Where do tomb robbers meet in their lives?

Zhangjialou, Guangxi, Old Nine Gates!

Maybe I was a little confused a moment ago, but when Mrs. Huo mentioned this, I suddenly understood!

According to what Qi Yu told me before, our family once sponsored the teenagers of the Zhang family to explore the ancient city of Sizhou. After finding the patriarch's token, we found that the real Shuanglong half-ring jade was in the ancient building of the Zhang family, and that ancient building was In Guangxi!

In an instant, countless thoughts flooded my mind, which made me overwhelmed.

After September [-], almost all the elites of the Liang family were killed or injured.The black hands hiding behind the scenes had to seek other people to dig out the secrets of the Zhang family. The so-called "other people" were Lao Jiumen.

The competition for the ultimate secret has turned into a stalemate between several parties when the Nine Gates intervenes.

The descendants of Wang Zanghai who want to snatch the secrets of the Zhang family, the Zhang family who want to find the family roots, other forces who are halfway involved and attracted by the ultimate secret, and the Liang family who regard the millennium agreement as their spiritual pillar, all these people It is necessary to find the Zhang family's secrets in various ways - the ultimate!

Secret clues, mostly buried in the ground.They are divided into two main parts: one is the ultimate record related to the Zhang family. The Zhang family has a very long history, so there will be information related to them scattered in ancient tombs everywhere.The other one is related to Wang Zanghai.After he escaped from Dongxia, he sorted out his experiences and some clues at hand, and buried them in different ancient cemeteries.

The search for clues made Jiumen fall in.

This is a quagmire, and once you're stuck in it, it's hard to get out of it.

Qi Yu said: In this struggle for the ultimate, Lao Jiumen stands in an awkward position.

Because they are being used, they appear to be very passive. The closer they are to the ultimate, the harder it is for them to escape. This kind of involuntary and even passed down from generation to generation, as long as they are related to this secret, they must continue to serve 'it' and will not end.

But now a party's forces have infiltrated into the Cultural Bureau, and they even found the ancient building of the Zhang Family through some means!

I heard from Mrs. Huo that her daughter's temperament changed drastically after returning from Guangxi, and she became nervous and highly nervous all day long.Just when she was about to have a good talk with her daughter, this daughter named Huo Ling disappeared suddenly.

Wait, Huo Ling?

I took a deep breath while listening.Hey, Mama Zhang seems to have mentioned that there was an archaeologist named Huo Ling in the underwater tomb?

By the way, I heard Qi Yu say that in the Xisha operation 20 years ago, almost all the people in the team came from the descendants of the old nine sects. It seems that this is absolutely true.Qi Yu also joined in as the head of our family because of his special status.

As a result, the Xisha archaeological team declared the failure of the operation by mysteriously disappearing.

I heard Mrs. Huo say this, and combined with Qi Yu's narration, I judged that her daughter is really in a very dangerous situation!That force in the dark wants to protect Zhang family's end even if they slaughter my whole family. How could they hold their hands high against a girl?

It's not good, it's really not good.

However, I decided to keep silent.

Wu Xie doesn't know the connection between my family and the Zhang family, and I don't intend to talk about it with Mrs. Huo. I sit here as if I'm listening to a story that has nothing to do with me. After listening to it, I have an explanation.What we want to think about is how to get Qilin exhausted.

It's a pity that I underestimated Wu Xie's ability.

He waited for Mrs. Huo's narration to come to an end, and immediately said: "Grandma Huo, the things you said seem to be related to what happened to us recently. Can I ask you a few questions? If there is a connection, explain , what happened to me is somewhat related to what happened to your daughter."

When he said this, Mrs. Huo was quite surprised, and looked at him very seriously: "You ask."

"Mother-in-law, is your daughter's disappearance related to an archaeological activity in Xisha?"

Sure enough, he still thought of the little brother's exploration!

I sighed secretly.

Brother Wu, sometimes smart people don’t necessarily have good results, why do you have to talk about these things with an old woman?Can't we listen to everything as a nostalgic story...

But I know Wu Xie's character too well. Once he gets serious, there is almost nothing that can make him give up.It is this kind of personality that he will go to such a dangerous place in Qinling for me, isn't it?And now everything is related to what the little brother is exploring, how could he let it go so easily?

