Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 1 Fierce River
My name is Chen Xuan.

Is a businessman, now living in Shenzhen.

There is an old saying: When this person walks and recites words, he can choke to death if he takes a sip of cold water.

I never imagined that such a bizarre and unlucky thing would happen to me.

Three days ago, a few business partners and I were discussing business in a hotel. The group was full of food and drink, and it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.I drank a little high, so I didn't take a taxi, and I was going to walk back, sober up by the way.

From the hotel to the apartment where I live, you have to cross a road. Not far from the road is a stone fence, and outside the fence is a 'big river'.

People in this place are very funny. A stinky ditch can be called a river. In our hometown, there is a big river with a width of 80 meters. The "big river" in Shenzhen is called a canal in our place.

Passing by the canal, the alcohol began to rise, my head was a little muddled, and my whole body started to feel hot, so I took off my suit, put it on my hand, and couldn't help taking a deep breath, trying to use fresh air to dispel the dizziness.

The result... Bah!It's full of strong exhaust fumes!However, the bad air made me sober up a bit, and then I realized that there were a lot of people gathered by the river, all of them were old men and old ladies who didn't go to work and went out to wander around.

One of the Chinese people's hobbies is to join in the fun. So many people gathered together, what happened?
I had nothing to do in the afternoon, so I twisted my suit and walked over to look inside. It was incredible to see that a half-grown child fell into the water. The onlookers were anxious, watching the excitement, and calling the police. It just didn't save people by diving.

If this happened in other rivers, someone would have gone down to be a hero to save lives, but none of the onlookers here dared to go down.

One reason is that the people watching here are all old men and women who tremble when walking, not to mention going down the river to save lives; and the other reason is because the river has a "very bad name!"

The predecessor of this river was called 'Hui Chung River', why is it called Hui Chung?Because the end of it leads directly to the sea, whenever the sea tide rises, the undercurrents under the river will go back, and the water will rise for a time. It is said that the highest time will submerge the surrounding watchtowers.

In Shenzhen, most of them are foreigners, and there are very few local residents, but I have stayed here for a long time, so I know some old news. It is said that a very strange thing happened in this river.

Back in those days, Huiyong was still a big river.The bottom of the river is full of sand and mud, and the water is huge. Every summer, many wild swimmers will always be drowned.

You may have to ask, isn’t Shenzhen just by the sea?Why not swim in the sea, but in the river?That's because the river ran through the territory of Shenzhen at that time, and it was far away from the sea, so that's all.

This was not unusual at first, but one summer, a man named Zhong Qian went swimming in the river. Halfway through the swim, he suddenly sank to the bottom of the water, as if drowning.

After about ten minutes, he floated up again. The strange thing is that he didn't die. He just looked flustered. After seeing that there was no one around, he hurried back home, as if he had done something wrong.

His daughter-in-law felt that something was wrong with her husband in the middle of the night, and she looked flustered. She seemed to be hiding something from him, so she asked reluctantly, "Okay, are you messing around outside behind my back? Say, if you don't Say, I won't let you go to bed."

This man is usually very afraid of his wife, and when she said she wouldn't let him go to bed, she would be so frightened that he would do anything, but this time he refused to say anything. Oh, but it won’t work if you talk about it, and you’ll know later.” After speaking, he went to bed and no one knew what happened to him at the bottom of the river.

It didn't take long after that, as if he was lucky, Zhong Qian started a local construction contracting business, and became an upstart in a few years!
It stands to reason that when a poor man suddenly becomes an upstart, what is the first thing he does?Of course it is to drive a luxury car and live in a luxury house.

But this man didn't do anything, he asked someone to blow up the river!

That's right, it was blowing back to the Chung River.

At that time, due to urban construction, the city's landscape changed a lot. The backflowing river bed rose and the water level became lower. It was not difficult to blow up the river. This person hired more than ten migrant workers that day and brought The explosives used for the blasting pointed to the part of the river where he went down the river, and said, "Just blow it towards here."

When the explosives were put down, water splashed everywhere, blasting out countless rotten copper lumps whose shapes could not be seen clearly.

After one blast, it seemed that I was still not satisfied after an hour, so I ordered people to go back and forth to blast it a few more times, using a lot of explosives.The entire river channel was widened by the bombing, so he was satisfied. After returning home, he confessed the truth to his wife.

It turned out that when he was swimming at the bottom of the river, he met a very skilled water ghost and wanted to pull him on his back. The water ghost looked exactly like a big civet cat, and his whole body was black, like the color of brass after it entered the water.

