Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 133 Huduo

Seeing that Tofu asked a silly question, I said, "If that thing really does something, can the three of us still sit here and talk now? I think something must have happened later, right?" Zhuan Rui nodded. , Said: "I don't know if something happened, but anyway, I came out alive."

Tofu stared at the 'Shenmu Square Earrings God Card' on the table, and said: "I thought this thing was very delicate before, but now that I hear you say it, why do I feel cold when I look at it? Hey, hey, Look, Lao Chen, the fox’s eyeballs are alive, and the more you look at it, the more frightening it becomes." Tofu said while turning the Shenmu square earrings card over, with the patterned face facing down and the non-patterned face facing up.

After hearing Tofu's words, Zhuan Rui said meaningfully: "Yes, it is indeed alive." He continued.

However, after Zhuan Rui passed out, it didn't know how long it took before he woke up again, and found himself and Zhong Gong lying in front of the tomb door, the flashlight rolled aside, emitting a faint yellow halo, and there was nothing unusual about it.

He was not sure what happened for a while, so he quickly woke up Zhong Gong, but Zhong Gong said that he didn't see any fox rushing towards his face, but saw Zhuan Rui suddenly fell to the ground, so he squatted down in a hurry to check, but suddenly His body felt weak, and he passed out for some reason.Both of them couldn't figure out the situation, and they looked at each other silently in the tomb passage, and the fear in their hearts could be imagined.

Obviously, although there is no secret crossbow in this tomb, there is an evil force guarding it, and the two of them have already touched this force.

Zhuan Rui suddenly remembered the scene of being eaten, and felt that the soles of his feet felt numb for a while. The scene was too vivid, like a 3D movie, engraved deep marks in his mind, and popped up from time to time.He is courageous, but every time he thinks about it, he will break out in a sweat.Now that things have happened, I don't care about the legends about fortune, and I only want to leave this place as soon as possible.

The two immediately began to dig the robbery hole. This time, there was no accident, and the robbery hole was successfully dug outside, only to see that it was already dark outside.

Rao is that these two people have rich experience in fighting, but when they think of their previous experience and the surrounding cliffs are full of hanging coffins, they can't help but feel cold all over their bodies, so they immediately emboldened themselves and rolled back to the The nearest town, and Zhuan Rui's face, due to the long delay and the severe burns, it is already irreparable.

The subsequent treatment and so on are not mentioned.

However, after Zhuan Rui returned to BJ, he had nightmares day and night, almost every night he would dream of being eaten by that thing bite by bite, and the mental and psychological pressure was extremely high.

In order to relieve the pressure, he decided to find a woman to relax.Although he is disfigured now, it is impossible to hook his fingers again, and a group of women and even men will surround him together, but it is good to have money, and there are still a lot of beauties.That night, I found a girl with black hair and long legs, preparing to relieve my nerves that were about to collapse, and praying that I would never have nightmares again at night.

The black-haired girl was very good at coming, put water in the luxurious big bathtub, hooked Zhuanrui to take a bath, the black-haired girl suddenly exclaimed: "Oh, why do you have such a weird tattoo on your shoulder?" thing."

Zhuanrui has never had tattoos, they are only done by young people pretending to be cool and handsome. Although he is disfigured now, Zhuanrui also wanted money, good looks, broad shoulders and long legs, and six dollars. Abdominal muscles, is it worth tattooing yourself?

When the brunette called out, he stopped and asked, "What tattoo?"

The black-haired girl stroked his shoulder with her greasy hands, and said, "That's it, um, so handsome." Zhuan Rui raised his eyebrows, stood up and took a look in the mirror, and suddenly found that the back of his left shoulder There is a tattoo-like thing in the position, isn't it the monster that appears in his dreams every night?
When he said this, he paused for a moment, as if he remembered something, I waited for a while but he didn't speak, and said, "What happened next?"

Tofu laughed loudly, and then said: "Later, she must have been scared to death, that black-haired chick must have been so sad." Zhuan Rui raised his head when he heard that, and looked at Tofu with lukewarm eyes. Perhaps due to the disfigurement of half of his face, his gaze always looked particularly strange.Seeing Tofu like this, he couldn't laugh anymore, instead he choked on his own saliva and coughed violently.

Only then did Zhuan Rui look back and continue talking.

When he found that pattern suddenly appeared on his back, he immediately felt sweat on his forehead, and began to rack his brains to find the origin of this pattern.That nightmare still haunts me every night. As time goes by, each dream becomes more and more real, and even the pain can be felt.

Zhuan Rui couldn't help making a terrible guess: Could it be that it was not a hallucination, but that something really 'bited' him when he was falling asleep?
In the next collection of clues, Zhuan Rui began to understand something.

The first is the pattern that appeared on his back, but it turned out to have a lot to do with Shamanism.

Shamanism is a primitive religion. It is not a religion created by man. It believes in animism. In Chinese history, it is generally not directly called shaman, but is replaced by witch.Developed to modern times, the original shaman has been replaced by Taoism, Buddhism, Tantra, Buddhism, etc. Only some ethnic minorities such as Oroqen still retain shaman worship, and many rituals and legendary magic have been lost.

