Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 23 Curse
At that time, Zhao Erye was still young, so Xiadou did it himself.

That mountain stream is located in the vast mountains in the depths of western Yunnan. Zhao Erye surveyed a lot of information and confirmed that there used to be a 'Tomb of King Ju'er' in it, and he was rushing to the tomb of King Ju'er at that time.

Unexpectedly, the king's tomb was very strange, with natural dangers and countless strange traps. With his ability and experience at that time, he couldn't even enter the outer periphery, so he had to return home.

On the way home, he met a dead man who fell in the mountain stream.

More than a dozen arrows and crossbows were stuck in the dead man's body, his body was covered in blood, and there was nothing around him.

How could someone die in a place like this?

Second Master Zhao immediately stepped forward to check, not to see if the person was dead, but to see the specifications of the crossbow. He was shocked when he saw it. It was an ancient crossbow, made of iron, and it was the most common in the dark crossbow mechanism in the tomb. of that kind.

The dead man was a fellow traveler, and he must have been to the nearby ancient tomb, so he was injured and died.

Zhao Erye thought of a possibility and thought: Could it be the tomb of King Juer?He was young and energetic at the time, and he was very unconvinced. He brought so many people with him, and he couldn't even get in the periphery. Why did this young man go in?Annoyed, he kicked the corpse.

At this time, the young man suddenly opened his eyes and stared at him coldly.

Zhao Erye's heart trembled, thinking it was a fraudulent corpse, he immediately took a step back.But soon he discovered by experience that this was not a fake corpse.The man is not dead.Mr. Zhao Er is not a good person, he can feel that although this person is not dead, he certainly won't live long.So he thought about finding a way to enter the tomb of King Juer before he died.

The young man only said one sentence: "If you want to know, save me first."

Zhao Erye was taken aback, and said with a sneer, "You have such a serious injury, even if the gods come, you can't heal it."

This young man is Chen Ci.

He was a very cold person, he never smiled, and there seemed to be murderous intent flashing in his cold eyes, which was extremely frightening.He stared at Second Master Zhao, and actually felt a little emboldened in his heart.

After he refused, he didn't bother with the statement. He seemed powerless to do anything, so he closed his eyes and became like a corpse.

Zhao Erye was unwilling to return home without a feather, so he could only pin his hope on Chen Ci, so he tried his best to rescue him.More than a dozen dark crossbows were located deep in the mountains without any medical equipment. Although Chen Ci's life was barely suspended, if he wanted to survive, a miracle would not happen.

That night, when Chen Ci woke up, Second Master Zhao immediately asked him to tell him how to enter the tomb of King Juer.Chen Ci stared at him and said coldly: "If you go in, you will end up in the same fate as me. Go practice for 20 years."

Speaking of this, Second Master Zhao laughed and said, "Counting it all together, this year is exactly 20 years."

Tofu has always had few tendons, so he immediately asked, "Could it be that you plan to go to the tomb of the king with giant ears this time? Why is it called giant ears? Could it be that the owner of the tomb has big ears? Could it be that he is the ancestor of Mickey Mouse?"

Zhao Erye was taken aback for a moment, he probably had never seen a person like Tofu, who was so vague and unreliable in his work, he was taken aback before he said: "Of course not."

He went in anyway, after all, he was young at the time, and he was greedy for words, so he wouldn't be intimidated.He didn't say anything about his experience.On the contrary, after the young man finished speaking, seeing that Second Master Zhao was obsessed with obsession, he gave him a cold look, and then told Second Master Zhao the story of the two of them.

These two stories are the stories of the previous Flying Dao Bai Laosi and my grandfather Chen Siyuan.

However, Chen Ci's story is more comprehensive and complete.It was precisely because of the two incidents in this story that my grandfather and father died one after another.

The cause of the incident has to start from Wan Yaofei's golden coffin.

It was a demon tomb.

These are the original words of Bai Lao Si.

At that time, there were seven people in the group, only Bai Lao Si and Yang Fang died in the tomb. At the last moment, the two broke the golden coffin.

I saw a lifelike female corpse in the coffin, dressed in a robe woven with gold and silver threads, with phoenix patterns interspersed on the robe, ivory golden lotus ball boots, a phoenix crown on her head, her bare hands, her skin was as white and tender as before.

After the golden coffin was opened, the treasures buried with it were shining brightly, but among the treasures, the most eye-catching thing was a jade mask as thin as cicada's wings covering her face.

