Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 338 The human figure behind the screen
338 Chapter 338 The human figure behind the screen

Under the penetration of Wu Xie's powerful search light, I saw a figure standing almost upright behind the screen, with his whole shoulders slumped, and floating. This scene was so creepy that I was stunned for a moment. , took the little brother's arm and said: "That weird thing can't be a human, it's motionless, it seems to be floating, but why does this shape look so familiar?"

Wu Xie was immediately frightened so much that his feet ached, and his whole body lost all strength. He was floating stiffly, holding up the search light and not daring to move any more. An Ningling frowned and looked at the light. They were both worried at the moment. Thinking "What is this?" All eyes were fixed on the figure with a weird posture.

This is in a lake with a water depth of 70 to [-] meters. No one can survive underwater without oxygen bottles, and no one can stand like this underwater.

Wu Xie thought, if this is not a human, then it is only a corpse with that posture, or else it is a monster or a water ghost!

He suddenly thought, could this be the rice dumplings made by those people from the archaeological team who turned into corpses in the water after they died?Or are they the undead after the village was flooded before?The disappearance of several people who could not be protected was due to the tricks of these things?
The more he thought about it, the more hairy he felt in his heart. He thought to himself, he really got lucky this time. Let Agui know it for sure. I'm afraid it's just a water ghost at the bottom of the lake... What should I do...

But it would be easier if it was Zongzi. He was fully armed, so there was no way he could run slower than Zongzi.

But if it is a ghost, then I am afraid I have to be his scapegoat. If Menyouping, Xiaoxun, Fatty and others are really in trouble, will they come out to help me...

He was thinking wildly. He didn't dare to move forward, but he didn't dare to turn around either. He was afraid that the thing would pounce on him immediately. He said to himself, I don't want to feel the suffocating fear of something suddenly coming from behind. If he really escapes, If you don't get out of the devil's clutches, I will kill it face to face.

Just like that, we all stared at the shadow for a while. The figure was still motionless, like a stone sculpture. I said softly: "Brother, I remember what this scene looks like. It's very similar to the thing in the photo that Chu Guangtou gave me." , isn’t there a weird guy with slumped shoulders behind the screen in the old house in the photo? Could it be that this is what was taken?

Also, at Agui’s house, I saw a strange shadow like this on the floor above where his son lived. A Ningling also said that the same thing should happen when a horse is chasing a shadow that looks like a human but not human in the forest. Bar.

The thing at the bottom of the lake is definitely not a living thing, but this humanoid object is here and in that photo, and Golmud is written on the back of the photo. The slumped shoulders must be related to "it" exploring the ancient Zhang family building here.

The person An Ningling saw in the woods was obviously a living person. If he was also related to this matter, he was most likely the person "it" left here.

The only living slumped shoulder we have seen is the shadow of the mysterious son upstairs in Agui's house. The one in the forest and the one in the small building should be the same slumped shoulder.

The slumped shoulders may be due to an abnormal body shape that makes it difficult to show his face, and this abnormality should be related to the exploration of the Zhang family ancient building. Then the so-called Agui's son must not be his son, and the slumped shoulders should belong to "it" He might be from the previous archaeological team, so he might be older than Agui.

"It" has never given up on getting the secrets of the Zhang family. This is the place where "it" is staring. There may be many people who come here to explore the mountains. Slumped shoulders may stare at those who come here. Every stranger probably doesn't know us. He wants to know what we are doing here, so he secretly looked at us from upstairs that day.

Tall Shoulder must know about the Zhang family's ancient building, including your small building. He may also know about it, so he found out that we were going to your small building and followed him. Then he might have been the one who grabbed the iron that day. .

Later, he found out that we were going into the mountains, so he followed us. If this person was from that time, then he must know Panma. Panma went crazy and chased him into the forest because of the bones of the archaeological team that were fished out from the bottom of the lake. It seems much more reasonable.

However, if the fake son of Tumbo Shoulder was a member of the archaeological team, then he would not have been hiding in Agui's house for a day and a half. The Agui family were obviously the ones who concealed his true identity for him. Tubshoulder seemed not to want to be exposed. People discovered that there was a person like him here.

