Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 283 The Buddha
Jie An was stunned, a little annoyed, and said: "Whether or not the gods count fortunes, everything is determined by God. You laymen, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, there is no one who understands fortune-telling, how do you know the way?"

I said to myself that I was dragging the text with me, but I didn't come here to argue with him, so I changed the subject and said, "What I want to ask is the last horoscope..."

Jie An's annoyed expression froze, and he took a deep look at Xiao Jing who was chasing tofu, as if he knew what I was going to ask, and said, "I said, as long as her horoscope is not wrong, I will not make a mistake."

"However..." He suddenly paused again, and said in a low voice, "There should be nothing wrong with this horoscope."

I said: "You can see whether the horoscope given to you is wrong or not?"

Jie An heard the words, looked at me quite contemptuously, and said: "Ignorance, there are mysteries in the fate of metaphysics, for example, if a person's skin is dark, this person must belong to water, you are a confidante with peach blossoms in your eyes , coincides with the three stars in her horoscope, the knowledge in it is mysterious and mysterious, what do you know. I only look at her appearance and aura, and the horoscope she gave is exactly the same. From this, it can be deduced that this horoscope is true. "

The so-called external appearance naturally refers to the external image of a person, such as palmistry, groping bones, looking at flowers, and moles in traditional physiognomy. , God, reflected in people's mental state, walking speed, personality and temper and so on.The old man Jiean's words did not seem to be a lie.

I was immediately startled.

At this time, Jie An said meaningfully: "Since you came to ask me, you must have discovered something." Guess told him, and said, "I suspect...she is not human."

Jie An squinted her eyes, her cloudy eyeballs stared at Xiao Jing's back. At this moment, Xiao Jing seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly turned her head, looking at me in the air. Immediately afterwards, she gave up. In order to settle accounts with tofu, he walked towards me.Jie An moved his lips quickly, and said in a low voice, "Call me when you have time, I have something to tell you." Immediately afterwards, they stopped talking.

At this moment, Xiao Jing is next to me, but my heart is very complicated, and the experience of this journey flashed in my mind.Once doubts arose, more doubts would arise, and more and more abnormal things appeared, such as why the poisonous smoke from that poisonous snake had no effect on Xiao Jing?Now that I think about it, there is another thing that is wrong, that is the stone tablet, our appearance appeared on the stone tablet, I didn't pay attention at that time, but now that I think about it, there is no Xiao Jing on the stone tablet.

Next, I had nothing to say all the way. I originally planned to get out of the ghost hall, so I made it clear and broke up with Xiao Jing, otherwise there would be no good results if this dragged on, but now, thinking that Xiao Jing might not be People, I have to think about another level, what if I anger her after I point it out?
Thinking of this, I decided to suppress it for the time being, and make plans after discussing it with Jie An.

After walking for half a day, the forest became more and more sparse. Just when the sun was about to slant to the west, several military green tents suddenly appeared in front of us. From a distance, the tops of the tents were covered with leaves, and some of them had collapsed. Nobody left.Jie An pointed to that place and said, "That's right there. That's the camp where I worked at that time."

Everyone has been running around for so long, and finally arrived at the destination, and they couldn't help but quicken their pace. After a while, we arrived at the tent area.Tofu counted and said in surprise: "There are twelve tops in total. If it is calculated according to the minimum of two people, there are about twenty people."

Jie'an said: "There are indeed many of them, but they did not come from the same group, they came from two groups."

"Two batches?" Zhuan Rui glanced at the tent, raised his eyebrows, looked at the uniform color and style of the tent, and said, "Are they equipped with the same equipment?"

Jie An said affirmatively, "Same. Among the second wave of people, there are two women who were blindfolded the whole time."

Blindfolded woman?Generally, actions like this are bitter, dirty, and dangerous. Unless there are women with special skills, most of them are men involved. Therefore, it is rare for women to dig mushrooms upside down.

I was surprised and said, "Why are you still blindfolded?"

Jie'an shook his head and said: "Then I don't know, but the two women were not voluntary at first glance, and they had no power to restrain the chicken. I was far away, and I don't know the reason. Later they When we went down to the ground, we brought the two girls with us." At this moment, we have already discovered the robbery hole dug by Grandpa and the others.

Because the soil here is soft, the cave is not easy to preserve, so it was described by Jie'an as a very large robbery cave. At the moment, the diameter is only about one meter. When the light shines in, there are broken soil in many places inside. It doesn't look solid, and the cave is dark. Yes, there is an earthy smell.Zhuanji knelt down to check for a while, and said, "To go in, you have to widen one side and press it down firmly, tsk, it won't take two days to get out." On this point, the people from the Zhuan family are more professional, and the two brothers discussed it for a while. Fan then settled down and divided into two groups of people, one group set up camp, and the other group expanded the entrance of the cave while it was still dark.

