Archaeological Notes

Chapter 35 Questioning
It doesn't make much sense to turn around again and again, so I just talked to Liu Maodi directly, so as not to be unhappy.Brother Liu Mao saw that I asked so directly, he was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, but also seemed to be hesitating whether to say it or not.After a long delay, I finally raised my head and looked at me: "You have asked this question twice, didn't I say that I am not on either side, and I am in my own way. But now, it's hard to say, I am If you are in Cao Ying and your heart is in Han, you are waiting to abandon the darkness and turn to the light."

"How do you say that?" I asked.

"You have also seen what happened in the village, which shows that Shang Shuanzi and those bad old men are in the same group, and the third brother and I are in the same group. This may sound confusing to you, but what I said This sentence is true, it’s all from the bottom of my heart, and I don’t want to lie to you.” Liu Maodi had a dignified face, although he still didn’t have much brains, but he felt very sincere. "In fact, the relationship in the village is very complicated. I can only say that it seems that we are the two sides who are opposed to each other, but in fact there are many factions inside, and good and evil are mixed."

"Especially in the past few years," Liu Maodi went on to say, "Many people of unknown origin have appeared in the ghoul village. Brother, I admit that he is sometimes a bit greedy for money, but his nature is not bad, he is called making money, but he investigates and walks around in private, wanting to find out the results of the investigation."

"Then did you find out anything?" I hurriedly asked, and my curiosity immediately became stronger.

Liu Maodi shook his head dejectedly, and was also very confused: "The third brother may know more. He said that there is a huge conspiracy hidden in the village, a cancer-like mystery, just waiting for someone to pierce it. He had an accident. That night, I was very happy, drank a lot of wine, said that he finally made him wait, it seemed that there was something in his words, and he didn't tell us, who knew that something like this would happen the next day."

Speaking of this, Liu Maodi's face was full of sadness. I couldn't stand it and was about to comfort him, but he suddenly raised his head and showed a gratified smile: "The third brother's ability is not only reflected in bragging, playing cards and fighting landlords, he This is rough and subtle, he set up a trick to cheat death! Sure enough, some people in the village can't sit still, such as Master Shuan, and you, for example."

I didn't come back to my senses when he said it, and I thought about a lot of things, but the first thing I remembered to ask him was: "You told me this, what do you mean?"

"Because I think from the bottom of my heart that you are a good person." Brother Liu Mao put it bluntly, and asked bluntly: "Actually, you have a lot of question marks in your heart, right?"

What he said is true. I do know very little. This business was only reluctantly agreed to by Scar. I kept many things in the dark. They deliberately kept me from knowing. Everything is done in moderation and deliberately concealed.The strange things that happened in the village largely revolved around the struggle between Slanting Eyes San and Master Shuanzi, but I remember it should be correct, the hairs on the locust tree were stiff, the corpses in the snow in the hotel, all kinds of phenomena Named Squint Three is dead.

"I'm very puzzled about one thing." I thought about it and said, "Isn't your third brother already dead? This way of death is too real. How did he escape from his shell and successfully fake his death?"

This time, he asked Brother Liu Maodi. After thinking about it, he didn't quite understand, "Anyway, I have seen the third brother. He appeared from the earth cave under the snow valley, but his mind seems to be a little abnormal, and there are many places. It feels weird."

Liu Maodi slowed down and calmed down before he said: "Third brother seems to have lost his memory. He was carrying a chainsaw that he got from someone who didn't know where he got it. It was like chopping melons and vegetables when he saw people. The bullet from Boss Hu hit him. They couldn’t stop them. They didn’t know me anymore, and they ran away later, and they might still be in this ancient tomb.”

"Then why do you obey that old woman in everything you do?" I couldn't figure this out, so I asked him.

"Hey!" He laughed twice, "I'm called Mingzhe Baoshi, do you understand? The old woman and Mr. Shuanzi wear a pair of underpants, maybe they have a leg. Besides, I may help him with things. I can figure out what their ultimate intention is!"

After speaking, he let go of the hand holding the flashlight and swept around. At this time, the fog seemed to have dispersed, but there was still no sound. It seemed that Dabeitou and the others had no plans to come back to find us.Brother Liu Mao stood up and motioned for me to get up too, "I can't talk to you anymore, I have to go and meet my mother-in-law and the others quickly, he has something to talk to you about."

I suddenly had an idea of ​​not wanting to go, so I stayed where I was, refusing to leave, and I still couldn't help but recall the dead old lady's dried-up face.When I was on the edge of the pool at the beginning, I almost got all the words out of my mouth in three or two strokes. I was bitten by a snake once, and I will never forget it for the rest of my life, so I directly told Liu Maodi that I didn't want to see him.

Brother Liu Maodi was obviously also in a dilemma, scratched his head in embarrassment, bared his teeth and took a deep breath: "I won't be able to explain to you if you don't go, I will try my best to lure you out from between them, you If one doesn’t go, I’m afraid I won’t be able to pay the job.”

I felt a little irritated when I heard these words, and I was not very comfortable, so I said angrily: "I am not an object, why should you call me around, I don't want to see her, you can't tie me up go?"

"Oh! My little brother." When Liu Maodi saw me say this, his face instantly became a smile, "Why are you so indifferent, you don't want to go out? All kinds of ghosts and ghosts will happen in this ancient tomb. You have to leave yourself a way out."

