Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 76
076 Chapter 76 Down the River
This made the gap created by Zhu Jiuyin's collapse extremely deep. I could only feel that the water flow was all the way down, and I didn't know where it would lead.

The little brother hugged me and went down the river. The passage was dark, the stones inside were very irregular, and there were many whirlpools in the water, which made us spin around. The little brother protected my head with his hands, for fear of getting hurt. Those irregular stones come across.

I kept my eyes closed, and I felt that I had been spinning for a long time. Without my brother to protect me, I would have fainted. Suddenly, my brother hugged me tightly and made me hold my breath. Then I felt like I was falling freely, and I fell into the water very quickly. We came out of the water.

The fat man asked: "Where is this?"

The little brother looked at it and said, "This should be an underground river. There must have been a heavy rain outside. The water flow here is very fast, so be careful." Then he lowered his head and said to me, "Girl, hold on to me, don't let me go." I Obediently, she hugged him tightly and grabbed his clothes.

The fat man asked: "Little Tianzhen didn't come down much earlier than us. Why can't he see anyone? There shouldn't be any forks in the water. Is there anything you can do to keep up with Xiao Wu?" "

In fact, I know that if the little brother is alone, he can just swim with the current and chase me. With his good water skills, it may not take long to catch up, but now he has to protect me and can't separate himself. I went to chase Wu Xie... I saw the little brother thought for a while and said to me: "Girl, do you have any idea?"

I was stunned and said "Ah". I looked at him, thought about it, and suddenly remembered, by the way, a spiritual insect!Last time I heard about Aning’s spiritual worm, I haven’t recovered it yet. If it’s still in Wu Xie’s body, I might be able to keep up with him. Look at my memory, how could I forget this? I said to the little brother: “I Try it.”

I closed my eyes, stretched out my right hand that was holding my little brother, and waved it under the water behind him.

After a while, I sensed that the bug was still there, and hurriedly summoned it to Wu Xie's ear, switching to video mode. However, I couldn't tell his position when I looked at it. This kind of professional thing still had to be done by the little brother. I just came to see it, so I said to the little brother: "Brother, can you lower your head?"

Although he didn't know what I wanted to do, he lowered his head slightly obediently and looked at me calmly. I suddenly took out the arms holding him from his waist, lifted them up and hugged his neck. The little brother was stunned for a moment, and I whispered in his ear: "Close your eyes." As a result, he looked at me stupidly, and I said: "Hurry up." Then he closed his eyes, and I gently moved him towards me. I hugged him again, closed my eyes, and put my own eyes against his. After being stunned for a while, I asked him: "Did you see it?" I only heard him say "yes".

The fat man on the side looked dumbfounded. He couldn't understand at all how this had anything to do with being able to find Wu Xie. He just looked at it in surprise.

Wu Xie felt that although the water flow in the underground river was very fast, it did not have as many whirlpools as in the rock crevices. It was easier to control. The water also had a little temperature, so the body was not too cold or stiff, and he could move more freely.

At this time, Wu Xie thought, in this case, it is better to take a look at the surrounding situation. What is certain now is that this underground river flows from top to bottom. The best estimate is that according to the direction when it came, if the general direction is not changed midway If it floats all the way downstream, it should be washed into the river it crossed when it arrived.It would be a tragedy if he rushed straight into the ground dozens of meters deep. Thinking of this, he shook his head and just hoped that the journey would go smoothly.

My brother and I shared the video for a while, and I asked him: "Can you tell where it is?" We slowly opened our eyes, I looked at him, and he shook his head.I thought about it again and asked him: "Then if you keep looking at that picture, can you tell where Wu Xie is?" The little brother thought for a while and nodded seriously.

Seeing that he was so sure, I thought about it, looked at him seriously, and said slowly to him: "Then...you close your eyes again." The little brother closed his eyes obediently, and I released my arms around his neck. Instead of holding her hands on his cheeks, she kissed his eyes softly and whispered to him: "You can open your eyes now."

The fat man's eyes almost popped out of his head. The little brother slowly opened his eyes. I saw the eye I just kissed suddenly flashed with the same golden light as my unicorn eyes. That's it.I asked him softly: "How is it? Can you see it?"

I looked at his soft eyes, and suddenly my face turned red, my heart beat very fast, and I stuttered a little nervously, so I whispered to him: "Bai...Bai...Bai Hao said, heart...heart...heartbeat" The person who can treat my memory fragments can see what I sense at the same time as me, but... I just need to kiss... kiss his eyes first..."

For a moment we both stayed there, looking at each other stupidly. My hand was still holding his cheek, shaking slightly nervously.The fat man couldn't stand it any longer and said: "Well, let me tell you two, why don't we... do business first? We are still floating in the river. We don't know where we are floating yet. Why don't we hurry up and find someone first?" ,right."

The little brother kept looking at me with soft eyes. I shyly returned to the floating state, put my arms around the little brother's waist, and hid in his arms. Following the little brother, I turned around and looked at the fat man coldly, and said, "Follow." Swim forward with me.

The fat man was choked by a murderous aura and couldn't say any more. He just said "ah" and continued to swim forward with us.

Wu Xie looked ahead nervously, fearing that there would be some fork in the road. At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something carved on the wall of the underground river.

