Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 608 Rain Without Thunder

If I am dreaming right now, why am I able to feel emotions?

Although Liu's tone was calm, it contained a lot of emotions. I felt helplessness, longing, pain, sadness, and perhaps another strange emotion.

"Senior, as you said, why don't you go find your senior brother Bu Shi Wu? Instead, you've been living in seclusion at Qiandao Lake, waiting patiently?"

Faced with my bold question, he frowned and said, "I can't find it, or rather, my senior brother deliberately doesn't want me to find it. As for why I chose Qiandao Lake, it's because it has what I want."

“Xiao Zhaoxue is very smart. She is right. The reason why the Jiang family descendants are disabled is because of me. Their family is just a tool I used. Helping the Jiang villagers find the treasure back then was just part of my plan.”

I frowned and asked, "The murals on Dongshan Mountain record the time. The rebel army's treasure was found by the people of Jiangcun around the thirteenth year of Daoguang. Senior, you are a mysterious person, but your senior brother is very famous in the Feng Shui world. He was born in the first year of the Republic of China. The late Qing Dynasty was right next to the Republic of China, but there was a gap of several decades in between. Does that mean that you are several decades older than your senior brother? Is your real birth year even before Daoguang?"

However, Liu said, "You're very clever to be able to guess these things from those remaining clues."

"It doesn't matter what year I was born, you just need to know one thing: I've lived for a very long time."

"My senior brother refuses to see me because he is now wary of me; my skills have long surpassed those of our master."

"Senior, please forgive my bluntness, but your senior brother should have passed away long ago."

"shut up!"

He suddenly opened his eyes wide and roared at me, "Rumors are not to be believed! My senior brother's skills are no less than mine! I've managed to survive until now! He can do the same!"

"May I ask how you've managed to live this long? There's a folk saying about lifespan borrowing; did you borrow someone else's lifespan?"

"Want to know?"

"think."

"Hehe, borrowing lifespan... I don't care for such low-level methods. You may be young, but you have some knowledge. Have you ever heard of a method called reincarnation?"

"Reincarnation?"

“What is that? I’ve never heard of it before,” I said.

He shook his head, clearly not wanting to explain to me. Just then, I noticed that there was a thin red string around his withered right wrist.

“In that case, why don’t you cast a divination for your senior brother? Find out where he is now. Others may not be able to do it, but you are well-versed in divination and can certainly do it.”

He replied to me, "Because our sect has a rule that fellow disciples should not cheat on each other, and even I wouldn't dare to break the sect's rules."

I was stunned.

His answer sounded reasonable at first glance, but it didn't seem to hold water. After all these years, how could there be any fellow disciples left? I had a feeling that he was afraid to do the divination, so he used the excuse that fellow disciples don't participate in divination.

"Enough! I shouldn't have said so much to you. It's all over. The Jiang family will respect and support me as before, and Qiandao Lake will return to its former tranquility. In the future, there will be people like you who come to search for treasure. As long as I wait until dawn, this calamity will be over, and I can live for another thirty years."

At that moment, the bell rang, and I gradually regained consciousness.

The scene before my eyes was truly terrifying. It was like some kind of hypnotic technique. While under its influence, the person was conscious but what they saw was not real. This might be the real magic.

"Head!"

The atmosphere was tense just moments ago, but now it's deathly silent.

Everyone lay down on the ground: the Jiang family members, the one-eyed man's gang with guns, the watermelon-headed man, Xu Tongshan, and the gang leader. They were all lying motionless on the ground.

The moon was hanging in the sky, and the drizzle was still falling. But Liu walked into his little wooden cart, sat down, and just stared at the moon.

I can't control what others do. Whether they agree or not, I have to lead the way and leave.

The one-eyed man and his gang had their shotguns right in front of me; I could grab them with a simple reach. But at that moment, I had completely lost the will to fight back. There was no chance of winning against these people... They could predict every move you made, and not like the gang leader who relied on strategy, but on "hard calculation." They relied on the Nine Palaces Feng Shui, Plum Blossom Numerology, and the I Ching's celestial phenomena.

