Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 129

Seeing that I didn't reply, Zhuan Rui continued to look down at the things in his hand, and said after a while: "I'll pay you three times the price of Shi Leiluo, and I'll take everything, I hope you can tell me the origin of this thing. "Three times it is 150 million, plus the labor fee for Shi Geda, but it is a lot of money, this person's expression has not changed, it seems that the family is rich.

When Tofu next to him heard that he had earned 150 million yuan, he giggled happily, attracting the eyes of Zhuan Rui and me.Although I was also surprised by the price that Zhuanrui seemed to quote casually, at least I kept calm on my face.Hearing the movement made by Tofu, he turned his head and gave him a hard look, and said to Xiaodou, Xiaodou, at any rate, you were once a rich second generation, when will you be able to make a difference?

Tofu also knew that he was ashamed, so he lowered his head under our eyes, lowered his eyebrows and pretended nothing happened, and went to study the floor of Zhuanrui's house.

Zhuan Rui didn't show any expression, just looked at me lukewarmly, waiting for my answer.

I turned my eyes away from the tofu and said, "The price you gave is very fair. But there are rules in the industry, and the source of the treasure is not asked. I have no reason to tell you this."

Zhuan Rui raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at me, and now his entire face was exposed in front of my eyes.

It was really an unforgettable face, one left and one right, one handsome and the other terrifying, making it hard to look away.The right half of his face was obviously corroded by something, with pits and holes, the corners of his eyes were damaged, and the eyeballs looked unnatural, while the left side of his face was unscathed. The contrast was very strong. I finally understood why Tofu had that reaction just now.

After being stunned for a long time, I forced myself to look away, thinking that it was really impolite to stare at people like this.Zhuan Rui knocked on the table and said, "Equivalent exchange, I will give you benefits, how much."

Tofu was very dissatisfied with Zhuan Rui's coquettish attitude of not taking people seriously, and immediately said angrily: "It's amazing to be rich."

Zhuan Rui crossed his hands, with a weird smile on his lips, raised his chin, and said flatly, "That's right."

Tofu choked to death on this sentence, and couldn't say a word with his eyes wide open.

I smiled secretly in my heart, patted him on the shoulder, signaled Tofu not to be ashamed, and then said to Zhuan Rui: "Actually, we didn't come here for money this time, but we really want to make a deal with you." Zhuanrui's personality is very weird. After listening to it, his expression didn't change much, and he couldn't tell if he was moved. He just uttered a word calmly: "Say."

I thought to myself that this person is probably distorted after his disfigurement. Seeing that no one is pleasing to the eye, I didn't care about him immediately, so I explained our reason for coming, and then said: "This thing is closely related to my own life. You Think I’ll sell you something for 100 million? I’m here to exchange information with you. You’re trying to find clues about this pattern, there must be some reason, and it just so happens that we have the same pursuit, maybe We can cooperate."

Zhuan Rui leaned on the sofa, tilted his head, his expression was as stiff as a puppet, and he said after a while, "What do you want to ask?"

"The meaning of this pattern, why are you looking for it?"

To be more precise, I would like to know if there is any connection between the curse of the ghost face and the power of the shaman. Since Zhuanrui can look for this pattern, he must know something.

I continued: "Similarly, in exchange, I will tell you the ins and outs of this thing."

Zhuan Rui stared straight at Tofu and me, probably assessing our credibility. After a while, he nodded and said, "I can tell you, but this story is a bit long, and I'm not an ordinary person." I can bear it, I hope you can hear it from the beginning to the end." I said in my heart: This Zhuanrui has underestimated me, I have even seen things like Jiaolong, what else can't be tolerated, so I ordered Nodding, signaling the start of the transaction.

Zhuan Rui said that the reason why he began to study the origin of this pattern had a lot to do with the Wankushan party two years ago.

As the saying goes, a thousand-year-old king is an 8-year-old tortoise.

Two years ago, there was news in the Wanku Mountain area, saying that a huge tortoise had emerged from the river there. Judging by its size, it had lived for an unknown number of years, and some witnesses claimed that it There are also things engraved on the back of the turtle, like words.It's a pity that the tortoise disappeared as soon as it popped its head.

Afterwards, someone posted this incident on the Internet, and this kind of news was quickly overwhelmed by the huge network information.But Zhuanrui was interested, because in ancient times, people believed that the tortoise was the messenger of the river god and could communicate with the river god. Whenever there was a drought or flood, a ceremony to worship the river god would be held. The ceremony varies from place to place, and the form naturally varies. Different, one of them is the turtle book, which is to engrave prayer inscriptions on the back of the turtle and put it in the water, praying that the turtle can convey the message on the back to the river god.

Later, there was a tortoise burial.

The so-called tortoise burial refers to the use of a large number of tortoise shells as floor tiles. Turtles are known as the messengers of the river gods and fetishes in the water, and turtles are a symbol of longevity. It is said that the descendants of the owner of the tomb can live long .In the old age, it was believed that the good Fengshui of the ancestors and the good mausoleum could affect the fortune of future generations.Therefore, in the past, if a poor boy became prosperous, someone would say behind his back: There is smoke from the kid's ancestral grave, or that the kid's ancestral grave was buried well.

Everyone wants to live a long life, so it was once common practice to bury turtles in some places during the Yuan Dynasty.

