Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 369
Lu Su and Tofu next to me also woke up, and they got out of the sleeping bags with a grunt. Fortunately, we were more vigilant, and the weapons were placed next to us. When we got out of the sleeping bags, Lu Su rushed out with a knife in his hand. Afterwards, as for tofu... I'm still untying the rope from my sleeping bag, so let's not mention it.

Lu Su and I got out of the tent, only to see that the fire had been extinguished, the moon was bright and clear in the snow-capped mountains, and the white snow reflected the moonlight, everything seemed dark and hazy.We were not the only ones awakened by the sound, the rest of the people also got out of the tent one after another, as if they were facing a big enemy.

Feng Guishou looked around the crowd, his expression changed suddenly, and he said, "There are two people missing."

Black Loach then said, "It's Lu Dazui and Maoya who are keeping watch at night."

I also know a little bit about these two people. Lu Dazui likes to brag. Nine out of ten sentences out of his mouth are bragging. Messy holes, even slang words can't be smooth.

In order not to lose face among our group of people, he often brags about his deeds of inversion, saying that there are many dangers, and it is often a treasure worth tens of millions. In the words of tofu, this person is not suitable for digging mushrooms. He wrote scripts for Hollywood, because he really has a good ability to write stories. For those who don't know, it's really creepy and amazing.In the wind and snow, listening to him bragging is also considered a kind of pastime.

Other than that, this person has no major problems. Compared with those real experts in the Dou Dou world, he is not a black hearted person, he is not a hot hand, he is a small person with some obvious characteristics of a small person. He would be embarrassed and change the subject with a blushing face, but if this matter were placed on someone like Bai Zhanji, he would definitely kill the person who made him embarrassed.

As for Mao Ya, he is a young man with no other skills. He probably knows his position in the team, so he works very hard. Things like camping and cooking are very awkward.She has a timid personality, is very afraid of offending others, and is careful to show embarrassment to everyone.But other than that, nothing special.

I have always wondered why the mute would find such a group, such a group of irrelevant people, but at this time, Lu Dazui and Maoya were gone.Everyone turned on the flashlights, and when their vision brightened, a glaring trace on the snow was clearly reflected in everyone's eyes.

It was a long trace, as if something had been dragged, and there were some messy marks beside it, it looked like someone had grabbed it out.Such a scene immediately formed in my mind.Lu Dazui and Mao Ya were suddenly attacked and dragged away by something during the night vigil, struggling to leave these messy handprints.

But at this moment, this trace clearly shows that the final direction is the hot spring lake, which is less than ten meters away from us.

The mute took a few steps to the lakeside, squatted down, and seemed to be searching for some clues.

At this moment, he was only wearing a pair of shorts, probably because his clothes were wet when he jumped into the water to save others during the day.

The mute frowned, gestured, and suddenly pointed at a person in the line, saying, "You, go down and have a look."

The person named was startled, and said in a panic: "I, I will go? Why should I go? There must be a water monster down here." This person is none other than the fish float who led the way before, that is, the best swimmer in our team. .

In this case, as long as you are not a fool, you will know that there are weird things in the water, and the things inside must be very fierce, otherwise Lu Dazui and Maoya, even if they are useless, the two living people will not even resist No, just be dragged down like this.

After the fish float finished speaking, the mute stared at him coldly, and then put one hand on the black machete at his waist.Yuboo seemed to have remembered the scene of him chopping up the snowman during the day, swallowed his saliva, and bravely got into the water.

We hit the light on the surface of the water and watched the flexible figure of the float swim to the distance and dive into the water until the figure was invisible.

Tofu said worriedly: "Can this kid do it? He's good at swimming, but I don't know how good he is."

I said lightly, "Why don't you go into the water and help him?"

Tofu quickly shook his head and said, "Forget it, I'd better support him silently on the shore." In the darkness, everyone had different expressions, but most of them were divided into three categories. The second type is Feng Guishou and Mengmeng's frowning ones; the third type is the gang of tomb robbers who have no knowledge, each of them is like an enemy, and they dare not show their air.

The whole process didn’t take long. It took only 2 minutes from when we got out of the tent to when the float was launched into the water. Under the light, it gradually spreads with the surface of the lake.

I couldn't help but take a deep breath, thinking that it's not good, the float might not come back, my God, what's under the water?Needless to say, I'm afraid Lu Dazui and Maoya are in danger.Tofu cursed fiercely, and said, "What are you waiting for, save people quickly, take out the guns."

