Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 53 Into the Tomb
053 Chapter 53 Entering the Tomb

After not seeing each other for three years, Wu Xie and Lao Itch met at a hotel. They both drank a lot. Lao Itch told him about the Qinling Mountains and showed him a bronze bell. Wu Xie's eyes widened when he saw the bell. He told him about the previous experiences of Lu Gong and Xisha, and the two had a great time chatting.

Suddenly, Lao Itch said that he was in urgent need of 400 million and wanted Wu Xie to accompany him to the Qinling Mountains again. However, when Wu Xie thought about his previous two battle experiences, his feet began to feel a little weak. He was afraid and did not want to go to the Qinling Mountains again. Muddy waters, indecision.

Lao Itch pushed him: "Old Wu, you are not a brother enough. Think about it, how good this is. Firstly, you can help me as a brother. Secondly, my matter is related to your third uncle's matter. Even if Not for me, but for yourself, why don’t you go and have a look?”

As soon as Lao Itch mentioned the bell and the third uncle's, Wu Xie felt uncomfortable again. The third uncle's matter, as well as the bronze bells that appeared in the corpse cave of Guazi Temple and the undersea tomb, must have a significant relationship. , if you miss this opportunity, I’m afraid it will be even more difficult to check again.After hesitating for a few minutes, he then thought that with his character and curiosity, if he didn't go, his life would probably not be easy.

Finally, he agreed to Lao Itch and said to him: "Then I'm going to say something ugly first. After I get down, you have to obey me for everything. You have to let me know before you fart. Do you hear me?"

Lao Itch hurriedly added wine to Wu Xie, and quickly flattered him: "That's right, as long as we can get 400 million, you will be my reborn parents. Don't say you don't fart, you can let me eat farts, no problem!"

Wu Xie and Lao Itch wanted to find someone to find out what the bell was and whether it was worth the trip.The two of them took advantage of the drunkenness and decided on the matter.

In the next month, the two of them prepared equipment, medicines and so on.Before going there, Wu Xie went to Jinan first and asked Lao Hai to leave Fatty's aphrodisiac there to see if there were any buyers.

Later, he went to a friend of his grandfather named Qi, who was a master of Chinese studies, and asked him about the bell.

Before I set off, I asked my brother if he had any idea about this. He just shook his head, but I remember that the old city lord said before that this thing came from his family... It seems that he hasn't remembered it yet.

I asked Shang Li to help me find some information. He was either very long-winded or very concise. But I was afraid that I would miss the information so I asked him to tell me everything. In the end, he almost told me that he fell asleep. The key point I heard is that about 2000 years ago, there was an ancient country with intermittent history called the "She Kingdom". It had a period of sudden prosperity in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, but in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in the 20s and [-]s Within a year, it quickly disappeared into the primitive jungle and has disappeared since then.

Most people who study the history of this country believe that the "She Kingdom" is a descendant of the "Huaxu Ancient Kingdom" because they have the legend of "Fuxi with a human face and a snake body".Its predecessor was pushed back to the matrilineal society. According to legend, this nation regarded a double-bodied snake with a human face as a god and a totem, representing the divinity of the earth and fertility. Therefore, many decorations have this double-bodied snake. texture.

I asked him: "Do you have a picture of that pattern?" Then he sent a picture to my mobile phone. I showed it to my little brother. The little brother looked at it and asked me: "Don't you think it looks familiar?"

When he asked, I suddenly felt that the pattern was quite similar to the pattern on the bell, so I said: "Bronze bell..."

Later, Shang Li also showed me a picture. It was a mural with a large number of people kneeling and praying in front of a tree. He said that the most important sacrificial activity in the She Kingdom was the sacrifice of a " "Snake God Tree", it is said that this tree can satisfy any request as long as it sacrifices blood. It is a kind of wish tree, which looks very similar to the tree in the record.

The three of us entered the Shetou Mountain area. Although the mountain roads here are winding, several tourist spots have paved mountain roads with stones. It is not difficult to walk. There are mountain streams on both sides and many cliff carvings of famous people. The scenery It was very nice.

The mountains became quieter and quieter as we walked, and the little brother didn't say anything. The fat man even whispered a few questions about where we were going, how to get there, etc. But the little brother just kept his head buried in walking forward, and the fat man and I didn't dare to talk. Just follow along. If you see that I can't keep up, stop and wait for me.It wasn't until dark that the little brother said, "Let's rest."