The civet cat said to him: "I can forgive you, but the child you give birth to in the future will be thrown into the river to accompany me. I guarantee that you will be rich and rich all your life. If you don't agree, I will kill you now." I want your life."

After hearing this, he hurriedly agreed in order to save his life, and the civet cat in the river saw that he agreed, and let him out of the water.

Sure enough, Zhongqian became rich not long ago, especially his daughter-in-law's belly became big. Seeing that the due date is coming soon, the more Zhongqian thinks about it, the more frightened she is. Is it true that he is going to throw his child into the river?That's my own flesh and blood!After thinking about it for a long time, Zhong Qian didn't think of any other way, so he just didn't do anything else, he decided to be tough, to strike first, and kill the civet cat with explosives.

After telling the truth, he said: "It's all right now, we don't have to worry about anything, the water ghost should have been blown to pieces by me, let's live a good life in the future." Her daughter-in-law was dumbfounded, and said: "That civet cat, Is it the size of a human head, black all over, with brass marks, and eyes like two rubies?"

The rich businessman was shocked and said: "Daughter-in-law, you are a god, how do you know so clearly?"

His daughter-in-law pointed to the table behind the rich merchant, with a pale face and trembling lips, and said, "Because it's there..." When the rich merchant turned his head, he suddenly found that the water ghost civet cat he found at the bottom of the river was dripping wet at the moment. Squatting on the wine table, the room was instantly filled with the stench of river water.

Why is this story spreading?

Because after hitting there, the rich man went crazy. The next day, people found the body of his daughter-in-law in his home. The stomach was cut open, and the child inside was gone. When they asked the rich businessman, the rich businessman told his story repeatedly. The story is completely terrified.

The police can only treat it as crazy talk, not enough evidence, thinking that the rich businessman may have suffered a mental illness and killed his wife, but the strange thing is that the child's body has never been found.

After the story spread, the river began to have a "bad reputation".In addition, there are inexplicable dead people in this river every year, which makes everyone think that this river is a "bad" river.The locals in Shenzhen are very superstitious. They think that there are water ghosts in this river. Let alone getting into the water, it is unlucky to get in the water of this river.

I don't believe this at all. Looking at the people around, most of them are old neighbors who have lived here for more than ten years. Their expressions reveal struggle and hesitation.

I don't know if the child's feet were entangled by water plants, and he kept thumping. Even if he couldn't swim up, I didn't follow along to watch the fun. I took off my clothes and put on a pair of pants and jumped down. The onlookers were so shocked. Call.

My swimming skills, that's not blowing, is also one of the best in our hometown. I can drill down into a ten-meter-deep river and bring out a handful of sand.I didn't want to say more about these bad words. I hugged the child from behind and brought him to the shore, but the strange thing was that he seemed to be entangled in something like aquatic plants, and he couldn't move it.I tried to step down with my foot, trying to stop the aquatic plants, but when I stepped on it, I stepped on something slippery and stiff.

The thing was pulling the child's foot, resembling a human hand.

There was a cleverness in my mind, and two words popped up in my heart: water ghost.

Damn, the legend can't be true, can it?
When I stepped on that thing, it grabbed my ankle violently. Although I didn't see it this time, I felt it clearly. It was a human hand!It was so strong that it pulled me down, and I immediately choked on water, and the stinky river water poured straight into my nose.

As the saying goes, alcohol makes people courageous, I was irritated at this time, no matter if it was a person or a ghost, I stabbed down fiercely, and stretched out my hand to hit the hand that was holding my ankle. Shrunk back.

I quickly dragged the child ashore, and the people next to me followed the first aid, but I felt that the soles of my feet, where I stepped on the hands of the people before, exuded a particularly cold breath, just like being wrapped in warmth in winter. Forgot to wear shoes and socks alone.

The older generation said that if a person accidentally drowns in the water, he will easily become a water ghost and be trapped in place.

Water ghosts have a hard life, the rain is like a thousand cuts, the waves are like a hammer, and the sun is like a cannon. Therefore, no matter how kind a person was in life, he became a water ghost and wanted to be reborn as soon as possible. Find a scapegoat.

I looked towards the river surface, the water surface was calm, maybe that thing has dived into the depths?Or maybe it was my illusion just now?

At this time, I suddenly discovered that for some reason, one of the strings of mahogany evil spirit beads that I had been carrying in my right hand for more than ten years had cracked.Could it be that it blocked me just now?
Could it be that the legend of the backflowing river is true?
(End of this chapter)