Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 660 Basement

As a result, the two parties disagreed, and the bald men in hats quit. In a fit of rage, Team Liu also took away the equipment, and divided it as he said. If you don't believe it, you can't do anything.The bald hat didn't tear his face, and said: "Buying and selling is not righteous, and it seems that I can't persuade you. You should be careful in the future. We will store this equipment for you first, and we will settle it when we come back."

They looked at the sky and saw that it was going to be night, so they wanted to take advantage of the night to leave this place. In any case, the farther away from this place, the safer.Team Liu asked them to dispose of the corpse, burn the corpse, and bring the ashes back to the address on the notebook.

The burning of the corpse would have taken at least half an hour, and this group of people didn't agree at all, so they left in a very shameless manner.

Only the photographer hesitated for a while, as if he was a little confused, Cyclops asked him why he didn't leave, and he said, "If there is such a monster, I'd like to see it." As he spoke, he looked at the camera in his hand, with an eager expression on his face. .

The one-eyed dragon groaned strangely: "No wonder people say that people who are engaged in art have problems. You are coauthoring because you want to take pictures and die? Then have you considered it? Should you go or not?" The photographer hesitated for a while, In the end, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, saying that he couldn't leave. If something really happened, he would sacrifice himself.

I couldn't help but look at him twice.

After the bald men in hats left, we set up camp as usual. In order to prevent accidents, everyone did not light a bonfire this time, and the two tents were also very close to each other.We put the body back in the car, and if there is no accident, we will collect his body when we return.

Although everyone didn't dare to light a fire, they still had to watch the night, mainly to listen to the movement. At this moment, there was only the sound of the wind whistling around, and they were vigilant all night, but nothing else happened.The next day everyone got up early and passed the night peacefully. The female doctor said happily: "There is nothing. It seems that 01 should have left this place. We don't need to worry so much."

After all, this happened more than 30 years ago. Everyone slept peacefully all night, seeing that there was no danger, they couldn't help but feel refreshed, packed their things and continued to move forward.Along the way, the photographer stopped every now and then to take pictures, so he was always last.Cyclops had a good relationship with him, and the two of them talked nonsense, and the journey was not lonely.

At about three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the photographer who was following behind the team suddenly let out an exclamation, then took a sharp breath, let out a hiss, and panicked: "Don't go, come and see!" He stopped Footsteps, eyes fixed on the screen of his camera, his face looked very white under the winter sun, and all his blood had faded.

My heart skipped a beat, and I knew something had happened, so I hurried to him and followed him to look at his camera without asking any further questions.

The time on the camera shows a photo that was taken tens of seconds ago. The view angle is our left front, and the sun is gradually slanting at this moment.The sun, with a layer of dark gold, sprinkled on the golden grass cushions, which was too beautiful to behold.

He photographed the scene, but at the same time, a strange dark spot in the photo caught my attention.

This black spot is located in the center of the golden meadow, and because the viewfinder is wide-angle, it is far away.Anyone who knows photography knows that the black dots that can be seen in this state indicate that the main body should actually be very large. According to this ratio, it should be at least the size of a person.

I immediately looked away from the camera and turned to look at the photographer's viewfinder, but there was nothing in that place except the golden grass line.

What are the black dots on the photo?
At this time, the photographer nervously said: "My shutter speed is very fast, but the moment I took this photo, it disappeared." He looked at the grass shoreline, that is to say, there is A thing as tall as a person appeared in his lens in an instant, and then disappeared.

I immediately thought, did that thing hide in the meadow?
what would that beBeasts... or something scarier?We read that notebook before, and there was more or less a pimple in our hearts. Immediately, I asked the photographer to enlarge the black spot.He probably was frightened just now, and didn't react for a while. After I said this, he slapped his forehead, and quickly manipulated the camera to enlarge the black spot on it.

The black spots are getting bigger and clearer, but due to the limited resolution of the camera screen, such long-distance expansion cannot be fully seen.At this moment, what occupies the entire screen is a black shadow in the shape of a human!

I can be sure that it is not a beast, but a real figure!

Is it a human or... 01?

No, it is recorded in the notebook that 01 is very big and has a lot of 'hands', and the figure on the camera is no different from a normal person, so it should not be 01, but why are there other people in this place?

At this time, the photographer swallowed, shook his whole body, and said: "Look, this person is facing us, he, he was spying on us just now."