It's just that he doesn't know that these things are also closely related to me.

Perhaps this is the fate that people often say.When I planned to hide everything and keep Wu Xie out of the matter, something would always happen, leading him in this direction.

Mrs. Huo's expression changed drastically, and she asked him how he knew.

Wu Xie thought about it and told us what happened in Xisha Haidou. When the younger brother talked about what happened 20 years ago, Mrs. Huo's lips moved a few times, and her eyes changed .

"Are you telling the truth?" Her voice trembled.

Wu Xie nodded firmly: "It's guaranteed to be true."

"Where is he now?"

"It's in the yard."

She stood up suddenly, and the agility of an old man was enough to explain the excitement in her heart.

"I want to see him."

The little brother came in with the fat man.

Wu Xie patted the younger brother on the shoulder, and said to Mrs. Huo: "That's him." He seemed to want to explain something to the younger brother just as he opened his mouth, and I saw the old lady Huo slowly walking towards the younger brother with the support of Huo Xiuxiu.

The expression revealed on her face is difficult to describe, it cannot be simply described as shock, it is a stronger and more moving expression than the continuation of shock.Her eyes were fixed on the little brother, and when she walked in front of him, she stretched out her trembling hand and grabbed his, carefully observing his unusual fingers.

Afterwards, she made a move that shocked us all.

She knelt down in front of my brother!

Huo Xiuxiu, who was waiting for her beside her, had to kneel down with her grandma with a look of confusion and surprise.

For a moment the air was filled with silent shock.

The fat man was the first to react, and he stared at us, and said to us: "No, this old lady is a rice dumpling!" Xie raised his eyebrows: "Wu Liang, what kind of sorcery did you use? This trick is effective enough, you can defeat others without fighting!"

Only then did Wu Xie come to his senses, with a helpless look on his face: "Grandma, what are you doing?" He wanted to help, but the old lady seemed to be kneeling firmly on the ground, and even Huo Xiuxiu didn't dare to get up.

I couldn't sit still anymore, so I stood beside my brother and said to him: "Brother Zhang...you... know each other?"

The little brother's performance can be regarded as a model of calmness. He stood unmoved like a sculpture, and he shook his head calmly at me when I asked him.

This situation was really an embarrassment, but fortunately Wu Xie and the fat man were very clever, they went up at the same time and almost forcibly helped the old lady up.After helping her to sit down, the fat man tried to ease the atmosphere with a joke: "Old lady, have you never seen such a majestic finger? What are you doing? It's the 21st century, we can't use the old manners, okay? You are not afraid to play like this Our knees hurt and we are afraid of shortening our lives."

Mrs. Huo acted as if she had never heard of it, and said to her younger brother, "Do you remember me?"

The little brother still looked at her calmly, without giving any answer.If it was normal, he would never treat the three of us like this. If he didn't intend to talk to you, he wouldn't even look at you, but his eyes always fell on this old lady.

It's a defensive gesture.

He refuses to communicate, but is very vigilant.

"Brother..." I wanted to say something to ease the atmosphere.But after I called him, he suddenly took a step forward and stood in front of me.

It's not a very offensive gesture, but it speaks volumes.

This time even Wu Xie felt something was wrong.The atmosphere suddenly became a bit hostile. He walked up to the little brother and stood side by side with him, while the fat man stood on the other side. For a moment, there was a wall of three people in front of me.

I saw that although Xiaoyu was sitting, his hands were carelessly touching the whip beside him.

what happened?

Mrs. Huo looked at us in silence for a while, then sighed suddenly.

She was lying on her back on the back of the wooden chair with tears in her eyes.

"You must not remember anything. Also, if you remembered me, you wouldn't be so polite to me."

Wu Xie couldn't help asking: "Mother-in-law, do you know each other?"

She closed her eyes, let the tears fall slowly, and said: "It's more than just acquaintance. As soon as I recognized him just now, I knew what happened to my daughter." There was a self-deprecating smile on her face. , I realized that she was already an old man, helpless and powerless.

