Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 196

I was all focused on the tofu before, but now that I shifted my focus, the first thing I heard was the sound.

"Tattoo..."

Like the sound of dripping water, after everyone turned on all the headlights, the surrounding dark environment was gradually exposed to our sight.Not far from us, there is a pool of deep black water, which looks bottomless under the light, and behind us is the passage we came from.The stone walls around the black water are obviously artificially processed and very smooth. The water vapor circulates here, turns into water vapor and evaporates, then condenses into water droplets and drips down. The whole environment is very humid.

On the stone wall, we can see many distorted lines, like some stone paintings, but because we are far away, we can't see them clearly.

Soon, we found a carved plank road on the stone wall. The stone plank road was very narrow, without guardrails, and it circled the stone wall for a week and could extend to the opposite side.From our perspective, there is a huge door on the opposite side. This kind of stone door is not common in the tomb. I speculate that the stone door may lead to the underground palace, which is the main tomb.

Gu Wenmin pointed to the plank road carved out of the stone wall and said, "He must have escaped along this road."

Tofu's arm was re-immobilized by Professor Shi. He was seriously injured. Now he came to his senses and broke out in a cold sweat. I swam to the opposite side." After speaking, Professor Lin shook his head, thinking it was impossible.He turned the direction of his headlight to the stone wall on the left, motioning for us to look over there.

That location is relatively close to us, and the stone paintings on it are relatively clear. I can understand why Professor Lin denied it at a glance.What was carved on the stone painting was a picture of a person swimming in the water, and he was struggling while swimming. Although the stone painting was carved very simple, the workmanship was exquisite and lifelike. From the facial features, one could see I could see the man's painful and distorted expression, as if he was suffering in the water.

The light followed closely behind, and the distance became farther away, so the stone paintings behind were somewhat blurred, but vaguely discernible.This time the sculpture is a group of people, carrying heavy objects on their backs, walking towards a gate along the plank road on the stone wall.Obviously, this stone painting records the scene when the funerary objects were moved into the underground palace.

It is said that when Xu Fu went out to sea to search for immortals, Qin Shihuang collected the best treasures in the country in order to show his sincerity to the immortals.After Xu Fu's death, he will inevitably bring some to be buried. The artisans whose backs are bent by heavy objects in the stone painting are the best proof.

The further stone paintings, due to the distance, we can't see clearly, but it is easy to infer two points of information from the two stone paintings at present.

First: The huge tomb door on the opposite side is probably the door leading to Lord Xu Fu's tomb.

Second, there must be something wrong with the water in front of you.

It is taboo to see water in ancient tombs. Generally, there are two situations in tombs with water. One is that at the beginning of the design, due to Fengshui or some other considerations, the other is that the geological environment changed later, and water entered the tomb after it was destroyed. .The bottomless spring in front of us looks like it was man-made. Xu Fu must have a deep meaning in doing this. In short, it is better for us not to touch the water.

Since Wu Sidong had already been caught by the evil spirit in the ancient tomb, of course he would not jump into the water by himself, and most likely fled to the opposite side along the plank road.I felt something was wrong when I thought about it, and thought that if the door of the tomb really led to the main tomb, it would be too late for Tibet, how could Wu Sidong expose this place?His behavior is a bit like a temptation, could it be that he deliberately led us here?
What is his plan?More precisely, what was the thing occupying his body trying to do?
After I analyzed the problem with everyone, Duan Fei said: "Could it be that there is still some danger ahead? He must not be so kind, and there are probably traps."

Professor Lin said: "Maybe the things on the stone wall will give us some clues." If you want to fully see the stone paintings on the stone wall, you have to zoom in first.Now that we have no way out, the gate leading to the tomb of the Lord is right in front of us, and Wu Sidong has been possessed by an evil spirit again, so we can't just leave him alone. For now, we can only go to the opposite side first.

Immediately, we boarded the plank road carved out on the left hand side.This plank road is very narrow, and it can only accommodate one person. If a fat man stands on it, he may easily stumble.As usual, the robots are at the forefront. They are better than us in terms of overall quality, so they are very suitable to open the way in front.I was at the back and Tofu was in front of me. He probably sensed that the atmosphere between me and Gu Wenmin was not right, so he lifted which pot he didn't open and asked me, "What's wrong with you two?"

I said nothing.

Tofu guessed again, and said, "Could it be because Duan Fei's girl is pregnant with your child?"

