Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 6 Guazi Temple

006 Chapter 6 Guazi Temple
In the next few days, Wu Xie was restless and uneasy. He called his third uncle every half day and asked him about the situation of the ancient tomb in various ways.

The third uncle heard some clues on the other end of the phone and laughed: "You brat, stop talking nonsense. I know what you are thinking. To be honest, are you itchy and want to go to the ground to experience it? Is that possible? There was something hard to say, and I kept blabbering like a girl for a long time."

Wu Xie was a little embarrassed: "I don't know if what you said that night counts. You drank so much, maybe you forgot."

The third uncle laughed on the phone for a long time: "If you really want to go, come over right away. There are a lot of things to prepare for."

When Wu Xie heard this, he almost went crazy with joy.Hurry to your third uncle's side.The third uncle was calling Mangshan, saying that he would call some experienced guys over. While talking, he wrote a note to Wu Xie, asking Wu Xie to help him buy some things.

The third uncle specifically warned: "Don't buy fake goods, and be prepared to pack your travel clothes, otherwise we will detain you before you even get to the place."

Wu Xie nodded in agreement and went their separate ways.

I haven't done anything special with my brother these past few days. We just walked around and looked at the scenery together, and didn't talk much.I would tease him occasionally, but he would only look at me lightly, or else he would sleep and look at the sky.In the end, I just had to entertain myself.There are actually quite a lot of things you can do, like taking photos and drawing, so why don’t you just play?And the scenery nearby is pretty good, not to mention there is such a handsome model in front of him.

In his eyes, I'm probably just a "little brat" fostered by him now.Anyway, I'm pretty quiet and well-behaved, and I won't cause him any trouble, so he doesn't have to worry too much.

That day, the two of us were sitting on the roadside resting in a daze, and he and I received separate notifications from our third uncle that we would gather to go to Linyi, Shandong in three days.

I knew in my heart that I was going to Lu Palace, but then I thought about it, I am not equipped to go to the tomb now, and if I go from here, I have to take a long-distance car... It's over... I'm carsick, little brother You can't teleport there, which is terrible!

In order to avoid taking a car, I usually use the Administration Teleport Station when I go out. "It will teleport you to your destination in a blink of an eye." A short car ride with a candy in your mouth can't last more than two hours. I won't do it if my legs can hold me. Take a car! So this is one of the reasons why I don’t go out. But this time it has to be a long distance... I really can’t do it... but I obviously can’t escape. Sugar is the only effective way to treat motion sickness. I originally planned to have a headache. I can buy it before I leave, so I don’t have to carry it all the time. As a result, I am now penniless... It seems I have no choice but to ask for candy from my brother!

I have never done this before asking others for something. I really didn’t know how to say it. I thought about it for a long time, encouraging myself and comforting myself. Motion sickness is equal to death, and sugar is still life-threatening, so of course I still want sugar!Finally, I came across a supermarket again. I couldn’t care so much anymore, so I made up my mind. I stretched out my hand to tug him, then pointed at the supermarket, and said to him very embarrassedly: "Brother, can you buy something for me?"

He looked at me and said nothing.I pulled him and walked to the supermarket, and he was very cooperative, otherwise I guess I wouldn't be able to pull him away no matter how hard I pulled him.When I found the candy section, I picked up a pack of lollipops and looked back at him. Naturally, he looked at me with no reaction, so I simply put it into his hand and pulled him to pay. It was basically done in one go.

When I almost reached the checkout counter, I let go of my hand and walked behind him, pushing him forward and letting him check out in front.I was really embarrassed. When we got out of the supermarket, he looked at me and handed me the candy. He was so nervous that he whispered: "Thank you."

He kept looking at me without saying a word. I took the candy and stuffed it into my bag.When he saw that I had finished tidying up, he turned around to leave, so I quickly followed him and continued walking beside him.

