Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 237
At this time, his eyes had regained focus, and I looked at him for a long time. Mr. Jiang looked down at his skinny hands and said, "What crime did I do, what crime did I do..."

I said: "Don't you want to avenge them? Old man, I can help you. I am Xiaopang's friend."

Mr. Jiang looked at me, and after a while, he said in a hoarse voice: "Your grandfather seems to be able to deal with these things. It would have been better if he had been around back then."

My heart twitched and I said, "He's not here, but I'm back."

Next, when Mr. Jiang calmed down, I told him about my plan. Mr. Jiang was so excited that his hands trembled, and he said, "As long as I can get revenge, I can take my old life."

After a pause, I said, "It's not revenge, it's relief." According to the folk saying that the water ghost finds a substitute, the water ghost in the well is no longer the one that killed Fatty Jiang, but the last one. The first victim was Mrs. Jiang.It is said that when a water ghost finds a substitute, it eats the soul of the substitute, so that the soul of the other party is trapped in the body of the water ghost.

Although I don't know how to deal with ghosts, there are three things for sure. First, it must be afraid of Yanghuo. Second, as long as it is a tangible and qualitative zongzi, it will be angry. Jiang Pozi in its body can escape.Of course, I'm not a professional, these are just inferences, and now it's just a matter of urgency, even if you can't free Mrs Jiang, at least get rid of the water ghost.

Immediately afterwards, Tofu and I took Mr. Jiang down the mountain. It was in the afternoon and the sun was setting on the western mountain. We had to take advantage of the time when the yang energy was at its peak during the day to suppress the yin energy of the rice dumplings.That night, Uncle Ge cleaned up Mr. Jiang, and he was not so sloppy anymore. I asked Uncle Ge to prepare a cow horn quickly. There are relatively few cattle slaughterers in the village, but luckily I got one.Tofu and I decided not to go to the cellar tonight, but to recharge our batteries and get things done with the water ghost.

Lying on the bed, although the time is only eight o'clock, the village in the mountains has been completely dark, and the night wind blowing in the four fields, and unknown insects chirping in the grass, make people drowsy.We are all night owls. Normally, we don’t go to sleep before twelve o’clock in the evening. We close our eyes in bed, but our minds are full of things, messy and disorganized, like a bunch of entangled hemp ropes.

Tofu didn't worry about anything, and soon fell asleep on his back.On the second day, the weather was fine, everyone had breakfast, took some things with them, and went to the well.I made a total of two preparations, bringing fishing nets, ox horns, glutinous rice, and cooking oil. In fact, it would be better to have gasoline, but it is not available in the village.

Looking at the ancient well during the day, there is nothing unusual. The grooves worn by the well rope have witnessed its age.

Mr. Jiang had tied a rope around his waist in advance, and there were two young men walking with us, holding the other end of the rope.The water ghost is very powerful, even though we are trying to lure the snake out of the hole, if something goes wrong and Mr. Jiang is really dragged into the water, it will be a disaster.After preparing all these, Tofu and I stood by the well with Mr. Jiang on the left and right.Don't look at Tofu's cowardice on weekdays, but he has seen some scenes anyway, but now he is calmer than the villagers, standing there calmly, with an appearance of 'I am an expert in ghost hunting'.

I stared closely at the well, the water was very deep, and the surroundings of the well were covered with moss. At this time, the sky was shining in, and the water in the well was calm and without waves, deep and bottomless.

Normally, water ghosts would never leave the water, let alone come out during the day, but this water ghost has been trapped for ten years, and once it smells the smell of its relatives, it will definitely crawl out desperately.We didn't wait for long. After about 5 minutes, a black shadow appeared in the well in my line of sight, and that black shadow was rising.

I held my breath and remained calm. With my hand behind me, I gestured towards the people not far away, signaling them to be vigilant.

The black shadow floated up very fast, and in a short while, the entire circular well was almost replaced by a kind of black hair, and the dark mass was blocked in the well, as if stuck in a person's throat. Gives a very uncomfortable feeling.Except for the hair floating in the water, the overall appearance of the water ghost is unclear. At this moment, the speed of the thing suddenly increased, as if by magic, it climbed up the well wall at a really fast speed. The speed was unbelievably fast, almost beyond human reaction ability. In just a split second, half of the thing's body stuck out of the mouth of the well.

