Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 293 Mass Burial
I only know that the Qin and Han Dynasties paid attention to deep burials, but they were only about 30 meters deep into the ground, and the deepest was no more than Qin Shihuang. According to legend, it was [-] meters deep and passed through three springs. Who is the owner of this ancient tomb?How could such a large tomb be buried under a hundred meters of soil?

Perhaps it was the dead bodies in the many square holes that were exuding dead air. The temperature at the bottom of the gourd had indeed dropped several degrees suddenly. It was supposed to be early autumn, but now it felt even colder. Tofu rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, regretting not It's time to burn the coat, shivering from the cold.

As I walked forward, I found a strange phenomenon. Since the square holes in the surrounding walls were the burial pits for livestock, we naturally regarded the corpses wrapped in the square holes as the people buried with us. , this idea became weaker, because the square hole gradually expanded, and the black bamboo mat was replaced by a coffin.What I saw at first were unpainted rotten wooden coffins, then black lacquered coffins, and finally more and more colorful coffins painted with red and gold.This shows that the further back, the higher the identity of the deceased, and there are so many of them, it doesn't look like a simple burial.

The bottom of this gourd is bigger than we imagined. Strictly speaking, it is not big, it can only be said to be very long.

The corpse walls with square holes on both walls stretch endlessly.At this time, the family training advantages of Zhuanrui and others showed up, and Zhuanrui said, "So that's how it is." It seemed that they wanted to understand something.Tofu doesn't hold grudges very much, and has already forgotten how Zhuan Rui punished him before, so he leaned his head over and asked curiously, "Lord, what did you find?"

Zhuan Rui looked at him lazily, and walked forward. In fact, Gu Wenmin and I were also quite curious, but we were worried about face, so instead of looking at Zhuan Rui's face, we should hold back.Tofu is completely shameless, not angry when ignored, sticking to it like a dog's tail, repeating: "What did you find? Tell me? Curiosity will suffocate the cat to death? Meow meow~~~ local tyrant, The local tyrant waited for me..." Zhuan Rui probably got impatient with his quarrel, clicked his tongue, his half-burned face looked extremely terrifying, and said, "Are you a dog?"

Tofu looked shocked, and said in amazement: "You, how do you know?" Zhuanrui really guessed right, tofu is a dog.

Zhuan Rui was attacking him verbally, but he guessed it right. He was dumbfounded for a moment, then shook his head, probably defeated by his cheekiness, and said, "We all guessed wrong before, this is not a funeral tomb. , this is a group burial, where people from the Zimu Kingdom were placed here according to their identities after their death."

I suddenly remembered the legend about the Guzimu Kingdom. According to legend, they are a nation that climbed out of the ground, and they traveled between the underworld and the human world with the help of ghost trees in the underworld. Could this so-called underworld refer to this place?People of the Earth Ghost Clan buried their dead relatives in this tomb, and then climbed out of the ground along the ghost tree of Huangquan, wouldn't it be very similar to the legend?Coupled with the passage of time and word of mouth, the legend will inevitably change and become the version we hear now?
After I explained my thoughts, everyone nodded. Gu Damei said: "What you said is very reasonable, but there is one thing I find strange. We all thought this tomb was too big just now, but if this is the tomb of the entire Zimu country Mass burials, in comparison, seem too small."

What she said hit the point, if this place was a tomb of a person, it would be too big, but if it was a tomb of a country, even a small country that was unknown to the people, it would seem a bit insufficient.Hearing this, Tofu pointed to the dark place in front of us, and said, "Miss Gu, don't worry, look, this road is so far that you can't see the end, it's hard to say how big it is."

Tofu speaks straightforwardly and thinks about problems relatively simply, but sometimes this simplicity is more thorough, and what he said was quickly fulfilled.We continued to move forward along the avenue under our feet. Surrounded by the heavy dead air, the temperature seemed to be lower, and we had walked a long distance. It is not a tangible fog, but it can make people feel its existence.

This kind of phenomenon is not uncommon in the industry of digging mushrooms. In the jargon, this kind of fog is called "Yin Sha", which is a homophony of Yin Sha. In myths and legends, there is a god named Guan Yinzi. Yin Sha has the meaning of strengthening the body and exorcising evil spirits. , in fact, this is what we call yin qi verbally.

Yin Qi is invisible and intangible, but when the Yin Qi is strong enough, ordinary people can feel it.

The origin is no longer visible, the gourd waist has long been left behind by us, and we don't know how far the future is.As we go forward, there are more and more square holes. Later, we summed up a rule.The burial of these corpses is arranged according to two rules. The first rule is status, and the second rule is related to occupation. There will be different patterns on the coffins. Due to the distance, we can’t see the specific appearance clearly. .