Later, we found a small hotel to rest, and the hotel owner looked at us strangely. To be honest, that look was really annoying.He was so mean and had a bad smile on his face, which made me feel uncomfortable, so I hid behind him.The little brother glared at him so hard that he immediately became frightened. This is how he gets scared instantly.

We booked a room, and he left me here to go out and buy things. Maybe it would be faster for him to do things alone.The next day I had to rush to the station to start my "long journey".

After dinner, he gave me a flashlight and a set of clothes considered "work clothes"?Told me to wear this suit tomorrow.Although it is still cold, it is actually quite considerate.

At night, the boy motioned for me to sleep on the bed. He sat down on the edge of the chair, put the knife beside him and folded his arms, then closed his eyes and prepared to sleep.I looked at only one quilt and thought that I should cover myself a little while sleeping... So I walked over quietly and put my cloak jacket gently on him. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at me, lightly. Say to me: thank you. "

I smiled at him: "You're welcome. Have a good rest." I turned and returned to the bed.Thinking about it these past few days, he actually took care of me more, so I just tried my best not to be a drag, but I really just tried my best.

I have always been a static person, but my physical strength was still not good enough. I fell asleep soon after lying on the bed.

The next morning, my little brother woke me up. He got up very early, and I couldn't wake up anyway, but I couldn't let him wait too long, so I forced myself to get up and clean up quickly.Putting on the outfit prepared by the little brother, it seemed that he chose it according to his own style, but it fit him quite well.

After packing my things, I didn’t dare to eat anything for breakfast, but I couldn’t skip it at all. Anyway, it was very contradictory. It was almost time to leave, so I brought two bottles of water with me, just in case... ugh... Anyway, I can only pray that I won’t get car sick. .

When we arrived at the gathering place, the third uncle and two others had already arrived. Wu Xie was the last to arrive. They were all acquaintances and chatted happily. My younger brother and I stayed aside.

Wu Xie was a little curious about the little brother, because the "dragon's back" also came to say hello out of politeness, so he came towards us.He said hello to the little brother first, but the little brother looked back at him and ignored him. He turned back to look at the sky. Wu Xie was embarrassed and embarrassed.Turn around and say hello to me.

"Hello, my name is Wu Xie. We met the other day."

I smiled and said, "Well, I remember that I was walking in a hurry that day and accidentally bumped into you. I'm sorry, uh, my name is Zhang Xiaoxun."

Wu Xie smiled and said it was okay.

The car was about to leave, and the third uncle asked everyone to get in the car.

After getting on the bus, I sat next to my little brother. He looked out the window, and I felt like I was frozen. I didn't dare to move anymore after I got into a certain position. I always had the candy ready where I could reach out.

The car was speeding on the highway. I heard Wu Xie say a few words to the little brother at first, but the little brother ignored him all the way. Wu Xie seemed a little unhappy, and then he ignored him and got him a coat. No. "Stuffy Oil Bottle".The journey was long, so everyone had to sleep to pass the time, feeling in a daze the entire time.After twelve hours of bumpy ride, we arrived in Linyi.

I was shaking even after I got off the car. I felt that my head was getting heavier and heavier, and my body was stiff. I had a headache that made me unable to open my eyes. I felt so cold and weak that I could barely hold on.I followed them to find several local mountain guides and asked them about the ancient place names marked on the map, but to no avail.

That area has been in war for a long time, and many villages were burned down by the Japanese during the War of Resistance, making it very difficult to explore.The five of them were at a loss for what to do and wandered around several scenic spots for a few times before deciding to go into the mountains first.

After that, we got on the local local bus. The moment I saw the bus, my heart broke... We had to ride until Guazi Temple, more than 40 kilometers to the west. This time I really couldn't bear it anymore. Didn't I get on the bus? It didn't take long for me to completely collapse, and I fell on the little brother in a daze, hugging his arm unconsciously, otherwise, if I caught a sudden brake, I would fly out!It was so uncomfortable that I couldn't even open my eyes, and my whole body felt cold, limp, and trembling.