This jade mask is blue in color, free of any impurities, covering the face, even the face can be seen clearly, but maybe the eyes of the mask are just stained with color because of the breath of the dead. He opened his eyes, and was staring at the two of them with black eyes through the jade mask.

Legend has it that Concubine Wan Yao's demonic power comes from her mask, and since entering the tomb of Wan Yao, Bai Laosi has seen too many bizarre things, at the moment when he saw the mask at first glance, he felt a faint chill in his heart.

He remembered the stele he saw when he entered the mausoleum.

An inscription was engraved on the stone tablet, but at the end of the inscription, there was a creepy curse.

Anyone who disturbs Concubine Wan Yao's sleep will wear a 'ghost mask', suffer the extreme suffering of the world, her luck will decline, and her cigarettes will be cut off.At that time, he had speculated that the ghost she's face might refer to the mask worn by Concubine Wan Yao?

Yang Fang once said that there is nothing in the tomb, only the face of the ghost, what is the use of this thing?

Put a mask on your face?The things that the dead have brought are also stained. Unless the head is sick, they will wear it on the face.

Just as this thought flashed across his mind, Yang Fang on the side reached out and grabbed Concubine Wan Yao's face, as if to take off the mask.Bai Laosi was startled, and shouted: "Bastard!" Tomb robbery is a skilled job, and it is a peculiar profession.They disturb the sleep of the dead and invade the souls of the dead, but they are afraid of ghosts and gods.

When grave robbers open coffins and touch corpses, they don't take things directly. There is also an unwritten procedure.

For example, burning incense, prostrating, cursing ghosts, receiving talismans, copying corpses, holding one's breath, etc. The methods are different between the north and the south. Of course, some thieves don't follow these rules and don't know these rules. They like to act recklessly.But family inheritance like Mr. Zhao, or veterans in the circle, have encountered many strange things, so they pay great attention to the rules left by the ancestors.

Behavior like Yang Fang's is a big taboo in the eyes of veterans.Yang Fang himself is a veteran in the circle, Luoyang Yiba, why did he make such a fatal mistake?
But Bai Lao Si couldn't stop it in time, Yang Fang took off the mask in an instant, and then put it on his own face.For some reason, at that moment, Bai Laosi felt an unprecedented, unknown fear.

And the Wan Yao Concubine whose mask was taken off turned into ashes in an instant.

Now that it has been turned into ashes, the corpse cannot be lifted anyway, so Bai Laosi was slightly relieved that Yang Fang committed a taboo act, but at this moment, Yang Fang suddenly stood up straight.

It was a straighter posture than the military posture, as if there were two people pulling at the head and feet separately, the situation was very strange.Immediately afterwards, Yang Fang himself rushed towards Bai Laosi like a dumpling whose corpse had been exploded.

Although the three of them called brothers and sisters on weekdays, it was all false. In the face of interests, when life and death were at stake, no one would give in to the other.Yang Fang used two maces to attack Bai Laosi, his body skills were stronger than before.

Bai Laosi thought to himself: Black eat black?It actually ate on my head, I am the ancestor of this skill.

Bai Laosi has a flying knife skill. Usually, the inside of his wrist is tied with a flying knife, and when he uses it, he flicks it and it gets caught in his hand.Relying on the advantage of long-range attack, he opened the distance between a few dodges, and then shot all the throwing knives.

Rao Yang Fang was extremely powerful at the moment, under Bai Laosi's full counterattack, he dodged nine but not one, and a throwing knife shot straight into his throat.

Yang Fang was killed on the spot.

Fourth Bai sneered.Of course, he would not feel sad for his brother's death, but thought that now, whether it was the mask or the treasure, it belonged to him alone.

Immediately, he touched the contents of the coffin.He felt that the mask was a bit ominous, so he ignored it.During the process of touching the Ming artifact, probably due to the lack of air circulation in the tomb, Bai Laosi suddenly felt a little dizzy, and his whole mind became confused for a moment.

At that moment, Bai Laosi couldn't remember anything, and he didn't remember what he had done at all. In short, when he came back to his senses, he found that he didn't know when he had taken off the mask on the face of the dead Yang Fang. to his own face.

That moment.

There seemed to be a gloomy voice next to his ear, reading the curse of Wan Yaofei to him.

Terrified, Bai Laosi left the tomb in embarrassment with his things. At the beginning, he was so scared by this weird incident that he had to restrain himself from the limelight. During that time, it was rumored that Bai Laosi had quit his job.

Soon, the curse was fulfilled.

(End of this chapter)