Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 286
I also felt unhappy after hearing Tofu's words.After a while, I said lightly: "I know, I have some strange changes. If there is such a day, you can kill me before I kill you." I compared, and finally said: "I'll kill you? Are you kidding? You can pick ten out of one, and I'm a powerless artist. Have I beat you?"

I said: "Come on, don't tarnish the word artist. What else can you do besides teaching kids to draw crows, big trees, blue sky, and white clouds all day long? Is there an artist like you?" After a pause, I took a picture. Patting Tofu on the shoulder, he said lightly: "What I just said is the truth, but, as far as it is now, it is impossible to have such a day."

As soon as the words fell, there was a muffled bang, which made people's ears and heart numb, and the ground under their feet trembled. It was Zhong Gong who detonated the explosives.In an instant, dust was flying around, and everyone covered their mouths, squinted their eyes and backed away. It took about ten minutes for the dust to settle. At this time, the robbery hole left by the grandfather had completely collapsed.

Not surprisingly, Xiao Jing was already buried inside.

Those three years of being together flashed through my mind, and I felt a little blocked. This was not a very severe grief, but a heavy emotion, not strong enough, but hard to erase.

Zhuan Rui still looked calm and relaxed. Seeing the dust dissipate, he said calmly: "Locate." The so-called positioning is to find out the underground environment. to where.This is a relatively simple job. We took out the probe shovel and expansion joints, and drilled down layer by layer. Everyone moved separately and drilled plum blossom probe holes one by one. I didn't care about the rest of the things, and I was busy until the afternoon before I finally finished the positioning.It took more than half a month for Grandpa and others to locate, but since Grandpa and his group have already helped us find out the approximate location, our positioning range is relatively small, which saves time and effort.

After eating and drinking, everyone buried their heads in digging holes. For two days in a row, the holes got deeper and deeper. In the end, when we were working, we could no longer see the sky outside and could only use flashlights.When digging holes, two people usually work together, one shovels and the other does the soil. As for Gu Wenmin, she is in charge of logistics. After all, although she often deals with cultural relics, she is a serious policeman, so she can't dig holes.

It happened to be me and Tofu's turn. I shoveled in front, and Tofu unearthed in a basket made of tree rattan.

I said: "Come on, mining is much more difficult than ours." In fact, ordinary robbery caves are very fast. The reason why this cave took so long is because many of the Yashan treasure halls under the ground have collapsed. , so our burglary is not a one-stop, but there are many detours, and it is not finished until we penetrate into a complete room.

Tofu and I are both disheveled, and the two of us are working underground with headlamps. If you say that digging is really a disgusting job, most people may not have imagined it, because some life forms are often dug out in the soil layer. There are earthworms, insect eggs, and groundworms, and there is still life in the deep compact soil layer.

Those wriggling little things, if they don't pay attention, they will get out of the soil wall, or fall into the collar, or fall on the hair, bouncing back and forth, one or two, there are too many, it's me A big man also feels that his scalp is numb, let alone tofu.

Not long after working, I asked Miss Gu for a scarf, put on long sleeves and gloves, and wrapped myself from head to toe, revealing a pair of black eyes. At first glance, I thought it was a mummy. up.

The two of us sweated profusely in the robbery cave for more than two hours, our straight arms trembled, and we were sweating profusely.Unexpectedly, when the last shovel was hit, there was a sudden bang, and the shovel seemed to hit the stone.I thought to myself, did I hit a brick wall?Immediately, he took off the short shovel on his waist to dig the soil, and within a few strokes, he saw a blue-black brick wall.

Tofu was overjoyed and cheered, "Finally, I have met the real master. The brick wall is quite solid. It seems that the space behind the wall has not collapsed. Let's go in from here."

I immediately put on the shovel and started knocking bricks. Since this is not an underground palace, I don’t have to worry about the mechanism.

This stone wall has been buried in the soil for hundreds of years. Not only has it not loosened, but it has become more compact under the pressure of the soil. It took a lot of effort to open a hole with a diameter of about one meter. An indescribable strangeness The smell immediately hit the nostrils, it was like a rancid smell, and it was also like the gloomy smell of the air being confined for a long time, mixed together, it made me feel dizzy after smelling it.

I immediately covered my mouth and nose and said: "Back, back, you have to wait for it to take a breath before you can go in." The two of us quickly exited the burglary, and only dared to take a big breath when we got outside. A little sober.Seeing that the two of us were out of breath, Miss Gu wondered, "What happened?
Tofu panted and stammered, "Hole, hole, hole...it works!" Although what he said was nonsensical, everyone still understood, Zhuan Rui narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll go down and have a look. "

Just when I wanted to stop him and tell him that there was bad luck down there, Tofu reached out and gently poked my waist, winking and showing a smirk.

