Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 223 Bronze Coffin

This dumb man acted differently from ordinary people, I suddenly saw him approaching, and couldn't help becoming vigilant.The mute approached step by step. I thought he was planning some crooked plan, but unexpectedly, he passed me and walked not far behind me, where the half body of the skinless corpse was placed.

My heart skipped a beat, and I said in my heart: No way, this mute is too heavy?Could it be that he wants to eat this thousand-year-old corpse?

Immediately afterwards, I realized that it was impossible, but any corpse has corpse poison in its flesh and blood, let alone this old corpse, I am afraid it is extremely poisonous, eating its flesh, let alone how disgusting it is, I am afraid He had to be killed on the spot after eating, the mute was not such a stupid person, what on earth did he want to do?
I became curious, so I staggered up my body and walked over, but I saw the mute kneeling on the ground with his ears pressed against the ground, as if he was listening to something. clean.My heart was moved, and I immediately imitated the appearance of a mute with my ears on the ground. I didn't feel anything at first, but after listening to it for a long time, I felt a faint roar.

How can there be sound underground?After listening to it for a while, I gradually realized that the sound was very similar to the sound of water. Could it be that there is an underground river under our feet?Just as he was thinking, the dumb expression froze suddenly, hissed, and said, "I see." It seemed that he understood something.

Before I could ask a question, I heard a series of clicking sounds in my ears, as if the sound of countless machines starting at the same time. The sound came really suddenly. Trembling, as if the whole ground was suddenly pushed by something?
earthquake?Of course it’s impossible, I know in my heart, there must be some mechanism activated, but what puzzles me is that the activation of the mechanism is usually triggered by external force, and the mute and I didn’t do anything, what is the mechanism that suddenly activated by itself? of?I had a faint feeling in my heart, and at this moment, the mute said: "It has already begun."

He stared at the corner of the wall suddenly, I don't know what he was looking at, I followed his gaze, turned up the light to the maximum, and suddenly found that the ground we were in was sinking!The four walls of the tomb remained motionless, only the ground began to sink, and groundwater began to gush out from the cracks at the joints. I finally understood why the entire circular tomb passage was very humid. Sink in the water once.

I can't figure it out, what is the purpose of doing this?It is not easy to create such an institution, is there any mystery in it?
The ground was still sinking, and more and more water was being poured in. Tofu was stimulated and woke up. Seeing the scene of water flooding the golden mountain, he was horrified: "What's going on? This tomb is still leaking?"

In fact, the most important thing is not water. The few of us are thirsty, and we can drink it if there is urine. After filling myself up, I felt like I was alive.At this time, the water in the tomb and the tomb passage was already more than one meter high, but because the ground of the tomb was sinking, the speed of the water could not keep up with the sinking speed, so the entire space became larger instead.

I immediately understood what was going on.

The real mechanism of this tomb passage is actually at the bottom. After the dumb and I were wrapped in human skin, we sank all the way, the mechanism opened, and we naturally fell to the top of the tomb. When the tomb was closed, the road before it disappeared naturally.The entire tomb passage should run automatically, so when the time is up, it will automatically open again.

I shared my analysis with the two of them, and Tofu said happily, "So we can go out?"

I nodded and said, "As expected, we will be able to swim out along the waterway after the mechanism of the tomb is fully opened." The wall of the Taoist tomb is still dry, which is why we failed to discover the mechanism before.

In an instant, the water had become very deep, and we estimated that it was about the same, so we decided to seize the opportunity to escape.When people are in crisis, they can often unleash their astonishing potential. I used to find it difficult to walk, but now it seems that I can escape, and the water source has been replenished, so my spirits are lifted and my strength has recovered a little. The dumb person seems to be too The spirit is bright, but the tofu is more difficult.

The mute was carrying a half of the rope behind him, and he threw it to the tofu and said, "Tie it up." In an instant, the tofu was tied up, and the mute and I tied a rope and dragged it away. Dive into the deepest part of the water, pick a direction at will and swim forward.In this case, no matter how you swim, you can go out, but the direction of the exit may be different, but this has nothing to do with us, after all, we cannot locate it underwater.

Thinking about it carefully, when Xu Fu was buried, he was just like all the alchemists, with a heart to dissect and ascend, but something went wrong. A thousand-year-old corpse with some wisdom was trapped in the underground palace.

There is also a circular tomb passage above our heads, which must be a kind of mechanism. The bones inside are probably the people who were killed by the thousand-year-old corpse. As for the identities of those people, you don’t need to think about it. They are probably the people who came to explore the island. People, this underground river must be connected to the outside world. Once someone enters the water, if they are unlucky, the mechanism will open and the water flow will be chaotic.