"Xiao Ling, it seems that Grandma hurt you. Retribution, really retribution. To this day, what we did at that time has turned into karma and retaliated against the younger generations."

I couldn't bear to see her sorrow, but my little brother still stood calmly, unmoved.

Huo Xiuxiu comforted at the side: "Grandma, the Nine Schools have been passed down for so many years, and many of them have prospered. I don't think it looks like retribution. Some coincidences should be accidents. You don't have to be too fateful."

Mrs. Huo shook her head, as if she was talking to herself: "Actually, there are no old nine sects. Times have changed, and things happen one after another. At the beginning, we fantasized about facing all problems with a group, but When the decision really comes, the facts will let you know how much the so-called loyalty and unity can withstand the test. In the old society, there was still morality, and there were rivers and lakes. Black-backed Lao Liu could keep a street with a knife , In those few years, everything was gone, we never thought that people could be so bad. The points that everyone deserves should be scattered."

A feeling of sadness welled up in my heart.

What I hurt was not those old nine families that Mrs. Huo had never met.

I thought about my family.

After wars, betrayals, family annihilation, plots, persecutions and endless nights, the former Liang family is still lingering, even to the point where it is today.

The 100-year era of great changes has washed away the entire Nine Gates. All the people are no longer the people of the time, and all the things are no longer the current affairs.

But what about our Liang family?We have survived a long 1000 years with the Zhang family, haven't we?

Now I finally understand the predicament of Qi Yu's so-called "falling into the mud", the so-called "losing everything, and having to struggle to climb inch by inch"!

I looked at Mrs. Huo's sad face, and the afternoon when my grandfather listened to my poems came to my mind.

At that moment, was his heart also filled with grief that he could not confide in?

And Zhang Qiling standing in front of me now, as if all his expressions had been washed away, only silence remained in his eyes.

Maybe a person who has seen too much, even if he loses his memory, can't relieve him. Those emotions have left deep marks in his heart. Even if the memory is constantly washed, the feeling remains.This kind of trace tormented him, urging him to search for the painful memories of the past, and then leave more new traces.

I bowed my head silently.

What a cruel cycle.

I suddenly understood the importance of that promise from our family—

"Take this secret to the emperor. If the dynasty changes in the future...my descendants will come back again, and let our descendants work together to bury these two secrets back to where they belonged."

Fulfill the previous agreement and let everything return to the original place!

Until now I have not realized the importance of commitment, it is more biased towards a legend, a puzzle.And now, it's a mission.

The alchemist said: "The country will be restless."

What a prophecy!

When he realized this problem, was he blaming himself for sowing the seeds of the plague?So he did not hesitate to make this solemn oath with the craftsman to join his descendants.If he knew that this promise has tortured his descendants for more than 1000 years like a curse, would he still do it?

At this moment, all the thoughts came to torment my mind.

There was a dead silence all around.

Everyone seemed to be silent in their own thoughts and couldn't extricate themselves.

After a long time, Wu Xie said: "Grandma Huo, I know it may not be appropriate to mention this at this time, but I still want to know what's going on?"

Mrs. Huo was silent for a while before slowly opening her mouth: "Boy, you are very honest with me, but you are a descendant of Old Dog Wu. We swore back then that we would all rot this matter in our stomachs. Of course, now this The oath is not so important anymore, but I don't want to talk about it, unless he wants to know, I will say it."

Wu Xie looked at the younger brother.

The old lady also looked at the younger brother with a complicated expression: "Do you want to know?"

The little brother turned his head to look at me.

I was a little surprised that he would come to see me at this time, and I didn't know how to react for a while.Fortunately, he just glanced at me, not knowing what to confirm, and finally shook his head at Mrs. Huo.

Wu Xie looked at him in surprise, and asked at almost the same time as Mrs. Huo: "You don't want to know?"

He replied very simply: "I don't believe you." Then he pointed to the glass cover not far away: "Wu Xie, we are here to exhaust the unicorn."

After speaking, he looked at Mrs. Huo as before, as if waiting for her answer.

At this time, Mrs. Huo had completely lost the majesty she gave us when she came here. She leaned on the chair extremely tired, and after a while, said: "Xiuxiu, give them the unicorn."

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Sister Liang has awakened since she escaped!