Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 186 Nine Coffins
These talismans are strange and weird, and people who are not familiar with the way can't see any rules or weirdness at all. The tomb passage is deep and dead, and they don't know where it leads. The strange runes around them give people a huge pressure.I have a strange feeling, as if they are alive, watching us from the tomb wall.

Perhaps I am not the only one who feels this way, and the rest of the people can't help but observe those runes frequently.

For the safety of the tofu, we didn't dare to waste any more time. After a while, an entrance and exit appeared at the end of the tomb passage.It was a stone gate, but it was a pity that the stone gate had been cracked in half, and it seemed that it was blown open by explosives.

Duan Fei said: "It must have been done by Fusang people, who have no awareness of cultural relics protection at all."

I thought to myself that the explosives we used before were much larger than this, and it is too unreliable to talk about the protection of cultural relics at this time.I didn't answer Duan Fei's words, I followed the blood on the ground and moved forward quickly.However, at this moment, the blood on the ground stopped abruptly.Gu Wenmin next to me gasped, looking very strange, and said, "Disappeared? Could it be that when Xiao Dou crawled here...disappeared suddenly?"

I stared at the bloodstains on the ground and speculated about the scene in my mind.

The tofu crawled on the ground, leaving bloodstains where it passed. Most of the bloodstains should be beards. Has the blood on your body been wiped dry?

No, it's impossible to have no trace at all.

I couldn't help but come up with another guess: Could it be that when Tofu crawled here, he suddenly regained his sanity and stood up again?

So where did he go?
I couldn't help looking at the blasted stone gate in front of me, and gestured to the people behind me to let them in.

As soon as we entered the tomb, we were startled by the things that caught our eyes. In the dim light of the flashlight, several dark and gloomy things were revealed. They were square and about half a person tall, and they were quite a few coffins.This is an early Han material, which is different from the current coffin. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. As soon as we entered the tomb, we were facing the head of the coffin.

On the bottom plate of the head, a ferocious beast was drawn with blood-red paint, with a ferocious expression and exposed fangs, lifelike, as if it was about to jump out of the coffin board.

None of us expected to see the coffin so early, and there is more than one coffin, counting from the one in the middle in front of us, there are four on each side, a total of nine black coffins, quietly stopping here in the tomb.

The area of ​​the tomb is not large, and you can see the bottom with a flashlight. Everyone is experienced. When they saw the nine strange black coffins, they did not dare to rush forward. They stayed at the entrance and exit, waving the flashlight, and inspected the tomb. general environment.At this moment, from the corner of my flashlight, I suddenly saw a person standing in the northeast corner of the tomb!

I don't know how long that person has been hiding in the dark. At first glance, he was startled, and I immediately shouted: "There are people there, everyone be careful."As soon as I shouted, the robots immediately raised their guns and aimed at that direction. At the same time, several flashlights also pointed at the past, and the figure hidden in the darkness was exposed in an instant.

When we took a closer look, it turned out to be individual figurines.

The shape of the terracotta warriors and horses is very similar to that of the Qin Terracotta Warriors. They are tall, burly, solemn, and holding a halberd. They are obviously guards. They have stood here for more than 2000 years, protecting the nine coffins in the tomb.With a thought in my heart, I shone the flashlight to the corresponding corner, and sure enough, there was also a terracotta warrior there.

Robot No. [-] said: "This Xu Fu is quite ambitious. He designed his tomb as a miniature version of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum. These nine coffins should be burial coffins."

Duan Fei clicked her tongue, saying that it is surprising that an alchemist should have such a large scale of tomb after his death, and there are nine coffins to accompany him.

Nine is the extreme of odd number and the most expensive among the numbers, so the emperor has the saying of nine five. In ancient times, there was an allusion of Jiuding.In the traditional sense, nine coffins are buried together, which means that each of the nine relatives of the nine clans chooses one of their peers to be buried. This kind of burial custom was seen before the pre-Qin period. There has been a real nine-coffin burial bureau.It is appalling that Xu Fu's burial site has such a standard of burial.

Professor Lin also looked very excited, and said: "Everything can show that Xu Fu became emperor after he landed in Fusang." This means that Professor Lin's previous inference is completely valid, and the first batch of people who landed in Fusang were the people of Huaguo !
For a while, our attention was focused on the nine large black wooden coffins. They are huge in shape, the coffin lids are very tight, and have not been damaged at all. Time seems to have frozen on these nine coffins. No signs of decay were seen.Everyone gradually entered the tomb, a small tomb, fully exposed under our lights.

There are no other passages here, the only passage is the stone gate that exploded behind us.

