Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 35 Open the coffin

035 Chapter 35 Opening the coffin

The little brother pointed to the coffin and said to us: "Look carefully at their heads. What's the difference?"

They were all looking, and I looked in the direction of his finger. Soon I discovered the problem. As I looked, I said, "Hey...it seems that only the top one has facial features, and the other five... It seems like it’s not the head.”

Wu Xie felt chilled in his heart when he saw it and said: "These 12 arms and legs seem to grow on the same torso. Such a rare deformity. In those days, such a monster would be killed as soon as it was born. It would never grow like this." It’s big.”

The younger brother said calmly: "There are no absolutes in everything."

The fat man frowned and said, "How can this thing be human? It's just a big meat bug."

I said softly to them: "Instead of making wild guesses here, why don't you do what the fat man said just now and scoop out the water? Then you can see clearly. What do you think, little brother?" I looked at the little brother. Didn't say anything.

When the fat man heard that someone thought the same thing as him, he quickly said with a smile: "You have to listen to me, Fatty. Besides, there is a stone slab under here. Take it out and have a look. Maybe you can find something else."

Wu Xie also became interested when he heard this: "I haven't seen a single word since I came in. If I can understand the words on this stone slab, at least I can deduce something about it, which may have some influence on our actions. It helps too.”

The fat man became even more excited when he heard this: "Why are there still ink marks? Let's go." Without saying anything, the two of them turned back to the opposite side of the corridor to pick up jars and scoop out water.

While Fatty Wu Xie was away, I whispered to my little brother: "Brother, I remembered that there was a painting in the records of the city lord's grandfather. It looked very similar to this one with 12 arms and legs. The one in the painting was a man." He looked at me and said, He seemed to be thinking about something, and then continued to stare at the corpse.

Wu Xie reached the opposite side and saw the bottles and jars. He unconsciously looked at the paintings on them and murmured some analysis.The fat man was preoccupied with the contents of the coffin and had no interest in the construction process. He was a little impatient and stood behind him and asked him: "What's there to see in a broken painting? Is it so difficult for you to pick a jar?" Hurry, just find someone who is good at it." The fat man was stunned for a moment and urged him a few times, but Wu Xie was so absorbed in looking at it that he ignored him completely, so he came back with his things.

When the fat man came back, I asked him: "Where is Wu Xie?"

The fat man said, "I'm fascinated by the broken porcelain."

"Ah?" I said, "Then just leave him there alone. Why don't you guys get busy first and I'll call him back? If the agency breaks down, we'll be in trouble."

The little brother said to me softly: "Be careful." I nodded: "Yes." Then I ran to the other side to call Wu Xie.

Although it was only a few steps away, I was still a little nervous walking over alone. When I got to the opposite side, I saw him looking carefully at an octagonal bottle and talking eloquently: "Although you can't tell what they are from just these simple paintings." They are building something, but judging from the description inside, this project is as huge as the Forbidden City. However, the structure above is not in the style of the Central Plains at all. There were no such big buildings in China at that time. Fatty, do you know? Fatty?"

I looked at him and said to him: "The fat guys have already gone back, don't look anymore."

"Xiao Xun, you are here too."

"Well, that's right. I'm afraid that if you look at it for too long, you might see something wrong. If something happens, you'll be left alone."

Wu Xie smirked and said, "Thank you. This damn fat guy didn't even say a word to me before he left. He knew I didn't dare to stay here alone." He picked up a basin and said to me, "Let's go." "He stood up and hurriedly ran to the opposite ear room.

As soon as he entered the corridor, Wu Xie was stunned. The door to the opposite room was gone and turned back into a white marble wall!He ran over and patted the wall, and then touched it anxiously: "Where's this door!" Then he patted and shouted: "Bottle... Fatty... Bottle... Fatty..." No one answered at all.

I whispered in a low voice: "I didn't expect that there would be no sound at all when the tomb changed." But it was obviously a slightly trembling voice of fear.

Wu Xie was very panicked, but after all he was a big brother and had a younger sister by his side. He couldn't act too cowardly, so he comforted me and said to me: "Don't be afraid, Xiaoxun. This activity is very frequent. As long as we wait patiently, it is estimated that it will take a few days." After a few minutes, the door may turn back."

