Chapter 15 Chapter Five: The Mystery of the Life Experience of Tang Qiang, the Tomb Raider

"Are you tired?" Fang Xing's voice suddenly added a touch of tenderness. I shook my head, walked to the window, pulled out a strand of wet waterweed, and smelled the pungent muddy smell.If the river overflows again, I don’t know if the top of the fifth floor is a safe place to hide. We thought we had found a way out through the dark river, but unexpectedly we fell into desperation again. "How much oxygen is consumed?" I saw the diving suits thrown away on the steps. At this moment, Tang Qiang and Wuqing were sitting next to each other, with Wuqing's head resting on his lap, as if he had fallen asleep.

Fang Xing looked down, with a sly smile on his lips: "Mine, more than half of it is consumed; Miss Ruthless, there should be less than one-fifth left, what about yours? Moreover, there are four of us this time, and we cannot rely on three Diving again with only the oxygen tank. I believe that there will be a water outlet under the calm water surface, otherwise this space would have been filled long ago." Of course I understand this, but the water surface is so flat that there is not even a striking vortex. It can be seen that the vent is far away from the stratosphere of the water surface, at least fifteen meters below.Without enough oxygen, we would all drown alive after a dive of fifteen meters.Now, the only thing that can be counted on is the robbery hole that Tang Qiang entered here.

Fang Xing seemed to see through my thoughts: "Mr. Shen, I know that Tang Qiang is known as the most powerful gravedigger in the 21st century, can he take us out?" She took out the tightly wrapped pistol from her pocket, Uncovering the waterproof bag, he smiled softly, "Well, as long as it is there, I will feel at ease. Gods block and kill gods, and Buddhas block and kill Buddhas." The gun is her calming agent, but also a talisman, just like my throwing knife. The internal size of this building is ten meters square. There are no separate rooms, but five layers of huge stone slabs stacked up. The walls are not brick or concrete structures, but vertically supported stone slabs. Windows and doorways are directly Cut from slate.

From a certain point of view, the building is more like an exquisite work of art carved out of a whole block of stone, but who in the world can possess such ingenious means and supernatural power? "It's really a strange house. If it wasn't for that, how could it be called the 'five-fold ghost building'?" Fang Xing breathed out as if he was relieved after checking the bullets, turned around to look around the hall on the fifth floor, and suddenly frowned. , "God, the stairs we just passed are all suspended in the air? Mr. Shen, after standing here, I really feel like I am in a castle in the air?"

Her description is right, we are like two ants that strayed into the model of human architecture. Although everything looks like a "building", it is not a real stable building in the real world. I nodded, indicating that I felt the same way.Sometimes, we can empathize with each other without words, which is really a very delicate thing. "Is there no mention of this in Mai Yi's information?" I inadvertently brought up this topic again. "No, it may be due to the limited authority. The information only mentions the big clock that can be blown up, and nothing else. Of course, it doesn't mention the feline killer beast. Mr. Shen, I am not lying, to this point , What's the point of lying to me?" She took my gaze as suspicion, and immediately defended with a frank smile.

Fang Xing is a very beautiful and very charming girl, even when she is a little embarrassed after a long-distance escape, she can still be called a "big beauty".Beauty is also one of her weapons, as indispensable as her stealth skills and outstanding marksmanship. I lowered my eyes: "I didn't say you were lying—" Anyone can lie, but at this point, no amount of falsehood can do me any harm. Looking back, I came here because Tang Qiang and Wuqing disappeared in the ghost tomb in the desert. Fang Xing helped me as much as possible during the journey, and then we entered Madman Town smoothly.As a long series of killings unfolded, Fang Xing and I fell into the ghost tomb, and met Ruthless again until we arrived at this five-level ghost building in an extremely weird way.My goal has basically been achieved, and I also saw Tang Qiang and Wuqing who needed rescue, but they didn't seem to need anyone's rescue.

