Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 455 Siguniang Mountain ([-])
455 Chapter 455 Siguniang Mountain ([-])

In the alternation between reality and reality, Zhang Qiling realized that the girl seemed to have seen something on the spider, and he suddenly stopped.

Looking carefully, she looked a little surprised, but she didn't hesitate too much. Instead, she quickly pulled out the knife attached to her body, and then stabbed, pried and picked at the spider. She saw another flash of white light, followed by a turquoise light spot floating into her palm.

At the same time, the phantom that originally appeared with the light of the unicorn's power turned into a real entity, while the real girl and the spider turned into phantoms. The girl copied herself and the spider and made them invisible.

The real stand-in Xiaoxun and the equally real stand-in Spider were still in a stalemate in the battle. The real Xiaoxun turned around and flew towards Zhang Qiling and landed next to him.

Phantom Xiaoxun raised his Qilin Power hand, opened it and made a grabbing motion towards the bubble wrapping the Phantom Spider. The bubble and Phantom Spider quickly shrank until they turned into another turquoise and black one. Alternating light spots fluttered into the palm of Xuying Xiaoxun's hand.

Xuying Xiaoxun took the two light balls he collected and placed them in front of Zhang Qiling to show him. There was a curled up big spider sealed in one ball. It was now very quiet and no longer lethal. It became only as big as a walnut. , like a bronze lump, and what was shrunk and sealed in the other ball was a small hexagonal bronze bell. This thing is very dangerous, so it doesn’t matter if it is sealed. He gave the little girl a look and told her to keep it safe. Phantom Xiaoxun made the two balls smaller and put them in the pocket of the bag like beads on a bracelet. He also patted his small backpack twice, which meant that all important items were placed in the bag.

All this is imperceptible to ordinary people, but Zhang Qiling and the others saw it in their eyes. Everyone was obviously relieved that the big guy was done.

On the other side, the stand-in Xiaoxun raised the short sharp knife in her hand and inserted it straight into the head of the stand-in spider. The blade was completely submerged in the spider's head. She pressed the handle of the knife and cut it open from the back of the spider, and the insect water flowed out. On the ground, the substitute Xiaoxun jumped off the spider, landed smoothly, and walked back towards them. The spider behind him swayed for a few moments before falling heavily.

The stand-in Xiaoxun stood obediently next to Zhang Qiling, and the real phantom Xiaoxun instantly merged with him, and then he saw her put away the knife.

Bai Hao said to her: "Xiao Xun has made great progress. You are not afraid of such a big guy this time. Sure enough, it is because..." Bai Hao did not continue, but raised the corner of his mouth and glanced at Zhang Qiling. .

Xiaoxun pursed her lips and looked at Zhang Qiling with a shy look. Zhang Qiling raised his hand and pulled her to his side. Although the two of them said nothing, several people around them smiled slightly and seemed to understand. Order something.

Qi Tiezui looked around, then started to count with his fingers again. He frowned and asked them, "The big guy has been eliminated. Is the surrounding area safe for now? Those little ones are very difficult to deal with. And those hairs, it’s better not to encounter them again later. I’m not sure what the big black mass on top is. Let’s get out of here quickly. It’s just the black hair in the middle of winter. It looks the same everywhere. Now Where to go?"

Bai Hao said: "You guys wait here and check the condition of the injured brother. Qi Ling and I will go take a look around."

After he finished speaking, I stuffed a small Kirin badge into each of them for them to carry. They both knew the purpose, so there was no need to explain anything. I, Li Yue and everyone else waited for them to explore the road.

After a while, the two of them found the road. Bai Hao stayed there and waited to orient everyone, and Zhang Qiling came back to take everyone there.

We continued walking for a while, and found that the surrounding stone walls had not changed much. There was still a dirt road under our feet, but the road surface was much smoother. There were no more spiders and slime, and it was not so sticky when we walked, except for the top of our heads. There are still high and low, big and small black hair balls hanging on it, and the height of the hair balls is getting lower and lower, and there seems to be an unpleasant smell on it.

Qi Tiezui said: "There are a lot of weird things like this in your Zhang family's tomb. Do you know what they are? I didn't even notice this thing when I hung it high just now. The smell coming out of this thing seems to be not only It must be the rancid smell, why do I still feel a bit choking on my nose? Isn’t it the poison bag inside?”

Zhang Qiling didn't say anything, and Zhang Rishan glanced above and didn't answer him.

Gou Wuye said: "Old man, just because of this smell, there are nine out of ten corpses here. The small ones may be small animals, the big ones may be livestock, or they may be human." .”

Qi Tiezui said "Ah" and said, "If each of them is a corpse, how much does it cost? There are more than one or two hundred coming along this way."

As we walked, some black hair balls in the passage were already on top of our heads. We had no choice but to squeeze in. After walking for a while, my brother suddenly stopped. I grabbed him and asked. :"What's wrong?"

He shined his flashlight on a black hair ball in front of us. I looked along the light and saw that the black hair ball in front of me was very close to us, hanging in front of us. If we wanted to pass by it, we had to turn sideways and squat. Go down, then press your back against the stone wall and move your body bit by bit.

The reason why we have to live like this is because there is something extra on this black hair ball. There is a long, thin, knotted, dry and wrinkled dark-colored stick-like object poking diagonally downward on it. The strange smell is very strong on this thing, and the smell is coming from that thing.

I asked him: "Brother, that branch-like thing must not be a branch, right?"

Zhang Qiling said slowly and calmly: "It's a bone, don't touch it." Then he squatted down, then turned sideways and got through.

My brother shined a flashlight on the bone for me, and then looked at me quietly, because I was the one who was about to pass.

