Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 414 Memories of those years ([-])

414 Chapter 414 Memories of those years ([-])
There was a charcoal stove burning in the room, which was warm, and the chill on my body was gradually driven away.

Not far away, a small flame suddenly lit up. Under the fire, a young lama lit a small butter lamp, and then he lit a few more lamps, making the room a little brighter. Although overall It was still dim, but I could see clearly.

The person who spoke in the darkness just now was an old lama. He looked at us and said politely: "Distinguished guests, please take a seat."

My brothers took me to sit down on the futon in front of the old lama.

The young lama on the side began to pour some hot tea and milk into a long tube that stood on the ground, and also put a piece of butter in it, and then stirred it up and down with the long stick in the bucket. The things were mixed together, and the aroma instantly dispersed. When I came out, the room was filled with the smell of milk, it must be that I was making butter tea.

The old lama asked about our purpose of coming, and my brother told him that we came here to find a person named "Dong Can". The old lama muttered a few words in Tibetan, and my brother also replied in Tibetan. In my opinion, Come on, the two of them seemed to be talking about secret codes.

After the old lama confirmed his brother's identity and purpose of coming, he opened up a chat box and told him everything he knew about Dong Can.

They both asked and answered questions, one speaking in Chinese and the other speaking in Tibetan.

What the brother said was very brief, and many of his words had profound meanings. The old lama also had an accent, so I had to listen, guess, and think about their conversation.

As soon as I understood the meaning of one sentence, they were already mumbling several more words, which made me almost roll my eyes.

Fortunately, I had delicious hot butter tea to drink, otherwise I would have been a little bit unable to sit still. They talked a lot, and I felt that the old lama was very detailed to his brother, and seemed to have no reservations. Wait for the two of them. After talking about things, I was already full.

The old lama said to the young lama: "Prepare a rest room for several distinguished guests."

The elder brother said: "I will live in the house where Dong Can lived here before."

The old lama replied: "Okay." Then he did as he said and asked the young lama to prepare the things. After waiting for a while, the young lama came to inform us that the things were ready, and the old lama took us to the room.

There are many rooms in the lamasery. To me, the rooms all look the same. The road is very long and winding around, almost like a maze. In short, we walked for a long time before we reached that room.

The old lama walked in the front, we walked in the middle, and the young lama walked behind us holding things for us to rest.

The old lama said to his brother: "After he left, the place has been empty. We only took away the bedding and some daily necessities he used to live here. If he left something behind, it will still be in the house. "

When they arrived at the room, the young lama began to clean it and made the bed. The elder brother looked at everything in the room, "The only thing related to "Dong Can" here is an oil painting of a huge lake.

The color of the lake is gorgeous and extraordinary. The lake water reflects the majestic snow-capped mountains and the gray-white sky. Bai Hao said: "Xiao Qiling, this dear friend of yours is also a painter with a superb memory. This artistic conception fully reflects the sacredness of the lake." , simply amazing.”

I was stunned. That place can definitely be called a paradise on earth.

Lama Deren on the side also straightened his eyes and said with great joy: "It's so shocking that water in the world can exist in such a remote, mysterious and isolated way, but where is this beautiful lake? ?”

After he finished speaking, I said: "Snow Mountain, look at the lake."

Lama Deren then looked at the reflections of the snow-capped mountains on the lake in the painting, and said "oh" after a while: "The snow-capped mountains on the edge of the lake seem to be Mount Kailash."

After seeing the painting, I wanted to see my brother’s reaction. After I mentioned the snowy mountains, he walked straight to the door of the room and sat down.

I squatted next to him and looked at the direction he was looking at, which was the snow-capped mountains. I thought to myself, if the scenery in the painting is real, then the lake seems to be inside the snow-capped mountains. According to my brother's opinion, he seems to have begun to yearn for there?
Deren was fascinated by the painting. It took him a long time to realize that his brother was no longer in front of the painting. He walked towards us, and his brother asked him: "Where is the lake in the painting?"

Deren shook his head and said: "I have never seen such a beautiful lake. If you ask me, it must exist in the sky.

I said: "If you can recognize the mountain peak, the mountain must be real. This painting will not stay here for no reason. It must have something to say, so the lake must also be real."

The lama nodded and said: "Indeed, looking at the reflection of Mount Gangrengebo, it should be in the snowy mountains. I think it is probably in the hinterland of the Himalayas."

The elder brother asked: "How can I get into the snowy mountains? I need your help. It doesn't matter how much it costs."

I thought to myself, he really wants to find that lake.

Lama Deren thought for a while and said: "It is still very difficult to organize a team to enter that snow-capped mountain, but if we find the right people, it is not without hope.

For example, some of the caravans who transport goods at the border have the experience of going deep into the snow-capped mountains, but the parts they go deep into are all roads dug by predecessors with their lives and time, places that no one has ever been to. It's hard to say, and the roads are now covered with heavy snow. It seems that they are not much different now. I will go and ask around tomorrow to see if there is anyone who can help.

The distinguished guests are also tired from the journey. Let's rest first. Dinner will be sent over later. "

After that, the lamas left, and Bai Hao said, "I'll take a rest first. I'm next door. Call me if you need anything."

