Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 302 Sundial
These thoughts flashed through my mind, and looking at Xiao Jing's expression, I was sure of everything, so I kept silent and looked at this strange tomb by myself.Since Xiao Jing is not familiar with the structure of the underground palace, I just wandered around, so I don't know where she took me at the moment. I looked at the tomb carefully, but saw that the tomb was empty, and there were no funeral objects. There are only four huge paintings on the four walls.

Due to the dim light, I couldn't see all the murals for a while. I looked closer and saw that on the first two murals, there were market scenes, buildings, chariots and horses, and the costumes were similar to the modern Zhuang national costumes. It is not as complicated as it is now, but more concise, just like a living appearance of the ancient Zimu Kingdom.

When I looked at the third picture again, I was horrified, because there was neither a market nor chariots and horses on the mural, but a huge portrait of a person.This person is fat and exaggerated, with seven heads, one head in the middle, making a crying expression, two shoulders with anger and shock respectively, and one head on the chest and back, making a total of Seven, plus the seven hands sticking out from behind, who is it not the Earth Ghost King?
I was secretly startled, and said in my heart that these days, conjoined twins and double-headed babies are not uncommon, but it is really weird to be deformed to this extent. Looking at the seven faces with different expressions, But the seven pairs of eyes seemed to be staring at me. In the dim light, it made people feel uncomfortable.

The ghost king here is sitting cross-legged, holding a beautifully shaped black hollow ball in the palm of each of his seven hands.I thought to myself: Could this be the seven lamps?It seems that it is somewhat different from the legend, it is not placed on the top of the head, and the shape is really not related to the lamp, it is more like the Linglong ball played by the princes and nobles in ancient times.

Since there is a mural of the Earth Ghost King here, the identity of the owner of the tomb can also be determined. If you think this is the underground palace of the Earth Ghost King, it seems that the ancient Nazimu Kingdom disappeared strangely, not some earthquake. Among them, there may be some A secret that we can hardly pry into.Immediately afterwards, I turned my eyes to the fourth wall, and I couldn't help being stunned when I saw it, because this wall was dull, and it was much inferior to the gold painting and color painting on the other three walls.I saw two things were drawn on this wall, a black circle on one side and a black crescent on the other.

The color is extremely black. At first glance, it looks like a big black cauldron or a huge black hole. It's really incredible what it means.As for the crescent-shaped thing, it reminds people of the moon at a glance. When the two are put together, it is easy to understand that it is the sun and the moon.

It's just...the sun and the moon, why are they black?

Just as I was thinking about it, Xiao Jing suddenly said, "I promise you, but there is one condition."

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what her conditions are, as long as I agree to this 'cooperation', I am sure to suppress her arrogance, so I listened to her in detail.It turns out that Xiao Jing's conditions are not difficult to deal with, and it is reasonable. She said that cooperation is possible, but the object of cooperation is me and her. That is to say, in the future, the two of us will work together to find the coffin of the ghost king, and we cannot cooperate with tofu. Waiting for people to meet, because Tofu and others have psychic incense in their hands, once we meet up, there will be a lot of people, and it will inevitably change to her disadvantage.

I said: "The four of them are also looking for the coffin of the ghost king, and it will only be a matter of time before they meet. Besides, Zhuan Rui also came for the Seven Lanterns. If the things fall into his hands first..."

Xiao Jing said viciously: "Then I will kill you."

"Oh, I'm not familiar with Zhuan Rui, so I can't threaten him with me."

Xiao Jing said: "So, we need to find the coffin before they do." After she finished speaking, I thought to myself: This request is not difficult to meet, as long as Tofu and others are safe and sound, then we will have a way to deal with her, so I nodded, After deciding on the next action, I will not go looking for Tofu and the others for the time being, so I will 'partner' with Xiao Jing.

The agreement was completed, so I pointed to the tomb and said, "How did you find this place?" Xiao Jing didn't hide anything, and after saying that he had confused me, he led me back all the way to avoid Zhuan Rui and others from following.With this retreat, he retreated outside the tomb where the Yuzhong man was.There are two passages outside the tomb, each with a figurine squatting. We have passed by before, but we have not explored it.

Xiao Jing is already a living dead, so there is no reason to be afraid, it was just a disguise before.After taking me with me, I randomly picked a passage in order to find a secluded place.Unexpectedly, this passage has not gone far, and it has entered a dead end, and there are still many traces of agencies launching in the passage.

My heart moved, and I thought, presumably grandpa and others must have explored those two tomb passages, so the mechanism was triggered.