The little brother lit a fire, and the fat man got some food. I was still exhausted. After eating a few mouthfuls, I started to feel sleepy as soon as I sat down, and fell asleep leaning against the little brother for a while.

Slept for a while.Just listen to what the fat man said, there was an army in the Northern Wei Dynasty that was all mute. They were the captains who followed Cao Cao. They were the emperor's bodyguards, but secretly, they were also engaged in fighting. They would use a "" "Dumb text" cannot be understood by ordinary people, so only they and the emperor know about the ancient tombs they destroyed, and their whereabouts have always been very mysterious.Seeing me opening my eyes in a daze, the fat man smiled and said, "Hey, girl, wake up and come and listen to your fat man tell you a story." I smiled at him.

Legend has it that after the mute army found the ancient tomb, it was usually not in a hurry to excavate it, but recorded it, trampled it with horses, filled it with iron slurry, and then retrieved it based on the records when needed. This records the location of the ancient tomb. The east and west are called "Hemu Ji", which means a tomb.Before coming here, your Chi Yan told me that the place we are going to is one of the tombs recorded in Hemuji.

After listening to it, I kept muttering in a low voice: "The mute army...the mute army...the mute..."

The fat man looked at me blankly and said, "Girl, your disc is stuck."

I said to them based on what I had memorized: "No, if you say we are going to the place they recorded, then the direction we should go is Jiazigou. There is a burial pit over there, as you said. The legend of the Mute Army and the Yin Soldiers. I can think of so many for now." The little brother knew it all in his mind, so he basically listened without saying anything.

In the next few days, I could no longer walk. If I could, I would walk by myself. If I couldn't walk, or if the road was difficult, my little brother would carry me on his back.The little brother knew how to read the route, and the fat man followed him. After walking for a few days, he was exhausted. He panted and said, "Little Xun, you are so lucky. You don't even have to walk by yourself. Oh, fat man is so exhausted." ."I was embarrassed to say that. The little brother turned his head and looked at me, with the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

The fat man gasped again and said: "You two, you just listen to what I say, but you two don't talk to me... Chat for the whole day, just be dumb, and you ignore me, I might as well call you from now on..." Forget about calling you little mute Zhang."

I glared at him and said, "You."

The fat man smiled and said, "Hey, little mute Zhang finally spoke."

I snorted and said, "Don't give me nicknames."

The fat man talked more and more enthusiastically: "Little mute Zhang, la la la, I'll give you a nickname, what do you think of Fatty?" As he spoke, he sang beautifully.

Then we arrived at Jiazi Valley. Under the cliff of Tianmen Mountain, there is a small crack in the middle. The bottom of this crack is Jiazi Valley. The terrain of the rocks here is extremely high. In Jiazi Valley, the bottom is covered with jagged rocks, and there are mountains on both sides from time to time. The clear spring was spreading, and the stones were covered with green moss, making it very difficult to walk. The little brother held my hand and walked forward. He was always afraid that I would slip and looked at me as I walked.

It's not narrow here, and the light is very good. The further you go in, the narrower the distance between the two mountain walls becomes. There is a feeling that the cliff tops on both sides are about to be pressed down. There is a strong wind in the hall, and the wind blows through it. The sound made me feel uncomfortable. It was getting colder and colder inside. The wind blew me and I kept sneezing. The little brother is not afraid of the cold. He took off his coat and put it on me to prevent me from catching a cold. There is a certain distance here. The ground was wet and it was very inconvenient to light a fire, so the little brother urged us to hurry up and not stop.As we were walking, we heard the cry of monkeys. The fat man looked at it and suddenly shouted "Ouch!" with a very loud voice, which scared me. After calling him, he said: "Monkeys are wild in this place. Scare them so they don’t dare to mess with us.”

After walking for a while, the light got darker and darker as we walked in. The boy suddenly stopped. In the shadow of the mountain crevice in front of us, stood a "human"-shaped thing, with his face hidden in the black shadow, looking at us blankly. .The fat man squinted and asked, "What is that?" The little brother turned on the flashlight and said to us, "Go and have a look, be careful where you step." After saying that, he pulled me over there, and the fat man also turned on the flashlight and followed. .

When I got closer, I saw that it was a stone figurine wearing strange ancient clothes, with bare gray-white arms and green moss growing on them.The human figurine stands numbly in the middle of the ditch. The carving technique is relatively realistic. In the dim shadow of the mountain crevice, it looks like a human being.

