Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 327
This experience seems to be very long ago. In fact, we fought only for one day and one night. When I recalled it, I was exhausted and in a daze. I fell asleep, and I don’t know how the night watch was arranged.In the early morning of the next day, thick mist rose from the ring-shaped mountains, and a layer of white smoke floated on the surface of the swamp in front, which looked like a dream at first glance.

The people packed up the bamboo rafts and found the way back. The black stele by the side of the swamp, which had experienced thousands of years of wind and rain, stood silently in place, gradually shrunk to a point in sight, and finally disappeared.This time there was no yin and yang fox to disturb us, our itinerary was very smooth, everyone stopped and went, bypassed Shangyao Village, and did not go to the village to spend the night, slept in the open for two days, and walked out of the mountains.

We stayed in the local county hospital for two days, and some of the big wounds on our bodies couldn't stand the torment. Except for Zhuan Rui and Zhong Gong who were slightly injured, I, Gu Wenmin and Tofu stayed in the local hospital for a long time before returning home. , The details in the middle are not listed for the time being, but it is said that the injuries of the few of us are almost recovered, so we went back to our respective homes.

Wen Min had to go back to BJ as usual, saying that he wanted to report to his family that he was safe. By the way, the 'holiday' was over and he had to go back to work.

Tofu and I went back to the shop in Shenzhen.

It's early autumn, but the weather in Shenzhen is hot. This season is no better than the long-sleeved jackets in the north. We still wear short jackets.

The bright sun is not as vicious as in summer, making people more drowsy. After returning to the shop, the first thing I do is to ask Cyclops to clean up the evil Buddha that Xiao Jing sent. It seems that Cyclops has not been affected. Seeing that I wrapped the thing up and let the tofu be buried in the garbage dump not far away, I couldn't help being surprised and said: "Master, flies are also meat, so just throw it away?"

I said: "Fortunately, you are still the palm eye in our shop. This time you missed it. That thing is very evil." After finishing speaking, I told him the origin of Panba Buddha. Throw it away.

After finishing this matter that was on my mind, everything was free again.

In fact, it's not really idle. There are many things pressing on my heart, but I can't find a clue at all.

The antique shop is not a shopping mall, and most of the time it is relatively deserted. Sitting on the chair mountain of the shop, I recalled the intermittent words of my grandfather before he died.

"Take it and go quickly... save, save people... land, map... find Bai, Bai..."

The so-called it is obviously the magic lamp that grandpa found out from the soil, but what does it mean to ask me to save people?Is it to save the statement?Could it be that the last thing grandpa found for me was the legendary corpse lamp?What does map mean?The white words mentioned at the end are probably the leader of that operation at that time. Grandpa asked me to find him, so what is his plan?
Obviously, Grandpa recovered his memory at that time, and he had many things he wanted to tell me.Unfortunately, it was too late, and in the end it only became this intermittent sentence.

In addition to what my grandfather confessed before he died, there are more doubts that linger.

For example, who took the two missing lamps.

Since grandpa asked me to find someone surnamed Bai, does that mean that the other person who escaped at that time was the leader of the team, Lord Bai?

What happened to Grandpa's team at that time in that tomb?

The one who caused grandpa to lose his memory and turned into a tomb keeper is obviously not the Earth Ghost King, but another mysterious force in the ancient tomb, so what's going on?

Countless questions lingered in my mind, but in the end they all pointed to one person: Lu Su!
Master Bai, I have no clue at all, and looking for him is like a headless chicken, but as long as Lu Su works hard, he will definitely be able to find him. Only he knows everything that happened in that underground palace 14 years ago.On Lu Su's side, apart from me, Zhuan Rui is also looking for it, probably because he wants to find out about Zhuan Dong's arrival.

Tofu and I don't have much influence, it's not easy to find someone, so we can only wait for news from Zhuanrui.

In the following time, I began to think about the map mentioned in my grandfather's words.

What does this map refer to?
Could it be the map found in Grandpa's basement?Grandpa asked me to save someone, but who was it?I held the so-called magic lamp in my hand and played with it. The texture is a bit like iron, which is unremarkable.After the ghost king used the last magic lamp, he possessed such unimaginable power. It seems that the legend about this lamp having magical power is not groundless.

Grandpa gave me this thing at the moment of life and death, there must be a purpose, but, how should this lamp be used?Holding it in your hands like tofu and wishing randomly is obviously not acceptable. After thinking about it, all the problems came back to the original point: Lu Su.He was one of the participants in the lamp hunting operation, and only he really understands the magic lamp.

Grandpa had too many things to say, and he didn't mention anything about the curse, and the whole thing came to an impasse.

I sat in a chair and meditated. There were two things in front of me. One was the lamp and the other was the map.

