Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 206

I reckon that Tofu and Dumb are born with the wrong horoscope, so I can only shake my head, telling Tofu not to be ashamed, get up quickly, and then wait for Dumb to speak, if I think right, he should have something to say next we say.

However, what surprised me was that the mute made a series of gestures to the three Fusang people, then leaned on a bunch of bright objects, seemed to be closing his eyes and resting his mind, or perhaps thinking of some countermeasures, without saying a word .

I was wondering, what kind of tricks is this kid playing?
Turning my gaze, I noticed that Professor Lin on the side had been looking at the mute, frowning, and his expression was changing, as if thinking of something.

I walked over, lowered my voice, and whispered, "Uncle Lin, what's wrong with you?"

Professor Lin suddenly came back to his senses, looked at me, shook his head with a complicated expression, and said, "No, this person reminds me of something."

matter?

I said, "Do you know the origin of these Fusang people?"

Professor Lin shook his head and said, "Of course I don't know, but this masked person reminds me of someone."

"Who?"

Professor Lin said: "Your father, make a statement."

I was shocked and said, "Uncle Lin, don't be joking. If my father had such virtues, I would rather wipe his neck and hang himself."

Professor Lin smiled and sighed: "Of course he is not a statement, but he is more similar in some respects."

I said, "For example?"

"For example, you should have discovered the technique of tomb robbery. This is a veteran. It should be said that he is a rare master in China. Of course, his personality is also somewhat similar. He is supercilious and makes people want to beat him up."

I shrugged, not too interested in the topic, it doesn't matter to me what kind of person Chen Ci is, I have never met him, and he died a long time ago.Everyone sat down again, and the atmosphere was not as tense as before. Amidst the piercing screams from the corpse wall, I began to think about countermeasures.Now that the way forward has been blocked, there is no choice but to move forward.

The strategy of opening the coffin to get the key is obviously not going to work unless we are confident of defeating the flying dead.

Without a key, you can only think of other ways.External force doesn't work either, there is dragon oil in it.

The so-called dragon oil, commonly known as kerosene, is a viscous liquid when it is still. Once it vibrates and rubs against the air, it will produce a chemical reaction and become a corrosive liquid. At the same time, it will spontaneously ignite.It is said that this substance was inadvertently poured out by ancient alchemists when they were refining alchemy.

Neither the key nor external force can be used, what should I do?
The tomb was silent, except for the shrill sound from the tomb outside, the only sound left was the sound of tofu... It was snoring, that's right, this kid was already asleep.

As the saying goes: Stupid people are blessed with stupid people, don’t intrigue, be unfavorable to greed, treat people with sincerity, and don’t go into horns. Perhaps among our group of people, only tofu is the one who has the easiest life.

Time passed by every minute and every second, I didn't come up with any ideas, and Professor Lin and the others were also at a loss.Gu Wenmin looked a little haggard. Since that incident, she has been silent. Looking at her bloodless face, I felt a little uncomfortable, but I couldn't help but want to hold her in my arms, comfort her, and confess everything impulse.

Impulsiveness is no longer for people my age.

After a while, I calmed down, forced myself to shift my gaze, and stared at the tomb door in the depths through the dark ceremony room ahead.It is shrouded in darkness and has protected the tomb owner for more than 2000 years. The light penetrates into the ceremony room, and only a dark silhouette can be vaguely seen. The nine tripods and eight gui stand silently in the middle of the ceremony room, and one of them falls down. Yes, it should be because we were knocked down in the fight with Flying Zombie before, and we didn't notice it at the time.

Something poured out of the gui, it was a black ball, I don't know what it is.

Gui is an object used to hold cooked meals in ancient times, and was also used as a ritual vessel. It mainly existed from the Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It is one of the iconic bronze utensils of the Bronze Age in my country.The ancient nine tripods and eight gui are the burial customs of emperors. I guess [-]% of the things spilled from the gui are food.

But after thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong. The tomb we are in now has already stored food and funerary objects. Since this is the case, there should be no more things in the gui, which is a ritual vessel.

what's in there
I had some doubts, so I turned on the headlight and went to check it. I squatted down and looked, but it was a pile of rough ashes, and I couldn't see what it was.At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came from behind me: "This is ashes."

I was startled, and quickly wiped off the ashes on my hands, and turned my head to see that the mask was dumb.

I don't know if what this kid said is true or not, but he said that he put the ashes in the gui, what is this saying?Is it possible to let the owner of the tomb eat the ashes?Does this Xu Fu have a hobby of eating people?
But he saw the dumb man walking to the door of the tomb, stretching out his hand and groping carefully.There were thick calluses on the tiger's mouth on his hands, which seemed to have been left by using a knife all year round. He touched it for a while, and then pulled out a black knife.

