Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 272 Underground Palace
Reasonable explanation?In this situation, let alone me, it is estimated that neither Newton nor Einstein knew what was going on.Zhuanji pinched his own face and said, "Isn't it a hallucination? Hey, it really hurts." At this moment, there is a soft lawn under our buttocks, mixed with dew and some insects, and a few ants crawled to the ground. The person's body suddenly felt itchy.

Everything was so real, I took a few deep breaths, forced myself to calm down, then got up and walked to the side of the raft and squatted down.The air is still filled with the unique smell of corruption of the swamp, which is exactly the same as when we came here. The only difference is that the shallow water layer on the surface of the swamp has risen a little, probably due to time.

I looked at my watch and it showed that it was seven o'clock in the morning.

It was about five o'clock when we were attacked by the thing inside the stele, so we have passed out for two hours?

What happened to everything in front of me?Could it be that Yashan Palace just disappeared?So what about everything we experienced in the temple?So nothing exists?Even though I have experienced a lot of bizarre things, I also feel my mind buzzing and confused at the moment. After a while, I walked to the stone tablet and looked carefully.

This stele is different from the stele we saw in the Yashan Treasure Hall. It is more old and rough. It has witnessed hundreds of years of wind and rain. The writing on it has been blurred, but it can still be seen clearly. What is written on it is:: Huangquan River, Yinsi Jian, where people come here, on both sides of Yin and Yang.

But no matter how I searched, I couldn't find the string of words written in pencil before.

The tofu on one side still couldn't adapt to the environment. He rubbed his face, and then said to me: "Old Chen, tell me, are we being blinded by ghosts?"

According to folklore, people who are blinded by ghosts will have hallucinations.I looked at everything around me and said, "I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with this stele." Zhuanji clicked his tongue, folded his hands, and said, "Could it be that everything we experienced before was fake? Or, what you see now is an illusion? Brother, what do you think?" He turned his head and asked Zhuan Rui.

Zhuan Rui didn't know what he was thinking, so he narrowed his eyes suddenly, and then he touched his pocket, with a solemn expression, and said, "The jade bi is gone." Hearing what he said about the jade bi I got, I hurried to take out my pocket, where there was a floor plan hand-painted by my grandfather, who knew that when I touched it, it turned out to be empty.

Gu Wenmin speculated: "Everything in the Yashan Palace is a kind of illusory object memory. If we get out of it, the things will naturally cease to exist. It seems that everything we see now is real. It’s not some kind of ghost covering your eyes.” As she spoke, she seemed to have thought of something, and then she took out the compass, and said pleasantly, “The compass has returned to normal.”

Tofu said: "Great, so we came out of that ghostly place?"

I hit Tofu coldly: "It's too early to be happy. If everything we experienced before is the physical memory of the Yashan Palace, it means that those dangers have all existed in the past. Although we have left the false The Yashan Palace, but the real danger is still underground." Everyone's eyes couldn't help looking at the swamp, and according to the floor plan of the Yashan Palace we saw before, it can be imagined that the entire palace is not all in the swamp.Due to the large building area of ​​the treasure hall, only a part of the treasure hall fell into the swamp, so the rest of the treasure hall is likely to be in the land under our feet.

Tofu was shocked by me, and he hesitated for a while, then seemed to think of something, raised his head again, stroked his chin, and said: "The corpse we saw in the Yashan treasure hall shows that there are indeed dead people inside. , tell me, how did Mr. Chen and his team die?"

His question is on point, and this is the key question we are facing now.

The Yashan Palace we encountered before, from a superstitious point of view, is something similar to a ghost ship, but in fact it no longer exists.From a scientific point of view, as Gu Wenmin said, it is a kind of object memory, so there are only two possibilities to see a dead person in such a place.

First, those people died in the fake Yashan Palace.

Second, those people entered the underground Yashan Palace and died unexpectedly. The corpses and even the objects we saw before are just a reflection of the memory of objects. The real corpses are still intact underground. .

These two possibilities, although both are dead, have completely different meanings.If it is the first possibility, then that is to say, it is impossible for us to find the bones of grandpa and the others, because they were swallowed by the ghost ship-like hall. Naturally, the real secret of the so-called Yashan hall, We won't know, unless we wait until the next time it reappears and go in to check.In this way, isn't our trip this time meaningless at all?Even, I haven't even seen the bones of my grandfather.After finally getting two relics, they disappeared after waking up.

This is really depressing.

And if it's the second point, then near here, there is likely to be the channel that grandpa and the others played back then.Although it is not a fight, the reasoning is similar. The treasure hall is buried underground, so a hole must be dug to get in.And grandpa and others must have died in the treasure hall.In the second case, things are a little weird, which means that we will have to face everything we have experienced before.

