Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 185 Dead Man
Everyone was silent and did not look at the surrounding tomb. The tomb was empty, and there were some embossed things on both sides, but at this moment, saving people was the most important thing. Even Professor Lin didn't have the heart to study it. Everyone silently and quickly followed the blood mark child to move forward.

Ahead is a straight tomb passage, and at the entrance sits a bronze figurine with six arms. She sits at the entrance, with her slender eyes raised up, looking charming and attractive, but the bronze has already bloomed, and her face is mottled. As if rotten, it looked a little scary. The six arms were slender and boneless, with their palms facing upwards, each forming a lamp trough, with some black oil inside.

The blood mark spread all the way into the tomb, and everyone followed him a few steps, then stopped abruptly, staring at the front, motionless.

There are many iron arrows stuck on the ground in front of it, like a hedgehog. It is obvious that the mechanism here has been touched, and not far away, there is a person falling down, his body is full of dense iron thorns.

As soon as my legs went limp, I felt that the blood in my whole body was congealed, my beating heart suddenly stopped, and my breathing stopped for it.

Gu Wenmin was beside me, staggered for a moment, her eyes were red instantly, tears flowed down her pretty face, and she said in a hoarse voice: "Xiao Dou... woo." At last her throat was already sobbing.Although Gu Wenmin has known us not long ago, in these short two months, we have lived and died together, and our friendship is deep. Seeing this situation now, Gu Wenmin, who has always been calm, couldn't help himself. He took off his gas mask and wiped his face. tears.

I stared at the person in front of me. The figure of that person was at the junction of darkness and light, and a pool of spreading blood was faintly visible around him. He fell on the spot, motionless.Two thoughts flashed through my mind.The first one is: the tofu is dead.The second is: I killed him.

At that time on the boat, four people had taken off their masks. Why was the tofu infected with the animalized virus?I thought of the curse of Ghost Face.At this moment, I clearly felt the helplessness of Grandpa and Chen Ci at the beginning, because of this curse, anyone close to you will die in front of you one by one in the end.

This feeling is more uncomfortable than dying.

At this moment, my whole body felt as if struck by lightning, my throat felt like a lump of lead was choked, and I couldn't utter a word. When I realized it, I couldn't help running forward.Robot No. [-] had sharp eyes and quick hands, and pulled me violently, and said in a hoarse voice, "You are crazy, the mechanism here may still be activated."

My mind is completely messed up right now, if Robot One hadn't said so, I would have almost rushed over.But even if I stop now, I can't think about the problem at all. Just ask, the body of my brother who has been with me for more than ten years is right in front of you. I guess no one can calm down.

It wasn't until I saw Gu Wenmin's twitching shoulders that I woke up a little bit, and couldn't help but hug her into my arms. Everyone was speechless for a moment, and the whole team was dead silent.

After a while, Robot No. [-] took the lead and took out a weird thing from the bag.The shape of that thing is so strange that it can't help but attract my attention.Seeing this, the robot explained: "The latest scientific research achievement, a path-finding robot." That thing looks like a watermelon, with a round body and two metal feet underneath.Robot No. [-] adjusted it in his hand, and after it was placed on the ground, it walked forward by itself.

Robot No. [-] explained: "After setting, when it walks, it will automatically adjust its strength, which is equivalent to the weight of an adult walking on it, and it is very effective for some mechanisms activated by flaps." Soon, The pathfinding robot stopped when it reached the corpse. During this process, no other mechanism was activated.

Only then did Robot No. [-] nod, and everyone ignored it and ran towards the corpse.I have no way to describe my current mood, it is a kind of extreme grief, to a certain extent, even the brain is empty, and there is no way to think about any problems.It wasn't until I ran to the corpse that something was wrong... The clothes worn by the corpse were not tofu's clothes.

The distance was far before, and everyone didn't notice it, but now that it's getting closer, they all sensed that something was wrong. Gu Wenmin rubbed her eyes that were red from crying, and said doubtfully, "It's not Xiao Dou, the clothes are different."

Wu Sidong groaned, and said, "The clothes this man is wearing are exactly the same as those three Fusang people we caught before." When I saw that the corpse was not tofu, I was shocked at first, and then overjoyed. I couldn't get back to my senses, until Wu Sidong said this, I didn't realize that this person's clothes were exactly the same as those three Fusang people.

At that time, we suspected that the three Fusang people had accomplices. Now it seems that the guess at that time was correct. Everyone looked at each other, and they were a little confused. How could this Fusang person appear in Xu Fu's tomb?Are these people also colleagues?There are also tomb robbers in Fusang, but I don’t know how they rob the tomb, but even if they are tomb robbers, how can it be a coincidence that they are targeting the same tomb as us?
This incident was too coincidental, and it was a bit weird.However, Professor Lin's eyes flickered, and his expression changed drastically for a moment, as if he remembered something, and said, "No, is our action plan leaked?" This is the site of Fusang, so this archaeological activity will evolve. Tomb robbery activities, if it really leaks, then we will be miserable.