She had been meticulously planning for months! Xu Tongshan secretly provided full support! Jiang Zhaoxue schemed and plotted behind the backs of the Jiang family elders!

This three-way conspiracy, which had been kept almost entirely hidden from everyone, was resolved by a few rings of bells. Damn it, to put it bluntly, this Liu is not human, but a demigod who knows everything. No matter how powerful the leader is, he is just an ordinary person. How could a human possibly defeat such a demigod!

I turned my back and ran. I had memorized the route when the one-eyed man led us here. As long as we found the small door in the wall, we could leave this place.

The rain wasn't heavy, but whether it was due to panic or something else, the rain felt exceptionally cold on my skin, the chill penetrating straight to my bones.

My head was spinning, and I was panting heavily as I ran, but I still couldn't find that little door.

Just then, Liu's voice came from behind:

"I have already told you, let him go, and your path to survival will appear."

"I won't let go! I already told you! I will definitely lead the way out! No matter what ghosts are in this yard! I was able to find a way out once before! I can find it a second time!"

However, Liu said coldly, "I see that you have good fortune with you, so I am unwilling to kill you all. If you are stubborn and do not understand, then you can stay here with me."

“This Sunset Courtyard was built by my own hands many years ago. This barren mountain, this standing wall, every brick and tile, every orientation, all embody my understanding of the mountain and water's negative influences. How could your half-baked Xuan Kong Feng Shui possibly understand and resolve them?”

I didn't respond to him, so I lowered my head and walked around again. Sure enough, just as Liu had said, I saw the small door.

Separated by a door.

Outside the door is life; inside the door is death.

I wiped the water off my face and turned to look at the boss leaning against the corner of the wall.

Memories of the past surfaced in my mind. The world was a dangerous place; without my boss, I would have died countless times over.

I walked over and sat down next to the wall.

He used to take care of me, but this time it's my turn to take care of him.

I was freezing cold, and I wanted to smoke a cigarette to warm myself up, but when I took out the cigarette pack, it was completely broken.

I took a deep breath, leaned against the wall, and slowly closed my eyes.

Liu didn't say anything more about my action. According to him, he wanted to wait until the rain stopped and it was dawn.

Time seemed to slow down at this moment.

I don't know how much time had passed, maybe an hour, maybe forty minutes, when suddenly thunder rumbled in the sky.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Thunder rumbled one after another, accompanied by lightning that ripped through the dark night sky.

However, Liu arrived in the middle of the yard in his small wooden cart, his brows furrowed as he stared at the sudden flash of lightning and thunder.

"It's supposed to be rainy here, so there shouldn't be thunder... Strange."

He raised his hand and began to calculate.

As he rapidly calculated, he muttered to himself, "No... I can't figure out the reason. Why is that?"

Click!

The thunder roared again, and then I was shocked to see what appeared to be a "figure" on the tall wall!

That's right, it's a person!

A person is standing on the wall!

However, Liu also saw it. He immediately stood up, and his gaze was no longer calm, but showed surprise and doubt.

The next second, the "shadow" on the wall suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Such a heavy curse!"

After saying that, the dark figure leaped down and jumped straight down!

Bang!

Like a boulder falling from a mountain, the man landed on the ground in a horse stance. The force of his jump caused the tea garden stones within a meter of his feet to crack inch by inch.

Then the man straightened up and walked step by step toward Liu Bu Liu.

As he walked, the man loudly recited a poem: "A half-cup of tea has been warm for over a hundred years! New frost falls on the old tiles of the house! The white crane has long been buried in the green mountains! Only the broken hexagram remains to guard the spring sun!"

"Fellow Daoist, I have finally found you."

I stared wide-eyed in astonishment at the person who had suddenly appeared.

The visitor was none other than Master Ma!

I quickly turned my head to look at the unconscious boss.

We haven't lost; we're still putting in the effort.