Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 15 The Strange Visitor
Tofu was tossed hard by the corpse just now, and now he coughed violently while clutching his neck, his face was flushed red, and he didn't have the strength to get up at all.And the whole half of the white-haired corpse has crawled out of the cave, and its blue eyes have been staring at us.

According to the legend, the dead body hides during the day and comes out at night, but now it happens to be night, and our reciting words are going very smoothly.I am afraid now, but I have never been a person who sits and waits for death. Although my legs are as soft as noodles, there is still an impulse to resist in my heart.Glancing at the shovel at hand, my heart moved, I picked up the shovel, and before the thing had fully crawled out, I slapped it on the head with the shovel.

After this, there was no such thing as my brain blowing up as I imagined, but it was like hitting a rock, with a bang, and the shovel was knocked away.Although there was a hole in the head of the corpse, the corpse crawled towards us without knowing it, and it looked extremely shocking.

Tofu also regained his strength at this time, he is usually as timid as a mouse, but this time he was almost strangled to death by this corpse, and he also raised a fierce force. After I shoveled down, he followed closely He picked up the shovel in his hand and smashed it.

No matter how hard my two elders smashed it with the shovel, half of the white-haired head was deflated, and it didn't slow down. straightened, and rushed towards the nearest tofu in an instant.

The speed of this move was no better than that of a robbing hole. When it got out of the hole, the movement of the corpse was faster than that of a rabbit.I could only feel a gust of wind, a gust of black shadow, and Tofu was thrown to the ground by the corpse.The thing was extremely powerful, with both hands clasping Tofu's shoulders, the movement seemed to tear the person in half alive.

I always like to think twice before doing things, and often before doing something, I have to plan the direction of the thing and the possible results.But the situation is so urgent now that I can't think about anything at all. Seeing that Tofu was thrown down in an instant, I didn't have a chance to think about it. Hold it tightly by the neck and break it upwards.

This temporary reaction saved Tofu's life. When I broke the neck of Shisha, his movements stopped for a moment, and he didn't tear Tofu in half.Tofu took advantage of this opportunity and kept struggling under it, but the thing's hands were clenched tightly and it was completely difficult to resist, while Shi Sha started to resist when I broke his neck, his head kept turning around.Every time you turn it, you can hear the clear sound of bone activity, which makes people feel creepy.

For the sake of Tofu's life, I also tried my best to contain it, and I didn't care about whether it was disgusting or not. I stuck my whole body on its back, and directly hit my unprotected face. Shisha's shoulders.

The white hair is extremely stinging, and there is corpse oil on the hair. During the movements, those corpse hairs brushed the mouth and nose, not to mention the smell.

In this way, the two of us formed a confrontational situation. The corpse turned its head for a while, then suddenly began to lean back, and its neck turned into a [-]-degree right angle. Look at each other.

The blue eyeballs seemed to suddenly jump out of their sockets, and then I heard a very weak breath in my ears, just like a person who wanted to speak before death but couldn't.

That voice came from Shisha's throat.

Accompanied by the sound of breathing, Shi Sha gritted his teeth twice and suddenly opened his mouth wide, a stream of foul-smelling black smoke burst out violently. In an instant, my whole body felt weak, nauseated, my brain crashed, and I rolled down from its back violently, my eyes were spinning, and I no longer knew what was going on outside me.

In a trance, I heard Tofu yelling, followed by the sound of bang bang bang, which lasted for a long time before it stopped. Then, a heavy and intense panting sounded in my ears, and I realized that this person was Tofu.

He pulled me up from the ground, and among those who pinched me violently, he yelled in my ear: "Old Chen, wake up."

This method worked a little bit. I became sober in an instant, my eyes were no longer dark, and my eyes gradually gathered together. I found that the corpse next to me seemed to be torn apart.

what happened?

Before I asked, Tofu said in a tacit understanding: "Just now it spewed out a puff of black smoke, and then it didn't move. I thought you were killed by it..." Tofu probably saw me turning over and unconscious , thought I was killed by the corpse, so I used a shovel to destroy the corpse to vent my anger.

"Your face is turning black now, what should you do?" Tofu asked worriedly.There were some bloodshot eyes in his eyes, and there was something like minced meat sticking all over his body, which was very disgusting.

