Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 108
108 Chapter 1 Broken Bridge
The little brother took me to take advantage of the chaos and go around them, and ran straight out from the exit of the front hall.

After leaving the main hall, my brother ran forward in the dark for a short distance with me on his back. In the darkness, I could vaguely see that this was a stone bridge.

After a while, we ran to the end of the stone bridge. A piece of the end of the stone bridge had collapsed. Standing here, we could see two tall stone tablets erected side by side on the opposite side.One of the stone tablets has been broken, and underneath it is a turtle-like black carving.Well, I know this one. Every time I see a turtle-shell-shaped carving under the stone tablet with its head held high and four feet on the ground, I know it is it without looking at the face. It is Bixi.

The description of its appearance is that it "looks like a turtle and likes to bear loads. It is also a turtle under the monument." It is also a mythical beast that symbolizes longevity and good luck.

Bixi is also called Baxia, Long Liuzi.According to ancient Chinese legends, it often carries three mountains and five mountains on its back to make trouble. Later, it was subdued by Xia Yu and made many great contributions to it.After the flood control was successful, Xia Yu let it carry its achievements on its own, so many stone tablets in China were carried on its back.

When I was a child, my brothers and sisters would come and teach me how to recognize these mythical beasts and monsters whenever they had free time.It happened to be Bai Hao's turn to teach me about Bixi. This is what he told me.

Bai Hao said: "Bi Xi was naughty when he was a child, carrying mountains on his back to get into trouble all day long. Later, he met a good master and slowly turned into a good boy. After that, he often did good deeds and performed very well, so his master let him Carrying the certificate on my back."

In fact, for me as a child, this method is quite good. I can remember it immediately, it is easy to understand, and it is more interesting.But it was troublesome during the exam. Grandpa City Lord couldn't pass the test. If he couldn't pass, he would naturally be punished. Liyue knew when he saw this teaching style that this content was taught to me by Bai Hao. His nose almost made him angry. .

The city lord's grandpa asked him: "Isn't this what I taught you back then?"

Bai Hao replied: "Well...but you taught me this."

The city lord's grandfather frowned and sighed: "Hey...then at least teach her the original text."

Li Yue stared at him and said, "Can't you be more serious when you teach her things? Have you ever seen the lord of a city talk like a child telling stories when he goes out?"

Bai Hao replied quite reasonably: "But she is a child. She is just five years old. There is nothing wrong with her speaking style." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to make a five sign, and finally spread his hands.

Li Yue shouted angrily: "Bai Hao!"

When Bai Hao saw this, it was wrong, it was over, Li Yue wanted to deal with him and said hurriedly: "I know, I know, I will teach her the original text next time, don't be angry, calm down, I am new... "There was just a "pop" sound, and a giant water balloon hit Bai Hao's head. With a "crash" sound, Bai Hao's whole body was splashed into a drowned rat. Bai Hao instantly had a look of despair on his face and spat out saliva. , continued what he said just now: "Clothes..."

Bai Hao pays great attention to his clothes. He likes clothes to be elegant and comfortable.Silk clothes were his favorite, but he couldn't wash them well. He used his spiritual power to clean them every day and never dared to let the clothes get wet.The one that day was still new.Liyue is a water unicorn, so this move is really hitting the mark against Bai Hao.Bai Hao's head drooped as if his soul flew out of his head.

I walked up to him, took his hand, pulled him, and comforted him, saying, "Brother Bai Hao, your clothes will be fine. You can use warm water of about [-] degrees Celsius and neutral detergent or soap." , wash it gently by hand, don’t twist it hard after washing, just lay it flat on a large towel to absorb the excess water, and then put it in a cool place to air dry naturally.”

When he heard that the clothes were saved, he immediately regained his vitality. He squatted down, looked at me, and called me movedly: "Xiao Xun, you are still the best."

I said to him again: "But Brother Bai Hao, let me tell you this method. You can't make Sister Liyue angry again in the future, otherwise she will find other ways to fix you, such as..."

Bai Hao quickly interrupted me and covered my mouth: "Good sister, don't say it out loud, don't remind her, I will definitely not offend her, and I will definitely teach you knowledge."

Not far behind these two stone monuments, there is a towering huge black shadow, which should be the "imperial mausoleum boundary monument" that I mentioned.

There was an abyss about three meters wide between the stone bridge and the boundary monument of the imperial mausoleum on the opposite side. The little brother stopped at the edge of the break of the stone bridge, quickly put me down, and said softly to me: "Let's go down from here."

I looked under the bridge. It was extremely dark and quite deep. To go down, I had to find a foothold before teleporting. I whispered, "Then I'll light the little moon and put it down."

The little brother agreed with a "yes": "Don't be too bright."

I stretched out my left hand and turned the palm of my hand, and waved two fingers of my right hand. A small mist surrounded the small moon appeared in my palm. I gestured toward it, and the small moon lit up instantly. I followed the two-finger gesture and waved towards the darkness below. , the little moon fluttered and flew down, illuminating the bridge immediately.