After walking for a while, I still haven't reached the end, and this feeling is even weirder.The underground is shrouded in yin, dead bodies are densely covered, and the surroundings are dead silent, only the sound of our monotonous footsteps.Walking in such a dead environment, it's like walking into the underworld, and even the footsteps can't help but be lowered, so that the feeling of death is even stronger.

I'm not used to talking nonsense, but I just became more vigilant. Everyone's breathing became heavy as the temperature gradually dropped. This heavyness also contained anxiety.

In the end, it was Tofu who broke the silence and suddenly sang a song:

夜 半 三 哟盼 天明
寒冬 腊月 哟盼 春风
若要 盼 得 红军 来
岭 上 开遍 哟映山 红

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I know that tofu wants to use singing to dispel fear. This is probably a human instinct and does not need to be taught. When children are afraid of walking at night, they will naturally sing or make some movements. Maybe people are born afraid of darkness and silence. But it's hard for Tofu to claim to be an artist. The people who listened to this broken voice really felt numb and had goosebumps. This kind of kind, this kind of eerie atmosphere really eased a lot. Everyone tacitly decided to endure it for a while.

At this moment, Tofu's singing suddenly stopped, and suddenly said: "There is a light in front." Not only he saw it, but all of us saw it. In front of the darkness, there was a bean-like light beating, that was nothing The blue will-o'-the-wisp is not the black flame of a witchcraft, but a very normal, bright yellow flame.

In such a gloomy and cold environment, at first glance, people can't help but feel a sense of warmth, but after another look, they will feel that something is wrong: how can there be fire in the depths of the ground?

Everyone looked at each other, I kicked Tofu and said, "Keep singing."

Tofu stared at the fire in the distance, and said nervously, "What are you singing?"

"Anything, as long as you are brave enough."

Tofu swallowed his throat, pulled it apart and howled:

Wow the big river flows eastward
The stars in the sky are like the Big Dipper

If you say go, let's go wow
You have me, I have everything, wow
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Accompanied by Tofu's quite 'violent' singing, everyone gradually approached the flame. After a while, the avenue came to an end, and there was a circular platform at the end.

This platform is very strange, and there is a spacious passage on the left and right, leading to nowhere. In front of the two passages, there is a strange figurine sitting kneeling on each side. The figurines raised their heads and wore a mask on their faces. One left and one right, looking at each other from afar.

Right in front of the platform, there is a half-open stone door, and there is a layer of green powder in front of the stone door, which almost covers the entire platform.The powder is like flour, clinging quietly, I can't see what it is.And at the moment when he saw the powder, Zhuan Rui stretched out his hand, covered Tofu's singing mouth, and hissed.

Tofu shut his mouth cleverly, and then, Zhuan Rui pointed to the powder, lowered his voice, and said in a very soft tone: "It's heavy copper powder. When it touches the wound, the wound will rot, and if it is inhaled, it will cause alveoli." I immediately understood that the ancients were good at using mechanisms, and this heavy copper powder is probably a kind of door protection mechanism.The door was open, presumably it was the masterpiece of the grandfather and his party, so the mechanism behind the door was activated, and the poisonous powder sprayed out and sprayed all over the ground.

Thinking of this, I felt a sudden shock in my heart, and said: Look at the weight of this poisonous powder, Grandpa's group of people probably fell for it.Immediately afterwards, I made a gesture and said, "Take out all the clothes in the equipment bag, and don't show anything except your eyes."

Everyone moved quickly, wrapped their bodies tightly, stepped on the heavy copper powder on the ground, and began to move towards the open stone gate. The light came from behind the stone gate.

This powder is very light in texture, even though our steps are very slow and cautious, every time we step, there will still be poisonous powder floating up, they are as fine as smoke, which makes people careless.Although our whole body is protected, one part is still missing, the eyes are not protected, so in this short distance, I only feel the burning of the eyes, the pain is unbearable, and the rest of the people are similar. Go, they all look red and swollen.

Fortunately, this road is not long, everyone passed through this poisonous area quickly, and when I arrived behind the stone gate, I felt that my eyes not only hurt, but also my vision began to blur, and most of the rest of the people did the same, and everyone didn't care to go in Looking for the light of the fire, he quickly untied his clothes, threw aside the clothes stained with poisonous dust, took out clean water and rinsed his eyes, after a lot of tossing, he did not become blind.It's just that in this way, our clean water is completely exhausted.

(End of this chapter)