Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 85 Rock Crack
085 Chapter 85 Rock Crevice

The little brother asked me to wait by the side. He was sweeping the snow off the stone sculpture. It was a huge flat stone slab about five meters high and three meters wide. It was carved with black stone. I asked him : "Is this a dragon?" The little brother didn't say anything, just looked at it seriously.

I saw that the carving was very good and expressive, but this was not the kind of dragon I usually see. There were countless centipede-like legs carved under its dragon body, which gave me a strange feeling.

My mind suddenly slipped when I thought of big bugs like centipedes. Centipedes are one of the bugs I don’t like. Although they can be used as medicine and are considered good bugs, I remember that when I was three years old, Li Yue took me to take a lunch break. , Liyue was turning back to get something for me. During this gap, I was attacked by a huge centipede that came from nowhere. If Liyue hadn't been guarding me, I would have been snatched away by it.

At that time, the big centipede was wrapping around my arm, grabbing me with its densely packed little legs and trying to drag me away for dinner. You must know that the centipedes in Qilin City are different from the centipedes in the world. Some of them are also virtuous, but this kind of big centipede Centipedes don't appear in broad daylight, and they usually appear in deep forests. His appearance is very unusual.That centipede was huge, at least over one meter tall. I was still a kid of a few years old. In my eyes, the big centipede was simply a giant. No, it should be said to be a giant insect. At that time, I felt Something was tugging on my arm, so I opened my eyes in a daze, only to see the giant centipede monster with its centipede legs waving its teeth and claws, the insect's mouth open and its face ferocious, and its two insect eyes staring at me. , that kind of fear is really indescribable.

At that time, Liyue was carrying a sword with her. I saw her leap over to it and hit it with her sword, instantly cutting off a small piece of its insect leg. It hurt so much that it rolled me up and threw it upwards. Liyue quickly grabbed it with her quick eyes and hands. He stopped me and took the opportunity to stab it hard in the abdomen. It let go of me and stepped back with a cry of pain. Liyue immediately hugged me in her arms. The centipede was still staring at us ferociously. Liyue He turned back and pointed his sword at it and shouted: "You are so brave, City Lord, you dare to move? If you don't want to live, I will give you a ride." Immediately after Chiyan Baihao and the others came, and then they I got into a fight with the giant centipede, and I didn’t know anything about it after that because I was so scared.

But I heard that this kind of giant centipede usually appears in the forest on the other side.The forest on the other side is a very indescribable place. Generally no one goes there. It is said that it is full of beautiful flowers. The forest is divided into three areas. There is an abyss in one area that leads directly to the underworld, so that half is full of manjushuahua.There is also an area with a ladder that leads directly to the heaven, so there are mandala flowers blooming there. There is also an area that leads directly to a golden door carved with unicorn patterns between Qilin City and the forest on the other side. In front of the door, there are purple jade palace flowers. A mysterious red flower. I saw these from the Ziyan atlas. However, this atlas contains many secret documents that require spiritual power or unicorn blood to unlock. It seems that I need to study it carefully when I have time.

Closer to home, I must have seen this strange multi-legged dragon in front of me. It should be something that appeared in the information I read with my brother before coming here. I looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly the expression of enlightenment came back. , the little brother tilted his head and looked at me and said, "Remember?" I nodded, and the little brother stretched out his hand and said to me, "Come here." I took his hand and walked back to him.

The fat man untied the rope and rolled down. Pan Zi went to see Wu Xie, and Chen Pi and others also came down one after another.When Chen Pi Asi saw the stone carving, his expression changed. He could not stand steadily. He hurriedly asked Monk Hua to help him and walked straight to the Moya stone carving.

When the fat man saw the stone carving, he asked Wu Xie, "Why is this dragon so ugly? It looks like a worm. It looks so evil. It is much uglier than the one on the dragon wall in the Forbidden City. It must be broken."

Monk Hua said: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. This is a hundred-legged dragon, not a dragon. The early dragon sculptures of the Eastern Xia Kingdom all looked like this. In the early days of China, ancient Chinese dragons had very different shapes. The dragon also has a pig’s nose, that’s not surprising.”