This is the moat that the little brother mentioned. I held on to the little brother tightly, stretched out my head and looked down, thinking, "Oh my God, this is quite deep..." I had to look down even though I was trembling. , he quickly determined his destination, picked up the little brother and teleported there.

In the blink of an eye, we reached the bottom of the moat.The bottom of the river is dry, and there are dry, uneven black stones and sand under your feet. It's quite big underneath, and it's pitch black in front, back, left, and right. It's the kind of darkness that a small moon with normal light cannot shine through, but the little brother said Don't be too bright just to be afraid of being exposed.

I looked at him and said, "How do we go now?"

The little brother looked up and then looked around. He had an idea in his mind and took me directly along the moat.

After walking a few steps, I could vaguely see a lot of dense, dark shadows on the bottom of the river, which seemed like something was placed there.The little brother pulled me and walked very smoothly. It seemed that those things were not dangerous.Although I am nervous, I am not scared to death.

We walked relatively fast, and after a while, we saw what I remember was called the river bed. There was a fault there, and there was a very wide ditch under the fault. It was full of black life-size ancient human and horse figurines. It’s those dark shadows just now.They are placed very densely, and most of them are standing. Of course, some have fallen over and broken into pieces. Some of the figurines are still holding bronze utensils, but it is hard to see what they are because of the rust.There are also bronze carriage remains.

The little brother took me down to the ditch. He didn't intend to look at these things, so we didn't observe them too much. We just passed by and took a quick look, and then walked along the ditch towards the dark part of the moat.

Hearing Shunzi's advice, it was Uncle San's order to separate them from Chen Pi. Wu Xie had doubts in his mind. Before he could ask, Pan Zi asked: "Then who are you?"

Shunzi said: "Don't ask so many questions. I will take you to see your third uncle now. Then you can ask him yourself."

Hearing what this meant, the third uncle was also in the imperial mausoleum now. Wu Xie was about to ask another question when a series of breaking sounds suddenly came from above his head, and the tiles began to fall down like rain.

We didn’t walk too far, and we could still vaguely hear the sounds behind us, and we could see the picture. I said softly: “The sound of gunfire must have attracted those flocks of birds.”

The little brother said to me as he walked: "They can handle it. We don't have much time, let's go quickly."

They protected their heads from the falling tiles and looked up.Under the illumination of the flashlight, I saw many shadows of those things moving in the sky.

Shunzi said to them: "When your gunshots were fired just now, there were sounds everywhere in this dead forest. Now these things are surrounding us." Panzi asked: "Then why don't we run? We are not waiting to die here. ?"

Shunzi said: "Wait until they go a little further." Then he looked behind him and saw that Chen Pi's Asi and the others must have run away. He turned back to Wu Xie and the others and said, "Let's go!" Followed by, Shunzi took the lead, They followed closely and ran towards the exit of the front hall.

Wu Xie saw the derivative hall of the Shinto outside the gate hall. In front of it was a long white jade bridge with twenty arches. The jade color was excellent, there were no gaps, and it seemed to be carved from the whole.Two coiled dragons of unknown material were hung on the bridge, entwined along the railings on both sides of the bridge. Under the bridge was the moat of the Neihuang Mausoleum. It was too dark to know if there was water underneath.

They had only taken a few steps, and those things were already chasing them. They were running and fighting. They could feel the things above their heads hovering against their scalps, but they couldn't see them.

Soon they ran to the bridge. Suddenly Wu Xie felt something being pulled on his back and fell out. As he turned around and got up, the fat man swung his gun butt and hit him by the ear. I felt something fall from my back. I looked back and saw a black shadow struggling to get up.Pan Zi raised his hand and shot it into two pieces.

Wu Xie shouted: "What on earth are these?"

The fat man fired several shots into the sky: "I don't know, who knows what the hell this thing is?"

Pan Zi shouted: "How do you know? No, it's too much. I can't beat them all. Shunzi, where is the third master? How can we leave?"

Shunzi said: "Your third master should be in the underground palace."

The fat man hit something with the butt of his gun again and said hurriedly: "Underground palace? Great, it saves trouble. Where is the entrance to the underground palace?"

Shunzi said very seriously: "I don't know." When they looked at Shunzi's expression and heard his tone, they really didn't see the joke.

The fat man heard this: "You don't know that you said you would take us to see him. This imperial tomb is so big, how can we find it?"

Shunzi was very calm, kept his body low, and said to Wu Xie: "Your third uncle said that this is the place where Xuanwu rejects corpses. He said that if I tell you this, you will naturally know where it is. Do you think about it?" impression."

Wu Xie felt strange when he heard it: "Huh? Xuanwu rejects corpses?" He thought to himself, according to Feng Shui theory, this is the place with the worst Feng Shui in the world. Shouldn't this imperial mausoleum be the top treasure cave "Nine Dragon Plate" "Flower"? It's so strange... Wu Xie asked him: "Did he really say that? Did he say anything else?"

