Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

45 The Return
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I slept for I don't know how long.

As soon as I woke up, I heard the fat man shouting: "Girl Xiaoxun, innocent comrade, it's time to eat, take your own chopsticks."

Watching the fat man cooking a fish head hotpot, he looked like a chef and was stirring it with chopsticks. The fish soup was already white and the heat was just right.

Wu Xie said: "Why does this fish look so familiar to me?"

I also looked at it and said to him: "Ah! This seems to be the one that the boss of the ship said he wanted to sell."

Wu Xie said to him: "Fat man, your hands are quite dark. You cooked the grouper while the other person was not around. This person will feel so distressed when he finds out."

The fat man was busy chopping onions, adding chili peppers, and patting fish. He looked like he was an experienced hand.

I looked at him: "Brother Fatty, can you still cook?"

The fat man said: "When I went to the mountains and went to the countryside, I had no mother or wife. I had to do everything by myself. At that time, I was hunting, fishing, and digging out nests in the old mountains. I didn't do anything. It's just a fish soup, which is trivial."

Wu Xie teased him and gave him a thumbs up, "Fat brother, Fat Master, I rarely admire people sincerely. You are so awesome. I have to learn from you and not to do this." He said, "Don't flatter me. If you want to eat, eat quickly. If you don't want to eat, get out of here. Don't spit on it!" "

I asked the fat man: "What does the little brother eat?"

The fat man looked at me with a wicked smile and said, "I'm thinking of your little brother. Don't worry, Fatty, I'll save it for him. I won't starve him, which will save you heartache."

Wu Xie smiled and said, "Okay, you just know how to tease Xiaoxun. Come on, Xiaoxun, eat. Fatty will bring you the oil bottle in a while."

They saved the little brother's, and I didn't eat much. I finished it in a while. I wanted to stay outside for a while, so I watched them spend 20 minutes grabbing the remaining two kilograms. Yes, Wu Xie vomited acidic water after eating it.

After the fat man had eaten, he went to change the younger brother's shift. Wu Xie said to me: "Actually, this ship has its own navigation device. It's a pity that we don't know how to use it, otherwise the ship would sail by itself."

After a while, the little brother came back, sat next to me and started to eat. Wu Xie held up his belly and rubbed it, saying: "Oh, no, I was fighting with the fat man just now. I ate too much, and I feel uncomfortable sitting there. I have to eat." go."

I quietly watched my brother finish eating. We stayed there for a while, and then returned to the cabin together.

Wu Xie walked to the cab and saw that the fat man had eaten and drank enough. He was holding the wheel with one hand and took out his night pearl to look at it with the other hand. He was still humming a song. It was beautiful.

Humming, he saw Wu Xie sitting there blankly with nothing to do, so he handed him the bead and said, "You have nothing to do anyway. Come on, help me estimate the price." Then handed the night pearl to Wu Xie.

Wu Xie took it and weighed it, and couldn't help laughing: "Fake, this is not a night pearl."

The fat man almost lost his breath when he heard this. He stared at him and said tremblingly, "Don't lie to me. You can see clearly."

Wu Xie hurriedly comforted him: "Why are you lying to me? I told you not to get excited. This is just a fish eye stone."

The fat man looked shocked, and Wu Xie added: "This thing is also valuable, and it is rarely seen. It depends on whether there is a buyer. Think about it, with so many luminous pearls on the top of a treasure, who do you think Wang Zanghai is? , the entire Chinese royal family, accumulated over hundreds of years, can only produce a dozen or so."

The fat man felt better after hearing this, and scolded: "Can you please stop speaking half of your words in the future? I'll scare you to death if I'm short of breath. Then give me an estimate."

Wu Xie said: "I really don't know about this. Wu Xie speculated and quoted a few prices. The fat man was not satisfied and said: "This is a desperate effort. If there is no good price, I would rather put it at home as a table lamp. "

Wu Xie sighed and said, "Okay, I'll ask you later. I guess changing to a villa shouldn't be a big problem."

The fat man said, "Then I'll leave this matter to you. I'm counting on you for this villa." As he said that, Wu Xie put away the aphrodisiac stone first.

