Tomb Raiders Notes: If Innocence Had a Brother

The next day, according to Agui's words, the mountain fire incident was over. Every summer when the weather gets hot, fires easily break out in the mountains. Moreover, it is just an abandoned wooden house, so there is no big loss.

After hearing this, I saw that Wu Xie and the others looked obviously sad.

Before coming, I also wanted to take a look at the photos in the wooden building and explore Zhang Qiling's life experience, just in case there was any surprise. Huo Sisi told me that she was a sophisticated person back then, and based on Zhang Taotai’s reminder and Wu Erbai’s photo, those things were too deep. She also quietly told me what she was referring to behind the scenes, and in the end we agreed that it was better to burn the photos.

On the third night, a pair of hands covered my mouth and nose to suffocate me. The cold touch on my neck told me it was a dagger.

"Who sent you here?" The owner of those hands had his back to the window and stood beside my bed, his body crooked like a shapeless tree with a crooked neck.

I hummed twice to signal him to remove his hand from my mouth, and whispered, "Wu Sansheng."

Zhang Taotao took away the dagger and motioned for me to follow him. When he got up, he found Li Rui lying motionless on the bed. I grabbed Zhang Taotao who was about to leave and pointed at Li Rui.

"Passed out."

Following Zhang Taotao, one of his shoulders collapsed completely, and he looked like a ghost from behind. Going all the way to the small wooden house behind the village, Zhang Taotao closed the door and turned around.

Under the moonlight, his upper body was exposed, his skin was covered with pits and rotten skin, he almost had no shoulders, and his arms seemed to be hanging directly on the chest wall.

His hair was long and messy, blocking his face.

The two stood facing each other without speaking or lighting a lamp. Just looking at each other by the moonlight.

"Wu Sansheng knows I'm still alive?" he asked me suddenly.

"I don't know, I just have suspicions." I replied, "Someone has seen you in the mountains."

"Who?" Zhang Tatata's voice suddenly became low.

"Chen Pi Asi's stronghold is in this area." I answered vaguely.

"What would Wu Sansheng do with a dead man like me?" Zhang Taotao laughed at himself.

"Third Master asked me to bring you something." I told him what I had been thinking about for a long time. "Qi Yu has appeared."

When Zhang Taotao heard this, he seemed to be greatly stimulated. He walked back and forth in the wooden house and tore his hair.

"Impossible! Impossible! Qi Yu is dead, dead!" Zhang Taotao became hysterical. He turned his eyes to me. I felt that his eyes were not like a human being, but more like a beast in the dark. "You lied to me!"

I resisted the urge to run away, "That's all the Third Master has to say."

Zhang Taotai gasped and stared at me, as if he would pounce on me and bite my throat in the next second.

"Qi Yu is dead! Dead!" He kept repeating this sentence. "Zhang Qiling is dead too, they are all dead." After saying that, he let out a sob.

After hearing this, I thought for a moment and said, "Aren't you Zhang Qiling?"

My words brought Zhang Taotao out of that emotion, "Am I still alive like this? Humans are not human, and ghosts are not ghosts."

"You go back and tell Wu Sansheng that even if he finds the key, it won't allow it and he will die!" After Zhang Taotao finished speaking, he stood two steps away from me and stopped talking.

Before I left, I told him that Wu Sansheng might come over.

When I returned to Agui's wooden building, I opened the door and saw Li Rui sitting on the side. "We'll leave early tomorrow morning." I told him and then laid Haqie down on the bed. Li Rui seemed unwilling to give in. He opened the window and looked around.

When we were leaving in the morning, Wu Xie was sitting opposite Zhang Qiling, talking about things like "Don't touch the water" and "The doctor said there will be no scars." Zhang Qiling's left hand was wrapped with a layer of gauze, and next to it was the gauze that had just been replaced. It seemed that Wu Xie had just changed the medicine for him, and a strange herbal smell spread out.

"You have to leave. Thank you for what happened that day." Wu Xie stood up and planned to see us both off.

"It's time to leave. I don't want to delay his injuries." Li Rui replied with a smile.

By the time Wu Xie took us to the entrance of the village, the bus hadn't arrived yet. He and Li Rui talked happily to each other. When the bus arrived, I got on it first, opened the window, and sang out the window: "Little cabbage~~~~The ground is yellow~~~~wuwuwu~"

Then the car started, Li Rui covered my mouth, and Wu Xie went back with an inexplicable look on his face.

[Fast forward plot]

Wu Xie didn't know how long he had been climbing when a light suddenly appeared in front of him. At this time, he didn't even have the strength to accelerate, and could only continue to crawl like a zombie. Then for a moment, there was the sound of wind and water, and a few birds chirping.

Several people on the ground looked down at him and pulled the person out of the cave. Wu Xie saw that the hillside on the other side was full of people, and they all heard Changsha dialect.

It was night, but the lights were brightly lit on all sides, all powered by gas lamps. Someone else was holding a walkie-talkie and kept shouting: "I found it, I found it!"

Before Wu Xie passed out, he saw Pan Zi and his second uncle.

After Wu Xie woke up, he went to find his second uncle. He was not injured, but was weak, so he fell asleep and was fine. When they met, Wu Xie asked how the fat man was doing.

Pan Zi said that the fat man's intestines were exposed. If he couldn't die after being sent to the hospital, they wouldn't be able to die. If he died, there was nothing he could do.

Wu Xie felt a little reassured after hearing this. After all, there was still hope if he could get to the hospital.

Wu Erbai was waiting for news from the people below at the lake. When they came up, he reported to Wu Erbai: "Second Master, everything below has collapsed, and the central area has sunk." Wu Erbai asked the people below to move as much as possible. Things were salvaged.

"Second Uncle" Wu Xie followed Agui and came here. "How's it going down there?"

Wu Erbai shook his head: "My friend said that there was a lot of damage down there."

Wu Xie was startled: "When I went down there..." Wu Erbai shook his head and frowned.

"It seems like someone has been there." Wu Xie suddenly remembered something. "The rust on the stone tablet at the entrance to the underwater village shows signs of being wiped off."

"Has anyone been down here!?" Wu Erbai's expression changed, and he called one or two of the guys to go back to Agui's wooden building. "I have something to do, so you should go back early."

After waiting for two weeks, Zhang Qiling and Fatty were discharged from the hospital. Instead of returning, the three of them returned to Banai, intending to continue looking for relevant clues.

The chapter on ancient towers in Yinshan is finished