[Tomb Raiders Notes] Play to the depths, enter the venue by yourself

bronze tree

After scolding the old itch, Wu Xie calmed down, and they couldn't go back home because of a sudden incident after they were all here. Wu Xie pondered, if someone really followed behind, it must have a purpose. If there is a purpose, there will be actions.

Looking at the behavior of that person before, it is obvious that this matter can be put on the back burner until the other party makes another move.

Wu Xie tugged at the old itchy, and continued to chase quickly along the mountain road. The most urgent thing now is to catch up with the group of tomb robbers in front of him.

Soon, one morning passed, the stone steps had been finished, and the two of them still didn't find the person in front of them. Going forward, there were no trails, only a real trail that was faintly visible, leading to the forest with twists and turns. the deepest part.

Wu Xie began to feel a little terrified when he looked at the increasingly deep mountain forest,

The change of the road only shows one thing - even the mountain patrol team will not go on the road behind, and it is really entering the deep mountains and old forests. The men took out military daggers and hung them around their waists, and then each broke off a big tree branch as a common self-defense tool.

Seeing that Wu Xie was not moving, just keeping arranging his equipment, Lao Xie was a little afraid that Wu Xie would not want to move forward, so he couldn't help probing: "Old—Old Wu, if——if you look for—find it today What are we going to do without them?"

Wu Xie didn't know what Old Tick was thinking at all. He thought about it carefully. According to the information he had checked before, there were many temporary shacks built by herbal pickers in the Qinling Mountains. There were cooking utensils, firewood and dried meat inside.If they can find one, they can have a good rest tonight before making plans.

Thinking of this, Wu Xie immediately said, "Although our current location is far away from the tourist area, there is still a long, long distance from the real depths of the Qinling Mountains. But I believe there should be some villages ahead. After those villages, it is possible to find ancient tombs that have not been robbed. So we still have to go inside now.”

After hearing this, Lao Tiao felt that this was exactly what he wanted, but he still put on a green face and asked, "I still have to go... go? You... look, there are not... not even a ghost in the surrounding area." No, let's...or let's look around here... Maybe, we are lucky, and we can really find...we can find one or two things that slipped through the net."

Wu Xie laughed directly: "Where did the ambition go when I first came here? You fucking are just talking on paper. You see, there is still a road under our feet. Where there is a road, it is not dangerous. Our purpose To go to a place where there is no road, do you understand?"

"Okay, you—you're an expert, and I'm—all at your disposal. Then let's go."

Lao You, who had already achieved his goal, was too lazy to talk to Wu Xie, and took the lead to walk while knocking on the grass on the side of the road with a branch.

Zhang Yan, who was behind them, watched the change of the old itchy, and couldn't help sighing,

Can the bronze tree affect the spirit of this "Old Itch" from such a distance... Now the alien spirit of this "Old Itch" has begun to become more and more active...

Wu Xie and Lao You left for another meeting, and a ruined temple appeared in front of them.

In front of the temple and behind the temple, there were several middle-aged women who looked like parties involved, their heads bowed, not knowing what they were doing.

Wu Xie saw that there were people in front of him, his eyes lit up, and he immediately leaned forward, pretending to be very sincere, and asked them: "Big sister, I am a tourist from other places, and I want to inquire about the villages further on. How many roads are there?"

A woman in a red coat said skillfully: "Are you talking about our village? Why did you come all the way to our dilapidated village?"

Wu Xie was taken aback, the women here are quite vigilant,

He hurriedly said: "I'm looking for someone. I came to your village two years ago. At that time, an old man entertained me. This time I came back to see him. But I haven't been here for two years, and the road will never go away. .”

As a result, the middle-aged woman gave Wu Xie a contemptuous look, and scolded: "Damn, you look like a thief, who knows what you care about? I've seen people like you a lot, and those who don't fight are just Poaching. You are not good enough to deceive my old lady."

Wu Xie was dumbfounded by the scolding, and didn't know how to reply.