I was overwhelmed by Tofu's imagination, so I said, "Okay, before your hand heals, you should stop and watch your feet carefully. If you slip and fall into the water, I will not be responsible for saving you."

Tofu cut it and said: "Look at me, don't look at Master Dou, I have broken an arm now, even if I only rely on one hand, it's punching everywhere, so don't worry about it." While speaking, the team in front It stopped suddenly, as if something happened.I looked forward, and saw a figure faintly visible on the plank road ahead, at the junction of darkness and light. Although the figure was not clear, just looking at the figure, it seemed to be Wu Sidong.

Hey, this kid is still on the plank road.

As soon as he saw us catching up, he paused and ran away, but the plank road was narrow and he couldn't use his hands and feet, and he didn't run fast, so we immediately chased him and kept the distance without falling.While chasing, we forgot to look at the stone paintings on the stone wall. When we chased to the end, we knew it was not good. It turned out that there was a collapse in the middle of the plank road, which was about four or five meters long, and we had to jump over it.

After Wu Sidong was possessed by the evil spirit, his hands and feet became much more flexible, and he was not afraid of death, so he jumped to the opposite side in an instant, but our group was blocked.Because the plank road is relatively narrow, the distance is second, and it is easy to slip when jumping over it.But seeing that Wu Sidong's figure was about to disappear, everyone didn't hesitate, and the robots jumped over first.

Fortunately, although there are old people and women in our group, they all run outside all the year round, with good physical strength and dexterity, and nothing serious happened.When it was my turn, just as I was about to jump, I saw Tofu's expression change, and suddenly called out, "Behind!"

Now everyone in the team has passed, and I am definitely not one of my own people behind me, no matter what it is, give me a shuttle first.

As soon as I turned around, I fired a shot, only to hear a bang, which made people's eardrums numb, but there was nothing behind me.

what happened?

I was a little dazed for a while, and at this moment, I heard Tofu yell again: "Old Chen, under your feet!" Pushed it, and in the next second, the whole person lost his balance and fell to the side, and next to me was the pool of secluded spring.

The spring water is not high from the plank road, so I fell into the icy water and choked hard.

My first reaction was that it was terrible, but the water was cold and cold, and after taking a sip, there was no peculiar smell, and the corpse oil and dirt on my body were cleaned up.Even so, I didn't dare to wait too long when I remembered the content on the stone painting, so I quickly surfaced and prepared to climb up the plank road.I can be sure that someone pushed me down just now. To be precise, it may not be a person, because it is impossible for two people to stand side by side on the plank road.

Now that I fell into the water, I simply swam directly to where Tofu and the others were, and then climbed up. The robot No. [-] on the side immediately joined hands, ready to pull me up.Unexpectedly, when he squatted down, I suddenly found a black figure appeared behind him.I instantly remembered that it was the black shadow that came out of the terracotta warriors at that time!
It seems that this is not my hallucination, and the so-called "scattering beans into soldiers" and "clay figurines forming an array" probably really happened. Inside the clay figurines lived a lonely ghost!And it has caught up with us now!
As soon as the black shadow appeared, I didn't even have time to remind robot No. [-], he was pushed and fell into the water with a yell. .

But this time the feeling of falling into the water was different. I felt a sudden tingling on the skin around me, as if a small fish was pecking at it. Those who have done fish therapy should know the feeling, a little tingling and a little itchy. Not painful, but hard to ignore.I didn't know what was going on for a moment, so I could only quickly surface, but I was dumbfounded when I emerged from the water. The pool was covered with a kind of black beetle at some time.

This situation is a bit frightening. Robot No. [-] and I are like falling into a pile of insects. Those beetles are constantly stimulating our flesh. Floating on the surface of the water, if they all gather together to bite us, then robot number four and I may not have such an easy time.

The person in the stone painting with a painful expression was probably killed to death by this kind of beetle.

I don't know when the black shadow will come out again, so I immediately said to the anxious people on the plank road: "You go first, leave the plank road, we will come up by ourselves." Even if I ignored the bites of those beetles, I started to go to the plank road with robot No. [-] Climbing up, after climbing up the plank road for a while, I thought I would escape the danger, but those beetles in the water actually climbed up the stone wall again, making a neat rustling sound, and more and more came out of the water, The scalp of the person watching it is numb.

I immediately remembered the name of this thing, it was a husk!
This is a common thing in ancient tombs, commonly known as 'corpse weed', and it is not harmful. Of course, the premise is that the number is not large. Only the skeleton remains.

(End of this chapter)