The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 5 Water Avoidance Beads (1)
"Panjiayuan?!" Fatty and I blurted out.

"Oh! It's the land, it's this place! Then, if you find it, my friend is willing to pay this price." After finishing speaking, he raised five fingers.

"Five, 500 million?!" I was drinking tea, and I almost spit it out after taking a sip.Fatty really dared to think, what I thought was five thousand did not dare to say it.

"No! What is 500 million, it's 5 yuan! This price is already quite a lot, it depends on whether you are willing to do it!" His cousin took a sip of tea and looked at us from the gold-rimmed glasses.He was right, 5 yuan is already a lot in this era, and I only managed to scrape together a total of [-] yuan in business. A [-]% can also allow me to pay back some money to others.

"Let's take a look!" Fatty felt that he had no clue about the matter, and retreated.

"Oh! Don't look at it! I'm your cousin and you are my nephew. It's so easy, I just can't do it when I'm too old! Otherwise, why should I ask you?"

I took a closer look at the map and the painting. There was nothing on the painting, it was still a bead, and the red circle was still on the map.But I always feel like I should know what it is, but now I can't remember where I saw it.

"Okay, let's go then!" The fat man was convinced by his uncle's words.

"God! That's right! Young people should have such boldness! What did Chairman Mao say? The world is yours..." I watched his overseas Chinese uncle rack his brains Think of a famous quote, feel a little funny, and blurt out "The world is yours, and it's ours, but in the end it's yours, and you're like..."

"That's right! That's what I mean, then you go and come back quickly! Be careful!" We were about to say that we didn't eat, but his cousin got up and sent us out. The fat man and I were so angry that we went out and scolded He knocked on the door.Although I don't know what his cousin does, I can see that he has this kind of profit-seeking nature unique to businessmen.The price of this small bead should be far more than that, but a penny is hard for a hero, and I am in the current situation, and it is pretty good to get some of it.

Fatty and I bid farewell to his cousin, and it was raining lightly outside, and we ran into Xiang Ru who came to look for us just a few steps away.Xiang Ru told me that the two of them went to the beach yesterday, not because of any other reason, but because his cousin gave Fatty a wind in advance during the long-distance call. Fatty was happy when he heard that the thing was at the beach, thinking it was easy to find , In fact, it was later discovered that it was not as easy as imagined.Even if that thing is placed on the beach, it is like a grain of corn dropped into the desert. How can you recognize it?

Xiang Ru knew that Fatty always "wobbled" when doing things, so he was afraid of making mistakes, so he went to buy some things by himself first.Opening up the backpack on her back, heh, there are quite a lot.Three miner's hats, three sapper shovels, a flying hook with a long nylon rope, plus some miscellaneous small things, don't look at the miscellaneous, but they are all useful.

It goes without saying that the engineering shovel is German.The key is the flying hook that Xiangru bought, which really amazed me.Flying hook, also known as "flying claw", was a kind of weapon in ancient times, but it is rare now, except for some special environments for wild adventures. "Six Taos?"Military Use" once recorded: "The flying hook is eight inches long, the hook is four inches long, and the handle is more than six feet long." "Wu Bei Zhi?instrument?"Flying Hook" also said: "A iron owl. The foot hook is long and sharp, with four blades, curved through the iron cable, and connected with hemp rope. The enemy wears heavy armor and has a hat on his head. He is also afraid of arrows and stones, and dare not look up. Wait for them to get together, then throw the hook among the crowd, hold it in a hurry, and you can take two people with each hook." This thing should be seen everywhere in ancient times, but it is very difficult to buy in today's society, but I actually asked Xiangru to buy it for me. arrive.

"Do you know what this thing is for?" I asked holding the "flying hook".

"I don't know. I bought it from an old pawn shop. I just thought it might be useful, so I bought it." Xiang Ru is really thoughtful, even if she doesn't need it today, she can think of it , I admire it very much.

Although the reform and opening up have just started in the past few years, miners' hats cannot be bought with money, because they are labor insurance products designated by the state. How many "old men" (Soviet people) want to buy some of this kind of labor insurance from China Supplies can’t be sold in the past, and those who do business in the country, unless they dare to risk the crime of “speculating”, or they definitely dare not buy them.I took a look at these hats, and there were some scratches and damage on them, so I knew that these hats were probably bought from the second-hand black market.

Xiangru and Fatty talked about the plan while walking, but they couldn't come up with a clue after talking for a long time.Seeing that I bowed my head and said nothing, I asked what I was thinking.In fact, I was thinking, since what his cousin said was "like a pearl", it must not be a pearl, and what would it be if it was not a pearl?Since that friend of his was willing to personally go to Panjiayuan for this item, it meant that it was definitely not an ordinary item.But I still can't think of it, so I'll talk about it when I get to the beach.

It's still raining, and tends to get bigger and bigger.The sky is gradually getting dark, and the city is full of lights, but the seaside is completely silent, and only the fresh sea breeze accompanied by the tide is oncoming.A bright moon rises at the place where the sea and the sky meet. How many ancient people sighed for the beauty of "the moon rising from the sea", but now we are exhausted for a few stinky money. It really makes people feel mixed.

The fat man saw how big the beach was, and immediately became discouraged again. There was only one person there, and the young man pointed at the sky and scolded his mother shortly.It’s really only when you are on the scene that you can think of something. I looked at the silver moon above the sea and sky in front of me, looked at the map, and suddenly thought of something that I couldn’t remember all the time.

