Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Seven

I sat on my backpack, and the doctors in Aning’s team bandaged the wound for me—the wound on my hand was so serious that it took three stitches to close it up. It was pulled off the stone beam by the corpse when it was cut.Although I was not spoiled and spoiled since I was a child, I have never done any heavy work, so such bumps and bumps are easy to get hurt, and I am afraid that if I were replaced by Pan Zi, I would be fine.The doctor sterilized me and told me not to touch the water or do anything with this hand. I nodded and thanked him, and he went to take care of others. After falling from the stone corridor, Aning and the others were extremely surprised by my "appearance method".Ah Ning didn't recognize me at first (actually I was disheveled at the time, it was amazing for her to recognize me in the end), until the fat man greeted them on the stone beam, she didn't realize it, she was even more surprised I couldn't speak, and looked at me with an unbelievable look.

The two groups of people stood still for a long time before they gradually reacted. I moved a little, anxious to see if that person was carrying my third uncle, but as soon as I moved, all the people around me backed away automatically. After a few steps, as if seeing a ghost, some of them picked up their guns reflexively. Fatty and Pan Zi breathed a sigh of relief on the crossbeam, and when they saw it, they had to quickly raise their guns. I quickly raised my hands to show that I was not hostile. Aning waved her hands too, and said to her subordinates: "My own people , have cooperated, put down the gun." She said it several times before her subordinates put down the muzzle of the gun in doubt, but the foreigners were still very nervous and kept their eyes fixed on me.

I saw that the tendons on their faces were all bulging, obviously their emotions had been strongly stimulated, and if they were a little frightened, these people might collapse, so they didn't dare to make any more moves, just stood there and didn't know. what to do. Aning frowned. Judging from her expression, she obviously didn't know that we were here. She raised her head and asked me, "You... how come you are here..." The fat man giggled from above: "This is called the white lady looking for a partner. Those who are destined to meet from thousands of miles away, those who have no destiny, strip naked and cuddle together and feel that the other party is rough-do you believe me when I say we pass by?"

The fat man said and Pan Zi jumped off the stone beam.At this time, several people in Ah Ning's team obviously recognized the fat man, and they all cried out in surprise. Obviously, the appearance of the fat man here touched some of their bad memories. The fat man walked up to us, probably because he had worked with these people, and the atmosphere eased a little. Only then did a few tense people heave a sigh of relief, put down the insurance on the gun and cursed, and one even said to himself Language: "That's good, I met a bad person in a bad place." I thought of the first time I met Fatty, and felt that this sentence was really appropriate, and I couldn't help but want to laugh.

The fat man glared at the man, and then greeted a few other people he might be familiar with. Aning wanted to ask him a question, but Pan Zi and I couldn't bear it anymore, so we ran to the foreigner who was carrying someone behind his back. Look through the person on his back to see if it's the third uncle. The foreigner seemed to be very wary of me. I ran over and they all walked away. The foreigner who was carrying people seemed not to be afraid. Seeing that my target was the person on his back, he put the person on the ground. He flipped his mountain hat off his head. In the hiking cap was a very haggard face with a scruffy beard. I almost didn't recognize it. I just thought it looked like my third uncle. After a closer look, I let out an "oops" and almost didn't yell out.

Sure enough, it was the third uncle who had been missing for a long time, that old thief!I haven't seen him for a few months, but this old bastard seems to be more than ten years old, his hair is gray, and he can't recognize him at first glance. To be honest, I was really not mentally prepared for such a meeting. I thought I would end up meeting my third uncle in a tomb, and then my third uncle would tell me everything, or he would show up to rescue me when I was in danger. I... But he suddenly appeared in Ah Ning's team in such a sloppy manner. I saw the truth, but suddenly I couldn't believe it.

