[Notes on Tomb Raiders] Return to Wushan

When I woke up the next day, I could barely keep my eyes open, and my limbs were heavier than lead. I was exhausted from running for my life and getting injured yesterday. After resting, my body didn’t get better. Instead, it started to strike like a debt collector. It’s naive. pat me twice

"Tell me, who do you want to carry you, the monitor lizard has good teeth, your ankle is swollen, maybe you will be limping for several days."

I was frightened by my naivety, and it took me a long time to say

"Not at all, I think I'll be fine tomorrow, why don't you help me up first and try."

Tianzhen didn't bother to explain to me, so she just bent down and gently pulled me up. As soon as Tianzhen's hand was hard, I felt that my bones were so painful that they were about to crack. I waved my hand quickly

"Forget it, I'm lame, I'm lame, let Fatty carry me, his back is spacious, it looks like it makes people feel safe."

What choice do I have, the little brother definitely dare not choose, Tian Zhen can only take care of himself, the fat man has always been the porter of the wounded, so let him work hard for a while.

I casually said that the fat man who was shot by Rainbow Fart was elated, and he put me on his back without saying a word and set off. .

The fat man’s walking is not considered bumpy, and will not shock the wound. They don’t speak, and move forward in silence. I half-closed my eyes, and all I saw was a deep and light green. I was sweating profusely and fed me water at regular intervals. I felt like a portable pet.

It wasn't until the afternoon that the scenery in front of me was a little different. There was an open field in front of me, which was similar to the cemetery discovered in the middle of the night, but there were no graves here, only vertical stone tablets. Very spectacular.

The stele was covered with moss and vines. I walked over and cleared out two pieces. I saw that the patterns carved on the two stone steles were exactly the same. They were both Jiaoming sacred birds spreading their wings among the clouds. Seriously completed works, the meaning of these steles should be different from ordinary decorations.

Tianzhen squatted down and touched under the stone tablet for a long time, his face was startled suddenly, and he said to the fat man and the little brother

"Come here and help us, let's clean up these steles together."

The fat man quickly passed his airway after hearing this

"Nice, are you fucking out of your mind? Clean it all out. Do you know how many stone tablets are here? Don't tell me that you suddenly volunteered for the Lin family. Do you think old man Lin will still be grateful to you in heaven?!"

The little brother walked over and touched the bottom of the stele, and looked at Tian Zhendao

"You want to find Lin Xianyi's stele?"

Naively nodded, turned around and yelled at Fatty

"Don't force Lai Lai, the date of birth and death is engraved on the bottom of the stone tablet. I suspect that this is the tombstone of the successive patriarchs of the Lin family. The Jiao Ming pattern is used instead of the name, which is equivalent to a tomb for worship. There should be incense cases and candlesticks here before, but later I know why they withdrew."

"Since this is the case, since Lin Xianyi is the last patriarch of the Lin family, it is enough to find the few stone tablets with the fewest vines and clean them up."

After I finished speaking, I glanced at the forest of steles in front of me, and immediately realized that my statement seemed untenable, because each stele was covered with a large number of epiphytes, and it seemed impossible to tell the length of time the stele was erected. With an uneasy expression, looking at me with the eyes of an idiot

"There used to be city guards sent by the Lin family here. As descendants of the family, they would definitely clean up the stele of their ancestors frequently, so it is impossible to tell when the stele was erected by the number of vines."

I retracted my head in embarrassment, the fat man put me aside, and went to help with a bitter face. I stretched my limbs and found that my body was not as stiff as in the morning. I tried to stand up while leaning on the tree, only my ankle hurt. , other joints can barely move.

The three of them were very fast, and not long after, a large number of stone tablets revealed their true faces. Naively said that Lin Xianyi's genealogy said that his lineage ended in the second year of Yonghui, indicating that he was a figure in Tang Gaozong's period, around 650 AD. He and his brother only need to look for the stele in this time period.

I let them out and paid attention to the surrounding environment. The little brother stopped them after cleaning up a stone tablet and looked at it. Tianzhen and Fatty surrounded them. I asked Tianzhen what was on the stone tablet, and Tianzhen replied

"The one engraved on the top is the Jiaoming divine bird with the same style, and the words on the bottom say that it was born in the second year of Daxiang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty—strange! Why is there only the year of birth, but not the year of death? Could it be that the Lin family had disintegrated before Lin Xianyi died?"

I recalled the previous dream. Lin Xianyi did instruct Lin Xianyi to disband the Lin family just before he died. I briefly told them about it, and I was even more confused. He said that all stone tablets have complete dates of birth and death, but only Lin Xianyi The stele is different, naive and thoughtful

"In the second year of Daxiang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, that is, in 580 A.D., the Tang decree stipulated that officials could only serve at the age of 70. When Lin Xianyi was 650 years old, it was [-] A.D., the first year of Tang Yonghui. The time just matched the genealogy. This is indeed true. There is no doubt about Lin Xianyi's stele, but why his clan didn't engrave the year of his death on it, it doesn't make sense."

