One step, two steps, light movements, Coco walked up the stairs, carefully pushed open the wooden door of the basement, outside the door is a simple wooden room, when passing the table and chairs made of bamboo, Coco reached out and touched it, and the fingertips were stained with a layer of ash, this house seems to be usually unoccupied, and the small window is a faint thin light, what time is it? Twilight? Or early in the morning? Regardless of him, Ke Ke thought, try to get out of here first, maybe not too far from the city, he can find someone to pass the word to the Public Security Bureau, so that he will not be so passive, although he is determined to find out the facts behind that photo, but if Li Yiji has any excessive requirements, he can also withdraw in time.

Turning around the two rooms, empty, in the dim light, a large wooden door different from the other doors appeared on the left-hand side, Coco approached the door, took a deep breath, would there be any danger in opening the door? Clench your fists and stretch them out again, stupid, Coco silently said to herself, at this time, do you expect a hero to save you?

…… Your hero has already been by your shot.

I sighed involuntarily...... Go to his danger! Coco stretched out her hand to open the heavy door, the dazzling light rushed in, and after slowly opening her eyes to adjust to the light, she froze in place as she saw what she saw.

In the early morning, mist, birdsong, towering pine trees, fallen leaves, and a deep mountain forest with no end in sight.

"This ...... Where ......" Coco unconsciously said the words in his heart.

"Halfway up the mountain." Li Yiji's calm voice came from behind him, and he walked to the side of Coco, who was standing still, holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, wearing a black Tai Chi suit, and his expression was full of leisure on vacation. "It's 5 a.m., yes, you've slept all day...... You stare at me like this, and I won't wake up from this dream, you're not sleeping, look at your feet. ”

Coco looked at her feet in a daze, and among the withered yellow leaves, there was a small ground squirrel, looking at her in a daze with round eyes, suddenly turned around, and jumped onto a nearby tree with a few rubs, and disappeared into the intertwining of leaves after a while.

"You can send another hour of stay, I'm in the study."

Coco tried to accept the facts, now in a deep mountain and old forest, full of fallen leaves, there was a mountain road in front of the blur, looking up was the hazy light of the morning in the towering trees, looking down and seeing the squirrel again, when was the last time I saw a squirrel? The squirrel sat on the wooden railing, holding an unknown nut in his hand, when suddenly another squirrel swooped down and snatched the nut, and the little things disappeared in an instant with a few jumps.

How long has it been since you've seen a landscape like this? Coco took a deep breath and felt that I was really on the same planet as I was standing here every day when I was working in the autopsy room, going in and out of the bloody scene every day. Perhaps, I have left the earth......

Wait a minute! What am I doing?

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Uncle Li Yiji held the fragrant teacup, put his feet on the bamboo stool, leisurely looked at the collection of magazines, just turned a page of paper, the door was knocked open by Peng Di, and a piece of tea in the cup slowly sank.

Coco stood in the doorway with a glare, "What did you just say?" ”

The uncle glanced at the old wooden door that was shaken down countless dust: "Little Coco, this old house has a hundred years of history inside and out, can you respect the old man." ”

Coco blinked, and scratched her nails on the door twice without fear, "You have the ability to let me go back!" ”

Uncle smiled and shook his head, "We still have an hour to go, you can choose to take a break, or continue to scratch the door." ”

"Where?"

The uncle picked up the teacup in one hand, "Does it make any difference where you go?" There is neither human population nor Internet in this deep mountain, and the probability of mobile phone signals is slightly lower than that of aliens, so you can't contact your Captain Zhou wherever you go. ”

"Who said I was going to contact him." Coco muttered.

An inconspicuous chuckle appeared at the corner of my uncle's mouth.

Coco tilted her head and unconsciously kicked the frame of the wooden door under her feet, "Then how do we get to that ancient tomb?" ”

"Horseback riding." Uncle Li Yiji turned another page.

"I don't know how to ride a horse." Coco raised an eyebrow.

"Then I'll take you on the same horse."

“…… I'm going to tell you to take advantage of me. Coco smiled slyly.

Uncle Li Yiji lamented, "Then there is only one choice, I will ride a horse, you can run all the way, the boy chasing the wind." ”

Coco pouted, turned around, and walked away, and the uncle behind him raised his voice and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go back to sleep in the coffin!" Coco shouted calmly.

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"Some people say that history is a long river, if you hold the river with both hands, the dripping fingertips are all the cold tears of the old people."

"Uncle, can you stop pretending to be a literary teenager......" Coco was bumped on the horse's back, and he was already lying on the horse's neck completely regardless of the image.

"Little Coco, you can't lie on your stomach like that all the time, and you can't stand up straight at the bottom."

"I know," Coco's resentful voice contrasted sharply with the high interest of Li Yiji, "I'm waiting for my spine to grind into a round ......"

The uncle laughed unceremoniously on the back of the other horse.

Coco looked at him with resentful eyes, "You wait, I'm going to grind my vertebrae into four sharp corners and use them as darts to cut you to death......"