The lower body of this stone man was pressed into the rubble. Part of his head was gone, leaving only a bare neck. The boy looked up and said, "It looks like it fell down together with the collapse of the rocks above." , look at the top of the cliff, there is a place where the rocks are relatively loose."

The fat man looked at it and said, "This thing doesn't look like something from the Han people."

I looked at it and said to my brother, "Brother, look at this pattern, it's that of a double snake."

The little brother looked at it carefully and said to us: "This should be a stone figurine buried with him. It seems that there is something on it." As he said this, the little brother jumped up and lay on the cliff. The pit moved little by little along the slope, and soon, I climbed to the place where the collapse occurred to check.

After a while, he came down and said to us: "There are many similar stone figurines placed in the cave. There are human skulls on their necks, and the joints are sealed with mud. These are human-head figurines, ancient During the war, it was too heavy to bring the whole corpse back to claim credit, so they cut off the head and placed it on a stone to serve as a living person for burial. There was a hole blasted inside, but there was a lot of water. I don’t know the specific conditions inside. "

The fat man asked him: "Is this it?"

The little brother looked at me, thought for a while and said, "I'll go in and take a look first. It's no problem. You guys can go in."

The fat man said "Hmm" and said, "I'll do whatever you want. I'll stay with you girl. You can go."

I looked at the little brother and said to him: "Be careful." He patted me, jumped up again.

The fat man and I waited outside for a while. The little brother came down from the top all wet and said to us: "There is water inside. The water is very deep. It is safe for the time being. We can go in."

I muttered: "Is it safe for now?" Suddenly I felt a bad feeling...

The little brother took a rope from the bag and rushed up. He dropped the rope and pulled me up. The fat man climbed up slowly and leisurely.

Looking at the stone figurines inside, they felt extremely eerie. In the middle of the collapse, there was a dark hole the size of a blue ball that was blown out. The fat man took a photo and said, "Brother, are you sure this is it?"

The little brother nodded and said calmly: "I've been here."

The fat man smiled and said, "Okay, then you can lead the way."

The little brother dragged me into the cave first. There was deep water inside, and the water was so cold... After swimming for a few times, I saw a stone door opened on the innermost stone wall.

Due to the water level, the stone gate appears to be very short. Inside the short gate is a stone path about two Jiefang cars wide. It is dark inside. Wherever we scanned with our flashlights, there are blue-gray stone walls with signs of rough repairs and chiseling. There are murals on several sections, but they have all corroded and cannot be seen at all.

After swimming more than ten meters inside, the stone path suddenly turned into a ninety-degree right angle.

The fat man looked at the stone walls around him and asked the younger brother: "Have you noticed that although this tomb is quite big, it is very rough. Look at the stubble on these stones. Each one is uglier than the other. They have not been repaired at all. The owner of this tomb will I don’t know how to do it, and I don’t have much money. Once I open the mountain, I won’t have the money to decorate it.”

The little brother said: "I don't know, follow me."

After swimming for a while, I saw a step in front of me. It should be deep in the stone path. There are also a few simple steps under the water that extend all the way out of the water. There is a high ground above. Scanning with a flashlight, you can also see some murals.The little brother took us to a place where there was no water, and the fat man cursed: "It's so damn cold. He's freezing to death."

Then I sneezed several more times.The fat man smiled and said, "Let's make some fire for her to dry out." Then he deliberately teased me and said with a grimace, "Taixu. Come on, your fat brother will light a fire for you."

The fat man made a fire with the rotten wood in the corner. He and the little brother took off their underwear and started baking clothes. I am a girl after all, so I only took off my coat. The fat man was busy baking the clothes and let me I was keeping warm on the side and baked my brother's big coat first. When it was dry, I put it on first. My brother's coat was a slightly longer one. When it was put on me, if I added a belt, it would become a dress. But just now When it's baked, it's big again and much warmer.Then I helped the fat man bake their clothes.

The little brother walked not far away by himself and stared at a large group of unknown things. The fat man asked: "Hey, what is that?" The little brother said: "This is the Zheluo Salmon, which died not long ago."

The fat man said: "Ah? That means someone has already come. Could it be Xiao Wu and the others?"

The little brother looked around and said, "I don't know. If he has already come, as long as he is still in the tomb, we will always meet him." He walked back.

(End of this chapter)