Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 312 Invisible Fear

Reunited after a long absence, there are thousands of words and countless questions in my heart, but now, only tension and silence remain.I reckoned that Tofu and the others should have escaped danger, but Grandpa didn't want them to touch the core part of the underground palace, probably using the mechanism in the underground palace to make them go around in circles.

At this moment, only the two of us are really heading towards the core of the underground palace.

The only source of light was the headlight on my head, which made me wonder, how did grandpa see things before that, could it be that he has night vision?Out of curiosity, I asked him. He did not deny that he could have night vision, but the ability of night vision is not strong, and most of the time he still needs to hold a lamp. How did this ability come from, but he seems to have a memory I haven't been bothered by the light problem since the beginning.

After about half an hour, we walked through the straight tomb passage and entered a tomb with an open stone door.

This is not so much a burial chamber as a residence.On the left side of the tomb, there is a pile of flat hay.Not far in front of the dry grass was a bronze gui the size of a basketball, filled with clear water, and some dirty cloth was piled up in the corner. Looking carefully, it should be some clothes.In addition, in the rest of the surrounding area, some accessories are also very complete, most of which are ready-made ghost objects taken from the tomb, such as three-edged pottery colored bucket bowls, silver-inlaid ivory chopsticks, terracotta figurines and lanterns, etc.

Grandpa didn't mean to introduce his place of residence to me. He just pointed to a tomb door opposite and said, "Here we are." Immediately afterwards, the tomb door was pushed open, and behind it was a straight and dark tomb passage.This tomb passage is covered with tomb bricks, not as simple as some earth-cave tomb passages before. At first glance, I only feel creepy, because there are white figures standing densely on the left and right of the tomb passage!
"Hiss... what is this?" I couldn't help but gasped.I saw those white figures, wrapped in layers of white cloth, like ancient Egyptian mummies enshrined in human-shaped coffins, but they did not have coffins, but stood upright, like guards, standing on both sides of the tomb passage, It is densely packed, and you can't see the end at a glance.

Grandpa said: "Behind this tomb passage is the ear chamber and the main coffin chamber, but I have never been there."

I said: "No, you have been there, but you don't remember it anymore." The location behind the tomb passage made Grandpa what he is now, gave him great power, and made him the gravekeeper of the ghost king!I knew in my heart that if I didn't solve the mystery behind this tomb passage, grandpa would probably only be what he is now. How many years can he live?Can he get out of here?All this is an unknown.

Originally, I had no fear, and I didn't really care about the ghost king, but the living example of Grandpa was right in front of my eyes. I looked at the tomb passage in front of me, and I couldn't help but feel uncertain. I always felt that at the end of the tomb passage, It seems that there is an invisible force, exuding endless oppression, covering my head and covering my face.

When Grandpa came here, he couldn't help but put the mask on his face, as if he wanted to block something through this mask, and then he said: "The corpses inside are the remains of the people of the Earth Ghost King. If you want to go in, you must wear a mask." Put on the mask."

I said, "What will happen if you don't wear it?"

Grandpa glanced at me, his voice was no longer so irritable, and he said, "They will come alive and tear the intruders apart."

"But I don't have a mask."

Grandpa didn't finish, but walked to the haystack where he was sleeping and pulled it a few times. After a while, he picked up an identical mask from the haystack and handed it to me. I couldn't help but wonder, "Where did it come from?"

"There's a lot out there."

Outside?I was taken aback for a moment, then realized, and said, "Is it on the mountain wall of the mass burial?" Grandpa nodded. At this moment, there is no other way but to put on the mask.But I didn't enter the tomb in a hurry, but first checked my equipment. At this moment, Tofu and others can't help me, and the only one I can rely on is myself.

Although grandpa's skill has become more powerful than the legend, but I think grandpa is a very unstable factor, he was affected by some kind of power, which completely brainwashed him into what he is now, even I don't know To be sure, once inside, grandpa will be brainwashed again, or something unpredictable will happen again.

In fact, if it’s a pity, I don’t want grandpa to take risks, but grandpa put on the mask on his face again and told me that he also wants to go. Maybe during these 14 years, he also had doubts, but he never had the courage. Now, our reunion gave him the courage to test it out.

