[Tomb Raider] Escape

Lost the map, Li Yaoyao refused to go back to meet Nangong Gousheng, and Lai stayed outside the hotel and refused to go in.

Su Yi said helplessly: "Let's deal with the wound first, the master will know about this sooner or later."

Li Yaoyao squatted on the side of the road decadently, lit a cigarette, the rising smoke touched his bloody wound, and raised her eyebrows in pain: "You don't know how much Master expects to find this place... He spent a lot of money I tried my best to find dozens of versions of maps of different ages in Egypt for comparison, and I came here to explore the place several times, and I just lost the map..." He scratched his hair irritably, and the wound on his forehead began to bleed again.

Yu Yu and She She were also depressed and lost their mind, squatting on the ground to smoke.

Yu Yu took a long puff of smoke and frowned tightly: "Do you still remember what those people looked like?"

Li Yaoyao smiled wryly: "Foreigners all have the same face, and they are so dark and confused, I might not be able to recognize them if they are thrown in front of me now."

She She said calmly, "Maybe, Master has a backup map."

Su Yi snatched the cigarette from Li Yaoyao's hand, wiped off the blood around his wound with a napkin, and forcefully pulled him inside: "Hiding is not an option, if you don't go in, I'll go and tell Master!"

Li Yaoyao couldn't beat him, and was dragged in by him with an awkward expression.

Nangong Gousheng and Qiao Yu had already returned, and were happily sitting in the room eating watermelon. Seeing four juniors walking in dejectedly, especially Li Yaoyao who was covered in injuries, Gousheng couldn't help being startled: "What's the matter?" ?”

Li Yaoyao was like a child who did something wrong, she mumbled and dared not speak, Su Yi took two deep breaths and said calmly: "Master, we lost the map."

Nangong Gousheng and Qiao Yu were both stunned.

Su Yi briefly described what happened just now, Nangong Gousheng looked at the wound on Xiaosangou's face, his heart ached so badly, how could he be willing to blame him, he took medicine to treat the wound for him.

"Can those people be found?"

Li Yaoyao looked at Gou Sheng pitifully: "Master, I'm sorry..."

Nangong Gousheng fondled his head, and Li Yaoyao took the opportunity to rub his palm coquettishly: "Master, do you still have a backup map?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head: "Let's look for it from memory."

Yu Yu asked: "The group of bastards took the map, will they go to grab the treasure?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head: "They couldn't find it." It must be known that in order to find out where the place was drawn on the map, he spent more than ten years traveling along the upper and lower reaches of the Nile River and compared countless maps. , so far, there is only a few percent certainty.

Li Yaoyao opened her big watery eyes, like a pitiful deer: "Master, I was wrong..."

Yu Yu also squatted down next to Li Yaoyao dejectedly: "I was the first to be cheap..."

She She also knelt down to join in the fun, and the three young boys were obediently like three big dogs gathered around the dog's feet.

Nangong Gousheng felt very distressed, but he still smiled and patted the heads of his apprentices one by one: "Everything has its own destiny. Go and rest."

In the evening, Su Yi treated Li Yaoyao's wound with medicated oil, looked at his bruises all over his body, felt his nose sore from distress, bent down and carefully covered the wound on Li Yaoyao's shoulder with his lips: "I'm sorry... ..."

Li Yaoyao asked casually: "Huh?"

Su Yi cleared up his mood, straightened up and rubbed medicated oil on his back: "It's all because of my poor health..."

Li Yaoyao turned to look at him, grinning grinningly: "It's alright, you can't come back after taking the map on you by mistake, so let's talk about something else."

Su Yi bit her lip and fell silent.

After turning off the lights, Su Yi carefully avoided Li Yaoyao's wound, approached him, and said in a low voice, "Thank you for protecting me again..."

Li Yaoyao sighed, pulled his hair and kissed him fiercely, before letting go after a long time: "Okay, you have promised me with your body, of course I have to cover you!"

Su Yi hugged him tightly, and kissed him frantically like a suffocating person asking for oxygen.

No more words for one night.

Early the next morning, after seeing Li Yaoyao's injuries, everyone discussed resting in Cairo for another day before leaving for Luxor.

Qiao Yu passed by Yu Yu and She She's room, and saw that Yu Yu had piled up things in a mess, with melon seeds and peels all over the floor, so she stacked things neatly for him.

He saw a pair of melon seed shells piled up on the table by Yu Yu, picked up the paper and dumped the melon seed shells, and was about to throw the paper into the trash can, but was stunned when he saw the pattern on the back of the paper .

5 minute later.

Li Yaoyao surrounded Yu Yu in a corner and beat him violently, and the wounds on her body were so painful that her face was grim: "I'm going to kill you idiot! Idiot! Spit me out with Master's map! You lied to me! Damn! Didn't sleep well at night!"

