Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 8 The big corpse cricket

008 Chapter 8 Big corpse cricket
"Hey, my little grandpa, my little aunt, don't scare me. Even though I'm big, I'm most afraid of this unspeakable thing. If it's a bunch of horse thieves, I, Dakui, won't take it seriously, but this thing is I don’t know anything, look at my legs that are weak.”

Wu Xie thought that there was no way to stay here, so he said: "Don't care what it is, the most important thing now is to get out quickly. We are going against the current. If we want to go back, we will definitely go faster than when we came. I think we can enter this The cave is less than 10 minutes old, so getting out will definitely not be a problem.”

"Yes, yes, the third master is right," Da Kui hurriedly agreed: "Third master, just say something. The worst we can do is go over the mountain after we go out, and I will carry everything. I am strong, and it will waste a day or two. It’s not much different, isn’t it? If we dig the hole faster, can’t we make up for it?”

The third master glanced at the little brother again and asked, "Brother, what do you think?"

The younger brother said calmly: "I'm afraid it's too late to get out now. Since those two people can let us in, they must be very sure that we can't get out."

I followed up and said: "Brother is right, and have you forgotten that there is a bamboo raft behind, and there are cows on it..."

They didn't realize it until they heard it, how could they have forgotten this!Pan Zi looked at it and scolded his mother: "Third Master, you have to drive this cow into the water, otherwise this pole won't be able to hold up."

But I don’t think the situation is very optimistic: “Don’t bother, these two guys have thought it through quite carefully. The back road has been cut off for us. With the height of this hole, the cattle can’t stand up at all. The cattle and the equipment together draft. It’s already very deep, and if anyone goes up there, the ship may sink. These two are really familiar with the road, and it seems they have done this a lot.”

Pan Zi looked at the little brother: "If you don't go out, are you going to wait here until you die of old age?" The little brother glanced at him and actually turned his head away and closed his eyes to rest.

Pan Zi was rejected.It's a bit embarrassing.

At this time, I vaguely heard a strange sound coming from the depths of the cave: "Oh, there is a sound."

This voice was obviously much closer than the last time. It was like the whispers of countless little ghosts. It made people extremely uncomfortable. Everyone fell silent, and the atmosphere became extremely weird for a while.

Wu Xie suddenly seemed to be fascinated. He suddenly stood up and didn't respond no matter how he was called.

The little brother said: "There is something strange about this sound."

I saw that there was something wrong with each of them. When I realized that nothing happened, I quickly said to them: "You go into the water and hide."

After saying that, I turned around and looked at my brother. He was also a little uncomfortable, and he happened to be looking at me too.

I waved my hand and said to him: "Brother, you are in the water too, don't worry about me, I'm fine." I assured him to reassure him.

Seeing that I must be fine, he nodded, stood up, kicked Wu Xie into the water, and jumped in with a miner's lamp.This leg hurts me just looking at it.

At this moment, they all jumped down one by one, and I was the only one who was still on top. I suddenly saw the boatman with only his upper body floating on the water. This scene was quite scary. My brother was not around for the time being, so I was still a little scared.

The sound in the water was much blurred, and they slowly woke up. Seeing things in the water with the naked eye was very blurry, and they could only see roughly when squinting. The little brother pointed to them under the water, and then shined a light on it. The water was not very deep, and he could see a layer of white sand at the bottom. He scanned around and found that there were no plants, fish or shrimps.

Wu Xie probably couldn't hold his breath anymore, so he reached out for the water and took a sip. As soon as he shook off the water from his eyes, he happened to be face to face with the half corpse. A bloody face hung upside down, with two eyes staring. Looking at him.

Pan Zi was not very lucky. As soon as his head popped up on the side, the giant corpse cricket on the corpse squeaked and shook the corpse. Before he could understand what was going on, he was hit by a pair of big Aoka that it raised up. Into the scalp.

Pan Zi turned his left hand and found that the saber was already in his hand. He tilted the knife directly to the insect's Ao and dug out an Ao in one go.The insect let out a squeaking scream. He couldn't bear the strength of just one Ao, and was pushed out by Pan Zi's punch. Suddenly, the insect was thrown directly on Wu Xie's face.

I looked worried, but I couldn't help.At this time, the little brother also came up. When he saw that Wu Xie could no longer bear it, he rushed over and inserted two fingers into the back of the insect. He exerted force and pulled, and a strip of white macaroni emerged. The same thing was pulled out by him, and the guy who had the upper hand just now stopped eating in less than a second.

The little brother threw the insect corpse onto the boat, and it landed right at my feet. I looked at the insect twisting and turning, and I felt it was disgusting. It was really quite big, and it was bigger than the one the little brother caught just now. Several times larger.

I looked at them: "Brother, Wu Xie, come up quickly."

The third uncle treated Wu Xie's wounds.Dakui raised his thumb to his little brother: "Brother, I, Dakui, admire you. You pulled out the intestines of such a big bug. I won't accept it!"

"Go," Pan Zi had two bloody holes in his head. Fortunately, the wounds were not big. He bared his teeth and said, "Look at your culture. This is called the central nervous system. This one will directly paralyze that insect!"

"You mean the worm isn't dead yet?" Dakui had already put half of his foot on the boat, and when he heard this, he put that foot back into the water.

The little brother jumped onto the boat and kicked the insect aside: "We can't kill it yet, we have to rely on it to get out of this corpse hole."

The third uncle asked him: "Do you think that sound just now was made by this insect?"

The little brother replied: "I just heard this insect chirping a few times, but it doesn't seem to be the case."

