Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 57

057 Chapter 57 Sacrifice Platform

The fat man lit the bonfire and sat down: "Oh, let's take a break first. Take it easy. Fortunately, we can run fast. Let's get some coats and have a toast."

I felt dizzy from soaking in hot water. My brother asked me to lean against him and got me some water to drink.

We rested for a while. The younger brother saw that I was much better, and everyone was almost rested, so we were ready to set off again.

The little brother got up, grabbed the vines on the cliff and tugged. It looked quite strong, and he flew to the cliff through the vines. He looked around carefully and observed for a while.After coming down, go straight to the cliff.

The little brother used his flashlight to look down the cliff and then asked me to come to him.

The fat man came over with his compass and said to us: "This place is really evil. There is something wrong with the magnetic field." Then he looked at the bottom of the cliff and asked: "How should we go now."

The younger brother motioned to him to go down.

The fat man looked in the direction the little brother was looking and said "ah": "Just go down...then if you want to go down, why go to the trouble? Come here, couldn't you just jump down the river just now?"

The little brother said calmly: "There is a pool down there. The water inside is freezing cold. If you go straight down, the difference in water temperature is too big. One is hot, the other is cold..." When he said this, he looked at me and I smiled slightly.

The fat man understood immediately: "Okay, I understand, I feel sorry for her, Fatty, I understand. That's it, get down, then let's go." After saying that, he took out the rope from the bag.

The fat man was carefully playing with the rope, thinking about where to put the rope, how to lower it, etc., but the little brother looked at him indifferently, quickly stretched out his hand, and picked up the fat man from behind his collar. The fat man was stunned, " "Uh", he kept his eyes open, and then heard his long "Ah~~" and he was thrown off the cliff by the little brother.

I was stunned for a moment, my eyes widened, I took a breath of cold air, my body froze instantly, and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated. It was so sudden. This scene reminded me of the last time I was in Lu Palace...

Then, the little brother patted me. At this time, the little brother turned his head and looked at me with a faint look. He motioned for me to turn around and face him. I stood nervously in front of him, and he hugged me tightly. In his arms, my feet left the ground instantly, and with a "swish", he led me to jump down. I lowered my head in fear, closed my eyes, hugged him tightly with my arms, and held his hand tightly. clothes, I thought for a moment, "Although this saves time, it's really scary..."

After a while, we landed smoothly near the fat man. There was a large shoal here. The little brother held me in his arms. After his feet landed smoothly, he slowly put me down. I was still so scared that I felt weak. at every turn.

The fat man fell completely into the water, and got up with great energy. At this moment, when he saw the little brother, he yelled angrily: "You are sick!"

The little brother pulled me and was busy using his flashlight to observe the surrounding environment. He ignored him at all and acted as if nothing happened. He still had the same indifferent expression and then led me towards the waterfall.

The fat man had no choice but to make blind gestures to himself and kept muttering: "Okay, you kid is trying to trick me, right? I tell you, don't fall into my hands. If you fall into my hands, I..." Although he was sulking, But there was really nothing we could do about him, so he had no choice but to follow us in despair.

We walked along the shallows towards the waterfall, walked for a while, and came to the edge of the pool under the waterfall. We saw traces of fire on the ground, and the bonfire still had some small flames. The little brother said: "It's getting late. , just rest here today.”

The fat man said happily: "Okay, it's a big open space, a ready-made fire, and all the things to burn are ready-made. It's good. I'll make a fire first and get some food later."

The little brother walked to check the surrounding situation, and the fat man and I went to get those things that could be burned. At this time, the fat man noticed that someone seemed to be staring at us not far away, and suddenly shouted: "Oh, okay, stop hiding, Saw you."

Following the fat man, he pulled me behind him and looked into the distance. After a while, two people came towards us. If we looked carefully, the leader was actually Aning, and this time he brought one of his men.I think she should have followed Wu Xie here again.

When Aning saw us, he said: "Long time no see."

When the fat man saw that it was her, he immediately relaxed and said with a smile: "Really, Qiao's mother is crying for Qiao, Qiao is dead. Why do you think you are everywhere?"

Aning approached us and asked, "Where's Wu Xie? Didn't you come with us?"

The fat man smiled playfully and said to her angrily: "Oh, you miss him." Then the fat man's tone changed and he replied rudely: "Can you care?"