"I think old man Lin's personality is not normal. What he does is always confusing. Don't use common sense to get yourself into it, but this old thing is really fucking alive. After retiring at the age of 70, he is still in Zhangzhou. Having lived at home for so long, doesn't it mean that the ancients were all short-lived ghosts." The fat man said innocently.

Thinking about it naively, I didn’t get too entangled in this problem, naively inspected the stele and replied

"How did he accomplish so many things without longevity? He made a decision in the second year of Yonghui to send his descendants away and write down the lineage tree. I don't know how long he stayed in the Zhang family, but he can use the word 'long time' To describe it in four words, it is estimated that the time will not be too short. Speaking of Lin Xianyi, he really has a sense of fate. He is smart enough to be an official, lucky, long-lived and the gatekeeper chosen by heaven. , the right time, place and people are complete.”

I said to myself that he doesn't know how to do things cleanly. He knows that this is a fatal thing. He added a time-sensitive buff to his descendants and it's over. I have to travel over to wipe his ass. How can I be so Good brains and luck.

The stele is an ordinary stele, and they didn't get any new clues after much effort. Instead, they added an extra puzzle for themselves. The fat man kicked at the stele cursingly, came over and carried me on his back and continued to move forward.

However, the appearance of the forest of steles at least means that we are heading in the right direction. We should be slowly approaching the periphery of Xuanyuan City, and there are no traces of other people coming here.

Soon my idea was confirmed. After passing the forest of steles, the rainforest gradually thinned out. Occasionally, we could see some broken stone walls covered with lichens on the side of the road. We kept correcting the direction along the position of the stone wall for several hours. Then we walked into a large area of ​​ruins.

There are broken stone pillars everywhere. Some of the intact stone pillars stand on the top of the strange bird sculpture that I saw on the side of the road. At first glance, this bird has a sharp face and a huge body. Its wings have a thick layer of wing membrane like a bat. It feels a bit like a pterodactyl from the Jurassic period, but a much smaller version.

There are many cloisters lined up between the stone pillars. The walls of the cloisters are broken to varying degrees. Many places are cracked until there is only a bare foundation left. There is no trace of the building in sight. Naively speculates that it may be It's just a square outside Xuanyuan City, and the real Xuanyuan City is still further inside.

Tianzhen and the little brother scattered around to investigate the environment here. The fat man was going to put me down to rest for a while, but he stopped suddenly in the middle of his movements. He rubbed his eyes, pointed to the top of the stone pillar and said in doubt

"Sister, I don't know if it's my eyesight, why do I feel that statue is moving, look at it."

I followed the fat man's gestures and stared at it for a full minute. The statue remained motionless, standing on the top of the stone pillar. I was about to say that the fat man was nervous, but suddenly I saw the statue's head raised slowly, and the bird's beak Two light spots lit up on both sides, and the strange bird opened its eyes, looking at us fiercely.

I saw the strange bird spread its wings, twice the size of a human, and the wing membranes on both sides collapsed to a little transparent, almost a replica of the pterodactyl.

I looked at the fat man in extreme horror, and the fat man jumped up in fright and ran out after carrying me on his shoulders. He yelled:

"Fuck! The sculpture is alive, naive! Brother! Don't look at it, both of you!"

We had just run a certain distance, and when we looked back, we saw the winged bird flying into the air with a flick of its wings. The little brother and Tianzhen realized that they were running after us a few steps, and the fat man’s goal was to get into the dense rainforest as soon as possible. Let the woods block these behemoths.

But the speed of the winged bird was so fast that the fat man didn't run for a few more minutes. The winged bird circled twice in the air and swooped down. I felt that the air flow above my head was rapidly pressing down. The front paws of the bird hung firmly on the back of my collar. I was so anxious that my head was sweating, and I reached out to pull the clothes out. Before I could make any more movements, the wing bird turned and rose rapidly, and the huge pulling force was transmitted from behind. Come on, I was immediately taken several meters off the ground.

Seeing the ground getting farther and farther away, my mind was buzzing, what to do, what to do, I will definitely fall to my death at such a long distance, where will it take me, maybe they still want to find a secluded place to eat ? !

My body was dangling in the air, the wind was buzzing in my ears, my expression was distorted to the point where only fear remained, my hands were full of desire to survive, and I scratched everywhere. The fat man was jumping anxiously on the ground. Visually measure my height and distance, but after a short pause, the little brother shouted

"Wu Xie squat down!"

Tianzhen understood immediately, and squatted in front of the fat man in two steps, and the little brother ran up for a few meters, and stepped on Tianzhen's shoulder when he took off. Leap, after two times of borrowing, the height of the little brother at this time is only an arm's length away from mine.

The little brother flashed a cold light in his right hand, and instantly threw out a short knife, directly cutting off the wing membrane between the wings of the winged bird. The winged bird let out a sharp mournful cry, and bent its wings and brought me straight down.

The little brother volleyed and caught me at an extremely fast speed. Before I recovered, I fell to the ground together with the little brother. This series of movements were all completed in the blink of an eye. I made meat pads and I was unscathed.