I was a little uneasy, clenching my hands into fists, and thinking with a frown, if according to my idea, the ear chamber rotates and rises and falls at the same time, I'm afraid it won't rotate back so quickly.Even if it is a simple vertical lift, you have to wait for it to cycle over, and you don't know the rules of the mechanism. There is no trace to be found, and the situation is not optimistic.

But fortunately, I was not alone, and my heartbeat was so fast. This was not like the time in Lu Palace. That time I was just walking through a maze. I could find it with the direction of the little brother. I'm afraid it won't be that easy this time.

I closed my eyes and tried to sense my brother's position. Wu Xie looked worried: "Xiao Xun, are you okay?"

I shook my head and pointed my finger diagonally upward and said to him, "Brother, they are in that direction, but I don't know how to find them." Wu Xie didn't understand, but he didn't ask any more questions.He just comforted me, and then started the Wu-style thought mode. He also patted himself to calm himself down.

At this time, the little brother and the fat man had almost scooped out the water, and the body parts surfaced. The fat man couldn't help but said: "Oh, this is still a female corpse." He looked at it for a few more times and frowned and said: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk , Ouch, this is really so shabby and so shabby." Suddenly he said "Eh": "No, there should be 12 grandmas in 12 hands, why are there only 5 of them, this is not asymmetrical."

The little brother kept watching and said nothing, and the fat man tried to get it out, but the body was too soft and slippery, so he couldn't do anything and complained: "How can I get it out for her? This whole soap is rotten, oh, it's disgusting, it's all oil." "

We waited in the corridor for a while, and Wu Xie said to me: "It's not an option to wait any longer. Otherwise, we should go look at the porcelain again to avoid missing any clues." I nodded.

At this moment, we suddenly heard a blood-curdling cry coming from the ear room. Wu Xie took a flashlight and saw that it was a huge sea monkey emerging from the spring, with half of its body already crawling out of the spring. When we got ashore, we saw an extremely ferocious giant face, covered with scales, and two reflective eyes...

Oh my god!The first time I saw a sea monkey, I didn't expect it to be so scary. I was so scared that I couldn't move at all.

Wu Xie had been in contact with this guy, so he naturally knew how scary it was. He was so frightened that he pulled me and ran into the corridor.As a result, he ran with his eyes closed because he was afraid. Suddenly he tripped and fell on the edge of a jar. When he fell, I was thrown out. To be more precise, I was thrown out. I moved forward the moment I landed. It slipped and his hand was wiped. He reacted well and sat up as soon as he rolled. When Wu Xie turned around, he saw the monkey rushing out of the ear chamber with green eyes flashing and rushing straight towards us.

I quickly stood up. Wu Xie picked up a jar and threw it at the monkey. The sea monkey reacted very quickly. Wu Xie smashed the jar, but it saw that Wu Xie had a weapon and did not dare to attack. , turned and jumped to the top of the corridor, as if he was going to pounce directly. Wu Xie took this opportunity to pull me up again and quickly walked straight to the jade gate on the left. As soon as he turned around, he pushed the jade gate back shut.

Wu Xie gasped and said to me: "There is an automatic stone bolt under this door. The stone bolt will automatically pop up as soon as the door is closed. The material of this door is very strong and cannot be broken by flesh and blood. Don't be afraid." "

The sea monkey screamed angrily outside and banged on the door like crazy. I hid behind Wu Xie and stared nervously at the door with him.

This monkey was very thief. After bumping into it for a while, he found that he couldn't get in, so he changed his strategy and actually tried to get in through the crack in the door. It started to dig a hole under the door. The speed of digging was quite alarming. After a while, it reached in. He grabbed his arms and claws everywhere, and he could vaguely see his big head rubbing in. When Wu Xie saw this, he became angry. He raised his air gun and pointed it at the crack of the door and fired a dart. The sea monkey must have been hit. , screamed, and jumped away. As soon as the fool saw no movement, we all breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Xie turned on the flashlight and miner's lamp, and all of a sudden, almost the entire tomb was illuminated. It was a huge circular tomb with a giant pool in the middle. We were standing on the edge of the pool. If we had been there again just now, If I moved further back, I might fall. Wu Xie quickly pulled me towards him and said, "Be careful where you step."

In the middle of the pool, there was something like a huge basin floating. Wu Xie looked at it and said with a smile: "The owner of this tomb loved bathing so much during his lifetime that his coffin was turned into a bathtub."

