Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 296
The movement of the two of us had already attracted the attention of the other four people, and everyone's attention was immediately shifted from the man in Yuzhong to the mask on the wall.Surprised and curious, Gu Wenmin said, "Could these masks be the ones worn by the people of Zimu?"

Zhuanji reminded: "It's different from the masks worn by the hanging corpses." Although it was far away at the time, the masks of the hanging corpses were green, which was obviously different from these scorched human-face masks.In this gloomy tomb, what does the weird Jade Man and this scorched mask represent?
What was it that warned us before?
Zhuanji was so courageous that he immediately walked to the wall of the mask, took one off casually, looked at it twice, and probably didn't see any tricks, so he threw it on the ground casually.The moment he threw the mask, I suddenly realized that the number of the dark masks on the wall was a bit wrong.They were lined up very closely, so Tofu and Zhuanji took off two masks, and immediately there were two vacancies on the black mask wall, which were very conspicuous.It was precisely after noticing these two vacancies that I discovered that there was an inconspicuous vacancy at the root of the mask wall. It seemed that someone had taken down the mask that should have been there.

I couldn't help but look at the man in Yuzhong behind him, except for his short cut, there was hardly any information that could represent his identity.

Could it be that he took off the mask?
Who is he?
Is it someone from Grandpa's team?

How did he get into this jade center?What are these masks for?My intuition made me keenly connect the two, but I couldn't find any connection between what I saw, the mask, and the people in Yuzhong.I don't know much about the burial customs of the Zimu Kingdom, but the ancestors of Guidi, even more than 1000 years ago, were sinicized. Therefore, the burial pattern of the Han nationality has also had a profound impact on the burial customs of Guidi.According to the system at that time, the underground tomb is likely to be a well-shaped tomb, and the owner of the tomb should be located in the center of the tomb.

It's just that we are now on which tomb passage in the shape of a well?Or, this tomb is different from what I imagined?
This tomb also has a stone door, but to our surprise, the stone door was sealed.It stands to reason that Grandpa and others have also entered this place, so the stone gate should have been opened by them.When I walked to the stone gate, I immediately noticed something was wrong: the stone gate had indeed been opened, but it was sealed again, and on the stone gate, eight terrifying words were written in blood: there are ghosts inside!don't open it!

"Hiss." Miss Gu who was next to me followed me closely, and suddenly saw these eight bloody characters, and couldn't help gasping, her voice was a little unsteady, and said, "Who wrote it?" In the dark , we looked at each other, the lights above our heads intertwined each other, wrapping each other's face in a halo, I could only see her beautiful sharpened chin clearly.

The movement here attracted the rest of the people, everyone looked at the writing on the stone gate, Zhuanrui asked me: "Is it the ghost king's handwriting?" I shook my head, since he asked me this question, it means that the handwriting is not It belonged to Zhuan Donglai, probably someone else in that team.

Zhuanji stroked his chin and speculated, "This tomb has only one stone door, and the door is closed. It's really strange." Yes, the stone door in the ancient tomb is different from our usual wooden door. If you want to close it, you usually need to use the natural stone, and for more advanced ones, you need to use the driving force of the moving mechanism.

If this stone door can be closed and there are words outside the door, then there is only one situation.I pictured the scene at that time in my mind. First of all, there must be someone behind the stone gate, and there must be more than one person. Only the people behind push the stone gate back, and the stone gate will be closed. This line of words was written in blood on the stone gate.

It says: There are ghosts inside, don't open it!

This is clearly a contradiction.If there are ghosts inside, why would someone close the stone gate inside?Wouldn't that imprison yourself with the ghost?

And who wrote this bloody word?I couldn't help but look at the man in the jade again. I always felt that there seemed to be some connection between them, but I couldn't find the slightest clue.Staring at the blood on the stone gate, I felt uncomfortable, as if there was really a ghost standing behind the stone gate.While I was analyzing, I told everyone my thoughts. As soon as my words fell, Tofu made a very unreliable speculation and said, "Do you think the door was closed by the ghost inside?"

Ghost closed?
I have only heard the saying that a ghost knocks on the door in the middle of the night, but I have never heard of a ghost closing the door.

Zhuan Rui raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and said calmly: "What are you doing when you close the door? Inside is a female ghost taking a bath?" Could it be that Zhuan Rui was joking, and Tofu choked immediately, grabbed his hair, and said: " So what should we do now? This door... shall we open it or not?" As he spoke, Tofu turned his gaze to me, apparently waiting for me to make a decision.

