Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 307 Strange Things
307 Chapter 3 Weird Things
Wu Xie began to tell the second half of the story that I had not had time to hear. He suddenly said in a ghost story tone: "Pan Ma told me that the people in the archaeological team who were suspected of "resurrecting from the dead", In addition to the strange smell on their bodies, there is another unusual thing, that is, although they look exactly the same as before, there is a hint of monster in their eyes and expressions.

From then on, he always felt that something would happen in this village.

Sure enough, just a few days later, something horrifying happened to him in the village. "

It was already getting dark. He was telling stories in this tone. When I heard it, I felt a little nervous in my heart. I shrunk unconsciously. The little brother immediately sensed my nervousness, hugged me tighter, and patted me. He held his back, lowered his head slightly and said softly to me: "Don't be afraid."

I raised my head and said to him: "Brother, he just said the word "monstrous". Why did I feel like I suddenly had an indescribable feeling?"

As soon as the little brother looked at me, he knew that the girl's little head seemed to be stuck for a moment. She frowned with a confused look on her face, and was a little scared. She looked silly and said to me: "Don't think about it yet. , listen first." Then he stroked my little head.

Wu Xie looked at the two of us, and when he saw that the younger brother had finished coaxing me, he also smiled slightly and continued: "The four people who committed the murder with Panma are all related by blood to him, and their relatives are slightly different in distance. .

One of them, Pang Ergui, was the most courageous among them. Suddenly one day, this Pang Ergui disappeared. Because of this common secret, several people suddenly became concerned, but no one dared to say anything. .

At that time, the villagers went to the mountains to look for Pang Ergui. They searched for two whole days but found no clues. Finally, Panma and the others had no choice but to bite the bullet and return to the lake. Guess who they saw? "

I rolled my eyes and whispered, "Did you see that Pang Ergui?"

Wu Xie clapped his hands and said, "Yes, they saw Pang Ergui in the camp, chatting and laughing with the people in the archaeological team."

I frowned and said, "That's not right. Didn't you say that he is the most timid? How could he talk and laugh happily with someone who was killed and "resurrected" by them..."

Wu Xie said "Yes": "Yes, they felt it was baffled at the time, so they hurried over to take him back. But just when Panma caught him, he smelled the smell from Pang Ergui's body. A mysterious smell.

It was broad daylight at that time, and Panma immediately got goosebumps all over his body. At that moment, he felt that Pang Ergui's expression was different from before, as if he was a different person. They were also superstitious and felt that this Pang Ergui must have been obsessed by a ghost. After returning to the village, he told Pang Ergui's wife to tell him immediately if she found that her man was abnormal.

However, her wife had not had the chance to discover that he was abnormal. The next day, when her wife came together as usual, she found that Pang Ergui had been hanged by the bed, and the whole room was full of people. It was filled with that strange smell. "

I muttered in a low voice: "The second expensive person next to me also smells..."

Wu Xie continued: "At that time, the village thought that Pang Ergui couldn't figure it out on his own, or that he was bewitched by the fox fairy. But Panma understood in his heart, and he became even more frightened and uneasy, and he was even more sure that those people were monsters. Pang Ergui He must have been possessed.

Pang Ergui's daughter-in-law was so frightened that she no longer dared to live in that house. She moved back to her parents' home and the house became abandoned.

Two of the remaining four people were so scared that they moved out of the village. Panma and the other one stayed, but they did not dare to sleep at night. In order to be brave, they borrowed several dogs and lived in fear every day. You will be next.

But it was no use hiring a dog bodyguard. A week later, the man he left with him also disappeared.

Two days later, a child found him in the abandoned house of Pang Ergui's family, and he hanged himself in the same place where Pang Ergui had hanged himself.

The old man Panma has a strong nature. He has been with the mountains since he was a child, and he is very strong. At that time, his fear had reached the extreme, so he risked his life.

At that time, he felt that he was going to die anyway, and he knew that he must die clearly. He would never sit still and wait for death, so he rushed to the lake with his gun.