Next, the most important task is to get out of the predicament and fly directly back to Hong Kong Island. "Mr. Shen, do you have a strange premonition? This place seems familiar?" Fang Xing lay on the window sill, staring at the white-hanging waterfall for a long time. I froze for a moment: "How?" Fang Xing inserted his ten fingers into his hair and combed it vigorously, as if to smooth his thoughts.There have been so many strange hallucinations in her memory, maybe this is the beginning of another hallucination? "I've been here - I mean, I've been inside this weird building that's just a toy overlooked by a giant that can be toppled in an instant, thrown into the air, thrown into the water or even like a football Being kicked around. And I, with a certain belief, calmly sinking in the bottom of the water, waiting for a certain moment to come."

She narrated slowly, subconsciously looking down at her feet. "Let's go, let's ask Tang Qiang and leave as soon as possible." Here, the four people are clearly divided into two parties. Fang Xing and I belong to the side that lives and dies together, while Tang Qiang stands with Wuqing. "I know what he's going to tell you. Open the underground palace. The underground palace is under the five-layered ghost building and is covered by two stone slabs with brass handles. Now, there is someone waiting for us to enter in the underground palace. The corridor leading there is blocked by a mechanism, which requires a very strange way of opening—"

"Papa", Tang Qiang's applause interrupted Fang Xing's narration, with an extinguished cigarette butt in the corner of his mouth, and an admiring smile appeared on his thin face. "Miss Fang, what you said is right. Only Shen Nan can open that mechanism. Before that, we need to open another chessboard mechanism together. In short, in order to survive, we must do our best to unite together, regardless of division. Help each other, don't you?" He smiled deeply and was very strange, because this was not the Tang Qiang I was familiar with, but another cunning and well-established stranger.

"What's in the underground palace?" I asked indifferently, deliberately ignoring Wuqing who was leaning on Tang Qiang's arms. "Alone, and there is a secret about my life experience. Shen Nan, just treat it as helping me this time, okay? I know I told a lot of lies, and I set up a trap to lure you here, including ruthlessness is also a part of it." , but I have no malicious intentions. You have also seen that there are so many gold treasures hidden by red dragons under the ghost tomb. As long as we are willing, after large-scale desert mining, we will be able to take them away and become your common property. "