Fortunately, the flashlight is waterproof, and the mute and I tied tofu around our waists, held the flashlight in our hands, and swam forward holding our breath. After a while, we saw half of the stairs suddenly appearing in front of us.At this moment, the breath was almost suffocated, and the mute and I looked at each other in the water, and the two of them immediately headed towards the stone steps in the water, upstream along the stone steps, and came out of the water after a while.

Tofu wiped the water from his face, full of curiosity. At this time, he did not forget to look around. After reading it, he said, "What is this place? Hey, there is a hole there."

On the top of the stone steps, there is a platform, surrounded by groundwater, and the shape cannot be seen. We are sitting on the edge of the platform at the moment, but there is a rectangular depression in the middle of the platform. land.

I became curious, and when Tofu said this, Dang even shook the water droplets on his head, looked into the depression, and couldn't help being shocked, and said, "It's a bronze coffin!"

The so-called outer coffin refers to the protective layer that covers the outside of the coffin. The common ones are divided into stone coffin and wooden coffin. For higher-level ones, there are jade coffin, gold coffin, and bronze coffin. Bronze coffins were more common before the pre-Qin period. Non-hou Wang generals are not available.I saw that there was a bronze coffin in front of me, and the specifications were very high. My heart moved, and I immediately understood.

From the looks of it, the mahogany and lacquered hibiscus golden black coffin was originally placed in this outer coffin, but for some reason, it would float out with the water.I saw that the coffin was about eight meters long, six meters wide, and four meters deep. There was a rectangular pit in the middle, which was the place where the coffin was placed, and many grids of different specifications were separated around it. Water, there are exquisite ancient objects soaked in the water, these are the most precious funerary objects buried with the coffin of the owner of the tomb!

Under the illumination of the light, there are exquisite utensils placed in each of the hidden compartments submerged in the water. The first thing that catches the eye are two white and transparent jade discs, which are still transparent and flawless after 2000 years. There is also a treasured sword buried in the coffin. I have seen this sword in previous murals. It is the sword used by Xu Fu to kill beasts. Mostly.

The next thing that caught our attention was a wooden box placed on the top of the coffin chamber. It was square and square, and it was also a bronze box. At first glance, it was used to hold the big seal in ancient times. It is taken for granted that there must be a Liuhe seal inside!
I was overjoyed and said: "There is no place to find if you break through the iron shoes, and it doesn't take much effort to get here. I opened the red lacquered hibiscus golden crow coffin before, and it was empty inside. I thought the Liuhe seal was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be placed in the outer coffin. "This life and death, of course, can't be in vain, I quickly took the box out of the water, glanced at the mute, but saw that he had no intention of fighting.

Strange, if this kid is working for Fusang people, how could he allow me to get the Liuhe seal?
Tofu was dying before, but now looking at the baby, his eyes are shining, and he said to me: "Don't just take a box, take more." As he said, he swept in the coffin room, and he also Even with good eyesight, I didn't touch those rotten things, and chose a few that were better preserved.

These are all ancient relics from the pre-Qin period. If you put any one out, it will be a depth bomb. Tofu is waiting for more. I hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't take the big ones, pick the small ones, and only take two pieces."

Tofu didn't understand, so he said, "Two pieces? If it wasn't too much, I would have taken them all. Xu Fu was cut in half by us, and he won't come to settle accounts with us. If he doesn't take it, he won't take it."

I said: "You know what, these are national treasures. With our current contacts, we can't sell them if we take them out. With how much ability we have and how much business we do, it's too early to dump these fetishes now. Wait." With the accumulation of strength in the future, the path will be wider, and there will still be opportunities, but if you fall out now, if you make trouble, you will be killed."

The mute listened to him, nodded slightly, and said, "You guys are not too stupid."

Hearing this, Tofu picked two small items, one was a delicately shaped cave fairy wine, and the other was a blood-red figurine hanging jade, small and light, exquisitely shaped, rare to see.After collecting the things, we looked around, there was no other way to go, the three of us were about to go into the water, when we saw a huge black shadow suddenly appeared under the water, as if some big fish was about to come up.

Tofu was startled, and said: "Look at the shadow, it seems to be..." He didn't say anything, but my heart sank, because the shadow was vaguely rectangular, could it be the Fusang Jinwu human skin coffin?
After a while, that thing surfaced, it wasn't a coffin and it was something.

(End of this chapter)