Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 233 Long Shan
I don't know how long it took for this dizziness, the first to wake up were Qiu Daleng and Shoujizi, after all, those two were young and recovered quickly.Dimly, I heard Shoujizi complaining to Qiu Daleng, saying: "Oh, it hurts me to death, and it's all because of this old man surnamed Chen. He insisted on coming down, and we two brothers who have been troubled have also suffered."

Qiu Daleng said: "Stop talking, hurry up and see if something happened to Master and Mr. Chen." After a while, Grandpa felt that he was half-supported by someone, and the man patted him hard on the back, Grandpa coughed A mouthful of old phlegm, stimulated by pain in the back, the whole person woke up slowly, and saw that Ma Poppi woke up too, with a bloody gash on his forehead, sitting on the spot panting, and the thin chicken was bandaging his wound.

Grandpa looked at Qiu Daleng who woke him up, and said, "Good boy, thank you."

Qiu Da laughed dumbly, scratched his head, and said: "You are welcome, you are my master's friend, you are my senior, you should." Then he helped his grandfather to stand up, and his grandfather thought: Although this person is also a He's upside down, but fortunately he's kind-hearted, and I'll have to thank him tomorrow.

But now that everyone is in the bucket, there is no way to say thank you. Dang even began to observe the situation under the vertical hole.It's hard to see, but on the surrounding stone walls, there are still many buried children's corpses tied up.A rough calculation shows that there are no less than forty corpses. Under the illumination of the flashlight, the gemstones on the body of the child reflect the dazzling light, and the eye sockets inlaid with rubies are even blood red, which is shocking to the viewer.

In addition, at the middle of the bottom of the vertical pit, there is a large copper pillar standing upright, about the thickness of two people hugging each other, the pillar body is blue and black, with various scenes protruding and floating.Grandpa looked carefully, and saw that there were people and animals on the raised patterns, and the scenes were different. Some were selling flowers at stalls, some were riding elephants to carry water, and some were watching juggling in long robes. , just like a market scene in the ancient Ailao Kingdom.People and beasts on the copper pillars are all smiling, revealing the richness and prosperity of the ancient Ailao Kingdom.

While watching, Grandpa reached out and knocked on the copper pillar. From the copper pillar, there was a hollow sound.

Everyone is a veteran, and they knew that the copper pillar was empty as soon as they heard the sound.

Ma Poppi said: "There are no other entrances and exits in this place, and there is no tomb chamber. It seems that the body of Queen Baoxiang is probably placed in this copper pillar."

Seeing that the copper pillar was two people tall and integrated into one piece, with no connection opening visible around it, Qiu Daleng said positively: "It seems that the connection connection is on the top, I'll go up and have a look." The pillar climbed up like a tree, and when he reached the top, he turned his head and smiled at everyone, "There is no roof on it, let me take a look first." Then, the whole upper body stuck into the huge copper pillar, only The remaining two legs and buttocks with the copper pillars sandwiched between them.

The three of grandpa waited under the pillar and touched for about ten seconds. The skinny chicken asked eagerly, "Big fool, is there a treasure elephant queen inside?"

Then he heard Qiu Daleng's muffled voice coming over, saying: "There are many grids inside, it seems that there are things in it, and there is no corpse, but there is one..." He didn't finish speaking, and the people standing below heard it. Suddenly there was a popping sound, which was similar to the sound of an inflated plastic bag being stepped on and exploded. The sound had just been heard, and Qiu Da Leng, who was above him, suddenly fell down.

But only his lower body fell off, and the parts above the pelvis were all gone, and the blood stained the ground instantly.

This situation caught the three of them unexpectedly, Ma Poppi was instantly jealous, his eyes were about to burst, and he yelled: "Big stunned!" The thin chicken was stunned, but when he looked again, his legs were trembling and his crotch was wet. up.

Grandpa was rushed by the huge bloody aura, he took a step back, staggered, and was shocked and angry, pained and sad at the same time.What a child, what is in that bronze pillar that actually, actually hurt people right under his nose?
The title of the ghost king is not for nothing, although grandpa is a good person in character, but in terms of professional ability, there is no doubt about it.Although following Bai Laosi to dig mushrooms is a last resort, he has learned a lot of skills, and his grandfather is good at using throwing knives.It is said that Bai Laosi's throwing knife is one finger long and two fingers wide. One side cuts the blade, and the other side opens the blood groove. The knife is also poisoned. , or dealing with people who don't know how to praise, they are all killed by a knife.

Grandpa has learned a lot about Bai Laosi's skills, and the flying knives are even better than blue. He shouted angrily, shook his hands, and caught four poisoned red flying knives between his fingers, and then jumped Jumping, both feet stepped on the copper pillar, trying to kick the copper pillar down.

The copper pillar looks huge, but it is actually hollow inside. Grandpa kicked hard, and the whole copper pillar fell backwards in an instant, fell to the ground, rolled three to five meters to the side, and was thrown out suddenly during the rolling process. One thing was Qiu Daleng's disappearing upper body, which rolled out in a bloody ball.