Did I really see Third Uncle again?I found him?I froze, not knowing how to react, not knowing if I was dreaming or hallucinating. The third uncle seemed to be in a state of confusion, squinting his eyes, and didn't know if he could see me, but I found that when he heard me call out, he suddenly had a slight reaction all over his body, and his dry lips moved slightly, as if he was asking : "Eldest nephew?" But then there was no movement. I suddenly felt sore, and an unspeakable feeling surged up. Seeing that the old guy was safe, I immediately felt relieved. The anxious feeling without a backbone disappeared immediately, but there was another wave of extreme anger He surged up, wanting to push him down and beat him up.The two feelings were mixed together, and I don't know what expression appeared on my face, but it must be very funny.

The fat man on the side didn't know what he was talking to Ah Ning, and it seemed that there was a quarrel, and I had no time to take care of it.Pan Zi looked at his third uncle, went up and shook him several times, and then untied his clothes.I was confused when I saw it, and saw that the inside of Uncle's clothes was full of sticky pus. Looking carefully, his chest was covered with sores, and countless hard-headed gnats were crowded under his skin. I pulled them out, but the gnat's tail broke off as soon as I touched it, and the gnat was broken inside, and the wound would not heal, and it all festered after a long time.

Pan Zi grabbed the foreigner next to him and was about to beat him up, but was picked up by others.Pan Zi yelled while struggling: "What the hell did you do to the third master! You made him like this?" I looked at the horrified expression of the foreigner when he saw the wound, and knew that they must not know about it, but the third uncle's appearance was too miserable, so I asked the foreigner tremblingly, "Where did you find him? How could he do it?" Like this?" The foreigner was about to vomit, turned his head and said, "It's right under the coffin well here. We just found him and thought he was dead. Later, we found out that he was still alive. The team leader said that this old man knows a lot of things, so we must take him with him." Follow him - I didn't know he had these things on him, otherwise I wouldn't carry him even if I died!"

"It must be you!" Pan Zi was furious, "I saw it in Vietnam. Those Vietnamese interrogated prisoners with this method. They learned it from you Americans. You must have forced the third master to interrogate him. , I killed you guys!" The others were all around us, I waved my hand to calm down Pan Zi, and said, "It's nothing to do with them, if they did it, they wouldn't be so panicked because they don't know that dead gnats attract their own kind." Ah Ning came over to take a look, and took a breath, and immediately called the team doctor, and several people hurriedly straightened the third uncle.At this moment, I suddenly felt that my third uncle secretly put something in my pocket, and the movement was very fast. I felt the pocket move for a moment, and I was stunned for a moment, and my heart moved.

