Tomb Raider: I, at the beginning, took Fatty Lao Hu as my younger brother

Chapter 307 Unknown Timeline

There is no other way. It’s not that they want to do archaeological research, but all the clues to lift the curse were collected bit by bit by a few people through archaeological research.

At this moment, Lao Hu and Fatty suddenly thought that what they had just eaten might be a pot of beef that had been boiled for thousands of years, and they couldn't help feeling a little nauseous.

Old Hu suppressed his nausea and said to Zhou Xun, "The phenomena in this city are really incredible. It's safer for us to retreat outside the city first, and then enter the honeycomb-like main city after dawn tomorrow!"

Zhou Xun nodded.

Knowing that everyone would not sleep well here, I didn't say much.

The three of them went back outside, called Shirley Yang and others, took their things and started to return along the same route.

Old Hu looked up at the sky and was incredulous. "Six-Four-Zero" said, "Night has already fallen, but the light in this Eluohai City is still the same as when we first discovered this place."

"It's like being in the dusk. Although there are many lights, it looks very hazy. Maybe even the light when the ancient city was destroyed has stopped forever. If Ah Xiang hadn't confirmed it, I would have thought it was a ghost town!"

Then, as they walked, Lao Hu briefly told Shirley Yang about the situation in the slaughterhouse.

Shirley Yang pondered for a moment, looked at the lights of the surrounding houses, and analyzed: "I don't think this place is as simple as being lost outside the orbit of the world. For example, the cooked beef in the pot is indeed well-cooked and delicious. Once it is eaten up, it will not reappear on its own."

"Everything in the city is fixed at a certain moment. If it is not affected by external forces, it will never change. The sky outside changes from dim to pitch black, and the time on the watch is also normal, which means that time is still passing normally."

"There is another point that is most easily overlooked. Things in the Eluo Sea City are not static. It can only be said that they permanently retain a specific form. It is definitely not the result of time freezing. Therefore, we can temporarily rule out the idea that time and space are in chaos."

"For the sake of convenience, let's call the eternal moment in the city of Eruohai the X-line. It is a mysterious ancient city that is completely stuck in the X-line!"

After Shirley Yang finished speaking, everyone felt that it made a lot of sense.

Zhou Xun secretly praised him, saying that he was indeed Chief of Staff Yang and his analysis was very correct.

The fat man asked in confusion: "What, what X, X-ray? What is X-ray? Yarn?"

Shirley Yang glanced at the fat man and explained, "X stands for unknown!"

"Oh!"

Old Hu nodded calmly.

The fat man was speechless and said, "It's unknown, so why say X?"

Shirley Yang was too lazy to argue with the fat man about this, and continued, "If you want to solve the mystery of X, you must find out what happened in the last moments of the Evil Sea City. Maybe you have to wait until dawn, deep in the honeycomb castle, to find the answer to the truth!"

Shirley Yang finished her analysis.

Everyone looked at Shirley Yang with admiration.

so amazing.

He has clear ideas and is worthy of being the chief of staff.

......

The crowd climbed back from the outer edge of the city wall to the green rock beside the wind-eroded lake.

Looking back at the Eluohai City in the night, it was quietly sunken underground, with countless lights still flickering, but the light in the city was still as dim as at dusk.

It seems that the city will still be like this tomorrow morning.

After running back and forth, Uncle Ming and his family of three were already exhausted.

There were spotted dragons roaming in the forest. No one dared to go down the rocks, so they had to find a sheltered place on the green rocks to rest.

I planned to rest until dawn and then go into the main city to find out what was going on!

So everyone took turns to keep watch.

......

It's dawn the next day.

When Zhou Xun woke up, he found that Shirley Yang had already woken up.

He was concentrating on looking through the Bible map that everyone found in the Samsara Temple.

There were thick clouds overhead, and the sunlight that shone through the gaps in the clouds was not sufficient. The valley was surrounded by steep cliffs and peaks, making it very dark.

