Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 249 Making Decisions

249 Chapter 249 Making a decision
Because they were disturbed by us, the small insects in the water swam to the bottom one after another and dived into the water.

Seeing that they seem to be afraid of us, although I am also afraid, I can still overcome it. I took a look at the insects, and suddenly I was a little confused. There were so many of them, what kind of insects could they be?

When the fat man saw that all these things were running away, he immediately bent down, dipped into the water, and wanted to catch a few of them.

When Wu Xie saw it, he hurriedly stopped him and said to him: "I'm afraid if we disturb you too much, we will cause trouble. If we can do it without bothering, we won't bother. And I have never seen these bugs before. They may be some special species. They are all This may be the only place in the world that survives, and it is priceless. It would be a pity if you kill a few of them."

The fat man cursed: "Bah, there are just these densely packed ones. I think there are eight thousand as well as one hundred thousand in the water. What does it matter if I catch a few and take them back? This trip has basically been in vain. You won't let me do it." I’d like to think of this as a souvenir.”

Wu Xie said: "This fleshy thing looks disgusting. How can you do it? Stop thinking about these heretical things. Let's go there quickly."

After a while, Fatty Wu Xie caught up. I looked back at them and asked, "What are you doing, so slow?"

Wu Xie said to me: "It's not him yet. He insisted on catching bugs as a souvenir. It was a waste of time. I didn't let him catch it."

I said, "bugs, there are these in the water. Fatty, I advise you not to touch them. Although these bugs don't seem to be harmful to us now, I feel that they are not ordinary bugs."

The fat man curled his lips and said, "Tch, you two are just timid. If you didn't tell me, I would have thought you were brothers and sisters."

Seeing his nonchalant look, I said to him: "This is not a daring thing. This is the territory of the Queen Mother of the West. It is already the core area. You must be careful about any living creature."

Wu Xie looked at him and said, "Did you hear that? Be careful."

The fat man rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, yes."

As we walked, Wu Xie asked me in a low voice: "What kind of insect is this? Do you know it?"

I shook my head: "This is also the first time I've seen it, but I think it's the larvae of some kind of insect. I guess it might be the most famous one here." I glanced at the little brother, and he seemed He didn't care much about the bugs, but he must have thought of something.

The fat man said: "A bug is a bug, and he is famous. Don't look at him all the time. Just say it directly."

"I'm not sure, I'm just guessing. You still remember that they fed cockscomb snakes eggs, right? Those eggs were used as food to feed them, and they would definitely appear in places where cockscomb snakes gathered. In the early days, those snakes were all here. If there are people living below, then it is possible that there are insects hatched in the water that serve as food for cockscomb snakes.”

Wu Xie said: "But the eggs are sealed in the jar."

I whispered to him: "It has been thousands of years, there is no guarantee that a few will not be broken. There is no sunshine down here, it is cold and humid. I think it is an excellent living environment for them. Bugs are very tenacious." .

You see, there are no birds flying in the rain forest here, and there are no other small animals. There is nothing in the water except snakes. There are no people here on weekdays. What do these snakes eat? I guess it must be here. There is also a large storage area for bugs, maybe in the water below.

What is sealed in the jar is the carefully cultivated corpse frog king. I always feel that the corpse frog king has some subtle relationship with the cockscomb snake. "

Speaking of this, I suddenly stopped because I thought that the characteristics of those bloody corpses seemed to have the dual characteristics of the corpse dragon king and the cockscomb snake.

The newly hatched cockscomb snakes are translucent white. If the jade figurines are like eggshells, I remember that the living corpses there are also translucent white.

For snakes, they grow up after shedding their skin, but for the people in the jade figurines, they get younger little by little. This is exactly the opposite. The same thing is that when they shed their skin, they are comparing themselves. When you are weak.

Newborn baby cockscombs will cling to people and suck blood. Those dried blood corpses just now were very interested in blood. These blood corpses started to be bloodthirsty after waking up. This is very similar to the baby cockscomb snakes that have just broken out of their shells.

The Cockscomb Snake can make a "clucking" sound, so can the Corpse Cock King, and so can the Blood Corpse. These are different types of monsters, but their languages ​​​​are the same. Who would believe you if you say they are not related?

The pungent and spicy smell emanating from the Corpse King is also present in the Blood Corpse...

