The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 21
The groundwater constantly gushing out from various places is getting deeper and deeper in the entire underground kingdom, and it is almost knee-deep.This is the first time Fatty and I have heard Professor Wu swearing, and it is also the last time we have heard him swearing. Looking at this stubborn old pedant lying there like a cow, my eyes are moist for some reason, and I am also looking at him. The fat man, his eyes too.

The two of us ran out desperately without any hesitation, and saw many mutilated and incomplete bones floating out from everywhere by the flood. Only then did we realize how serious the massacre of the Loulan Dynasty, which had destroyed its glory for more than 3000 years, was. cruel.

When the fat man and I rushed to the corridor, our chins had been submerged by the flood. The fat man and I took a breath, got into the bottom of the water and swam to the hole, and then climbed the steps and climbed exhaustedly to the top.

Looking at the bottomless water below, thinking that Professor Wu was buried there with his life's work, I couldn't help but have a kind of respect for him from the bottom of my heart.

Song Bijun and Zhou Dawei cried bitterly when they learned that the teacher hadn't come up.We comforted them, and together we dug a grave near the entrance of the cave, and buried some tools and notes used by Professor Wu in it.

"Grandpa, we come from all corners of the country, and we came together for the same goal. I admire you, and finally smoked a cigarette with you, and we left." The fat man's humor made us dumbfounded, so he lit three cigarettes and stuck them on the grave superior.

We bowed three times to the grave one by one, and Maimaiti recited a passage from the Islamic Qur'an, saying it was for Professor Wu's salvation.

Everyone walked back silently all the way. I looked back at the sunset on the edge of the desert, thinking that such a beautiful ancient civilization migrated to the ground due to lack of water, but who knew that it was still submerged by the flood in the end. Kind of dramatic.

Now that Professor Wu has stayed there forever, no one has honored the hard work he gave us, and there are so many rare treasures in that magnificent mausoleum, but we didn't have time to get one, suddenly Some regret.

"Dear Vladimir, Comrade Ilyich, what are you thinking now? Are you regretting that you didn't capture the Winter Palace?" The fat man's humor was level, and there was something in his words.

"No, I was thinking, without some revolutionary testimony from the Winter Palace," I replied solemnly.

"Hey!" The fat man called me in a low voice, patted his bag at me, opened a small corner of the bag, revealing the golden necklace inside, and winked at me and smiled.

"Dear Joseph. Comrade Vesalionovich, it's not good for you!" Fatty and I laughed heartily under the bewildered expressions of everyone.

The bumps and adventures of these days have made my nerves so weak that I have no time to think about other problems.We went all the way back to Qingdao, bid farewell to Song Bijun and Zhou Dawei, rested at home for two days, and then got together again.

When Lao Zhongtou saw us coming back, he immediately asked us to have a meal at his house, saying that it was a good reward for us.It's really pissing people off.Remembering that we were going through all kinds of struggles to find the water-preventing beads, but Fatty's uncle Qian Yili didn't even ask, he just cared about whether we found them. Thinking of this, I couldn't help sighing.

But how can Fatty and I let Lao Zhongtou treat us to dinner again?It's not rude to come and go, we insisted that Lao Zhong called his whole family to go to the restaurant together.

But in the private room, I realized that Lao Zhongtou did not lie. Although he is so old, his two sons are not as high as the table, and there is a little girl behind him, who is younger than his son. It should be It was the orphan he had adopted.

Old Zhongtou's family members are honest and honest, and they don't look like profiteers like him.But he is a profiteer, he is a profiteer, and he is not bad at all with his friends.As soon as he sat down, he took out a bag of money, pushed it in front of us and said, "Two masters, take it. I sold the Qinggui you asked me to sell last time. This is the money."

I looked at each other with Fatty and Xiang Ru, and seeing that he had no objection, I divided the money into four parts and gave one part to Lao Zhong.

At first, Old Zhongtou didn't want to live or die, saying that he didn't need that much, and he was just talking about Qing Gui. Later, we insisted on giving the money to his wife, and he reluctantly agreed to accept it.

Several dishes were brought up one after another, and the fat man and I hadn't eaten such a good food for so many days. Just as we were about to start eating with chopsticks, we were bumped by Xiang Ru.

