Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 691 Text
The few of us surrounded Cyclops, watching his every move vigilantly. At this time, the bloodshot eyes in his eyes had subsided, and he stared at us blankly, as if he was still a little confused.After a while, his eyes began to focus, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Why are you here?"

Apparently, people have woken up.

Hongmao heaved a sigh of relief, smiled and squeezed his own hand, crackling his fingers, and said, "We've been here all this time, since you've woken up, boy, it's time for us to settle the old score." During the period when the one-eyed dragon fell into a dream, he was tormenting the red hair quite a lot. When I saw his movements, I couldn't help but get angry and said: "Okay, okay, what time is it, if you want to get revenge, you have to wait out Say it again."

Cyclops was obviously still in a daze, sat up slowly, then frowned, hissed, and covered the gunshot wound on his arm: "How did I get hurt? Could it be that I was hallucinating?" Talking to himself, randomly reaching out to grab people, as if wanting to see if we are real or fake.

The lazy guy said before that people would lose their sanity after falling into a dream for a long time. Now it seems that although the one-eyed dragon has not collapsed, he is already in a daze. Fortunately, he woke up early at this moment, otherwise he really doesn't know what will happen in the future.I patted his hand that was trying to pinch someone, and explained the reason. After hearing this, Cyclops didn't suddenly understand, but looked at us with a distrustful look, and asked: "Then how can I?" Are you sure, everything before was a dream, or is everything now a dream?"

I laughed wryly when I was asked. In fact, this is a difficult proposition to answer. The reality of the dream is intertwined with reality. No one can be sure, which of the previous experiences is true and which is false.

Hongmao waved his hand, and said angrily, "One-eyed boy, don't talk about the real and the fake right now, anyway, the ones in front of you are just us, do you still plan to wander around here alone?"

Cyclops was silent.

In fact, such a situation was a bit beyond my expectation, so I couldn't help asking: "What have you dreamed about during this period?" To be precise, what exactly did he "experience" during this period what.

The one-eyed man frowned, studying me with his single eye.It was the first time for me to see this kind of gaze, and I let him scrutinize it. After a while, he just said briefly: "Many institutions... the heads of the family fell into that secret passage in order to save me." While speaking, his eyes flickered a few times , stood up abruptly, and said, "I have to save him."

He jumped up all of a sudden, which startled me, and I hurriedly said, "I'm living well, I didn't fall into any secret passage, it was just your dream."

Cyclops showed his doubts clearly: "It is impossible to have such a real dream, I don't know what you are, I only believe in myself."

"That's good." Hongmao rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "In this case, how did you get the gunshot wound on your body? How can you make up for it? Think about it carefully, why did you suddenly appear in this place? Speaking of which, you have well-developed limbs and a simple mind. My surname is Zhang, seeing you are tall and muscular, why is your IQ so worrying?"

The one-eyed dragon suddenly became angry, and said: "Red-haired boy, I haven't beaten you just now, have I?"

Just now?
Didn't the two fight just now?

The red hair was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and jumped angrily: "Well, you are one-eyed, you beat me up in your dreams, if you don't clean up today, you treat me as a wizard, and you are a vegetarian!" The stick greeted the one-eyed dragon like a dog-beating stick.Cyclops' hands were still tied at the moment, unable to stop him, he could only dodge in embarrassment.

The lazy guy said lazily, "That's enough, since you have the eyes of the sky, then don't waste time, let's go."

The red hair is not unreliable either. He took away the staff and handed a one-eyed dragon a look to go out and fight again. Immediately afterwards, we decided to go out.Since the Heavenly Eye in my hand can ward off Mengdrill and sense Mengdrill's approach in advance, our chances of successfully leaving will be greatly enhanced.

The few of us immediately tied everyone up with ropes according to the original plan.Immediately afterwards, he avoided these cellar coffins and walked towards the passage that Wen Min came from before.Since Wenmin has been here for a long time, and has been shuttling between dreams and reality, he can no longer tell which is real and which is fake. Therefore, we cannot know in advance what will be ahead.

This passage is not too long. When you walk to the end, there is a stone door at the end. The stone door is half open, and there are some faded paintings on it.The paint on the surface of the stone gate has faded uniformly to brown, mixed together, it is difficult to distinguish, and can only be seen through some darker lines.What is painted above seems to be a sacrificial scene, and the people inside are still carrying something on their shoulders.At first I didn't understand what those things were, but finally I realized that what they were fighting were mummies.

Wen Min showed a look of surprise, frowned and thought for a moment, then said: "On the bronze tripod, I mentioned a sentence, Tianyan has always used human sacrifices, I thought there were only a few people at most, but I didn't expect..." Although there was no such thing as what she said later, Said, but the expression was obviously shocked.