It was the mute who answered him. A thin layer of snow had already rested on the mute's shoulders. He looked at Tofu coldly and said, "Retreat, leave here first."

Dumbfounded, Tofu pointed to the lake and said, "Then what about the three of them?"

The mute clicked his tongue, and said in a cold tone with sarcasm, "Do you think those three people can still live?"

Tofu is not good at words, so he said anxiously: "But...but we'll just go like this...they are helping you with the work, and you sent the fish float to the mine."

"So what?" the mute asked back, but Tofu couldn't speak, so the mute made a gesture of withdrawing from the camp, signaling for everyone to move to the campsite.Lu Su sighed, patted Tofu on the shoulder, and said, "Don't be sad, this line of work has never been an easy job. Partnering means selling your life to others. You pay with one hand and your life with the other. You don't complain about life or death." .”

Lu Su's words are true. Back then, Wei Nanjing's next trip to the mountain would cost 80 yuan, which was not considered the bonus of the clear weapon.The mute must have paid a lot of money to join this group of people. I pay the money, and you work hard.

That being said, it's just that the mute is so cold, it's chilling.

Feng Guishou and the others didn't say anything, but the rest of the people were shocked by the dumb and cold style. They began to dismantle the tents, preparing to march against the wind and snow overnight, and rest in the daytime.The atmosphere in the team was very silent, perhaps everyone realized at this moment: what is cruelty.It is estimated that some people have begun to regret partnering with the mute.But in the depths of this snow-capped mountain where there is no human relationship, who would dare to repent?Killing people in this place is easier than crushing an ant.

Not far away, I heard a man with a big beard muttering, saying that it’s really hard to make money for Daodou, and he must be a good person after finishing this job.

Tofu was depressed and looked at the lake from time to time. I advised him: "Three strangers, I want to have some fun."

Tofu shook his head and said: "I also hate my personality, but I can't change it. When they die, I feel uncomfortable. Do you think they have wives and children? Are their parents still there? They are dead. What should the family do?"

I said in my heart, whoever was not raised by his parents naturally has parents, wives and children, but high rewards are bound to be accompanied by high risks. This career is a voluntary choice, and death is not worthy of sympathy.Some people work hard all their lives, live hard and work hard, and still live in poverty all their lives, but those who dig mushrooms upside down, why spend money like dirt, why spend a lot of money?How can there be such a return without a huge effort?
Therefore, it is not injustice for these three people to die here today.

I comforted Tofu in this way, he felt better, and carried the equipment bag on his back.Everyone quickly packed up their things and prepared to retreat, but no one noticed, something quietly appeared in the lake, and by the time they found it, it was already too late.

I only heard a scream coming from behind the crowd, and when I turned my head, I saw a dead-looking thing floating in the lake, and the hands of that thing were strangling a man's neck impressively, and pulled him to the ground. Dragging under the lake.

That man was the bearded man who was still muttering about washing his hands in the golden basin.

Could it be that this dead man was the one who dragged away Lu Dazui and Maoya, and attacked the float at the bottom of the water?What is it?water ghost?

For a while, this not-so-good team suddenly became chaotic.But we reacted quickly this time, the bearded man hadn't been dragged into the bottom of the water at this moment, and was struggling. I knew it would be too late if I didn't save him. In addition, the dead man was not far away from us, about ten or so away from the water. About one meter away, in desperation, I suddenly shot a throwing knife.

In the past few months, I have been studying hard and practicing hard, and I have achieved something. At close range, I can almost see what I see.The throwing knife stuck into the thing's hand, but it didn't work. The thing didn't even pause. At this moment, the bearded man had already been pulled into the water. Due to his hard struggle, he didn't go deep for a while. If it was later After a while, there must be no help.

At this moment, the mute jumped into the water and swam towards the thing. In the water, he couldn't get a hand on the shore. I was worried that the mute would suffer too, so I jumped into the water to help, and Lu Su on the other end also twisted his knife into the water The three of them swam towards the bearded man in a triangular formation.

The dead man seemed to be wise. When he saw us approaching, he suddenly increased his strength and pulled the beard deeper in an instant. The underwater light was dim, and the light from the flashlight was even weaker. The beard was almost invisible.

Depend on.

I cursed secretly, took a deep breath, plunged into the water, and dived down.

