[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

Where can you go now—" After a pause, she blinked her eyes and pointed to Zhang Qiling, "Actually, I think I might know a little about him. "

It was the first time for Wu Xie to run into such a catastrophe, and she was terribly afraid. It happened that Huo Xiangu was slowing down, and it was okay to be under her protection for the time being. After all, she should have clues about Zhang Qiling.

Gu Ran also nodded, with Huo Xiangu's ability, she couldn't do anything to them, and it happened to give them a stable place to live, which would save trouble for both parties.

Huo Xiuxiu asked the driver to change cars and drove over. The four of them squeezed in and drove out of the compound with their heads down. They reached the East Fourth Ring Road and turned into an inconspicuous alley. Inside was a very grand old house. .

No one lived in it for a long time, the inside was extremely dirty, four people cleaned it, Gu Ran directly picked a clean bare bed board, regardless of whether the bones were broken or not, he just fell asleep on it.

It wasn't sleepy either, Gu Ran just wanted to use sleep to clear his mind, thinking about Zhang Qishan's matter, his emotions were too complicated for a moment, and he was really stuck in a panic, rather than sleeping, it would be better to let himself pass out.

Seeing that Gu Ran fell asleep like this, the fat man said strangely: "He's also been very strange recently. He doesn't choose a bed, so he can sleep when he falls down. I always feel that this guy is hiding this thing in his heart. Just now we were in Mrs. Huo's bed." There, didn't he just go out in the middle of talking?"

The fat man smacked his lips: "Gu Xiaoran has become more and more like a little brother recently, and he keeps everything in his mind."

Wu Xie sighed, and began to think about things with Huo Xiangu again.

When Huo Xiuxiu came, Gu Ran woke up and fell into a coma for a while. His mind was already clear, and without being disturbed by emotions, he still decided to break the situation with his body.

After figuring it out, Gu Ran suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and naturally he was hungry, so he went downstairs to drink and eat with Fatty Zhang Qiling and the others, and listened to Wu Xie and Huo Xiuxiu exchange information by the way.

It is worth mentioning that Huo Xiuxiu brought several photos. One was taken in 1984. According to calculations, Huo Ling's barefoot height was 168 at that time, while the other photo in Xisha showed that her barefoot height was only 160.

In 1984, before Banai, Guangxi, it must be the real Huo Ling at this time, but judging from the photos in Xisha, it can only be a fake Huo Ling.

This is inconsistent with Gu Ran's deduction. He originally thought that at this time, the real Huo Ling should have replaced the fake Huo Ling to join the archaeological team, and then went to the nursing home.

Gu Ran frowned, he couldn't figure out where his judgment was wrong.

But this is not an important matter to him. In the final analysis, there is not much difference between Huo Ling's death and becoming a forbidden woman.

The information that Huo Xiuxiu brought later was not important. Her grandma received some videotapes. Huo Ling—not sure if it was true or not—was crawling on the floor of the Golmud Sanatorium with a few people.

In exchange for this, Wu Xie talked about their experience in Yunding Tiangong, and then Huo Xiuxiu talked about her grandma's nightmare. Once I heard Huo Xiangu's sleep talking: "There is no time."

Huo Xiuxiu then started to investigate. First, she found the video tape, and then she wrote back letters to all the addresses of her grandma that she frequently communicated with:

Ladies and gentlemen, I have dreamed about that incident again recently. For many years, this nightmare has been lingering. I don’t know if my generation is safe. In my old age, I stepped into the coffin with half a foot. I hope I can see you again. I never said it, but now that I think about it, it may be the key. I hope I can talk about it face to face, just as an old friend.

Five months later, a person wrote back: Don't bring up old things again.

This person is Jin Wantang.

Huo Xiuxiu ran to Jin Wantang's shop every day, and obtained Jin Wantang's information by means.

During the largest tomb robbery in history that year, Jin Wantang had a wrong idea and was caught.According to Huo Xiuxiu, that transaction brought terrible memories to Jin Wantang.

Fatty's eyes lit up when he heard this, he sat upright, and asked, "Show me some bragging, the biggest tomb-robbing activity, that must belong to our trip to the Tarim Basin."

Huo Xiuxiu shook her head: "That's not the inversion in your concept, that transaction has already surpassed the so-called concept of tomb robbery."

The fat man was puzzled. Just as Huo Xiuxiu was about to speak, Zhang Qiling said, "The purpose of their robbing the tomb is not for money, but for another person who is still alive."

Huo Xiuxiu thought that Zhang Qiling still remembered, but no, she wondered why Zhang Qiling said it was not for money, Zhang Qiling explained: "Historical necessity."

Indeed, when the money reaches a certain amount, it becomes meaningless. The biggest tomb robbery activity, even if the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is hollowed out, may not be able to make a huge profit. It must be for something more valuable than money.