What he said was not without reason. Think about how many heroes who fought against each other went forward and followed up. After searching the ancient tomb through mountains and mountains, they couldn't get out once they went in.Even if I am a white-faced scholar, even if I am full of theories, it is not easy to return to the ground in this ancient tomb.Thinking about it is the same, I thought about it secretly, and after weighing the importance, I didn't say anything more.At worst, no matter how you ask at that time, I won't even open my mouth. You can't pry it with a crowbar, right?Besides, my legs and feet are on my body, so I can still hide if I don't provoke me. When the time comes, I just run away. I don't believe that I, a good young man, can't run away from you, a dead old woman.

I asked Brother Liu Mao how to meet, but he said that I just follow him, and when I was wondering why he was so familiar, he was already leading the way.That female corpse was of no value, so there was no need to help Da Beitou any more, just throw it away.Liu Maodi explained to me as he walked, saying that the owner of this tomb is a shaman named Jin Nai, but no one can solve the ultimate mystery of this ancient tomb.He had heard Slant Eyes mention before that someone had already entered this lost city. The old lady lived in Xing'an Mountains all year round, and it was relatively close to this place. She might have figured out the structure of this ancient tomb as if it were her own house. familiar.

No one led the way with evil intentions. It was really different. After walking for about half an hour, we finally wandered out of this spacious Hades.At the end of the Nether Hall, there appeared a cliff. It was about ten feet high, and the top could not be seen, and there were stripes all over it.Brother Liu Maodi led me along the cliff, and it didn't take much time to stop on one side. I immediately saw a wide crack in the cliff, which seemed to be able to get in.

We no longer stay longer, but choose to enter directly. The gap between the cliffs is very small, but fortunately, Liu Maodi and I are both thin people. Barely entered.

Out of the cliff crevice, there is a hole in the earth, the hole is so rough that you can only bend over to pass through it, and the mud, sand, earth and rocks on the ground have not had time to clean up.The soil hole seemed to be made obliquely upwards. As we went deeper, the soil hole became more and more spacious, and in the end we could even walk upright.After walking a total of more than a hundred meters, a brick room suddenly appeared in front of the earth cave, with a circular gap in it, revealing a tinge of orange light.

I was wary in my heart, and stopped without daring to approach. Brother Liu Mao called to the brick room from a long distance: "Master Shuan! I brought you the man."

As soon as I heard these three words, I immediately felt something was wrong. I thought to myself, why didn't Brother Liu Mao, who deserved a thousand cuts, not mention in advance that Master Shuanzi was there? What should I do now?All of a sudden my mind was spinning fast, thinking about how to deal with the change.In my opinion, the current strategy is to accept the situation and adapt to the ever-changing strategy with the same strategy.

The first thing to stick out was a swaying horse lantern, emitting a faint light, making the atmosphere full of weirdness.Next, Master Shuanzi, who was carrying a lantern, came out of the bricks and looked at me with a half-smile.The one who followed him was not the same dead old woman who had teased me in the cabin, but now she was hunched over, tremblingly following Master Shuanzi's buttocks.

Master Shuanzi looked me up and down, and suddenly knocked on the forehead with his hand holding the walking stick, as if trying to search for something in his mind, then looked at me after a few seconds and said, "Your name seems to be Cao Xuan?"

I thought to myself, what are you singing about, and why are you talking about something, because you don't have a good impression of the old man, and you don't even bother to talk.But it was not easy to show it on the face, so he just nodded symbolically.Brother Liu Mao looked a little nervous, with an unnatural expression on his face, he just stood aside in embarrassment, so that I could talk to Master Shuan face to face.

Master Shuanzi saw me nodding, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at the expression that seemed to be unable to see clearly: "I am a visitor from afar, and there have been accidents in the village again and again, and they have not stopped. The hospitality is not thoughtful, I still hope Don't take it to heart, in fact, everyone in the village knows the relationship between me and San'er, and those who are closely related can still be regarded as relatives after all..."

He talked a lot in a long way, nothing more than talking about his relationship with Slanted Eyes, it wasn't the kind of fight to the death and never getting in touch with each other as it appeared on the surface, but in fact the two were still relatives and friends. .I didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in this gourd, but I continued to listen until he had finished speaking, and then I changed my mind and asked, "So, Master Shuan, do you drive Slant Eyes out of the threshing floor in the village?" He was so overwhelmed that he was tied up and hung from a tree, Wansheng didn't understand, what was he doing?"

"What are you doing?" He smiled: "Put it on show! If it wasn't for our prior agreement, we wouldn't be able to attract flies. We've waited so long, and this day is here."

I have to admit that Mr. Shuanzi is a strategist. When he said these words, he was very serious. At first glance, it looks like an old man telling you a story, and you will never doubt the truth of his story degrees.But extremes lead to opposites. It may be that I feel that what he said is too "true", but I still have a grudge against his rhetoric.Recalling the strange things in the village, the ancestral hall on fire, the squinting San who turned into a corpse, and the desolation and fear in his eyes when he saw him for the last time, he absolutely couldn't pretend.Master Shuanzi's lie is too outrageous, in order to justify himself, he even came up with such a rote statement to perfuse me.Regarding this, I still didn't make a sound, and planned to pretend to be stupid, listen to what he wanted to see, and see what he wanted to say.Sure enough, after saying some irrelevant words, Master Shuan finally brought the topic back to the point.

"That night, San'er put a box with you, right?" He looked at me sternly, suddenly withdrew the smile on his face, and asked in a pretendingly calm tone.

"No such thing!" I gritted my teeth and refused to admit it.

"I told you, San'er is not dead, you just don't believe it." Master Shuanzi became a little anxious, and I noticed a detail, he started to keep sticking the crutch on the ground, maybe he was strongly restraining his heart Emotions.

(End of this chapter)