Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 716

"Brother Chen." He groped to stand up and said, "You came to see me."

Holding the suitcase in my hand, I found it difficult to speak, paused, and said, "I brought you some food."

Lu Su said: "Refrigerator, I ate it." I can see this, because he is blind, so the floor is full of leftover food packaging bags, the room is very different from when I just left, half of the sheets and bedding are in the On the bed, half of it is on the floor, and the whole child can't take care of himself,

I handed Chen Tiande's antidote to him and motioned him to take it first. After waiting for about ten minutes, the effect of the medicine took effect. Lu Su gradually looked at things and looked at the mess he had made. Immediately afterwards, he stared curiously at the suitcase next to me and said, "Eat?"

I nodded, his nose twitched, as if he had discovered something, with a suspicious look on his face, he stopped where he was.

Although the taste of the dumplings was light, it was not completely absent. There was a faint smell of stinky salted fish in the air.Lu Su was obviously no stranger to this smell. He took a step back, with a look of fear on his face, and stammered, "Brother Chen, Brother Chen, what's inside?"

I said, "Can't you smell it? I know you don't want to eat these, but it's been five days since you last ate. If you don't eat, you will die."

Lu Su was not as ignorant as I imagined, he immediately asked, "Where did you get the things inside?"

Of course you can't tell the truth at this time: "Dig it, I will find a way to restore you to normal. But before that, you have to live. It was not easy for me to get this thing. I almost died in the bucket. I hope you Don't let my good intentions be in vain." After such coaxing, he was a man of seventeen or eighteen years of age who had been imprisoned for more than ten years, how could he hear it, and a tangled expression suddenly appeared on his face.

After a while, he shook his head, took a few steps back, and seemed to be talking to himself, saying: "When a person dies, he should be put into a coffin and buried in the soil. What's the point of us living like this? Our family The coffin, my father said, in this life, people come naked, no matter how many things they have in life, nothing happens after death, only that coffin is the final destination. I should be put in the coffin, not like now so……"

I'm surprised, ants are still stealing their lives, even people like Xiao Jing are trying everything possible to survive, why does he have no will to survive at all, and even his biggest dream is to be put into a coffin?That's definitely the weirdest thing I've ever heard in my life.

Thinking of this, I asked.

Lu Su said: "Do you know the feeling that life is worse than death? I can't even commit suicide. I was locked underground, surrounded by corpses, and finally I ate them bite by bite."

After hearing this, I thought to myself, if this were an ordinary person, he would probably have gone crazy long ago. It is really not easy for him to speak clearly now.But I can't really let him starve to death like this, otherwise I won't be able to reach the deal with Lu Su.But what he said moved my heart, so I asked: "Have you remembered, why did he treat you like this?" To be precise, Lu Sufei put so much effort into raising him, because he wanted to get something from him?
He had unconsciously said words like caves before, could it be related to this?

Lu Su nodded immediately and said, "There is a cave."

I said, "What cave?"

While recalling, Lu Su began to talk about what happened more than ten years ago.

Lu's coffin shop is a no-cost business. Behind the town is a deep mountain with dense trees, and there are even rare tree species such as agarwood.There are no big cities around that mountain, so it is not very eye-catching. At that time, illegal logging and poaching were rare.

The raw materials for Lu's coffin shop are local materials.

But this is illegal after all, so when materials are needed, a family of three usually go to the mountains at night to cut trees.

More than ten years ago, there was an old man in the city. His family was quite wealthy. His ancestral home was in Sanxi Town. He got cancer. Before he died, he wanted to return to his roots, so he cultivated in Sanxi Town.

Their requirements are relatively high, and they want to make coffins with inner and outer layers. They heard that there is agarwood in the mountains, so they want to use agarwood as the inner cover.

These days, they are all black lacquered coffins, made of ordinary green gang wood or cypress wood, and buried in the soil. During the rainy season, it will rot in two or three months.People who are so particular about it are rare.It turned out that this old man had a psychological shadow, so he said that he paid special attention to the affairs behind him.