Aning smiled helplessly, and his men raised their guns and said to the fat man: "If I ask you a question, answer it well. Believe it or not, I will kill you."

The fat man's face suddenly changed and he shouted: "Oh, you can do it, you are awesome, come on, if you have the ability, you will fail, do you have the courage? Look at your virtues."

The man was immediately enraged and fiercely put a gun to the fat man's head.

At this moment, the little brother flew over with a knife and stabbed the man's shoulder directly. The man let out a painful "Ah" and threw the gun away. He couldn't lift his arm anymore. The little brother turned around. After catching the knife, the knife was immediately placed on Aning's neck and he stood in front of us.

Aning was stunned for a moment, then said to the little brother with a smile: "Zhang Qiling, cooperate." While saying this, he gently pushed the little brother's knife away.

The little brother said coldly: "I don't need to cooperate with you." After saying that, he turned around and pulled me, who was hiding behind the fat man, towards the bonfire.

The fat man looked at it and laughed, not to mention how happy he was. He continued to get things for making fire while enjoying himself.

Aning's subordinate was frightened. The momentum he had just lost was gone. He covered his arm and said in horror: "I...why can't I lift my arm?"

The fat man laughed at him: "Look at how cowardly you are, you're just poking a muscle, I'm scared of you, idiot, hahahahaha."

The fat man scolded him. He was very angry, but he didn't dare to offend us again. He picked up his gun and followed Aning obediently towards us.

We sat by the fire, and the fat man gave us hot food and hot water. Aning and his men sat aside and ate something quietly.

After we had eaten, the little brother saw that I was very tired, so he hugged me and let me rest first. Fatty and Aning sat aside and talked about cooperation, how to divide the treasure, how much to divide, and they talked a lot. Finally, the fat man said: "You have to rely on us to fight the monsters, so how tired we are. If you do this, it's [-] points. You and I are [-] points."

Aning had already been told by the fat man that she was going to be angry, but because her little brother was here, she was still frightened and said coldly: "You are kidding me."

The fat man smiled playfully, shaking his head and making faces at her: "Ouch~ you bite me!"

An Ning stood up angrily and said angrily: "Then let's go our separate ways."

The little brother lowered his head and suddenly said: "Let's go together and don't do anything wrong." Then he raised his head and looked at them coldly, and said lightly: "Otherwise, I will kill you."

Aning was stunned for a moment. She understood that Zhang Qiling was not joking, so she sat down obediently. After holding it in for a long time, the fat man burst out laughing. The laughter was so loud that he woke me up again just after I was confused. , the little brother touched my head and told me to sleep peacefully.

I slept soundly all night.When he woke up, Fatty was already preparing breakfast. After eating a little less, he rested and was ready to continue setting off.This time the boy asked us to stuff our coats into our bags.Aning and her men followed us obediently, not daring to speak, let alone act randomly.

The fat man asked the little brother: "What's wrong, dumb Zhang, where are you going?"

The little brother said: "There is a cave behind the waterfall. To avoid the whirlpool in the turbulent area where the waterfall falls, you must dive close to the bottom of the pool. I will confirm the position of the iron chain first. You wait."

After finishing speaking, the little brother jumped into the pool and looked for the iron chain first. The fat man asked me to move with him to get ready for the water.Aning and the others also followed suit.

The little brother was very fast and came back after a while. We got our things and the little brother pulled me to get ready. I immediately held my breath and was taken underwater by the little brother.

The little brother led me straight to the iron chain. Fatty Aning and his subordinates followed behind. We followed the chain and swam directly below the waterfall. When we reached the center of the turbulence, I just felt the water rolling around me and shaking me. , if I didn’t have a little brother with me, I would probably be spinning in circles with the current due to my small body.

The little brother and the fat man followed the iron chain and stepped forward on the stone figurines at the bottom of the pool. We moved faster and quickly rushed through the area under the waterfall. Suddenly, we felt the pressure on our heads loosen, and we were immediately When he came out of the water, he gasped for air and couldn't hold it in any longer.The little brother hurriedly asked: "Girl, are you okay?" I looked at him tremblingly and said, "I'm okay." Then the fat man came up, panting heavily and said, "Oh my God, I'm finally here. There are really stone figurines everywhere." Following Aning, they also emerged from the water.