Looking at things other than this situation, Lao Xie felt a little irritable, so he pushed Wu Xie aside, handed a 100 yuan bill to the middle-aged woman, and said, "Wow... so much nonsense, take us there, This... this... 100 yuan is yours. Damn it, if you dare to say... wordy words, I will chop you up."

When the woman saw the money, she glanced at Old Itchy's impatient expression again, and thought, anyway, she just wants them to point the wrong way, and that's enough, this is another piece of money!

She immediately smiled and took it, and instantly transformed into an amiable rural aunt, and said: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'm joking with you. Look north, go straight along this intersection until you see a At the three-way intersection, take the one on the left, cross a stream, and you will arrive at my village."

The old man grinned, and asked again: "Just... Did five people pass by just now? An old man plus a few years... the young ones!"

Hearing this description, the middle-aged woman immediately became a little vigilant, and asked half-actingly and half-seriously: "You are not the police, are you? What's the matter? What happened to those five people?"

Because of mental problems, the old itchy who couldn't think of anything to say looked at Wu Xie, and gave him a wink. Wu Xie immediately understood, and said pretendingly: "How did you know that we are the police?"

The woman suddenly became nervous, and she, who was a little guilty, quickly cleared herself first, and asked calmly: "Comrade Public Security, I can't guess this, you have already had seven or eight groups of people here this month, and they all live in our house." In the village. I don’t think the five people who passed by just now seem like good people. That old man is a familiar face, and he stays in my village for four or five months every year. I have long suspected them. What? They really committed crimes?”

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie felt at ease, and immediately thought that these five people must have also entered the village.After all, in his opinion, he needed preparations before entering the mountains, and it was impossible for those people to stay in the village and leave without waiting.

Thinking of this, Wu Xie pretended to say to the aunt: "Don't worry too much, don't tell anyone about this, you know? You will naturally know when the time comes."

The aunt seemed to have been fooled at first glance, but these two might really be policemen. She was a little surprised, but she still wanted to get some praise for herself: "Then, is this a clue? Will you write me a letter of praise?" What do you believe?"

Wu Xie and Lao You couldn't help crying and laughing, Lao You pushed Wu Xie to let him go quickly, and said: "You...you can rest assured, when you go back, I will definitely give you credit."

Hearing that she could do meritorious service, the woman hesitated for a moment, subconsciously wanting to say something,

But Wu Xie and the others didn't want to pay attention to it, they just ran north quickly, the woman

The woman looked at the backs of the two, curled her lips in displeasure, and didn't bother to call them anymore, but just looked at the money in her hand fascinated.

Wu Xie and the others ran away, but Zhang Yan didn't rush after them. After guessing something, he squatted on the tree, wanting to see what happened to these women.

Sure enough, seeing Wu Xie and the others walking away, another younger woman in a gray and blue coat hesitated and tugged at the woman in the red coat, "Sister-in-law Li, if they are really the policemen chasing Uncle Tai, will they find us later?" Lead them the wrong way."

The woman in the red coat who was talking to Wu Xie and the others just now was still happily rubbing the banknotes in her hands. Hearing this, she glanced at the woman and said impatiently, "What's the matter? We didn't say anything wrong to the policeman. The one on the left was originally It is our village!"

"But... Then Uncle Tai went to the village on the right, and the police are looking for them again... Then we are cheating the police, will we be arrested?"

"Stupid you! The old Tai gave money before and said that if someone would stop him and point him to my village to stare at him, he would still be paid if he succeeded! This really made the police go the right way, and arrested the old man. Too bad, where do we get money from behind? If there is any problem, we can also presume that they didn’t ask! The policeman’s frizzy self can’t do our business until he’s finished listening!”

Listening to the conversation below, Zhang Yan shook his head with a smile. This was a good show...

Having heard enough, Zhang Yan continued to chase in the direction of Wu Xie without disturbing the women below.

Wu Xie ran to Sanchakou, and when he was about to go down the left road, Lao Tiao suddenly pulled him back and said, "No...no, you shouldn't go this way, I...let's go to the middle...the middle."

Wu Xie couldn't help wondering, "What are you doing, didn't the woman just say to go to the left?"