Judging from the erosion of the rocks, the underground river here should be as old as the mountain. Thinking that there might be something on it, he saw an opportunity and pulled a stone pillar hanging from the top to stop. own body.With the help of spirit insects, my brother and I saw Wu Xie shining a flashlight on both sides of a river wall. There were all the same reliefs we saw in the coffin on the top of the bronze tree, although some had already Although they have collapsed, most of them are still well preserved, with bright and smooth lines and elegant clothing patterns. Each painting is different, with vivid and dynamic images.

These reliefs depict the process of the ancient ethnic minority ancestors paying homage to the bronze tree, and the scenes are extremely vivid.

There is a relief that shows the huge bronze tree covered with the corpses of slaves. The blood of slaves flows from top to bottom into the gully of the bronze tree and continues to flow downward.

One shows them throwing the bodies of slaves into the interior of a bronze tree.

This kind of sacrifice to the bronze tree is very large-scale, and some reliefs depict scenes that are different from the sacrifices. Among them is a relief that shows the ancestors pouring some liquid into the bronze tree.In the next picture, there is a "Zhu Jiuyin" coming out of the bronze tree. Many ancestors dressed like warriors surround it with bows, arrows and spears, like a hunting scene.

Wu Xie was puzzled by this. If this bronze tree should be a special symbol of divine power in ancient times, then the "Zhu Jiuyin" in the bronze tree was a kind of dragon in ancient times. In some notebook novels, "Zhu Jiuyin" has even been raised to the same height as Pangu. It should be regarded as a sacred beast to worship. How can people here hunt it?
There are some ritual contents later. All the ancestors wear masks and have dull faces. However, in every relief, there is always a person who is particularly tall and tall.Judging from the clothes and demeanor of this man, he should be their leader, and he should be the original statue seen on the cliff of Jiazigou.

After watching it for a while, Wu Xie pulled the stalactite column on the top, got close to the rock on the ground, wiped off the stains on it, and leaned over to take a look.

The image of the leader in the relief is almost twice the size of the others, like a giant.If according to previous assumptions, the carvings here are based on formal proportions, then this leader may really be so tall, and this leader has a snake head on his neck, and it doesn't look like he is wearing a mask.It feels like this bronze tree is not simply used for sacrifice, but is also used to perform some kind of hunting ritual. Those sacrificed slaves may be the bait to lure the "Zhu Jiuyin" out of the ground.

The bronze tree goes deep underground. These "Zhu Jiuyin" should live extremely deep underground. Although he doesn't know why they live in that kind of place, Wu Xie is very curious. These ancestors engaged in such a large battle to hunt. What is the purpose of "Zhu Jiuyin"?In the end, there were just some celebration scenes. There was no description of how they were captured, how they were captured, or what they were captured for.

After reading the basics, Wu Xie looked at the water level and saw that it was continuing to rise, so he had to let go of his hands and continue to float downward with the current.

After such a long period of time, Wu Xie's flashlight had become so dim that it had no illuminating effect at all, so he simply turned it off and followed the current in the darkness.

In the next period of time, if you float for a while, there will be a small waterfall, and I will try to make a buffer first before being washed down.

Under the protection of my little brother, I successfully avoided many small dangers. Wu Xie on the side of Fatty and Spirit Insect was not so lucky. There were some bumps. Although it was not fatal, it was inevitable that I would be bruised and swollen along the way. Rafting lasted several hours.

Because the floating time was too long, Wu Xie gradually felt despair at this time. He was afraid that he had encountered a turn or entered a fork, or else he had made a mistake in judgment, and he might be being carried into the endless depths of the underground river by the current. I have been thinking like this all the time.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a glimmer of light in front of his eyes and heard the rumbling sound of water. Wu Xie was suddenly overjoyed and knew that there must be an exit ahead. He had not seen natural light for more than ten hours. He was so happy that he threw it away. He swam forward with a flashlight. He was swimming very fast. Within a few minutes, there was a sudden flash in front of his eyes, and then a white light. He couldn't see anything. He hadn't seen light for so long that his vision was dull. He was getting excited. He thought that he was about to go out. In an instant, there was another free fall...another waterfall...and the sound was still a big waterfall. There was a roar in Wu Xie's ears, and before his eyesight could recover, he was already a head over heels. Fell into the water.

At that moment, he stretched his hand down and immediately touched a stone. He thought, Oops, it's too shallow!Just when he realized this, it was already too late. Wu Xie's head had already hit something. His vision went dark and he didn't know anything anymore.

I saw Wu Xie being knocked down by the waterfall, but we were still some distance away from the big waterfall. The little brother knew that the water was too shallow. When he almost reached the mouth of the waterfall, he stabbed the black gold knife into the mountain wall, letting the fat man We grabbed them together, took out a rope and put it on the knife. The younger brother held the knife and the rope, letting the fat man slide down first, and let him wait below to catch me. Finally, with the help of the mountain wall and the knife, I , and landed safely in just a few clicks.

We hurried over to see Wu Xie's injuries. The little brother checked him and found that many parts of his body were broken and he could not move around. We had to briefly treat his wounds, but it was still difficult to get him to the hospital.

It happened that there was a bamboo forest on the side of the mountain. The fat man had the strength, a knife and a rope. The little brother made a small fire for me and asked me to watch Wu Xie. He and the fat man made a bamboo raft for Wu Xie. The little brother said, OK When the river floated across, there were people in front of it, and someone would naturally take Wu Xie to the hospital. To be safe, we followed behind. When we saw Wu Xie drifting to the stream, he was discovered by the villagers. Later, some armed police came and took him to the hospital. We It was a relief.We stayed in a hotel near the hospital temporarily and took a short rest before going to see Wu Xie.


(End of this chapter)