Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 287
Up to now, the only way to go is to follow the path pointed out by Jie An.Our luck is not bad, although there are many landslides and dead ends in the underground ruins, but fortunately the top of the road we are going to is sealed, so there is no hindrance.Under the long-term pressure, most of the surrounding buildings were distorted. Some doors were crooked, some brick walls collapsed, and the air smelled of mildew and earth. We walked a total of more than 500 meters in it and turned two Turning around, another stone wall appeared in front of my eyes.

I knocked on the stone wall, and there was a hollow sound from behind. It seems that Jie'an's road is not wrong. The back is probably where my grandfather and others walked, so it does not belong to the landslide zone.The crowd cut a hole in the stone wall three times, five times and two times, and wherever they went, they were like gods of destruction.Drilling out of this stone wall, behind it is a soil hole that was manually cleared.

"It's here." Jie'an said with a happy face, "Many places below here are landslide zones, so those people spent a long time cleaning underground and opening up the roads between the landslide zones. I’ve been here for a while, come, follow me.” He looked at both sides of the passage, and quickly chose the road on the right, turned around and walked forward.

I observed this earth hole, it is not big, people need to keep their heads down to move forward inside, from the shovel marks around the earth hole, the structure of this earth hole is very strict, it seems that it needs to go in and out frequently, or to carry something Big things, so built stronger and wider.

This earth hole is probably a landslide zone, so it was artificially opened up, and I don't know where it leads.

Everyone lined up and marched forward, and after a while, they got out of the earth hole and entered a dark and vast space.I illuminated it with a headlamp, and found that more than half of the space was buried by landslide soil, and the remaining half was supported by strong beams, and it would fall down at some point.

The headlight flickered, and when the light flashed, I suddenly saw a dark figure flashing in the darkness ahead.I was so shocked by this, I quickly turned my head back, and the light went straight to the place where the figure appeared, and only after I looked at it did I realize that there was this weird stone statue standing there.

Seeing my gaze, Jiean smiled and said, "I was shocked. I didn't expect it to fall down after more than ten years. Don't worry, follow me." Under the leadership of Jiean, we walked through the When I passed by the stone man in this unknown hall, I couldn't help but take a second look.

This stone man has no ears and very small eyes. What is strange is the hands. The hands are as long as the knees and the palms are big. They seem to be very good at climbing. In my image, apart from primitive people, there is really no one who looks like this , but the ancients hundreds of years ago didn't know about primitive people, did they?

At this moment, I suddenly saw a blackened blood stain near the stone wall behind the stone man, which seemed to be splashed.Jiean was leading the way and didn't notice my movements. Gu Wenmin was right next to me, and she saw the bloodstains along with my gaze. A look of surprise flashed in her eyes. Just as I was about to speak, I shook my head at her and made a gesture. Silence gesture.

The black blood was obviously left by many years ago. Not surprisingly, it should be left by the group of people 14 years ago. When those people came here, something must have happened.Since Jie An has been following behind, he should know. He has not mentioned a word now. Does he think it is not worth mentioning, or does he not want us to know?
I couldn't help thinking more carefully, and felt that this old man Jie'an didn't look so believable.

At this moment, we had already left the main hall behind us and entered another closed passage. At the end of the passage was the collapsed soil. The previous group of people also dug a soil hole, which is enough to imagine how huge the project was at that time.

We walked along the earth cave all the way, and Jiean led the way in front. The deeper we went, the more traces left by grandpa and the others, some food packaging bags, some small objects left behind by accident, everything told the truth We, we're getting closer to that legendary team.

After touching for more than an hour, Jie An stopped, his expression was no longer as confident as before, but tense and dignified.At this moment, in front of us is the collapsed and incomplete hall, and the mounds separated the hall into many irregular roads of different widths and windings.

Jie An pointed to the front and said, "It's here. The environment inside is a bit complicated because of landslides. After they entered, I lost them."

Zhuan Rui stared at the vast space in front of him that was separated by mounds of dirt, then looked at the crumbling beams and pillars on the top, and asked, "Have you gone in to look for it?"

Jie An said: "Of course I searched, but I couldn't find it. The landslide behind this hall is serious, and there is no way forward. I have never been able to figure out how they disappeared."

Tofu said: "A large group of people, will they really just disappear like this? Could it be that there is a secret passage in this hall? Old Chen, where are we now?" I took out the floor plan I had restored and made an estimate. The location, we are now, should be at the end of the second house, that is to say, we passed through the open space in the middle of the second house and reached the end directly. "Before, an S-shaped mark was marked in the center of the Second Palace on the map. At first, I thought that Grandpa and others arrived at the Second Palace to find the rest of the man's corpse, and later died there. Now it seems that not only did the grandfather and his group not die, but they also passed through that area and arrived here.