"Hahaha, you've 'laughed' me to death, thank you, thank you......"

“…… You‘rewelcome！ Coco glared at her uncle hatefully again, and turned her head to pretend to be dead.

In the sparse jungle, the light of dusk spills down in small patches from afar, and the homing birds bounce among the unknown leaves, chirping at different heights and lows.

"Uncle......" Coco's slightly hoarse voice also rose and fell with the horse's back, "why did you take me to the tomb?" ”

"Didn't you want to investigate the strange figure in that tomb?" My uncle got a lot of grass out of nowhere, and chewed it casually.

"That's a bait for me, not a reason for you."

Uncle grinned, "Do you think I'm going to arrest you for some funeral goods?" ”

"Don't think I'll believe you if you smile so heartily." Coco turned her head and said.

Uncle thought for a while, although he still smiled, he was much more solemn: "Little Coco, my family has a longer history than this country, and the history of tomb robbing is as long as this land, what do you think is the reason?" ”

"Desire." Coco doesn't think twice.

Uncle looked at her meaningfully, "Desire is only one of them, in the tomb, outside the tomb, alive and dead, in fact, it is a line on the number of lives, I have been in and out of many ancient tombs, in my opinion, these guys who are buried in the ground and still hold gold and silver, none of them are not self-righteous bastards, but they all think that they are blessed to shine on their descendants in the next thousand years, so I don't feel guilty about entering and leaving anyone's tomb, but I will not let myself one day become like them, people who really know who they are, It will only burn itself to ashes and sprinkle it into the sea, turning heaven and earth into one. ”

Coco pondered his words for a long time and concluded, "You pull the subject away. ”

The uncle who was exposed hurriedly remedied, "Actually, your uncle and I are such a self-aware person, you say that I have been to the tomb countless times, but I tell you the truth, I am acting on orders, my tombs have been stolen, the people above can't be sure whether to protect the excavation, and they can't open the top cover of the people to find out: after the end of the protection, the cultural relics are corrupted, and I feel that some tombs have been stolen and missed if I don't dig them, so I have a consultant like me." ”

"To put it bluntly," a wicked smile tugged at the corner of Coco's mouth, "you are receiving the salary of the state and doing illegal things. ”

En~ Uncle is thicker than the city wall: "And enjoy it." ”

Keke was ridiculously sinister, "What to do, I really want to report you." ”

"Ah, little niece, let go of your uncle, last time there was a wooden fish head from the archaeological institute reported me, so I was arranged to go to Northern Europe to hide for a month, and when I came back, the old pedant didn't know where he was assigned, uncle, I am not used to the fresh air of Northern Europe, and there are people there who pounce on a bear hug at every turn, at first I was very energetic to observe the degenerate life of Western people, and then my uncle was also corrupted, drinking coffee every day to see art galleries, museums, antique shops, uncle's heart is full of shame for the motherland, you don't know......"

"Peng ――――――"

A muffled sound came from the distant mountains and forests, low and powerful, continuous.

The flock of birds in the sky was startled by the large area and fluttered into the air, and the gloomy atmosphere was transmitted among the leaves.

Coco sat up straight and looked into the distance, "It's gunshots." ”

Uncle also restrained his smile and looked fixedly to the northeast.

"Can you tell where the gunshots are coming from?" Coco looked in the direction of his gaze.

"I can't be sure......," my uncle's voice became much lower, "but that direction is our destination." ”

Coco thought for a moment before asking, "So what are we doing now?" Hurry? ”

"I'm not leaving."

"Huh?"

The uncle turned over and dismounted, tied the horse to the thick trunk of a tree beside him, and walked over to pick up Coco, who could not ride a horse, and dismounted, "It used to be three or four hours away from here, and there was still more than an hour before the sun went down to the top of the mountain, and we couldn't walk at night, and we weren't in a hurry." ”

"But...... There were gunshots. Coco hesitated to look in the northeast direction, though the dense woods blocked everything in the distance, "Could it be that other tomb robbers are trying to blow up the tomb?" ”

"Little Coco, even if someone in front of them bombarded the ancient tomb with explosives, they wouldn't be able to get in, and the dynasties haven't tried."

Coco blinked, "Are you sure?" ”

Uncle learned from her and blinked, "I'm sure, because both my uncle's grandfather and my grandfather's younger brother tried." ”

Coco felt speechless for a while, and could only watch his uncle unload all the packages on horseback, "We camp here?" ”

"We have to prepare the fire before dark, and then set up a tent, the wind in the mountains is still very cold at night......

The uncle said energetically, and turned his head to see Coco squatting under an old pine tree, teasing a little monkey.

My ancestors...... Uncle Li Yiji regretted it very much and brought an unreliable "niece daughter" to do one of the most important tasks in his life.

"I'm a hostage, I'll run away if you tell me to work." Coco smiled.

Dead child. Uncle gritted his teeth and shook the tent open.