The fat man asked: "Speaking of which, I didn't find your third uncle this time. What are your plans? I think this matter is not over yet."

Wu Xie smiled helplessly: "What else can I plan to do? I can go back and continue to open my shop. I will never dare to come down from this fight again. I make money but lose my life. It's not cost-effective." "Actually, what I was thinking about was that I could go back to my third uncle and look through it carefully to look for clues...

A few hours later, we arrived at Yongxing Island. We packed up our luggage and fled aboard while the chaos was happening. The fat man carried Aning on his back and sent him to the military medical hospital on the island. Then we found a guest house to stay. Because the typhoon was coming and there were not many tourists, the guest house was basically empty.

We stayed on the island until flights resumed, about seven days.

In the past few days, everyone was resting and recuperating. I contacted Bai Hao to report that he was safe, but Xuefeng had not come back yet after going out to do errands.

After these few days in the guest house, my weak body was still a little weak and I had a slight fever. Fortunately, it was not pneumonia caused by choking on the water, but just a little cold. My brother kept watching over me.

Wu Xie's legs were fine after a few days of treatment. The fat man had more injuries, but they were basically scratches and they healed within a few days.

During this period, Wu Xie and Fatty discussed the seabed more than once, and reached some consensus on some things. They sorted them out and showed them to me and my little brother. After listening to them, I sorted them out again.

Below is the content compiled based on the information they gave.

First of all, the owner of this tomb should be Wang Zanghai, but the seated golden body on the stone plate has obviously been tampered with. Although Wang Zanghai is weird, he is not so crazy to do this to himself.Second, Yunding Heavenly Palace is located on Changbai Mountain. I don’t know who is buried in it, but it is very likely that they are ethnic minorities.

Third, the snake-browed copper fish and the hexagonal bronze bell both appeared in the Lu Palace and the Undersea Tomb, indicating that they may have some kind of connection.

Fourth, it was proposed by the younger brother. He drew a sketch of the structure of the ancient tomb according to the route of action in the ancient tomb. He first pointed out the location of the top room, which is the room where we made the hole. Then he pointed to a few place, and told us: "These areas are sandwiched between the top chamber and the tomb chamber below. There should be several more rooms here. I estimate that the structure of this tomb is somewhat similar to the Imperial Tomb of the Warring States Period. These few rooms are suspended in the air." One of the rooms should be a pit of rare birds and animals, and those strange things might have come from here."

Wu Xie found it unbelievable and asked him: "You mean Wang Zanghai caught Hanbao and Jinpo as pets?"

The younger brother nodded and said: "He is not the first. There are several imperial tombs in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, including the First Emperor's Mausoleum. Especially Wang Zanghai is good at this. There is nothing wrong with him doing this."

Wu Xie went online to search for Wang Zanghai's information when he had nothing to do, but there was very little information online. He only knew that Macau was designed by him by copying the appearance of another city.

In the next few days, it was so windy that I couldn't go out. On the fourth day, the phone lines were disconnected.
I spend most of my time next to my little brother, either playing by myself or sleeping.The little brother just leaned on the bed and stared at the ceiling all day long. Wu Xie and Fatty couldn't understand our state at all. They were almost going crazy with their free time. They could only pass the time by playing cards. Occasionally I would also participate. .

The fat man asked: "Hey, Xiao Wu, what did you apply to me that day? You didn't care about those white hairs. They healed themselves. It's amazing."

I looked at them with a smile and said nothing. Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat. How could he say this? He never mentioned the "magic toner" for the fat man, so he had to quickly talk about it. Wu Xie didn't say anything. I thought that my own saliva was so effective.

In the past few days, Wu Xie has also tentatively asked about his life experience. I saw that he ignored it as if he hadn't heard anything. I was afraid that Wu Xie would ask me. As soon as I saw something was wrong, I quickly got out of the way. The best The safe haven is hiding next to the little brother, burying his head in his arms, and then pretending to sleep. Wu Xie has nothing to do with the little brother, and now he has nothing to do with me.

Wu Xie went crazy helplessly. One of them probably knew but was avoiding him.One pretended to be stupid and ignored him, thinking that this stuffy guy's ability to pretend to be stupid might be slightly better than Aning's.

