Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 320 Face Worship
Although I don't know if the legend Zhuanrui said has any basis, but I was careful to sail the boat for thousands of years, and the tofu was also guilty, so I interrupted the movement of the tofu and asked him to put the things back, and the tofu went down the steps , showing an expression of 'look, it's him who won't let me move, not because I'm timid'.

Seeing us put down our things, Zhuan Rui didn't speak anymore, but went to study the corpse on the ground, as if he wanted to find out the identity of the corpse, presumably to confirm Zhuan Donglai's life and death, but it's hard to be sure about this Because six people died in the river at that time, no one knows whether Zhuan Donglai was among those six people.

After a while, Zhuan Rui shook his head and sat on the ground. Obviously, this corpse should not come from Zhuan Dong.

Immediately afterwards, he shifted his gaze to his grandfather, who was not wearing a mask at this moment, and the turquoise mask was hanging on his waist. Zhuan Rui's eyes moved to the mask again, and then a flash of anger flashed, and he asked, "Why is he here?" here?"

Tofu pouted and said, "You didn't buy this place, why can't he be here? Why, you still know him?"

Zhong Gong has always been reticent, so he couldn't help but swear at this moment, saying: "It's not just that we know each other, this person has made us miserable." I guess when Zhuanrui and his two entered the core area of ​​the underground palace, his grandfather once showed up to use the tomb. The agency cleaned up the two of them. Although they didn't see Grandpa's face, they probably recognized the mask, so they lost control of their excitement at the moment.

Seeing Zhong Gong coming over to clean up the fainted grandpa, before I could speak, Tofu had already rushed out, saying: "Do you know who he is? He dares to act like this, he is a famous ghost king, even if he is old He is still the ghost king, you two don't mess around, if you dare to touch him, the three of us will fight you hard."

"Ghost King?" Zhuan Rui's gloomy expression showed surprise, he fixed his eyes on his grandfather, and said, "Ghost King Chen Siyuan?" When he said this, he looked at me, obviously confirming what Tofu said.I nodded and said, "It's my grandfather, and he's also the only living person other than us in this underground palace."

Zhuanrui's surprise can be imagined, and he said, "It's been 14 years, and you're still alive? What's going on?" At this moment, the thing monitoring us seems to have stopped moving. After telling the two of them about the experience, after hearing the reason, Zhuan Rui was silent for a while, closed his eyes, and probably knew that Zhuan Dong had no hope of rebirth.But I always felt in my heart that this person didn't seem to come here mainly for Zhuan Donglai, it was probably just an excuse, maybe what he really wanted was the legendary seven lamps.

At this moment, the magic lamp is in front of us, dim and dim. If it is not for the year and cultural background, people who don't know it will definitely sell it as scrap iron.

Zhuan Rui and the two were also in a panic. After resting for a while, they said calmly: "Be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, and don't move it rashly." Immediately afterwards, his eyes fell on the black honeycomb. On the stone, his expression changed, and he said, "Didn't you encounter any strange things when you opened your coffin?"

Tofu rolled his eyes and said, "Does it count if there are insects flying out? How many of them have you eaten?"

Zhuan Rui shook his head when he heard the words, his eyes suddenly became strange, and he said, "Do you know why these worms can survive in the coffin? This black stone is called the Insect Fragrance Stone, and it can be eaten as a whole. Things, if I'm not wrong, they should be some kind of poisonous insects bred by themselves, this thing is placed here, it must be to deal with the tomb robbers who opened the coffin..." After a pause, he looked at the three of us , Said: "Could it be that these bugs didn't attack you after the coffin was opened?"

The tofu had a bad face when Zhuan Rui said it, and said, "It's smaller than a mosquito, and it disperses as soon as it's released. It shouldn't have much attack power, right?" The voice was clearly uncertain.

Zhuan Rui said again: "Don't you feel any abnormality in your body?"

I felt it for a while, and I didn't think it was wrong. Tofu moved his hands and feet and said, "Suddenly I feel like shit, does that count?"

Zhuan Rui was silent for a while, and finally didn't mention the worm, probably because he was angry with the tofu.

At this moment, apart from the Insect Fragrance Stone, the Magic Lamp, and the Soul-Suppressing Dream Knife in the coffin, the only thing left in the coffin was a box.The box was opened, revealing a roll of brown-yellow silk script. The silk script looked very messy and had obviously been tampered with.

Zhuan Rui put on the gloves, and carefully took out the silk book.