I collected myself and began to count my equipment.

Inverted shovel, crowbar, pen and paper, rope, two daggers, ten flying knives, a bag of compressed beef, no water, but there is drinking water in Grandpa's bronze gui.I was a bit weak in terms of weapons, and now my physical strength was almost overdrawn, so I tore open the packaging bag, divided the blackened sauce meat into two pieces, and handed the larger piece to Grandpa.

In fact, our relationship now is different from what I imagined. Grandpa has amnesia, and he is full of energy in his memory. His kind and cheerful personality has become irritable, and I have grown up. Except for the uncontrollable hug at the beginning, I There is no way to reproduce the warmth with the way of childhood.

The atmosphere was still silent. Grandpa grabbed the meat in his hand, took a bite, and then started to gobble it up. I heard from my grandpa that here, I lived a life of blood and blood. After a while, a large piece of meat was eaten by my grandpa. After eating it all, he stared at the unfinished meat in my hand again, swallowing greedily.

My nose was sore, and I passed the rest of the meat. He turned his head and said in a slightly irritable voice, "I'm full." I went astray, and finally corrected. Even though I lost my memory, I still subconsciously took care of my grandson who appeared out of nowhere.

I didn't refuse anymore, and ate the remaining half, because I didn't know what to face next, and I had to have sufficient physical strength.

Before entering the grave, I let my grandfather walk behind me, because I could see that he was trying to suppress the fear.The two of us put on masks and entered this straight and dark passage. The corpses wrapped in white cloth on both sides were like two rows of soldiers.

After about three to five minutes, the tomb passage came to an end.At the end was a stone door that had been blasted open. There were many faces carved on the stone door, looking at us with various expressions, and some stretched their necks as if they were going to get out of the stone door.A lot of black bloodstains could be seen on the ground in front of the stone gate, but nothing like corpses could be seen.

The stone gate that was blown open was obviously the masterpiece of my grandfather and his group. I turned to my grandfather and asked, "Is there any image?"

His old hoarse voice was a little unsteady, and he said, "No."

I asked again: "Is it okay now? Can you hold on?" In this life, I have only been so patient with four people. One is Xiao Jing back then, the other is Tofu, and then Wen Min. Now there is one more person.

Grandpa suddenly grabbed my hand, and his skinny fingers were extremely strong. At this moment, an idea came to my mind, thinking: With this energy and strength, I can live at least ten or twenty years. Maybe he can look up to Zhang Sanfeng and live a hundred and thirty years old.Thinking so, I feel very happy.

He grabbed my hand and said after a long while: "I can't remember anything, I don't know if what you said is true, but don't go in, I feel like there is a terrifying thing watching us inside."

My heart skipped a beat, knowing that Grandpa couldn't take it anymore, so I said, "No, I have to figure out what's behind this before I know how to get you out." In the previous exchange, I learned something One thing, grandpa is afraid of light, more precisely, he is afraid of the daytime under the sun, even if the sun cannot be seen during the daytime, and it is cloudy and rainy, as long as he leaves this underground palace, his skin will be sunburned very quickly, which is different from the sunburn of normal people. Such injuries are accompanied by rapid flesh decay.

He once tried to find other food, but was forced to retreat whenever he swam to the entrance of the groundwater.

This kind of characteristic is like a zombie. When I heard this, I almost doubted whether Grandpa also... But Grandpa has no corpse spots on his body, and he eats and drinks normally. Moreover, from a selfish point of view, even if it is a living corpse, I can How about it?Treat her like Xiao Jing?Xiao Jing has failed me, I can kill him, but can I kill this person in front of me?

Up to now, only by entering the coffin of the Earth Ghost King can we find out what happened there and how to solve the current predicament.

After I finished speaking, Grandpa became irritable and said, "You said that you came here to find me. Now that you have found me, there is no need to go in again."

I was silent for a while, then held his dry hand and said, "But, I want to take you home."

From the blasted hole in the stone gate, there was a faint gust of wind. Grandpa was silent for a long time, and said: "You also said that I am a very powerful person. Since even I will become what I am now, why don't you go in?" No... since you recognize me as your grandfather, then obey me and don't go any further."

(End of this chapter)