We each do our own thing. Digging a burglar hole is a technical job. It’s not just a matter of digging a hole. Different soil properties have different ways to play. There are many ways to do it. Fortunately, Tofu and I have experience. The big men took turns to go to battle, while the beautiful woman Gu and Xiao Jing were in charge of setting up the camp. After a lot of tossing, the sun set and the sky darkened. Everyone was covered in black mud mixed with stinky sweat, sitting around the campfire eating and drinking.

Miss Gu is good at marksmanship. She caught two rabbits in the forest. While washing and peeling the rabbits, Jie An casually threw the internal organs to the side, and a yellow shadow came down from the tree, obliterating the internal organs at once. up.Two rabbits were not enough to eat, so we ate meat with biscuits while planning the time, reckoning that at our speed, it would take at least two days to enter the cave as Zhuanji said.

At the end of the robbery cave is the ruins of the Yashan treasure hall. It is not clear what is inside.

After eating and drinking, Tofu and I looked through those tents. Most of them were animal nests, empty. In addition to disturbing a colony of skunks, they also disturbed a colony of snakes, which scared us enough. Fortunately, the snake There were not many, and we started a fire again, so they dispersed quickly.

When night fell, we set up our own tents and took turns to watch the night as usual. Among the group, only Zhuan Rui didn't need to watch the night. There was no way he could be replaced by Zhong Gong. This is the advantage of local tyrants.Because I was thinking about what happened last night, it was difficult for me to fall asleep, so I stayed on the first shift. After a while, everyone fell asleep. I sat in front of the campfire, quietly waiting for the moment when the shift was over, and my mind was relatively clear.

At this moment, there was a sudden beeping sound behind me, like the sound of a dry tree branch being stepped on. I turned around suddenly and found that it was Jie An. We looked at each other and understood each other. After a while, we moved to A little farther away from the tent, the two stopped at the junction of light and dark.

The distance here is just right to see the bonfires and tents not far away, and it is also convenient for talking.

Jie'an got straight to the point and said: "Dead people can't move, of course, except for the zongzi you mentioned." I can't tell that this old man can still speak our slang, and he probably heard it from grandpa and his gang.Immediately afterwards, he said: "But there is another exception. Have you ever heard of reviving the dead?"

I hissed, and said, "Don't be so ridiculous, you can pull out a dead body and a soul."

Jie'an said: "Of course that's not what it means, but the principle is similar. In the ancient Western Regions, there was a variant Panbi Buddha enshrined." Yes, Buddhism was prevalent in the ancient Western Regions. If you want to spread it, you must use the Buddha as a cover, combined with your own theory, to create a god for people to worship.Generally, this kind of religion can't achieve much success, so this kind of god is also called a variant.

Jie'an also said: "This kind of Panba Buddha is said to be able to retain a person's soul. If a person knows that he is going to die, he will worship Panba Buddha before he dies, and the Buddha will fix his soul in his body. And inject his divine power into the believers, so that the believers become his apostles."

I was surprised: "You mean, she enshrined Panba Buddha?"

Jie'an said: "There were too many Buddhas of this kind in ancient times. I don't know whether she worshiped some kind of evil god, but besides that, there is a second situation, which is living corpses." I know living corpses, so nodded.

The living corpse is the strangest kind among all zongzi. It has thinking, consciousness, intelligence, and even has all the characteristics of a living person. This is an extremely rare corpse change. It is said that it will only be formed in a certain environment. Even my grandfather only mentioned it briefly in his notes, and there are very few people who have really seen it.

Did Xiao Jing become a living corpse?
I suddenly remembered the scene of her jumping into the river, and my heart skipped a beat, and I said to myself: Did she die when she jumped into the river?But how could it be so easy to become a living corpse?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Jie'an said, "When it comes to living corpses, you people should know better than me. I'm a fortune teller, not a researcher on corpses." I thought about it, and couldn't help shaking my head.

Living corpses are called living corpses, but in fact they also bear the appearance of death. Ancient books say that when the body dies and the soul gathers, it is described as living corpses. If it exceeds ten days, spots will appear and the smell will not be smellable.In other words, living corpses are strange and rare. Although they cannot be distinguished from the action, the corpses will still rot, but corpse spots will appear in ten days. To put it bluntly, it is a phenomenon of delayed death. die.

But Xiao Jing and I reunited, and we have been together for more than half a month. Her skin is as smooth as before, and she is not a living corpse.

Suddenly, I remembered the strange Buddha that Xiao Jing gave me back then, my heart sank suddenly, and I thought: Could it be it?
(End of this chapter)