[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

After waking up, the three of them started to continue their journey along the mountain road. Anyway, it is only this road, and it is not wrong to go straight forward.

The mountain road came to an end, and the three of them could only get into the bushes. They walked towards a mountain peak in front of them. After walking for an unknown amount of time, the scenery in front of them changed. A cliff appeared, and a row of plank roads were built on it.They met a group of locals, and after a long time of dealing with them, a woman was really difficult to deal with, so she simply bought them with money, and then let them show the way, and followed the group to their village to rest and replenish some dry food.

In the evening, Lao Xie was walking, looking around with his eyes dripping, and whispered to Wu Xie: "I have been to this place last time, if I remember correctly, there must be a foothold if I go forward. "

The flaws of the old itchy were exposed for this reason, and Gu Ran could no longer ignore it, and asked in a low voice: "You have been here before, but you don't remember the way ahead, is there such a saying?"

The old tickled his neck and said, "It was three years ago when I came here last time. They all look the same in the forest. I forgot. I only remembered it when I saw this."

Gu Ran snorted and ignored him, but Wu Xie's doubts were buried in Wu Xie's heart.

After walking forward for a while, as the old tick said, a wooden hut of a herb picker appeared, and a group of people spent the night here.The three lit a fire to keep warm and roasted dry food to eat.It was getting dark, and there were wild animals screaming outside. According to the words of the village party secretary, we had to take turns to keep vigil at night, so that the fire could not be extinguished, or the wild animals would come in.

With that group of local people around, the vigil for each shift was not long, so Gu Ran let Wu Xie go to bed first, and he would go to the next shift that guarded Wu Xie, and would wake him up when the time came.Actually, Gu Ran didn't intend to wake Wu Xie up. With his energy, it's not a problem to keep two shifts, but Wu Xie's small body can't help tossing, it's better to let him have a good rest.

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In the middle of the night, Gu Ran suddenly heard a voice. Before it was time to change shifts, he opened his eyes and saw that it was Old Itchy calling Wu Xie to get up.Gu Ran glanced over, the old itchy movements froze in place, and then stammered: "Gu, Gu Ran, why are you awake?"

Wu Xie was also woken up at this time. Seeing that he was about to scold, Lao Xie quickly covered his mouth and said, "Don't talk, come with me."

Gu Ran glanced at the two of them, then put on his coat and stood up, making a gesture to go with them.Lao Xie was afraid of waking up the others, so he didn't dare to make it public, so he could only let Gu Ran follow.

Old Itching took the lead and walked for 10 minutes before stopping. He used a shovel to poke the ground under his feet, "This is it." He explained that when he came last time, his old cousin sneaked in to bury something in the middle of the night and asked him to bury something. I found it, and this time I just dug it out to have a look.

Gu Ran has always felt that this old itchy guy is full of lies. It is not known whether the old cousin in his mouth is real or not, maybe he buried it here himself.

Lao You started to dig with the shovel, and started digging very slowly. He was afraid of waking up the villagers. Gu Ran looked at it twice, but he was really impatient before he said: "Just dig, I can hear them if there is any movement. Only then did Lao You start to shovel quickly, and after digging for 10 minutes, he found something, and took out a stick-shaped object from the pit.

The old itchy wiped the thing, his face changed, "Damn it, it turned out to be this thing."

It was a bronze vessel with a green patina, with obvious fractures, sawn from another bronze vessel.

Lao You said to Wu Xie: "This is the bronze branch I told you about. Unexpectedly, my old cousin saw off this thing secretly."

When Gu Ran took this thing out of Lao You, he felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart. He directly reached out and took the bronze branch in Lao You's hand, touched the texture on it, and suddenly a picture appeared in his mind, as if Somebody stood on top of a bronze tree, pouring his blood down.His blood seemed to flow endlessly, flowing all over the trunk.

Gu Ran only felt a sharp pain in the head, and he quickly threw the bronze branch back to Old Itchy, standing aside without speaking.

Seeing that Gu Ran took the bronze branch, Wu Xie's complexion became unsightly, and he asked in a low voice, "Gu Ran, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Ran shook his head, because of the old itching, he pointed to his head and said nothing.

Wu Xie understood, Gu Ran probably remembered something when he saw the bronze branch, so he didn't ask any further.

The three of them returned to the camp, Wu Xie and Lao Xie lost sleepiness, added some firewood to the campfire, and began to sit and chat.Gu Ran listened to it from the sidelines. Although the old itchy words were half-truths and half-false, they were not all made up.If it was true as he said, the old cousin became insane after going to Qinling and hid the bronze branches, then it can only show that this thing has an impact on people's spirit.

