Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 136
This meal was quite late, and it was past ten o'clock in the evening when we left Professor Lin's house. Tofu and I went back to the hotel drunk, and slept until noon the next day.

Tofu recalled while brushing his teeth, and said: "During dinner last night, the old professor said that we would leave tomorrow, but he didn't tell us where we were going."

I thought for a while and said, "He said he was going to go to sea. The closest to the capital is Bohai Bay. It is estimated that we will go to Bohai Sea tomorrow."

Tofu said again: "Can archaeology be found in the sea?"

"Of course. Humans have been sailing for a long time. During the voyage, merchant ships were submerged by wind and waves, and the goods in the sunken ship were left in the depths of the sea. Therefore, there are many treasures under the sea. In the past two years, seabed salvage has become a trend. Nothing strange."

Tofu nodded, continued to brush his teeth, and suddenly sprayed foam and said, "No. You haven't turned your head around today, think about it, if you just go to salvage sunken ships at the bottom of the sea, how about calling the two of us?" ? Even if it’s to wash our bottom, it’s too contrived.” When Tofu said this, I also felt that something was wrong, and I thought, isn’t it salvage from the bottom of the sea?But how do you go to the sea to fight?

Tofu and I chatted while washing, but didn't deduce any useful information, so we could only take one step at a time.Since the equipment was prepared by Professor Lin, Tofu and I didn’t need to prepare much. We just packed some personal items and packed them that day. We spent the whole day wandering around BJ City and Wangfujing.

There is a lot of food there, and there are a lot of flavors from all over the world. I wandered back to the hotel with my round belly full of tofu. The next day, I gathered at the pre-arranged place with Professor Lin and the others.

As I guessed, the starting point this time was indeed in the Bohai Bay area, and it took about six hours to drive there from BJ.

It's early morning at this moment, when our group met, we saw a silver bread car parked in the parking lot behind the High School Examination Institute. The rest don't know each other.

In fact, I am not optimistic about this trip, because there are still a bunch of messy things that have not been resolved, but halfway through, I was asked to go to sea to do other things. I felt uncomfortable, but for some reason, after seeing Gu Wenmin, I felt uncomfortable There was a sudden silence.

Not only me, but even Tofu seemed to be relieved. This is probably the sense of trust we cultivated after living and dying together. Seeing a reliable companion naturally feels at ease.When Doufu is happy, he is easy to get carried away, and he joked: "Oh, Miss Gu, it's really like not seeing you every day, I miss you so much!" As he said that, he was about to go up and hug him, Gu Wenmin was shocked and said: "Xiaodou Ah, men and women can't kiss each other."

Tofu stomped his feet, squeezed his throat and said softly: "I hate it, she is a girl!" I almost spit out a mouthful of blood, and kicked Tofu aside.

In addition to Professor Lin and Gu Wenmin, there was also a young man and a woman who followed Professor Lin every step of the way. They seemed to be his students.In addition, the other two people are more eye-catching, all bald, looking strong and healthy, with vigilant eyes, maybe they are the official robbers that Professor Lin mentioned.

Tofu and I arrived at the scene, and everyone got into the car, and one of them with a bald head drove the car all the way to the national highway.

At this moment, everyone is sober, not as drunk as the night before yesterday. Tofu is a person who can't hide his words, and immediately asked a lot of questions: "Professor Lin, where are we going to sea? Are we going to salvage Shipwreck? Let me tell you first, I have hydrophobia recently." What he said is true. Since being flooded in the tomb of Princess Gegeer five times, Tofu has changed his hobby of swimming, and now he goes around swimming pools. walk.

Therefore, it is said: Inverting is risky, and you need to be cautious when entering the industry. If you are not careful, you will leave psychological trauma.

Professor Lin chuckled when he heard the words, the wrinkles on his face piled up into a blooming chrysanthemum, and said: "Don't worry, I won't let you into the water. We are not doing seabed salvage this time. If we really salvage sunken ships, we won't need yours." It's up to you."

Immediately afterwards, he told us about the purpose of going to sea this time. Tofu and I were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and Tofu even said: "Professor, you are playing with us!"

According to Professor Lin, the destination of our sea trip this time is an island near the southeast of Fusang.

This island belongs to Fusang in terms of division, but it is a remote uninhabited island with no one stationed, so there is no need to worry about being discovered.

You may have to ask, how did you get to the small island of Fusang when you dig mushrooms upside down?

In response to this problem, Professor Lin told us a story about the origin, which made Tofu and I feel unbelievable.

Speaking of this matter, we have to start with Qin Shihuang.

Qin Shihuang, a man of great talent and general plan, unified the six countries, and the Qin Dynasty also prospered under his rule.

