Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 191 Discovering the Swamp
191 Chapter 191 Discovering the Swamp

Wu Xie was still sighing in his heart, "The beautiful scenery is still there, but the beauty is gone." But suddenly he heard me say "Don't go" and stretched out my hand to hold something. He suddenly felt very strange and thought, "Don't go". ?" What did Xiaoxun see?Because he didn't see anything, and when he saw me fainting, he came to his senses immediately. Now is not the time to regret and sigh, it is still important to leave first.

The fat man asked with confusion on his face: "Mute Zhang, what happened to her? Is it serious?"

When the little brother saw the color of my eyes change just now, he frowned. If it was just a simple illness and I was fine, he was afraid that my memory fragments would recover again. He hugged me with one hand and held my little face with the other. He called me, but there was no response.He had just tested that my body temperature was a bit high, and he quickly checked my pulse. He looked at my slightly pale face with worry, and then quickly picked me up on his back.

Wu Xie took a look and saw that Mengyou Piao seemed to be anxious. This expression was rare, and it seemed that the problem was a bit big.

Pan Zisheng had seen a lot of life and death matters, experienced a lot, and seemed to be much calmer. He was a little sorry for Aning's sudden death. Seeing this scene again, he said: "Little Third Master, what happened to Aning?" It's an accident. Although it's sudden, we have to accept it. I don't know if there are any snakes like that here. It's not safe and we shouldn't stay for a long time. We'd better leave quickly. The situation of Miss Xiaoxun doesn't look good either. Hurry up. Find a cleaner place to rest and think of a solution.

Wu Xie nodded, sighed and said: "It is indeed dangerous to stay here. Menyouping killed the crested snake just now. If this snake is really like the legend, it will take revenge on those who kill the same kind and will not die. If you don't stop, you must be careful." After saying that, he looked at the little brother with some worry. The little brother knew that Wu Xie was also concerned about him, so he nodded to him.

He glanced at the tragic situation of Aning in his arms again, and couldn't help but feel pity in his heart. He turned his head to take a look at the snake corpse floating on the water. He was a little startled, then turned his head and looked around and said: "That snake corpse Gone…”

The fat man and Pan Zi looked at each other and thought it was weird. The fat man said: "The head is twisted like that, but it can still run... It's so evil. What's in it? Let's not get rid of it." , let’s go quickly, I don’t think we should go back to look for anything again, if we run into that male and female pair again, we’ll really have a rest, so let’s keep moving forward.”

Wu Xie said: "Yes, that's true, let's go." For a moment, Wu Xie couldn't bear to leave Aning's body there, so he picked her up. The fat man helped Pan Zi, and the little brother carried me. Several people walked along the edge of the canyon, wading in the water, one foot deeper and one foot shallower, and continued to move forward.

Everyone was quiet along the way, no one spoke.After walking for about ten minutes, I still couldn't find a dry place to rest.

That night, after running, fighting, climbing trees, falling down trees, and escaping from death several times in a short period of time, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally.

In the tropical rainforest after the rain, the air is moist and fresh in the early morning. But at this moment, the sun is climbing higher and higher, becoming more and more poisonous. As the temperature rises, the water vapor evaporates, making it humid and muggy. The air around you feels thick. , the earth is like a big steamer, and the coolness after the heavy rain has long been gone.

The fat man wilted uncomfortably, hung his head in dejection, panted heavily, and complained: "This damn Potian, it's not going to work anymore, it's not going to work anymore, it's almost steaming, it's stuffy and hot, I can't help it." Out of breath.”

Pan Zi said: "Stop complaining, just bear with it." Originally it was the fat man who was supporting the injured Pan Zi, but now it was Pan Zi who was holding him up. The fat man was now so collapsed that he walked like a Like a little old man.

In fact, Wu Xie felt that the heat and humidity were unbearable, so he said, "Keep on holding on and walking for a while. We haven't found a suitable place yet, so let's just rest on the spot." As soon as he finished speaking, the canyon in front suddenly showed a downward slope.

The stream formed by the rainwater on the ground became very fast and was flowing down the slope. They carefully waded down the stream until they reached the bottom of the slope, and the exit of the canyon appeared in front of them.

The trees outside began to become sparse, and a black swamp of more than 200 meters appeared in front of them, and then slowly began to become denser. Behind it was a large aquatic rainforest soaked in the swamp. They were all short but growing. Extremely lush aquatic trees with intricate roots and unfathomable depths.

They all looked at each other, and Wu Xie sighed: "It turns out that there are only ten minutes left from where we were last night to the exit of this canyon..." He couldn't help but sigh deeply, thinking, if he hadn't stopped at that time, If you come down and stay at the waterfall and keep walking, the result may be completely different.

The fat man patted him to comfort him.Following everyone, they continued to move forward and soon arrived at the edge of the swamp.