Lao Xie glanced at Wu Xie, his eyes were inexplicable, and he had already thought of an excuse and asked directly: "You...you really don't know...you know, or you don't know, that woman has a problem."

Wu Xie was taken aback when he heard this, he really didn't see what was wrong with the woman, so he hurriedly asked what was wrong with Old Itch.

Seeing that Wu Xie believed him, Lao Xie breathed a sigh of relief. Subconsciously, he still didn't want to hurt his relationship with Wu Xie, so he pointed at Wu Xie with contempt and said, "Actually, you can't blame if you don't know—blame you , I——I also listened to those bosses in the prison. There are mountain aunts in this mountainous area, so I guard the intersection to help people guide the way, and lie to anyone who sees oily water. Look to the left—the road on the left, and then In the past, wherever there was a village, it went all the way to the mountain—the mountain. Then—there must be a fraud in there, maybe someone has been ambushing and waiting for us to fall into the trap."

Wu Xie was dubious when he heard this, thinking that this is a tourist attraction, and there can still be such things before liberation.If they want to kill or rob, they have to walk in again?

Wu Xie talked about this worry to Lao Thou, but Lao Thou continued to scold him confidently: "You...you also said that you and your third uncle ran across the rivers and lakes, this...you don't understand the truth, this tourist... They are all outside, and those who can come here are not good things. Look at the two of us, they call black eating black."

When Wu Xie heard it, she also felt that it made sense, so she followed Lao Xie to the middle road.

Zhang Yan, who had been reattached behind them, also heard the conversation and sighed helplessly.

This guy Wu Xie is smart and careful enough, but he's too tender... and too trusting.

As long as Lao Xie opened his mouth, he believed it immediately, without having to think carefully about what the other party said that was actually full of mistakes.Even if the left side is not right, how can Old Itch only pull him forward?There is still a road on the right, not to mention from the direction, we know that the one in the middle will only go deeper and deeper...

Zhang Yan shook his head, his expression was a bit complicated, he thought of other things in his mind, and it was rare that he didn't laugh at Wu Xie's unthinking trust in Lao Tiao.

The two of them went all the way until the evening, Wu Xie felt more and more wrong as they walked, the grass on the side of the road was too lush, it didn't look like someone often stepped on it.

He hastily held back the old itch, and said anxiously: "Wait, this road is definitely not right, and there will be no road if we continue on. Let's go back quickly before it gets dark."

Lao Xie turned his head and looked at Wu Xie silently, his eyes were deep and his tone was calm: "Let's go further, it's too late to go back now."

Seeing that his expression was different, Wu Xie felt a strange feeling in his heart.He immediately looked back,

The road when we came was already submerged in a large area of ​​weeds and shrubs, and there was no trace of it without lowering our heads.

Wu Xie vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think about it. Enough trust made his thinking automatically avoid the doubts of the people around him. He only thought that the strange feeling just now should be caused by the environment.

He didn't think about the old itching at all, and he soon became distressed: it's getting late now - the sun has already set, if they don't go back now, they will probably get lost in this forest when it gets dark.

But he felt that what Lao Tiao just said [literally] was correct. Even if they walked back now, it might not be enough time to go back to the three-way intersection, and it was even more impossible to reach the village. Inwardly lamenting that they seem to have to spend another night in the wild...

Wu Xie walked in with Old Itch with a sad face for about an hour,

It's getting dark,

The exhausted two people finally found a wooden shack of a herb picker at this time, and immediately walked there with some surprises.

The old itchy opened the door first and continued. After looking around, he turned his head and said: "Come and see, there is a stove here, we can have a hot meal tonight."

Wu Xie walked in after hearing the words, and found that it was a two-story shack connected by a ladder.Above was an attic, unfurnished, but covered with large boards.There is a pit in the center of the room, which is full of charcoal ashes, which should be used to light a fire for warmth.

They put down their equipment, randomly picked up some firewood outside, quickly lit a fire to keep warm, and then took out dry food from their bags and baked it directly.

At this time, it was already dark outside, and there were sounds of beasts all around. They didn't know if it was wolves or what. The two silently baked the dry food, and finished the dinner accompanied by various roars.

