Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 259 Snake Shadow
Zhuan Ji said: "I ran forward in a flash, Xiao Zhong has probably been killed by..." Zhuan Rui stared at the dark place, and said in a deep voice: "My subordinates are not so easy to die." After finishing speaking, he gestured , Walking ahead, everyone walked through the dense vegetation, the surrounding vines were crowded together, and the cold fog shuttled through the vegetation, making everything in front of them hazy under the light.

At this moment, a faint yellow light suddenly appeared in the dark vegetation in the distance.

Could it be Zhong Gong?
Everyone couldn't help quickening their pace, but when they took a closer look, it turned out to be a single small wooden house standing among the grass and trees, with the wide open wooden door creaking and creaking in the cold wind blowing from nowhere.It was pitch black inside the door, but the light we saw before came from a dilapidated lantern in front of the wooden house.

The lantern fell to the ground, and it should have been extinguished long ago, but it was still on.Tofu glanced into the lantern on the ground, took a sharp breath, and said, "Old Chen, there is a wick in this lantern, but no oil." How can a lamp without oil be lit?I couldn't help but glanced into the lantern, and sure enough, there was only a single blackened wick inside, and the flame was still dancing.

As the distance drew closer, I smelled a strong fishy smell in my nose, and the source of the smell seemed to be in the wooden house in front of me.Everyone was a veteran, they looked at each other, and pointed their weapons at the wooden door.I turned on the headlights on my head. This thing consumes more power and frees up my hands. Generally, we try to use flashlights as much as possible, and only turn on the headlights when we can’t spare our hands.

The powerful light penetrates the black fog and shines directly into the wooden house. I thought that the snake that Zhuan Ji mentioned would hide in this wooden house, but unexpectedly, when the light was turned on, there was a person lying inside. It's Zhong Gong.

Shocked, Zhuanji rushed out immediately, helped Zhong Gong half up, and stretched out his hand to feel the pulse on his neck.

Zhuan Rui asked, "How is it?"

The rest of us were not in a hurry to see Zhong Gong, the situation in this place was too weird, when Zhuan Ji moved, we paid more attention to this weird wooden house.

Zhuanji said: "I'm still alive, but I passed out, so give me water." Gu Wenmin threw out the water bag from the equipment bag, and Tofu, Zhuanrui and I separated, and the small wooden house was very small. After groping around, it seems that this is a temporary rest room.Perhaps the building area of ​​the Yashan Palace is too large, so there are some places for people to rest inside the hall. Of course, ordinary people are definitely not eligible to enter here to rest, and probably only supervisors and the like are eligible.

The wooden house was full of cobwebs, and thick dust was scattered. Tofu coughed as he choked on the cobwebs while being choked by the dust. At this moment, his cough stopped suddenly, and he hissed, saying: "Old Chen, you told me back then, what was the name of the person in charge of overseeing the repair of the Yashan Palace?"

I said: "My name is Master Wu Yan. He is a master of Fengshui in the Ming Dynasty. He is good at geomancy and pulse-finding. What?"

At this time, I found Tofu's gaze, staring straight at a dusty desk against the wall. It seemed that there was something on it. There is also a fallen tablet on the top, the handwriting on it is faintly legible, and the writing reads: The Spirit Tablet of Master Wu Yan.

Tofu swallowed his saliva and said, "Why is there still a memorial tablet in this place? Isn't Master Wuyan the overseer responsible for the construction of the Yashan Palace? Could it be that he died here in the end?"

This happened hundreds of years ago, and no one can tell clearly.I was also confused for a while, so I speculated: "The geological structure of this place is complicated. Maybe there was an accident during the construction supervision process, and he died here, so I set up this tablet for him."

Doufu was thinking about something, his eyes rolled wildly, and he said after a while, "Then his body will also be buried here?"

corpse?I said: "Of course you have to be buried if you die. For hundreds of years, it has already rotted in the swamp. Don't think too much." , people like Master Wu Yan must be hiding in a safe zone, and the chance of death is still relatively low. Could it be that they are infected with some disease?
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Xiao Jing yelling loudly. Everyone was cautious when they heard this sound, they were shocked, but they didn't find Xiao Jing at a glance.At this time, Gu Wenmin had sharp eyes and said, "There is a door behind, she has gone to the back." After speaking, he drew out his gun and rushed towards the open door in the right corner.

Tofu and I followed closely. When we went in, we found Xiao Jing was hiding behind Gu Wenmin in fright, with a look like he was about to cry, and stammered: "Yes, there are dead people."

