Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Ancient Ship
170 1 Chapter Seventy Ancient Ship
Wu Xie asked: "Could it have sunk?"

Aning shook his head and said, "Probably not yet. Listen, the sound is still making. Let's look for it separately."

Following a few people, they spread out nearby and carefully searched for traces on the ground.

After a while, I heard Tashi shouting: "Look, there are footprints here."

They all ran over in a hurry. Tashi looked at the ground for them and said, "Look, these footprints are very messy. They are not ours. There is almost no wind here. This half-moon-shaped mound is a good place to take shelter from the wind. They must have been forced by the strong wind." Come in and take shelter here."

Wu Xie looked at it: "Thanks to the fact that there is almost no wind here, the footprints will stay. This is a sandy ground. The footprints are very clear. It is obvious that they belong to three people. So, let's follow the footprints to find them." .”

They followed the footprints and came to the root of the mound more than ten meters away. In an instant, several people were dumbfounded. The footprints suddenly disappeared without a trace when they reached here, as if they disappeared out of thin air. Moreover, there was no quicksand pit here. .

Tashi said: "Why did it suddenly disappear? Did they go into the mound?"

Aning was looking up at the mound, shook his head and said, "No! They climbed up." They followed Aning's line of sight and saw that the backlit mound was dark, like a wall of darkness. A dark high wall stood in front of them, and the light of the flashlight could not illuminate its entirety.

After a while, Aning said to them: "You guys stand back." Then he took out his flare gun and fired a shot into the air.The flare flew into the air and exploded instantly. The surrounding area was illuminated as brightly as daylight. The surrounding scene was immediately clear and clear. Even the scenes hidden in the shadows were invisible and all appeared before their eyes.

The light was so dazzling that for a while they could only squint their eyes to adapt. Before they could see what was in front of them clearly, they heard Aning suddenly scream and shout: "Oh my God!"

Wu Xie squinted his eyes and looked over. Under the flickering light of the signal bomb, halfway down the hillside of the huge half-moon-shaped hill, there was actually a huge object embedded in it. Half of it was buried in the mound, and the other half stood abruptly in the air... …

Everyone was stunned. After dozens of seconds the flare went out, they realized what was happening and immediately shined all their flashlights in that direction. However, under the light of the flashlights, they could only tell that there was a blurry figure there. giant.

Tashi said to himself: "What is this?"

The little brother couldn't understand it for the moment. For the time being, he could only see that it was the remains of an ancient wooden object. It was very huge. If it were a building, it would be too weird. But he couldn't tell what it was for the time being, so he had to continue. Read on.

Just when everyone was confused, someone said, "Climb up and have a look!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie hurriedly stopped them and said, "Don't act recklessly. Stay calm. It's so high and it's a mound. It's not easy to climb up by just climbing. It would be terrible if there was an accident."

Aning looked at the situation and said, "There must be something wrong with this. I'll go check it out first. If it's easier to climb, you can go up again." After saying that, she inserted the flashlight into her belt and prepared herself to go. Climb up.

At this moment, Tashi on the side stepped forward and stopped her and said, "Don't move, I'll do it. There's no reason for a woman to do this kind of thing." Looking at the big guy, he continued, "I've never done this before. I've climbed a lot, so I'm definitely more experienced than you." He bit the dagger, jumped onto the mound, used the dagger as a mountaineering pick, and started climbing up.Several people hurriedly used flashlights to illuminate him.

Wu Xie couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He didn't expect that his skills were so strong. He climbed under the huge object with almost no effort.

Several people raised their heads and looked up. After Tashi stood firm, he made a gesture to them and told them that "it's not difficult to climb." He followed him and used his flashlight to observe this thing. After a while, he suddenly shouted: : "Oh my god, this... looks like a ship... it's really a ship. Climb up and see for yourselves."

With that said, Aning climbed up quickly. Wu Xie had to be slower. He followed Aning, learned Tashi's method, and climbed to the side of Tashi using his hands and feet.The fat team doctor kept sliding down after several attempts. Wu Xie advised him to put safety first and let him stay down.

After climbing up, Wu Xie shivered. It was very cold up there.Aning lit up a cold firework and threw it onto the sunken ship, and the surrounding area suddenly lit up.

Now they could observe it carefully. It was an ancient sunken ship that had been severely disintegrated. The hull had almost merged with the mud, and the wooden hull had been completely broken and carbonized.There was a huge crack in the side of the wooden boat, and it seemed to be empty inside.