For example, life.

Jin Wantang started his career by identifying ancient books and books, but was picked by the Huo family and joined the biggest fight of the year.

Jin Wantang recalled that there were more than [-] people involved in this operation, and the equipment was all obtained from the Soviet Union. This is not the most special thing. The most special thing is that there are many participants in this event. It is said that there are nine people in total.

Huo Xiuxiu paused here for a while, showing an expression of "you thought about it too".

Wu Xie rubbed her face: "Impossible?"

"Maybe." Gu Ran said suddenly, "It's the old nine."

Huo Xiuxiu's eyes lit up, and she asked: "Then did you participate in the action back then?"

Gu Ran shook his head, "I had already broken away from Jiumen at that time."

Huo Xiuxiu looked slightly disappointed.

This is just an episode. Whether Gu Ran participated or not, it is not the most important thing to them. The most important thing is who is the leader who can summon the nine schools to fight together.

Jin Wantang was only a specialist in ancient books, and couldn't reveal too many valuable details, so Gu Ran just listened to Huo Xiuxiu's storytelling.

At that time, the Nine Gates had experienced the turmoil after seeing each other and had already fallen apart and wandered all over the place. The ages of the principals were also uneven. For example, Huo Xiangu and Wu Laogou are still in their prime.

This directly led to the fact that the team assembled in the 70s was not a complete nine teams. From the beginning, hidden dangers were planted.

Jin Wantang is a literati, and all he does is translate and sort out silk scripts. There is very little information revealed from him, and there are three things he can be sure of.

First, there is more than one ancient tomb, because the contents of the ancient silk books he was responsible for identifying vary greatly, and there are also differences in age.

Second, the number of teams is often reduced, and there are quarrels from time to time, trying to shirk responsibility for the death of their companions.

Third, basically all the things brought up are ancient books. Jin Wantang suspects that the purpose of their tomb robbery is these books.

Jin Wantang stayed in Sichuan for three years, and he was going crazy. Suddenly, one day, a large group of people came out from the mountains, carrying more than a dozen stretchers, and the camp was in chaos.On the same day, the blood-stained Warring States Lu Huang Silk Book was delivered to Jin Wantang.

All the clues are connected to the Lu Huang Silk Books of the Warring States Period. Siguniang Mountain is here. It may be a book collection pavilion or some other place before the Zhang family. There are all the ones that came down, so it will give Jin Wantang the illusion that there are many ancient tombs here.

Gu Ran guessed that Zhang Qishan and the others should have two goals, one is to find a way to enter the ancient building of the Zhang family, and the other is the Lu Huang Silk Book, which was a huge sacrifice.

The Silk Book of the Warring States Period, pointing to the Royal Palace of Lu, connected all the things about Zhang Wang's family and the longevity of the Queen Mother of the West.At this time, Zhang Qishan had already reasoned with Gu Ran about various possibilities of the Wang family, so naturally he would not let go of any clues related to longevity.It can be said that if it were not for the unearth of this Lu Huang Silk Book, their generation would not have found out the whole matter of the Queen Mother of the West so smoothly.

The organization is using Zhang Qishan to gain longevity, and Zhang Qishan is in turn using the organization to obtain more information for future generations.

Huo Xiuxiu happened to be talking about Jin Wantang's silk scroll.

After the Lu Huang silk book, Jin Wantang was no longer needed. After he translated the silk book, he became selfish and wanted to take it out. The first one went well, and he sewed it into a shoe, but he hadn’t had time to hide the second one. He was called out by the clerk for a body search, and he was exposed in a hurry. He was thoroughly searched and turned over to Jiumen.

He met the tenth person outside the nine gates, who was the leader of this operation.

Before Huo Xiuxiu said anything about it, Gu Ran knew that Jin Wantang met Zhang Qiling.

Zhang Qiling used his two fingers to forcefully press the acupoints on Jin Wantang's head to extract a confession, and interrogated all the silk scripts inside the shoes. big event.

Jin Wantang was very worried about this matter, so when he received the letter from Huo Xiuxiu pretending to be his grandmother, he was frightened to death.

Huo Xiuxiu

This is a suspicious point. Gu Ran recalled it. According to Wu Xie, he was first involved because Jin Wantang sent him a Silk Book of the Warring States Period. From this point of view, Jin Wantang had already been included in Wu Sanxing's plan at this time. Among them, Jin Wantang had no reason to be so afraid of bringing up the old story of Jiumen, and even told Huo Xiuxiu the whole thing.

It's possible that Huo Xiangu did it on purpose.

Huo Xiuxiu knew a lot. As a little girl, she had no reason to extract so much information from Jin Wantang. There was only one possibility, and it was Huo Xiangu's instruction.

This is not surprising, the Huo family has always been headed by women. After Huo Ling disappeared, Huo Xiangu