Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 587 Interrogation

"You're staying here for now. Don't go out unless necessary. Someone will deliver your meals during the day. If you need anything, you can tell the person who delivers the meals."

The room was very simple, without even a window, and looked like a temporary storage room, but for me having a bed was enough.

"Thanks brother."

"Who is your brother? If it weren't for my godfather telling me to do that, I wouldn't care about your shit. I hope you get hacked to death."

"Don't say that. We've known each other for so long, there must be some affection between us, right? If you're ever in trouble, I'll definitely help you if I can."

The guy with the watermelon head gave me a strange look, then turned and left the next second.

"and many more."

"You don't want to sit down and listen to my troubles?"

"Not interested in."

He walked away without looking back, and the only sound in the corridor was the sound of his leather shoes hitting the ground in the distance.

After locking the door, I took two steps forward, then opened my hands and fell backwards, lying heavily on the bed.

It should be safe for now.

No matter how powerful the Jiang family is, it shouldn't reach the Tang Dynasty. Xu Tongshan is a very cunning man. He helped me for his own reasons, but what are his reasons? It doesn't matter to me at the moment.

This wasn't the first time I'd faced this situation, but this time was different. Although I was being taken advantage of, the entire team was put in danger because of me, so I felt very guilty.

I took out the mobile phone that Ma Dachao prepared for me, entered Xiaoxuan's mobile number, and after hesitating for a long time, I turned off the screen and threw it aside.

I was very sleepy and tired, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Every time I closed my eyes, the scene of us diving in the cave would appear in my mind.

Suddenly, I thought of someone. Maybe this person could provide a breakthrough.

Xu Tongshan gave me a cell phone number and I immediately called him and told him some of my thoughts.

"Where is this person now?" Xu Tongshan asked on the phone.

"I'm not sure. It seems like their whole family moved to Hangzhou a few months ago. I don't know if he can still drive a taxi."

"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. The whole family moved out overnight. This person must be up to something. We must find him as soon as possible."

.....

Just one day later, still at night, I was eating when suddenly Watermelon Head sent someone to call me.

When I saw the middle-aged man hanging in the air and falling into a coma, I didn't recognize him for a moment.

Xu Tongshan, sitting nearby, said to me, "Is this the person?"

"Yes Yes...."

Xu Tongshan gave a wink.

A basin of cold water was immediately poured on him.

Seeing me, Yu Dingcheng's eyes first changed, and then he cried out in a tearful voice: "Brother, let me go, I... I really don't know anything, I'm just a taxi driver, everything I told you before was the truth! More than ten years ago, I was working in the patrol team, and I picked up that silver bottle by accident!"

It would have been fine if he hadn't said that, but after hearing him say that, I became even more certain that there was something wrong with him.

I walked up to him and noticed that his hair had grown a lot longer and he had lost some weight in the past few months. Looking at his bruised face, I said, "Brother Yu, did you think I wouldn't be able to find you if you just took the money and disappeared? You know what I do. Tell me the truth. What benefits did the Jiang family give you that allowed you to harm us like this?"

"I don't understand what you are talking about. What benefits? What Jiang family!"

"what!!"

The man with the watermelon head suddenly swung the iron rod and hit him on the leg.

I heard the clear sound of broken bones, and Yu Dingcheng screamed loudly instantly.

The watermelon-headed man pinched his calf and asked coldly, "Will you tell me or not?"

As Watermelon Head exerted force with his hands, Yu Dingcheng's body straightened in pain.

His face was covered in sweat, and he gritted his teeth: "You've arrested the wrong person! I really don't know what the Jiang family is."

Another iron rod hit his left calf. Yu Dingcheng screamed and fainted.

Watermelon Head immediately asked someone to lower the rope so that Yu Dingcheng's feet could touch the ground.

Yu Dingcheng woke up instantly from the pain.

He could neither stand nor sit down, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans kept falling down his forehead.

"Put it down a little more."

"No! Don't let me go. Please, don't torture me. Just kill me. Give me a quick death."

"You would rather die than tell me?" I asked, staring at him.

He slowly raised his head and suddenly laughed miserably, "You know how terrible those people are. If I tell them, my whole family will die. My wife, my daughter, my son, they will all die."