But I saw that this place was probably a sleeping place, and the wooden bed was placed, and the curtains on the wooden bed had already been rotten, and the most peculiar thing was that there was no bedding on the wooden bed, but a jet-black wooden bed. The black coffin.

I think it was Xiao Jing who didn't want to stay with us because of my business. She broke into this room by herself and was startled by the coffin.

Gu Wenmin put away the gun, looked at the wooden bed, and asked curiously: "Why is there a coffin in this place?"

My heart moved, and I said: Could it be that the person in the coffin is Master Wu Yan?People are not buried when they die, so why put the coffin here?
Mushroom diggers are sensitive to coffins, so I immediately took a few steps forward, walked to the side of the bed, looked down, and suddenly found that something was wrong. The stench came from the coffin, making the person who choked nauseated.

Just as we were looking at the coffin, Zhuanji walked in with Zhong Gong supported, and Zhuanrui followed behind them, asking what happened to us, I pointed to the coffin, Zhuanrui is a smart man, and immediately understood come over.Seeing that Zhong Gong woke up, Tofu drew his attention and said, "Brother, you usually look like a fool, why did you stop cooking?"

Zhong Gong was usually serious, but now he couldn't help laughing bitterly, and said, "Brother Dou, don't make fun of me. People make mistakes, and horses make mistakes."

Gu Wenmin asked, "What happened?"

Zhong Gong pursed his lips. After a while, he shook his head and said, "I don't know either. I was standing guard at the door. At that time, I had a very strange feeling, as if something was peeping in the dark... Tight Then, when you were talking in the hall, you mentioned the previous Patriarch, and I was distracted..." At this point, he frowned, probably regretting that he was too easily distracted.

"And then?" Tofu asked.

Zhong Gong shook his head and said: "The moment I turned my head, I smelled a certain smell, and I was completely dazed, and then I was dragged out by something, and finally I didn't know anything."

Tofu immediately said: "The one who dragged you away must be the big snake Chihuahua saw."

Zhuanji didn't bother to correct Tofu's nickname, and said, "It's possible, but the snake caught Xiaozhong, how could he let him go?" Tofu rubbed his chin and said, "It's probably The snake thought it needed to wash its hands before eating, so it went out to wash its hands. Not good, it must come back soon!"

Gu Wenmin couldn't laugh or cry when she heard the words, and said: "Xiao Dou, first, snakes have no hands, and second, I don't think it was necessarily a snake that took Xiao Zhong away before. You forgot, Xiao Zhong said that he was caught by a smell. dizzy."

Tofu looked at Zhong Gong and said, "The snake farted and made you faint?"

The corner of Zhong Gong's mouth twitched violently, ignored the tofu, but looked at me and said, "You can be a brother with this kind of person, and now I really start to admire you."

I was speechless for a while, and after a while, I gave a dry cough and changed the subject: "Wen Min is right, there are many doubts about this matter, but one thing is for sure, that thing will definitely come back, no matter what, everyone should be more vigilant. Since The person has been rescued, so don’t delay any longer, leave this place first.” As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a slap in the silent wooden house, like a fish being thrown ashore and its tail slapping the ground. sound like.

The vigilance of the crowd was very high. This sudden sound made us hold our breath for a moment. When we listened, Tofu suddenly widened his eyes and pointed to the coffin in front of us. The meaning was obvious: the sound came from the coffin. from.Immediately afterwards, Tofu made a mouth shape and asked us: What should we do?It seems that there are zongzi in it.

At this moment, there was another sound in the coffin, and then, the stench became stronger, as if something was fermenting inside.I made a gesture, indicating that one more thing is worse than one less thing, so I hurriedly withdraw.Everyone had no objection, and exited the room where the coffin was placed one after another. They were about to leave, but when they turned their heads to look, they suddenly found that the creaking door that had been blown by the wind was blown by a strong gust of wind. The cover came over suddenly, and it was closed tightly with a bang, blocking our escape route.

The moment the door was closed, I saw the lantern that fell on the ground outside the door, slowly floating in mid-air. Behind the lantern, there was still long black hair floating.

"Hiss..." Tofu took a deep breath and said, "Lanterns, why do lanterns still have hair?" At this moment, the door has been closed, and we can no longer see the human-headed lantern with long hair, but on the wooden door, A black shadow appeared, as thick as a bucket, with a triangular head and a high upper body, as if it was about to break through the door.

Zhuan Rui clicked his tongue and said to Tofu, "It came back after washing its hands."

Tofu cried and said, "Tuhao, can we stop joking at a time like this? It's not funny at all."

(End of this chapter)