The six kingdoms have also been swept away, and the people have settled down, so what are you going to do next?Of course, it is to secure your own throne and enjoy your own glory and wealth.But when people's lives are dying, Qin Shihuang's psychology became unbalanced. He felt that he had been fighting for half his life.

No, I have to live a few more years, ten years, hundreds of years, and live forever!
Therefore, Qin Shihuang in history began to believe in alchemists in the later period, making alchemy and taking mercury, in pursuit of immortality.At that time, the first emperor raised many alchemists, and the alchemists also fought each other for favor. One of them, Xu Fu, came up with a trick of seeking immortals overseas, and told the first emperor that there was a fairy island in Penglai overseas, and immortals lived on it. The immortal can refine the elixir of immortality, and he is willing to take people to the sea to seek the elixir.

When Qin Shihuang heard that he could live forever, he immediately agreed.The elixir story is of course false, Xu Fu used this to suppress other alchemists, and he himself was reused by Qin Shihuang.He went to sea twice successively, but returned without success due to "accidents".The first time he failed to go to sea and came back, Xu Fu said that there are sharks overseas, who are good at using singing to confuse people, but there are not enough manpower to kill them, so they failed.

Therefore, Qin Shihuang gave him a lot of people when he went to sea for the second time. Of course, this time he returned without success, because there was no elixir at all on the sea.Xu Fu made excuses again this time, saying that although the mermaids repelled them, the immortals thought we were dishonest and the elixir was rare, so naturally they had to sacrifice treasures and virgins.

Qin Shihuang was very afraid of death in his later years, and he was fanatical and obsessed with immortality. Normal people knew that Xu Fu was unreliable, but he seemed to grasp the straw of life-saving, so Xu Fu went to sea for the third time.This time the scale of going to sea was huge, with more than 20 mighty ships, loaded with gold and silver treasures, grain and livestock, boys and girls, young and strong laborers, and they never returned after they left.

Only then did Qin Shihuang realize that he had been deceived.

So where did Xu Fu take these treasures and personnel?According to later speculation by some historians, his route at that time was all the way to the east. Isn’t the east side the Japanese pirates?Therefore, there is a speculation that Xu Fu took his own troops and stationed on a piece of land in the east to multiply and thrive. That piece of land was later called Fusang.

After hearing this, Tofu stammered, "So the ancestors of the Fusang people are Chinese? Damn, I don't have such a grandson."

I immediately slapped him and turned to Professor Lin and said, "Professor, after all, this is just a speculation without any real evidence. This is not something you can talk about casually. If things go wrong, the Fusang compatriots will say that we are shameless."

Professor Lin said: "It doesn't matter if there is any real evidence for this kind of thing, so what if it's fake? So what if it's true?" , we are actually a family, your people are mine, and your land should also be ours.

Is that useful?Nothing works.

Regardless of whether this conjecture is true or not, it is also a past event more than 2000 years ago, and it is not important now.

I said, "You're right. If that's the case, why did we sneak to that small island on the border of Fusang? What's there?"

Professor Lin said: "Now it belongs to the territory of Fusang. The reason why we are going to that place this time is because we have obtained first-hand information more than 20 years ago. The origin of this information is a long story. In short, according to the According to the hand-held information, we got a clue, it is said that Xu Fu's tomb is on that small island."

Gu Wenmin nodded slightly, and said to me: "What we are looking for this time is Xu Fu's tomb."

Tofu and I looked at each other, speechless for a moment.What Professor Lin said just now, we can all listen to it as a story, but now we are going to Fusang to find Xu Fu's tomb. of?Did Xu Fu really cross to Fusang?

What's the point of looking for his tomb now?It's not about exposing the truth of history, is it?
Professor Lin didn't go on talking, he seemed to be a little tired, and began to close his eyes and rest his mind.

The car was a little bumpy, and after sitting in it for a short time, we all felt drowsy. Everyone stopped talking and fell asleep. At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, our car stopped by the Bohai Bay.

The coastline of this place is U-shaped, and on the right is the wharf of Bohai Bay, where all kinds of ships are docked.We drove to the left, and after gradually getting away from the pier, there was a deserted area, where all fishing boats were moored.These ships going out to sea are different from the boats you usually see in the river. These ships are more than 30 meters long, and each of them is a giant.

Among these behemoths, there is a pocket-sized ship that is more eye-catching. The ship is not that big. It is about 20 meters from the bow to the stern. Although it is small, it looks very new. There are three people standing on the bow, two of them It's bald.I knew at a glance that the small boat was most likely the boat we were going to take next, and the three people on board should also be our partners.

Sure enough, the two leading bald heads led us towards the ship. I didn't know the names of these four bald heads, so I and Tofu secretly numbered them, namely Bald No. [-] to Bald No. [-].These four people don't talk much, but every move seems to have been trained.

(End of this chapter)