[Tomb Raider] Escape

Qiao Yu is a very sensitive person. As a man, his nerves are too delicate.Just now when Li Yaoyao answered the phone, he just noticed the change in expression that was trying to cover up, so he couldn't help but think a little more.In the middle of the meal, Qiao Yu called Nangong Gousheng on the pretext of going to the bathroom.The phone rang for a while before answering.

"Little Joe?"

Qiao Yu somehow felt relieved when he heard Gou Sheng's voice, and asked, "Where are you?"

What a smart dog Gousheng is. Not long after Xiaosangou hung up on the phone, Qiao Yu called after him, and he knew he was suspicious: "I'm with Dashuan Ersheng. I have a map in my hand. Go back and talk to me." Tell me in detail. What do you want to eat tomorrow, I will buy vegetables and go back later."

Qiao Yu felt at ease when he heard his tone as usual, and said with a smile, "I want to drink your stewed pork chop soup."

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Yu smiled and walked back to her seat.

In fact, he never imagined that Nangong Gousheng would cheat. Perhaps Nangong Gousheng's appearance is not outstanding, or maybe Nangong Gousheng has lived with him completely for several months, as if he has no other acquaintances except for the three apprentices. people in general.But even so, he was still a little uneasy, because he gradually realized that he knew almost nothing about Nangong Gousheng.

He didn't know Nangong Gousheng's background, he didn't know Nangong Gousheng's age, he didn't even know whether "Nangong Gousheng" was his real name or not.He also asked about it several times, but in the end, the topic was changed unknowingly, and in the end it was left alone. By the time he came to his senses, the topic had been over for a long time.

Qiao Yu belatedly began to feel insecure.Nangong Gousheng is like a puff of smoke, coming too easily without any fetters.If one day he wants to leave, there can be no trace left when he disperses.

When Qiao Yu returned home at night, she saw that Nangong Gousheng was already sitting on the sofa watching TV.Qiao Yu finished packing her things full of thoughts, came to sit beside him and said, "Can I talk to you?"

Nangong Gousheng gave him a surprised look, then turned off the TV considerately, and put his arm around his shoulder: "What's wrong?"

Qiao Yu said, "Are you going to rob the tomb again?"

Nangong Gousheng shrugged his eyebrows and said, "Actually...the horoscope is still missing. I've been preparing for many years, but I haven't done it yet." He stood up, "Wait a minute."

Gou Sheng entered the room, opened a small suitcase he brought, took out a long, thin wooden barrel and walked back to the living room.He opened the barrel and took out a roll of toilet paper: "Look at this."

Qiao Yu took the yellowed scroll in a daze, and unfolded it carefully. On the scroll was a map and some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that looked like pictures.

Qiao Yu took it for a while before she said incredulously, "Is this something from ancient Egypt? This... Where did you get this?"

Nangong Gousheng smiled and said, "More than ten years ago, an old friend gave it to me before he died."

Qiao Yu still couldn't believe it.If it was an ancient Chinese mausoleum, even if Nangong Gousheng took out the map of the ancient tombs of Dayu and Xia Jie, he would not find it too strange.But this time, he was going to Egypt thousands of miles away. Qiao Yu really felt that it was a bit of a fantasy: "You, who is your old friend?"

Nangong Gousheng's eyes were bent, and when he remembered the past, his face was covered with a soft light. After a long while, he took out his pipe and lit it, and then said unhurriedly: "She is of English descent. Her great-grandfather died in the early twentieth century. He was the British governor of Egypt."

Qiao Yu was dumbfounded.

After Britain suppressed the anti-British uprising in Egypt in 1882, it occupied Egypt and squeezed out the French forces, reducing Egypt to its colony.At that time, the British sent the duke to serve as the British governor in Egypt, and the governor exercised powers almost equivalent to the dictator of Egypt.During this humiliating history for the Egyptians, many cultural relics were looted.If what Nangong Gousheng said is true, Qiao Yu thought, then this ancient scroll might be real.

Although Qiao Yu is an archaeologist, she still feels mysterious and difficult to understand the history of China, let alone Egypt, which is far away across the ocean...

