anything yet. Why did you lose your pants? I even saw your big white ass."

Wu Xie lowered his voice and said, "Get out! Stealing a living person is more psychologically stressful than stealing a dead person. I'm too nervous and I'll make a mistake."

I couldn't help but smile while listening to their conversation. After Wu Xie finished tidying up, we started to observe the inside of the room.

The light in the wooden building is dim, and there is a large dining room like Agui's, which is connected to the stove. There are many rusty tools hanging on the wall beside it.

The fat man looked at the tools and said, "Brother, I really can't tell you are a farmer." He then picked up the hoe and said, "It's noon on the day of hoeing. I'm hoeing and you're the noon."

I smiled and said, "I think my brother won't be able to farm here. He is more suitable to be an excellent hunter."

The fat man put down his hoe and said, "These are all farming tools. They don't look like a hunter's house."

I said: "There are many ways to hunt. Who stipulates that you have to use tools? If you are good at it, a stone, a branch, or a leaf can be used as a weapon. Besides, he doesn't have a big appetite, so he can eat it in one hunting session." It's been a few days, and it's very convenient for me to move when I'm hunting. If something happens, I'll be away for ten and a half months, and the farming land will have been deserted for a long time. It makes sense, brother."

The little brother responded to me with a faint "Yes".

Wu Xie saw a wooden wall on one side and said softly: "Behind the wooden wall should be the room that Brother Chu said he found. There is only one room in this kind of wooden building, so it must be right."

The room in front of me had no door. The door was covered with a rather old cloth curtain, which was covered with dust and wadding.

The little brother stopped in front of the curtain and frowned. He turned his head and looked around, as if hesitating. I felt like he felt something, but he might not be able to explain it clearly, so I also became nervous. After getting up, after a few seconds, he lifted the curtain and walked in. I quickly followed him.

As soon as I entered, I felt a musty smell. I coughed a few times and covered my mouth and nose. The room was so dark that I couldn't see anything.

Wu Xie stood nervously at the door without moving, but he was quickly pushed in by the fat man.

The fat man wiped his head and wanted to open the window in the house to get some light, but he heard him say: "It's strange, little brother, you don't have any windows in this house."

Wu Xie asked: "Which one of you has a flashlight?"

The fat man said: "Who would have thought that such a situation would happen? I didn't bring it with me. Girl, did you bring it with you?"

I didn't react until they said this, and I thought to myself, "Yes, I brought it!"I said, "Yes!" As I said that, I took out a small flashlight from my bag and turned it on to illuminate it for everyone.

The fat man said with a "hehe" smile: "I guess you must have it. Let me tell you, there are many little girls' bags that are not big at all, but they are full of everything, right girl."

I smiled and said, "I don't know about others, but I am anyway." The fat man said, "Brother, your room is quite cramped."

I saw a circle of shelves in the room, all against the wall. There were a few books and some boxes on the shelves, most of them were empty, and there was mud scattered on the ground. In addition, there was nothing in the room. There was only a plank bed on one side and an old wooden student desk.

Wu Xie looked at the situation and said: "The air in this mountain is very clean, so there is only a thin layer of ash accumulated here. If this were in a big city, I'm afraid all the ash here can be shoveled away for farming, but there is ash It just means that no one has come in here for a long time, Mengyou Ping, is this your room?"

The little brother looked at everything in the room without saying a word. I asked him: "What?"

Wu Xie was a little surprised and said: "I just feel that this is a bit too ordinary."

The fat man gestured with emotion and said: "Then do you think there should be some specimens of snakes, insects, rats, ants or wild beasts, and some internal organs and body parts, pour formalin on them and put them in a glass jar? Also put it on the table, and put two more rice dumplings at the door. The rice dumplings waved their little hands in a pose, and a sign was hung around their necks with "Welcome" written on it."

Wu Xie said: "That's too exaggerated. I just think it should be more weird, shouldn't it?"

I looked at him with a puzzled "Huh?" and said, "That's because you are overthinking."

The fat man approached the cabinets and found that there was basically nothing. He said to himself: "I don't see that you are still a very poor farmer or a hunter as the girl said."

Wu Xie looked at it and said, "There aren't many things here, but these boxes and books are in such a mess. I think Bald Chu might have messed them up when he came."

Following him, he picked up an old thread-bound book that was very damp, and flipped through it. He saw that the inside was a bit moldy. He curled his lips and frowned. Seeing that there was nothing to find, he remembered the photo, and immediately Go towards the writing desk.

I took a look at these old books and thought that they were probably insignificant things left over from the earliest Jiumen event. My brother’s mind was cleared this time. I had to learn all aspects of history for him in advance, otherwise a young man with amnesia would What the person thinks of are things that happened decades ago or even earlier. He has been doing this again and again. If he hadn't been able to withstand pressure, he would have collapsed long ago.

