Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 14 Ghost Mushroom

Whenever this happens, experienced tomb robbers will know that this is a ghost mushroom and cannot be moved easily.Those who know how to do it will often give up this mushroom, leave behind the stolen funeral objects and run away immediately, and some people who don't know how to do it are unwilling to give up, and often end up in a sudden death.

In this industry, there is a jingle that goes: "Ghosts with green lanterns pant for breath, light incense to see the gods, kowtow three times, and don't forget to fill in the earth and bury them."

This means that if you encounter a ghost panting, you must first find out where the ghost is.

How to find it?

At this time, light a stick of incense. Under normal circumstances, the smoke of the incense goes up, but if there is a panting ghost in the tomb, the smoke will be sucked by its Yin Qi.At this time, you have to kneel down and kowtow to the ghost, panting, until the cigarette goes to normal.

As the saying goes, if you do too many bad things, you will inevitably be suspicious.I only thought it was a trick created by the tomb robbers, but I didn't expect that I would run into it now.

The flame seemed to be suppressed by something, and it was completely reduced by half. The bleak light like a star bean could not illuminate it at all. In the green vision, I could only see that Tofu's face was also bleakly illuminated.

He stared at me with nervousness and bewilderment in his eyes, it was obvious that he was asking me what was going on.We've known each other for a long time, and many words can be understood with just one look without needing to say them.

At this moment, it was pitch black all around, and it was completely impossible to see the situation clearly. The surrounding temperature seemed to have dropped, and there was a faint chaotic airflow in the air, and it was unknown where it came from.

So I told Tofu about the legend of the ghost panting, and he swallowed, and said, "Could it be that little ghost just now?"

I shook my head, unable to speak for a while.

How could a kid appear in this tomb for no reason?

Tofu said again: "Then let's...do we want some incense?"

I didn't believe this at first, but I have experienced the cat wrecking incident, and now the turquoise flames are dancing in front of my eyes, as if they will be extinguished by Yin pressure at any time, so I can't help but believe it, but at this juncture, who Will there be fragrance on you?
As if he could see what I was thinking, Tofu had a rare cleverness, wiped a handful in his pocket, and said, "How many cigarettes do I have here, why don't we try lighting them? Zhonghua, I use it to invite students." Parents, I can't bear to smoke it myself."

I said: "There is such a good smoke, why didn't you take it out earlier."

Tofu looked contemptuous, and said: "If I had taken it out earlier, I would definitely have no cigarette butts now. I don't know you yet, like a bandit." I was a little confused, so I waved my hand to signal him not to say more Nonsense, and then lit a cigarette, the scarlet cigarette butt flickered, and the blue smoke went straight up.

Looking at the vertical smoke, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said: "It seems that we are overthinking."

Tofu also felt relieved, and said, "It's all about you. You usually like to promote some feudal superstition ideas. What kind of green lantern ghosts are panting? I think it's probably because the air quality in the tomb has a problem, and it has a chemical reaction with the open fire. The two of us Old men, it’s really embarrassing to say it out here, it’s like a cup of bow and a snake like a snake.”

After finishing speaking, I looked at the cigarette in my hand and snatched it away, and said with a distressed face: "Zhonghua, Zhonghua, it's all because of my father's fault, I handed you over to this bandit, my father will come to kiss you right now, don't be afraid. Immediately after putting it in his mouth, he took a good breath and began to swallow the clouds.

I was annoyed by him, and I was about to tease him a few words to ease the tense atmosphere before, but suddenly, I found something was wrong.

Anyone who smokes knows that lit smoke, without the action of external force, generally goes up in a straight line; while the exhaled smoke also goes up, but it spreads out.

At this moment, Tofu was smoking, but the loose smoke that he spit out was very quickly condensed into a line and went up, as if there was something smoking on it.My heart sank suddenly, and I immediately raised my head to look up. In the miserable green light, above our heads, there was a human-shaped thing lying on my stomach. It was the little ghost we saw before.

The thing's face was facing downwards, its face turned blue by the flames, and a pair of blood-red eyes stared straight at us. Looking carefully at its face, there was no such thing as a child, it was clearly a strange cat face!
Whack the cat!And it came, damn it.

Tofu didn't know it at this time, the moment the cat's face and I looked at each other, he rushed towards me fiercely. At the same time, the lighter I was holding in my hand also suddenly felt a gust of cold wind, which went out in an instant, and the surroundings suddenly Plunged into darkness, only the cigarette in Tofu's hand was shining with red dots.

My reaction was fast enough. When that thing hit, I didn't have time to notify Tofu, so I could only back away reflexively.In the darkness, I only felt a windy thing coming down right next to my face, with a smell of water. If I was a little later, that thing might have stuck directly to my face.

I dodged in the past, staggered a little, and before I could stand still, I heard Tofu scold my mother suddenly, and then, the flame of the cigarette butt in the darkness was also extinguished suddenly.

In the dark, I remembered a bang, which seemed to be the sound of a shovel hitting the ground. I quickly lit the lighter again, only to see Tofu waving the shovel and shooting towards a black shadow under my feet. The thing was very fast. Suddenly it flashed into the darkness again.