His eyes were fixed on the scroll, and he let out a few meaningless sighs, but he couldn't say a word.

Nangong Gousheng carefully took the scroll from his hand: "I have been to Egypt four times in the past few years, and I can almost confirm where the place drawn on the map is. If I have time this year, I want to try it."

Qiao Yu was incoherent because she was too surprised: "You...God, have you been busy with this recently?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded with a smile.

"You... you plan to go to Egypt to rob tombs? This is too... this is..." Qiao Yu pointed at the writing on the papyrus with a tangled expression: "Do you know hieroglyphs?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded, and the old god said, "It's probably close to ten. These words mean 'Pharaoh's Treasure'." He has prepared for more than ten years, so he has done this homework.

"My God!" Qiao Yu couldn't laugh or cry, she almost suspected that she was in a dream, and it was really hard to accept the facts in front of her.

Two days later, Nangong Gousheng took the scroll and called Yu Yushe and She She to Su Yi and Li Yaoyao's villa, formally planning to put the Egypt issue on the agenda.

Before he left, Qiao Yu asked excitedly, "Can I go together?"

Nangong Gousheng couldn't help but startled.To be honest, he originally only planned to bring three apprentices with him, but Li Yaoyao recently refused to shake off his little tail, so Nangong Gousheng accepted it indifferently. .However, Qiao Yu and Su Yi were not "one of our own" in his concept. Even though he could treat Qiao Yu in every possible way, he would not really treat him as a family member.

Originally, he didn't intend to tell Qiao Yu about the scroll at all. In the past ten years or so, he didn't tell anyone except his apprentices, so he showed it to Qiao Yu that day.

Nangong Gousheng thought about it for a few seconds, felt it was okay, and said with a smile: "Why are you so unfamiliar, come if you are interested."

Li Yaoyao had heard about this Egyptian scroll before, and after getting excited for a while, she forgot about it.Yu Yu and She She only went to Egypt with Nangong Gousheng last year, and they seemed very calm.

Li Yaoyao excitedly unfolded the scroll, and shouted: "You guys went to Egypt and Turkey to find acupuncture points! You didn't call me, shit!"

Yu Yu slapped him on the back of the head with his first hand, and hummed: "The fart didn't call you! I don't want the master and brother who are in love, you have the face to say it!"

Li Yaoyao smiled embarrassingly, it was rare that she didn't refute Yu Yu.

Su Yi's performance was a little calmer than his, but in fact his heart was overwhelmed, and he murmured like a dream: "When is Master planning to go?"

Nangong Gousheng said, before winter.

But if you want to fight abroad, it is not as good as at home. Language is a big difficulty.

Su Yi asked: "The common prophecy in Egypt is in Arabic, master, do you know it?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head with a smile.

Yu Yu quickly raised his hand: "Master, I will! I will!" As early as a few years ago, Nangong Gousheng forced him to learn Arabic in preparation for this matter.The reason why Nangong Gousheng chose Dashuan is because he thinks he is smarter and smarter than Ersheng, and because he thinks that he is not as temperamental as Sangouye, so he can settle down and study hard.Dashuan did not live up to his expectations.

Su Yi asked again: "Master, do you know pictographs?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded this time.

Qiao Yu asked, "We're the only ones who are going? Do you know any friends in Egypt?"

Nangong Gousheng rolled his eyes and said proudly, with my three apprentices here, it's no problem.

Dashuan, two leftovers and three dogs seem to be very useful.

Su Yi stared at the scroll and studied it for a long time, and asked: "Compared with the current map, the mountains, rivers and rivers may all be different. Can this still be found?"

Nangong Gousheng said: "Comrade Xiao Su, I don't dare to be sure, I just have a guess. But I have to go and have a look, and I will try it later."

Su Yi didn't know what to say.

Nangong Gousheng said it very easily, but everyone knows that the difficulties involved cannot be explained clearly in a few words.Since Nangong Gousheng has been preparing for more than ten years, he must have already been caressing in his heart.

For these young people, their trust in Nangong Gousheng is almost out of instinct. It seems that as long as it is what Gousheng wants to do, there is no possibility of failure.

[Volume [-]: Egyptian Volume · Treasure of the Pharaoh]