Yu Yu didn't dare to fight back, so he had to try his best to resist his fists and feet: "Oh! I took it wrong, and I didn't mean it! You and Su Yi screamed all night, and you dare to blame the young master if you can't sleep well. !"

"Fart!" Li Yaoyao pinched his head and beat him violently, even She She took pleasure in his misfortune and came up to mend his feet.

Yu Yu hugged her head and howled, angrily said: "Old She! You are so fucking unjust!"

She Shepi smiled and threw out two words: "It deserves it!"

Nangong Gousheng held the lost and recovered map, looked at the melon seeds and saliva sticking to it with disgust, and said slowly: "Oh, Ersheng, Sangou, this is what's wrong with you. What does the teacher usually teach you? ? When you hit someone, you have to hit the sore spot! ... Yes, hit him at the bottom, headshot!"

Su Yi and Qiao Yu laughed muffledly.

After Yu Yu was beaten up until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, Master Gousheng wiped the map with a damp cloth in a leisurely manner—paper made of papyrus is not afraid of water—and then he stood up and patted Li Yaoyao on the shoulder: " It's almost enough. Seeing that you are so agile, there should be no major problems, and we will set off tonight."

Li Yaoyao finally got rid of the identity of a criminal, glared at Yu Yu fiercely, and dragged Su Yi away proudly.

That night, everyone took the train from Cairo to Luxor.

Luxor's Market once called the city of Luxor the largest open-air museum in the world.This place is the ruins of the ancient capital Thebes, which began to become powerful from 2000 BC, during the Middle Kingdom period of ancient Egypt.This place is also a city under the protection of the Egyptian government. There is no trace of industrialization, and everything remains natural.

A few young people wanted to go to the Valley of the Kings and the temple complex. Nangong Gousheng was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he proposed to go to Harija Oasis to find out, and then return to Luxor for a leisurely stroll.

That night, everyone stayed in a hotel on the Red Sea.

If the hotel in Cairo has the scale of a small resort, then the hotel in Luxor is more beautiful than the resort.The small villa stands on the Red Sea, and you can reach the coast by walking a hundred meters.There are many parasols and deck chairs on the shore, as well as barbecue pavilions. You can enjoy the sunrise and sunset on the shore in the morning and evening.

There are very few residents in Luxor, and because it is not the peak tourist season, there are almost no people in the hotel. At dusk, there are only six people sitting on the Red Sea watching the sunrise.

Nangong Gousheng was lying on the beach, waves of sea water washed his calves from time to time, and the afterglow of the setting sun hit his face with a layer of soft light.

Qiao Yu walked to him and sat down, looking longingly at the slowly falling red sun: "This place is so beautiful, have you been here many times?"

Nangong Gousheng said with a smile: "How can I? I used to live in local people's homes. I only found this kind of place to take care of you little comrades. This is also the first time I lie here."

Qiao Yu laughed: "That's right, living in a local resident's home, you can learn a lot, right?"

Nangong Gousheng patted the open space beside him and motioned him to lie down: "In many places in Egypt, the common people built their houses directly on the ancient tombs, and slowly moved out the contents to sell them. The ancient tombs can also be used as basements. The common people Poor, no concept of cultural relics protection, and the ancient tombs here are too uncommon, because there are so many rare ones. When I went to Xiwa, there was an ancient tomb under the house I picked up, and everyone slept in the ancient tomb at night Here, they have been sleeping for decades."

Qiao Yu saw four young people playing and playing with endless energy in the distance, so she lay down beside Nangong Gousheng, and leaned into his arms: "Hey, your real name is really Nangong Gousheng?"

Nangong Gousheng was startled, his slender eyes were even more bent: "Don't like it? You can give me a new name."

Qiao Yu had never seen Nangong Gousheng's ID card. When he flew to Egypt, Nangong Gousheng also went through the formalities by himself. The passport couldn't hold on to other people's hands, so Qiao Yu didn't see anything at all.

He pretended to be serious and stared at Nangong Gousheng's side face: "Be honest, you are not a fugitive, are you?"

Nangong Gousheng neither denied nor admitted, just smiled: "You won't report me to the Public Security Bureau, will you?"

"Scary!" Qiao Yu looked at him in surprise: "You don't really do anything, do you?"

Nangong Gousheng put his arms around his shoulders, but never took his eyes off the sunset that was approaching the horizon: "What will you do if I go to jail?"

Qiao Yu frowned: "Well, how many years do you plan to spend in prison?"

Nangong Gousheng smiled, with the afterglow of the setting sun reflected in his eyes, he said softly, "What if... I was shot and you couldn't see me again?"

Qiao Yu bit her lower lip, and became really nervous: "No way, apart from robbing graves, what other crimes have you done?"

Nangong Gousheng rubbed his head with a smile, and stopped talking.

Soon after the setting sun, half of Jiang's body sank into the sea, and the tranquil and beautiful scenery by the sea was fascinating. Su Yi couldn't help but took out his drawing board and quickly sketched the scenery.