Then it is possible that the Queen Mother of the West first found ordinary corpse crickets that could be parasitic, and cultivated them with the blood of cockscomb snakes. The poisonous ones slowly evolved into another species, and the insects gradually became stronger, and finally cultivated the corpse cricket king.

Take the corpse dragon king and feed it to the cockscomb snake. On the one hand, it can be raised to be used as an army. Secondly, the cockscomb snake that eats the corpse dragon king and survives will be more poisonous. Then use this blood to feed the corpse dragon king, and so on. Through circulation, the Queen Mother of the West will be able to possess the most poisonous corpse dragon king and cockscomb snake, and then use them for research and immortality experiments.

The Corpse King in the horse-faced mummy head should be the masterpiece of the Queen Mother of the West. In addition to her own immortality, does she also want to resurrect Chi You's army?
Chi You's family is made of steel and has a long life. Even if the descendants thousands of years later, my lovely brother, who is of pure blood, still inherits the longevity, strong body and ageless appearance, which shows that the genes of his family are still there. Very powerful.

If such an army is resurrected, the Queen Mother of the West will not only have the ability to live forever, but also have an undead army that she can control. She can also figure it out. Oh my god, that guy is very ambitious. Yeah...this is not about ruling the world, this is about ruling the entire universe...

But if that's the case, wouldn't the poison of the Corpse Pill be a purified giant poison? The little poisonous snake almost died after just one bite of my human-shaped detoxifying pill. But did Wen Jin take the pill? Those who die immediately and are not old yet should be immune to some of the toxins of the Corpse Pill.

Becoming a forbidden woman is equivalent to death for a living body. In the process of changing from a person to a forbidden woman, the person will not grow old, but in fact it is not that he will not grow old, but the whole person. The body is constantly degenerating, until it has no vital signs, and finally becomes a forbidden woman with only a trace of consciousness left.

The forbidden woman's body is white, tender, bloodless, and wet. I feel more and more like I have turned into a baby cockscomb snake. That should be because I am immune to the poison of the corpse dragon king, not the snake venom... ...I think I thought about it, how to cure it...I am not immune to snake venom...

Wu Xie saw that I suddenly stopped talking and seemed to be thinking about something, so he didn't ask any more questions. He was probably used to me being like this.There were so many bugs here that it was scary, and although we were all exhausted, no one wanted to rest here.

We continued to follow this waterway deeper to find the underground water storage lake at the end. The water flow was steady along the way, and there was no loud sound of water in front. Obviously there were no big cliffs, so everyone could move forward calmly.

As it goes deeper into the ground, the water becomes colder and colder. The cold air spreads in the water. Goosebumps appear on the body and people shrink a little.

On both sides of the waterway, there are countless flesh-colored bugs lying on the stone walls above and below the waterline. They are densely packed and there are more in the water. From time to time, we feel that these bugs will bump into our feet. I hope these are just ordinary bugs. The larvae, or the weakly poisonous Corpse Cock King larvae, otherwise with this quantity, if they attack people, none of us will survive.

However, the water temperature here is so low, our body temperature will also drop accordingly. It seems that it is not easy for them to find that we are edible food, just like after applying mud, snakes should not be able to find us.

After that, the water channel became wider and wider, and the top of the channel became higher and higher. I started to shiver slightly from the cold, so I didn't look around much. I heard Wu Xie say: "There is a trumpet-shaped opening here, it seems that it is almost there."

We all quickened our pace and walked less than 100 meters. When it became dark above our heads, we came out of the waterway and came to an ethereal and echoing place. It seemed that the area was quite large. We stopped temporarily and saw I was very cold and coughed a little, so my little brother pulled me into his arms and held me.

They turned on the miner's lamp and looked over. There was a shallow shoal under our feet, and spreading forward, they also saw a wide and calm water surface.

In order to save power, our miner's lamp has been adjusted to the weakest light. I heard that it can last for more than 180 hours. However, the only drawback is that the illumination distance is only more than 20 meters. It is obviously impossible to see here more clearly.

Several of them opened the barrels of their guns and used LED bulbs to illuminate the top and surrounding areas.

Now under the strong light, we can roughly see that this is a huge underground water cave.

Wu Xie looked into the depths of the cave in the distance. There were a large number of giant stone pillars hanging from the top of the cave and inserted into the lake. After a while, he said: "This should be a volcanic rock cave. These stone pillars are like the huge pillars of a temple. The roof of this cave is two or three stories high. At first glance, the whole place feels like the temple of Poseidon submerged in the sea. The atmosphere is so vivid that it must be said that it is a miraculous workmanship of nature."