The "Ancient Gods and Monsters" is divided into heaven, earth, people, animals, ghosts, gods, and monsters, with a total of seven chapters.Among them, the chapter "Strange" reads: "The moon is full of stars and the stars are sparse. On the shore of the East Ming, there is a turtle spit beads, which turned into a dragon in 3000 years, and then became a dragon. The beads are used to avoid water, and entering the water with beads is the same as usual... ..."Yuan is a name the ancients gave to the giant soft-shelled turtle.I remember a story in "Surprise at the First Moment", which said that a businessman in Wuxi found a dead giant turtle on a small island, and took out twelve priceless night pearls from its ribs (that is, the turtle shell) thing.But I believe that what his cousin asked us to find was definitely not the night pearl, but the water-avoiding pearl in "Ancient Gods and Monsters".

There are all kinds of orbs in ancient Chinese myths and legends, but there are only a few of the most precious ones.Water-avoiding beads, also known as "water condensation beads", as mentioned in this book, are usually cultivated by giant turtles and chiseled beasts.It is said that if you hold it in your mouth, you will not get wet when you jump into the sea, and you will not drown.There are also fire-avoiding beads and wind-fixing beads.As the name suggests, the fire-avoiding beads can cross the sea of ​​fire without hurting hair, and the wind-fixing beads can wear hurricanes without leaving the ground. In "Journey to the West", Monkey King borrowed the "wind-fixing beads" from Manjusri Bodhisattva so that he was not afraid of the iron fan of Princess Iron Fan.

These are all myths and legends, and everyone knows that the bizarre things in them do not exist.I began to suspect that the fat man's cousin and his friend had gone out of their minds and insisted on looking for something that didn't exist.I even suspect that something is wrong with my brain, and I ran to the beach in the middle of the night because of this non-existent thing.But now, only dead horses are treated as living horses. If you can't find them, you can't find them. Maybe picking up a pearl-like stone and going back can cheat some money.

"The Record of Ancient Gods and Monsters" did not clearly write about the place where this thing appeared, but there is such a sentence: "The giant tortoise hides in the caves of mountains and seas, and its spirit is not beneficial to humans and animals..." According to the above passage and this passage Record, I think we can basically narrow down the scope of the search.

"Is there any sea-exploration cave near here? It's the kind of natural cave under the mountain that extends into the sea." I asked.

"Stupid! Isn't there such a cave under the mountain we stayed in yesterday! But neither of us has been there, and there is no way to go there. Why do you ask this?" Xiang Ru said.

"It's nothing, I'll explain to you later." Hearing what she said, I remembered that since there was a pavilion on the mountain yesterday, it meant that there should be tourists visiting.But there is no grass growing on the busy road, what if someone gets on the road first?I'd better watch it first.

Luckily it wasn't far, and we chewed a few biscuits all the way to the beach below the cliff.It is impossible for a fat man to be full, and he kept complaining all the way when he was hungry.Fortunately, the black sea is not as rough as yesterday, and it can be regarded as calm.I took advantage of the moonlight to look under the cliff protruding into the sea, and indeed I could vaguely see the small half of a sea-exploring cave. I believe it would be difficult to find even in the daytime without looking carefully.There are no people around here, presumably there are only tourists in twos and threes coming here, except for not even a fishing boat.

"Let's go look in that hole!" I said to them.

"What?" The fat man stared like a cow: "Aren't you crazy from hunger? You asked me to come here to die?" Xiang Ru didn't speak, just waiting for my further explanation.

"That thing might be inside." I roughly stated my thoughts, they were both dumbfounded, and both suspected that something was wrong with my cousin's brain.But there is no way, as I said, I have to try my luck.

Fortunately, there are some reefs under the cliff where we can just settle down. We put on miner hats, carried the necessary things on our backs, and jumped on it.

One step to the left is the black water, but the right is clinging to the towering cliffs, and my heart is in my throat.Although I grew up by the sea, I have an inexplicable fear of water. It may be because I have heard too many legends about the sea from my grandfather.People of the older generation in Jiaozhou Peninsula all know the legend that there is a voice coming from the sea every night of the full moon.The sound was so loud that several counties along the coast could hear it clearly, like a sea cow calling.But what is a manatee?No one can tell clearly, and no one has seen this thing before, so they just gave it a random name like this.

I volunteered to climb to the front, Xiang Ru was caught in the middle, and the fat man followed without showing any weakness.Every step we take, we have to carefully climb the rocks on the nearby cliffs. Our feet are like walking on thin ice. If we don’t pay attention, we may fall into the sea and be buried in the belly of the fish. God knows what in the dark sea below is spying on the three of us. steamed stuffed bun.

Suddenly I found that there were no reefs a few meters ahead, damn it!Just in response to the old saying "people are unlucky, ghosts blow out lamps, and farts hit their heels", I couldn't help feeling annoyed.When Xiangru and the fat man saw that I was not going to stop, they asked me from behind, and I leaned sideways on the cliff for them to see for themselves.They probed over, and the lamp on the miner's hat clearly illuminated the situation here.The fat man shrugged his shoulders at me, and Xiang Ru didn't pay attention for a while.I looked around, and suddenly I looked up and saw a "exploring sea pine" protruding from the cliff, and now I came to pay attention.

"Give me the flying claw." I said to Xiang Ru, she followed my line of sight and immediately understood.

I took the flying claws and turned around in the air a few times, and slammed it hard against the pine tree, and it circled around the tree with a "swish".

"You kid can do it! I can't see that you still have this skill?!" The fat man said in surprise.

(End of this chapter)