Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 5 Digging Mushrooms

Tofu gasped, and said in surprise: "It was reported on TV two days ago that the hole was dug by the tomb robbers? Oh my god, that place is just under the main road. You are a wild dog eating it." A bear’s gall—a dog’s gall!”

It is said that the location of the tomb is quite strange, and one of them is close to the nearby buildings, which is inconvenient to be unearthed, so it was directly backfilled.Coupled with the fact that there are people coming and going on the main road, not many dare to attack, so the people above are quite relieved.

I know it's a hard mushroom and it's not tasty, but at this time, I can't pick and choose.Seeing that Tofu is like a cat with fried hair, he said: "If you are caught in this job, you will be sentenced severely. You should think about it carefully. If you don't want to join forces, I will do it alone, and I will never get you involved."

Although Tofu's life is also difficult, it is still stable anyway.If you follow my path, it will be difficult to say in the future.They are all brothers who have known each other for many years. If it is not necessary, I don't want to drag him through this muddy water.

Tofu's expression gradually became serious, and he said: "Brothers fighting tigers, father and son soldiers in battle, although we are not brothers, we are better than brothers. You can't do adventures alone, let alone get rich. Come on. What do you say, what do I do, do you have a plan? Where do we start?"

It was getting late now, we hadn’t eaten yet, and we just felt hungry, so we decided to solve the problem of food and clothing first. Now that we didn’t have money in hand, we didn’t dare to go out to eat and drink, so we ordered two bowls of noodles, and the two of us Discuss while eating.

This time, under the channel of the Yonghe River is the ancient tomb. Hu Laoxia has already helped me find out the general location.It's just that there is a lot of traffic on both sides of the strait, and the flow of people is like weaving. It is definitely not a place where we can work, so we have to make a detour.

What kind of detour?

When ordinary people dig mushrooms for the first time, they definitely don’t know how to dig them, but there are detailed records in the work notes left by my grandfather.

Tomb robbers are divided into two factions, the North and the South.The two factions take the Yangtze River as the dividing line, and places like Changsha, Lingnan, and Jiangning are collectively referred to as the Southern faction; Rehe, Hengluo, and Guanzhong belong to the Northern faction.

If you want to dig mushrooms by robbing tombs, you must first dig a hole to enter. This is what we commonly call robbing holes.

Leaving aside the southern faction, the northern faction is growing stronger and stronger, such as where is the hole made by the robbers, is it the side of the tomb, the body of the tomb, the front of the coffin, or the end of the coffin?Dig into a square hole or a round hole?All of these are exquisite, and there is a kind of "Guanzhong-style robbery hole" that can be used right now.

What is Guanzhong-style robbery?
This kind of robbery hole is generally not drilled near the tomb, which is easy to expose the target, but is chosen in a hidden place, some even a few miles away.

First measure the depth of the tomb, and then drill a shaft of the same depth.Go down from the mouth of the well, then break through the robbery hole, and go back to the tomb from the bottom.In this way, the robbery cave and the real main tomb can often be separated by hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters.

These particulars are all recorded in the work notes, how to type, what are the particulars, and what tools to use are clearly written on it.With this thing, our safety is also guaranteed, but if we follow the Guanzhong-style burglary, it will take a long time.

I finished explaining the reasoning to Tofu, and then said: "If a worker wants to be good at his work, he must first sharpen his tools. I will write you a list with some tools on it. We will divide the army tomorrow. Go buy tools, I'm going to look for the location of the hole to make sure nothing goes wrong."

Tofu seemed particularly excited. Although this kid is usually quite timid, he is a little afraid of chaos.To put it bluntly, it's just that he doesn't have much sense in talking and doing things, and is easy to be fooled by others, so the family property is scrapped.His thoughts are written all over his face, and he is already fantasizing about what to do when he gets rich.

"Let's go to Bao Chiyan to have a good meal first, sea crab, sea urchin, sand worm, lobster, grouper, green abalone, put some garlic, soy sauce, white vinegar, dip it or fry it, all come to the table. "

As the saying goes, you can eat mountains when you rely on mountains, and eat sea when you rely on the sea. The sea is close to here, and seafood is a must.

