Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 199 Mud
199 Chapter 199 Mud

We walked for a long time after that. I didn’t know what time it was. I just felt that it was darker in the woods. Maybe it was cloudy, maybe the sun was covered by clouds, or maybe it was starting to set. In the woods It is dark in itself, but it becomes darker earlier.

As the boy walked, he looked at the ground, as if he was looking for something.

After a while, I saw a depression under some trees. After the rain, the water accumulated and formed a mud pit that was not too big, about two or three meters long. My brother took me there.

When we came to the mud pit, the little brother looked at the mud pit and then looked around and found nothing unusual, so he pulled me to stop on the edge.

In the mud pit, there were a lot of fallen leaves and branches washed down by the rain and other miscellaneous things floating on the water.

The little brother knelt down and pushed those things away, revealing the clear rainwater below. There was a lot of thick silt under the water.

He reached out and scooped up a handful of mud, then pulled me back to squat down.

He grabbed the handful of mud and looked at me seriously. I saw the corner of his mouth raised slightly. I took a deep breath, looked at the mud in his hand, looked at him again, smiled at him and said: " What are you doing, little brother, do you want to play in the mud?"

The little brother said: "You don't want to be bitten by a snake, do you?"

I nodded and looked at him, suddenly understood and said: "This is Wen Jin's method..." But after thinking about it, I felt uncomfortable all over if I had to turn myself into a clay figure like Wen Jin.

The little brother tilted his head and looked at me. He knew that I have a slight mysophobia. It is okay to pinch and play with things like mud with my fingers. The most I can get it is in my palms. Once it gets on any place other than my palms, I will immediately touch it. I ran to wash it off. I wanted to apply it all over my body. It was impossible. I thought that if it didn't work, I might have to scare me or force the solution.

He decided to be normal first and let me wipe the poop myself and said to me, "How about it, let's get started."

I looked at the mud in his hand, and it was obvious that he was dodging. I felt like my whole body was rejecting this... But I knew that I couldn't escape. The venom of this little red snake was too overbearing, and I might not be able to withstand it. It was just a guarantee that he wouldn't die, but if he was bitten too hard or was attacked, he would probably die, so he stretched out his hand and poked the mud with a look of disgust on his face.

When the little brother saw my look, he knew that I would have to struggle a little longer, so he started to apply it on himself first. I just stood there blankly watching him apply it on myself.

Wu Xie and the others were chatting when suddenly, there was a "crack" sound in the forest behind them. It was the sound of crisp branches breaking, followed closely by the sound of the crown and leaves shaking, continuously. The movement continued, as if something quite large was moving among the dense bushes.

Along the way, Wu Xie and the others were used to the fact that there was no sound in the forest. This shocked them all. They all stopped and did not dare to make a sound. They turned around and looked over. Pan Zi held up his gun. Signal them to quiet down and prepare their weapons.

Soon, the sound gradually stopped, and the suffocating silence returned to the woods. They looked at each other and realized that there was not nothing in the woods. Pan Zi motioned to everyone, "Hurry up. leave here".

But after taking only two steps, the fat man suddenly said "Hey" and said, "Wait! Where was its face facing just now?" The fat man turned back and pointed to the stone statue of a bird with a human face behind him.

Wu Xie looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

The fat man raised his eyebrows and curled his lips. Wu Xie looked in the direction of his finger and found that the face of the stone sculpture had turned around and was facing them...

That moss-covered, expressionless face exuded a sense of gloom and resentment, and was very ferocious... It made people jump with fear just looking at it. Wu Xie suddenly felt his scalp numb, his heart began to beat wildly, and he became nervous.

Pan Zi swallowed and said, "Damn it, this guy is like an unknown creature. I didn't notice when it changed its face... but it was definitely not this side just now."

The fat man said: "Is there a ghost here? Oh, did it turn around on its own? Or did we trigger some mechanism?"

Wu Xie thought for a while and said, "It's impossible. I saw it clearly just now. The stone is obviously one piece. It's unlikely that there is a trap."

Pan Zi stared at the stone sculpture and said, "Could it be that this statue has two sides?"

The fat man immediately said: "You are so tall. When I left just now, I looked back several times. There is absolutely no such face on the back of the stone statue. Besides, there is something fucking wrong with this face."

Pan Zi said: "If this is the case, it must have turned around on its own. Is this thing alive? Have we encountered a stone spirit?"

Wu Xie said nervously: "We are not walking in a straight line, maybe it is a matter of angle. Don't scare yourself."

The fat man scolded: "What a bullshit angle, there must be something wrong with this. You are deceiving yourself and others by thinking this way. Why don't you go back and take a look?"

Pan Zi shook his head, took out his gun, loaded it, pointed it at the giant face, and wanted to shoot. Wu Xie was startled by this move, and the fat man immediately raised the gun.

There was just a "bang" sound, and the bullet whizzed past and hit the dipterocarp tree next to the stone statue. The whole tree was shaken. They immediately looked at the stone statue, fearing that the thing was really alive. If you don't directly provoke that thing.

