Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 271 Stone Stele
I was on the first shift, and the rest were exhausted for nearly fifteen hours, and almost all of them fell to the ground and fell asleep.As soon as they fell asleep, I felt even more sleepy. In order to divert my attention, I shook my head and took a sip of water to try to refresh myself, thinking about some miscellaneous things in my mind.

Ever since Bai Laosi and the others entered the underground palace of Concubine Wan Yao, everything has developed in a strange direction, the curse, the tomb of the giant-eared king, the shamanic scriptures... In the final analysis, all of these have nothing to do with that bastard Bai Laosi. Nothing to do.Then I thought of the person surnamed Bai who asked my grandfather to come here, and thought that the fourth brother Bai was no longer alive at that time, could the person who wrote the letter be a descendant of the fourth brother Bai?Or is it just a coincidence?
All this, perhaps only Grandpa himself knows.

While thinking wildly, the time passed by every minute and every second. I pinched the watch, and when the time came, I immediately woke Zhong Gong up. After he was more awake and took over, he went back to sleep.Intense fatigue made people fall asleep almost as soon as they closed their eyes. This short sleep was very deep. When they were woken up, everyone was in low spirits. Although resting for two hours relieved our physical fatigue , but mental exhaustion has intensified, and everyone looks sleepy.

I rubbed my face and pulled myself together, and found that there were two people missing in the team, one was Zhuanji and the other was tofu. According to Zhong Gong, the two of them had gone to Mao.Zhong Gong pointed to the right, indicating that they were in that direction. I squinted my eyes and saw two vague shadows in the thick fog. I was not at ease with Tofu. He was too unreliable and could easily go wrong. , If you don't pay attention, you will be tricked, so during this process, I didn't get up in a hurry, but sat on the ground, staring at the backs of the two tofu in the distance.

The two of them were quite calm at first, but suddenly, they seemed to have discovered something, and ran back suddenly.Everyone was observing the movement of the two of them. We thought there was some danger in our run, so we quickly raised our weapons, but the two of them waved their hands and said: "There is a situation, great news, come quickly!"

Great news?
What good news can there be from this place?
We immediately headed towards Tofu and the others, walked in and saw that the surrounding area was empty, except for a puddle of water that the two of them urinated on the ground, there was nothing.Seeing all of us staring at the ground, Tofu groaned and said, "Why are you all staring at our piss, not at this, where are you looking?" He pointed to the direction on the left, and everyone gathered together. Turning his head, the light came on, and he suddenly discovered that there was a huge and dark thing not far in front of him.

what is that?
Tofu said mysteriously: "When we were peeing here just now, I suddenly heard someone call my name again, and I tilted my head in the direction of the voice, and this thing appeared." He meant appearance, Instead of discovering, that is to say, when the two of Tofu started peeing, they didn't have that thing.

That black thing appeared suddenly.

I had a sudden shock in my heart, and I didn't dare to be careless, so I signaled everyone to be more vigilant, and then I took the machete and headed to the left. As the distance got closer, we gradually saw the original appearance of the thing clearly, but it was a large stone tablet , under the stele is a beast with its head raised.The stone tablet is as high as three trees, and two lines of words are engraved on it: Huangquan River, Yinsi Stream, where people come here, on both sides of Yin and Yang.

Huangquan River, Yinsi Jian?This sentence appeared in Grandpa's letter back then, so it turned out to be here.

Zhuanji sneered, and said, "Being born here, on both sides of yin and yang, pretending to be gods and playing ghosts, what a big tone." Tofu didn't know why, so he asked, "Chihuahua, what do you mean?"

Zhuanji had already resigned himself to his fate, he was too lazy to correct his nickname, and said, "Can't you see the meaning of this? It means that this stone tablet is the dividing line. We are still in Yangjian. It's where the Yin Division is." Tofu was surprised when he heard the words, this kid has always been unreliable, he immediately jumped behind the stone tablet and said, "I'm here now?" Then he jumped back and stood at the so-called boundary between Yin and Yang. Back and forth, Gu Damei couldn't help laughing.This was the first time I saw her smile since Xiao Jing appeared, and I felt a little relieved, so I didn't bother to educate Tofu about her unreliable behavior.

According to what Tofu said, the stele appeared suddenly, which is a bit strange. Could it be that it really came out of the underworld?At this moment, I suddenly discovered that, in addition to the original words engraved on the stone tablet, someone had written on the stone tablet with a pen. It seemed that it was written with a pencil. Since the color of the stone tablet is black, the color of the pencil is black. It's dark gray, so it's really hard to spot if you don't pay attention.

