Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 7 Building

Tofu spoke first, and said, "Little sister, do you want to come over and join us?"

The little girl glanced at both of our faces and said, "I saw you came out of the third building in the old alley. You are so brave to live there."

I was taken aback for a moment, and felt that there was something in her words, so I asked, "I have paid the rent, why don't you dare to live?"

The little girl clicked her tongue and said: "It seems that you don't know. I have lived here since I was a child, and that building is very old and haunted."

Tofu was scared, and said to me: "I just said that place is eerie, no, we have to get something to ward off evil spirits and go back."

I thought to myself, I have decided to deal with the dead, and I am afraid of ghosts and ghosts, so I said to the little girl: "Little sister, it's midnight, don't you Tell us about ghosts and gods, even if there are real ones, we two big men are full of anger and yang, and we are not afraid when they come. You are young, so you can't be so superstitious, you have to treat everything scientifically. "

The little girl was not happy anymore, she pouted and said: "I kindly want to persuade you, even if you have no money, you can rent one, two, or four, the rent is the same, why rent three, don't you I found out, are you two the only ones in the three buildings?"

I was taken aback, and I looked at Tofu.There are few people in the old alley, I know that.But the three buildings only lived in me and tofu, I don't know that.Could it be that there is really something wrong with those three buildings?
If I had been in the past, I would not have believed it, but I was a little confused about these things after experiencing the cat-sucking incident, so I asked her: "Is there really a problem with these three buildings? What kind of evil method?"

The little girl was quite eager to show off, she smiled and said: "Then you have to treat me to supper, or else I won't tell you."

Tofu said: "Hey, you little girl, you really can take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail. Seeing that you are so beautiful and cute, I paid for today's money. Hurry up and tell us, so we can take precautions."

The little girl immediately started to eat unceremoniously. While eating, she told us a story about the three buildings in the old alley.She said, this is not a story, but a real event, but all the old residents in the vicinity know about it, so no one dares to rent a house in the third building.

There are only some uninformed foreign workers who are cheap, but after living for a long time, almost all evil things will happen, so most of them moved out by themselves.The three buildings stood tall in this old city, like a forgotten unfinished building, which was abandoned day after day.

The predecessor of Shenzhen was a place that relied on fishing for a living. It used to be called "Bao'an County", also known as Nantou.

There were originally four watchtowers. It is said that when Nantou fell, the watchtowers were captured directly, and the guards inside were blocked and burned to death. Therefore, the heroic souls lingered in the watchtowers.

Later, around the 60s, people at that time did not have such a strong sense of heritage protection, so they bulldozed two of the watchtowers and picked up workers’ dormitories on them, which is the old lane building where we live now.

Among them, three happened to be located on one of the ruins.

After the house was built, fires broke out again and again for unknown reasons, killing many people.Later that factory closed down, and the remaining house was sold to a real estate developer surnamed Jia, named Jia Zhongzhen, but it was already in the 80s at that time.At that time, there were migrant workers everywhere, and housing was in short supply. Jia Zhongzhen specially rented these houses to migrant workers.

But one year, another fire suddenly broke out in Sandong. This time it was a very large accident, and many people were burned to death.Jia Zhongzhen's wife and children at home were also smoked to death. He owed a life debt and couldn't pay it back, so he jumped off the third building and fell to his death.

The house was auctioned off by the government and changed hands again, which is the current landlord.

According to the little girl, the reason she knew so clearly was because her parents had also rented three buildings.One night, when her parents were sleeping, they suddenly smelled a burning smell.

Her mother woke up with a start, thinking there was a fire.

But the room was pitch black, and it didn't look like it was on fire.

what happened?
Her mother became suspicious, did she forget to turn off the stove?At that time, gas was not yet popular, and most people still burned carbon stoves.So her mother went to the outhouse where the charcoal stove was placed, and under the faint moonlight, she suddenly found that there was a person squatting next to the stove!

Look at the figure, like a man.

not good!Her mother screamed, "There's a thief!" Say it, and took the iron pole next to the laundry as a shield, and the man turned his head suddenly when he heard the sound.

At that moment, the little girl's mother was frightened and fainted.

It turned out that after the man turned his head, his face was on fire. The fire was very strange, it didn't shine at all, and the flames just covered his face.Under the burning of the fire, the flesh on the man's face gradually turned red, black, and scorched, and the smell of burning became stronger. The man gradually walked towards the little girl's mother...