I knew that this opportunity must not be missed. This time, in order to guard against that cat, I have been wearing a red string. If I don't get rid of it this time, I'm afraid there will be endless troubles in the future.So he immediately walked forward, moved the lighter, and wanted to take a picture of the cat's position, but at this moment, there was nothing there except stone bricks.

Tofu was panting heavily, his face was covered with sweat, the clothes on his chest were torn open, there was a bloodstain on his skin, and the wound was still slightly blue, as if it was poisonous, it looked like it was scratched out by a wretch cat.

He covered his chest, looked around vigilantly, gasped hissingly, and said in a low voice, "That brat is here again? What exactly is it trying to do?"

I sighed, and said, "It's not the kid, it's the wretch cat we let go."

Tofu was stunned, and said with a bitter face: "It's retribution, let's go quickly, that thing is too evil, a broken copper cat can even get into the tomb, and the soul doesn't bring such a thing out of its body." ” I knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, and the wretch cat was elusive, and there was no light source here, so it might not be easy to take it down, so I hurriedly withdrew with Tofu.

Tofu got into the big hole that was opened before, and crawled out with his buttocks pouted, and I crawled behind him.In the end, this kid didn't know which muscle was wrong, and he started to back away.Caught off guard, the whole big butt was stuck to my face, and there was an earthy smell, which almost made me faint.

I was just about to ask him why he was on a nerve, but Tofu became anxious in his backward posture, and then suddenly started to crawl forward again.But this time I found something wrong, because Tofu's feet didn't move at all, while his person was crawling into the hole by itself.Damn it, there's something tugging at him at the other end of the hole!
But over there is the robbery hole we dug, except for the corpse of the Qing Dynasty, there is nothing else, what is pulling him?
At this moment, I didn't think much about it, and quickly pressed Tofu's foot and dragged him out. After I dragged him, I realized that the force holding Tofu at the other end was so strong that I could hardly use it. He spread his legs apart and waited for the earth wall in front of him to pull back before pulling the tofu back.

As the tofu was pulled out, another thing was brought out.

It's a furry face, almost sticking to the face of the tofu.

That thing looked exactly like a human face, I was quite shocked, when I looked carefully, it turned out to be the old corpse of the Qing Dynasty.

His eyes were originally closed, but at this moment, he opened them at some point, and the eyeballs inside shrank into two faint green beads.For some reason, there is a layer of white hair growing on the face. At first glance, it looks like a monkey face!
How could this be?Could it be that the corpse has changed?
In Grandpa's notes, there is a record of the corpse's transformation. It is said that the corpse was disturbed by the living, so it turned into a vicious corpse.But it is extremely rare for the tomb owner to raise his corpse. My grandfather only heard some stories from his master, but he has never encountered it himself.

I'm just digging mushrooms for the first time, so I can't carry it like this, can I?

Suddenly, I thought of that wretch cat, and my heart skipped a beat: Damn it, is that thing playing tricks again?

When I was a child, I heard people tell stories. It is said that in our local area, around the end of the Republic of China, there was a family whose child fell ill one after another. Many doctors failed to heal.The children's mothers ran around in a hurry, saying that our family has never done anything bad, why did we suffer from such a strange disease!
At this time, someone came up with an idea: "Could it be a collision with evil spirits? Why don't you ask Mr. Yin and Yang to take a look."

In the past, people were more superstitious, and the child's mother was in a hurry and had no choice, so she invited a Mr. Yin and Yang to come to the house to look at it.The gentleman held the hexagram sail, walked around the room, and said in shock: "No, there is a corpse in your house!"

What is a corpse?That is what we ordinary people commonly call zombies.

An ancient book says: death does not rot, and those who jump up and jump at others are regarded as evil spirits.

Mr. Yin Yang said again: "There must be something wrong in your ancestral grave, and you need to dig the grave and open the coffin to get rid of the corpse." People at that time regarded the ancestral grave as more important than their lives. Digging someone's ancestral grave was more important than setting fire to the house. Wicked, the child's mother can't make up her mind for a while.

But when the people in the same village heard this, they immediately panicked. If the ghost really happened, it would be more than one family.According to legend, the evil corpse is bloodthirsty, and the transformed corpse evil harms people, first harming relatives, then neighbors, and finally unrelated people.

Every night, they would emerge from the grave, follow the smell of blood, and start with the closest blood first.At that time, the male owner of the family was working as a carpenter, and the closest blood relatives were naturally the children.

The villagers immediately asked to open the coffin. It doesn't matter if your family dies, but what if we harm our innocent people?
In desperation, the child's mother had no choice but to bring someone to open her father-in-law's coffin. Unexpectedly, when the coffin was opened, the dead man inside was so lifelike. The dead man's fingernails were extremely long, as hard as steel, and his body was covered with a layer of white hair. It was indeed a Bai Sha.

This kind of corpse spirit, whose body is as hard as iron, hides by day and comes out at night, is only afraid of sunlight and fire, otherwise it cannot be killed easily.Mr. Yin Yang tied up Bai Sha and burned him to ashes.Since then, the family's strange disease has been cured.

In the rural folk, there are many strange legends about these strange powers and gods. I thought they were lying, but unexpectedly, a corpse really appeared in front of me, and I was shocked for a while.But at this time, the corpse stared at me and Tofu, and slowly crawled towards the two of us along the entrance of the cave.

(End of this chapter)