I looked at it and said, "Look, it should be the sound made by the bells on its body. There is an echo in the empty cave, plus the sound of the bells, you are all fooled. I'm afraid this thing has the effect of deceiving people. It's just that it It won't ring by itself for no reason. It seems that there is a mystery in it." The little brother turned the insect over, and we saw that on the tail of the insect, there was a fist-sized hexagonal copper sealed wind chime. We don't know when it was implanted. , has become a complete patina, and the six sides of the wind chime are engraved with densely packed incantations.

Wu Xie looked at the bell and said, "This bell must be designed with a sophisticated mechanism, and it can survive for thousands of years without decay. It is probably made of gold and silver alloy or something like that."

Pan Zi tied the bandage and kicked it with his foot, and the hexagonal bell suddenly started to move on its own!The sound was the same as the one I heard just now, and now it sounded real.

The bell crackled louder and louder.He was upset when he heard it, so he wanted to step on it. Unexpectedly, the bronze shell was actually very old, and the bell cracked when he stepped on it.A stream of extremely foul-smelling green water came out of it.

The third uncle yelled angrily: "You kid, can't you be more honest with me! This thing is a magic weapon, you just kicked it and ruined it for me!"

"Third Master, I didn't know this thing was so weak." Pan Zi still felt aggrieved.

The third uncle shook his head angrily. He used his saber to push aside the bronze fragments. Inside were small bells of different sizes and shapes, one after another, like honeycombs.

These small bells are attached to a very delicate hollow ball, which is full of holes. Inside the cracked ball is a big green centipede, whose head has been crushed flat. The green water comes from the body of this finger-thick centipede. Trampled out.

The third uncle turned the hollow ball over with the tip of a knife and found that there was a tube on the ball, which was inserted directly into the part connected to the huge corpse.

I whispered, "It's symbiosis."

The third uncle smiled and nodded: "I'm afraid that when the centipede is hungry, it will get into the corpse's belly through this tube to eat. How did you come up with such a symbiotic system?"

The third uncle looked at the half of the boatman's body and sighed: "This is called self-inflicted suffering. They must want to put us in this corpse cave, wait for us to die, and then come back to get our things. I don't know what happened today." What an accident, I died in the hands of this big corpse, I really deserved it!"

Wu Xie said: "This is called no coincidence. It seems that we are quite lucky."

Pan Zi shook his head and said: "No matter how powerful the claws of that thing are, it cannot tear a person in half in a short time. If it had such strength, it would have dug out my brain. Look, this thing must be more than just One, this one must have picked up the corpse after dismembering it and wanted to eat it alone."

The third uncle followed up and said: "Don't panic. Didn't my little brother just say that we have to rely on this thing to get out of this hole! We will put this big corpse on the bow of the boat and let him clear the way for us. This thing will last for a lifetime. They eat corpses and have a very strong negative energy. They are the overlords here. With it on our boat, we will definitely be able to get out. I want to see where is the place ahead that can give birth to such a big bug. "

After spending a lot of time in this cave, it was so depressing that they couldn't even lift their heads. They took out folding shovels from the luggage at the back and used them as poles. They supported the stone wall and headed towards the cave. Drive forward.

Wu Xie studied the cave wall while paddling, and suddenly had a question: "Uncle Third, look at these are all single stones. How did people dig them out in ancient times? Even now, there are only a few hundred stones." I’m afraid humans can’t dig such a deep cave.”

"Look at how round this hole is. It's very old. I guess the people who dug this hole must have been officials, or an army specializing in fighting. It seems like it won't be as easy as we thought to find the tomb marked on the map. "

"Third Master, how can you be so sure that this tomb is still there? You see, an army came and dug such a long hole. There is no guarantee that all these things have been moved!" Dakui said: "I think, maybe When we went in, there wasn’t even a coffin board.”

The third uncle groaned and said: "If this bucket had been stolen thousands of years ago, then we have nothing to say, but you have to know that this cave does exist on the map, which shows that this The robbery hole already existed when the tomb owner was buried. The date of this robbery hole should be before the ancient tomb we are looking for. And there must be more than one tomb in this area. Who knows which robbery hole was dug at that time. "

Wu Xie added: "That means that everything we encounter now, including the huge corpses and the hexagonal bronze wind chimes, their owners may have been older than the Warring States Period?"

The third uncle shook his head, "What I'm more concerned about is why the tomb owner wants to place his cemetery around a tomb that has been stolen. Isn't this a taboo in Feng Shui?"

I smiled and shook my head.Unexpectedly, my third uncle saw it and asked me with a smile.

"Girl, do you have any insights?"

I thought for a moment: "I can't say I have an opinion. I just think it's not impossible to build one's own tomb around other people's tombs. I heard that there are some hidden dragon caves or something like that. I don't know the details, but it's important to build such a large tomb." Everyone is an expert, so you should always check before building. It may be due to fate or proper layout, and of course there may be other purposes. Anyway, if your brain is not broken, no one will curse you for playing. "After speaking, he smiled mischievously.

The third uncle looked at me and nodded: "Yes. You girl is really interesting. Indeed, it is not impossible. Girl, she is much better than this boy of mine."

Wu Xie was a little embarrassed: "Uncle Third, you..."

I smiled.Wu Xie was a little embarrassed and a little aggrieved, but that look was quite interesting.

Although the little brother didn't speak, he was observing me all the way down. Although he looked at me as weak and quite well-behaved because he didn't talk much, he seemed to know a lot of things, which was not simple.

Not long after the words fell, the boy suddenly waved his hand to tell us not to talk, and pointed in front. We saw a group of green phosphorescence deep in the cave where the mine lights could not reach.The third uncle sighed.

The little brother's deep voice said: "The place where the corpses are accumulated has arrived!"

(End of this chapter)