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Since the three of us entered the water in a hurry and did not carry underwater lighting equipment, the main light source was the afterglow from the people on the shore. The water was not deep under the light. Once the dead man pulled the bearded man into the depths, we were in In the dark water bottom, where can I see his position, it will be too late.

So at this moment, besides me, the mute and Lu Su also entered the water one after another.The dumb person, for the three dead people, was so cold and chilling, but he was so active for the bearded man who was still alive, which made me realize that he is a very rational person and does not do meaningless things , There is no need for meaningless feelings. If you want to describe it, I think the dumb person is a sophisticated computing machine, which calmly analyzes the pros and cons, and calmly handles everything. The only thing missing is human feelings.

Except for the arrogance he displayed, as well as the occasional sarcasm and poisonous tongue, the emotions that many people should have do not seem to exist in this person.

The mute swam ahead, so I dived under the ground first. Due to the bearded man struggling hard, the speed of the dead man was slowed down. In the dim peripheral vision, I could see that the mute was still approaching the bearded man and the dead man.

At this moment, a hand suddenly appeared on my shoulder, a human hand.

I feel something is wrong, the mute and Lu Su are both in front of me, so who is behind me?I turned my head in shock, and saw a familiar face under the blurred water, which was Tofu.He puffed up his cheeks and held his breath, and shook his hand. I took a closer look, and it turned out that he was holding an underwater lighting searchlight in his hand, and he was sending us equipment.

Immediately afterwards, the tofu paste searchlight was turned on. This thing was very powerful, and a powerful beam of light shot towards the bottom of the water. The obscure bottom of the water was immediately shrouded in yellow light, and it became transparent. The real face of the dead man, It is also completely exposed to our sight.

When I saw it, I was shocked, because the dead person was none other than Maoya, who was missing.It was similar to the head I saw before. If his face had been bitten by something, it would be pitted, and one of his eyeballs was missing.

At this moment, the mute and Lu Su had already flanked Mao Ya, one left and one right. They raised the knife and fell, and Mao Ya's two hands holding the bearded man were cut off instantly.The bearded man reacted quickly, and hurried upstream, surfacing to take a breath.

He was no longer in danger, so I didn't pay attention to him any more, but looked carefully at the hairy teeth in the water.

What is he now?
water ghost?

Why did he become like this?

What was he killed by?

At this moment, Mao Ya lost his arms, and his whole body suddenly fell backwards, sinking towards the water.As soon as he fell, I immediately noticed that there was something under his buttocks.

The thing is very thin and hard to spot without looking carefully in the water. Since Tofu was standing next to me, and the powerful searchlight was shot from my angle, everything under the water was very clear, presumably the mute and Lu Su didn't notice it.

The thing was about half thinner than a finger, like a long worm, one end stuck in Maoya's body, the other end submerged in the deep water, I don't know how long it is.I didn't think so, this thing looked weird, it must be weird, so I quickly gestured to the mute and Lu Su, telling them to disperse and not get too close to Mao Ya's corpse.

But I was still one step too late, the thing was pulled out of Mao Ya's body suddenly, and a burst of green liquid instantly gushed out from Mao Ya's lower body, spreading out in the hot spring.As the burst of liquid dispersed, Mao Ya's body, like a deflated ball, dried up and flattened instantly, and in just a split second, it turned into a piece of human skin floating with water.

This scene came so suddenly that the mute and Lu Su didn't expect it. The burst of green water spurted out, and the two of them were caught off guard and covered in it, blurring their vision for a while, but I could clearly see that bug-like thing , rushed towards the person wrapped in the green liquid!

I didn't care so much, and I didn't know what the consequences would be if I was entangled with this thing, but my experience told me that this was an extremely dangerous signal, so I swam over with a dagger.But of course my speed couldn't keep up with it, and before I got close, I saw a trace of red liquid appearing in the green liquid, probably it was dumb or Lu Su was injured.

However, the two of them reacted quickly. The moment the blood stains appeared, they retreated left and right, getting rid of the area covered by the green liquid.I found that Lu Su covered his chest with one hand, and his brows were tightly frowned. It seemed that he was the one who was injured just now.

And that thing stuck out again, and went towards the dumb who was closest to it. In the water, the skill naturally dropped a lot. , did not die, but came back to life in the water, and when the mute was dealing with the main body, he rushed towards the mute's shoulder.In an instant, the mute's shoulder overflowed with blood, and that thing actually got into the person's body directly.