It is also a female shaman who created the Panhu theory of the round sky and the earth.

It is actually recorded: "In Gaoxin's family, there was an old woman who lived in the palace and suffered from ear diseases. She took something as big as a cocoon, put it in a gourd, put it in a plate, and turned it into a dog...".This old woman was the shaman, who was later said to be the ancestor of Inu Rong.Due to the worship of all things, there is no specific totem for shamans. Different nations, different regions, and going back to ancient times, even different tribes have different totems.

And the fox-like monster on the pattern in front of him is one of the long-lost totems in the ancient shamanism.

Just getting this information, Zhuan Rui has already spent a lot of effort, so what kind of evil power does this monster have?Why can people fall into a nightmare?That dead subordinate suddenly got out of the soil, is there any connection with this monster?
Of course, Zhuanrui has been thinking about these issues. He first went to a well-known shaman. Of course, he couldn't just say that he had fallen into the ancient shamanism because of tomb robbery. Instead, he found an excuse to ask the shaman A shaman asked the monster about creating nightmares and earthlings.

According to the old shaman, the thing on the pattern is transliterated into Chinese as 'huduo' in Chinese with the unique blessing of shamanism. It is a kind of god living in the soil, which is said to devour the souls of wicked people.And the most peculiar thing is not this, the souls swallowed by it will be purified through the 'huduo'.The soul evolved by the god "Huduo" only needs to be planted in the soil, and it will grow back and become a brand new "person".

That's right, people grow out of the soil!

Because the shaman also believes that human life comes from all things, and it is this land that nourishes all things.

Tofu and I were dumbfounded, and Tofu stammered, "Humans can grow out of the soil...then, the reason why you dug up dead people at that time was him..." Tofu shuddered thinking of this, and then Said: "Just after it was planted, you shoveled off the scalp and broke the neck all of a sudden. It's really miserable. It's broad daylight, why do I feel so gloomy?"

I said, "I would believe that there are zongzi, but I would not believe that people can grow out of the soil. Do you believe it?" I was asking Zhuan Rui.Zhuan Rui naturally didn't believe it either, but the combination of many circumstances put him in a dilemma. He didn't believe it from the bottom of his heart, but was blocked by various coincidences.

However, Zhuan Rui didn't struggle with it for too long, so he asked the old shaman what to do if he was pestered by 'Huu Duo'.

The old shaman said: "'Huduo' has long since disappeared from this world. If you really encounter it, you must find the power to control the 'Huduo'." Speaking of this, we will mention The source of shamanic witchcraft is to perform these witchcrafts through a certain form or medium. The most famous shamans are the dancing gods and sacrifices and a set of shamanic 'myths' that are like spells.

This myth does not refer to mythical stories, but refers to the language of 'God'.

The old shaman said that it is necessary to use the language of the gods to subdue the 'huduo', and these spell-like divine words have already disappeared in the long river of history, so how can we find them?

When I heard this, I finally understood, and said, "That's why you started to collect things related to 'Huduo', and wanted to use this to trace back to the source and find a solution?" Zhuan Rui nodded indifferently, Said: "That's it, now it's time for me to ask you, where did you get the things?"

Up to now, I can almost be sure that the curse of the ghost face must be inextricably linked with the shaman, and it should also be a kind of shaman witchcraft, but the affirmation that what I encountered with Zhuan Rui It's not the same kind, but our investigation direction is the same, otherwise the whole of China is so big, we two people who don't know each other would not have the opportunity to sit together now.

Generally speaking, they are not enemies, and they can even help each other and exchange information when necessary.

Thinking of this, I came up with an idea in my heart, saying that old man Zhao is treacherous, and he made it clear that he had some wishful thinking to renege on his debts. Since this is the case, it is better to tell the whole story about the cause of the matter.Since Zhuan Rui knew about Gui Shezhi's face, he wouldn't be so stupid that he couldn't think of the connection.At that time, he is bound to investigate the Eight Carp Doujiao Zhenhai Stone and the face of the ghost, and then I, the fisherman, will benefit.

Thinking of this, I no longer concealed it, only concealed some unrevealable parts, and then revealed everything.

Zhuan Rui's expression changed drastically when he heard the words. At the beginning, when I mentioned Mr. Zhao and the Ren family, his expression was calm, as if he didn't pay attention to the two families, but when I mentioned Lu Su, I noticed that the corner of his mouth suddenly There was a twitch.After realizing this detail, I couldn't help but secretly startled. I thought that this Lu Su was really not simple. Even a character like Zhuan Rui was moved when he heard his name. With Lu Su as an enemy, that would be too difficult.

Zhuan Rui has been patiently listening to my narration, with a look of certainty in his eyes.After everything was finished, it was already afternoon in a blink of an eye. Zhuan Rui was a bit cold, but after some contacts, he knew in his heart that we would have a chance to cooperate in the future, so his attitude was much restrained. The three of them finalized a plan to find Lu Su and obtain the Zhenhai Stone Zhuanrui will come forward for the matter, and Tofu and I just wait for the news.

(End of this chapter)