The only people who knew the way into the mountain were Yun Cai and Pan Ma. I didn't want anyone to enter the mountain, but they were in a cooperative relationship. I seemed to smell a hint of conspiracy. "

The little brother listened to me quietly as usual. At the same time, Wu Xie also found that the scenery in front of him seemed familiar. He recalled carefully that in an ancient building, behind a screen, there was a shadow of a person. Doesn’t this thing have exactly the same picture as the picture of Golmud written on the back?
In this case, the place where the photo was taken was not the situation in the Golmud Ghost Tower, but here... The picture taken in the photo does not have any underwater traces. In other words, if the photo was taken here, then when the photo was taken , this underwater ancient village has not yet been submerged.

That kind of photo must be from the 40s and [-]s at the earliest, which means that the time when this ancient village was submerged was actually not as long ago as imagined?

Photos... shadows... underwater... Wu Xie felt that the photo that Bald Chu gave him seemed to contain a deeper meaning that he didn't understand. Could it be that he was given this photo to look for the shadow in the photo? ?
He couldn't figure this out, but he suddenly figured something out. If the photo was taken here, that means that after the photo was taken, the shadow didn't move at all and stayed here. Then it couldn't be a water ghost, because At that time, this place was not yet submerged in the water. This shadow should be a dead thing!

Suddenly, Wu Xie got a burst of courage, found a brick, swung his flippers, and swam toward the screen. When he was about to reach the screen, he raised the brick and smashed it against the screen, saying in his heart, "Fuck you." !”

An Ningling had the urge to stop him when she saw this, but she resisted, just shook her head and closed her eyes helplessly. Wu Xie regretted it before he finished speaking.

The screen was so soaked in water that it could no longer bear any strength. Stones hit the pillars of the screen, and the screen suddenly fell over. Corrosion floated up like snowflakes and rushed toward him.

Wu Xie immediately backed away and took a search light to look at it, but at a glance he saw only floating objects.He pushed the searchlight forward with his hand. In the confusion, something stuck out from the floating object and rushed toward him.

Wu Xie exploded immediately and struggled back. At the same time, he took the military thorn and started stabbing randomly, stabbing more than a dozen times. However, he didn't stab anything, and the respirator in his mouth fell off.

An Ningling was so frightened that she quickly grabbed his respirator and pulled it back to him. Wu Xie hurriedly grabbed it and stuffed it back into his mouth.

Soon, the floating objects were scattered by the current. He saw that the thing that shocked him was just a piece of white driftwood. Wu Xie cursed in his heart, kicked it away ruthlessly, and used his probe to The light illuminates the shadow position behind the screen.The shadow actually stood firm, standing well. The floating objects became a little thinner, and the things in front of him became clear again.

The true face of this weirdo is a human-shaped thing with a head, hands, and feet. It is covered in white appendages. It shows a very stiff movement, as if it is a dead person who has been petrified. After being hung up, it is unknown. Why did the wax melt and the body was wrapped?It also looks like a stone statue. Its face is completely covered, and I don’t know if it has any expression. But it does look like a dead thing, because if it could move, the attachments on its body would definitely not be so thick. This is a very indescribable thing. human form.

Looking at it, Wu Xie felt inexplicably goosebumps all over the floor. He was very confused, what is this?The form is quite lifelike, and it feels like a solidified hanging man.

Wu Xie believed that in that era, even if someone wanted to carve such shocking things, they would not be able to carve them so realistically. Although there were many evil gods in the Southern Barbarians, they were mostly exaggerated and not realistic.

There were too many strange things along the way, and he thought, maybe it was this thing that gave off the green light just now, and the location seemed just right.

He approached the human figure very carefully. After swimming closer, he found that it became more obvious that the human figure was a waxed dead person. He looked at it and suddenly found that the right hand of the human figure was severed from the wrist, and the entire hand was missing, and It was not cast like this from the beginning, but was destroyed.

He said to himself, "Small sample!"I want to learn from Venus but I haven’t learned from home!But he hesitated for a moment. He wanted to see its original color, so he picked up the military thorn he brought and carefully scraped off the white sediment on it.

He quickly scraped off a piece and took a look. He was shocked. The thing itself was black and red in color, not very bright, just like mildew.