As soon as he reminded us, we suddenly realized that the surrounding area is actually not as safe as we imagined, and we didn’t even know it was peeped.

Team Liu was very cautious, and said to me: "It's your turn, see who is following us, don't ruin our business, go, go and have a look." Cyclops and I looked at each other, took out our weapons, A group of people immediately headed towards the position where the black dot appeared in the camera.

The dense meadow did not leave any traces, and there was no one there. The few of us listened to the movement around us with our ears open, and suddenly, we heard a bang.The female doctor paused, frowned her delicate eyebrows, and said, "There is something blocking the front." Then, she fiddled with the meadow with her hands, and then suddenly yelled, "It's a wall." .”

wall?
Cyclops said: "Could it be the base from before?" While we were speaking, we surrounded it and opened the meadow to see that it was indeed a brick wall, but it was crooked, as if it would fall down at any time.The top of the wall is exposed to red bricks, which are covered with withered yellow moss.Looking along the direction of the stone wall, you can see something like a pool of water, some dimples with a thin layer of ice formed on the surface.

Team Liu was surprised: "Could it be that this is the ruins of the base? No, in 30 years, it is impossible for a base to have only a few rotten walls left. Could it be that the entire base was destroyed by 01?"

I ignored the others, squatted down and took a closer look, and found that there were some scattered iron pieces in the surrounding soil, some were only the size of fingernails, and some were granular, but no matter how I looked, they didn't look like Naturally formed, it should be some substance manufactured by man.

I realized right away that these were probably shrapnel.

Why is there so much shrapnel in this place?Looking at the wall that was about to disappear again, a thought appeared in my mind: Could it be that after that incident, the bombs dropped from above destroyed the base?
So, has that 01 been blown up together?Does it still exist on this land?The black figure that appeared in the camera just now should have been standing in this abandoned base.What does he have to do with this base?
Thinking of this, everyone dispersed, while the photographer started shooting at the broken wall.Cyclops and I searched around, trying to find traces of the mysterious man.About ten minutes later, I suddenly heard a loud bang.

This time it was gunfire.

The only ones in the team with guns were me, Cyclops, and Wen Min.

I was shocked, and quickly looked in the direction of the gunshots, only to see the one-eyed dragon suddenly shortened and disappeared into the meadow.

In an instant, I remembered the contents of the notebook and the person named A Biao. I felt my scalp go numb, and I couldn't care about anything. I yelled the name of Cyclops and ran towards the place where he disappeared.I thought it would be 01 waiting for me, but I didn't expect that when I ran to that place, there was a hole in the ground.

The hole is not big, and the surrounding meadows almost cover most of it. The one-eyed dragon should have fallen into the hole just now, so the weeds at the hole are a little bit sunken.Looking in along the entrance of the cave, it was pitch black below, and I didn't know where it led.I suddenly thought, this base originally had a basement, could this hole lead to the basement?

"Zhang Sheng!" I yelled towards the entrance of the cave, but no one answered me.

Wen Min and others also gathered around me, the photographer looked very worried and asked, "What's wrong with Lao Zhang?"

I shook my head and said, "I fell into this hole. I don't know what's down there. You guys wait on the top, I'll go down and have a look." Wen Min took out his pistol, frowned and said, "I'll go too. .” As he said, he took out the rope on his own.

I know Wenmin is good at skills, but the next situation is unknown, and her help is more insurance, so I didn't refuse. The two of them took the rope and asked Liu Dui, the photographer and the female doctor to wait outside, and we went down the rope. hole.

After entering the cave, I immediately knew that I guessed it right. This is not a natural cave, but a stone room, surrounded by mud and sand. There are many weeds growing near the entrance of the cave, but the place inside is very clean.Probably because the sun can't get through, so there are no plants growing.

It looks like this should be the original basement.

With the light of the flashlight, I immediately found a series of footprints on the ground. The footprints were obviously more than one person, and they were clearly left on the wet soil. They stretched forward along the passage of the basement and entered the place we saw. In the invisible darkness.

According to the string of imprints, one of them was obviously hijacked, so the footprints were very protracted, very long, and very messy.

I immediately realized that the figure I saw before should be hiding in this basement, and just now the one-eyed dragon discovered his whereabouts and fired a warning shot, but I don't know what method the man used to drag the one-eyed dragon into the room. in this hole.

Wen Min and I looked at each other, randomly held a gun, and headed towards where the footprints were.

(End of this chapter)