I can't see what I look like at the moment, but recalling the black smoke before this, I remembered the things recorded in my grandfather's notes.In the eyes of tomb robbers, not all corpses will have evil spirits.

The dead body is lifted because the last breath of the living person was not exhaled. This breath may be resentment, or it may be something else. Once the corpse is disturbed by the living person and impacted by Yang Qi, the dead body will rise up and attack people.

This breath is corpse breath.

In the jargon, the southern school is used to calling the corpse "zongzi", while the northern school is used to calling it salted fish.

It is said that there is only one way to kill these zongzi with corpse gas, and that is to remove their heads and let the gas out of their necks.However, these zongzi will retract their necks after the corpse is picked up. In order to protect the tofu just now, in a hurry, I wrapped my hands around the chin of the corpse and broke it back, exposing its neck.

But I didn't have a weapon in my hand at that time, and I didn't move its neck. How could it spit out the corpse's breath by itself?
I couldn't figure it out for a while, but now my spirit was better, so I sat up, looked at the corpse, and said, "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go out quickly." Although my spirit was better, my limbs were still weak, and I asked Tofu opened the way ahead, and the two climbed into the robbery cave with their things.

This time, if the corpse is really going to be lifted up, it should have changed as early as when Tofu and I were picking off its clothes, so that the corpse would not suddenly go wrong when we were about to go out.

I suspect that all these changes are probably related to that cat. If it continues to stay in this tomb, who knows what else will happen.

No wonder Hu Laoxia tried to trick me into tying up the cat. I didn't expect that thing to be so difficult to deal with.

On this trip, Tofu was also injured. Although I didn’t have any external injuries, the corpse smell made me feel strange. When my grandfather told me the truth about the tomb robbery, I felt sad and curious at the same time.At that time, I was still young, and I didn't understand the hardships at all. Whenever my grandfather was free, he would pester him to tell stories about tomb robbery.

Grandpa has limited stocks in his stomach, and I quickly emptied out the stories. Sometimes he would tell the truth by himself, and the things he said were half true and false, which often made me unable to figure out whether it was true or false.

He once told a story about ancient things turning into spirits. It is said that some old things will turn into spirits after a long time. I didn't believe it at the time, but I didn't expect to bump into it now.A copper cat has such a great ability.

I used to do a lot of business, and I even sold fish with a Cantonese guy. Every day I guarded the fish stall and had nothing to do, so the two of them talked nonsense together.Cantonese are superstitious, and he often told me some strange things, one of which was that an object became a spirit, which was said to have happened in his grandfather's generation.

In the past, there was a strange folk custom in Guangdong.

Cantonese people value sons over daughters. In the old days when a man was born in the family, there was a custom to find someone to paste a clay figurine with the son's birthday on it. This doll is called "Bao Sha". The son's bedside, let this doll block the disasters that should be in his son's life.

It is said that he had a grandfather named Huzi, but it is not clear whether it is from his own family.

I don’t know when Huzi started to talk to himself, so his parents asked, “My dear son, who do you talk to every day?” But I thought in my heart, is there something wrong with my son’s head?
Huzi said, "I'm talking to my brother."

The mother was shocked when she heard this, and said: "Baby son, my mother gave birth to such a sweetheart like you, how can there be any brother, what's wrong with you? Where is that brother?" Huzi pointed at the baby and said : "That's it, my brother also said that I will die tomorrow, and he will help me."

After hearing this, the mother was terrified, and thought, could it be that the baby received incense every day and was confessed to be spiritual?Or was it possessed by some mountain spirit?

The next day, the whole family guarded the tiger, not daring to leave half a step.He was afraid that he would drown when he encountered water, he would choke to death when eating, and he was afraid that the beam would fall and crush him to death if he stayed in the house.As a result, nothing happened that day.At night, when my mother went to sleep with the tiger in her arms, she suddenly found that the evil doll on the bedside had broken into pieces at some point.

It is not known whether the doll blocked the tiger's evil or not.

It's a pity that I don't have such good luck as Huzi. The one I met was also a spirit, but it happened to be an evil spirit.

Tofu and I climbed out along the robbery hole, and when we reached the end, we stepped on the horseshoe trough and walked up the shaft carefully.

However, the environment in the room made me and Tofu stunned for a moment.

There were three people in the room, all strangers.

(End of this chapter)