Tang Qiang was a little embarrassed. After all, it is not very face-saving to admit to lying in front of everyone. I have a lot of questions I want to know the answer to, such as that strange black stone, such as the whereabouts of the black bloodworm... But I didn't ask anything, I just waved my hand wearily: "Okay, let's go down." In this case, doing is more important than talking, and you can see the results of things earlier. Fang Xing wanted to interrupt, but Tang Qiang was already laughing and came over to hold my hand and walked downstairs.Ruthlessly fell behind, and Yu Fangxing walked side by side, and everyone quickly returned to the back of the stairs on the first floor. There stood a square column with a side length of more than one meter, which was in the very center of the ghost building.There is a sunken stone niche on each of the four facades of the pillar. Inside is a chessboard with twelve horizontal and vertical rows filled with red and white chess pieces, which is exactly the same as the design in the ghost tomb. "When the red pieces are precisely arranged as a red cross in the center of the chessboard, the passage to the underground secret room will be opened. Last time, I have tried it, and it needs four people to operate at the same time, and the timing and actions must be consistent." Tang Qiang's fingers were in the As the chess pieces brushed past one by one, his face suddenly darkened. Fang Xing immediately interjected: "Where are the other three people? Have you killed them?" She picked up a red chess piece from the nearest chessboard, rubbed it gently with her fingertips, and sneered repeatedly. Tang Qiang replied without hesitation: "Yes, even my own brother is unreliable in the business of looting tombs and treasures. Sometimes, I can only save myself by killing. I don't kill others. Only myself can be killed in the desert." .” What he said is the most common phenomenon in this industry.A gentleman is not guilty, but he is guilty if he is pregnant. When a big action is in sight, unexpected internal strife is most likely to occur.Everyone wants to monopolize the results, and there are many collective actions, and in the end there is only one victorious thief. "Hehehehe—" Fang Xing sneered again, threw the chess piece back on the board, crossed his arms, and looked at me coldly. I really wanted to say something, but in the end I said nothing and walked slowly to the back of the pillar.At least so far, I still consider Tang Qiang to be my good friend. For so many years, we have not had any exchanges of interests, and most of them are just ordinary friends of gentlemen.This time, I will not intervene in the distribution of benefits during the operation, I just want to end everything as soon as possible and return to the ground. "Mr. Shen, maybe everyone should sit down and talk about the distribution of benefits first, what do you think?" Fang Xing did not give up his idea, and followed me with a very serious expression. Tang Qiang laughed loudly: "Miss Fang, there are no visible benefits here, but something related to my life experience. Shen Nan, I remember when we just made friends, you promised that one day you would do your best to help me uncover the mystery of my life experience." , remember?" He crossed his arms and folded his hands under his armpits.I know that his weapon has always been hidden in that position, and this posture is also the easiest state to launch an attack. I nodded solemnly: "I remember." Back then, Tang was shot by the highly poisonous "Qingyanghuo" in the ancient tombs of ethnic minorities in the Northwest. He had a high fever for ten days and ten nights, and was forced to hide in the freezer to cool down. It was Leng Qi who sent him to my home. Only after detoxification, medication, and self-cultivation can the body return to its original state.During that time, we became friends, and Master Fapan's prophecy that he "was born and died in a tomb robbery" also aroused my curiosity. He said he was an orphan and had been trying to discover his origins.At that time, we played chess and drank in the small building, and we made a covenant like this - "If I need help one day, I will do my best." "Just remember, Shen Nan. I know that the mystery of my life experience lies below. I have known you for so long, and I have never begged you. Now I still won't beg you. Everything depends on your willingness." Tang Qiang's attitude was neither humble nor overbearing. There was no overreaction to Fang Xing's cold provocation. I stroked this moss-stained stone pillar, feeling more and more heavy. Tang Qiang committed murder more than once, and he himself admitted that there were about nine times in the Asian continent, about thirty times in Europe and Africa, and as many as fifty times in North and South America.Tomb robbery is betting against God with his own life. He can only believe in himself, instead of living by morality and benevolence. "Where's Leng Qi?" I asked lightly. He and Leng Qi have always used "above ground and underground" as the boundary, and each time they agreed on a clear division of labor in advance, they never entered the tomb at the same time.Only in this way can they trust each other and cooperate sincerely without suspicion of each other. Tang Qiang's face became more gloomy: "Shen Nan, do you want to listen to the truth, or is it a lie?" The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense, Fang Xing and Wuqing took a step back at the same time, because Tang Qiang burst out with endless murderous aura instantly. "Truth." I remained calm, as calm as ever. "He wanted to get the secret before me, so I had to order people to hunt him down. Fortunately, he had good escape skills