This silk scroll is about half a meter long, and it is densely packed with red characters arranged vertically. These characters should be the same as the characters on the stone wall. I can't understand it, but Zhuan Rui is staring at the silk scroll closely, as if he is reading. above content.My heart skipped a beat, and I said, "Could it be that Zhuan Rui understands these characters?"
The three of us looked at each other without making a sound, and let Zhuan Rui watch quietly.Grandpa passed out at the moment. I don't know if he will be as mad as before when he wakes up. In desperation, I can only take off Grandpa's throwing knife and tie his hands temporarily, thinking that Grandpa is sorry. , don’t be angry with me, there is no way, I hope you will be sober when you wake up.

I reckon that the reason why grandpa lost his mind twice successively must be influenced by "it". I don't know what kind of existence "it" is. right here.After a while, Zhuanrui put down the silk scroll slowly. We thought he would immediately relay the contents of the silk scroll to us, but strangely, he sat down cross-legged, holding the silk scroll and meditating for a long time.

Everyone waited patiently for a while, but still did not see him speak. Tofu couldn't help it first, waved his hand in front of Zhuanrui, and said, "Don't be too imaginative, what is written on it?"

Zhuan Rui glanced at him, and blocked Tofu's waving hands in front of his eyes. Immediately afterwards, he put the silk book back in its original place, and turned his gaze to the abandoned lamps.

I immediately guessed that the things recorded in the silk book were probably related to these strange lamps.

At this moment, Zhuan Rui said, "This is a warning letter."

"Warning letter?" Gu Wenmin asked in surprise, "Is it something like a curse?" She probably thought of the curse in Xu Fu's tomb.

Zhuan Rui shook his head, and talked about the content in the silk script. In fact, even he himself didn't know whether he should believe the content or not.

Most people have always believed that the Zhuang people have no written language. In fact, the Zhuang nationality is a nation that has been continuously integrated in the long history. Many are the fusion of many small nationalities, the most widely spread one is originally from the Dai people, and the characters we see before us are the ancient Zhuang characters among the Zhuang people.

In the business of Dao Dou, the good ones have their own unique skills. Zhuan Donglai is very good at ancient characters, and Zhuan Rui has inherited some, but he is definitely not as thorough as Zhuan Donglai. Therefore, he only knows the content of the silk script. I took a rough look, and some of them were completed by my own speculation.

From this point of view, the translation on the stone wall before was probably left by Zhuan Donglai.

This shows that Zhuan Donglai did not die in the underground river, at least he had entered this tomb at that time.

If so, where did his body go?Or was he one of the living?

The corpse on the coffin in front of him is obviously not from Zhuan Donglai. I wonder if there are any clues in the silk script?I only heard Zhuan Rui half-interpreted and half-speculated about the contents of the silk script.According to the silk script records, the person buried in this coffin is undoubtedly the Earth Ghost King.

According to legend, the Earth Ghost Clan is a nation that crawled out of the earth, and the Earth Ghost King is the leader of this nation. This nation has very peculiar beliefs.

In most religions and worship of ghosts and gods, such as Taoism worships the Sanqing and pursues the unity of man and nature, like Buddhism believes in all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and pays attention to mustard seeds. The unique multi-totem worship of all things, while the local ghosts believe in human faces.

The human face has 43 muscles. According to modern research, the human face can make at least [-] different expressions. This is a human expression language, and animals cannot reach this level. Although ancient people They will not conduct systematic research, but they obviously also understand the magic of the human face, and are amazed at the various transformations that a face can undergo. Compared with all the animals and plants around, only humans can do it.

For people with ancient concepts, this is a miraculous symbol. Perhaps because of this reason, the earth ghosts use human faces as totems.According to the records in the silk script, their research on human expressions has reached a terrifying level. They can directly see through the opponent's face based on a subtle change, such as the eyes, eyes, blinking frequency, the slightest tremor of the corner of the mouth, etc. In the heart, a strange dance can even be performed through the expression of the human face. This dance is called the "God's Face Dance". Of course, this unheard of dance has long since disappeared in the long river of history.

For this reason, the people of the Earth Ghost Clan wear masks. This mask is not only a kind of totem, but also a kind of protection for their privacy.

But even if you wear a mask, you can't escape the eyes of one person, and this person is the Earth Ghost King.

As in the legend, it is described above that the earth ghost king has seven heads and seven hands, and each hand holds a magic lamp, representing life, old age, sickness, death, corpse, ghost, and god, and the seven lamps , has incredible magical powers, just like what we have heard before.

But there was an extra clue in the silk book, because the seven lamps did not belong to the Earth Ghost King.

(End of this chapter)