Several people were already ready to fight, but when they looked at the statue, there was no reaction at all. After waiting for a while, Pan Zi unloaded his gun and said to them: "Look, it's okay, it's a stone." Yes, I may have seen it wrong, the road here has many twists and turns, let’s walk quickly, don’t wait any longer.”

Soon, in addition to his handsome little face, the little brother had wiped all the mud on his body and looked at me, meaning "hurry up", but I was always hesitant.

The little brother suddenly leaned over, and I reflexively sat down on the ground with my hands on the ground.His face was a little more than a hand away from me, and his body was less than half a meter away from me. My heart was beating wildly. He was covered in mud and said softly to me: "It's your turn." I stood up slightly and grabbed the mud with one hand. With the other hand, I took my arm and wiped it on me first.

After a while, my arms, legs, and back were all covered with mud wherever he could touch them. Only my chest and face were left. He said, "Smear the rest by yourself."

Being covered in mud, I felt uncomfortable and anxious. I pursed my lips and looked at him aggrievedly.For a person with a slight mysophobia, this puts great pressure on both body and mind.But I think if I were a boy, he would have thrown me directly into the mud pit and left me flopping in it.But I am a girl, and he is really gentle. It is inconvenient for him to do it from the front, so I can only reluctantly dig in the mud to repair this piece.But he seemed to think that I didn't make enough, so he grabbed two handfuls and threw them at my chest.

I thought that was enough, but he grabbed another handful, and I asked him: "Why are you still grabbing it?"

I saw him rubbing his hands together and saying to me: "Close your eyes." Without even slapping his hands, he stretched out his hands toward my face. I quickly closed my eyes and he wiped them away for me. Now, he finally turned me into a little clay monkey that even my own mother couldn’t recognize...

I opened my eyes and looked at him. He was looking at me with a half-smile. I must be looking very interesting now.He turned his head and motioned for me to grab the mud. I had small hands, so I grabbed a handful of mud with one hand and looked at him. He lowered his head slightly and came over. He wanted me to wipe it for him. I held it first with my two little hands. I put it on his face, and then applied it to him like a facial mask. When I finished applying it to him, I felt happy.

We looked at each other for a while, then the little brother got up and pulled me up, and the two little clay figurines of us continued to walk forward.

While walking, we suddenly heard a sound, and my brother and I stopped.

But after being stunned for a while and seeing no further movement, I asked him: "What was that sound just now?"

The little brother said calmly: "It's gunshots."

I asked: "Gun? If they fired, they must have encountered something. Can they tell their distance and direction?"

The little brother shook his head: "There were echoes in the woods, and there was only one sound. It's hard to judge, but the fact that we can hear it proves that we are not too far away. If there are no more shots, it means there is not much danger."

I said: "How many kilometers or dozens of kilometers can the sound of gunfire travel? Pan Zi's gun is not too big. The sound of his gun can travel at least three kilometers, right? Or more, more than ten kilometers?"

They set off a few hours earlier than us. The average walking speed of human beings is 5 kilometers per hour. However, the road here is not a straight line and it is a round island. We are probably going in circles. It just so happens that we are now The straight line distance between them was relatively close, so the gunfire was heard.

But if we want to join them quickly, we still have to walk in a straight line, but there is no road... If we fly over, the trees are too dense and the cover is too tight, so we can't see below and can't determine the direction.They are likely to stop midway, or change their speed because the road is not easy to walk. If there is a situation, they may start running, so when can we meet them..."

The little brother said: "It seems that we won't meet them before dark, let's go."

The fat man frowned, still not believing that he had seen it wrong and said, "When I was on the side, I worked on a lathe, and my eyes are very poisonous. How could I have seen it wrong?"

Wu Xie said to him: "A lathe is a lathe, and this is a forest. The reference objects are complicated. It's not surprising that I got it wrong."

Pan Zi urged: "Let's leave quickly, it's more important to find the Third Master."

The fat man said to Pan Zi: "Give me the gun."

Pan Zi said to him: "You said you are still better."

The fat man said very confidently: "I'm sure I'm not wrong, I don't believe it." Then he put down his equipment and said to them: "You guys just stay here and don't move. I'll go take a look, just 2 Minutes." He said and walked towards the statue.

Pan Zi complained: "This fat man is really troublesome."

Wu Xie shook his head and said, "Let him go. After reading it, I feel at ease." Then he sat down.

The fat man put the gun on his back and walked cautiously towards the statue. But halfway there, he stopped and took a step back.

Pan Zi shouted impatiently and asked him: "What are you doing? Hurry up!"

At this moment, the fat man suddenly turned around, ran towards them and shouted: "It's alive! Run!"

At the same time, I saw the "face" of the strange human-faced bird in the distance. Its eyes were raised, and the corners of its mouth were raised in an incredible way. Its expressionless face turned into an extremely ferocious smile.

The fat man quickly rushed in front of them, pulled them and ran away shouting: "What are you doing? Run!"

Wu Xie and Pan Zi were a little stunned for a moment. They saw that the face of the stone sculpture was broken into pieces, and the facial features were displaced, as if something was wrapped in the stone and was about to rush out from inside.

Wu Xie cursed: "What a bastard!" He immediately ran away.

(End of this chapter)