Just like the rumors, it is a black fleshy ball with black hairs more than one meter long on its body. The black hairs come out of the water and are wet and tangled together. It smells like a carrion and a dead fish. It's coming.In a blink of an eye, Li from the black ball stretched out two claws like bamboo poles, grabbed old man Jiang's neck in an instant, and pulled him into the well.

This scene happened too fast. If I hadn't prepared well in advance, I'm afraid Mr. Jiang would be torn off by the water ghost.

At this moment, the rope tied to Mr. Jiang was suddenly stretched straight. The people not far away received my reminder and were well prepared.

According to the previous original plan, I didn't go to rescue Mr. Jiang immediately, but threw the fishing net that had already been shaken off, and slammed towards the water ghost.Tofu didn't lose the chain at the moment, with quick eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed the other end of the fish ball, and we both worked together to pull the water ghost ashore.

The thing seemed to know the danger, so it struggled immediately, and let go of Mr. Jiang. Mr. Jiang was immediately dragged a few meters by the rope, away from the water ghost.Tofu and I didn't expect the water ghost to struggle so hard. In an instant, the fishing net came out of Tofu's hand. The force was so strong that Tofu's hand was dripping with blood when it was pulled by the fishing net.

Seeing that the situation was not good, I was worried that the water ghost would escape back into the well, so in a hurry, I rushed towards the dark, wet ball of hair.Tofu was also unambiguous, and also rushed over, pressing on me like an arhat.I hurriedly took out the buffalo horn, ready to deflate the water ghost, but who knows; after stabbing it randomly, the outer hair of the water ghost was so thick that the buffalo horn couldn't get in at all!

Tofu was dumbfounded, and howled: "Damn, I don't want to play like this!"

The water ghost was struggling endlessly underneath, and my stomach was churning against it. In order to prevent it from escaping, I could only suppress it with all my strength, and there was no chance to get up for a while. The prepared bluestone slabs were put on the well cover.I breathed a sigh of relief for a moment, I couldn't control the water ghost anymore, and was pushed to the ground by it along with the tofu.

When we acted in advance, we had already made sufficient plans. If one trick didn’t work, we immediately switched to the second one. The rest of us had already opened the oil drum, and when the water ghost wanted to drill back into the well but was blocked by the bluestone board, we immediately splashed it. When the oil poured down, Mr. Jiang's expression was dignified and complicated. He struck the match in his hand and threw it at the water ghost splashed with oil. Suddenly, a raging fire ignited with a bang, accompanied by burnt hair. Smell, bursts of black shadows sprayed out.

The thing bumped around in the open space, making a vague breathing sound when a person died. The sound seemed a bit like the voice of Grandma Jiang in my memory, but it disappeared almost instantly, as if it was an auditory hallucination.We were accidentally injured, so we quickly hid in the distance and waited and watched. Bursts of black ash floated around the ancient well. After a while, the thing finally stopped spinning, and was completely burned with the raging fire.

Tofu held his bloody hand, feeling no pain at all, full of ambition, and said: "A little water ghost, it's easy, it's nothing to worry about, I will walk in the rivers and lakes, and when the road is uneven, I will draw my sword to help..."

I smiled, interrupted him and said, "Don't be complacent, bandage the wound quickly, otherwise you won't have a chance to draw your sword to help next time."

Except for one major problem, everyone was happy. When they got home, they set up a table. The most indispensable thing in the mountains was game, spicy rabbit meat, stir-fried chicken, game mushrooms, and some home-cooked dishes. The whole table was full, and the tofu was so full of oil that it was embarrassing, as if it had never been full in this life.

After the meal, we rested for a while, bid farewell to Uncle Ge, and went back to the old house to continue investigating the secret room.

This time I was not in a hurry to take out the notebook, but first looked at the wooden cabinet next to it.

The wooden cabinet is divided into many grids, and some scattered objects are placed inside.The first piece was a roll of sheepskin. I shook it open and found that it was a hand-painted map with several place names marked on it. After a cursory look, I had never heard of any of the place names on it.Tofu leaned over and speculated, "Could it be a treasure map?"

I ignored the tofu and put away the sheepskin roll, determined to study it later.The second thing is the bowl that disappeared. I didn’t pay much attention to this bowl before, so I don’t know when it was put away by grandpa. It has been washed very clean, and the writing on the bottom is more obvious. Take out the jade tablet of Princess Gegeer and compare it. Although there are differences between the two, there are obviously similarities.

The third thing was a bundle of brown cloth, rolled into a ball, I don't know what it was.

Tofu was more active than me, shaking the cloth out of curiosity, and then let out an exclamation.

(End of this chapter)