Gu Wenmin said: "No, if the plan leaked, there should be Fusang to arrest us. These people don't look like them." Wu Sidong nodded, glanced at me, and said, "It's more like doing something shameful." trick."

I knew that kid was pointing fingers at Sang Huai, and I would not tolerate him in normal times, but now that the situation is urgent, all I can think about is the situation in front of me and the whereabouts of Tofu. The kid was angry, so he ignored him, reached out and turned the corpse over, ready to investigate, if there are really other living people in this tomb, then we have to be careful.

The corpse was originally lying on the ground, but turned over like this, and immediately faced us on its back. Everyone couldn't help being frightened by this sight. The face of the corpse was already covered with bruises, densely packed all over the whole body. With a face, the tissues in the eyes are already a little rotten, the dark red flesh is swollen, and the eyeballs are staring straight at us, which is quite frightening.

Gu Wenmin was experienced, took a step back, frowned and said: "It's been a long time since I died, it seems that this group of people came down earlier than us."

Wu Sidong hissed, looked at me and said, "Where did they enter the underground palace? They were one step ahead of us. It seems that you are a bit incompetent as a guide."

Professor Lin has long seen that he and I are not on the same page, but on weekdays, Wu Sidong does not do anything excessive. Professor Lin is a bit defensive, so he didn't say anything. At this moment, Professor Lin couldn't help but get angry, and said: "Sidong, what are you talking about?" Yes, along the way, if it wasn't for Xiao Chen Duofang's efforts, would you still be able to stand here!" Professor Lin said so, Wu Sidong couldn't help but shrugged his head and stopped talking.But I have always been a sensitive person. The moment Wu Sidong lowered his head, I seemed to see some kind of resentment in his eyes.

I had a sudden shock in my heart, and said that Wu Sidong had some opinions on me because he was interested in Gu Wenmin, but apart from being jealous, the young man is still a good guy. Shouldn't this kind of expression appear on him?Is it because I know people, face but not heart, that I underestimated him before?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at Wu Sidong one more time, and his expression was no longer unusual.If I hadn't been very confident in my vigilance, I would almost have wondered if I had been fooled just now.

After Professor Lin finished speaking, I didn't answer the conversation. I just kept my eyes open and changed the subject and said, "This group of people should be Fusang people. I don't know why they came here. But it seems that they also met We’re in trouble. We’re enemies in the same company. Let’s be careful, and find someone first.” They searched the Fusang man’s body, but found nothing useful except cigarettes and lighters.

But Gu Wenmin was careful and noticed a detail, that is, there was no equipment bag beside the corpse.

In general, one needs to prepare sufficient equipment for fighting, at least one backpack for each person, but there is none beside or on this corpse. What does that mean?
Gu Wenmin speculated: "Either there was an emergency and his equipment was lost, or... after his death, his equipment was taken away."

Robot No. 2000 frowned, and said: "The second point is more likely. His equipment was probably taken away by his accomplices, and those accomplices should have taken the same path." Robot No. [-] looked at In front of the tomb.At this moment, we were in the middle of the tomb passage, and we shot forward with the flashlight. The road ahead was still dark and invisible. There were short arrows stuck in the ground, and the arrows had undergone some special treatment. After more than [-] years, they were still extremely sharp. , driven by the secret crossbow of the mechanism, it was inserted into the floor tiles tightly.

In the middle of this road full of short arrows, there is a bloodstain spreading forward. Along the position of this bloodstain, the short arrows fell to the ground one after another, as if something crawled over here and overwhelmed them.No need to think about it, it must be tofu. It was a false alarm.

Gu Wenmin breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I won't stop you if you find him this time and punish him." Even so, the serious look on his face has relaxed.

The people didn't dare to waste any more time, and let the pathfinding robot go ahead, while rushing forward, ready to find the trace of Tofu.The farther you go, the weirder this tomb passage is, because on the tomb passages on both sides, there are many strange runes, scarlet red, as if painted with blood, and I don’t know what materials are used. After more than 2000 years, they are still extremely gorgeous. .

Robot No. [-] said: "As expected of an alchemist, there are so many ghostly symbols in the tomb."

Professor Lin's expression became more and more serious, his voice became deeper, and he said, "It's possible for any weird things to happen in the fairy tomb. There are so many spells painted in this place, I'm afraid it's weird. Don't take it lightly."

(End of this chapter)