and successfully escaped six times, but the killers I hired were all experienced Iraqis. There are more than forty underworld masters. With Leng Qi's ability, it is impossible to kill all forty people, he must die, and he must die." Tang Qiang seemed to be telling other people's stories, but Leng Qi and him They worked together for four years and brought him back from the brink of death five times. "I thought you were good brothers who could depend on your life." I couldn't say more.Leng Qi called. He may never have thought that the person who chased him was sent by his good brother Tang Qiang. "This is the rivers and lakes. In order to protect yourself, you can only sacrifice others." Tang Qiang didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed. "Do you mean that whoever touches your secret will die?" I unconsciously grabbed a large handful of round white chess pieces and looked at the small holes on the cross line. "I don't know, I just know that the secret is too important to me. Once it is leaked, I will have no face to walk out of here alive. In order to continue to live, I can only kill everyone who knows." Tang Qiang smiled wryly, as if killing someone As far as he is concerned, it has become a kind of assembly line operation program, which has to be done and cannot be controlled by himself. Fang Xing was really smart. He loaded the bullets in the revolver when he was on the top floor, so he could draw the gun and fight immediately, and he would not fall to the disadvantage of others.She and Tang Qiang are both masters of anticipation. If there is a slight disturbance, they will think of the imminent battle first and prepare in advance. Only people who have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time and have no sense of security for a long time will be so sensitive. "I'll help you, but you have to promise, if Miss Fang and I don't want to touch your secret, you stop killing people, how about that?" This is the limit of my patience. "What did Miss Fang say?" Tang Qiang raised his head and looked at Fang Xing calmly. "Whatever Mr. Shen said, I will do." Fang Xing withdrew his hand that was in his pocket, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, confirming that the danger was over. "Okay." Tang Qiang ended this life-and-death probing confrontation with one word. I'm not afraid to fight anyone, but I don't want to see my throwing knife nailed to my good friend's Adam's apple. Each of the four people occupies one direction of the column, and arranges red chess pieces on the chessboard to form a cross in advance, leaving only the middle one. The Tang gun counts from ten to one, and at the same time fills in the chess pieces on the fingertips. .At first, nothing happened in the hall. After about fifteen seconds, there was a "creak", and the column suddenly moved to the side, revealing two dry and clean stone slabs below. Fang Xing was about to rush forward to touch the copper ring in the depression on the stone slab, but my gaze swept him away, and he stopped abruptly. Tang Qiang leaned down, grabbed the two copper rings, and with a strong lift, moved the two stone slabs away at the same time.Below is a steep and extended stone step, and the extremely heavy humidity blows towards his face, making Fang Xing frown. "It's right below, please follow me." Tang Qiang walked down ahead. After descending twenty steps, we were presented with a deep corridor, about five meters wide, with stone niches on both sides covered with phosphorescent moss, which served as a source of illumination. "Miss Fang's complexion is not very good?" Tang Qiang and Wu Qing walked in front, Fang Xing was the only one he was most concerned about and worried about. Fang Xing snorted, leaned towards me, and held my left arm tightly. At the end of the corridor, it suddenly became clear that in front of us was a square hall with a square meter of 20 meters and a height of more than five meters, and the corridor was facing a stone wall covered with dense light spots. "This is it—" Tang Qiang took a deep breath and strode into the hall. On the walls on the left and right sides, neatly chiseled stone niches, nine horizontally and three vertically, twenty-seven on each wall. "Shen Nan, I told you about the situation here, but I made a small correction to the location. On the left are mummies made of various small animals, and on the right are the stones that were sent to you. Now, you can browse Let's take a look around, and then let's work together to open that door, how about it?" He pointed gloomyly at the stone wall glowing with light, and unconsciously, his brows furrowed again. "There are twelve vertical and horizontal paths, with a total of 144 light sources. This is a top-level access control system made by European optical experts. Only by blocking the leaking route of the light source in an instant can the internal light kinetic energy be gathered and the switch opened. Mr. Tang , Let me tell you the truth, this kind of door requires quite complicated means to open, and with the strength of the four of us, it is impossible to do it." Fang Xing is an expert in unlocking and opening doors, and he stood in front of the stone wall for ten seconds, and has already reported it. of origin. Coincidentally, Tang Qiang sent me a document two years ago about this latest system called "Urban Protector". "It's not bad at all, but we've come here, we have to open it. Shen Nan, have you figured out a way?" Tang Qiang looked at me with a smile, but ignored the embarrassment on my face. Tang Qiang sent me the information to ask me to help him find a way to open the door. At that time, he thought it was just a wisdom test question, but now he finally understands