I followed the little brother quietly. Seeing that he was in so much pain and had no better way, I could only stand aside and sigh and worry about him.

Wu Xie walked to the desk at this moment and saw a lot of photos vaguely visible under the dusty glass on the desk. He thought to himself that it seemed that Chu Baldhead did not lie to him.

At this moment, the fat man pinched him and asked him to look at his little brother.

He turned around and saw that the younger brother was carefully touching the old books.

Seeing the little brother looking confused and frowning as he touched this old book, I thought he must have remembered the memory fragments of the time he was tricked, but he couldn't figure out a lot of things and couldn't connect them, so he was a little confused. I asked him softly: "How's it going, brother, do you have an idea?" But he had no response.

Wu Xie also felt that the little brother's expression seemed a bit awkward, so he asked him: "Did you remember something?"

However, the younger brother ignored him and opened his mouth without making a sound. He stopped talking and frowned even more tightly.

I shook my head at them. None of them dared to disturb him. They all watched quietly from behind.

I followed him around the room, and he kept tilting his head to look and think. Suddenly he stopped and said, "It doesn't seem right."

The fat man asked strangely: "What's wrong?"

The little brother pinched his eyebrows, as if he was using all his energy to recall: "No, this room just feels wrong to me."

I looked at him doubtfully and said, "Is it a problem with the room itself, has it been tampered with, or have you sensed something bad?"

Wu Xie asked: "Isn't this your room?"

The little brother shook his head. Suddenly, his eyes focused on the bed. He immediately squatted down and looked under the bed. It was very sudden.

I asked: "Are you looking for something?" Wu Xie and I followed him and lay down together. It was dark under the bed. The little brother turned around and looked at me, and I quickly handed him the flashlight.He reached under the bed with a small flashlight, but he only saw a lot of spider webs under the bed and nothing else.

But the little brother didn't give up and continued to crawl inside and started groping in the gaps in the wooden floor.

As he was feeling around, he suddenly saw his fingers hook up and grab a piece of floorboard. He pulled it up with a "click" sound. With a terrifying breaking sound, he ripped off a piece of the entire wooden floorboard with amazing strength.He threw away the broken part and continued to break it off. His movements were so big that I was a little confused when he looked like this, but I knew that he must be looking for something extremely important, otherwise he wouldn't be like this. It was almost... Yu went crazy.

Wu Xie and Fatty were both tired. They didn't know what to do for a moment, and they didn't understand what he was thinking. Fatty shouted: "Brother, even if it's wrong, you don't have to demolish the house."

But it was useless, the little brother couldn't listen at all. This was the first time I saw him make any move, and I was so frightened that I couldn't speak.

After a while, the little brother had already dug a big hole in the floor under the bed. He stretched his hand into the hole, pulled out a black iron box from inside, and dragged it out with all his strength. Wu Xie became excited. He got up and crawled over in a few moments.

I looked at the box. It was dark, and I started to feel panicked. It was a black iron box, and there was a bad feeling about using this material to store things.

Wu Xie arrived and took a look and said, "Damn, that's it! There are compartments under the wooden floor. They are obviously well-designed hidden compartments." He immediately helped the little brother hold the box, and I started to retreat. , they pulled the box out with force.

Judging from their looks, the box felt quite heavy, and Wu Xie was already sweating all over just after pulling it out.The fat man helped them lift the box and put it on the bed.

The fat man said: "Holy crap, what is this? It's so heavy, is it my little brother's private money?"

Wu Xie said: "How is it possible?" Then he blew off the dust on it and looked at it carefully.

This is a black iron box, quite large, 1×0.5 wide, and it looks like it can fit a person in. It is covered with rusty patterns, and it seems to be quite old. I thought, the things in this box are similar to "It's" plan should matter.

Wu Xie said: "It looks like something from the previous owner's house. It may be an antique." I looked at the old-fashioned twist lock on it. This box may have been from the Republic of China. It was probably used by a wealthy family to store clothes, or It's a box for theater costumes.

I sighed helplessly, and followed my little brother as he crawled out panting. We all looked at him, and Wu Xie asked, "What's going on?"

The little brother didn't answer, so I asked him: "You hid this box, right? It's very important, right?" But his eyes were confused, and he still looked confused.

Wu Xie and Fatty felt very excited to have found the clue. Wu Xie said to Fatty, "Open it quickly and take a look."

The fat man immediately went to turn the lock on the box, but before he could do it, the little brother pressed the box with one hand and shouted: "Don't open it!"

(End of this chapter)