The little brother said to the fat man: "Follow me." We swam a few meters into the cave and vaguely saw a wide and long stone step under the water. We walked up the stone step, and after a while we stepped on it. The stairs went out of the water.

The little brother quickly turned on the flashlight to look at the surrounding situation. When he saw nothing unusual, he relaxed. Fatty suddenly fell down on the steps, gasping for air and said: "This water is really damn cold." As he said that, he wrapped himself in it. I dug a bottle of wine out of it and took several gulps.

I trembled and said to him: "Fat man, you drank too fast. You have to drink slowly now, otherwise it will hurt your body."

The fat man looked at me and said "Ah", and I continued: "Drink some white wine, it does have a warming effect, but if you drink it too fast, it will have the opposite effect. Alcohol can stimulate the capillaries on the surface of the body, It thickens blood vessels and accelerates blood flow to the skin, making you feel warm, but that is only a temporary phenomenon on the skin. If you drink too much too quickly, alcohol will speed up the heat dissipation of your body, and the calories you expend will be greater than what alcohol provides. There is much more heat. After a large amount of body heat is lost, people will feel colder."

The fat man took another sip and said, "Why are you acting so naive? Tell me, you smart people, it's so troublesome for you to drink even if you are tired."

"No, no matter how good your physical fitness is, you can't be so worn out. If you regret it in the future, it will be too late." As I muttered about the fat man, the little brother came out with a towel and let me wipe it with water, and then continued He took out a dry coat and put it on me, and also put his big coat on me.The little brother took out his own small wine bottle and gave it to me, and said to me gently: "Drink a few sips, take it slow." I took a few sips.

After resting for a while, the little brother began to carefully observe the surroundings. There was a blue-grained stone platform on the stairs. There were four stone pillars around the stone platform, which were engraved with patterns of birds and animals. There was a tall, almost two-year-old stone platform placed in the stone platform. Rice, a strange bronze container like a large gourd bottle, stained with rust, and engraved with images of twin snakes and sacrificial activities.

On the other side of the stone platform, there is a stone step ten people wide. The little brother shined a flashlight and saw that it was a cave winding downwards with hundreds of steps. The little brother led us down.We walked for a long time.

Finally, a flat ground appeared in front of us. Here was the bottom of the stairs, a bare black stone beam. Beyond that, there was a cliff, and a fire was burning under the cliff.

After staying in a dark place for a long time, the firelight felt particularly dazzling to my eyes, so I closed my eyes, wanting to relax. Just as I was about to open my eyes, my brother reached out and covered my eyes and said to me: "You Don't look at it yet." Then the other hand pulled me back.

The fat man also looked at the situation below by the firelight and said slowly to me: "Girl, he is right, this thing is not suitable for you to see."

Aning was very calm, but his subordinate was so frightened that he sat on the ground.

A dozen feet below the cliff is a large natural cave, which is densely packed with things like dead firewood. It is full of bones, one next to another, and in some places there are several layers built up, with enough to contain tens of thousands of tools. Many, this is a mass grave, and it was burned by the people in front.

The little brother saw a strange place in the middle of the body.The sharp-eyed fat man also saw it and said to the younger brother: "Look at the open space in the middle. There is no fire. It is a pit. The area is not small."

The younger brother said calmly: "It's down there. But now I can't get through from here."

The little brother lowered his body and whispered in my ear: "Girl, do you still remember the Mute Army?" I said softly, "Yeah", and the little brother continued: "This is not just a burial pit, but also an ancient battlefield, Mute Army, the Northern Wei Dynasty did not speak of cavalry, Yin soldiers, She State is a snake state, have you thought about it?" When he said this, I suddenly understood something and nodded to him.He patted me and told me not to show it, it was our big secret.

The fat man didn't know what we were doing: "Mute Zhang, how do we go now?"

The younger brother stood up and said, "Go back and take a detour."

We walked back to the big gourd bottle just now, and the little brother was carefully looking for something nearby.

Aning was so calm that he had no idea and waited for his brother to give him the result. However, his subordinates were clueless and impatient. When they saw that they couldn't find a way, they thought about using explosives to blow it up. The fat man saw it and stopped him quickly: " Alas, alas, you are looking for death, you are really amateurs, you are crazy to use explosives with this place, take a rest while you want to die, stay away and don't hurt us."

