Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 281

Jie'an's injury is not serious, and he really needs to recuperate. At the time, it took more than half a month for the grandfather and his party to locate, so it is obviously unrealistic for us to locate ourselves. I'm afraid there is still a long way to go, and this is even farther behind.

Up to now, the only thing left to do is to wait for Jie'an's injury to get better before planning to go to the ground.

It was just after one o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone was really exhausted after a lot of tossing. Under the guidance of Jie An, we arrived at a place near the west of the woods, where there was a pile of integrated rocks, connected with the distant crater, and the bottom The location naturally forms a sunken cave, and there is a running water in the low-lying land not far away.

Jie'an said that he often came to this place to inspect, some people would pass by Shangyao Village, but some people with ulterior motives would go in a detour, so in order to protect this place, Jie'an would go into the mountain from time to time.The tree house and this cave are both his footholds.

Because the tree house is small, he led us here.Afterwards, we didn't ask any more questions, Jie'an concentrated on self-cultivation, and ignored everything. We also took the opportunity to take a breather and rest. Taking advantage of the running water not far away, we could wash off the blood and sludge on our bodies and tidy up properly. , I finally got a good night's sleep that night, and I had nothing to say until the next day.

Our plan is to act again tomorrow. Jie’an is in good spirits today, but the wound still needs to recuperate. Fortunately, we shot before us. Although Jie’an was hit, the bullet passed close to the flesh and was not embedded, so there was no injury. To the point, as for Jie'an's hands, they were not as serious as I imagined. It was not a fracture, but one of the joints was dislocated. Zhong Gong straightened his bones, fixed them with splints, and added good wound medicine. , After recovering overnight, he has already recovered a lot, it's really hard for him to be so troubled by his age.

There was nothing wrong with this day, so Tofu and I raised our guns and prepared to go to the woods to get some game for a tooth-making festival.The mountains in Guidi are densely forested and full of miasma. There are many poisonous snakes and beasts in the forest, and of course there is no shortage of mountain delicacies.Tofu and I got a spear from Zhuanrui and set aside an equipment bag. The two of us searched the forest, planning to pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables along the way.

While walking, Tofu discussed with me and said, "Old Chen, you were right. So this Zhuan Rui is really not a good guy."

I said: "It's not too late for you to know now, he said that he came to look for Grandpa with me because of the matter of Huduo, but in fact he came here for the seven lamps."

Tofu snorted and said, "I thought he came because of Zhuan Dong."

I said to myself: This Zhuan Donglai is his uncle, not his father. These people always put profit first. Based on my understanding of Zhuan Rui, this man is a person who attaches great importance to the interests of the family. Come here to take risks for Zhuan Dong who left his family?I am afraid that the seven lamps are his real purpose.

Hearing what I said, Tofu said, "Old Chen, is it true what you said about the seven lamps?"

Although my experiences these days are all weird and thrilling, but about birth, old age, illness, death, corpses, ghosts, and gods, I still feel unreliable from the bottom of my heart. The ghost king who owns these seven lamps is invincible in the world?
Since the Earth Ghost King possessed seven lamps, he must also possess unpredictable powers. If so, how could an earthquake kill him?When the earthquake happened, wouldn't he fly in the air like Batman?Since the magic lamp can make people become immortals and gods, can the gods still be shocked to death by the earthquake?

From this analysis, the so-called seven heads and seven lamps are purely deceiving.

Tofu smacked his mouth and said: "There is no legend that the ghost king is dead, maybe he is still alive?"

I said: "If he is still alive, it will be even more useless. After this place is destroyed, he must take the seven lights and fly away, and he can still wait for us to dig underground?" Tofu nodded and said: "I understand , In short, you don’t believe it, right? Actually, I also think it’s unreliable, but there’s one thing I can’t figure out.”

I looked at his tangled expression, and while observing the movement around me, I said: "Your IQ, you can't figure it out too much, what's the matter?"

Tofu said sternly: "Your analysis just now is very reasonable, but think about it, who were the people in that team back then? We don't know the rest, just the two you know, your grandfather Chen Siyuan, and The overlord of the old BJ, the second head of the Zhuan family, Zhuan Donglai, just the two of them, they are also extraordinary characters, you and I can think of this, can’t they think of it? Even if they can’t think of it, there are still so many people in the team The people of Niucha, don’t those people think of it? If that’s the case, why are they still looking for the seven obviously unreliable lamps?”