This is very possible. According to the information Wu Xie brought back, this bronze tree is the wishing tree of the ancient She country. In today's words, it is a sacrificial vessel. These ancient countries have more or less mysteries The elements of the ritual cannot be speculated with scientific thinking. It is common sense that the sacrificial things will have an impact on people.

What Gu Ran was thinking about was the fragment that he suddenly recalled when he touched the bronze branch.If it was really his memory, then either the person bleeding in the picture was himself, or someone he had met.

Logically speaking, the outline of a person appeared in his memory, it should be someone else he saw, but he just had an intuition that this was himself.He also used this bronze tree as a sacrifice.

But why would he do this?Where did he get so much blood?

According to Gu Ran's memory, that person might want to drain all the blood from his body.

Although there are still many doubts now, Gu Ran has at least confirmed one thing: this bronze tree has a lot to do with his memory. It was the first time in 70 years that he had so many broken memories. This was before he went to the Bronze Tree. Maybe he could piece together a complete memory when he got to the Bronze Tree.

Gu Ran didn't want himself to be so obsessed with the past, he forced himself not to think about it, and fell asleep leaning against the wall.

They set off early the next morning and walked for more than five hours. In the afternoon, they crossed the Snakehead Mountain and arrived at a small village.Lao Xie said that he had been here before, and took Wu Xie and Gu Ran to find the villager who boarded last time.

The doubts in Gu Ran's heart became more and more serious. Since the old itchy has been here, why are there so many places in front of him that he doesn't know the way?It was as if the old itchy glanced at him, and the memory was broken piece by piece.

The behavior behind Lao You deepened Gu Ran's guess. Lao You said that to go to the sacrificial pit, he had to pass through a Jiazigou. Can't remember the direction.Even in three years, many things have been forgotten, but it is not so completely forgotten.

Obviously, after being reminded by Gu Ran the night before, Wu Xie also has the same doubts now.He and Gu Ran looked at each other, saw the same expression in each other's eyes, and tacitly decided not to puncture it first, but to let the old itch pass.

The village party secretary introduced old man Liu, an old hunter in the village, to them, but old man Liu shook his head and said, "No, I can't go to Jiazigou at this time."

Wu Xie was puzzled after hearing this, and asked: "Why can't you go into the mountains? It's a good time for hunting now that autumn is crisp and clear. If you don't go in at this time, when can you go in?"

Old man Liu said: "This season, the mountains are very evil and haunted. I'm over 80 years old, so I won't lie to you. The place in Jiazigou is actually a plank road for ghost soldiers. If you run into them, use the path , then I have to pick it up by the way, it's very evil to be seduced by the soul."

Yin Bing excused, Gu Ran thought about it for a while, it was interesting.Gu Ran has only heard of the saying that Yin soldiers make excuses, but he has never actually seen it. He just knows that this thing is indeed evil. If Qin Ling really has Yin soldiers to make excuses, it will be a bit troublesome.

Old man Liu made up his mind not to go to Jiazigou, Wu Xie didn't ask much, just asked him to show the way.This is also in line with Gu Ran's wishes, if something really happens, he can still barely protect Lao You and Wu Xie, and adding an old man in his 80s is really too much of a hindrance.

Old man Liu also talked about the Yellow Spring Waterfall and the Northern Wei Army. Gu Ran just thought about it and didn't think about it. It's a legend that has gone through a lot of demonization, and the credibility is not high.

Old man Liu gave Wu Xie some pickled meat dishes, and the three of them bought some dry food to take with them. The bag was full of food for ten days, and they rested for a whole day before going back on the road.The seven-day hiking trip did not put a lot of pressure on Gu Ran. After all, Wu Xie and Old Itching were not physically strong enough to walk fast, and Wu Xie and Old Itching were already exhausted.

The first three days were fine, the two of them were still able to travel at a normal speed, they walked for three days with their heads buried, eating dry food and resting in the open air, it was impossible to replenish their lost physical strength, so Gu Ran simply took the bag from Wu Xie Carrying it, Wu Xie and Lao You took turns to carry Lao Itchy's bag, and the weight was reduced by more than ten catties, which made it easier.

Seven days later, the three of them saw the top of Tianmen Mountain and found the shadow of Jiazigou.After walking for a long time, they climbed up the short ridge, and the three of them arrived at the foot of Tianmen Mountain, the starting point of Jiazigou.The three of them stopped not far from the entrance. It took half a day to pass through the Jiazigou, and the draft inside was so strong that it was inconvenient to light a fire. They decided to take a break outside and eat something.

Wu Xie and Lao You were heating up the pickles, when Gu Ran heard the sound of animals, looked up, and saw a bunch of monkeys approaching not far from them, Gu Ran picked up a handful of stones from the ground and threw them over. Five monkeys were knocked down from the tree and screamed.

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