In an instant, my brain buzzed, and I knew immediately: Uncle San may be awake!I was shocked and relieved at once, the one who was surprised was that he pretended to be unconscious, and he didn't know what the purpose was;I looked around out of the corner of my eye, and the others were shocked by his wound and didn't notice it, so I continued to support him calmly, but squeezed his shoulder vigorously with my hand to show that I knew there was something in the pocket. Third Uncle's eyes became dizzy again. The team doctor wiped his wound with alcohol, then cut open the skin with a burnt saber, used tweezers to pinch the gnats out, and released pus.Because it is too cold here and it is easy to freeze, Pan Zi and I set up a smokeless stove and roasted the third uncle non-stop. There were sixteen wounds in total, and a few gnats were still alive when they were pulled out. They were directly thrown into the fire and burned to death. Finally, the wounds were stitched up.Pan Zi watched the whole process with all his attention. I couldn't even wink at him. I had something on my mind, but it was inappropriate for me to walk away suddenly in such a situation. I wanted to know what the third uncle put in my pocket, so I had to wait. . Finally all the problems were solved, the team doctor covered him with a blanket and let him sleep on the side, Pan Zi asked how he was, the team doctor sighed and said: "I have done everything I can, now he It's a wound infection, I'll give him an injection of antibiotics later, but he already has a high fever, I don't know if he can survive, it depends on his personal will, don't bother him, let him sleep." I Only then did he have an excuse to pull Pan Zi away, only to realize that when he rolled down, he was also covered in injuries and couldn't stand up. After the team doctor bandaged my wound, I went to see other people. There were about 16 or 17 people in Aning's team. The cold smoke and fire were gradually extinguished, and the surrounding area was too dark to count. The fat man was dragged by Aning While talking non-stop, I couldn't see what was going on there.I wanted to take Pan Zi to a place where no one was around, but Pan Zi was a little dazed. He just sat next to the third uncle and couldn't react. I was really annoyed, and I couldn't help at critical times, so I had to find a way to avoid the people around me.Aning's team was divided into two groups, one group was injured and rested, and the other group went down the coffin well. These people seemed to have no ill intentions towards me, which may have something to do with the fact that the fat man knew these people well.But maybe because of the fact that I just repelled the gnats, wherever I go, they all look at me with strange eyes, and the circular tomb is so empty that there is really no place for me to hide. My heart sank, I went to the fetal corpse I had trampled to death, and pretended to squat down to look at it, so no one came to see me. The corpse is like a giant mantis shrimp, its facial features are blurred by trampling on it, and my scalp tingles when I saw it, but I can't care about it so much, I took out the things in my pocket and saw that it turned out to be a small piece of paper strip.I looked back and saw that there was no one behind me, so I opened it nervously, and there were a few lines written in it, and I was surprised when I saw that the first half of these words were not written by my third uncle. It was written by Poker Bottle, and it said: 〖I went down. So far, you go back quickly and go down, it is no longer a place you can handle. Everything you want to know is in the snake eyebrow copper fish. 〗 The signature surprised me even more. It turned out to be the strange symbol we saw... It was indeed left by Poker Bottle. What does it mean? Below is Uncle San's very scribbled writing, which looks like it was carved with fingernails, but it is still clear, with only one line written. 〖We are only one step away from the truth. Give the copper fish to Wu Laosi under Aning and let him decipher it. It doesn’t matter. The most important thing is with me. They dare not do anything to us. 〗 Obviously, when the third uncle came here, he must have found this note from Poker Ping somewhere, and this note must have been written for us. Poker Ping seems to want to stop us from going down. Look at the meaning in the note. , it seems that there is still some passage, he went to a very dangerous place.And the third uncle obviously didn't appreciate it, this is really terrible, what does this old guy want to do?In the end, what other key things does Uncle San have?Since Poker Bottle doesn't want us to go down, who is the mark for?Is it for yourself? My mind suddenly wandered away. In fact, I felt that more and more eyebrows appeared during this period of time, but because the previous mysteries were too messy, once I had new ideas, it would be very confusing. I thought of the mark in the undersea tomb. Poker-Face knew that he had been there when he saw this. Now that he carved the mark, could it be...he knew that he would lose his memory?So I left my own mark in advance, so that when the next time comes, I can use the mark to remember? It was so messy and my head started hurting again.At this time, Aning and Fatty greeted me, I was taken aback, looked back, they were letting me