Xiao Jing went on to say that when she reached the dead end, she felt unlucky at first, but when she was annoyed, she suddenly discovered that there was a round hole at the upper right of the tomb passage, which was very similar to the robbery hole we made before. Grandpa and the others fought.But Xiao Jing didn't think about it that much. Living corpses are naturally sensitive to caves, and they probably feel more secure in caves. Xiao Jing was worried that Zhuan Rui and others would change their minds and catch up, and took me into the robbery cave.

The robbery cave is long and long, and when you get out of the robbery cave, there is another cave. After turning around two tombs, you arrive here.Those two burial chambers were leaking and dirty, so she brought me here.

When I heard this, I suddenly remembered the thing about the salt corpse closing the door. I thought: the salt corpse closed the door behind, and there was a blood warning outside. Could it be that grandpa and others didn't enter the tomb passage at the beginning, but turned around when they found something wrong behind? Go back and enter the tomb where Xiao Jing is?

There are many traps in the tomb passage, grandpa and others must have had a lot of trouble, but for some reason they saw another robbery hole in the tomb passage?
Could it be that something happened in the tomb passage at that time, grandpa and others couldn't retreat, so they dug a robbery hole temporarily?
This robbery hole happens to lead to here, it seems that some of those people must have been here.

Seeing that I was thinking, Xiao Jing paused for a while, pointed to the arched passage on the left, and said, "I went there to see, there are three coffins behind it, and there is no other passage."

Three coffins?

This is the underground palace of the Earth Ghost King. Except for his own coffin, the coffins that can appear in the underground palace should be funeral coffins. I don't know why people from the Zimu Kingdom are buried so deeply after death. Thick burial, this project is too huge.Thinking of this, I turned my gaze to the right, that is, the tomb that Xiao Jing had never been to. The two walked into it, but saw a strange-looking object placed in the tomb.

The thing is made of stone, like a huge bucket, with a stone pillar passing through the bucket in the middle. Due to the unevenness of the angle setting, the whole bucket is always in a slow rotation.A rectangular black iron bar was placed where the bucket was in contact with the ground. More than 1000 years of continuous rotation formed a groove in the center of the iron bar, and the edge of the bucket was also very smooth.

What is this?
I was a little surprised for a moment, so I couldn't help taking a closer look. Because it was too weird, and I was worried that it might be some kind of mechanism trap, so the distance of a few steps was a little slow.After a while, Xiao Jing and I stood in front of the slowly rotating bucket, and when we took a closer look, we found that its surface, like an ancient compass, was engraved with dense information, but due to its huge size, it could record The amount of information is greater.

In the innermost part, there are Eight Directions and Five Elements, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Qiankun Yinyang, and then there are solar terms and Yi Gua, divination and ghost paintings.The general compass has eight layers, sixteen layers, and more has 32 layers.And the thing in front of me looks like a compass but doesn't look like a compass. In terms of the number of layers, I'm afraid it's no less than a hundred. After just a few glances, I feel dizzy.

Anyway, I can still see the Hexagram of Qian Kun Yi on it, five elements and eight directions, how could Xiao Jing understand this, and she didn't understand it at all, saying: "This is like a sundial."

When she said that, I couldn't help but my heart moved, and when I took a closer look, the stone pillars in the bucket pan were really similar, thick at the top and thin at the bottom.It's just that there is no sun here, so this 'sundial' can't play any role.As soon as this thought flashed across my head, the dim headlights above my head went out completely with a snap, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness.

Fortunately, I have been carrying the equipment bag, remembering that there are spare batteries in the bag, I quickly squatted down and unloaded the equipment bag, asked Xiao Jing to light the lighter for me, and was going to find the spare battery in the equipment bag.Unexpectedly, after squatting down, he suddenly discovered that there was something hidden under the bucket.

It turned out to be another robbery hole.

I was startled, and said to myself: How can I dig holes everywhere?The further you go down, the tighter the soil, and digging holes is not as easy as it is on the surface. Grandpa and the others are not robots. There are no special circumstances, and they will never dig holes underground so frequently.What caught my attention the most was a roll of yellowed paper next to the robbery hole.

At this time, I had already taken out the battery, and quickly replaced the battery. The headlights shone bright light again. With this light, I carefully took out the paper and looked at it, but saw that the paper was densely written. One piece, but there are only two symbols, one is 'one' and the other is '— -'.

It is these two symbols, from the beginning to the end, combined together in a disorderly manner, making the viewer dizzy.

I know that these two symbols represent the Yang Yao and Yin Yao in the gossip. Good and evil, long and short...

This thing belongs to the scope of metaphysics. I only made up for it after I started digging mushrooms, but the effect is not that strong after all, so I am at a loss for this piece of paper.

(End of this chapter)