Tofu really awakened the dreamer, I couldn't help hissing, thinking: Yes, if grandpa Chen Siyuan rushed to the doctor because of a sudden illness, what about the rest?Those people were all comparable to grandpa at the time, and none of them were fools. What was the reason for them?Is there any hidden secret in this that we don't know?
Is it because Zhuan Rui is hiding something?

While I was thinking about it, the bushes not far away suddenly moved, and my eyes were drawn to it. After a closer look, I saw an animal that looked like a deer but not a deer. It was probably trapped by a tangled tree cage, so I struggled. There was some movement.This thing is called musk deer, and it is the most alert. People often run far away before they get close. The meat is very delicate and has a strange fragrance. I have eaten it in the mountains in the west of Henan before. The smell makes me greedy. People drool.

I thought I was lucky, and was about to shoot when Tofu pressed the muzzle of my gun down and said, "That looks like a musk deer."

As soon as he made a sound, the deer was startled immediately, struggled hard and got out of the tree cage, and ran away without a trace.

I got annoyed and said, "You scared it away."

The tofu was spread out, and he said seriously: "Old Chen, musk deer is a protected animal, we can't eat it." The so-called musk deer is actually musk deer, and the musk we often talk about is produced by musk deer. There is a musk gland in the belly button of this thing, which can secrete musk, so it has been the target of hunting since ancient times, and it has become an endangered animal in modern times.

When I heard this, I was both angry and funny, and said: "In this deep mountain and old forest, nine out of ten animals are protected animals, so let's stop hunting at all, and just go back and eat compressed biscuits."

Tofu looked at me contemptuously and said, "I have no culture and quality. We can hunt for other things, such as rabbits and pheasants." Rabbit, as a result, we wandered around all afternoon. The rabbit didn’t catch it. We picked a pack of mushrooms and went back to let Miss Gu wash and peel them off. I made a pot of mushroom soup, which filled my stomach with water, but I was hungry in the middle of the night. up.

My hungry stomach was rumbling, and I couldn't help waking up. At this moment, Zhong Gong was on guard. He was silent and only listened to Zhuan Rui's words most of the time. No conversation.It is now the end of August, and the weather in Shenzhen is still very hot in coastal areas, but in the mountains in Guangxi, there are already bursts of chills.

I roasted the fire, took out the compressed biscuits and chewed them to satisfy my hunger. I scolded the tofu in my heart, saying that this kid is annoying in everything on weekdays, and he never let me stop. I will meet again next time , Let's shoot first, lest I go hungry again.I was used to running in the mountains before, and I saw a lot of them, so I didn't think there was anything unusual about roe deer. On the contrary, Tofu and Xiao Jing, who were born and bred in the city, would be excited for a long time when they saw a squirrel.

While chewing, my eyes swept across the night.

The terrain we are in now is relatively higher than before. At a glance, the darkness is not completely dark, because the moon is very bright tonight, maybe because of the different regions, the moonlight is very bright, and the dark world seems to be covered. A hazy layer of silver sand.At this moment, I suddenly found that there was one person missing in the team, and it was Xiao Jing.

Everyone sleeps in the cave. Generally speaking, there are only two women in the team. They should sleep together, but Xiao Jing and Gu Wenmin are not on the same page, so they are separated by a distance. Xiao Jing was sleeping next to me, why? People are missing?I was looking at the place where Xiao Jing was sleeping, and Zhong Gong on the side probably saw what I was thinking, pointed to the dark place on the side of the cave, and said, "She went out about 5 minutes ago and said she had a stomachache. "It looks like Xiao Jing went to the bathroom.

But after hearing Zhong Gong finished speaking, my first reaction was that it was impossible.

Xiao Jing is an only child with a spoiled personality, not very considerate and timid.For example, I remember one time when I was lying in bed sick and limp, and her friend happened to ask her out to play.In this case, it is so late, you must be with your sick boyfriend, right?But she was not very considerate at that time, and immediately wanted to go out to play, that's not counting, she didn't want to take a taxi, and she had to ask me to drive her there.

To put it simply, although Xiao Jing's personality has changed a lot, the timidity is not something that can be changed just by changing it. I have been with her for three years, and I know her personality very well.In this deep mountain and old forest, I have experienced so many weird things before, if she really went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, she would definitely get me up and let me go with her.

But now, she actually went alone?

I felt that something was wrong, so I took out the flashlight and said, "I'll go and have a look." Zhong Gong, who was serious about his words, even showed a ambiguous smile when he heard this, and said, "Go early and come back later."

(End of this chapter)