Waking up in the early morning, it was the last day of our agreement. I shook the fat guy awake and washed my face. How would he appear? What would his first words be? Would he come out alone? Would there be a group of people? Should I eliminate everything that comes out with him? I checked my ammunition and sat in front of the bronze door, holding two guns. After thinking for a moment, I felt it was inappropriate.
Actually, I hadn’t slept all night. I yawned and tucked the guns behind me. The fat guy came over and handed me a phone. “Listen to some music. What should we listen to today?”
“What do you have?” I took it and scrolled through the apps. In the music list, there were only dance music tracks. Playing this would probably make the guy shrink back, although I thought it was quite lively.
“Don’t you have anything more fitting?”
“I have one song that’s pretty popular lately, a little girl named Ba Nai downloaded it for me.” The fat guy took the phone back and searched for a while before finding it: “See You Again.”
I played it quietly, the music was soft. It was in English. I listened silently, and the fat guy didn’t say anything.
“It’s been a long day without you my friend, And I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.”
The fat guy hummed along, and it sounded pretty good. We sat in silence and listened for a long time. He wouldn’t not come out, would he? I sighed slowly, and the fat guy fell asleep beside me, softly snoring.
I tried to keep my spirits up, but the music made me drowsy before I knew it. In a haze, I saw the bronze door open. I thought I was the little match girl and rubbed my face, opening my eyes.
Sure enough, he wasn’t there. I knew this wouldn’t do, so I looked at the fat guy and started talking to him.
“In that village, the people make a kind of snack with glutinous rice and brown sugar. Because of the ample rain, there’s a special wild grass in the village called ‘Yuzai Shen.’ The petals of this grass are in the snack, and eating it can enhance memory. Of course, that’s just a local legend.”
As I spoke, I yawned widely, and my consciousness began to blur. But I kept talking. I didn’t know how long I had been going on when suddenly, I felt someone slowly sit down beside me in the haze.
I hesitated, turned my head to look, and the other person turned their head to look at me too. The fat guy slowly woke up and looked at us.
I saw a familiar face, with calm eyes reflecting the light of the campfire. People say that when you forget someone, the first thing you forget is their voice. But when his voice rang out, I felt no sense of strangeness.
“You’ve aged,” he said.
The music continued to flow in this place closest to hell.
The fat guy came over and hooked his arm around the shoulder of the guy in the bottle, making him stagger. “How can you compare to this little bro? You actually dared to come out!”
The guy in the bottle was shaken back and forth.
I pulled down my sleeve to cover the scars on my hand and stood up. He smiled at me, and I picked up my bag. “Let’s go.”
We were just,
Long time no see.
I reside in Beihai, while you are in Nanhai, sending letters through wild geese that cannot be delivered;
With a cup of wine in the spring breeze of peach and plum, under the night rain of the rivers and lakes, the lamp has burned for ten years.
Ending remarks:
In my youth, I loved chasing dreams, and for ten years, I pursued the world of tomb raiding. On August 17, 2015, “Tomb Raider Notes” finally reached its conclusion. From then on, Wu Xie was no longer lonely and alone, Zhang Qiling was no longer empty and indifferent by himself, and Wang Pangzi no longer lamented and felt sad alone. The Iron Triangle was reunited once again, and we were able to fulfill a wish in our hearts.
May Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, and Wang Pangzi be together, living well and happily. Even if they go into tombs again in the future, they will enter as three and leave as three.
The story has come to an end; wishing you all the best.
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