From this point of view, they must have discovered something, that's why they suddenly gave up on solving the evil situation of the two corpses, and entered the place in front of them.

Among them, what secrets are buried?
This time there is no need for Jie'an to take the lead. Everyone entered the cobweb-like area divided by the landslide soil. In order to ensure that every path has been searched, we marked the surrounding soil clods. : A simple, oracle bone mark representing the sun.

The search process was relatively long, and everyone wandered around to search, and wherever they looked, except for the mounds, there were winding paths separated by twists and turns.After walking for a while, Tofu suddenly let out a surprise and said, "Someone is left behind."

We all focused our attention on the front and the surroundings, no one looked back. When Tofu said this, everyone turned around unanimously. Only after looking at it did we realize that the old man Jie An was gone.

I thought of the stone man from before, and I was startled, and said, "Where's the man?"

Tofu spread his hands, shook his head and said: "The old man followed slowly, probably because we were walking too fast and lost him."

Everyone searched more cautiously, and their footsteps were not fast. Unless Jiean was a turtle, he would never lose him.I don't think so, does this old man have some tricks?Zhuanrui immediately made a gesture and said, "Go, go back to the entrance." But it was too late, and he heard whistling whistles sounded all around him, and some people came out of the surrounding mounds suddenly. Something dark.

When I saw it, I couldn't help being shocked. Isn't this exactly what Xiao Jing was holding in the 'Hall of Ghosts' back then?

There are so many here?

This thing is no more than half a person tall, covered in black hair, it is very easy to hide in the dark, it suddenly sprang out from the surrounding mounds, all of a sudden it seemed overwhelming, and it rushed towards us in an instant.Because the distance was too close, we had almost no time to react, and we were pushed to the ground in an instant. Countless things stepped on us, with sharp fingers and claws, which made us dare not even open our eyes. Poked blind.

In desperation, I only heard Tofu shout: "Shoot, shoot quickly."

Zhuanji said: "Fire a fart gun, it's too close, you can't open it, a knife, take a knife!" I kept the machete stuck in my waist before, and I thought that the experience of my ancestors was indeed right, and it was still cold when I got off the ground. The weapon worked, but I didn't dare to open my eyes at the moment, enduring the injuries from those things being trampled on, and suddenly drew out the machete to hack.

After this cut, several screams were heard. The sound was different from that of a human being, but more like a scream.Accompanied by the screams and the stinky hot blood splashing on my face, it was even more difficult to open my eyes for a while, I only felt that the surroundings were in chaos, and as I slashed wildly, the number of things scurrying around gradually decreased.When I finally opened my eyes, I couldn't help being shocked, because Tofu and others were gone, and I was the only one standing on the whole path, twisting the machete, covered in blood.

This battle came and went quickly, if it wasn't for the pain reminding me of the wounds drawn on my body, I almost wondered if I had another dream.

My heart sank, I wiped the blood from my face, the headlight fell to the ground in the chaos, and I don’t know which part was broken, flashing and flashing, everything around me also flickered.There was still a stump left on the ground, which was a severed hairy hand. Apart from that, there was almost nothing left except for the blood stains all over the ground and the holes left in the surrounding mounds.

Obviously, Tofu and the others didn't have cold weapons at hand at the time, so they got caught, and they didn't know where they got it.

It stands to reason that they shouldn't be moved too far in such a short time, but why didn't they make any sound?My eyes can't help looking at the holes in the surrounding mounds.The entrance of the cave is about the size of a person. Could it be that he was dragged into the cave?Could it be that Grandpa and the others were also ambushed like this back then, so they suddenly disappeared?

That Jie'an is so cunning and cunning, he brought us here, but he disappeared suddenly, maybe he ran away, maybe he knew the situation here long ago, and deliberately set up a trick to harm us... What kind of cooperation, maybe it's him strategy.

The more I thought about it, the more furious I became, secretly regretting that I shouldn't have trusted him so easily. If I had known this before, I should have tied the old man up and led the way.But it was too late to regret it at this time. I picked up the headlamp on the ground, patted it on my hand a few times, and it turned back on again. The straight light radiated toward the darkness.

I put the lamp on my head again, and with a machete in one hand, I cautiously probed towards the hole in the mound.

(End of this chapter)