In fact, my brother would look at me secretly from time to time. He knew that I was uncomfortable, but I didn't say anything and kept enduring it.So he would observe me every once in a while and see that I must have reached my limit, so he cooperated and moved down to make me lean more comfortably.

I can’t remember what happened after that. It’s vague. I just remember that the sounds around me were so far away, and I vaguely felt like I was being carried on my back. I couldn’t open my eyes and I just felt very familiar and at ease, and then I slowly lost consciousness.Later, we switched to dirt bikes and walked down the path, and finally took an ox cart to turn around the dirt track of Panshan Mountain.

When we were riding the bullock cart on the dirt road of Zhuanpan Mountain, it was very bumpy. My brother kept holding me in his arms to prevent me from falling.After leaving the car, I slowly came up and woke up. I was still soft and dazed.Later, the ox-cart stopped, and we got off the ox-cart and found that except for endless hills, there was nothing modern in sight.My head hurt so much that I couldn't stand still and I was shaking. My brother was holding me up.Wu Xie came over to comfort me: "Are you feeling better?"

I held my head and smiled slightly: "It's better, thank you."

The third uncle was a little worried when he saw my small figure: "Girl, how are you doing?"

I waved my hand: "I'm fine."

The third uncle looked at me and said with a smile: "It's true that this journey took a long time and the road was bumpy, which is indeed a bit difficult for the little girl. I am taking care of you all the way."

I looked up at the little brother: "Thank you." The little brother looked at me with soft eyes.The moment we looked at each other, my face turned red. I was both shy and embarrassed to be a big troll.When Wu Xie and Sanshu saw that the little girl was still shy, they both looked at me with smiles.

At this time, a dog ran up in front. The third uncle was very happy when he saw it. He slapped the old man driving the cattle and joked with him: "Old man, should we ride this dog on the next ride? I'm afraid this dog is too choking!"

"How can you ride a dog?" The old man laughed: "This dog is used to report messages. On this last journey, there are no cars. We have to make a boat. The dog will bring the boat." Then he took the ox cart. Rushing down the slope, we followed in a hurry.

The bushes here are very dense, and the ground is full of black mud, sometimes up to the knees.We cut off a few branches to use as crutches and were very careful as we walked.Along the way, I was swaying one step at a time and one step at a time. Wu Xie and his little brother were afraid that I would fall, so they would look at me from time to time and help me quickly if they saw that I was about to fall.

After descending into the valley, a green mountain stream appeared in front of us, five or six boats wide, and the water was bottomless.Except for the flat rock on both sides of the stream where we were standing, there were towering cliffs elsewhere.The sun is heavily shaded here and the temperature has dropped several degrees.The third uncle supported the ox cart and asked the old man, "Can this dog also swim?"

The old man said with a smile: "You are very good at swimming, Donkey Dandan, let's go and have a swim."

The dog was really intelligent, jumped into the river with a "woof", and swam around.He came up to shake his hair, and stuck out his tongue on the ground.

We were all happy, the old man looked at the sky and said to us: "It's still too early, the boatman must not have started work yet, let's take a break and smoke a cigarette."

Wu Xie looked at his watch: "We haven't started work at 2:[-] p.m. What is your boatman's work and rest time?"

"He is the only boatman here. He gets up and starts working whenever he wants. Sometimes he doesn't start working for a whole day, which can drive people to death." The old man smiled and said: "There is no way, he is the only one in the eight villages in ten miles, and the village chief even takes it. He can't help it."

"Then why don't you hold a congress and remove him and replace him with a smarter person?" Third Uncle asked him.

"We also think that you are from out of town. I don't know that the mountain god here only sells his face. Once others enter the cave, they will definitely not be able to get out. He can only carry him through."

Upon hearing this, the third uncle immediately took out the map, looked at it and said, "It's really a river cave. Can this cave eat people?"