Looking at the swamp from here, the view is not wide. The fat man asked: "Wherever we go this time, it looks the same."

Wu Xie looked at it, but there was still a dense forest ahead, and the vegetation was not much different. He said, "I don't know, Menyouping, take a look."

The little brother looked at them and said, "Walk along the mountain wall."

They walked on as the little brother said. Gradually, they felt that the water under their feet was getting deeper and deeper, and the mud underground became more and more unbearable.

After a while, he heard the fat man curse: "Oh shit!" Wu Xie saw that his feet slipped and said to him: "Slow down."

The fat man said: "No...it's too difficult to walk. I almost slipped and ate shit."

Wu Xie said: "That's right!"

The fat man glared and said, "That's right, that's right. Believe it or not, I'll throw it into a puddle for you and let you eat it first."

Wu Xie said to him: "You don't understand. It's difficult to walk, which proves that we are on the right track. The trees here look similar, which will only make us feel that this is a continuation of the canyon, but the mud under our feet cannot fool anyone. This The slippery feeling proves that we are out of the valley."

After hearing what he said, the fat man shook his head with a "hum", then looked forward and said, "Hey, there is a rock over there."

In the shallow part of the swamp, I saw a very abrupt protrusion on the swamp, a large, flat stone that had not yet been submerged by the water.

Wu Xie looked at it and said, "It's strange, how come there is such a big stone here."

The fat man said, "You'll know if you take a look. Come over."

They waded through the water carefully. The fat man climbed up first, and then pulled Pan Zi up. They took Aning, and then dragged Wu Xie up. Following Wu Xie and the fat man, they lifted me up again. Waiting for the little boy After my brother stood on it, he supported me again.

Wu Xie looked at the huge stone, which was carved with complex decorative patterns. He looked under the water and saw a very huge shadow. He said, "This seems to be part of several large statues side by side. The Queen Mother of the West is the king of the Western Regions and has been the absolute spiritual leader of the Western Regions for a long time. Therefore, the entrance to the City of the Western Queen is naturally not too shabby. This may be a stone sculpture from that time, or a statue on the city defense building here. It seems that this should be an entrance to the West Queen Mother City."

Wu Xie looked at the ancient patterns on the stone and muttered: "These are very similar to those at Angkor Wat, but they are not Khmer Buddhist patterns."

The fat man couldn't see anything and said, "I think it's corroded by wind and rain. Look, it's black and gray. What the hell." He curled his lips after saying that.

The fat man was looking around in a circle on the stone, and suddenly he shouted: "Hey! Come here, come here, come over here and have a look." Wu Xie and his little brother turned around and saw the black marsh in front of them under the sun. Dense and huge black shadows appeared in the deeper places. They picked up the binoculars and took a look. It turned out that the shadows under the water in the swamp seemed to be ruins, all the way to the center of the swamp.Wu Xie looked at it and said, "These are the ruins of the ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West. They were actually buried under this swamp..."

The younger brother said calmly: "There should be a very lush ancient city in this valley. After the collapse of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom, the ancient city was abandoned, the drainage system collapsed, groundwater rose up, and rainwater carrying silt and sludge for thousands of years It poured back and submerged the entire city underwater. It seems that the scale of the West Queen Mother City is very large, and what we see now is only a handful."

Wu Xie was a little shocked and said: "The ancient city at that time had developed to the edge of the basin, which shows that the civilization at that time had reached its peak period. It is relatively common for the ancient city to be flooded, but now it seems that the Queen Mother of the West Isn’t the palace in the mud underwater, so how can we enter?”

The little brother looked at the shadows again, and just sighed and said, "Since Huo Ling entered the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West after the heavy rain, there must be a way to get in." After that, he looked at Wu Xie. He also nodded.

The fat man asked: "Why, this stone is quite dry, let's just rest here?"

Then, we rested on this relatively dry stone. My brother put me on the stone and let me lean against him. He checked my condition and found it stable for the time being. Then he stroked my little face habitually. His eyes showed his distress for me.

Wu Xie also put Aning's body down. The fat man helped Pan Zi sit down slowly. He sighed and said, "Oh, I can rest for a while." Then he rummaged through the luggage and rummaged through it. After a few "hum"s, he said with a wry smile: "We don't even have a smokeless stove, so we can't make a fire." Then he took out the light cotton from the fuel can and said to us: "Let's just make do with this. "

Wu Xie said: "The sun is pretty good right now and the temperature is high. Let's take off our wet clothes and let them dry in the sun on the stones. It's better than staying wet."

The fat man took his chin and pointed it to the side and said, "As you can tell, they have already paved it."

Before they could finish thinking about it, the boy had already laid out our wet coats on the rocks to dry.

After a while, Wu Xie went to look at the surrounding water sources. He found that the swamp here was actually salt water, and said to them: "It seems that there is a water system connected to the nearby large salt marsh. Fortunately, the rainwater washed down from the canyon, and the opening was It’s basically tasteless, otherwise we might not even be able to drink water.”