This thing can regenerate like a leech!
I was startled, and at the same time held my breath to the bottom, and the mute realized that the knife was useless, so he could only reach out to block the thing when it came, Lu Su gestured to Tofu and me, signaling us to run for our lives.

After gesturing, he himself began to swim upstream.At this time, I saw the dumb suddenly grasping the thing with both hands, and even quickly tied a knot. The thing can penetrate into a person's body relying on its speed, but at this moment, the dumb suddenly made such a move, the thing Immediately losing his fighting power, he hit the mute twice, but after no effect, he shrank back into the water.

Only then did the mute follow upstream.

We came out of the water to take a breath, and didn't dare to stay, so we hurriedly swam to the shore.The bug-like thing was really weird and hard to detect. If it wasn't for Tofu's cleverness, seeing that we were swimming far away without a light source, and took the initiative to send underwater searchlights, the three of us might have died without knowing why.

When I thought of the thing that got into the mute's body, my heart pounded for a moment. After landing on the shore, the mute staggered, and suddenly fell to one knee on the ground, his upper body wobbled as if he was about to faint.Tofu was startled, and quickly squatted down to support him. It was freezing cold at the moment, and as soon as he landed on the shore, he was shivering from the cold when he was blown by the cold wind.I hurriedly put on my clothes, and put my coat on the mute, and let Tofu put on the clothes first, so as not to catch a cold in the snow mountain.Immediately afterwards, Mengmeng, a female doctor who saw something was wrong, immediately stepped forward and asked, "Boss Wu, what happened?"

The dumb face is very strange, he has always been indifferent, there are only three normal expressions, one is arrogant, the other is mocking, and the third is expressionless, but now, his expression is a little subtle, how to say, like constipation Same.

After Mengmeng asked, he uttered two words: "Shoulders." I immediately pulled down the clothes that were on his body, preparing to show Mengmeng the injured finger on his shoulders, but when I took off the clothes, I couldn't help being stunned, because That skin is as smooth as ever.

How is this going?

I went to look at Lu Su who was standing next to him, his expression was similar, as if he was enduring some kind of hidden pain, and he was only wearing a coat at the moment, and the bleeding area on his chest was also extremely smooth.

How could this be?
Seeing me pointing at the smooth shoulder of the mute, Mengmeng couldn't help casting doubtful glances at me, so I told about the incident in the water.

Mengmeng was surprised and said, "So, something got into Mr. Wu's body?" She was always very rude when speaking, but she respected the mute only, and she didn't dare to offend.As soon as she finished speaking, the mute suddenly covered her feet. Everyone was taken aback for a moment, thinking that his feet were also injured. Mengmeng asked him to let go and take a look. The mute shook his head, covered his leg with one hand, I reach out.

I was a little confused, so in this situation, I didn't mean to oppose him, so I asked, "What do you want?"

The mute clutched his leg tightly and said, "Your knife, a flying knife."

I took a throwing knife to him, and the mute pinched him with one hand. Then, I pointed the tip of the flying knife down and pointed it at the place I was covering with my hand. Then, I cut slowly. .My eyelids twitched, staring at his bleeding legs and his expressionless but sweaty face, I subconsciously swallowed my saliva.

At this time, Tofu got dressed and came out. Seeing this scene, he shouted: "Damn, you can't hurt yourself." Just as he was about to rush over, Lu Su raised his hand to stop him, and said in a strange voice: " Don't touch him."

Seeing the mute's actions, I realized why he used my throwing knife to cut himself.These throwing knives were all left by my grandfather. They have not been poisoned, and I don't know what kind of forging process they used. The blades are as thin as paper, and they are extremely hard. They are more powerful than modern scalpels.

While slashing the knife, the mute withdrew his hand. The people around watched this scene with bated breath. Although they didn't understand why, no one dared to interrupt.Just when the wound reached almost five centimeters, the mute's sword suddenly raised, and he picked out something from the flesh, and threw it onto the bonfire that had been raised again.

I took a closer look, and couldn't help being surprised, what he picked out was the thing that got into his shoulder.

The thing was thrown into the fire, and it made two sizzling sounds of roasting meat, and it was quickly burned up.

Only then did the mute let go of his hand, returned the throwing knife to me, and gestured at Mengmeng, saying coldly: "Bandage."

(End of this chapter)