After careful observation, the little brother found a mechanism on the ground in the distance. He pressed it without hesitation, and a downward passage appeared. The passage was not too narrow, but the repair was very rough. We kept We walked downwards for a long time, and suddenly there was a hole in front of us. After going out, we came to a place full of bronze bells. Looking around, there were at least a hundred of them. There were piles of skulls everywhere on the ground. There were mummies hanging in the air, and there was a cliff not far away.

Aning asked: "Zhang Qiling, have you ever seen such a scene?"

The little brother ignored her and pulled me around to look around. This place looked like a place for sacrifice by the She people. There was a sacrificial platform above it just now, so this might be near the open space just now.

Aning's men only had eyes for the underworld weapon, and he couldn't move the big one, so he began to think about the bell, and he reached out to pick it up. The fat man hurriedly shouted: "Oh, oh, oh, don't move, put your hand down, Let me tell you, just one ring of this bell can kill several people. When hallucinations occur, your seven aunts and eight aunts will come out and bite you to death. Believe it or not, don’t move!"

The man glared at the fat man fiercely, but did not dare to touch it again. He turned around and found that the mummy of the priest next to him had a treasure box in his hand. The fat man didn't care at this moment, snatched it away, and said: " You didn't move this thing, go away." Then it was opened, and the little brother shouted: "Don't move." But it was too late.

At this time, all the bells were shaking and ringing.Countless bronze bells ringing at the same time are so noisy... Although I don't hallucinate easily, there are too many bells, which makes my ears hurt and my head hurts. This time, nothing happened to me. I couldn't see me. Feeling comfortable, I helped him and asked, "Are you okay?"

I said to him uncomfortably: "There are too many bells and I have a headache."

The little brother said to me: "Be patient." I followed the little brother and jumped to a higher place to check the surrounding situation.

I had a headache and held my head with both hands. I couldn't open my eyes and was shaking. What I didn't expect was that in just a moment, Aning's subordinate, who was hallucinating, shouted for some reason: "Damn fat man!" I'm going to kill you." He ran straight towards me. When I reacted, he had already thrown me to the ground. The back of my head hit the ground with a "bang", and with a "buzz", the two sides were His eyes darkened and he lost consciousness instantly.

He followed the man like crazy and grabbed my neck with great strength. I tried to break his hand away, but it was totally impossible. He strangled me with both hands so hard that I couldn't break it off at all, and I couldn't cry out. , I couldn't breathe, my face was red and I was crying. I felt like I was going to die for a moment, and I almost didn't have the strength to struggle. When I saw this, the little brother hurriedly flew down and kicked the man away several times. Mi, I closed my eyes and held my neck with my hands, coughing and breathing heavily. The little brother shouted: "Girl, girl!" He helped me sit up. I opened my eyes and saw the little brother, and I hit him instantly. In his arms, he patted me, comforted me, and said gently: "It's okay, don't be afraid, it's okay."

The fat man was hallucinating, behaving strangely, and kept worshiping the priest. Then he actually put the muzzle of his gun into his mouth.

Aning didn't know what she saw. She was very scared, as if she was struggling with someone.

The little brother pulled me up. When I looked up, I saw the fat man putting the muzzle of the gun into his mouth. I quickly pulled the little brother to point it out to him and said, "Fat man." I was pinched so hard that I could hardly say anything. Make a noise, the little brother sees this and is broken!He quickly took a step forward, turned around like he was dancing, swung his black gold ancient sword and slit his fingers, and shouted: "Fat man!" The fat man stared blankly, turned around with the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, rolled his eyes, and turned his head. Little by little, the little brother flicked his finger, and a drop of blood flew directly to the fat man's forehead. In an instant, the fat man woke up. When he saw that the gun was in his mouth, he was startled and quickly took it out. , sweating profusely, calmed down for a moment, and then walked over to us.

At this time, the ringing of the bell had not stopped. The little brother quickly came back to me and hugged me, covering my ears. I closed my eyes and leaned against him, covering my neck and coughing.

The fat man looked at me and asked the little brother: "What's wrong? The girl is injured. Who did it? Huh? Where is Aning's girl?" He turned around and looked around, and just saw someone standing in the distance, his The man woke up at some point and rushed towards Aning. The fat man wanted to stop him and said "Ouch", but failed to stop him. The man grabbed Aning and they fell off the cliff together.The fat man said: "It's over now..."

(End of this chapter)