The little brother thought that this landform itself is related to the dry rivers and lakes. This is the middle ground between Arab civilization and Chinese civilization.There used to be countless rivers here. It is not unusual for this land to be an ancient river. This must be a cargo ship. The rivers here were ever-changing at that time. It is not new for business travelers to be stranded and sunk because of the diversion of ancient rivers. I am afraid this ship is a One of the thousands of sunken ships, but the electromagnetic waves that just interfered are too concerning, so it's not that simple.

Aning climbed to the side of the ancient ship, looked inside the crack with a flashlight, and said to them: "This seems to have a lot of clay pots. It seems to be a cargo ship going to the Western Regions for trade. These are their goods, Ni Tai." It’s too dark inside to see clearly, but this is really a shocking discovery, and many people still believe that there is no water transportation in the Western Regions.”

The team doctor below was unclear about the situation above, so he shouted anxiously: "What did you see? Are those three people up there?"

Tashi called down a few times to answer him, and the team doctor also said something, but he couldn't hear clearly.Wu Xie looked at it and said: "Except for this sunken ship, there is no other place to hide people on the rock wall here. Are those three people inside this sunken ship? How about turning on the intercom and looking for the signal location?"

At this time, dark clouds passed by, covering the moon, making the surroundings appear colder and darker, and the atmosphere became increasingly weird.

Aning took out the walkie-talkie and as soon as she turned it on, the sound rang out very clearly. She waved it around, but the signals nearby were almost the same.

Tashi pointed to the boat and said, "Why don't you try there?"

Aning aimed at the crack in the ancient ship and stretched out his hand. As they approached it, they became more convinced that the signal was indeed coming from the ancient sunken ship.

Tashi looked at the crack and said, "Damn it, did those three idiots crawl inside?"

Wu Xie shouted several times, but no one responded to him.

Aning said: "It may be that they went in and came out again, and the walkie-talkie was dropped inside. But it is also possible that they had an accident inside."

Wu Xie asked: "What should we do now? But that's not right. How did this sound come out?"

An Ning shook his head and said: "No one can answer this for you, but you will know if you go in and take a look." An Ning looked at Wu Xie, winked at him, and put down his backpack, meaning that they both got in. have a look.

Wu Xie took a look and saw that there were four people in total. Tashi was the guide and had to preserve his strength.The fat doctor couldn't come up at all, and they were the only ones left, so they couldn't refuse even if they wanted to.

At this moment, Aning had taken off his coat, bit the dagger and crawled into the crack first.After she entered, she paused for a few seconds to stabilize herself. Tashi handed her a flashlight, and Wu Xie took off his coat and climbed in after her.

The crack was wide enough for Wu Xie to crawl in.As soon as we entered, the mud on the boat kept falling down. Although the boat was broken, it was still relatively strong. The inside of the boat was very deep and wide, but it was extremely dark deep inside.

Wu Xie climbed in clumsily. The cabin was surrounded by dry mud. He could not sit up and could only crawl forward.

In the dark cabin, Wu Xie's heart was already in his throat as he listened to the increasingly clear and loud voice like a sneer coming from the intercom.

Aning crawled on his side, moving forward with one hand, and using his other hand to shine a flashlight in all directions, he crawled forward.Wu Xie panted heavily and imitated her behavior.

They haven't found the three guys yet, they only saw the mud around them and some sporadic wood chips embedded in the mud.Thinking about it, the ship must not have completely sunk at that time. The mud must have poured in through the breach after the ship sank, so it did not fill the entire cabin.

Just when they crawled seven or eight meters inside, that strange sound came from the front. It was slightly different from what they heard on the walkie-talkie. The sound was very soft and came from the innermost part of the cabin in front.

Aning stopped for a moment, turned off the walkie-talkie, and continued to crawl in the direction of the voice.Wu Xie kept enough space to retreat with her.

After a few steps, Aning suddenly stopped with a scream.Seeing that the situation was not going well, Wu Xie hurriedly crawled forward. He looked over from the side of Aning and saw a hole the size of a round table on the mud-covered "deck" at the end of the cabin. This was probably caused by a collapse.In other words, there is still space under there

They used flashlights to shine down, and saw a mess below, all covered with earth that had collapsed from above. There was a man buried there, with only his upper body exposed.

Wu Xie shined a flashlight and recognized it immediately. It was one of the missing people. The man's face was covered with mud and he was turning blue. He didn't know if he was still alive.And that sneer-like voice came from the mound below.

Wu Xie shouted: "They are really in here!" He shouted and pushed forward, thinking only of going down and digging him out.

However, he didn't expect that his sneer-like voice disappeared immediately after his sudden shout, and the entire cabin suddenly became quiet.

The surroundings were extremely quiet. Wu Xie was suddenly startled, and his hands and feet stopped involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)