Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 177 The New Curse
We are located right in the middle of the Milky Way, with nothing to rely on behind and nothing to rely on in front of. Gu Wenmin was trapped in place after such an accident. The only gecko palms were on the two of us, and everyone below the front also Can't figure out what to do.Just this moment of delay, I felt numbness in my back, and the feeling of being watched became more and more intense, so I couldn't help but look up again, thinking what the hell, let's see first Know exactly what it is.

Unexpectedly, when I looked down this time, I didn't see the previous scene. There was neither a big head with a gas mask nor a small head. To be honest, my face was not reflected in the bronze mirror at all. shadow!My heart skipped a beat, thinking how could this be?Could it be because I climbed forward for a while and changed the angle, so there is no shadow shining in?
Or maybe that weird big face with the gas mask I just saw was just a hallucination on my part?At this moment, Gu Wenmin looked rather annoyed, and said something unlucky.Listening to the voice, I couldn't help being distracted. I knew that now is not the time to care about the bronze mirror. It is more important to save Gu Wenmin first. In this situation, only I can help her.

After thinking about it, I came up with a way, and told Gu Wenmin to let her tighten her body as much as possible and stick it to the top of the tomb, and then I climbed up, just covering her whole body in my arms, attached to her body. back.In this way, when she moves, her body will not be hung upside down, but will fall into my arms.The two of us formed an overlapping posture of hugging our backs, crawling forward with hands and feet together, and the speed increased. At that moment, when I saw our two hands and feet moving at the same time, a very strange idea suddenly came up, the two of us overlapped. Together, I can only see my body, but I can see four hands and four feet, isn't it similar to a humanoid spider?
After a while, we finally reached the top of the tomb. The two let go of the gecko's palms, jumped to the ground, and were relieved.Tofu said to the robots: "It seems that your equipment is also parallel imports. Remember next time, you can't make this mistake again." Professor Lin and the three were studying the inscriptions on the surface of the bronze tripod at this time. What did I find? I looked at the bronze tripod and saw that there were dense inscriptions on it, but we couldn’t understand any of the words on it, but there were paintings beside the inscriptions. I was attracted by the content of the paintings at a glance .

Matching this inscription, there are a total of seven paintings, the pictures are not complicated, with rough lines, engraved with cloud patterns around them, and seven strange scenes can be seen inside.In each of the paintings, there is a person dressed as an alchemist in a feather gown and a Ge scarf on his head. He should be the owner of the tomb, Xu Fu.In the first picture, the man holds a sword and is fighting a strange-looking beast.

In the second picture, Xu Fu is accepting the worship of the crowd, with a smug look on his face. It is estimated that he is admired by people for getting rid of evil beasts.The next few pictures are scenes of him parading with the First Emperor, but the most peculiar ones are the last two.In the last two pictures, one is the scene of taking people out to sea to find the fairy mountain, and the other is the scene of the god and man conferring the crown after climbing the fairy mountain.

There are many legends about Xu Fu. Historically, it is believed that he was just one of the many alchemists recruited by Qin Shihuang. troubled.In the folk unofficial history, Xu Fu is a folk alien. He once slaughtered evil beasts in a place called "Hei Niuling" in Yudi, subdued demons and eliminated demons, and was greatly admired. Later, he was recruited into the palace by Qin Shihuang .

Although Tofu and I couldn't understand the inscriptions on the tripod, we could tell at a glance that the patterns that emerged on the tripod roughly recorded the three most important things in Xu Fu's life. Qin Shihuang, the third is to go to sea.Because of these three things, he has become a legend for thousands of years. After Xu Fu, there will be no more Xu Fu.

We all know more or less about the previous deeds, but only the last one makes everyone more puzzled.Tofu pointed to the scene in the last picture where the god and the man conferred the crown, and said: "It seems that the things recorded on this tripod are not true. According to this statement, Xu Fu really found the immortal later? The immortal also gave him a crown and asked him Becoming a fairy together? Isn’t that nonsense? If he really became a fairy, why would he build this tomb?”

Someone once said: The real history of mankind is buried underground.Why do archaeological teams like to dig graves?One is because of the cultural relics in the tomb, and the other is because of the history in the tomb. Because of many things, the owner of the tomb cannot disclose them when he is alive, but after his death, he will often record some extremely secret things.Therefore, some people say that the history hidden in the ancient tomb is the real history.

If a person wants to record his life in the tomb, he will definitely not lie, but the content on the bronze tripod is so strange that we can't understand it.Tofu couldn't help urging Professor Lin: "Did you see anything? What do you mean by this word? Are you talking about it? Does it say where Liuhe is printed?"