pass, so I simply gave up, folded the note, put it back in my pocket, and walked over . Aning handed me a jug of water, and I took a sip. She said, "I talked to Mr. Wang. We are officially ready to cooperate. What do you think?" cooperate?I saw the shape of her breasts under the tight clothes, and remembered what happened on the boat, and I was a little afraid to face it. I thought of the warning of Boyouping and the words of my third uncle, and I really didn't know what to say. After I found my third uncle, I felt at ease. There was also an element of selfishness in this peace, that is, I could go out. In fact, what I thought in my heart was that I could get out of this place.But as Uncle San said, we seem to be very close to the truth. It seems that Uncle San also has puzzles. If he saves him in this way, he may not know all about it.It’s okay if we can forget it, but if not, with the third uncle’s character, it’s bound to happen again, can I sit idly by? After thinking about it, I gritted my teeth and said, "How to cooperate? Tell me, to be honest, I really want to think about cooperating with you." Seeing my appearance, she smiled and shook her head: "Well, it's too late to say goodbye to you on the island, thank you for saving me now, I'm in the sea... that's for a reason, I never thought of harming you. " I remembered what happened in the tomb under the sea, sighed, and said to myself that only ghosts will believe you.I lit a smoke and said, "If you really want to cooperate, just tell me what's going on. What are you looking for at the bottom of the sea? What are you doing here?" Fatty said on the side: "Yes, everyone can do things openly." Aning showed a surprised expression: "You don't know, didn't your third uncle tell you what happened? You... just ran around like this without knowing anything?" I smiled wryly, and said to myself that if Uncle San told me the matter, I would ignore his life and death, and shook my head: "He didn't say that, I've always been a headless fly." Aning frowned and looked at me for a long time, and seemed to find that I was not lying, and said: "No wonder, I always thought you were a very powerful character, and I couldn't see that you were lying at all. do not know anything." I suddenly felt a little strange at this time, why did this woman suddenly come to us to cooperate?There are so many of them, plenty of soldiers and enough food, and there are only three of us, so why cooperate with us?Even if it's because I can shake off the gnats, at worst, just tie me up.Could it be--I looked around--that they were in a bad situation, or had some compelling reason? Seeing my expression, Ah Ning probably guessed what I was thinking, so she didn't point it out, and sighed: "Actually, we little people don't know much, we just work for the boss." After talking, let us sit down , Greeted another foreigner to come over, Aning introduced to me, said that this foreigner is called Kirk, an expert in Sinology, specializing in Dongxia, he knows the most about the whole thing, you can ask him.The foreigner shook hands with me, and said, "Originally we kept it strictly confidential, but in this situation... If you want to ask anything, just ask." I felt a "click" in my heart. He continued: "Unfortunately, I can't tell you about the purpose of our boss. To be honest, I am also a team leader. Aning and I only know that we need to enter a place, take one thing out, and then finish it." Well, I really don’t know what the high-level executives want to do, so we can say that there are two goals in the underwater tomb. One is a jade seal. You Chinese call it a ghost seal. I heard that it can summon the underworld. The army; the other is the organizational map of the underground palace here, unfortunately, we didn't get it, and in the end we, Aning, went out to get back some things we should have." "Ghost seal?" I almost jumped up when I heard it, "You mean the ghost seal of King Lu Shang? It's in the tomb under the sea?" Hearing us talking about the ghost seal, the fat man was also very interested, so he came over, ah Ning seemed to hate fat people, but there was nothing he could do about it. That Kirk nodded and said: "Yes, I believe you also know something about it. After the tomb of King Lu Shang was dug by the pirate Wang Zang, the latter replaced the ghost seal with a snake-browed copper fish. We always thought that the ghost seal was taken by him. I went to the tomb of you, but I couldn't find it anywhere; and the organizational chart of Tiantian Palace probably fell into the hands of your third uncle. We don't know how many times we have been tricked by this old fox, but Still have to cooperate with him, his intelligence is much more accurate than ours." I nodded and smiled wryly, and I was also deeply touched by this.The fat man said on the side: "Then you said that when Aning and we went to the bottom of the sea, what did she bring out?" Kirk opened his mouth to say something, but Aning stopped him and said to him: "Say what you should say, and don't talk too much if you shouldn't." The fat man said angrily, "What do you mean?" Kirk didn't seem to appreciate Aning's affection, so he laughed and said, "Even if you don't tell them now, you still have to show them. Besides, it's useless even if you have these things now." Aning glanced at us, stomped his