Tomb Raiders Notes: If Innocence Had a Brother

The second week after Wu Xie and I returned to Hangzhou, my second uncle answered my phone once. The voice there was very noisy. He said a few words to me and told me not to get into trouble and then hung up the phone.

I thought to myself, if it doesn’t work, I have to go back to my second uncle’s place.

Fortunately, I didn't take most of my luggage when I left my second uncle's house. By carrying my luggage, I went back to my second uncle's mansion.

After carrying the luggage and walking around, it turned out that the second uncle was not at home. When he went to see Uncle Zhang to say goodbye, the old man was listening to storytelling on the radio.

"Uncle Zhang, where is my second uncle?"

Uncle Zhang turned off the radio and said, "Second Master has business and has gone north."

"Then why don't you see the captain and the others?" Before I left, I took a look at the guards, but no one looked familiar.

"Your second master is short of manpower, so I brought them all over." Uncle Zhang returned.

I put down my luggage, walked over and asked, "Uncle Zhang, what kind of business requires manpower? Doesn't our family not touch those things?"

The Wu family began to cleanse themselves from the second uncle's generation, and in the end, the power in the hands of the second uncle was more or less brought to the forefront. The third uncle is used to being wild and wants to go to Hangzhou to work alone.

"I'm just a gatekeeper. How can I know so much? Why do children ask so many questions?" After speaking, Uncle Zhang continued to listen to storytelling.

I went back home again, but no one was there when I opened the door. I checked the gas meter and found that my consumption this month was in the single digits. It seems that no one has lived there for a long time.

On the car back to Hangzhou, I thought to myself that the Wu family would not go to the Qinling Mountains to dig bronze trees.

As Wu Xie's health improved, my attention returned to the clues in my hand. But I was frustrated to find that, except for the information obtained from the Warring States silk books, the other information was independent and had no connection. I can only list the clues one by one:

The first point: Qi Yu. When I watched "Tomb Raiders", I once suspected that Wu Xie was Qi Yu. However, watching Wu Xie grow up, I rejected this guess.

The second point: Master Liang. Is Master Liang actually Zhang Qiling? From Wu Xie's description, it is clear that Master Liang has very poor physical strength and a wavering image, but he did save Wu Xie's life in a critical moment.

If Master Liang is really Zhang Qiling pretending to be Zhang Qiling, then why did he put himself in danger?

The third point: Who saved Wu Xie.

Point 4: Which force does Lao Itch come from?

Looking at the elixir box, bronze bell, and copy of Lao Itchy's letter in front of me, my head was even more messed up.

I picked up a copy of Lao Itch's letter. It tells the story of how Ziyang was trapped in the Qinling Mountains and copied himself step by step. All the memories of the two "selves" were exactly the same, so the copy killed the original self.

The replica that escaped found that its memory was getting worse and worse. For its own sake and to understand the resurrection of Ziyang's mother, the replica decided to return to Qinling Mountains. So I found Wu Xie.

I took a pen and circled a few sentences in the letter.

1. Our memories are all exactly the same.

2. I don’t think I’m a replica at all.

3. Having this ability does not come without a price. My memory is very poor.

4. In another two or three years, I may completely lose my ability to remember.

I first thought of Zhang Qiling, a professional amnesia expert, and then shook my head. The Zhang family's amnesia can be traced back to its source, so it can't be counted.

After thinking about it for several days, there was still no progress. After hiding the things, I simply didn’t think about them anymore.

Location: Xilengshe, Hefang Street, Hangzhou

"Are you obsessed with "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" when you came back from Qinling Mountains?" Wu Xie asked me casually while sorting out the information on the Kingdom of Ku.

I pointed to the candle dragon inside and showed him the ancient Huaxu Kingdom and Nuwa Fuxi with a human face and a snake body. Wu Xie glanced at it twice, showing no interest.

"Brother, have you finished researching the bronze bells over there?" I asked after looking at the information he had not yet confiscated.

"No." Wu Xie shook his head. "It's a long time ago, and the Kingdom of Ku has only existed for a short time. They are just words."

Seeing that Wu Xie was hesitant to speak, I asked, "What do you have in mind?"

Wu Xie spoke slowly: "If I tell you, you can't laugh at me."

I nodded and said that you are the representative of the intelligence of our old Wu family. If anyone dares to laugh at you, I will be the first to refuse.

"You still remember the first time we encountered this bell in Shandong, we were in a trance. The second time we encountered this bell was on the coral tree in the undersea tomb."

I nodded and signaled Wu Xie to continue.

"I found that the lanyards of the bells were precisely tied to the coral trees with copper wires. There were many cavities in the coral itself and the sound transmission was excellent. I wondered at the time if it could be a musical instrument."

"Why a musical instrument?" I asked my question.

"Maybe it's your first instinct?" Wu Xie answered uncertainly. "At that time, I speculated whether Mengyoupin's amnesia was caused by those things. There are tens of millions of sounds produced by a musical instrument, and there is no guarantee that one of them can make people forget everything."

After that we both fell into silence.

"Brother, how old are you, and you still give people nicknames?" I looked at Wu Xie with a sad face.

"..." Wu Xie covered his face, "Can't you just pretend that you are selectively deaf?"

"Brother, why didn't you bring it up then?"

"The idea is too wild and unreasonable, and I'm embarrassed to put it forward." After Wu Xie finished speaking, he took the compiled information and put it on the second floor.

I sat on the first floor thinking about Wu Xie's words.

If, as Wu Xie said, there is a voice that can make people forget everything, then the voice mentioned in Lao Itch’s letter

[We all remember exactly the same thing. 】

[I don’t think I’m a replica at all. 】

As long as the complete copy of memory is achieved, it is also a kind of immortality.

End of transition chapter.