My heart was moved, and I knew that the words on it must have been left by my grandfather and the others. I quickly put my face close to the stone tablet to observe, and saw a line of urgent writing on it. Written in case of emergency, I saw above said:
When the rooster crows, you can return to the sun after crossing this realm;
I looked at my watch, it was four o'clock in the morning, about an hour before the so-called rooster crowed and dawn.

Xiao Jing read: "When the rooster crows, you can return to the sun when you cross this world. What do you mean? Don't tell me we are in the underworld now?" After going through this series of events, she became a little more courageous, and she was not as inseparable as before. clingy.I frowned and thought, the handwriting on it doesn't look like my grandfather's, but it must have been written by someone in their team.Why did this person write this line?Is it to guide future generations?

I immediately came up with an idea, and thought, could it be that the person who wrote the official line was separated from the team, and when he came here, he found a way to leave the Yashan Palace, so he wrote this line to guide his teammates?If so, are we not in hell now?This guess is too ridiculous, but when I think of the black shadow that emerged from the cauldron before, I can't laugh.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally Tofu asked me: "What should I do?"

I said: "There is still an hour, wait."

Zhuan Rui looked at me and said, "Are you going to give it a try?"

"Ah."

Zhuan Rui didn't object, and sat down cross-legged, resting against the stone tablet, and ordered Zhong Gong, "Wake me up when the time is up." Yan took the order and stood guard beside him meticulously.Everyone sat cross-legged at the stele, looking at their watches from time to time, waiting for the time to pass.

It was going to be an hour, but there was still nothing strange around me. I was a little bit guilty, and I wondered, could it be that what was written on the stone tablet was just nonsense?But since the time has not yet come, I decided to wait patiently, and my eyelids became heavy after waiting for about ten minutes. The time was up, and the surroundings were still as silent as ever. I was just about to say I was fooled, when Tofu suddenly reached out Pointing to the stone tablet behind me, with a very tangled expression on his face, he motioned everyone to look back.

Zhuan Rui had also been awakened by Zhong Gong, and after being pointed at by Tofu, everyone who had been resting on their own couldn't help but look back, and was stunned because the words on the stone tablet disappeared.The originally black stone tablet turned light gray, trembling like water ripples on the surface, and a few villains were faintly exposed inside, like a broken TV.

What the hell is going on?
I blinked hard, wondering if my eyes were dazzled, and then I looked more closely, and saw the little black figures in the stele becoming clearer and clearer. When I counted them, there were exactly six of them.

Attracted by this vision, everyone couldn't help but get closer to look at it, but saw that the face of the person on the stele became more and more clear, and finally looked exactly like the six of us!This shocked us so much, Tofu was dumbfounded, and said, "Damn it, what the hell is this? I'm going to sue it for violating our portrait rights!"

Gu Wenmin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "No, look, these six villains are also looking at us."

Sure enough, the villains who were originally swimming stood still, facing us, posing in exactly the same posture as us, and staring at us on the stone tablet, not to mention the weird scene.There was a creep in my heart, at this moment, a rooster crowed suddenly from nowhere, and the crowing continued. I felt a heat on my wrist, and I looked down, and the string of mahogany beads my grandfather gave me unexpectedly shattered again took one.

This string of bracelets had saved my life in Huiyong River and Princess Gegeer's Corpse Bureau, but when it suddenly shattered, I was really shocked, and hurriedly said: "Everyone, stay away from this stele "But it was too late to say that, I saw a few villains in the stone tablet suddenly stretched out their hands, several withered hands came out from the stone tablet, and suddenly pulled us into the stone tablet.

If the stele was correct, I immediately felt a pair of iron arms grabbing my shoulders, I fell forward, my stomach churns, there was a buzzing in my mind, countless images flashed, and I passed out.

I thought that my group of people would die miserably, but I didn't expect to see such a scene when I woke up.

Blue sky and white clouds.

Sitting up and looking, the rest of the people also looked blank. There was a huge swamp in front of us, and the raft we came from was still standing on the swamp.

At this moment, we were lying on the bank by the swamp, and the raft was docked on the bank. In front of the raft, I finally saw a familiar thing, that is, the black stone tablet.

The words are still displayed on it: Huangquan River, Yinsijian, where the strangers come here, on both sides of yin and yang.

I wondered if this was a dream, so I closed my eyes, rubbed my face hard, and opened them again, but the scene in front of me remained unchanged.

After a while, Zhuan Rui spoke first and said, "The palace that suddenly appeared has disappeared."

Tofu also looked puzzled, and said: "When we were still in the swamp, we rowed the raft all the way to the gate of the treasure hall, and then entered the treasure hall. Now, why did the raft stay in front of this stele? How could we On the shore? Did we walk into the world in the stone tablet before?"

I said, "Are you reading novels?"

Tofu shook his head severely, and said, "Then you can come up with a reasonable explanation."

(End of this chapter)