The fat man took out a disinfectant tablet and gave it to Wu Xie, sterilized the water, and they made some tea to drink.

Everyone had been in the rain for a long time and soaked in the water all night. The skin on our bodies was wrinkled. The little brother fetched water to clean his body, then fetched some more water and walked to me.

I vaguely felt something cold sliding gently on my face. I opened my eyes in a daze and looked at him. It was the little brother who was wiping my face, gently and softly. So comfortable.When he was wiping my hands, I became confused again. When I opened my eyes again, he was supporting me and washing my hair. The memory of this period is intermittent.

Wu Xie took off his shoes and socks, looked at his soaked feet, and found that a piece of skin fell off with just a click. He also saw small bugs sucking on his feet. He took out a dagger and heated it. Death, picked it up and looked at it, and said a little doubtfully: "Is this a leech? What kind of insect is this? In the saltwater swamp, the number of insects should be relatively small. Oh, you should take a good look and clean it up."

The fat man asked: "I guess it's not a leech. There are leeches in the salt water, so its taste is strong enough." Wu Xie smiled lightly after hearing this.

Pan Zi said to Wu Xie: "Little Third Master, here, this is local smoke. Come with a little. I asked Tashi for it when we parted. It will help with the dampness. This kind of dampness here will be worn out in a week. Just take a few puffs." Hold it on, so as not to be unable to walk even when you get old. However, because of all the hard work last night, it got a little damp and probably choked a little." Then she handed him the cigarette wrapped in a plastic bag.

Wu Xie took it and started smoking. Sure enough, after taking a few puffs of the damp cigarette, he choked to death and burst into tears. He said, "Don't tell me yet, it seems that I really feel it."

The fat man saw how he could be missing, so he said to Pan Zi, "Give me some too." Pan Zi pinched half of the stick and gave it to him.He took a few bites and then finished it.If I want Panzi again, I won’t give it.

At this time, when they saw the little brother scrubbing me, they sat silently beside me, holding my hand, and looking at the swamp on one side thoughtfully.

They looked at each other and felt that they were sharing good things here and it would be embarrassing to miss him...

Pan Zi said to him: "Brother, please have some too." He also handed half of one to him.

Fatty Wu Xie looked at each other, thinking that the younger brother wouldn't take it, but he didn't expect that the younger brother took it, put it in his mouth and started chewing it without saying a word.

The fat man said "Ohhhhh", "Oh my god, brother, if you don't know how to smoke, don't waste it. This thing is not for eating."

I vaguely heard the fat man's loud voice saying "little brother", so I opened my eyes hard to see what was going on.Just listen to Pan Zi say to him: "You know nothing, eating tobacco is much more exciting than smoking it. In Yunnan and Myanmar, most people chew it." After saying this, he felt puzzled, so he looked at the younger brother and asked: "But Look, little brother, you don’t look like a regular smoker? How do you know about chewing tobacco leaves? Have you ever run across a boat?”

The little brother just shook his head, chewed a few mouthfuls, and spit the tobacco into his hand to smear the wounds on his palm.I looked at the little brother and whispered to me: "Yunnan...Myanmar..." I was separated from him near that place before.The little brother looked at me when he heard me talking. I looked at him in confusion and put something in his mouth on the wound. Moreover, he didn't seem to remember anything about Guangxi. I am similar to him now. Everything I know is in the records, and that part of my memory is also very blurry. Looking at him, my vision blurred again.

Wu Xie took a glance and saw that the skin on his palms was white and turned up. Although there was no bleeding, it was obvious that the high temperature here made it difficult for the wounds to heal.

After the boy finished applying it, he looked at Pan Zi. Pan Zi stared at him with suspicion and distrust, but he still didn't show any expression. He turned his head again. When he saw that I closed my eyes again, he looked at me again. He walked into the swamp on one side and ignored them.

Wu Xie understood that he was doubting. He was looking for himself. There were many things that he didn't understand, and they were probably in that swampy ancient city.

Their clothes were spread out on the rocks to sunbathe. After wiping themselves, they were left with only their underwear. They were completely naked. As soon as the water on their bodies evaporated, they felt a little bit of comfort. The fat man said: "Finally It's much more comfortable, I've been soaking it all the way." Wu Xie smiled.

The fat man took out the compressed dried meat for everyone to eat. He said to the little brother: "Mute Zhang, this belongs to the girl. Give it to her when he wakes up." The little brother reached out to take it and put it next to me.

They drank the tea and chewed it like a jujube. They didn't taste it at all, but just filled their stomachs.

Later, Pan Zi used his backpack and the things inside to build a place to block the sun. He stood guard outside and asked us to shrink in and have a good rest.

They all knew that they might never have a good rest after entering the swamp.

(End of this chapter)