When I think of those ginseng radishes, poisonous snakes, double corpses, and human flesh tripods, I feel my scalp go numb.After experiencing this kind of thing once, I already have lingering fears, and experiencing it again will really test people's psychological endurance.

I analyzed my thoughts to everyone, and asked everyone for their opinions. In fact, I mainly asked for the opinions of Zhuanrui and the three of them. After all, the three of them are the helpers I recruited. Will they be willing to take risks with me next? Hard to say.Who knows that Zhuan Rui is a smart person, he immediately saw what I wanted to say, before he opened his mouth, he said calmly: "I'm not here for Mr. Chen."

Although these words are short, I understand in my heart that the reason why Zhuan Rui still doesn't give up now may have something to do with the jade jade we found in the treasure hall. It seems that he wants to find out about his uncle.Everyone went through life and death, seeing that the real treasure hall was at their feet, and no one was willing to give up at this juncture.

Tofu has always been thinking straight. Seeing our group chattering, analyzing and analyzing, he immediately waved his hands and said: "Stop, stop, what is the first possibility and the second possibility? My head is dizzy. If you want me to say, don't be so troublesome. First of all, Mr. Chen and the others must have gone to the west. Their bodies are either in the ghost hall or in the soil under their feet. Now the ghost hall is gone, and it is not certain when Appeared, let's just look around to see if there are any burrows built by Mr. Chen and the others, if there are burrows, things will be easy to handle?"

I was dumbfounded for a moment. My ancestors said that great wisdom is like stupidity. I suddenly found that this word is really suitable for tofu today. I have to say that what he said was straightforward, but it hit the heart.We are a group of people who are flexible in mind, considerate in doing things, and think twice, so at this moment, on this matter, there are countless worries and guesses. Instead, the word "tofu" gave us a lot of trouble in the chaos. A shot of sobriety was given.

Seeing that we suddenly stopped talking, Tofu stared straight at him. He got a little hairy, shrank his neck, and said in a low voice, "Why are you looking at me like that? Could it be that I said something wrong again?"

Zhuanji put his arm around Tofu's shoulder, and said: "No, you're right, what are you thinking about so much, first look for the burrow left by Mr. Chen and the others nearby, as long as there is a burrow, it means they went to the ground Well, the corpses are naturally underground. If there is no hole in the ground, it means that they died in the ghost hall. At that time, let’s go all out and wait for it to appear, and then explore again.”

Zhuan Rui said lukewarmly: "Don't be too happy, this place is low-lying, the soil is soft, and the water and soil are eroded very quickly. In 14 years, even if there is a hole in the ground, it has already disappeared."

Xiao Jing said: "Then what should we do? How about, why not..." She probably wanted to say something back, but when she looked at Gu Wenmin, she probably didn't want to be compared, so she changed her tone and said, "Then let's make the hole ourselves."

Tofu was still at odds with Xiao Jing, but because of the previous incident, he restrained his words a lot, and said with a slap in the face: "It's not a question of whether there is a hole or not, the hole is a kind of information... Bah bah, why do I feel that I have nothing to do with it?" The topic of you talking about holes is so awkward."

Xiao Jing said angrily, "Shameless."

They started attacking each other again, I shook my head, ignored them, turned to discuss with Gu Wenmin and others, after a while, we made a plan.First of all, what Zhuan Rui said is correct, the traces left by grandpa and the others are already impossible to find in this geological environment, so instead of doing this, we might as well open up a new path by ourselves.

Although there is no floor plan, the layout of the entire Yashan Palace has been imprinted in my mind. As long as I draw and calculate, I can calculate the approximate corresponding location underground. It is impossible for Grandpa and the others to enter the palace from the swamp, so we range is greatly reduced.

Immediately, I took out a pen and paper and started drawing. When I first came out to venture out, I was engaged in construction. The conversion ratio of drawing is trivial, but this work needs to be done quietly, so the rest of the people did not bother. They were around, or like Zhuanrui closed his eyes and rested, or he didn't stop like tofu, dragging Zhuanji to hunt rabbits in the sparse forest nearby.

I calmed down, climbed up a relatively tall tree, looked down at the surrounding terrain, and began to calculate the location based on the floor plan in memory.Once I work with my heart and put my whole heart into it, the time will pass very quickly, and I will not be easily disturbed. I was very devoted at first, but when I was about to finish my work, I suddenly heard a voice not far from under the tree. Suddenly, there was an exclamation.

Hearing this voice, I suddenly recovered from my work, and my mind was taken out of the picture, because the voice was not someone else, but Gu Wenmin!
(End of this chapter)