The next morning, her mother woke up. Although nothing happened, she dared not live anymore, and immediately moved out of the old alley.I didn't dare to leave this area because of the rent.

After Tofu and I listened to it, the little girl was also full. She wiped her mouth and said, "I've told you everything I know, but if you're brave and you're really not afraid, then I don't care about it." After a pause, she Said: "Thank you for the treat, I should go back." After speaking, without waiting for us to ask, he slipped away in a gust of wind.

When I looked at the bill at this moment, I yelled badly, and said to Tofu: "I thought what the little girl would say, but it turned out to be a ghost story. Hearing her ghost story, she ate us a hundred yuan. This business Too bad."

Tofu said: "But I think she said that there are noses and eyes. Let's not really rent a ghost building, right? I heard people say that when people walk and recite words, they are especially prone to encounter dirty things. Maybe the cat will give it to you." We have cast a curse, renting a house can rent a haunted house, it is too unlucky. What should we do now, the house is still unlivable?"

I've always been more courageous. If I want to tell ghost stories, I've heard too many of them. Just casually speaking, it's even scarier than the one just now. Can a little girl really scare you?So I said: "Of course I want to live, we have paid the money, the house has been tidied up, the beds, pots and stoves that should be moved here are all done, and now I am scared by a ghost story, are you still a man? We are like this for a day Are you messing around?"

When Tofu heard this, he nodded and said, "That's right, this little girl is probably here to eat and drink, and she is quite like you back then. I still remember when we two met, half of my pocket money for snacks was set by you." It's over."

While eating and chatting, this episode was quickly forgotten by us. After eating and drinking, we went back to the room in the third building and started working.

The industry of tomb robbery is a shady industry, and it usually works at night, so some places call tomb robbery "hand lamp".After some measurements, we chose the location of the robbery hole under the bed in the bedroom, and drilled the shaft directly from here.

First use a pry to remove the cement on the surface, and then use a shovel to dig the hole after the soil is exposed.

Three types of exploration shovels, the largest one was used first to dig the shaft. We dug a shaft with a depth of ten meters for half a night. The soil dug out was poured into the mud behind the old alley building at night. lake.

The lake used to be a reservoir, and later the surrounding area was rebuilt, the water in the reservoir was drained, and the location was reduced again and again, thus forming a stagnant lake.The water and plants in the lake are tangled, mosquitoes are flying, and the environment is very harsh. However, due to the location, it has not attracted the attention of the relevant departments. The soil was poured into mud, and no one knew it.

According to the information given by Mr. Hu before, the tombs of civil officials we are going to dig are not deep, and it was not fashionable to bury deep burials in the late Qing Dynasty.Ten meters is a reasonable depth I calculated.In the following days, the two of us stayed day and night, exhausted, needless to say, we gradually made a circuitous burrow in the ground like soil rats, and seeing that success was close at hand, suddenly something happened An unexpected thing, let me unexpected.

When we work, we come in turns, one is outside and the other is working inside.In the late stage of robbing the hole, there is no need to make soil. In my grandfather's notes, there is a very ingenious method recorded.That is, every time a section is dug forward, a hole is dug under the body, and then the soil that comes out is compacted and accumulated bit by bit.

Generally, experienced tomb robbers in the past will do this, so that there is no sign of soil around the robbery hole, and even if Tiaozi wants to investigate, he can't start.

I dug more than 500 meters and formed a square, people need to crawl inside.According to the estimation of the distance, my current position is close to the edge of Huiyong River, not far from the tomb of civil servants.During the day, I deliberately re-planned the location. As long as I got to this place, robbed the hole and turned to the left, I could directly enter the front of the civil servant's tomb.

It stands to reason that the first thing I came into contact with should be tomb bricks.In the late Qing Dynasty, due to financial resources, heavy burials were not popular from time to time. Civil servants are not lucrative official positions, so there will be no protective belt on the outer layer of the tomb. Thank goodness for that.

But when I went down with a shovel, instead of digging up a tomb brick, I dug up a piece of rotten wood.

The wood was taken out and just rolled to my nose. It was a black clump, exuding this earthy stench. When I looked carefully with the flashlight, it turned out to be a fragment of a coffin!

How is this going?The tomb has not been entered yet, so how could there be a coffin in the soil suddenly?
(End of this chapter)