Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 266 Map
Fortunately, everyone is not a timid person, of course, except for Tofu, they gathered together again, turned the light on the female corpse, and walked beside her.Taking a closer look at this time, I immediately found that it was a genuine ancient corpse, but what was strange was that although the complexion of the corpse had turned purple, the muscles were still plump, as if she had not died long ago, and the clothes she was wearing were also A skirt from the Ming Dynasty, embroidered with peonies in gold and silver threads.Zhuanji blinked, and couldn't help reaching out to touch the clothes of the female corpse, and said in a low voice, "It's the real thing from the Ming Dynasty. It seems that this is an ancient corpse."

At this moment, due to our close proximity, the angle of examining the female corpse has also changed, and we found another unusual place in an instant.The female corpse was sitting on a black wooden chair, and there was another black wooden chair next to her, which seemed to be for other people to sit on, but there was no one on that chair, but a piece of black wooden chair torn from nowhere. It was covered with a big black cloth, as if something was placed in the chair to cover it up.

With sharp eyes, Gu Wenmin suddenly let out an ah, with trembling fingers, pointed to the side of the female corpse's ear, and said, "Look, her face is sewn together."

sewn up?

These words startled me, so I couldn't help turning my eyes away, and looked closer to the ear of the female corpse. Sure enough, I saw a seam, along the forehead, hairline, ears, and jaw, and sewed it in a circle, as if It's like sewing a human face on it.Seeing this, my heart suddenly moved, and an idea popped up.

In order to prove this idea, I immediately took the female corpse's hand and smoothed her sleeves.

This bold move made Zhuan Rui next to him puzzled, and said, "What are you doing?"

While I was talking, my subordinates didn't stop their movements, and said, "If I'm not wrong, this should be one of the two corpses." Everyone was shocked, and they followed my movements to look down, only to see the corpse in the clothes. After the sleeves were smoothed out, one could see that the hands of the female corpse were also sewn up with needles and threads, and the broken bones were nailed together with a kind of thin iron nails.

Then we searched down one by one, and the clothes on the female corpse were messed up by us. Soon, we searched it from head to toe, and the result was shocking, because this female corpse even had Suture signs.

Tofu looked puzzled, and said, "Old Chen, didn't you say that the two corpses are in trouble, and the corpses were disassembled and buried? Why is this female corpse sewn back and placed here?"

I didn't answer, but I already had the answer in my heart. Zhuan Rui is a smart man, so he obviously understood and answered the question about tofu.

Just now, we saw so many traces of life on the ground, and we still couldn’t figure out why Grandpa’s group of people stayed here for so long. Now that we think about it, things are clear at a glance.My skills were all taught by my grandpa, even I can see the mess in this pair of corpses, how could my grandpa not know?The group of them must first break the evil situation of the two corpses, so they used this room as a base to start collecting the scattered corpses.

Of course, how did Grandpa and the others find the burial place of the evil place of the two corpses? What happened, the truth is not known now.

And the re-stitched female corpse in front of him was obviously the work of Grandpa and the others.

When Tofu heard this, he seemed to think of something, his eyes suddenly turned to the side of the female corpse, and said: "The chair next to it, could it be..." I nodded and walked to the chair next to the female corpse without saying a word. , stretched out his hand suddenly, and lifted the cloth curtain above, and in an instant, a skinny male corpse appeared in front of our eyes.

This male corpse is no more plump than the female corpse, with a stooped body, atrophied muscles, and no clothes on his body. The hands and feet are also stitched together in the same way, and the feet with black boots are the same as the ones everyone has seen before. a pair.I was startled, and when I looked up, I saw a familiar face, which was the face of the human skin lantern, with a stiff and numb expression, and a slightly opened mouth, which seemed to be expressing silent pain.

Tofu was taken aback, and while chanting Amitabha, he said: "It seems that these two corpses were collected by Mr. Chen and the others. If this is the case, what is the matter with the ones we met before?" Why do they still come out to make trouble?" I was also a little puzzled for a while, then thought about it, and said to myself: It stands to reason that to completely break the evil situation of the two corpses, the corpses must be burned in the end. Could it be that the two corpses were not burned? So what happened before?