But after he entered the mountain, he met the archaeological team that had already set off halfway, and they seemed to no longer need a guide. Perhaps such an encounter was too sudden. Although Panma had already made up his mind before, but when he saw Their legs suddenly became weak, and they followed the team out of the mountain in fear.

Ever since the archaeological team left the village with the box that gave off a strange smell, it has never been seen again, until now.

Half a month after the army left, he returned to the lake again in order to find out what happened.

He walked around the lake and found a piece of clothing that had somehow washed up on the shore. His piece of iron was found inside that piece of clothing.

Since he discovered this piece of iron, he became even more certain that those people must have climbed out of the lake, because the iron piece was in their clothes and was very heavy, so it would never have been washed ashore by the lake.In addition, the piece of iron still exuded a creepy smell that made his hair stand on end. He felt that this matter was not trivial, so he kept it on him.

Nothing happened to the two people who fled to the other two villages. Panma himself spent a year in fear, believing that they were really gone, and then he gradually felt relieved.This incident has been haunting Panma like a nightmare.

When he was living in poverty in his early years, he also thought about selling it. Now that his life is gradually getting better, he can't help but feel a little scared when he thinks about it, so he wants to keep this secret and take it into the coffin together.

After that, we showed up, and the secret of Panma ended here. "

The little brother looked at me and touched my little face, meaning "How are you doing? Do you have any idea?"

I frowned and tilted my head. He looked at me as if he had something to say, but he was torn between affirmation and denial. I turned my head to his chest and tugged. The little brother lowered his head and stretched out his ears. , I whispered to him in his ear: "I thought of something, but it may not be right. The thing I am thinking about is related to the Zhang family and happened when I was a child."

The little brother took a deep breath and said softly to me: "Tell me later." I nodded.

Wu Xie then said: "Anyway, I feel that if I want to prove this matter, I have to go to that lake, but Panma refuses to go to that lake again. I have asked Agui to help find another guide. In order to inquire about this matter, I gave Panma a stack of money. I almost forgot that there were still a few questions that I had not asked. When we all reached the door, I suddenly remembered and asked him quickly. , where did the tattoo on his body come from? Who knows? He just looked at me in surprise. His son explained it to him, saying that it was a tattoo to prevent poisons. It was tattooed on him by a passing Miao wizard when he was a child. At that time, his grandfather saved the wizard's life, and the man gave Panma this tattoo as a thank you. It is said that with this tattoo, you can travel to the Miao village without any hindrance, and no one will make things difficult for you."

I nodded and whispered quietly: "This is true."

The little brother looked at me, and I whispered into his ear: "A long, long time ago, you came to Guangxi to search for memories, and you went to a place where Miao people gathered. Because you had this tattoo on your body, you were very... He was quickly accepted by the Miao people."

The younger brother asked softly: "What happened next?"

I said even more quietly: "Of course I found some clues. Later, you were imprisoned in Golmud by Zhang Qishan and the others. They didn't let me leave. They even asked Zhang Rishan to watch me. But I wanted to see you, but they didn't let me. Just grind Zhang Rishan, but that guy is like a piece of wood, all he can think about is Buddha this Buddha and that, Buddha says everything, and my ears almost grow calluses when I listen to it."

The little brother and I kept whispering, and the fat man finally couldn't help but said to us: "I say, you young couple, Xiao Tianzhen has finished talking, let's analyze it together, girl, although our little brother is pretty and delicious , but why did you bite his ear again after biting his little neck? Are his little ears about to be bitten off by you? Let’s talk quietly for a while. You two can go back to the house and talk again.”

He told me that he was embarrassed again, and the little brother immediately raised his eyes and glared at him expressionlessly.

When the fat man saw it, the younger brother glared at him. He was trying to protect his little wife. It was interesting, but he still stopped teasing him, lest he got anxious and turned around to hit him. Then he immediately let out a long "Uh" sound. : "Well, let me express my thoughts first. That's it. Damn it, it's already caught up with the ghost stories I used to scare girls when I was a kid. Can this be true?"

Wu Xie said: "I think Panma definitely did not lie. This matter is definitely true, but his truth is not true in that sense."

The fat man said: "What do you mean?"