Li Yaoyao, with a bruised nose and a swollen face, posed a few poses: "Draw me, draw me!"

Yu Yu, who was also bruised and swollen, pushed him away: "Draw me! I'm more handsome than the third child!"

Li Yaoyao was furious and threw him down in the sand: "You dare to compare yourself with me when you piss on your own face?"

Not to be outdone, Yu Yu turned over and overwhelmed him: "Fart, my young master is so handsome, there is no other in the whole world!"

Li Yaoyao punched him on the bridge of the nose: "You crooked nose bug!"

Yu Yu punched Li Yaoyao directly in the eye socket: "You blue-eyed toad!"

……

She She cast a disdainful glance at the two wrestling together, and scoffed, "Childish."

With his hands in his pockets, he calmly walked to the beach, raised his neck at 45 degrees to look up at the sunset, and stood still like a sculpture: "Be handsome."

Su Yi: "..."

Qiao Yu couldn't help being caught by Nangong Gousheng's words, and asked nervously, "You didn't kill someone, did you?" "Did you let it go?" "You didn't do the museum theft last month." Right?" "The four gangsters who robbed the bank last month were you?!"

Nangong Gousheng couldn't laugh or cry when he asked him, so he had to explain: "If I am a wanted criminal, can I still go abroad?"

Qiao Yu thought about it and felt that it made sense, and finally let go of her hanging heart.

Nangong Gousheng sat up, watched the last edge of the sunset slowly sinking into the sea level, and said with emotion: "It's so beautiful. I'm so old, I actually like this feeling."

Qiao Yu also stood up and said with a smile, "You mean An Ning? Isn't that bad?"

Nangong Gousheng murmured softly: "If you have a chance, come and live here for a while." He spoke very softly, and he didn't know whether he was speaking for himself or Qiao Yu beside him.

Qiao Yu leaned on his shoulder, watched the last ray of light disappear from sight, and whispered, "It's really beautiful."

The next day, Nangong Gousheng took Yu Yu out early in the morning and borrowed a jeep from the town to return.

In the small town near Luxor, there are many experts in the profession of tomb robbers. Nangong Gousheng has found out the way in the past few times, and he got a lot of necessary tools in the morning, and even threw away two or three pieces. When the cultural relics came back, Qiao Yu and Su Yi were speechless.

The Kharja Oasis is in the Western Desert of Egypt.The western desert extends from the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea to the borders of Sudan and Libya, and goes deep into the interior of Africa. It is a desert within a desert.There are five oases in the middle of the Western Desert, and Harjar is the most prosperous of them all.

As usual, Yu Yu drove the car.Nangong Gousheng sat in the back row, watched the green gradually recede outside the window and turned into an endless desert, and said thoughtfully: "Pharaoh's treasure... there is a road in the desert called 'Forty Days Road', It is the road of death in the desert. The Kharja Oasis is at the end of this road. This road is the most important north-south trade route in the western desert, from Asyutlian in the Nile River Basin to Darfur, Sudan, From the time of the Old Kingdom, the Sudan’s gold, ivory, and slaves were sent to the Nile River basin through this road. Later, the Romans ruled, and the five oases prospered for a time, and there are still many ruins there that date from the Greco-Roman period.”

Qiao Yu couldn't help asking, "The road to death? Is it dangerous?"

Nangong Gousheng smiled and said, "It's called the Road of Death because many of the slaves who were transported died in the desert. In fact, it's just a desert, nothing surprising."

Qiao Yu and Su Yi had also been in the Xinjiang desert to participate in archaeological operations, so they had some experience in desert survival, so they were not too worried.

Nangong Gousheng said: "The so-called treasure may be the goods on the commercial road. For some reason, it was buried on the spot. This place was only an important town for merchants in ancient Egypt, and it is so far away from the Nile River. Pharaohs would come here to bury treasures." It's a little far-fetched."

The car was driving in the sandy sea where it is very easy to get lost. Fortunately, She She has an excellent sense of direction and distance. She can clearly know where she is on the map at every moment, and her ability to distinguish roads is not inferior to that of local residents.

The car did not drive to Harrij until dusk, and everyone found a hotel near the ancient city to stay.

In the evening, the Godson's four masters and apprentices sat around the table, carefully pouring a pile of powder into a beaker and test tube they got from nowhere.

Qiao Yu asked, "What are you doing?"

Gou Sheng said, with explosives.The place we are looking for is estimated to have turned into a desert now, so it is not easy to dig.

In ancient times, the tributaries of the Nile River passed through the Kharja Oasis, which formed a vast oasis in the desert.But now that the river valley is diverted, the boundaries of the oasis are completely different from those thousands of years ago. How easy is it to find an ancient site in the vast sandy sea?

Looking at Nangong Gousheng's serious expression, Qiao Yu thought to himself: Although he looks like he doesn't care about everything, in fact it's just that he spends so much effort not to be seen.He is actually a very reliable person.