Xiang Ru first put some dishes into the bowls of the three children who looked at us pitifully. After seeing them eating happily, we started to move our chopsticks.

"How about going to Xinjiang this time? Didn't you encounter any danger?" Old Zhongtou asked.

"I didn't encounter any danger, but I almost couldn't come back." The fat man said without raising his head while eating.

"What's the matter? Did the big girl in Xinjiang fall in love with Fat Master, and won't let him go?" Old Zhong Tou said with a smile.

"I'd like to be photographed by a big girl from Xinjiang, but the one who suits us is not a big girl, but a beautiful Loulan man." The fat man said.

"Oh? You guys have to tell me about it!" Old Zhong Tou said with a chopstick in his hand.

We briefly told him about the experience before and after we went to Loulan. When we said that Professor Wu could not come back, Lao Zhong couldn’t help but burst into tears and sighed. It can be seen that he has a deep relationship with Professor Wu. .

"Although we didn't bring back the golden mask, we did bring you some other things to show you." After finishing speaking, I took out the amulets that the fat man took off and handed them to Old Zhongtou.

"Good guy! I say you can do it! This thing has been around for 700 years, and it's the first time I've seen such a good gold jewelry." Old Zhongtou's eyes glowed, and he couldn't help admiring.When I heard that the time he said was so close to the time when Professor Wu speculated that the Loulan Dynasty disappeared, I couldn't help but admire it.

"What's the name of this thing?" I asked.

"Hi! It's called gold jewelry!" Fatty said nonsense with disdain.

"Fatty's words are wrong!" Old Zhong cleared his throat and said, "Look at the decorations on it, this necklace is wide and thick, with 24 pieces of gold in total, decorated with animal face patterns, and a ruby ​​in the middle. According to the rules in the antique industry, we can call it a 'golden necklace with animal face pattern and diamonds'. The diamond here does not mean that it is a diamond, but for the sake of sound and easy to remember. The hardness of ruby ​​is nine, and the hardness of diamond is ten. level, so there is this distinction."

"Although this golden finger is only a corner of the statue, and I haven't seen the whole picture of the statue, but I believe that judging from this level of craftsmanship, the Loulan civilization is already quite developed. And I don't think these gold objects are like the Chiwu What the clansman did, they should have captured Loulan's craftsmen and forced them to do it." What Old Zhong said was exactly what I thought.

"As for the 'five baht coins' and the like, everyone knows the name, so I won't say much. By the way, have you seen the real face of the old rice dumpling lying in the coffin?" Old Zhongtou asked .

"Hi! When are we going to see him? I wanted to watch it, but as soon as I moved the golden mask, it started to flood. Anyway, the guy is blue all over, with long hair and nails on his hands and toes. It's so long, like a fucking bird's claw, and a bit like a beast's claw. It's tall, like a giant, I guess I can't reach his shoulders!" The fat man said while gesturing.

"Oh?" Old Zhong was fascinated by what he heard, lit a cigarette and thought for a while before saying, "Hearing what Fatty said, I suddenly remembered that when I was an educated youth in Aba, I heard the locals I talked about such a thing. It was said that when they came from Tibet, they saw a group of Tibetans surrounded by a holy lake called Danzhucuo, and they were shocked when they squeezed in. I saw a giant lying there on the ground. The appearance of the giant was similar to what you said, even scarier than what you said, but the clothes and accessories had been taken away by some Tibetans. Alas! I still miss it when I think about it now. Those days when I was an educated youth."

"Huh? So there is really such a thing as the Chiwu tribe?" Fatty and I were surprised.

"I'm not sure if it's the Chiwu tribe, because they also hear it from hearsay, but don't tell me, there are a lot of ancient tombs in Tibet, and I have seen some with my own eyes. It is probably the timid gang of tomb robbers. They were all blown up and didn’t dare to go in. Later, several people from the production team went in and looked back and said that it was pitch black inside. These boys took some bottles and cans and used them as chamber pots. Just go in and get them, and fill them in later.”

When I heard what Lao Zhong said, I felt that if the story he heard really existed, it should have some connection with the Chiwu tribe, and Xiang Ru agreed with me.

"Master Zhong, just tell me if there are any valuable things over there?" The fat man said nothing about "digging holes" and "dumping buckets".

(End of this chapter)