The little brother took me to the entrance of the waterway. It was obvious that it was dug manually. He looked at this area and started to think about something in a daze. I hid in his arms to keep warm.

Wu Xie looked at both sides of the waterway outlet and said: "Look at the obvious rock layers on this rock wall, which means that we have crossed the sand layer and reached the underground mountains deep in the Gobi geology. These rock walls must be parts of the Kunlun Mountains that seep into the ground. ." At this time, he had already begun to lament that the Queen Mother of the West was able to dig to such a deep place at that time. Their civilization had extremely developed engineering capabilities.

He also said: "This should be the focus of the entire underground water storage system of Xiwangmu Ancient City. It is a natural small underground lake. However, the light distance is limited and the whole picture cannot be seen clearly. How big is this water storage lake and how deep is the center? It’s all unknown.”

The fat man asked: "What should we do next?"

Wu Xie sighed and said: "There is no way, we still have to find the mark of the Mengyou Bottle. Since the previous mark pointed here, and further forward is the center of the underground lake, then the subsequent guide mark is impossible. It's carved under the water, I feel it should be on these stone pillars, let's look for it separately."

As we said that, we all walked into the depths of the lake, looking for the marks by shining on the stone pillars. The younger brother also took me to look for them, but he had not yet remembered the exact location of the marks.

Walking in this lake, the water is so deep that it reaches your neck. But after a few steps, it comes up again. It is obvious that there are potholes under the water, but you are not afraid. Anyway, there is a little brother pulling you, so you can Can't drown me.

After a while, Master Heixiazi, who had not spoken to him for a long time, whistled for us to come over. He found a mark on a stone pillar.

We walked over and took a look and saw that the mark was carved neatly and clearly.

Wen Jin looked at the little brother and asked: "The water flow here is basically flat, and there is no sign of continuing downward. I think this is the lowest position of the entire water storage project. The place we are looking for must be in front. We are here." At this point, can’t you think of anything?”

The little brother still shook his head and said nothing. He just looked at the marks he had carved, and there was no trace of waves in his eyes.

Fatty said: "The ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West can be said to be in a secret realm. In its heyday, this oasis was surrounded by lakes, and outside was a protective layer formed by countless devil cities. There was year-round fog in the oasis, and it could only be seen during heavy rains.

The residents of the West Queen Mother City believe in cruel snake worship and mysticism, making the political power in this desert like a ghost, obscure and difficult to understand, and the maze-like water storage system under the ancient city is extremely complicated.

We have now almost exhausted all our efforts to reach the lowest level of this defense project. If the Queen Mother of the West has something to hide, it should be in this place.

Don't say anything, just keep following these marks and you should be able to reach your destination. "

I said to myself that the fat man had thought about it very carefully and got to the point, but this is indeed something we have to face. The current situation is that we have arrived at the door of the Queen Mother of the West and are deciding whether to open the door and go in.

Wu Xie frowned slightly and shook his head and said: "I still feel something is wrong. This whole journey has been almost too smooth in the latter part. The statue of the strange human-faced bird we saw in the waterway just now has been confirmed by us all the way. These totems of the strange human-faced bird should be the signs used by the ancestors of the Western Kingdom to warn outsiders. Going all the way from the outskirts of Silicon Valley, every strange thing you encounter becomes more sinister. This time, I saw the totem of the strange human-faced bird again. It shows that this water storage lake will not be a peaceful place. Now we are actually exhausted and only have half a life left. If something happens, I am afraid that none of us will be able to escape this time."

He looked at Wen Jin and said to her: "Should we take a rest next, or should we send someone to explore the way first?"

Wen Jin said: "We are already here. As the fat man said, I have no reason to back down or give up. This is the path I am destined to take, but there is no need for everyone to go there. I don't know what will happen next. You guys Rest here and I will go there alone. If I don’t come back within two hours, you can find other exits along the lake shore and try to find a way out. Don’t come here.”

The little brother said calmly on the side: "I'll go too." I kept looking at him, and his eyes kept looking at the darkness in the depths of the lake. He had become determined after eating the weight, and he didn't care whether it was dangerous or not. Not consider.

(End of this chapter)