His black knives are a pair of scimitars, the whole body is pitch black, and it is impossible to tell what kind of material it is. It is a bit like a Mongolian waist knife. It is about the length of a forearm.But he pulled out the thin knife and inserted it into the gap of the stone door, as if he wanted to destroy the mechanism lock inside, but after only a moment, he withdrew the knife again, his dark and cold eyes narrowed, and there was no more action.

I saw that he was also at the end of his skills, so I didn't say a word, and the two of them stood in front of the tomb door thinking hard.

After walking all the way here, Baoshan is right in front of me, but I can't say anything, it's really aggrieved.At this moment, I suddenly had an idea in my mind, and asked the mute: "Is there a way to get the dragon oil out?"

The mute turned his head, his cold gaze was filled with doubts, and he said lukewarmly, "There is a way, but there is a lack of tools."

I said: "As long as there is no vibration, the performance of dragon oil is stable? I have an idea, you follow me." I walked back to the tomb where everyone was resting, squatted in front of Gu Wenmin, and said, "Put the equipment in the bag Give me."

Gu Wenmin probably didn't expect that I would talk to her, she was a little dazed, and said, "What?"

I was softened by her puzzled and confused expression, sighed, and said, "I need your equipment bag." Gu Wenmin came to his senses, and then handed the equipment bag to me.

In her luggage, she carried a large amount of medical supplies, including infusion tubes for drips.

Seeing me take out this thing, the mute obviously understood, grabbed the thing with his hands, and said, "Just use it."

The rest of the people were still in a state of confusion, and the mute had already started to greet the three Fusang people and brought the tripods together.He cut off the tie at one end of the infusion tube and put it in the tripod, and used tweezers to carefully send the needle end to the back of Shimen.

It was an extremely delicate job, and the mutes did it all.Behind the Nine Lives Nine Deadlocks is a thin layer of oily wax, inside which is sealed dragon oil.The dumb man sent the needle deep with tweezers, and carefully inserted it into the oil wax. After a while, the dragon oil in the oil wax flowed out slowly and calmly along the infusion tube, and merged into the bronze we prepared in advance. Dingli.

Only then did the rest of the people understand, and all of them showed happy faces. As long as the dragon oil inside is emptied, we can use explosives to forcibly blow open the door of the tomb.The infusion tube was dragged by the dumb hand lightly, he winked, and the Fusang man immediately brought a gui under it, and the mute put down the infusion tube carefully.

I saw an infusion tube, slowly flowing liquid into the tripod, everything was slow and steady, the only thing we have to do now is to wait quietly.As long as the dragon oil does not vibrate, its properties will not change. We just need to wait quietly for it to be pumped out, and everything will come naturally. Now we must ensure that this plastic tube cannot be disturbed, otherwise the dragon oil inside will be destroyed. become a devastating disaster.

After putting down the infusion tube, everyone stepped back lightly, back to the tomb where the funerary goods were piled up, and turned the light of two flashlights on the infusion tube, closely watching the movement there.

Tofu gave me a thumbs up and said, "Old Chen, you have a good idea. If Xu Fu finds out, he will definitely be so angry that he cheated."

When I heard this, I was almost choked to death by my own saliva, so I quickly covered Tofu's mouth and said, "Your crow's mouth has always been a good and not a bad spirit, bah, what a fraudulent corpse, wait for the dragon After the oil is drained, we are about to meet Xu Fu himself, can you be more reliable and don't get into trouble."

I covered Tofu's mouth, but couldn't say a word, he could only nod his head with an extremely innocent expression.

After solving the biggest difficulty in front of us, everyone relaxed. After all the tossing, we may not have a rest for a long time, and even if we agreed to take turns to rest.The dumb side maintains a very delicate attitude with us, neither intending to fight nor cooperating.I was also worried about them. When everyone was sleeping, two people would take turns guarding them. They didn’t sleep deeply. After sleeping for a while, someone suddenly pushed me lightly.

I slept lightly, woke up suddenly, opened my eyes and found that the person who pushed me was actually dumb.

What is he going to do?

I became vigilant, but I saw the mute looking at me with cold eyes, with his index finger erect in front of his lips, and then pointed in the direction of my right hand.At this time, the rest of the people were sleeping, and the only ones awake were the night watch robots No. [-] and No. [-]. But when I turned my eyes, I suddenly found that these two people were walking in the direction of Longyou, leaving only two of us. a back view.

Robots No. [-] and No. [-] are already very close to Longyou.

I felt something was wrong in my heart. If the two of them didn't guard well, what were they doing there?
(End of this chapter)