Wu Xie smiled and said to him: "The evolution of Chinese dragons is very long. The dragons at the beginning were crawling. Just find a beast head and put it on a snake to become a dragon. At that time, every tribe had its own dragon totem. , each tribe evolved separately, and in the end the dragons also had different shapes. Later, with the spread of Han culture and the great integration of Yi and Xia cultures, the image of the Han dragon began to mix with the dragons of various ethnic minorities. In the end, the dragons gradually unified into the current Panlong. look like."

It seems that this Monk Hua is an encyclopedia in Chen Pi's team, and he also knows a lot of things. I want to see how much Chen Pi and the others know, what they are planning to follow this time, and whether the little brother knows about his conspiracy, but Seeing the little brother being so silent this time, I felt that he was on guard against Chen Pi.

The fat man listened carefully to their introduction, but looking at the centipede dragon in front of him, he still felt weird and frowned and said: "Isn't this a mixture of a dragon and a centipede? Not only does it look unpowerful, but it's also uncomfortable to look at." .Brother Dao Scar, I don’t see that you are quite literary, so this stone should be from the Eastern Xia Kingdom?”

Monk Hua looked at the stone carvings, then looked up at the top of the hillside, wondering: "That's right, but where did this dragon-carving stone come from?"

Wu Xie looked at the traces on the broken part of the stone and said, "This may have collapsed from above. You see, the shape of this dragon is asymmetrical. This is two dragons playing with a pearl. Such a stone sculpture should have one side, which is usually carved on On the stone gate, one on each side.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Pi Asi coughed and said feebly: "Fart, half-informed, loud words, what a stone gate, this is the sealing stone in the tomb passage."

As he said that, he pointed to the dragon's mouth. Monk Hua immediately went over, put his hand into the dragon's mouth, and pulled out a black iron chain as thick as his wrist. The fat man took a look and said, "Oh, it's over, the dragon's intestines." I pulled it out for you."

Chen Pi Asi said: "This is the horse chain used to pull the sealing stone when sealing the tomb. This side is the inward side."

Wu Xie's face turned red when he told him, and he looked around and said: "Ah, indeed, I saw it wrong, but how could the sealing stone appear here?" Just after asking, he suddenly thought: "What if this sealing stone came from above?" If it collapsed, it means that the tomb passage above was seriously damaged."

At this time, the wind and snow were raging overhead, and it was almost dark. It was almost night, and we didn't know when the snowstorm was going to blow.To be honest, I was a little sleepy. The little brother noticed that I had started to shake. He asked me to lean against him. My eyelids tightened, so I had to close my eyes to relax, but it seemed that the little brother thought it was not time to rest yet.

Monk Hua was busy taking photos of the stone sculptures. Chen Pi Asi regained his energy and said to us: "You should take care of your own things first, and take a rest when you need it. This is a shelter from the wind. Let's wait until the wind stops to talk about anything."

Monk Hua went to take care of Shunzi and found that he was basically unresponsive, so he came to find Wu Xie. They put Shunzi down and shook his head. You can tell it's hypothermia just by looking at it.

Pan Zi came over and said, "We have to light a fire, otherwise he won't be able to survive for long, and he won't be able to wake up after falling asleep."

But there is no firewood around at all, so the only way to burn it is to burn the sledge.However, going up the snow-capped mountains requires a lot of equipment. Without a sledge, I might not be able to walk down the road below.

Monk Hua looked at Chen Pi Asi, obviously he didn't dare to make the decision himself. Chen Pi Asi was stunned for a while and said: "Don't let him die just yet, I still have something to ask him."

Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief. Monk Hua unloaded the things on the sledge and prepared to pull out the wooden slats to use as firewood. However, the sledge was now soaked with snow, and he didn't know if he could light it yet.

I suddenly smelled a strange smell. I had smelled this smell before when I saw the intermittent high-temperature fountain. I said to him: "Brother, it smells like a hot spring."