Professor Lin pushed his glasses, looked very strange, and said, "This does not record the deeds of the owner of the tomb."

Not a record of deeds?

As a ritual vessel, the bronze tripod has always been famous for the precious inscriptions on it. If it is not the record of the tomb owner's life, what could it be?Tofu and I looked at Professor Lin, waiting for him to speak, only to see that Professor Lin looked strange, and his voice trembled, and said, "This is a curse."

"Ah..." Gu Wenmin exclaimed in a low voice, "What curse?"

Not only Professor Lin, but also Duan Fei and Wu Sidong looked very unsightly, gloomy, as if something serious had happened.

At this time, Duan Fei suddenly said: "You don't need to ask what are you writing, teacher, what should we do now?" Professor Lin looked at us and suddenly said: "Xiao Chen, Xiao Dou, and Miss Gu, the three of you Don't go any further, it's best to leave here." I could not help but hissed, knowing that something was wrong, and said: "Uncle Lin, you have already entered the fight, and you just said that, isn't it too late? Is it too late on this inscription? what?"

Not only Duan Fei and Professor Lin refused to say anything, but even Wu Sidong, who was always at odds with me, had an extremely complicated expression.

He glanced at me, and finally looked at Gu Wenmin, his face turned blue, and he said after a while: "It's no good for you to know the above things, the teacher is planning for you, after all, the three of you are here to help Yes, if it's true...it's not necessary." What he said later was a little confusing, but I heard some clues, and asked: "Could it be that the curse on the inscription is related to the three of us?"

impossible.

This is the underground palace of the Qin Dynasty more than 2000 years ago, so how could it be related to us three modern people?
I went to see the four robots. They are professional official robbers. They are much better than us in terms of professional ability. They seem to be able to understand Qin Chao's writing, but the four of them rarely have any expression fluctuations, so from their On the surface, I can't see anything wrong.After I finished asking, Robot No. [-] patted Tofu on the shoulder and said, "I think you three should leave first, which is a good thing for you."

Tofu and robot No. [-] have established a deep friendship because of their common hobbies. Hearing this, he punched robot No. [-] on the shoulder.Although he is timid, he has a short temper and has always been open-mouthed. He immediately said: "What's the matter with you guys? One of you is talking more out of tune than the other, and you are talking about it. If you have any problems, let's talk about it. One or two It's all far-fetched, and I'm in a fog."

Robot No. [-] shrugged, with a helpless tone, and said to Tofu: "This is a curse, a curse that cannot be seen or heard, Professor Lin...including us of course, I don't want the three of you to get involved, you see It’s a good thing to not understand the above text.” When Robot No. [-] said this, I couldn’t help but notice something, and wondered if this curse was aimed at people who could see and hear this text?

So the three professors Lin and the four robots who understand the characters of the Qin Dynasty, do they mean they have been cursed after reading these characters?

The reason why they refuse to tell us the contents of the inscription on the tripod is that they don't want us to be cursed too?

What Robot No. [-] said is very clear, but it is difficult for me to understand, not only me, but also Gu Wenmin.

A group of scholars and soldiers will be frightened by a curse engraved in a word?

Gu Wenmin frowned and said, "Is this curse really that powerful? I heard that such things as curses are carved in tombs, which are quite common in foreign countries, but foreign archaeologists often excavate tombs, isn't it all right? Professor, you Are you overthinking?"

Professor Lin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly closed his mouth again, and said, "We're just trying to be safe."

Tofu wanted to touch the treasure in Xu Fu's coffin. After a lot of tossing, we almost died at sea. We finally got into the fight and just entered the back door, and let us go out. This is too embarrassing.Tofu then said: "Don't, since you have already been cursed, it's okay for us three more, Miss Gu, are you afraid?"

Gu Wenmin shook his head, took out the pistol at his waist, and said, "I have an obligation to protect the people. In the face of difficulties and dangers, I must not shrink back." Tofu clapped his hands and said, "Good job. Professor, you see Even Miss Gu refused to leave, Lao Chen and I, two old men, how could we leave you and leave."

Seeing that the three of us had made up our minds, Professor Lin showed a complex expression, he was relieved, and sighed, and said, "In that case, I will tell you the content of the curse."

Wu Sidong spoke in a heavy tone, took over the narration, and roughly told us the meaning of the curse. It probably meant something like this: Anyone who sees this paragraph of text, anyone who hears this paragraph of text means that you have done a good job. Preparation for death.From this moment on, there will be countless eyes watching your every move, all the gates to the underworld will be opened for you, and all the gates to vitality will be closed. "

(End of this chapter)