Wu Xie said: "Let's consider the most reasonable possibility. We won't consider the magic lake or monsters. What do you think is the most likely scenario for this matter?"

The fat man shook his head and said, "Stop doing this, all my brain cells have been stung to death by wasps, I won't guess at you, you can just say it."

Wu Xie smiled bitterly, thinking that it was so easy to show off, but this damn fat guy still refused to cooperate. He sighed slightly and said: "Okay, let's remove all the impossible factors. There will be no magical lakes, and there will be no resurrection of the dead. There are no monsters, but things must be reasonable, and what Panma said must be true. Then the only possibility of this matter is actually very obvious. It is impossible for people to be resurrected, so the archaeological team entering the mountain and the archaeological team coming out of the mountain are definitely not. Same team.”

I said to myself, I know this is generally what I think.

The fat man paused and realized: "You mean, the dead people were not resurrected, but another group of people came out?"

Wu Xie nodded: "The group of people killed by Panma and the others are indeed dead. Panma doesn't know that team. If there is another team who disguises himself, I don't think there is a need for advanced disguises. You can deceive Panma."

The fat man frowned and asked, "But why do they do this? Isn't this a trick on him?"

I said, "No, in this story, Panma and the others killed people purely out of an emergency. This second archaeological team was not full of food. They were here just to wait for this accident to happen, and then help the murderer." I came here to cover up the truth, and I went out of my way to scare them, so they had nothing to do.

Both of these two archaeological teams came with their own missions. The former was for the contents of the tomb, and the latter was simply to replace the former. It was just that someone inadvertently took the first step for them.

I thought that the disguise must not have been too much, and it must be at least [-]% similar, but they had been in the mountains for a long time at that time, especially Panma, who went there often, and the old man was He was very seductive and had poisonous eyes. He was only in his early thirties at that time. If he was fooled, he would definitely find out. Unless his eyesight is dim at a young age, he is obviously an excellent hunter and his eyesight is not bad. Otherwise, Even though he has prosopagnosia, how can he say with certainty that those people look exactly the same, so the disguises of these people are at least [-]% like the original team. "

Wu Xie nodded and continued: "I also feel that judging from the situation of that team and Panma's situation, this may be a long-planned conspiracy. It may be in the plan to kill the archaeologist before Panma." On the day the team arrived, this archaeological team had been set to be wiped out. However, this plan may have gone awry.

Maybe the killer who came to kill the archaeological team encountered an accident in the woods and did not arrive. Instead, Panma completed the task. Later, the replacement fake team came here, thinking that the killer had completed the task.

So the disguise started as planned.Then, the uninformed Panma came up with the theory of the Demon Lake.This is a reasonable conjecture, and it may not be the case at all, but it proves that it is possible. "

The fat man said: "Hey, what you said sounds a bit reliable, but Fatty, I seem to have heard of such a plot somewhere? What evidence do you have here?"

Wu Xie said: "One thing is obvious. The archaeological team was led in by Panma, but when they came out, they did not wait for Panma to come in and take them out, but set off on their own. This shows that the team behind them are familiar with this place. They have the ability to get out of the terrain.

What happened next was probably because the archaeological team discovered some clues and silenced Pang Ergui and the others.

However, I am still a little concerned. I don’t know if this archaeological team is the same one that went to Xisha, but I feel that if not all of them are, then there must be a few of them.If this is the case, then do you think it is possible that someone made this subcontracting in order to join the archaeological team to go to Xisha? "

The fat man said: "Damn it, but how do you prove it?"

Wu Xie immediately said: "The most direct way is that we should go to the lake in Yangjiao Mountain and take a look. Now that the lake has become smaller, I think we can dive down to see what is underneath and whether there are any corpses that were thrown into the lake at that time. "

The fat man said: "This is a bit difficult. It's almost 40 years now, and if there are corpses, they have already rotted away."

But Wu Xie said: "The bones must still be there. Panma and the others don't have a boat, so the place where they dumped the body must be by the lake. I think we can try our luck."

I sighed slightly and thought to myself, now Wu Xie's curiosity is also aroused.

(End of this chapter)