On the fifth day, the phone line was connected again, and Wu Xie continued to surf the Internet. He was thinking about Zhang Qiling's life experience. Suddenly, he had an idea. He added his third uncle's name and Zhang Qiling's name to search online, and found out The only piece of news was a missing person revelation.

When he clicked on it, he saw that the group photo they had taken at the pier before departure was on it. It was scanned and everyone's names were listed below. Wu Xie read all the way and found that there was a sentence written at the end.

This sentence was only a few words, but it attracted all Wu Xie's thoughts.

"The fish is with me."

I thought, could it be the Snake-browed Bronze Fish?Judging from the pattern carved on the ancient tomb stone, there should be three snake-browed copper fish. Could this inexplicable sentence mean to imply that there is a fish in his hand?Could the person who posted the information be one of the missing people that year?This message should have been published two years ago. Apart from this sentence, the message does not have any signature or contact information.

Wu Xie muttered to himself: "No, since we are looking for someone and we don't leave our contact information, isn't it in vain?"

I suddenly said: "There is indeed a problem with this."

Wu Xie was too engrossed in watching just now and didn't notice that I was already behind him. He was startled by his sudden words: "Well, tell me."

I then said to him: "This is not a simple search for people, but a way to lure insiders. If it is just an ordinary search for people, there will definitely be contact information, but then you will often receive some useless messages, and you need to eliminate them one by one. , which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. But his method does not. What he attracts are people like you who are closely related to the incident and want to pursue the truth. Even if he does not leave his contact information, you will try your best to find out. , but this also proves that you may be useful to them, so that they don't need to work hard to find you, and you will naturally send it to their door. How good, you are budget-conscious, but the other party is not simple, you Don’t send yourself there stupidly.”

Wu Xie said to me: "I just searched in different ways, hoping to find more information, but there was only one related to this. It can at least show that two years ago, there were still people paying attention. It happened 20 years ago, so who is this person?”

I pointed to him the list under the photo and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

He didn't quite understand and said, "Isn't it just the name?"

I sighed and said, "Look at the last name, don't you think it's interesting?"

Wu Xie looked at the names again: "Chen Wenjin...Wu Sansheng...Huo Ling...Jie Lianlian..." Suddenly he said "Ah!" "These surnames are similar to those of Jiumen..."

I patted his shoulder and sighed and said: "Brother Wu Xie, just let your third uncle and the others worry about this matter. It's all a matter of the previous generation, so don't get involved. Going to the grave is very dangerous after all. Don't let your family Worry." After saying that, I turned to leave.

Wu Xie suddenly asked: "What about you? Why are you? Aren't you afraid that your family will worry?" I stood still for a moment and thought about it. I knew that no matter what I said, Wu Xie would not be able to give up the idea of ​​continuing to explore. , but it will make him want to pursue it even more.Finally, I squeezed out a sentence and said: "I will not stop your choice, but I don't want you to risk your life."

The next day after the storm passed, Qiongshalun came from Qinglan Port in Wenchang. We had no more room to stay here, so we packed up and prepared to go back.

Before we left, we went to the military medical clinic to look for Aning, but she had disappeared. The doctor said that a group of foreigners came unexpectedly during the storm a few days ago and picked her up. He thought they were with us, and the strong wind blew the phone. The line in their area has never been repaired, so they never notified us.

Thinking about it, it must have been Aning's support on the island that took her away. The storm has closed the island in the past few days, and we can't stop it even if we want to.

The fat man cursed: "It's easy for her."

Wu Xie couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Just leave, she didn't do anything to us anyway. We can't do anything to her, right?"

We took the Qiongsha ferry back to the mainland. Two days later, at Haikou Airport, Wu Xie said goodbye to us and flew back to Hangzhou.The three of us returned to BJ together, the fat man returned to his Panjiayuan, and the younger brother and I returned to Qilin Pavilion.

Bai Hao was waiting for us at the door. Bai Hao was very enthusiastic after not seeing me for many days. When he saw me jumping up and down when I came back this time, I felt relieved.

Later, he said that Xue Feng had not come back yet after going out to do errands, so he asked us to rest peacefully for a few days.



(End of this chapter)