Gu Wenmin immediately noticed something was wrong, and said: "The end of the tomb passage is this tomb room, there is no other way, that Xiaodou and the former Fusang people, where did they go?" I shook my head, and my heart suddenly hit Suddenly, I thought that there is no place to hide people here. Could it be that Tofu and those Fusang people...

Everyone seemed to have thought of this, and their eyes turned to these huge coffins involuntarily.At this moment, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a sudden glimpse that the figurine standing in the corner seemed to move.

I thought to myself: How does the clay figurine move?
Could it be that my eyes are blurred?
I have always been vigilant, although I was puzzled, I raised my vigilance, pulled out the gun at my waist, and walked slowly towards the terracotta warrior.Now staring at it without blinking, it became normal again. After a while, I walked to the position facing him, and while I was secretly guarding, I stretched out my rubber-gloved hand to touch it.

The texture of the hand is cold and hard mud. Although it was sealed well before, the surface of the figurines has peeled off. When touched, a lot of mud fell off. The silent terracotta warriors looked solemn and eerie. The tomb room added a sense of solemnity. I stared at the faces of the figurines and couldn't help thinking, could it be that I was wrong just now?

Just when I was thinking about this question, something suddenly appeared behind the figurine's head.That thing came out all of a sudden, and it appeared in front of my eyes in an instant. It was a human head!
There is someone hiding behind this figurine!

I took a step back in shock, and immediately raised my gun, but soon I discovered that it was none other than Tofu hiding behind the figurines.I was startled at first, then breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly called Tofu's name, but he didn't respond, and seemed to have passed out.The rest of the people also noticed the situation here and quickly surrounded them.

I didn't care too much, and while calling Tofu's name, I walked towards him. I didn't realize until I walked in that he somehow hid behind the figurines.Since the figurines were standing against the corner, a triangular hollow zone was formed, and the tofu happened to be stuck here, and was still in a coma.When I was looking at the figurine just now, his head suddenly turned to the side, and he jumped out from the side of the figurine's head, which scared me a lot.

I first checked the pulse on Tofu's neck to confirm that he was still alive, and then quickly moved him out.We all know some basic first aid, but only Professor Lin can set the pulse.He quickly checked Tofu. There was no major trauma. The more serious one was the hand, which was dislocated at first, but after being turned into an animal, he used this hand to crawl for a long time, so the current situation is very bad.

Professor Lin found something, fixed Tofu's hands, wrapped a gauze and hung it around his neck.Gu Wenmin fed him some water, the saliva was quite effective, Tofu coughed twice, spit out two mouthfuls of bloody phlegm, and woke up slowly.He turned his eyes for a long time before he could focus, staring at me who was the closest, his expression became a little nervous, and he said: "Old Chen, what kind of eyes are you looking at, why do you feel like you are going to eat me..."

When he said that, I knew the kid had come to his senses.Tofu looked around immediately, his expression even more surprised, and said, "What is this place? Where are those Bixu?"

Everyone looked at each other and understood that Tofu had no reflection on what happened after the animalization.I figured that if Tofu knew how many Bisu he had bitten to death, he would be disgusted to death, so he hurriedly said, "You were bitten by Bisu, so you fainted. We used explosives to blow up an underground room." The Chamber of Secrets has already left the previous place."

Tofu did not doubt that he was there, nodded, and suddenly touched his belly, saying: "Why do I feel that my stomach is so full, I feel like I'm full and want to vomit." As soon as he said this, I saw Duan Fei Couldn't bear it anymore, turned to the side and vomited loudly.I felt disgusted too, but I could only lie to Tofu, saying, "It's the sequelae of Bisu's bite."

"Sequelae?" Tofu was a little puzzled.

Seeing this, Gu Wenmin quickly cooperated with me and said, "I also feel this way after being bitten. It's okay. It should be fine after a while."

Tofu is easier to fool, nodded, looked at Duan Fei who was spitting, and said, "What's wrong with her?"

I said, "I guess I'm pregnant. Pregnant women like to vomit."

Tofu was startled, and said, "I got pregnant so soon? Whose? Old Chen... You are not kind, you are like this, how sad Miss Gu must be."

I couldn't keep up with Tofu's thinking, so I had a moment of panic, thinking that this kid is too good at brainstorming, so I changed the subject quickly and said, "Just wake up, I'll carry you all the way." , I almost died of exhaustion, stop talking nonsense, and do business." The robot and Professor Lin also cooperated very well, and they didn't expose it, but I glanced at my swollen belly full of tofu, and my throat couldn't help but feel sore, and my heart ached. Don't let him know about this matter, if he knows, I doubt he will commit suicide in disgust.

(End of this chapter)