The map is a parchment scroll, which my grandfather found from the bottom of the weird bowl buried with Queen Baoxiang. At that time, it was a silk book. Since it is not easy to preserve, grandpa drew the map on a parchment scroll.

There are several place names on the map, all handwritten, but I have never heard of the names. It seems that it should be an ancient map, and the place names on it may have changed long ago.

Saving people, maps, magic lamps, Master Bai... What is the connection between them?
In this stalemate, time passed day by day, and everything in the shop was on the right track. During the operation, I got in touch with many experts in the antique market.It was the end of September, and the business in the antique store had cooled down. With Cyclops taking care of it, Tofu and I were actually very free.

There are generally three ways to sell the goods in the shop: one is that someone comes to sell it, we sell it at a low price and sell it at a high price, and the other is to pass it through the hands of the tomb robbers who are fighting against each other. However, this second line is usually only for everyone in the industry. , there will be a group of tomb thieves who will cooperate with them. Our shop is small, and there are no people who sell the goods. Therefore, the goods in our shop are mainly collected by bulk collection. The treasure of the shop, only me and Tofu smashed it A few things found in Xu Fu's tomb.

As time went by, seeing that the business in the store was doing well, Cyclops said that we should charge more, not the best, but only the moderate ones, as all businessmen know, neither the inferior nor the best goods are the most profitable. Generally, compromised goods are the most profitable, because the sales volume is large.When Cyclops said this, we decided whether to pull a Tufuzi's thread to harvest.

Although Tofu and I can fight by ourselves, the experience of these two fights was not smooth. We didn't want to run around anymore, so we prepared to tie the knot to receive the goods.

Cyclops said: "I know some people, why don't you contact those old guys, if they have suitable goods in their hands, they will send them to us."

I think so, nodding in agreement.Immediately afterwards, Cyclops handed me the manual account of this month's entry and exit. He is in his 30s and close to 40 years old and does not know how to use a computer. Make a note of it.The entry and exit of antiques are small in quantity but high in gold content, which does not seem complicated.

Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and it was winter, and Zhuan Rui contacted him several times, but there was no news of Lu Su.

The weather is getting colder every day. At night, the three of us go out to eat as usual. It is a Shaanxi noodle restaurant not far from the antique shop. The hot noodle soup is especially warm in winter. We were eating when the phone rang , he was eating noodles while answering the phone: "Hello, who is it?"

Cyclops and I were eating, and found that Tofu's face changed, and he said, "None of my business!" Then he hung up the phone, immersed himself in drinking noodle soup, sweating profusely, without saying a word.The one-eyed man glanced at me, wisely he didn't speak, and I was also surprised: Who is calling this call?Why is tofu like a fried cat?
Now I saw that Tofu was in a bad mood, so I didn't ask. After a while, Tofu wiped his mouth and said, "My second uncle called."

Cyclops was very surprised and said, "Hey, you still have a second uncle?"

Tofu said angrily, "What's so strange about this?"

I was more surprised than Cyclops was puzzled, because I was very clear about tofu's family affairs.

Tofu was born in a wealthy family. His father opened a sales company and it developed well. When his parents died, Tofu was relatively young, so his second uncle took care of the company.This person has a dark heart, and he also opened a small company himself. Therefore, during the period of taking care of the big brother's company, he signed various contracts at a loss. Evacuated.

When Tofu was old, although he knew about it, he was powerless to change it.His second uncle sent Toufu to college, and then sent Tofu out of the house. In the past few years, he has never been here, and he has never had a phone call during the holidays. Why did he suddenly call?
I knew something was wrong, so I couldn't help but said: "I don't want to go to the Three Treasures Hall if there is nothing to do. I'm afraid it's not a good thing for him to call?"

Doufu was very upset, and said, "I asked you to be right again. I don't know what kind of tricks that old boy is playing. He suddenly said that he would give me a house."

Cyclops didn't understand what was going on, so he gave a thumbs up and said, "Then your second uncle is rich and generous enough."

I just feel more puzzled, his second uncle is a black heart, why is he suddenly going to give away the house?Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Tofu say, "Remember that small villa in my house? It was renovated by him two years ago. He used the rights of the company to sign a short-lived contract before and transferred all of my house to his name." It's down, but I called just now and said that I want to return the house to me, do you think this person has something wrong with his head?"

I said, "Then what do you think?"

Tofu said: "It's none of my business. I have nothing to do with him. In fact, I thought about it later. If he didn't rob him at that time, other relatives would. He didn't abuse me in those years, and I don't want to have anything to do with him, so I can't say it."

When Tofu said this, I couldn't help but squint my eyes, thinking of something that happened a long time ago.

(End of this chapter)