"I went to the temple to burn incense some time ago, but it didn't seem to work. I knew something bad would happen to me, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon. That silver bottle is cursed. Anyone who touches it will end up in trouble. The fire on the Qiandao Lake cruise ship was also caused by that bottle, which killed dozens of people. My today is your tomorrow."

I couldn't help but frown after hearing this.

The watermelon-headed man asked, "That thing is a sacred object of our church. We've been searching for it for decades. How did it end up in your hands?"

Yu Dingcheng closed his eyes resigned to his fate.

The man with the watermelon-headed hair expressionless said calmly, "Do you think I can't find your family? Since I can find you in a day, I can find them too. It's just a matter of time. You have to believe me, when I find your wife and children, I will treat them well."

Yu Dingcheng suddenly opened his eyes and screamed hysterically.

"I hate human traffickers, but there's nothing I can do. Once I find your family, your son's eyes will be gouged out, his hands and feet chopped off, and he'll be thrown out on the streets to beg for food. Your wife and daughter will be sold to a place you can't even find on the map, where they'll be used as entertainment for those old bachelors in the mountains. They'll never see the sun for the rest of their lives. I think that ending is more terrifying than just killing them. What do you think?"

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"Stop talking! Stop talking... They don't know anything. They have nothing to do with the Jiang family! It's all my fault. I did it all by myself."

Yu Dingcheng looked painful and burst into tears instantly.

Xu Tongshan, who had been sitting and listening, stepped forward and said calmly, "There are rules in the underworld: disasters don't affect your family, but we won't follow them. You and I are about the same age, and I understand how you feel, so I can give you another option."

"Tell me everything you know, and I'll spare your life. I can also arrange for your family to go abroad, where you can start a new life."

"Think about it carefully. I'll only give you a minute to think about it."

"How can I trust you?"

Xu Tongshan shook his head: "In your current situation, you can only take a gamble and bet on whether I will do what I say."

Yu Dingcheng took a deep breath.

"Put me down first."

The watermelon-head waved his hand.

As soon as he landed, he immediately collapsed to the ground, hugging his calves.

"Go ahead." The watermelon-headed man said with a cold face.

Yu Dingcheng looked at him, then at me. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened them and said, "More than a decade ago, I did work for the water rescue team. The Jiang family found me then and gave me the silver bottle and 300,000 yuan. They told me to lie and say I salvaged the silver bottle by accident. I later sold it to two treasure hunters who came to Qiandao Lake. They were both burned to death on the cruise ship."

I immediately realized that the two treasure hunters he was talking about might be from the Southern School. When we first discovered the source of the Zukeng Cave, we also found empty beverage bottles that had long been discontinued in the cave. Calculating the time, it was exactly that period. Maybe they were left behind by those two people.

Yu Dingcheng's eyes were hazy, as if lost in memories. He looked at me and murmured, "Until you showed up, the Jiang family found me again, using the same excuse as before. So I pretended to be with you and sold the silver bottle to you."

"Why did the Jiang family do this?"

"I was also confused at first. I couldn't figure out what they were up to, so I've secretly investigated over the years. That thing isn't a treasure. I'm not lying. It represents misfortune and disaster. The Jiang family is completely cursed. Perhaps they're trying to break the curse in some way."

"Hey, it's a treasure! It's the rebels' treasure. Countless gold and silver treasures are buried on a small island in Qiandao Lake. If the Jiang family hadn't found it a hundred years ago, it would have sunk into the water by now."

"A secret kept by one person isn't scary. A secret kept by a village or a group of people is scary. Have you ever read a foreign story called The Count of Mount St. Peter? Haha, aren't the two stories similar? They're both treasures left behind by armies long ago."

Looking at him talking to himself, I couldn't help but frown.

What's the story about the treasure of Count St. Peter's Hill? Isn't the Count St. Peter's Hill a big vampire who lives in a castle?

The man with the watermelon head looked at me and asked, "Is this guy mentally ill?"

Yu Dingcheng turned around instantly. He looked at me with red eyes and shouted, "I'm sane! I'm not crazy! The Jiang family is trying to deflect the curse! The next person to be burned to death will be you! You will all die! Just like those people on the cruise ship!"