When Wu Xie heard what I said, he quickly asked Monk Hua to stop dismantling the sledge and smell the air here carefully. The fat man took a deep breath and said, "Comrades, it seems to really smell like a hot spring!"

Chen Pi Asi winked at Ye Cheng and Lang Feng and asked them to go out to look for them. The fat man picked up his backpack and said he was going, but Pan Zi stopped all three of them. The fat man asked: "What are you doing?" Pan Zi pointed with his chin. Brother, said: "Why panic, don't forget we have experts here."

At this time, the little brother asked me to stand aside. He already leaned down and touched the stones underneath with his two long fingers one by one. Suddenly he frowned, said "Huh?" and turned to the side of Baizu. Panlong seals the stone.We came to the Panlong Stone. There was no smell here just now, but now the smell of sulfur is very obvious.The little brother touched the faucet, looked behind the stone, put his hand on the faucet, pressed it, and said, "Strange, there is nothing behind the faucet."

Wu Xie said: "Changbai Mountain is a potentially active volcano. According to historical records, the last small-scale eruption should have been 1000 years ago. Although the volcano has fallen silent now, the nearby geothermal energy is extremely rich. It seems that behind the Panlong sealing stone, Maybe the smell of sulfur comes out when it is pressed against a steaming crack in the ground. But this dragon sealing stone weighs at least more than ten tons, how can it be lifted?"

The fat man is a man of action. He raised his arms and beckoned us to move the stone. Several people went up and tried to carry it twice.

The fat man was out of breath, and cursed: "No way, old man, I said earlier that our equipment is not good enough. Look at the current situation, it would be great to have some explosives."

Monk Hua said: "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Our old man has crossed more bridges than you have traveled. It is right not to bring explosives. You say that we are now at the bottom of the valley, and there is snow on your head. You can put a bridge wherever you want." Blast holes, shake off the snow on them, and bury them alive in one fell swoop."

The fat man had no words to refute. At this time, Wu Xie saw many stones of different sizes stuck on the lower edge of the Panlong Stone. He had an idea and said to them: "Maybe you don't need explosives. Let me do it."

Wu Xie looked at the stone carvings seriously and suddenly thought of a solution. He took out a masonry hammer from his luggage, walked to the side of the Panlong sealing stone, carefully inspected the larger stones below, and then pointed at one of them and used As soon as he hit it, the stone was subjected to more than ten tons of pressure on the one hand, and he hammered it sideways. It immediately cracked a crack, followed by a series of rattling sounds of the stone. The Panlong sealing stone above was supported by The force suddenly changed and it began to slide along the stone slope.

The little brother pulled me back and saw that the Panlong sealing stone slid down a few inches and began to tilt again. Although it only slid a little and stopped, we still saw the back of the sealing stone, revealing the mountains. A rock crevice, the width of which is barely enough for a person to pass through.Looking at the edge of the cave entrance, it looks like the rock layer is torn, and there are no traces of artificial excavation. The smell of sulfur comes from inside.

The fat man turned on the flashlight, stretched his hand in and took a look, then turned his head and said, "It's very warm inside, but the angle is too uncomfortable to illuminate anything, and there seems to be writing on the stone wall inside."

Wu Xie heard the words and asked quickly: "What is written?"

The fat man squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, and said, "I can't understand, I don't know what to write."

The fat man tried to squeeze in, but he was too fat. The hole was obviously not suitable for him. After squeezing several times, he couldn't squeeze in.Finally, he took off his outer coat and managed to get in.

Chen Pi Asi asked Ye Cheng, Lang Feng and Pan Zi to stay outside to take care of anything.I knew that the little brother would definitely go to see it, so I took off my hat and glasses first, and naturally I had to stop using my spiritual energy to warm myself.We followed the fat man and got into the gap.

The first thing you can see here is the rock crack that split when the mountain moved. The crack is a steep downward direction, and it is very dark inside.It seems to be extremely deep, and it may lead to the inside of the mountain. According to my habit, I can grab the corners of my clothes, but I can't just keep walking forward.