The old man chuckled: "Those are the words left by the previous generations. I heard that when there was no village, the cave was already there, but no one knew that the cave was connected from both ends. The cave was very strange, and it was difficult for people to enter it. He couldn't get out, and everyone in the village said there was a snake spirit in the cave. Only the boatman's family could go straight in and out, and there had been no mistakes for hundreds of years. They all said he was a snake spirit."

"Is the dog okay?" Wu Xie felt strange, "Didn't he use it to report the news?"

"Then I don't know, old man." The old man knocked on the cigarette pipe on the ground. "This waterway is rarely used. We usually take the mountain path on the top of the mountain. However, you have too many things. In recent years, rocks have been falling from the top of the mountain, knocking several of them down."

After the third uncle heard what the old man said, he thought for a while and clapped his hands: "Donkey Dandan, come here." The dog was really obedient and ran over as fast as he could. When the third uncle picked him up and sniffed him, his face changed. Could it be that this That thing is in there. "

Wu Xie imitated his third uncle and picked it up and smelled it. There was a smell of dog odor. Wu Xie choked and coughed and said, "Why does this dog stink so bad? It's been a long time since I took a bath." He grinned in disgust.

Pan Zi laughed loudly: "You want to imitate your third uncle and be a little younger."

"Third Uncle, what does this smell like?"

The third uncle frowned and said, "It's corpse odor."

"Corpse stinks, no way," Wu Xie was so frightened that his hair stood on end.

I glanced at the little brother, and his expression changed instantly.It seems to be very tricky. I have carefully reviewed the information and have a rough idea. Although I did not show fear or surprise, I am not sure I can bear it if I experience it in real life. After all, there is a big gap between books and practice.

The third uncle frowned and looked at the dog, and said to us: "Take all the guys with you. I'm afraid there is a corpse hole ahead. Please be alert."

The third uncle's other assistant, Dakui, was about the same size as the ox pulling the cart, but very timid. He asked softly, "What on earth is that corpse cave?"

The third uncle said: "A few years ago, we also found such a cave in Taiyuan, Shanxi. It was a place where the Japanese massacred and piled corpses. Wherever there is a corpse cave, there must be a massacre. At that time, out of curiosity, I put dogs and ducks on bamboo rafts. I set up a camera and pushed it in. The hole was a little more than 1 kilometer at most, and I prepared a cable of sufficient length. But when the cables were all pulled out, they didn't come out. It was pitch black inside, and I didn't know where it had drifted. Later, I wanted to float the raft. After pulling it out for only a few times, the raft suddenly overturned. In the end, I only saw half of the face, which was too close to the screen to tell whether it belonged to an animal or something. In ancient times, people who passed through such holes were dead people and Live people go together. If they are just alive, they can't come out! I heard that there is a place in western Hunan where people feed their children the flesh of dead people since they were young, accumulating corpse energy in their bodies. When they grow up, they will The dead are no different, even ghosts can’t see him.”

After the third uncle said this, he said to the old man: "Old man, did the boatman's ancestors come from western Hunan?"

The old man's face changed slightly and he shook his head: "I don't know about that. It's all his ancestors' business." After saying that, he looked at the sky and barked at the dog: "Donkey Dandan, go and kill the dog in your house." Bring the boat over!" The dog whined, jumped into the water, and swam to the back of the mountain again.

At this time, I saw the third uncle wink at Pan Zi. Pan Zi secretly took out a backpack from the luggage and put it on his back. The younger brother also stood up and took out his own and my bags from the luggage pile.

It's true that this old man is weird. When he comes up, he talks about gods and ghosts first, as if he can't do it without them. He makes you believe in their strength so that you can relax your vigilance. As soon as he hears that we know what we know, he starts to speak in a flash, and it's gone at first glance. Peace of mind.

When Pan Zi passed behind Wu Xie, he whispered in Hangzhou dialect: "There is something wrong with this old man, be careful."

(End of this chapter)