Zhang Yan, who followed them all the way, waited for Wu Xie and the others to go in and start a fire, then left here silently. Nearby, he felt a breath similar to that of Old Itchy.

Therefore, after confirming that Wu Xie and the others were temporarily safe, Zhang Yan walked directly towards the abnormal direction.

After finding the source of the anomaly and digging it out, he was taken aback. It was a bronze branch that had been buried under the ground for a long time. Looking at this bronze branch, he hesitated for a moment, and still put his bell on the branch. After putting them together and comparing them, he felt a little relieved. Well, although some of them are similar, it is certain that they are not the same. The materials of their own bells are obviously better and more delicate.

Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, took back his bronze bell, and continued to examine the branch in his hand carefully.

I don't know if it has been buried in the soil for too long, but the alien spirit in this branch has almost dissipated, leaving only the last tiny residual radiation.

But for ordinary people, it is still dangerous.

Looking at the bronze branch in his hand, Zhang Yan couldn't help hesitating,

Just a glimpse of the leopard, just a piece of bronze branch that has dissipated for a long time can cause problems for ordinary people, so the body of this tree must be extraordinary.

He is not afraid of this part, but in the original book, it is a whole big plant...

Moreover, Zhang Yan took out the map he brought out from the valley,

After this period of exploration, he also basically understood the meaning of the symbols on it.

The ones that can be on the map are basically his footholds, geomantic places, or all kinds of strange places that he has dealt with, and some that used to be located in the city limits, so now he can't find the corresponding places. At that time, the Zhang family was related, such as the contact point or something.

But in the Qinling Mountains..., Zhang Yan frowned in thought,

I didn’t think of it when I didn’t look at the location of the bronze tree on the Hemu Collection before, but now I think about it and compare it carefully, and I find that although the map in his hand does not mark the location of the bronze tree, it is around the blank area that belongs to the location of the bronze tree. But there is a faint circle of various signs surrounding the place.

There are three square boxes and four circles in these signs, which respectively represent his former place of residence and the ancient tomb where the anomaly has been resolved.

And the location of the three boxes also means that he has been to this place in disguise... This is a treatment that most other places on the map do not have.So the bronze tree in the central blank is the reason why he kept coming here?

Let him come so many times, but in the end he obviously failed, so he simply gave up the unrecorded place...

Thinking of this, Zhang Yan didn't want Wu Xie to pass away. He wasn't an old itch, nor was he the Wu family and Jiumen. He didn't need to use Wu Xie to come here to help him achieve something. What he wanted more was to let Wu Xie be able to He has been fine all the time, although he loves to watch operas, but after getting along with him for this period of time, he would rather not let the opera start from the beginning than to put Wu Xie in such a dangerous situation with no bottom.

Zhang Yan laughed at himself, dropped the bronze branch, and was about to drag Wu Xie away from here now, when he got up, he suddenly felt someone walking towards here,

Zhang Yan was taken aback for a moment, looked at the branch he had thrown on the ground, and then looked back towards the direction of the shack where flashlights began to appear faintly, thinking of something vaguely.

He quickly buried the branch back into the ground as it was,

After careful camouflage, he jumped to a nearby tree and waited,

After a while, a figure walked over with a flashlight in one hand and a wooden warehouse in the other.

Zhang Yan looked down, and the man was really itchy.

I saw that Lao Tiao cautiously took photos of the flashlight everywhere, not even letting go of the nearby trees.

Zhang Yan hid in the dark place on the tree, waited for the old itchy to stop checking, and started to dig the soil with the engineering shovel, then probed again and silently watched the old itchy's movements, thinking in his heart: This "old itchy" is going to be disappointed... There is no longer the energy it wants in this branch.

Looking at it, Zhang Yan couldn't help thinking a little bit in a trance,

He glanced at Old Itch, and then at Wu Xie's direction, his eyes fluctuated, and he grasped the hilt of the sword subconsciously, and a wicked thought suddenly arose in his heart—or, while Wu Xie was away, he could kill this man right away. "Old itch" solved, once and for all?