Shunzi lowered his head and looked around and replied: "No, your third uncle seemed to be avoiding someone at that time, so he was in a hurry. Your third uncle arranged for me to meet you in the village, take you into the mountains, and then take you with me." These few words.”

Wu Xie couldn't figure it out. Feng shui, burial books, and this "Xuanwu body rejection" were not good places.

The fat man also knew these things, and even knew a little more than Wu Xie in some aspects. After hearing this, he felt it was impossible and shouted: "Fart, it's impossible. The Xuan Palace of the Imperial Mausoleum is located, how could it be the place where "Xuanwu Rejects Corpses" , How much hatred does this Wang Zanghai and Emperor Wannu have? If you are buried in this kind of feng shui, your descendants will die, your wife will steal someone, and nothing will happen to you. It’s impossible!”

Pan Zi fired another shot to push away the things that were pressed down, and turned around and said: "It's not impossible. Feng Shui is about people. Didn't you listen to what the monk said? The people buried in this imperial mausoleum are not people. , maybe this strange pattern difference has something to do with it!"

I couldn't understand what Shunzi said about the place where Xuanwu refuses corpses. Now it's very chaotic there, and there are gunshots from time to time. Everyone is in a panic, but since the third uncle said that only brother Wu Xie can understand. , then just wait until he figures it out.

While they were talking, they had already retreated to the end of the stone bridge and saw the stone stele on the Imperial Tomb Square and the "Emperor's Tomb Boundary Stele". Wu Xie knew that after the stone stele there should be the Immortality Stairs leading to the "Palace of Rebirth".

The "Boundary Monument of the Imperial Tomb" means that this is the real dividing line between the human world and the underworld. No one who guards the tomb can enter the place after this. Hundreds of years ago, from the moment the Imperial Tomb was closed, no one has set foot on the boundary monument. The area on the opposite side, it gives me a chill just thinking about it.

At this moment, the fat man suddenly stopped and opened his hands to block them all.

They looked forward and saw that the end of the stone bridge had collapsed. Wu Xie was stunned and asked, "What should we do?"

Without thinking, Pan Zi picked up the gun and said, "What else can we do? Jump over one by one, quick!"

But when he saw the distance, Wu Xie couldn't help but swallow.Like me, he is a person who does not exercise all day long. We were given a physical fitness test. The two of us were definitely first and second, but we were last.

Wu Xiejue was a little frightened when he thought that this would be a very difficult thing to accomplish.If I want to jump, I can only rely on my spiritual power to jump over. Otherwise, I can only wait for others to take me there.

Wu Xie was standing there in a daze. Fatty and Shunzi both jumped over easily. Pan Zi wanted to step in behind Wu Xie and let him jump first. Wu Xie was obviously very nervous, and he looked like he was going to die.Maybe we are all newbies who neglect exercise and are timid.

Just then, Wu Xie shouted to the fat man opposite: "Pull me closer."

The fat man agreed wholeheartedly. Wu Xie took a few steps back, regained his composure, and accelerated violently. The moment he took off, Pan Zi suddenly shouted from behind: "Wait...!" Before he could even say the words, Wu Xie was already stunned. Leap high and jump fiercely to the other side.

When Pan Zi shouted, he subconsciously looked back. At this moment, a huge black shadow swooped down from his upper left, grabbed his back collar in the air, and hooked his clothes with a claw. As soon as he was moved to the side, Wu Xie lost control of his posture in the air.

When I saw this, I thought something bad was going to happen. I thought of the image of an eagle catching its prey with its talons, then letting go of its talons and throwing it down in the air...

Pan Zi raised his gun and fired three bursts at the top of Wu Xie's head. The bullets whizzed past. The fat man rushed over, jumped up and wanted to pull Wu Xie in the air, but his hand was right next to Wu Xie's collar. Wiped it over...

Then I saw a scene similar to what I thought. The big bird with a human face loosened its claws, and Wu Xie turned over and fell into the abyss of the moat.

The moment he fell, I was stunned. The bridge was quite deep just now. I would definitely be injured if I fell...

In an instant, Wu Xie's mind went blank. He fell very quickly. He spun around in the air several times, and a series of thoughts flashed through his mind. What's below?How deep is a typical moat and is there water?Will he fall to death, or will the sulfide water here melt him into a pile of bones?
Before he could think of the answers to these questions, his back hit an object similar to an iron chain, and his whole body was almost broken. The pain made his eyes blur, and then his body twisted around the iron chain. , fell down again, and before he could recover, he hit another iron chain. This time, because of the buffer, the impact was not heavy. He stretched out his hand to grab it, but missed it and continued to fall.

This series of impacts made him dizzy, and the curled up posture of his body when he fell was also lost. He only remembered that his face hit the ground hard, and he fell to the ground. He heard a sound from all the bones in his body. There was a muffled sound, followed by a "buzzing" sound in the ears and nothing could be heard.

(End of this chapter)