It's impossible for Grandpa not to know this, so why didn't he burn the body?
I looked at the sutured corpses of a man and a woman in front of me, and I couldn't figure it out. At this moment, Gu Wenmin said the key point, "These two corpses, why didn't the male corpses wear clothes? Could it be?" Are there any parts that haven’t been collected?” Her words reminded me that everyone’s eyes were like brushes searching the male corpse for a moment, there were hands, feet, face, and eyes, what’s the difference?
My eyes stayed on the rickety body of the corpse, and it suddenly occurred to me that there is one place we haven't checked, and that is the belly of the corpse.

Thinking about it this way, I put on my gloves, clasped the corpse's shoulders and pulled it upwards, causing his rickety body to stand upright. When I stood up, the rest of the people changed their faces. Tofu covered his mouth and took a step back, saying: "There is no bowel After hearing this, I understood, let go of my hands, and said, "It seems that this pair of corpses has not been completely broken, and there is still one thing that has not been collected."

Gu Wenmin looked worried, and said: "Mr. Chen and the others used this as their base, but they didn't come back. Could it be... Could it be that something went wrong on the way to find the last thing?" What she was thinking was exactly the same as mine. What I thought was exactly the same, when I thought of my grandfather and others collecting these two corpses, but failed in the last step, my heart suddenly felt heavy, and I had the urge to skin and dismantle the people who built this Yashan treasure hall.

Of course, Master Wu Yan had been dead for hundreds of years, maybe the bones in the coffin in the snake nest belonged to Master Wu Yan himself, and the poisonous snake took over the nest after his death, so it was his own fault.

It was Zhuan Rui who was the first to react, and began to plan how to get back the contents of the male corpse's stomach.Things have come back to the original point. We don't know the structure of the Yashan Palace, so we can't tell where the rest of the things are buried. Perhaps, following this clue, I can find the remains of my grandfather.

After thinking about it, everyone couldn't figure out what to do, so I could only say: "Let's go with the original plan, find a high ground, look down at the situation before making a plan." Just listen to me, just when we were about to leave, Zhong Gong suddenly discovered that the female corpse turned her head at some point.

He has always been calm and reliable, when he saw this scene, he screamed in shock, turning the rest of us back in shock.It's not that Zhong Gong has never seen Zongzi cheating on corpses, so after a brief shock, he has recovered, pulled out the cold weapon he was carrying, and looked as if a female corpse would be destroyed if he dared to come over.

However, what surprised us was that the female corpse made no other movements except for turning her head inexplicably.Gu Wenmin was quick-witted, and suddenly said: "Before, we were attracted by the singing, and then Xiao Dou was pushed by an unknown thing. It seems that there is something deliberately leading us into this place. It is likely to be it. .”

Tofu heard this and said, "Could it be that this tragic beauty wants to tell us something?"

I heard that I couldn't help but look closely at the face of the female corpse, because her face was blue and purple, I couldn't tell whether she was pretty or not, but in terms of the shape of the face alone, it was a beautiful melon-seeded face. At this moment, the head that was facing the mirror was slightly tilted. On the left side, sunken eye sockets, a pair of shrunken eyeballs, staring at the darkness on the left side without blinking.

Following her gaze, she saw a pillar in that place, and a cloth curtain was tied to the pillar, blocking most of the sight.We hadn't had time to investigate that location before, but now we saw the female corpse staring at that place, the few of us looked at each other, and walked towards that location in unison.

Several headlights were turned on at the same time, and the light was still sufficient. As the distance got closer, it was revealed that it was a table with several stools around the table, and some half-used pencils and a pair of pencils on the table. A blank sheet of paper.

pencil?

Blank paper?

My heart moved. Of course, paper is used to record things. These pencils and white paper are presumably left by grandpa and his party. It is very important to us to be able to see text information here.However, when I took a closer look, I was stunned for a moment and felt my heart pounding. There are not many words on it, but it is a floor plan. On the top, there are four words of Yashan Palace.

Gu Wenmin exclaimed in a low voice: "It's the map of Yashan Palace, my God, how could they have this."

This is a plan, the drawing is relatively rough, but I can see that it was written by my grandfather, because archaeologists often draw the structure diagram of ancient tombs, so they are very good at drawing, even if the map is scribbled, it is important The places are also clearly marked.

According to the plan view, the structure of the entire Yashan Palace is composed of six parts. It is a three-entry palace pattern. There are three rectangular buildings on the east, west and south sides. The central palace is divided into three parts like the Forbidden City. The large building complex has a very typical palace-style architectural style in the late Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, we are located at the junction of the first palace and the second palace, and the rest of the palace buildings are replaced by dots, which seem to be insignificant, probably representing gardens and plants.

(End of this chapter)