But not everyone can enjoy the tortoise burial, because the tortoise must be caught first, and the tortoise must be of average size, otherwise it cannot be used to repair the tomb. Therefore, anyone who can use the tortoise burial is all dignitaries, even some princes ilk.There is another step in the tortoise burial, that is, before the tomb is closed, a live tortoise must be engraved with longevity inscriptions, and then a copper tripod is used to seal the live tortoise inside.

The tortoise was nourished by the rest of the tortoise gas in the tomb, and it would not die in the tripod for thousands of years. The longer it lived, the more prosperous the tomb owner's descendants would be.

At that time, Zhuan Rui looked at the photo of the turtle that accidentally emerged from the water on the Internet, and suddenly found that there was a longevity inscription on the turtle's back.

He was startled, and sweat immediately appeared on his forehead, could it be a tomb turtle?How did it get out?

You may find it strange that the tortoise is just the tortoise. Maybe it was a geological movement that collapsed a hidden tortoise tomb at the foot of Wanku Mountain, and the tortoise that had been imprisoned for thousands of years escaped and ascended to heaven.The old turtle comes out to swim around the world and enjoy a free life, why are you so anxious, why are you sweating?

Zhuan Rui went on to talk, but Tofu and I were quite shocked.

He said that the Zhuan surname is of the same line, and the population is thin. Looking back, the ancestor is Zhuanxu, one of the five emperors.People with the surname Zhuan are mainly distributed from south to north, from ancient Shu, Longdi, to the north, and the ancestors of Zhuanrui's lineage can be traced back to the Wanku Mountain area in Sichuan, where it is said that A tortoise ancestor.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were in administration, and the status of the Han people was low, and there were few officials. However, his ancestor was an official. It is said that he made a contribution to water control at that time, so he was buried in Wanku Mountain after his death. It is not known where it is located. , the only clear information is that because of the meritorious service of the ancestor, the tomb was buried with a turtle burial that was just emerging at that time. Although it was not luxurious and there were not many burial objects, it took a lot of effort.

Let's not talk about whether the theory of prolonging descendants has any effect, and let's say that the people of the Zhuan family really lived a long life, and those who were free from illness and disaster could live to be more than eighty years old.The Zhuan family was originally sparsely populated, and Zhuan Rui originally had a brother, but he disappeared in a fight three years ago, and there was no news of it. According to experience, it is likely that he died in a fight.

Zhuan Rui thought at the time, could something be wrong with his ancestral grave?
Water is forbidden for tortoise burials, because the tortoise will come alive when it sees water. It is said that the live tortoise will go to the river god to file a complaint, and the descendants of the tomb owner will suffer retribution immediately.

Zhuanrui saw that there was a tomb tortoise in Wanku Mountain, and in addition to the unfavorable years in recent years, everything went wrong, so he decided to go to Wanku Mountain to find the underground turtle tomb, if the tomb had really been destroyed , without a live turtle, the only way to solve it is to scatter the ashes of the tomb owner's bones into the river, and the river god will ask him to settle the score.

In this way, it is equivalent to betraying one's ancestors, but the living is the biggest, and the dead still care about him.

Immediately, Zhuanrui organized a manpower, and the group arrived at Wanku Mountain.There were not many people, so I brought two subordinates, because the size of the turtle burial tomb was not large, and it was hidden, so it didn't need too many people.

After arriving at the boundary, there are thousands of cliffs on the sides of Wanku Mountain, which go straight into the sky. As far as the eye can see, there are thousands of waves on the cliffs and caves, which are breathtaking.

In addition to hearing power, Zhuan Rui is best at cutting power.With an iron rod in hand, there is nowhere to hide from the underground mausoleum.

His iron braze is also specially made, thin at the front and thicker towards the end, a bit like a western foil sword.But the foil sword has a protruding front, the blade is soft and does not hurt people, but his iron chisel is like a sharp weapon, it can be used as a weapon, and it is not difficult to stab people in half.Relying on his single-handed cutting skills, Zhuan Rui didn't spend much effort, and soon reached the location of the underground tomb, and the soil he brought out was still mixed with turtle pieces.Zhuanrui's heart turned cold when he saw it, and he said to himself that the tomb below has indeed been damaged. My ancestors, for the sake of the prosperity of future generations, I can only feel sorry for you. You should go and ask the river god for your sins.

Superstition is something that no one can tell whether it is true or not.

I used to be in my hometown in the countryside. When I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I suddenly saw a white figure flashing across the wall. There are no ghosts and gods. Many people seem to have experienced some ghosts and ghosts. In fact, it was just like my situation at the time, but they were frightened by a mirror.

In a sense, Zhuanrui is a person who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but there are too many weird and weird things about digging mushrooms upside down, so people have to believe it.For the sake of future fortune, Zhuan Rui immediately started to rob the cave, preparing to pull out his ancestors and burn them to ashes to make amends to the river god.He and his two men worked very well, and they robbed the hole directly to the main tomb.

The three of them were not in a hurry to go down. They ate something and waited for the air to circulate in the tomb. After two or three hours, they carried their tools, turned on the flashlight, and descended into the tomb one by one.Since the scale of the tomb was small, the anti-theft measures were not high. The three of them entered directly from the top of the main tomb, and saw the coffin of the tomb owner when they got down from the tomb.

The coffin was rotten, and there was a large cauldron in front of the coffin, which should have been used to hold the old turtle.Zhuan Rui didn't take care of the coffin, he opened the cauldron first, and sure enough, there was nothing in the cauldron, there was no old tortoise, the tortoise must have escaped.

Zhuan Rui sighed, and beckoned his two subordinates to open the coffin.

(End of this chapter)