I had no choice but to turn around and squat down with my back to the stone wall facing the bone. I looked at the bone in front of me. Its tail end was only about the width of a hand from my face. I squinted my eyes. After holding his breath, he turned sideways and moved towards Zhang Qiling.

If you look at the bone from a close distance, you can still see clear joints, which means that this is a stump of a limb. The joints are very clean and neat. It doesn't look like it is broken, but more like it is dislocated. However, there is no sagging nearby. The part of the stump that fell down or fell off. Judging from its thickness, it felt like it should be an arm bone.The wrinkled skin wrapped around it is withered skin, the edges of the skin are incomplete, the color of the skin is brown with green and a little purple. I can't tell what the cause of death is, but it feels very complicated. In addition to corrosion and discoloration of the bone rod, there are also other things on it. Picking up a thin layer of small black hair, looking at the black hair, I felt that my whole body was not good after looking at it.

As soon as I squatted down, the discomfort of fever suddenly surged up, and a hot breath rushed to my head. I was stuck on the road after just two strokes. In addition, looking at the scene of that thing, the smell It was extremely irritating. The more I looked at it, the more disgusting it became. My body seemed to be exhausted and I couldn't exert any energy.

Seeing that I seemed to be unable to move on my own, my brother immediately grabbed my collar with one hand and my arm with the other. He pulled me out of the gap and picked me up. I felt dizzy after being picked up. He retched a few times.

The people behind me lined up one by one and followed in the same way. We continued to move forward, and unknowingly we had walked a long distance again. My heels felt like cotton, and it became increasingly difficult. Those black hairs The position of the group became more and more tricky. We turned, jumped and climbed, as if we were in an obstacle course. Everyone's physical strength was exhausted very quickly, and my remaining physical strength was about to be exhausted.

After being dragged and dragged, I was finally pulled to where Brother Bai Hao was, and we stopped.

There is an area in front of you where the ground is a neat and flat brick floor. There is also a part of the surrounding area that has changed from a stone wall to a brick wall. A small hole has been opened in the brick wall for one person to pass through. It is obvious that this is the entrance.

After entering here, I thought it would be brick walls and floors, but what I didn't expect was that the inside looked the same as the outside, both very simple, and there were also a lot of black hairy fungi. It's just that there's no black smoke anymore, and I can't smell the rotten and pungent smell for the time being. But I don't know why, but after I passed here, I suddenly felt an indescribable feeling.

My brother looked around, paused for a moment, and then pulled me up and walked away. The black hairy balls here were not that low, they were all hanging high on top. There were black hairy fungi, but they were not very thick, so we could see on the wall of the passage. We arrived at many large and small depressions, some of which may be entrances to caves.

It was a calm journey, with no poisonous smoke, no strange noises, no monsters, and no bugs. Even the black hair fungi were peaceful, but I always felt a bit eerily peaceful.

We walked until we reached the entrance of a cave, which looked familiar. When we walked in, we found another cave group on the opposite side, just like the area where our brothers and sisters explored when we came in. However, the cave front on the mountain wall here was not like before. There were some silk books there, but they were all empty.

But when I got here, my brother stopped. He seemed to be looking at the locations of the three holes they had explored before, especially the left hole where Brother Bai Hao had been. I knew this was not the previous place, but...

Before I could figure it out, my brother pulled me and started walking again, heading towards the cave entrance on the left. I remembered the moths that Brother Bai Hao had mentioned, and thought that if there were moths in this cave, there would be another commotion.

However, there are not many moths or black fungi in this passage. There are also many large and small depressions on the wall of the passage, and some may be the entrances of caves. Go all the way to the end of this passage. What I saw this time was a stone brick wall with square door frames and a mud-covered area in the middle.

The elder brother stood still and said: "Door."

I heard someone say: "Finally, I see something that looks like something that should be in the tomb."

Zhang Rishan came up to look at the mud, raised his hand and buttoned it and said: "It's the same as the entrance to the mountain wall, the door is at the back."

Bai Hao said: "Then let's peel it off first."

After saying that, a few people squeezed in from behind. They arranged positions for each other and said, "My side, your side."

In the following time, something was stuck on the door, which was dug out bit by bit with their tools. The stuff didn't seem to be very hard, but it had an indescribable smell, the same as the mud on the door of the cliff cave. There seemed to be some damp musty smell, but the smell was stronger, like something rancid.

I muttered: "This mud smells too bad."

Bai Hao said with a smile: "Of course, the thousand-year-old excrement has been fermented for so long. This space is big, so the smell is not bad."

I repeated with a look of disgust: "Shit..."

Bai Hao said "Yes" and leaned over to me and said: "Dung is very useful. It is usually found in large tombs. The Zhang family uses dung mud to cover the door. It should be used to block something. The tomb robbers also used dung water to pour iron juice to seal the seams."

Seeing that I kept frowning, he said: "The tombs dug into the rocks on the cliff are generally large tombs and high tombs. Most of them are royal tombs. Since they are large tombs, they are more afraid of being stolen. They are sealed with molten iron." Tombs are one of the tricks used to fight against robbers. When people who rob tombs encounter that kind of door, they will use highly acidic excrement to water the rusty iron juice every day. No matter how thick the sealing stone strips and iron bolt plates are, they will not be able to withstand being destroyed. Corrosion is only a matter of time before it is opened. This is a good trick. A small complaint can bring big rewards."

Soon after, the dung and mud were almost cleaned, and the exquisitely carved stone door was revealed. The patterns on it looked similar to the patterns on the doors I had seen in the Zhangjia Ancient Building in the Northeast. I just didn't know what would happen inside this door. There won't be what they're looking for.

(End of this chapter)