Harichagai said: "The corpses in the coffins seem to be mummy corpses for sacrificial offerings, but the corpses used for sacrificial offerings seem to be overkill in that kind of coffin. I think those mummy corpses are tied up too tightly. It's like preventing a dead body."

This ancient city, using the eyes of the sky, made something like 01 during the war, and it was easy to ask the gods afterwards, but it was difficult to send the gods away, so they had to use the eyes of the sky to suppress 01, and sacrificed to the eyes of the sky.This may seem like a no-brainer, but I always feel like I'm missing something.

It soon occurred to me that it was the human cocoons that we were ignoring.

Although there are many coffins here, judging from the scale of the sacrifice, these mummified corpses are obviously only a part. So, where did more corpses go?Could those human cocoons be the corpses that were once sacrificed?They were originally used to worship the Sky Eye, but in the end, they seemed to be assimilated by 01 instead.

Here but at this moment, the Sky Eye has been obtained, and the most urgent thing is to leave this ghost place. As for what happened before the ancient city of swallowing silkworms, it has nothing to do with me.Thinking of this, I pushed the stone door open and stepped inside the door first.

Almost the moment we stepped into the stone gate, the originally dark environment suddenly lit up, as if a high-power lamp was turned on instantly.

The sudden light was not dazzling, but very soft. Everyone was startled and immediately looked around.Seeing this, I immediately felt my heart pounding.We saw a huge man-made starry sky above our heads, and the stars were dotted with night pearls. As soon as we entered, the light from the flashlight passed through the night pearls, and thousands of pearls shone at the same time, which formed the soft light at the moment.

At this moment, when everyone looked up, they fell down like a starry sky, which was really shocking.

In fact, this is not the first time I have seen such a scene. Chinese people pay attention to the unity of man and nature, and the universe and starry sky have infinite attraction and mystery to both modern and ancient people. "Zhuangzi Miscellaneous Pian" records: When Zhuangzi was about to die, his disciples wanted to bury him generously.Zhuangzi said: "I take the heaven and earth as my inner and outer coffins, the sun and moon as my connecting walls, the stars as my pearls, and all things as my burial objects. Isn't my burial utensils evil? Why add this!" It can be seen that the ancients admired the heaven, earth and sky.

In the history books, there are also many examples of using pearls to make astronomy in the tomb, among which the first emperor is the most famous,

I didn't expect that such a scene could be seen in the ruined city of the ancient Shu Kingdom, which shows how powerful the country is.

At this moment, the pearl shines like falling stars, but there are stone slabs standing on the surrounding walls, arranged in sequence, like a huge stone screen. If you look closely, you can see that each stone slab is engraved with words and patterns.

I know that there was no written language in the ancient Shu Kingdom. Most of the archaeological unearthed are some symbols, which are called "ancient Shu symbols". The hieroglyphs of the Shu Kingdom have not been deciphered so far.

But now, these stone slabs are covered with such ancient Shu hieroglyphs, if found by relevant archaeologists, it will definitely cause a sensation.These words that no one can understand were quietly engraved on the slate. Wen Min looked very gloomy, and said softly: "If she can see these, she will be very happy." I know that the "she" in her mouth is Refers to Liu Dui who has died.

In addition to the pearl and the slate, there is a round thing like a stone mill right in front of us.

That thing is extremely weird. I counted it carefully, but it is divided into eight layers. There is a gap of about [-] centimeters between each layer. Moreover, there are many hieroglyphs distributed on each circular stone slab, some of which are It's a picture, very weird.The overall feeling is like a bunch of candied haws.

In addition, there is a wide open stone gate on our right, and there is a shovel at the gate of the stone gate.

Wen Min immediately said: "I remember that I did open a stone door, but the scene behind the door is different from now. It seems that I have been to this place before, and I was just in a dream."

I said, "What's behind this stone gate?"

Wen Min showed joy, and said, "It's the way we came here, it seems that this time we're on the right track."

Just as the two of us were discussing, I discovered that the lazy guy was looking at those stone slabs extremely seriously.My heart moved, and I thought, could this person understand these words?Out of curiosity, Wen Min and I went to Lanhuo and asked.

The lazy man squinted his eyes, shook his head, and said, "I can't understand these characters, but these pictures can be seen." The overall length of the stone slab is about two meters. very clear.

After he said this, Wen Min and I also looked carefully at the patterns on the slate.

The first stone slab is engraved with the sun and the moon.

The second slate is the water pattern.

The third piece is engraved with a man with a big belly, eating with grass in his hand, and the man's belly is still transparent.Seeing this, Wen Min and I both understood that the third picture should record the story of Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs.

The sun and moon in front may imply the opening of the heaven and the earth, and the water pattern probably refers to the collapse of the pillar of heaven, the flood, and the vicissitudes of the sea.

Could it be that these stone slabs are actually the history recorded by the people of the ancient Shu Kingdom?
(End of this chapter)