The Eluohai City under the rock seemed to be completely isolated from this world!

Still the same, the lights are shining, and it is strangely quiet, the whole city is stuck in X-ray... 0

Shirley Yang said to Zhou Xun: "I have a feeling that if we can't find the secret of X-rays today, I'm afraid we will never be able to leave the valley behind the Gate of Disaster. This place is basically a hopeless situation!"

The map in Shirley Yang's hand was badly damaged. It was Father Grape Ya who stole the secrets of the Samsara Sect and wanted to go treasure hunting.

But before any action could be taken, the priest was killed due to religious conflict.

Before, everyone couldn’t tell whether the terrain drawn in the picture was the land of the Dapeng Bird or the Phoenix Palace!

Zhou Xun asked Shirley Yang: "Have you made any new discoveries now?"

Shirley Yang said: "Compared with the nearby terrain, it can be concluded that the Bible map is the map of Phoenix Palace Eluohai City, but we have done our best."

"We can only restore less than 30% of the drawings that Father Putao drew secretly, and they are all in pieces here and there, without connecting to each other."

"But if time permits, I can complete the missing parts of the map based on the environment here."

At this time.

Old Hu also woke up and heard the conversation between Shirley Yang and him.

"That's great! If we have a map of the ancient city, even if we only have a part of it as a reference, it will definitely be a great help to us!"

Old Hu came up to the two of them with a big smile on his face.

Zhou Xun said: "Don't worry, this time, we will definitely get what we want!"

"Ok!"

Lao Hu and Shirley Yang nodded solemnly.

Zhou Xun said to Lao Hu: "It's getting late, go wake everyone up!"

"it is good!"

After hearing the good news early in the morning, Lao Hu cheered up and woke up Zhang Yingchen, Chuyi, Fatty, and Uncle Ming's family of three one by one.

Zhou Xun took out the food again.

After everyone finished breakfast, they set out again and headed into the city! .

Chapter 308: Cockroaches Bigger Than Rats

On the way, Uncle Ming came to Lao Hu and whispered, "This city is too mysterious. There is something weird everywhere. Do we really have to go in?"

Old Hu nodded and said nothing.

Are you kidding? The four of us, Fatty, Zhou Xun, and Shirley Yang, have put in so much effort to find the source of the Phoenix Gallbladder. We have finally arrived here, how could we give up so easily!

It is better to die in front of the battle formation than behind it. Thinking of this, Lao Hu immediately quickened his pace and rushed into the city first.

Seeing Lao Hu’s anxious mood, Zhou Xun said secretly: It will be over soon!

After entering the city.

Everyone discovered that except for the things that were touched by the big guy, nothing else had changed, even the light mist in the city remained the same!

The fat man went straight to the slaughterhouse and cut a few large pieces of fresh yak beef for later use.

This action left Zhou Xun speechless.

Didn’t you satisfy your craving last night? Why did you take it after eating? Did you feel nauseous yesterday but not today?

Sometimes, Zhou Xun really thinks that the fat man is a ruthless person!

Last night, everyone wanted to wait until dawn to see the tall honeycomb structure of 30 before attacking Huanglong, but the light in the city was still dim.

Looking up from under the beehive, the lights in the main city look like thousands of fireflies quietly clinging to the beehive!

The large beehive exposed above is only half of it, and the larger part is sunken deep underground.

According to the values ​​of the Demonic Kingdom, important power institutions should all be located underground.

So everyone walked around the city, found the largest cave and entered the hive!

The caves inside are so densely packed and their structures are so complex that it really looks like a honeycomb or an ant nest, which makes people wonder whether the residents inside are humans or insects!

The fat man looked at the complex terrain around him and said, "Who built this road? Who? Is there anyone who builds roads like this? Zhuge Liang's Bagua formation is not this complicated, right?"

"Hey, Master Zhou, do you think the people living here would get lost normally?"

