Chapter 110: I’m Just An Ordinary Person—bringing A Zombie Into A Tomb Is Totally Reasonable, Right?
Hearing the sound, Lao Yang was the first to turn around: “You, you, are you talking—to—to us?”
That old man didn’t expect a stutterer to answer him, he was stunned for a moment, and repeated: “You all want to go there to do local goods business?”
Wu Xie and Lin Yan also turned around, their hands behind them already clenched into fists, ready to fight or run at any time.
Originally Lao Yang still wanted to pretend to be clueless, but he couldn’t understand what that old man said, his expression remained very natural for a while: “You, what do you, you mean? I don’t—don’t understand.”
That old man frowned, gave up communicating with him, and turned to look at Wu Xie who had smiled at him earlier. Wu Xie stared blankly at him: “Old sir, what place is ‘ah da’? What does local goods mean? We’re here for tourism, not to do business.”
That old man had a heavy accent, Wu Xie had already done his utmost to make out the words “business”. He glanced at Lin Yan, Lin Yan also shook his head at him—he had lived in Beijing since childhood, let alone northwestern accents, he couldn’t understand southern accents either, he could only understand old Beijing dialect.
That old man was also stunned, he looked around, a young man stepped forward and asked them in Mandarin with a Guangdong accent: “Uncle Tai asks if you all are here to do antique business in the mountains?” (Uncle Tai asks you all, are you here to do antique business in the mountains?)
Alright, this was even more unintelligible! The first two words could still be made out as Uncle Tai, what was all that after? Wu Xie and the other two looked at each other, and could only shake their heads. Uncle Tai saw they didn’t seem to be faking it, said a few tourist catchphrases to them like “have fun have a good look”, then waved goodbye to them.
Only then did Lin Yan and the others turn to walk back to the room, feeling their palms that had been holding fists were all cold sweat. From behind came another young man speaking Mandarin with a Shu Region accent: “I say, do they not understand or what?” The young man who asked earlier spat at him: “How could that be? My Mandarin is very standard, they definitely understood!” (How could that be? My Mandarin is very standard, they definitely understood!)
After that, their voices gradually faded away, presumably they had gone out.
Back in the room, seeing from the window that the group had indeed gone out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lao Yang asked Wu Xie: “Did you, you see what he—they were drawing?”
Wu Xie nodded: “What they drew might be a tomb floor plan, with symmetrical tomb chambers and seal mounds positions on both sides of the central axis, the curvy lines drawn beside weren’t seen clearly, but it should be a Qinling Mountains terrain map?” But he thought about it and still felt something strange, although this group looked like they should be tomb raiders, but
“Why would people from Guangdong come over to tomb raid?”
Lin Yan guessed it right away, Wu Xie had probably recognized that young man’s accent: “Not necessarily, Guangdong speaks Cantonese, but Cantonese speakers aren’t only in Guangdong, possibly from xg too. You know, those big casino bosses, don’t they love antiques the most? Those rich second generations influenced by that, coming to probe some adventure isn’t impossible. If they dig up some good stuff to take back, isn’t that just bragging material?”
Lao Yang incredulously shook his head: “If, if I had—that much money, why—why come down to fight? Buy, buy a villa, marry, marry a few wives isn’t good? This is—a life-risking business!”
Lin Yan spread his hands toward him: “Lao Yang, you wouldn’t understand. For them, very few things can’t be solved with money, if it can’t be solved it’s definitely because not enough money. What their life lacks is that thrill! Think, if you were a rich second generation, with money you can’t even spend, at this time come fight a tomb, then go back and show off in front of that pile of rich second generation friends, wouldn’t you be able to act cool? Rich people’s thoughts are different from ours, we earn money to survive, they earn money as a byproduct, just for living. People really can’t be compared!” (This segment only represents the protagonist’s view, no intent to diss rich second generations, review teacher please be merciful thanks!)
While speaking, he recalled the outrageous rumors about second generations from his previous life, indeed. No matter which life, he couldn’t understand rich people’s thought processes! Why risk your life when you can live well? Recalling a few weeks ago when he had just transmigrated, his goal was to get out of the tomb and mooch off in this world, but why was his money still so little, thinking about it made the tough guy tear up.
Lao Yang tilted his head and thought, the bronze bell on his ear swayed twice accordingly: “Still—still don’t understand.”
“If you don’t understand then forget it, there’s nothing good to understand.” Wu Xie slumped in the chair for a while, finally recovered. He stood up and stretched, summarizing this discussion: “Besides, if we succeed in this fight, won’t we be millionaires too?”
At these words, Lin Yan and Lao Yang both chuckled evilly, even their pupils were money symbols. But Lao Yang’s laugh was a bit bitter, though Lin Yan and Wu Xie didn’t notice.
Lao Yang had only said before he needed a few million, without saying the reason, Wu Xie didn’t want to poke his wound by asking, nor could he just abandon him—after all more than ten or twenty years of friendship from childhood, how could he say ignore and ignore? Speaking of, when Lao Yang was in prison Wu Xie still wanted to visit him, but Lao Yang insisted on not seeing, that’s how their contact had this three years blank.
Lin Yan came for one reason because suppressing that thing in his head required expensive jade pendant and such, getting a job would probably be spending more than earning. Saving was impossible, better to exploit the plot advantage to earn, at least as Wu Xie’s teammate, as the son of destiny’s friend, if there’s really such a thing as world will, it shouldn’t screw him too badly? Another reason was. As an eyewitness to the early plot, he really had a bit of curiosity toward the later plot.
Although he still wanted to save his life, after experiencing so much, Lin Yan’s thoughts were gradually changing. What he didn’t notice was that he no longer rejected going down tombs, even a bit eager to try.
“Hm? Wait.”
Suddenly, Lin Yan seemed to sense something, pulled the backpack in front of him and unzipped it, under Lao Yang’s puzzled gaze pulled out a white dumpling and kneaded it.
“You, you came here still, still bringing a pillow?” Lao Yang didn’t understand what it was, but it looked like a white ball-shaped cushion.
Unexpectedly, two black pearl-like things suddenly appeared on that dumpling, symmetrical ones! This thing circled half around the round dumpling surface, facing Lin Yan after
“Ying ying ying!” Under Lao Yang’s horrified and Wu Xie’s speechless face-covering expression, the dumpling pounced into Lin Yan’s arms and burrowed in hard, the sickly sweet tone indicating it was acting cute.
Lin Yan full of smiles, under Lao Yang’s horrified to death gaze, kneaded hard the white dumpling’s head: “Xiao Bai Bai woke up?”
Lao Yang already stuttered, now even more couldn’t speak clearly: “This, this this what—what thing?!”
Wu Xie dry coughed: “Cough, this little thing is a little zombie, you can call it Xiao Bai Bai or Xiao Jiang Jiang. Want to pet it? Very pettable.”
At the word zombie, Lao Yang jumped up like electrocuted, instantly three meters away from them, then he saw Wu Xie smilingly also pet the white dumpling.
Lin Yan looking at Lao Yang’s speechless appearance, kindly asked for him: “Are you wondering why I brought a zombie?”
Lao Yang dazedly shook his head, then suddenly nodded, looking completely at a loss.
Lin Yan smiled and answered: “As an ordinary person, bringing a zombie for self-defense when going down a tomb, that’s very reasonable, right?”