Bai Hao also left, so I asked my brother: "What did the old lama tell you? He seems to know a lot of things. What happened to Dong Can? Why is there no news after finishing the work?" Brother He told me: "Deren is here to wait for a person who comes out of the snowy mountains every ten years with a secret. He is responsible for helping that person record that person's memory. The person who brought the secret this time is Dong Can , he left a letter, but it was believed to have been intercepted on the way, and he disappeared."

After listening to it, I said: "The secret in the letter, then if you want to investigate this matter, you must go to the snowy mountains? But there is no man's land over there, and we don't know the location of the lake. The weather in the snowy mountains is changeable, so if you go in Very dangerous."

After I finished speaking, I paused and thought about it. If a person could stay in a snowy mountain in an uninhabited land for ten years and come out with the secrets inside, what would he eat and where would he live in the ice and snow during these ten years?

Anyway, drinking the northwest wind or just eating ice and snow will definitely not work. There must be other living creatures inside, and there may even be hidden villages and the like.

Medog, snowy mountains, there may be animals and people, I said to him: "I know, is the "Kangbalo" who has an inseparable relationship with the Zhang family hidden deep in that snowy mountain? Well, isn’t my brother’s and mother’s family in Medog? They seem to be from the Snow Mountains. It’s a mysterious ethnic group, not everyone can find it. That’s where Dong Can went, but that decade was..."

I was still thinking when suddenly my brother interrupted me and said: "A long time ago, the Zhang family got a stone box engraved with dragon patterns from the hands of the Chinese emperor. This dragon pattern box was used by prisoners on death row on the mountain. One of the special features of the box excavated was that there were no gaps in the box itself and it was a whole, so the emperor could not open it, so he asked several elders of the Zhang family for help.

In order to open the box, several elders of the family met secretly overnight, and many things changed overnight. "

I asked: "That means the box was still opened by the Zhang family?"

He nodded and continued: "It was a mistake to open that box. There are some things that don't matter if you don't know them. Once you know them, you will face an irreversible fate. In the snowy mountains here, maybe you can close that box." With the box method, we got the first half of the message, but lost the second half, so..."

I said, "So you have to go deep into the snowy mountains. Where do you want to find the other half of the news?"

He turned to look at me and said "Yeah" and said, "I just have to come here and try it myself."

I rolled my eyes and said, "Irreversible fate" means that thing is very dangerous and can cause devastating damage, right?

Once the box is opened, something will happen silently. If the box is not closed, something or something bad will happen. You are preventing that thing from happening.

What will come out of the box?What could cause destruction because of it? "

The elder brother frowned, as if he was thinking about something. Anyway, if the thing couldn't be closed, something extremely terrible might happen, too terrible to say.

After some time, my brother sighed deeply.

I asked him: "How long will it take to go to the snowy mountains to find this news?"

The elder brother said slowly: "Ten years."

When I heard this number, my face suddenly darkened, and I felt like something was suppressing me. I asked him: "Dong Can has been gone for ten years, and you are going to go for ten years too?"

He said: "In a few days, when I go into the mountains, you go back first and come here to pick me up in ten years."

I frowned and asked him, "Go back?"

He was stunned for a while and said: "You go back and wait over there, the waiting time will be shorter."

I said stubbornly: "No."

He called me softly: "Girl."

I said angrily: "You want me to be obedient again, right? I understand that you want me to go back because you don't want me to wait for you for so long. You feel sad and feel sorry for me. However, if you don't want me to think about you every day, If it's so uncomfortable, why don't you take me with you? Let me tell you, if you ask me to leave you alone, don't even think about it." After saying that, I looked away angrily and hugged myself. Get into a ball and sulk.

But after being stunned for a while, he started to stop talking again. Seeing that he didn't respond, my mood dropped very low, and my eyes were filled with tears, but they didn't flow down.

I couldn't help but secretly turned around to watch his reaction, and found that he had been staring at me. He touched my little head, and my nose felt sore. He said to me: "I will go into the mountains for ten years." , you go back and wait for me, and you will come here and wait for me ten years from now. However, by that time, I must have completely forgotten my agreement with you, and will not recognize you." He stroked me a few more times. The head said: "But I will remember."

I pouted unhappily and said: "After all, let me wait. Although there is a time difference between time and space, I don't have to wait that long, but you have to spend the past 10 years here. I will stay with you more." Isn’t it good for ten years? I don’t want to leave you there alone.”

He took one of my hands and said, "You're still young, I don't want you to see those things." As he said that, he held my little hand in his palm and kept looking at me.

I understood everything he said, and I also understood that he was protecting me. I didn't want him to worry, so I had to agree to him in the end.

For almost a week, we waited for Lama Deren to find someone to help. The day before departure, my brother also made the same agreement with Lama Deren. He asked Deren to wait for him at the lama temple in ten years, and he would bring A huge secret came out of the snow-capped mountains, and he also said that by then he must have completely forgotten today's agreement. He also told him: "I will tell everything that happened in the snow-capped mountains before I forget it, and it will be up to you." Record it." Lama Deren nodded in agreement.

The next day, he and a few strangers gradually walked away and disappeared into the majestic snow-capped mountains.

(End of this chapter)