feet, and seemed very unwilling: "The things I have worked so hard to make are really cheap for you." (I felt very strange at this time. Why did Aning and the others cooperate so much? Later, when I talked about this matter with my third uncle, my third uncle said that at that time, Aning and the others were in desperation. She had no other choice but to cooperate with you, because they After all, she is an amateur. No matter how good the technical equipment is, it can’t compare to me, a half-baked native. But she is also very smart. She is already eager to tell you everything, but she still talks to you bit by bit. Picking, I want to pick something out of your mouth to exchange, this is called Laojianghu. Fortunately, I didn’t tell you anything on purpose, otherwise you will definitely give her the whole set, and my third uncle’s plan will be all over.) As he spoke, he took out a stack of things from his pocket and handed it to me.I thought she would take out some kind of bright object, but when I took a look, it turned out to be a stack of photos, all of which were murals. I flipped through them one by one, and she reminded me not to mess up the order. After carefully looking at a few pictures, I found that I had never seen these murals before, and asked, "Where did you get this photo?" Kirk said: "It was taken from the main tomb when you went into the sea together. This is a narrative mural, which is very important. You can take a look and see what is painted inside." I counted, and there are fifteen murals in total, all of which have changes, and are obviously connected, but there is no necessary plot connection between the murals.I saw some paintings of climbing snow-capped mountains, some of them overlooking mountains, some of them climbing rocks, and some of soldiers fighting.There is no necessary connection between the pictures of each mural. Kirk knew from my expression that I couldn't understand, so he showed me one, and said, "Look, this is the first one, what do you see?" The picture shows several people dressed as Jurchens tying up a Han Chinese.I said, "Are you taking prisoners on the battlefield?" "You can say that, but who do you think this prisoner is?" Kirk smiled mysteriously. I looked carefully at the photo of the mural, and found that the prisoner's appearance was close to the image of Wang Zanghai on the porcelain painting. I was surprised, "Is this Wang Zanghai? The Jurchens are arresting him?" Kirk said: "Yes, this is the first picture. It's just like this picture. What does it mean? It means that Wang Zanghai may have been forced to build this place. He was taken captive." Immediately, I saw some signs of it, and looked at the other photos, and said, "Then these photos?" "It's all about Wang Zanghai's experience in the hands of the Dongxia people after he was taken captive. Although we can't fully understand it, we can guess it from the previous photos." I looked at one of them carefully, and suddenly found something wrong: "This one..." Kirk looked at it and nodded: "Your eyes are very sharp, and this one is also very important. Have you noticed that this is the imperial tomb in the crater. When Wang Zanghai was taken captive, the imperial tomb was already It exists, and it's pretty run down." I said "ah", so didn't he build the imperial mausoleum above our heads? Kirk said: "We have studied it. The overall style of the imperial tomb above is from the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but he has changed it into a Ming style. The Eastern Xia people kidnapped him, not for him to repair the imperial tomb, but for him to remodel it. The imperial tomb, because the imperial tomb has gone through too many years, it can no longer be used." "Then the underground palace here has already existed?" the fat man asked. Kirk nodded: "We used these photos to find out the old road leading here, but there are still some photos that we can't understand, such as this one." It was a mural of countless evil spirits jumping out of the stone, it was the third from the last, and there was another one, which turned out to be a group of black mollusk-like things climbing up from some huge cliff, and the above Someone poured something down. I was nervous and relieved, and was about to sit down and take a closer look, but at this moment, Aning suddenly stretched out his hand to me and said, "Okay, we're done talking, you can see the photos at any time. Now do you have to tell us something too?" "Tell what?" I was baffled. "I've talked to Pan about everything about me, about you and Wu Sansheng," Aning looked at me, "You won't be more stingy than a woman like me, right?" I thought to myself what kind of bullshit are you talking about? If you said it, you didn’t say it, and you didn’t mention the point at all. You fucking thought I was the Wu Xie who didn’t understand anything before, so you turned around and asked her Said: "Is there a man named Wu Laosi here?" Aning nodded, and said strangely: "What? Do you know each other?" I took out two copper fish from my pocket and shook them in front of them: "Everything you need to know is in there. If Wu Lao Si is not dead, let him come out!" In an instant, I saw Kirk almost fell to the ground, and Aning's eyes were straightened, and he stammered: "God! You have two..." As soon as I moved my arms, their eyes followed me .