Chapter Twenty-Four Return to Beijing

  "Bang, bang!" Two shots, Zhu Baozi didn't hit either of them, and I couldn't help but look down on him. Fortunately, there was a stone, one shot hit the left horn of it, and it retreated four or five meters in pain. Shi Tou pulled me to run.

  The rustling sound of the wind suddenly rose again, Shi Tou turned his head and fired a shot, but missed its tentacles. It jumped high in the back, opened its big mouth, and pounced down fiercely. Shi Tou and I dodged to both sides at the same time, barely avoiding its attack. At this moment, Zhu Baozi shouted loudly, "Come quickly, there's a way here!"

  I and Shi Tou ran over to take a look, Zhu Bao Zai was hiding in a place that looked like a drainage ditch. Just as I and Shi Tou jumped down, the monster jumped over our heads, almost making us its snack.

  "Damn it!" the stone exclaimed, and Zhu Baozi and I looked up to see that this damned monster had actually pounced on a nest of man-eating ants, which were now crawling wildly all over the ground.

  "Run fast!" I shouted and turned around to run.

  The more he ran, the more downward he went, and finally he ran into a dark passageway again. The rustling sound behind him was getting closer and closer, and the ants that preyed on humans had already caught up.

  Bang! I was hit so hard that stars were flying before my eyes.

  "This is a dead end!" I cursed, covering my head. It's likely that we'll also escape the fate of becoming skulls.

  The stone opened a small flashlight and saw that it was a place sealed with wooden boards. The wood felt smooth to the touch, as if something had been applied to it. The stone used a military shovel to chop at the wood wildly, and slowly, cracks began to appear on the board. The sound of sand seemed to be ringing in my ears already. At this moment, my heart suddenly became somewhat desperate, and what I was most unwilling to accept was that I still didn't know what had happened to me during those two years. I felt like I wasn't a complete person.

  Rumble, rumble, I sprang up with a start and asked "What's the noise?" As soon as I finished asking, the wooden board was suddenly burst open, and behind it was water. We were like leaves in the water, completely unable to control our bodies, being tossed about by the rushing water. Fortunately, we also escaped the fate of becoming skeletons. Not long after, I felt a light coming from behind, the passageway should be connected to the outside world. However, after several intense collisions, plus the lack of oxygen in the water, I gloriously fainted.

  When I regained consciousness again, I was already in the ward. A nurse in her twenties stood beside me and smiled at me when she saw that I had woken up, saying "You've been unconscious for five days, you're finally awake."

  I think I've finally seen a real person, if I open my eyes to see zongzi, I'll definitely collapse, so I thanked him and said "Thank you for saving me, by the way, where's my friend?"

  "Oh, that fatty and the one with a scar on his forehead, they're just next door." The little nurse asked mischievously, "By the way, how did you guys fall into the river? And get hurt so badly?"

  "Ah," I thought of all that had happened before and was speechless, letting out a long sigh.

  "Haha, why do you look so worn out at such a young age?"

  I glanced at the nurse and smiled, saying "Tianshan Tongyu - outwardly a perfect beauty, but inwardly with 365 cracks, each crack inscribed with the four characters of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, worn out to the point of being eerie."

  "Haha, you're really interesting, take a good rest!" After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, I hurriedly called out to her and asked "Hey, where's my stuff?"

  She walked back and opened the drawer beside my bed, saying "Are these the ones in your pocket?"

  I took a look, the jade pendant and small jade piece were still there, but the gold thread was gone. I didn't bother to argue with her about it either, after all that thing is the cheapest here, so I just nodded my head and stopped talking.

  We are now in the last village clinic we passed before entering the mountain. Fortunately, the place is small and there are no people asking us questions. We stayed for almost a month, and I and Shi Tou just left, Zhu Bao Zi quietly left on the tenth day.

  Sitting in the passenger car of the BMW, Shi Tou said to me "I found that little nurse is quite reluctant to part with you."

  "She's the kind of person who would hand you a bottle of poison with a smile, give you a rope to hang yourself, and wave goodbye with a handkerchief as you jump off a building."

  The stone gave me a white eye and said "Can't you say something nice?"

  I replied, "I'm not RMB, how can I make everyone like me?" After finishing speaking, my face turned serious and I said to Shi Tou, "Shi Tou, let's talk about something serious. If I enter the ancient tomb again, will you still accompany me?"

  "Go ahead, but I charge a fee. Small tomb 50 cents, big tomb 1 yuan, risking life 5 yuan, directly risking your life, you have to give half of your family's property to my parents." Stone said.

  "Damn it," I cursed with a smile, and my eyes suddenly turned red.

  "But where are you going again?" Shi Tou asked.

  I thought for a moment and said, "The tomb of the owner of this jade pendant." After finishing speaking, I took out the jade pendant and handed it to Shi Tou. Shi Tou looked left and right, shook his head and said, "Can't see anything."

  I pointed to an inscription on the jade pendant and said, "This is a character from the Han Dynasty. It should be left by tomb raiders in the Tang Dynasty. Whoever can wear this kind of jade pendant must have a high status. I guess it's the leader of those tomb raiders."

  The stone read out the word "Yi".

  I nodded and said "Maybe it can tell me what happened during those two years when I lost my memory."

  The stone closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair and said "Alright, the thinking work is still up to you, I'm working for you now, wherever you go, I'll follow."

  I smiled and didn't say anything else.

  On the third day, when we rushed back to Beijing, Shi Tou went home directly, while I took a taxi straight to Grandpa Zhang's house. Now, probably only he can enlighten me.

  But his house was locked, I had forgotten how many years Grandpa Zhang hadn't locked the door. Even when it's open, no one dares to enter! I directly jumped over the wall and went in, the inner door of Grandpa Zhang's house wasn't locked, I opened it and took a look inside, it was already dusty, probably been gone for some days. On the table, there was a letter, under the letter was actually the purple wooden box that Liu Wei brought back.

  I opened the letter and saw written on it:

  Lin Zi:

  Although I didn't let you become my apprentice, I've always treated you as one. Now that I'm going out to take care of some business, if I don't die, I'll be back in a year. The things in the wooden box, please keep them for me. No need to say more, it's best if you don't go searching for those lost memories, endless troubles will ensue.

  Zhang Tiyun

  This is the first time I knew Grandpa Zhang's name, he clearly knows that I lost my memory, why doesn't he let me find it? After opening the wooden box, I was shocked again, and what was placed inside was a copper running rabbit, which was exactly the same as the image in the recess of the ancient tomb, and my half-piece jade pendant.

  I picked up the copper rabbit, feeling cool to the touch. I hastily returned home with the copper rabbit in hand, looking at the half-piece of jade pendant on my desk and the copper rabbit in my hand, I firmly believed that all this was not a coincidence, there must be some connection between them, I had to find out, I didn't want to be a person without complete memories, I wanted to be a complete person.

  Lighting a cigarette and lying in bed, I finally understand the meaning of an idiom - exhausted mentally and physically. All I want to do is sleep well, not thinking about anything or doing anything.

  The phone rang, I grabbed it in a daze and said "hello".

  "Mr. Lin, hello!" Hearing the voice, I suddenly sat up, and all sleepiness disappeared. Coldly said "It's you."