that he has been here two years in advance, rather than the so-called "expedition trapped". "Very well, you've been lying to me all this time? And it's deliberate and unscrupulous—" I don't want to say any more.No matter how others treat me, I just want to achieve "a gentleman breaks up friendship and makes no bad noises". Tang Qiang shrugged his shoulders: "I am also helpless. You are the only person I admire. If you give up, this door will never be opened, and those old accounts can only be buried inside." He approached the stone wall, pressed his palms on it, and immediately blocked a few spots of light, but after a few seconds, the spots of light came out from the back of his hand indistinctly, with an intensity unmatched by ordinary light sources. penetration. Fang Xing stood in front of the wall on the right, looking at the black slate paintings one by one, fell into absolute silence for a while, and completely focused on them. The left wall is like a small animal specimen display stand, and the corpses of various cats, owls, snakes, lizards, and mice are placed in the stone niches.The fur on their bodies has not been removed, and they still maintain a lifelike posture. "Mr. Shen, come and see here, isn't the painting on this stone just—" She stopped in time and swallowed the following sentence. Tang Qiang spread his palms, and smiled melancholy but still freely: "Visit casually, please take a look casually, I hope you are interested in these things." I stared at him deeply, and suddenly smiled bitterly along with him: "Tang Qiang, I haven't recognized you for so many years. It is said in medical books that a good doctor cannot be self-governing. Now I finally believe this sentence. This time , will be the last of us to go together, from now on, I don't have a friend like you." The only friend who betrayed and plotted against me should be my biggest failure since I moved to Hong Kong Island. "I don't have a second way to go. Who calls this huge Hong Kong Island, there is only one Shen Nan." Tang Qiang became sad, and put his arms around Ruqing's shoulders, with a hint of shame in his eyes, "I invite you to come here for the sake of design. I even want my beloved woman to change her identity to approach you and seduce you. In the past two years, every time I go to bed or wake up, the first thing I think of is how to please you quietly. Shen Nan, I do After reading so much, I just want to see the secret behind that door. A person can't live forever without knowing who his real parents are, or where he came from..." I raised my hand to signal him to stop talking, and walked to Fang Xing in silence. Fang Xing pointed to a triangular stone painting: "Mr. Shen, does this look like Little Living Buddha Dacuo?" On the screen, a short and thin monk with a bald head was wearing a monastic robe that was too big to look like, sitting cross-legged and holding a round bowl in both hands. Between his eyebrows and eyes, he vaguely looked like Dacuo's immature appearance.Behind him, a broad-backed broadsword came down from mid-air, aiming right at his neck. "I feel that the one who left this slate painting is someone who saw Dacuo with his own eyes, what do you think?" Fang Xing couldn't help reaching out to touch the painting, but I blocked it in time.The tragic and terrifying scene of Dacuo and others being poisoned is still in front of me. I can't let Fang Xing easily follow in their footsteps. In the stone niche adjacent to the triangular slate painting, there is a round slab of stone, on which is a picture of a shaggy man with a bare upper body, holding a big knife ferociously and arrogantly, facing three people who are sitting on the ground in a state of embarrassment. Fang Xing suddenly sighed softly: "This painting seems to be related to the one in your home. Isn't the man holding on to the flying knife and the woman hooking the jade ring the same as the two we have seen? The third person, look He looks like a living Buddha again, but with his back on his back, so you can’t see his appearance, but the fat monk robe is exactly the same." The stone that Tang Qiang sent me was neglected by me. It was because of the poisoning of Dacuo and others that I took a good look at it with the help of a magnifying glass all night, and firmly remembered the characters on it.The ancient people knotted ropes and scratched sand to record events, all they did was to record some short-lived stories, because in their eyes, they were the most precious historical materials, which must be passed on to future generations. These twenty-seven slate paintings may be displayed here for the same purpose.When I got to the end of the wall, I realized that under my excitement, I didn't notice that the first and second two paintings were missing in the stone niche near the secret door, and there were only twenty-five paintings left here. "I sent you the second one. At that time, I felt that the flying knife held by the person was similar to the Shen family's flying knife. Maybe you could see something. As for the first picture, it disappeared long before I came in. The only one Someone may have entered here before me and snatched the first picture as a souvenir of entering this mysterious space." Tang Qiang's explanation seemed reasonable, but I had already begun to be unsure of every word he said. "Shen Nan, inside is the mystery of my life experience. I hope you can see my good intentions and help me once." Tang Qiang became famous as a young man, traveled the world, and created a great reputation in the world of tomb robbers. , arrogant and out of the crowd" has become synonymous with his image.He rarely asks for help, but this time in front of me, he finally broke this precedent.