Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 279 Seven Lamps

After a pause, Zhuan Rui looked at Jie An who had fainted, and talked about a past event.It turned out that what Zhuan Rui said in the Yashan Palace was indeed true, but he concealed something in it, which was about the secret place under the Yashan Palace.Zhuan Rui's younger uncle was named Zhuan Donglai, and some time before Zhuan Donglai disappeared, he had a secret meeting with Zhuan Rui's father.

At that time, Zhuan Rui was already suspicious, so he secretly went to listen to the corner, but this time, the two of them entered the secret room of the Zhuan family, so Zhuan Rui failed to listen to the corner, he was very depressed, and went back to his room dejected , thinking about his uncle, it was difficult to fall asleep, but in the middle of the night, when he was lying on the bed and was about to fall asleep, a black shadow suddenly sneaked into his room.

Zhuan Rui woke up startled, and asked, "Who?"

"Hush." ​​The visitor didn't light the lamp, walked to the bed and said, "It's me." Zhuan Rui heard the voice, knew it was Zhuan Dong, and asked in surprise, "Uncle, why are you here?"

Zhuan Donglai smiled and said, "I didn't hear it from the corner of the wall this afternoon, so you can still sleep?"

Zhuanrui was precocious, and when he heard the words, he knew that his actions in the afternoon had been exposed, so he must have not deceived his father and uncle, so he rolled his eyes and entangled him, saying: "Uncle, you are so mysterious, what are you talking about?" Can you tell me?" In the darkness, Zhuan Donglai's expression could not be seen clearly, but his voice had a strange smell, seemed a little excited, and seemed to be calculating. Didn't hear it.

I just heard Zhuan Dong say: "I tell you, you have to remember, this time I go, I don't know if I can come back, that place... doesn't belong to the world, forget it, what do I tell you so much, I'll give you something, don't tell your father, ten years later, you will be 22 years old, if I don't come back by then, you can open it again." After finishing speaking, he stuffed a small wooden box for Zhuan Rui, and here Not long after that, Zhuan Donglai mysteriously disappeared.

During that time, Zhuan Rui had been debating whether to open the things Zhuan Donglai had given him. Not long after, seeing his father hurt because of Zhuan Donglai's incident, Zhuan Rui put the promise aside, and opened the Turning on the lamp, he carefully opened the small wooden box.what's inside
There was only one thing in it, a letter.

After shaking open the letter and reading down the words on it, Zhuan Rui gradually understood the reason of the matter.It turned out that Zhuan Donglai joined a mysterious team.

Partnering is very common in the mushroom digging business, but the Zhuan family is a century-old family with great fortune, so there are not many people who are qualified to partner with them.

The surname of the person Zhuan Donglai joined forces with is Bai, but his exact name is unknown.This man surnamed Bai organized a special operation, and the members of this operation team included the top players at that time, among them was the ghost king Chen Siyuan.When I heard this, I couldn't help gasping, and couldn't help interrupting Zhuan Rui, saying, "Wait, when did this happen?"

Zhuan Rui said, "20 years ago."

20 years ago?

At that time, my grandfather hadn’t disappeared. I should have been eight years old 20 years ago. At that time, my grandfather took me to live, and I was just an innocent kid, running around all over the mountains. How could my grandfather join me at that time? What organization?The leader of the organization is named Bai?Could it be the person who wrote to grandpa 14 years ago?Does he have anything to do with Bai Lao Si?So what did grandpa do in the six years between them?
This series of questions, followed by Zhuanrui's words, tumbling in my mind, and the tofu next to me obviously focused on the wrong point, counted the time with my fingers, and finally came to a conclusion, saying: "Tuhao, so you are 32 years old this year gone."

Zhuan Rui glanced at him and said, "My age has something to do with you?"

"Yes." Tofu made a great wish, patted me on the shoulder and said, "When we are 32 years old, we will definitely surpass you." Zhuan Rui raised his eyebrows, and said with a half-smile: "There are still four years left." It's time, come on."

I stopped Tofu who was going to continue to embarrass me, brought the topic back, and signaled Zhuanrui to continue.

This team gathered the top players at the time, what are they going to do?
There are so many people, all of whom are respectable, why are they willing to be led by a person surnamed Bai?What ability does this person have to make a group of top players obey?
It was mentioned in the letter that this team was a very large organization with many people involved, and Zhuan Donglai was the bridge for this team to communicate with the Zhuan family at that time. Because of this, the two brothers had a disagreement on this matter.