I said: "Could it be that our group of people were scared back by the eight words? Even if there are zongzi, no matter whether they are soft or hard, we have to fight." Zhuan Rui is not a person who gives up easily. Hearing this, he smiled and gave a slap Gestures, everyone has cooperated for a while, and there is a tacit understanding, without saying anything, they start to push the stone gate.

Since the stone gate has been opened by someone, the natural stone inside obviously does not exist anymore, so under the push of the few of us, the stone gate slowly opened to both sides, gradually revealing the dark space behind.

At the moment when the stone gate opened, I saw the ghost behind the stone gate!
It stood behind the stone door, with a strange smile on Bai Sensen's face, watching us who were pushing the door.

I wasn't the only one who saw this scene. Everyone's actions to push the door stopped. I don't know how other people feel at the moment, but my breathing has stopped, and there is only that white face in front of me, even I feel that the next second, that face will rush towards me.

But it doesn't.

Even though everyone was mentally prepared, they still froze in shock. It wasn't until the next second that I realized that this was not a ghost, but a dead person.

The light passed by and was blocked by its figure. This is also a naked person. When I was observing him, I glanced around his body by the way, but I didn't see any clothes or scattered equipment bags.He just stood upright behind the stone door for an unknown how long, his body was covered with a white powdery substance, so when we opened the door just now, we saw his face covered in white powder at first glance.

It's arguably the weirdest corpse I've ever seen.

That weird smile froze on his face, the stone door was only half pushed by us, and everyone stood at the door looking at each other, feeling confused about the naked corpse in front of them.After a while, Zhuanji was the first to break the silence and said, "These two...why aren't they wearing any clothes?"

Tofu shook his head and said, "No, no, no, don't you think where their clothes went is more important than what they didn't wear?"

Gu Wenmin developed his professional analysis ability, squinted his eyes, and speculated: "After they encountered danger, maybe the people in the team took everything they had out of material considerations."

Tofu sometimes has a very sensitive brain, and immediately retorted: "Impossible, I can't even keep my underpants. No matter how tight the supplies are, I wouldn't use the underpants worn by others, right?"

"This..." Gu Wenmin showed a hesitant expression, obviously stopped by Tofu's question, and then she looked at me, obviously asking for my opinion.

Gu Wenmin's speculation seems to be the most reliable one so far, even if there is a ghost in this place, could it be a pervert?Like to pick men's clothes?Even if it's really a pervert, and the clothes are stripped, there must be physical evidence, right?Now there is nothing left, only what Gu Wenmin said, the clothes and equipment were actually taken away by other people.

However, under what circumstances would some people be so poor that they wouldn't even let go of other people's underpants?

I thought about it, and calmly said: "Unless, their supplies have reached an extreme shortage."

Zhuanji didn't understand what I really meant, so he seemed very disapproving, and said, "According to what you said, the rest of the people didn't even have to wear their underpants because of something happened, so they ripped off the two dead people." of?"

"I'm talking about materials, not just clothes." I corrected Zhuan Ji's words, and analyzed the rest of my speculations to everyone.The clothes that have been taken away are not necessarily worn by other people. In conditions of extreme scarcity, they can serve many purposes, such as serving as bandages, raw materials for fire, warmth, and so on.These people were stripped to the point where they didn't even have their underpants left. I think it's most likely that these clothes were stripped off to keep warm or light a fire as a lighting facility.

After listening to Tofu, he shook his head and said, "Do you think you are Sherlock Holmes? When you see a naked corpse, you conclude that those people are short of supplies and start a fire with clothes? Old Chen, it's not that I don't believe in your judgment. With a large group of people and top-notch supplies, how could there be such a serious shortage of supplies all of a sudden?"

"It's just an idea," I said.

Zhuanji said: "Instead of thinking about these things, you should think about what happened to the corpse in front of you. Do you think he was the one who closed the door? What do you mean by the ghost behind the door?" Following Zhuanji Then, everyone began to carefully look at the corpse in front of them. He did not rot, and the white dust on the surface preserved him like salt frost. After such a long time, the muscles on his arms could still be seen.

Soon we discovered that he had many wounds all over his body, but they were all non-fatal flesh wounds, just like our current situation.

At this moment, Gu Wenmin suddenly gasped and said, "There is something on the back of his head." While speaking, he stretched out his hand and removed a fingernail-sized object from the corpse's hair.

(End of this chapter)