Ma Poppi usually beats and scolds his two apprentices, he seems to dislike them, but in fact he is the most protective, when he sees the dead body of Qiu Da Leng, he screams and runs up, trying to pull the body away return.

The corpse was thrown out, facing the entrance and exit of the copper pillar, Ma Poppi squatted down, and was about to hug the corpse, a huge black figure, almost as thick as a person, suddenly jumped out from the copper pillar.Grandpa stood three meters away, and he didn't rush to stop him, and he didn't see what it was. In a hurry, the flying knife in his hand shot out, needless to say, the knife was poisonous. A living creature, shot like that, ready to die.

Sure enough, the thing failed to pounce on the horse poppier, and was shot by the grandfather's throwing knife, and immediately retracted into the copper pillar in pain. , to fight desperately with the things in the copper pillar.Inverted people are keen to carry cold weapons, and at that time, security checks were not so developed, and controlled knives were easier to carry.

The cold weapons favored by Tu Fuzi are generally divided into three types. One is heavy weapons with high lethality, such as Lu Su’s Ghost Crying Sword, and the other is small weapons such as daggers. The dumb waist knife belongs to the relatively small category. , and the third is hidden weapons, such as Feidao Bai Laosi's unique skill is a hidden weapon.

The thing shrank back, and Ma Poppi pulled out a machete to rush forward to avenge him, but Grandpa stopped him abruptly, saying: "Old brother, be careful, don't act rashly."

Ma Poppi's eyes were red with excitement, and the fine wrinkles on his face were twisted, and he said, "No matter what monster it is, I will kill it!"

Grandpa forced himself to suppress the grief in his heart, and said: "That thing can split the big stunned in half in an instant. It can be seen that it has two specialties, one is fast, and the other is great strength, so we must not drive rashly. That thing If you have been hit by my throwing knife, even an elephant will die in less than a minute."

Knowing how powerful Grandpa is, Ma Poppi couldn't help panting, barely stopped moving, and stared at the copper pillar with hatred.

After touching for about 1 minute, there was no movement inside. Grandpa nodded when he saw that the time was up, and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look." Hua Hua Nian thought, but now she is timid, too frightened to move forward.Normally, Ma Poppi would definitely teach him a lesson, but now one of his apprentices has died, and the remaining one, he didn't have the mood to preach, so he ignored the thin chicken, and headed towards the copper pillar with his grandfather. go.

The two squatted at the entrance and exit of the copper pillar, turned on the light inside, and suddenly found a black thing curled up at the bottom of the copper pillar. They couldn't tell what it was, but they could see it. On it was the handle of a flying knife.The thing was motionless, presumably dead, and Ma Poppy immediately climbed into the bronze pillar and dragged the thing out.

The thing left the bronze body, and its figure stretched out immediately, but it was a monster that looked like a human, with a snake-like tail and long hairs all over its body.

Is this the thing that killed Da Leng?
Why is it installed in it?
Ma Popi was puzzled, and drew out his knife to dismember this thing, but at this moment, Grandpa stopped him violently, saying, "No way, this thing is a 'Long Shan', once it is cut off, the dragon in its body will die." The air will leak out."

Shoujizi had calmed down now, swallowed and said, "Uncle Chen, what is Longdan?"

Grandpa then explained to him that the dragon sheet is transformed from a dead body, and the dragon veins have qi, and the qi in the head is life, and the qi in the tail is death.Among them, the Dragon Tail is divided into eight gates, namely Shuu Gate, Sheng Gate, Hurt Gate, Du Gate, Jing Gate, Death Gate, Shock Gate and Kai Gate.If the corpse is in the fierce gate of the dragon's tail, the spirit of the dragon gathers and does not dissipate, and the corpse will change. The dragon beard is a kind of corpse change. It grows a tail and grows hair. The tail of this dragon is also known to be very old.

It is said that once the dragon energy of the Gaihan Mountains in the dragon body leaks out, the surrounding snakes, insects, mice, ants, beasts and birds will follow and eat its flesh, and the surrounding people will not be spared.

There is no such thing as Feng Shui in the ancient Ailao country, so when choosing a burial place, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. The dragon beard in front of me is probably changed by the corpse of Queen Baoxiang.

Shoujizi heard the words, and said cautiously: "Then, it shouldn't be able to do any mischief now, right?"

Grandpa shook his head and said: "Dragon Qi is the Qi of vitality. Even if it gathers in a fierce place, it is still angry. That's why the corpse will change and transform into a living thing like a dragon. As long as it is a living thing, in my No one can survive under the flying knife."

Shoujizi heaved a sigh of relief, looked at his master Ma Popi, then at Qiu Daleng, who died tragically and dismembered his body, and boldly said: "Since the Queen Baoxiang has been found and there is nothing here, then, then we are Why don't you leave this place as soon as possible?" Poppi Ma looked at Grandpa without answering.

(End of this chapter)