He looked at the pool again and said, "The water is very deep. I don't know how deep it is. It may go all the way to the bottom of this tomb. But what is the purpose of designing it like this?"

Suddenly I saw something was wrong with Wu Xie, as if he felt uncomfortable, so I asked him: "What's wrong with you?"

The fat man had nothing to do with the corpse. Finally, the little brother came up with a way to use the clothes and guns of two people to make a pole, one person wrapped the head and the other person wrapped the feet, lifted her out and put her on the ground.

The corpse quickly dried and turned black. Now they could see clearly. Small parts on both sides of the body had been cut off, leaving several scars as big as bowls. Her body was not twisted, but there was a lot of flesh. Stacked together.Moreover, they found that the belly of the female corpse was very large. It seemed that she died during childbirth.

After the body was lifted out, the stone tablet below was exposed. The boy said: "This is the coffin stone. It is to prevent the coffin from floating once the air-locking structure of the undersea tomb is destroyed."

The fat man glanced at the words on it for a few times, but he couldn't understand it at all: "What does it say? Let's wait until the little comrade comes back to read it."

The little brother asked: "They have been gone for too long."

Only then did they remember that there were two more people there. When they looked up, they saw that the door on the wall was gone.

The fat man panicked when he saw it: "Where is this door? The owner of this tomb must be sick! What should I do?"

The little brother looked at it and said, "Don't be afraid. The mechanism has been activated again. The door will naturally appear when the time comes. There is no point in hurrying. Go ahead and lift the coffin."

Seeing that he was so calm, the fat man could only do this. The two of them moved the stone for a long time without moving at all. The fat man gasped tiredly and said: "This broken stone slab doesn't look heavy at all. Why can't it be lifted up?"

The little brother reached out and touched the gap between the stone slab and the coffin and said to him: "Pour pine juice around it and stick it firmly to the bottom of the coffin."

The fat man frowned and knocked hard: "It's hollow down there."

They planned to melt all the pine sap and then move the stones away.

Wu Xie said to me: "The skin was broken where the lotus arrow was hit. Now the sweat is dripping on it. It's a little itchy, but I can bear it. It's okay." After rubbing it hard a few times, he said: "Let's go together, we can't get separated. .”

Wu Xie looked at the tomb again and said: "This is the left side hall, and the right side hall should be opposite. Logically, there should be a white marble coffin bed in each. There will be a rectangular gold well filled with loess in the center of the coffin bed, but there is only a large pool here. The door in the middle of the two side halls should lead to the back hall, which is where the coffins are placed. But now there are coffins in the side rooms, and they are also basin coffins. The basin coffins are from the Warring States period and were not used in the Ming Dynasty. some."

Wu Xie thought that this coffin was from the Warring States Period. The Snake-Eyed Bronze Fish was taken out from the Lu Palace. This thing was also found here. There is another coffin that only existed during the Warring States Period. Is it a coincidence?

To me, Wu Xie is a complete encyclopedia. But the first time I heard it, I was very confused. He thought I had any questions and asked me: "What, do you have any questions?"

I shook my head: "No, this is the first time I heard what you said, so..."

Wu Xie didn't believe it: "First time? No way?"

"I'm just like you, it's my second time coming to a place like this."

Wu Xie suddenly looked at me seriously and asked: "Then why are you here this time?" I looked at him without answering, and he asked me again: "Is it because of the stuffy oil bottle? Who are you... "

His seriousness was quite scary, and I felt quite panicked for a moment, so I timidly replied: "I know this has always been your question. What I can tell you is that I did come to this place because of him. He I will be wherever you are." There were really too many things that I couldn't say, although I knew in my heart that he might still doubt little brother... I continued: "I sincerely treat you as a brother and a friend. Little brother, he is He is a very kind person, but he is not very good at expressing himself. He is really a good person. I didn’t mean to hide some things from you, and I really don’t know how to say it. I’m sorry.”

Although Wu Xie's curiosity has not been dispelled, looking at Xiaoxun's serious look, it is difficult to press the question any further. The question just now was too urgent. Xiaoxun is timid in one aspect. Seeing her like that, he seemed to be frightened. Thinking that she was still a child or a girl after all, she hurriedly smiled at me and said, "It's okay, I'm just curious. You know I'm very curious, so I just ask. I don't blame you. Come on, let's go over there." have a look."

(End of this chapter)