When he was young, a man in the same village died. Two months after he was buried, because it didn’t rain in the area, the Feng Shui master said that there was a drought and he had to fight.I went around and around, and finally dug the man's grave. The coffin was not good, and it was summer. When it was dug out, the whole coffin was rotten. The strange thing is that the corpse inside rotted very slowly. There are old yellow maggots crawling all over his body, not to mention how disgusting it is.

The old man thought that after his death, his body would be full of worms in and out of his nose, mouth and ears, so he couldn't sleep peacefully, so he decided to make a coffin and use agarwood.

The family is rich and their children and grandchildren are filial, so the price is naturally extremely high. After completing this transaction, not only can the house be redecorated, but the rest can be saved to beg for Lu Su's wife in the future.And this is a business without capital. For agarwood, just go to the mountains to find it.

The job was taken immediately.

Lu Su's father recalled that he once saw an agarwood tree in the mountains, the location was a bit remote, and it would take a whole day to go back and forth, so he asked Lu Su's mother to look after the shop at home, and took Lu Su with him. After packing some dry food, we went into the mountain.

At that time, there were always legends about wild men circulating in the mountains, and Lu Su felt a little timid.At that time, he was supposed to go to school, but because Lu Su fell seriously ill halfway through and missed some classes, he failed to pass the college entrance examination, so he started to help in the coffin shop early.

The father and son were traveling in the mountains, and when it was getting dark, they found the agarwood tree. When they took out the saw and ax and were about to strike, Lu Su suddenly felt as if someone was staring at him from behind.As soon as he turned his head, he saw a figure in the faint light of the flashlight.

It couldn't be called a human being at all. His hair was disheveled, and the long hair fell down to his calves. He was completely naked except for a black rag around his waist. He was looking at them with eyes like a beast.Lu Su yelled in fright: "Savage!" Almost as soon as he opened his mouth, the savage rushed towards them very fast.

That savage was like an ape, nimbly moving through the trees, with a strange route, even if they had weapons like axes and saws, it would be difficult for you to parry them.In an instant, Lu Su was pressed to the ground by him. The man's nails obviously hadn't been cut for a long time. They were long and hard, like the claws of a wild beast. into his eyes.

It is simply that Lu's father reacted quickly enough. At the very moment, he slammed the wild man away with his body, and then grabbed Lu Su, and the two ran for their lives.But how could they run past the savages who had been active in the mountains all year round, and they were almost caught up. Just this time, Lu Su suddenly discovered a cave.

The entrance of the cave was quite small, and the entrance was covered with things like weeds. Lu Su reminded them, and the two immediately got into the cave.The cave was narrow anyway, and the savage relied on his agility and unprepared attacks.If he was in a narrow place where he couldn't dodge and hide, it wouldn't be so scary.

After the two got into the cave, the savage also chased him in. Before he could see what was going on in the cave, the three of them fought together and suffered some injuries. But in the end, the savage was hard to beat. After all, his superiority Being suppressed, without a weapon on his body, or even a piece of clothing, it's no wonder that he didn't suffer a loss.

The savage retreated quickly, but strangely, he didn't run out of the cave, but into the cave.

Father Lu and Lu Su were covered with blood, they gasped heavily and looked at each other, feeling strange.

Lu Su speculated: "This cave, could it be its nest?"

Father Lu looked at the four walls around the cave with a flashlight. He is a craftsman, and he could tell at a glance that the cave was artificially polished. people.

Lu Su was taken aback, and said, "Dad, what is that? Why is there a stone statue?"

After all, Father Lu was old and knew a lot, so he changed his mind and thought, could it be a place like an ancient tomb?Father Lu has read the news that many ancient tombs in the mountains will be exposed to the ground due to geological changes, or they will collapse directly.

Could this be a tomb entrance?
They made coffins and dealt with the dead, so they didn't feel any fear. Father Lu even thought about reporting it to the Cultural Relics Bureau, maybe they could get a bonus.They don't have much experience, so naturally they don't think about the level of tomb robbery. They just think that getting a government bonus is already pretty good.

Just when the two decided to leave, something flickered behind the stone man in a flicker of light.

(End of this chapter)