Ghostly Eyes [Tomb Raiders]

Chapter 102

The two were talking in a low voice, their feet following them non-stop.

"At first everything was peaceful and everyone was living an ordinary life. Until that year, the princess suddenly became seriously ill." About to mention the heavy place, Li Qiu's eyes were covered with a faint haze, not only Not only the sympathy for the woman in the story, but also the sadness related to my own past.

Ah Jiu held his hand in good time.

Life and death have their own destiny, many of the most obvious truths, once they hit the important people, they will selectively turn a blind eye.Just like he treated Tong Jiu in the battle in southern Yunnan, just like everyone treated the princess at that time.

"In order to treat the princess, the Feng family has also organized and tried all kinds of methods, and found folk remedies from foreign experts, but it was useless. The patient continued to weaken day after day. It is the princess who is the most calm about her illness. I couldn’t stop comforting them, and I was more optimistic than anyone else. As a result, in that year, a rumor spread out of nowhere in Beijing..."

"The Shang family has a longevity pot, which can save people from dying, right?"

"Yes, and then the elder brother and master and the others came to visit. After being rejected a few times, they came up with the kidnapping."

"Okay, needless to say." Ah Jiu turned in front of Li Qiu, originally wanted to calm Li Qiu's emotions with a kiss, but found that Li Qiu's eyes were calm and unwavering, which could only be transformed after experiencing countless times of wind and rain Transparent and indifferent.

Li Qiu saw the surprise in Ah Jiu's eyes, bit his lips triumphantly, and said, "It's unbelievable, isn't it? Brother, they all said that I have changed. I didn't believe it at first, but seeing your expression, I believed me." It has indeed gotten rid of many shadows of the past. At least now, I can tell you these stories calmly and objectively."

Ah Jiu felt distressed, so she kissed without wasting.

"Brother and the others kidnapped me, but when I went back... I was scolded by the princess." Talking about the first meeting with everyone in the organization, Li Qiu can still clearly recall the shocking but funny scene at that time "Can you imagine? A couple of big men, standing against the wall, huddled together bloody, scolded by a sick woman. That scene is really..."

"It seems that this princess is not bad." Ah Jiu also tasted the subtlety.

"Of course, she is a real princess." Li Qiu shook his head with emotion and admiration, "After scolding, the princess untied me personally, and planned to go to Shang's house with me to apologize. She is a real princess." The leader is open and aboveboard, unrestrained and unrestrained, which makes people admire from the bottom of their hearts. But before the princess sent me back, the response from the Shang family came...my family rejected the deal."

It was just a misunderstanding and farce, but it turned into a real tragedy because of the ruthlessness of the Shang family.

"What happened next?" Ah Jiu couldn't help asking.

Li Qiu was silent for a while, "Later, I told you that, regardless of the princess's obstruction, I found Big Brother and the others, and planned the robbery of the Changsheng Palace later. Big Brother and the others only wanted to save people, but I did this... ..." Li Qiu choked up for a moment, and tried hard to clenched his teeth to stop making a sound.

"You just want to seek justice for yourself." Ah Jiu said what he couldn't say for him.

"Did I do something wrong?" Li Qiu suddenly raised his head, and for the first and only time, he handed over the long-buried question in his heart to others.He has never asked the princess or his elder brother this question. He has been suffering repeatedly in his throat for many years. He is afraid of getting different answers, and he is afraid that others will say with contempt or disgust: How do you have the face to do this.

"After all, I'm an outsider, so it's hard to determine right or wrong." Ah Jiu looked at her lover seriously, and said, "But I believe that if the time could be restarted, you would still make the same choice at that moment, right?"

Li Qiu's eyes fluttered, and he muttered: "...Yes."

Resentment and grievance, revenge and counterattack—that was his immediate reaction when he was abandoned by his family. Even if time went back, the real and strong emotion would still not be erased.

"That's enough, make a choice, bear the choice, haven't you done a good job these years, princess?"

Li Qiu rubbed his forehead and heart, gradually relaxed, and returned to the original topic: "Later, it was proved that the Longevity Pieces - a single sun face, did not have any healing effect, so it was useless in the end. In the last two years of the princess, she Taught me a lot, about tomb robbery, about antique business, and their 'home'. When the princess passed away, I hoped that I could take her place, and I agreed."

Ah Jiu frowned, the princess's succession made Li Qiu shoulder all the responsibilities she shouldered, how heavy it was.

"Having said that, but as you can see, I am the one who is taken care of the most." Li Qiu easily tilted his head and jumped up a step, "Brother, master, and the parrot are all very kind to me. Especially the elder brother, who has always regarded me as a brother all these years."

"Well, I understand, they are your natal family."

Li Qiu was slipped by Lei's foot when he said "mother's family", and he gave Ah Jiu a red-eared glance.Ah Jiu smiled and pulled the man back, and the two of them caught up with the paper figurine.After walking for a while, light finally appeared in the darkness in the distance, and a cluster of tiny flames shivered on the dark ground.

When I got closer, I realized that it was a cluster of bonfires. Around the bonfire, there were a few people lying around, with a few luggage bags scattered. They were the long-lost troops.

The army of paper figurines stopped outside the light of the bonfire, and then spread out silently, one by one, disappearing into the darkness, surrounding the crowd.As long as there is a moment, they will rush out, completely drowning the team and the campfire.

Li Qiu stretched out his fingers and counted the people one by one, except for the three of them who were not in the team, the rest were all here.

"Ah Jiu, there is a problem here."