So, what does this team want to do?
This is the crux of the letter.

In Guangxi, there have been many ethnic minorities since ancient times, among which the Zhuang nationality is the main one. In this land, countless ancient countries have been born. In the change of history, they annexed each other, disappeared, fell silent, and even disappeared. One of them was The nation called "Diguizu" suddenly rose up more than 500 years ago and founded the "Zimu Kingdom", a country that didn't even have a word in history. It only existed for more than 60 years and disappeared without a trace. .

No one knows where the people of the Earth Ghost Clan come from. Perhaps just like the legend of their nation, this is a nation that crawled out of the ground and was transformed by the evil spirits suppressed in the underworld.According to legend, people of the Earth Ghost Clan will wear a mask that belongs to them from birth to death, but until one day, for some unknown reason, this tribe, together with their country, suddenly disappeared overnight up.

That's right, at least judging from the remaining traces of history and scattered local legends, this country disappeared together with the city overnight.

So, what does this special operation team have to do with this enigmatic ghost clan?
To be honest, China has thousands of years of civilization. During these thousands of years, countless dynasties have changed. We can call them famous names, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Warring States, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song , Yuan, Ming, and Qing, if you can't tell, then go to sea.More than 500 years have passed since the ghost race in this place has no written records, and only some rural legends that may have been untrue are left behind. Just like many ancient countries that have disappeared without a sound, there is nothing strange about it.

So why did it get involved with this action team?

So we have to talk about the king of the Zimu Kingdom. According to legend, the people of the Zimu Kingdom came from the ground, and their king was the one who led them to crawl out of the ground, known as the 'Earth Ghost King'.It is said that the ghost king here has seven heads and seven hands, and each face has a different expression, which are joy, anger, sorrow, joy, love, evil, and desire, representing the seven emotions of human beings.

Zimu Country is very low-key, living in a small corner, aloof from the world.To be precise, they do not have contact with the outside world, and the outside world cannot contact them. There is a strange space between the connection between Zimu Kingdom and the outside world.

There was no concept of space in ancient times, and the ancients preferred to use mythological words to describe it, such as: enchantment.

In today's words, this enchantment is a bit like the space folding mentioned in "A Brief History of Time", that is, between a line, there is another world, and if you step across the boundary, you will enter another world.People at that time thought it was ghosts and gods, but in fact, later people discovered through textual research that the so-called enchantment was actually the 'mirror world', that is, the illusion created by the people of Zimu Kingdom to outsiders by domesticating ghost foxes.

As mentioned earlier, ghost foxes live off the internal organs of humans and animals. Therefore, it is said that Zimu has a very perverted tradition of sacrifice. Perhaps it is the extensive use of human and animal sacrifices that finally caused the demise of Zimu.Of course, this is just a guess. How it disappeared can only wait for more detailed research.

Of course, in this special team, except for my grandfather who barely counts as an archaeologist, the rest are professional mushroom diggers. They are not interested in proving the demise of Zimu Kingdom. What they are really interested in is the Earth Ghost King.

What is so special about this ghost king who is said to have seven heads?
According to legend, the Earth Ghost King has a huge body and remains motionless all day long. When he crawled out of the ground, he had a lamp on each head, a total of seven lamps. Corpse, ghost, god.

"Birth, old age, sickness, death, corpse, ghost, god?" Tofu hissed, and said, "Is it true or not, can a person grow seven heads? And then stay still for the rest of his life, just playing with seven lamps What does this mean?" What he said hit the point, and what Zhuan Rui said was really unimaginable.

After Tofu asked, Zhuan Rui said: "These seven lamps correspond to seven abilities. With the first lamp, you can live forever; with the second lamp, you can stay young forever; with the third lamp, you can live forever." You won't get sick; with the fourth lamp, you can transcend life and death and not enter reincarnation." After a pause, Zhuanrui narrowed his eyes and said: "The first four lamps are almost what the world wishes, but what is really irresistible is The fifth lamp."

I said, "Corpse lamp?"

Zhuanrui nodded and said, "The fifth lamp, the corpse lamp, can bring the dead back to life." My heart skipped a beat. A person may be able to resist the temptation of longevity, but people are emotional animals. It is very difficult to resist people who come back to life. If I have this fifth lamp, can I bring grandpa back to life?Is it possible to revive the statement?Is it possible to revive the dead parents of tofu?

Tofu asked: "What's the meaning of ghost lamp and magic lamp?" He was listening to it as a story, and obviously didn't believe it.

(End of this chapter)