I realized it, and I was both angry and funny, I shook my head, then said nothing, and went to the side to change my clothes.Zhuan Rui got into the hole, and after a while, he came out with a disfigured face, coughing, his face was not to mention ugly, staring at Tofu as if he was about to kill someone, it's hard for Tofu to hide Zhuan Rui's joy Everyone was so angry, he didn't realize it, the two brothers patted Zhuan Rui's shoulders, and said with a smirk, "How is the investigation, local tyrant?"

Zhuan Rui's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, he took out something from his pocket, suddenly smiled, and said, "I picked up a good thing down there, I'll reward you." After speaking, he stuffed it directly into Tofu's trouser pocket.

I didn't know about the tofu, so he touched his head and said to me: "Old Chen, he has been smoked into a fool, so give me a gift." While talking, he took out his trouser pocket, and then found a fat and Bai, a half-hatched egg, the tofu was too strong, the egg was crushed and exploded, and the colorful mixture inside sprayed the tofu all over his face. It happened that he was talking with his mouth open, and his mouth was splashed a lot , Immediately afterwards, he hugged a tree and began to vomit.

As the old saying goes: You must not have the heart to harm others, but you must not have the heart to guard against others.

Everyone ate and drank freely, waited for the bad luck in the cave to dissipate, took a nap for two hours, and when they woke up, the bad luck inside was almost gone. They packed up their equipment and headed towards the real underground ruins of Yashan Treasure Hall. go.

When I came to the hole I dug before, the bad luck inside had almost dissipated, and there was no strange smell. I turned on the headlight and looked down. As far as I could see, there was a pile of collapsed beams, blocking the bottom in disorder. The light under the beams was blocked and scattered, so it was not very bright, and it was dark everywhere.

Gu Wenmin was relatively light, so she said, "I'll go down and try." The surrounding soil is soft and the rope cannot be fixed, so she can only go down along the beam.She is nimble and agile, wearing a yellow outdoor suit, like a nimble yellow kitten, squatting lightly on a beam, gradually descending along the direction of the beam, and after a while, she gave us an OK gesture, indicating that The structure is solid.

Everyone immediately stepped on the beams, followed the pillars, and reached the bottom in a short while. Unfortunately, this was actually a closed space, and it looked like a room. The exit had collapsed and was blocked by a pile of soil.

Zhuanji hissed, and said, "Unlucky, it turns out we've entered a dead end."

Zhuan Rui was relatively calm. The room was empty, and there were some ghost murals on the surrounding stone walls that had faded and were hard to see. He walked around the surrounding stone walls, knocking and tapping as he walked, and after a while, pointed Looking at the stone wall on the north side, he said: "There is no landslide behind here, so hit from here."

We have plenty of tools at hand. Although the stone wall is thick, as long as there is no mechanism, it is not difficult to do. Destruction is one of the specialties of human beings. It didn't take long for us to dig a hole.However, the entrance of the cave is a closed corridor, and the building opposite is a wooden structure, which is corrupt and twisted. Under the pressure of the soil layer, it seems that it will collapse at any time, and the two buildings above the head are connected, so you can’t see it from here. earth.

Everyone walked into the corridor, took out the compass to identify the direction, and the compass was pointing straight to the position on my right.I recalled the map of grandpa and the others in my mind. Zhuanrui came for the seven lamps, and grandpa and others also came for the seven lamps, so the direction of progress should be the same, but the map drawn by grandpa at the beginning On the floor plan, there is no mark about the 'Huangquan ghost tree'. If the Huangquan ghost tree is a symbol of Zimu country, then did grandpa and the others find Zimu country in the end?
I turned my head and asked Jie'an: "You followed them all the time, do you still know the way now? Lead the way ahead."

Jie'an looked around and said, "We didn't come down from the same robbery cave. The way may be wrong. I have never been to this place. Wait, let me calculate." Only Jie'an knows where to go, so now, only Jie'an can compare the two robbery holes and judge the distance difference.

Jiean closed his eyes and counted for a while, finally opened his eyes, and said, "The distance difference is in the southeast." He pointed to our right hand side, and said, "Follow this direction for about 200 meters, then turn north. About 300 meters, you can walk into the route of the team back then, I hope there is no landslide ahead."

(End of this chapter)