"Hmm." All signs indicated that the caster behind the paper figurine should be someone from the team. At this time, everyone gathered around the campfire, and it seemed that the insider hadn't shown his feet yet.

However, they were too far away and didn't bring binoculars. They could only see a few blurred figures under the firelight and darkness, but they couldn't tell who those people were, whether there were Shang Feijie and Zhang Bold.

At this time, a person beside the fire stood up, Li Qiu finally saw his face clearly, it was the guide Lao Lin.Lao Lin took a sip of water, walked up to a person on the ground, leaned over and said something.Half of the man on the ground was sunk in the darkness, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

Ah Jiu looked at it quietly for a while, and said, "Now we are at least sure that the murderer is here."

"Probably yes."

When Li Qiu turned around, he saw Ah Jiu tear open their backpacks and start searching for weapons.He took out the gun, weighed it, and felt that it was not suitable, so he threw it aside.

Li Qiu had an idea, knowing that a long-range attack weapon was needed in this situation, he hurriedly opened his backpack, took out two pieces of arc wood, tied them together, and quickly formed a strong bowstring bow.

In the current expedition team, no one is willing to carry heavy mechanical bows and arrows that take up space, not to mention that the one Li Qiu is holding is not a modern compound bow or pulley bow, but the oldest wooden bowstring bow. .

"Why do you...?" Ah Jiu was surprised.

"I asked for it when they were getting ready yesterday, and I thought it would suit you very well, but I didn't expect it to be really useful."

Ah Jiu took the bow in surprise, tried it, and then took a tough and thin arrow that was as long as her forearm, and put it on the end of the bow. The length was just right.Li Qiu grabbed Ah Jiu, pulled off the metal buckle on the backpack, and put it on Ah Jiu's thumb as a thumb.The bowstring hurts the hand, and there is no leather sheath for now, at least to protect the fingers from injury.

Everything is ready, Ah Jiu hooked the string with his thumb, slightly pressed his index finger and middle finger, and drew the bow like a full moon. An arrow piercing the sky flew out instantly, blasting the burning bonfire!

Ah Jiu's arrow was fully coated with phosphorous powder, and the fire exploded with a "boom", more than doubling its range.

Lao Lin screamed and jumped away, the flying sparks spared none of the nine people, but except for Lao Lin, only two team members jumped up to dodge together, and the other six people all lay in place, turning a blind eye to the flying sparks, like wooden people. of motionless.

A group of flames burned the trousers of a team member, and the flames burst into flames, and swallowed the person completely in a blink of an eye.

"It's a paper man!" Li Qiu exclaimed in shock, and at the same time understood Ah Jiu's intention of attacking.

The team member who struggled was burnt to ashes. Like him, there was another sitting team member who was splashed with a trace of sparks and soon burned all over his body.The remaining people were lying on the ground. Although they were motionless as dead bodies, they were not ignited by the flames, so they should be alive.

"Hmm... there seem to be three." Ah Jiu narrowed his eyes, and this time the three phosphorus arrows were launched at the same time, aiming at the three team members including Lao Lin who couldn't stop shooting the flames.

The string moved, the arrow fired, and flames burst out from under the feet of the three of them again, screaming and dodging.

"let's go."

Ajiu pulled Li Qiu up and landed in the central square amidst the splash of fire.

"It's you!?" The guide, Lao Lin, extinguished the flames on his arms, suddenly pointed at the two of them, and shouted, "Sure enough, you are manipulating the paper figurines, everyone kill them!"

The two team members had already raised their guns, and "chug" shot wildly.Ah Jiu pushed Li Qiu away, turned over the bonfire with a longbow, and took advantage of the chaos of the fire, and cut off the wrist of a team member in a blink of an eye.

Li Qiu didn't have time to pay attention to them, so he seized the opportunity to check those people on the ground, and he saw the fattest and biggest one among them, and turned him over to see that it was Zhang Bold.Ke Zhang boldly has only one piece of underwear left on his body, his body is cold and hard, his eyes are wide open, he looks like a zombie brown.

Li Qiu tried his breath, he was still angry, but he looked like he was dying.Li Qiu thought quickly, and stripped off the only clothes left on Zhang Bold's body, and sure enough, he found a paper figurine clinging to his spine.As soon as Li Qiu tore off the paper figurine, Zhang boldly twitched and groaned tremblingly.

"Frozen... Grandpa froze to death... those bastard grandchildren!"

Huh, this time it's finally a real person.

Li Qiu followed the gourd painting and took off the paper figurines from everyone one by one, and the "dead corpses" on the ground came back to life one by one.Soon he discovered that there were also people lying in the shadows outside the campfire, probably the team members who had been replaced by paper figurines just now.It was not until the end that he found Shang Feijie.

Uncovering the last paper figurine, Shang Feijie also recovered, Li Qiu patted him worriedly, suddenly his armpit felt cold, and was resisted by a sharp object.Shang Feijie panted and turned his head, there was a short gun under his body, as long as he moved his fingers, the bullet would penetrate Li Qiufen in minutes.

When he saw the hostility and vigilance in Shang Feijie's eyes, Li Qiu understood why Lao Lin said those words before.I'm afraid that since Ah Jiu and the three of them left the team because of a trap, people have been exaggerating the idea that the insider is undercover. In addition, when the team was attacked, only the three of them were not on the scene, so they were naturally regarded as imaginary enemies.

Shang Feijie stared at Li Qiu vigilantly, and quietly squeezed the trigger, Li Qiu had no choice but to obediently raise his hands to signal his surrender.The people on the ground got up one after another, without exception, their weapons were aimed at Li Qiu, with suspicion and anger flowing in their eyes.