There is not much space at the opening of the gap, so two people cannot stand side by side, and it is very difficult to walk inside the gap. The bottom is full of large rocks with sharp edges and corners. The smell of sulfur in the cave is very strong. Anyway, I feel a little choked. The temperature is also very high. I feel it is at least 30 degrees and may be higher. The stones are hot when I hold them.

We walked a few steps forward on our hands and knees. The fat man shined a flashlight on one side and said, "Look, what are these words?"

When I got there, I saw some words carved on the random rocks at the bottom. The carvings were so messy that I had no idea what they were.Later, the Chinese monk said for sure that it was a Jurchen character, and the fat man asked him: "What is it written on?" But he couldn't recognize it for a while, so he described it first.

We waited for Monk Hua to copy these words into the notebook, with the fat man taking the lead. We lined up in a line and continued to climb deeper into the cave.Wu Xie said that the angle of the gap must be [-] degrees. We had to crawl all the way down. The inside was sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, sometimes high and sometimes low. In some places, people had to sit down to pass through, but it was indeed very warm inside. .

The fat man asked: "Old man, do you think it's not a coincidence that the sealing stone blocks this gap?"

Chen Pi Asi chanted: "Kai Tong built the mausoleum and used local materials. There are so many random stones outside here. They should be the quarry used for quarrying when building the mausoleum. Maybe this gap was discovered when they were quarrying. I don’t know why, but I had to use a sealing stone to suppress it in the end. When he said this, I seemed to think of something, but I couldn’t say it for a moment. If someone deliberately used a sealing stone to suppress it, it must be because of that. I didn’t realize it. Just glanced at the little brother.

After descending less than 100 meters, the smell of sulfur became stronger and stronger, and the rocks became darker and darker. They all began to show the luster of glass, which is the trace of mica melted at high temperature.Suddenly, the guy in front of me stopped. It turned out that the crack in front of me suddenly shrank, and the rocks overlapped, leaving only a very small gap to go down.Wu Xie looked at it with a flashlight and said: "This is caused by the collapse of the gap. The gap inside is very small. It seems that you have to crawl to get in."

Chen Pi Asi looked at the entrance of the cave and knew that he was not strong enough to climb in. Wu Xie suggested that Monk Hua wait here with him.The little brother hesitated to let me follow. I am small and could still exit if I staggered with Wu Xie. After all, I didn’t know what was going on ahead and was afraid of danger, but I thought that I couldn’t stay with Chen Pi, so I struggled for a while. He decided to take me there with him and follow me, little brother, Wu Xie and Fatty to continue moving forward to see what else is inside.

The gap was too small, so we took off our coats to reduce our size as much as possible. This time, the little brother took the lead, followed by me, Wu Xie, and the fat man, and squeezed into the gap bit by bit.

This section of the gap is very long. We climbed for a long time. I climbed very carefully. The stone tips inside were very sharp. Wu Xie climbed a few steps and his clothes had been torn in several places.The temperature inside was getting higher and higher. Anyway, Wu Xie and the others couldn't see my eyes, so they called for the spiritual power to be strengthened and the water spirit to cool down. Otherwise, I would gradually find it difficult to breathe and feel dizzy due to the heat.

The fat man behind suddenly grabbed Wu Xie's feet and said, "No, there may be a problem with the air quality here. It would be too reckless for us to come in without even checking."

Wu Xie wanted to look back, but the space was too small and there was no other way. Thinking that he had crawled a long distance just now, he was reluctant to go back. Moreover, in this situation, crawling backwards would probably be more painful than when he came here, so he told the fat man Said: "Let's take a few more steps forward, and then exit if we are still not at the bottom."

The fat man responded, and at this moment, suddenly, the little brother in front called out: "En?"

Wu Xie turned his head and looked forward, but there was nothing in front of him. The two people who were blocking him just now were gone. There was only a dark stone passage, and he didn't know where it led.

(End of this chapter)