Zhou Xun also looked around in confusion and responded: "I don't know whether they will get lost, but what I know is that outsiders who come in will definitely get lost!"

Zhang Yingchen said: "If we had built a city like this in the early Qing Dynasty and put the imperial palace in the middle, I don't think the Eight-Nation Alliance would have been able to break in!"

Zhou Xun and the fat man nodded in agreement.

Lao Hu said: "Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s..."

Before Lao Hu finished speaking, Fatty interrupted and said, "Don't talk like you did last century, okay?"

Lao Hu:......

"There was a period of time more than a decade ago when the whole country dug deep holes and stored food. I have also dug those kinds of civil defense facilities, but compared to this underground evil Luohai City, it is nothing compared to it!"

"Many of these caves are naturally formed. Otherwise, it would be hard to imagine that such a project could be done with just manpower and equipment!"

Lao Hu said as he looked at the many caves.

Everyone found the largest passage and headed underground.

The passages here and the caves on both sides are illuminated by lights.

Every time she walked forward, Shirley Yang would write down the terrain on paper with a pen!

Shirley Yang sketched very quickly, and without wasting too much time along the way, she drew a simple and practical route map.

Zhou Xun, Lao Hu, Fatty, Zhang Yingchen, and Chuyi would use their wolf-eye flashlights to illuminate the cave houses on both sides from time to time!

Most of the unlit caves were empty.

In some cave houses, there are many cockroaches bigger than mice gathered in the damp places, and they cannot be killed even with the butt of a gun.

The deeper you go, the fewer cave houses there are, and they are indeed getting older and bigger!

At the end of the underground nest city, there are two large stone doors that are half-open!

There is a doorway on each side of the passage, with two gems, one white and one blue, inlaid on the doorways.

Shining a flashlight inside, I saw that the cave on the left was several dozen square meters in size, with a very high dome and a stone statue of a ghost head deep in the cave.

The ghost head had an ugly and ferocious look, with a row of seven-star ladybug patterns carved on its lower jaw. Faint tallow lamps were burning in the four corners, and on the ground in the middle, two steamed sacrifices, a black cow and a white horse, were placed side by side!

Things are similar in the doorway on the other side!

Shirley Yang took out the map, and Zhou Xun and Lao Hu also hurried to take a closer look.

Shirley Yang looked at the map and said, "There are two locations, the Ice Palace and the Fire Palace, on one of the fragments of the map. They are exactly the same as here!"

"However, the area inside the large stone gate at the end of the passage that should have been marked on the map has been damaged."

"Only at the edge of the missing map can you see some patterns that resemble animal bones."

Old Hu asked in confusion, "I remember that in the Black Tiger Mysterious Altar of the Samsara Sect, there was a similar pattern on the bottom layer of the crystal bricks. Are these bones related to the disappearance of the residents in the Eluohai City?"

643 With doubt, Lao Hu pushed open the stone door at the end.

As soon as I entered, I immediately felt a chill running through my heart and lungs.

Old Hu said, "The evil spirit in this hall is quite strong. It is dark and cold, and is completely different from the environment on the upper floors."

Zhou Xun, Shirley Yang, Fatty Zhang Yingchen also walked in.

What I saw was a temple full of jewels and precious stones. Although there were many lights in the temple, they were all very dim and the hall was deep, so I couldn't see clearly what was going on inside.

At this time, Chuyi followed a few people into the stone gate. Zhou Xun was about to go in, but found that Uncle Ming and his family of three did not follow him in. Zhou Xun called out, "Let's go, or do you want to stay outside?"

At this time.

Ah Xiang hid behind Uncle Ming and whispered a few words to him.

Uncle Ming's face was filled with panic when he heard this.

Lao Hu, Shirley Yang, Fatty and Zhang Yingchen were all very confused as to what this guy was doing.

But Zhou Xun heard what Ah Xiang said.

He frowned and opened his third eye.