He continued to scrape and found that the black, black and red mottled mold and mildew were originally rust. This thing turned out to be an iron figurine?
He dared to pinch it with his hands, and it turned out to be solid iron. Some places may have been well tempered and not rotten. You can even see very delicate patterns carved on it. Other surfaces were completely rusty and dark. red spots.

He gradually realized something and immediately scraped off all the attachments from it. Soon, an iron figurine with a very unique shape appeared in front of him and he was stunned.

This thing has a realistic shape, and you can see that its surface was originally polished. Although it is rusty now, it must have been very delicate before, with beautiful patterns all over, like a work of art. He used his hands to When I touched it, I felt that these patterns were exactly the same as those of the iron blocks found under the bed of stuffy oil bottles.

My eyes lit up as soon as I saw it, because I thought before that my brother's piece of iron was probably human-shaped, but I didn't think it was running away this time. Those things that the archaeological team salvaged underwater were this, and those iron blocks were this kind of iron figurines. I said: "Brother, that gourd-like iron lump of yours must be the hand he lost, right? The shape seems to be similar, so in other words, this is a sealed replica of the Zhang family. Yes, the clone also has long fingers, so you hid him?" But he didn't answer, he just kneaded my cheek and started playing with it.

Wu Xie thought about it. The archaeological team went to the bottom of the lake to find this thing. Could it be considered a cultural relic?Is it of archaeological value?

Then I thought of Menyou Ping's words that these iron blocks were very dangerous, so I immediately stopped touching them, kept a distance, and observed them carefully.

I have no research on ironware, but I have a deep understanding of gilt bronze wares. I have seen iron figurines in the antique market. They are tin and iron wares. They are all small pieces. I have never seen such a big one.

Firstly, iron was very expensive in ancient times. Such a large iron figurine, not to mention other things, consumes an astonishing amount of materials. Secondly, ironware is not easy to preserve and rusts too easily. There are many Ming Dynasty iron Buddhas, which are actually hollow. of.

If the overall workmanship of this thing is the same as the iron block of the stuffy oil bottle, it will basically be solid. It may contain something inside, but it will not be too empty and may be very heavy.Could such a heavy thing be a Buddhist iron magic weapon, used to lock up some kind of demon?

He thought wildly for a while, but he couldn't figure out the reason. There was no leading line and he couldn't figure it out at all.

He wanted to look at the patterns on the iron figurines to find some clues, but the thing was so rusty that he couldn't see the whole thing at all, and other parts couldn't be distinguished either.He remembered that Pan Ma once said that there were many pieces of iron, and wondered if there was more than one iron figurine here?
But he looked around and saw that there was nothing there. It was impossible for such a big thing to be hidden under the collapsed objects.Where were the iron blocks taken away by the archaeological team salvaged from?Is it possible that every Yao village here has the same iron figurines distributed throughout the village?Or is it hidden somewhere else in the ancient building?

Subconsciously he turned his head and saw the door at the back. He couldn't help but think back to the photo. On one side of the screen, there was a corridor. He adjusted his position according to what he saw in the photo and found that the corridor in the photo was located. The back door of the back hall.

In an ordinary old house, this door should be the first to enter the courtyard, but there is only the front of an ancient building, so you can go out after this door. Outside is the bluestone street of the ancient village, which cannot be a corridor.

However, in my memory, the door frame in the photo is exactly the same as here. There is no doubt that the shooting location is here.How could there be a deviation?Could it be that there was a corridor when the photo was taken, but it was later demolished?

The time when Wu Xiejue's photo was taken and the time when the ancient village sank must be reconsidered.

Following him, he swam closer to look at the door. It was carved and showed no signs of decay. He pulled it, but he immediately realized that the door looked like imitation wood, but was actually an iron door.

He used a searchlight to look at it, and was stunned for a moment. He didn't even see the bluestone road outside. There was really a corridor behind the door, but the corridor was not flat, but sloped down, leading to the depths of the ground. On both sides, The situation is exactly the same as in the photo.

There was a thrill in my heart, I thought, if it is such a structure, the back door of the back hall is connected to the corridor, and the corridor leads to the underground. Could it be that this ancient house has a backward entrance, but this backward entrance courtyard is built underground ?

(End of this chapter)