The more he talked, the hungrier I became, so I couldn't help interrupting him, saying: "Come on, let's eat the noodles first, and I'm going to die of hunger after talking about it. When I open the door tomorrow, I will ask how this person died. How did you do it?" Say? Damn, why is the broken noodles so light, is there any salt?"

"Salt?" Tofu immediately became unhappy when he heard me criticize him, and said, "You don't know that the price of salt has increased recently!"

After eating two bowls of hot noodles, the two of us chatted casually. In order to prepare for the next day's work, we went to bed early and fell asleep.

He rented one bedroom and one living room. The living room was converted into a studio for training. There was only one bedroom. The two of us slept together in one bed. There was an air conditioner in the room. Open, but also save electricity.

Due to the hot weather, and two people crowded together, I was woken up by the heat in the middle of the night.I couldn't take it anymore, and I was about to get up and go to the window to blow some air, but when I opened my eyes, I suddenly felt that something was wrong.

I always feel that there seems to be some changes in the room, but with a glance, the closet is still there, the computer is still there, and the tofu on the bed still occupies two-thirds of the place in a sleepy position.

Nothing had changed, but where did this strange feeling come from?The difficulty is my own psychological problem, a little overwhelmed?

When I turned my gaze, I suddenly realized that the wretch cat was gone!

I obviously tied it up and put it on the desk at the foot of the bed, why did it disappear?
Did someone move it?I immediately got the tofu up, and said in a hurry: "Say, where is that cat on the desk?" Tofu was confused, probably still in love with Duke Zhou, rubbed his eyes and said, "Are you annoying? You want to take a mandarin duck bath with Liu Xiaoxue! It would be too wicked to wake me up at this time, my little brother will cry!"

I was amused, and said: "If you don't tell the truth, I will let your little brother not even have a chance to cry in the future." As he spoke, he gestured to an ornamental waist knife on the bedside.

Tofu shuddered, and woke up from the doze: "Cat? You mean that red-eyed iron anchor? I put it in the bathroom. The desk is just so small. Putting that thing is too obstructive."

I didn't dare to tell Tofu about the origin of the cat, I know this kid too well, he is a soft-legged shrimp.Don't look at how good at talking, bragging can blow out flowers, but he is as courageous as a mouse, jumping up when he sees a cockroach, I feel ashamed.

With his courage, if you want to tell him that the river is haunted, will he be scared to pee?
I didn't know what to say for a while, I felt uneasy, and asked, "Did you touch the rope on it?" Tofu probably saw that my face was not good, so he dodged his eyes and said, "The rope was caught by me." Untie it, take it to dry the socks...why, this doesn't work?"

I just feel like my scalp is blown, and it's not like beating, or not beating.Immediately turned on the light, walked all the way to the bathroom, opened the door to see, besides the toothbrush cup and towel, there was no cat inside.

Tofu hissed, his expression changed, and he said, "I just put it in this position, it's not good... There's a thief in the house!" Then he picked up the toothbrush cup, turned on all the lights, and searched vigilantly.

I took out a cigarette, and felt a little nervous.The cat is a mythical beast in the water, and it is said that it will flee when it encounters water.It disappeared without a trace at this moment, so the legend is true, did it really escape by borrowing water?
So where does it go?Is it back in the river?

Hu Laoxia, a professional mushroom digger, kept secret about that thing, and even tricked me into catching cats.Now if the cat escapes back into the water, it will be too bad for our next actions.

That thing can bring bad luck to people, without the restraint of the red rope, maybe I will be even more unlucky next time.

Tofu looked puzzled, and looked for it at home, thinking it was a thief. After smoking two cigarettes, I said, "Don't look for it, it's home."

Tofu came back to his senses, with a dumbfounded expression on his face, and said, "You're kidding me. No iron cat would go away by itself."

I was also careless for a while, and didn't tell the truth about the water to the tofu.Now he couldn't hide it anymore, so he talked about the cat-catching in the water, and then said: "This thing probably escaped back into the river with the water, we have to be careful next, I guess it won't let it go."

(End of this chapter)