Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 376 God's Labyrinth

Being stared at by such a soft and weak beauty, Lu Su didn't change his face, smiled slightly, and said, "Of course we will find Mr. Wu, don't worry." With his promise, Jizi seemed to feel relieved.

Immediately afterwards, he analyzed that we were on the west side at that time, that is to say, there were ice walls on both sides of the north and south. You can't search in place, you should continue to look for someone.This inference was reasonable, and everyone had no objection, so they walked along the narrow path between the unfrozen water.

Tofu turned his head frequently, presumably worried that the bald man with blue face and white eyes would follow, while watching, he said to me: "There is a saying that you must see people when you are alive, and corpses when you are dead. Do you think it is strange? Why do we You saw a ghost, but didn't you see a corpse?"

Jizi on the side was relatively weak, so she was supported by the old smoker. After Tofu finished speaking, she suddenly spoke and said in Chinese with a somewhat weird pronunciation: "That's not a ghost, it's a photo."

What she said aroused the interest of all of us, and she had never seen it before, she just heard us describe it, why is she so confident?I didn't ask: "What do you mean by taking a picture?" Jizi thought for a while, as if he was organizing his words, and then said after a while: "There is a kind of toy, um... It's a kind of toy for adults. It is very popular in my hometown. Put people in a very dark place, put ice cubes or mirrors around them, and after a certain dim light, suddenly put on a strong light, which will make people's shadows stay on the ice cubes and mirrors for a period of time. Of course, Usually only a few seconds or a dozen seconds."

Tofu rubbed his chin and said, "I seem to have heard of such a thing, it's a kind of optical game. But that kind of shadow only stays for about ten seconds at most. The person we saw just now has been missing for three days." It's been more than a month, and its head is sticking out of the ice! So it's definitely not a shadow."

Jizi remained silent, seemingly disapproving of Tofu's point of view, but did not refute it.I don't agree with Jizi's statement. The reason is just like what Tofu said. In any case, it doesn't seem like a shadow left behind.

It's strange to see her in such an affirmative state.While paying attention to the movement around them, everyone shuttled through the narrow ice passage in the unfreezing water.This glacier cave is very large. After walking for about ten minutes, at the end of the flashlight, there are still patches of unfreezing water, as if endless.

In the following process, we have not encountered any danger.Even the bald soft rice dumpling leaf with blue face and white eyes never appeared before.There is a dead silence in the glacier tomb, only the sound of dripping water can be heard occasionally.

At this moment, my eyes suddenly caught sight of the reflection on the water surface. Apart from our group, there was a huge head with exposed fangs in the reflection!The reflection of the head was reflected on the calm unfrozen water, everything appeared clearly, and its pair of blood-red eyeballs were staring at us impressively!

I immediately realized that there was something above my head, so I shouted: "Be careful!" Then, the light in my hand suddenly turned up.

The interior of the glacier cave has different heights, and at this moment, the ceiling of the tomb is only four or five meters away from us, which is extremely low compared to the vastness when we first entered.And my scream made everyone stop in unison.

At this moment, the light went up a lot, and for a moment I saw clearly what was lurking above our heads.

It is dressed in brown-red hard armor, and its body resembles a large desert lizard. It grins its teeth, and its eyes are slightly red. It is about six meters long, and its muscles are bulging, making people who look at it shudder.But at this moment, everyone followed my gaze and found it. Several lights shone on it, but the thing didn't respond. When I looked carefully, I wasn't surprised, because this thing was not alive, but was Frozen inside the mysterious ice layer.

It maintained a preying attitude, extremely fierce and lifelike in the black ice.

Tofu exclaimed, "What is this?"

Lu Su said: "It should be a paleontology from the glacial period. We have penetrated 30 meters below the mysterious ice layer, and the geological layer we are in now is at least several million years old." .” We focused the light on it, only to see that there were some creatures frozen in the ice layer there.There are all kinds of strange things, as if they came out of the history books of paleontology.Everyone couldn't help being amazed. They didn't expect that there were so many remains of life in the depths of the glacier.

There are no artificial traces here. Obviously, Puzhen did not let people process this place back then, perhaps out of awe, or for other reasons. This place is like a zoo of paleontology, without any influence. destroy.As we walked forward, we observed the various creatures frozen on the top, speculating what happened millions of years ago. How did those people in Puzhen feel when they saw these things for the first time?

While we were in amazement, suddenly, something in the ice caught our attention.The shadow of that thing looked like a human figure, because it was quite deep in the cold, so it couldn't be seen clearly for a while.Looking closer, it was indeed a person, but his feet were facing down, so we stood directly below him, and when we looked up, we could only see the vague soles of his feet.

Jizi suddenly exclaimed, "It's Mr. Wu."

I was startled and said, "Did you admit it wrong? It was so deep in the cold, and there was only a black shadow. How could you say it was Wu Shui?"

Jizi shook her head nervously, and said: "It must be him, I can't be wrong, no one knows him better than me." Looking at her flustered and determined expression, I couldn't help thinking: Could it be that in the ice layer, there is really dumb?How can a living person run into the ice?
Hearing this, Lu Su held the Ghost Crying Knife in his hand, and then threw it straight towards the ice above.All of a sudden, strength and accuracy were no small matter. Everyone's eyes were blurred, and they only felt a straight silver light flashing in front of their eyes. Then, the silver light hit the Xuanbing on the top, and there was only a bang, and the knife was bounced back. , Lu Su stretched out his hand to grab it, inserted the knife back into his waist, stared at the white mark on the mysterious ice layer, shook his head, also looked puzzled, and said: "It's very hard, it's Xuanbing, this thing can't be broken in an instant. form."

what on earth is it?

Maybe the dark human figure in the depths of the ice is not a mute, but some primitive man?
I said to myself: This Jizi looks a little nervous, so don't take her words too seriously.Of course, this cannot be said directly in front of her, so he said: "This ice layer cannot be broken, let's get out of here and find a way." Slipping and falling, getting your clothes and shoes wet in this bone-chilling ice cave is no small matter.

Everyone continued to walk forward, and from time to time they would see some strange frozen animals, but the further they went, the fewer the number.At this time, the unfreezing water finally came to an end, and countless honeycomb-like ice holes were formed on the ice wall at the end. Ice holes, large and small, covered the top, left, right, and front of the head.

My heart sank, and I said in my heart: It's over, the thing I was most worried about still appeared.The cobweb-shaped primitive ice cave, known as "God's Labyrinth", how should we go now?At a rough estimate, there are thousands of these ice caves, and most of them can allow people to pass through. Which cave should we choose?

If you get in, if you don't pay attention, you will get lost in the spider web-like structure, and you will either freeze to death or starve to death.

No wonder Napu really dares to welcome you. There is still such a natural barrier. Even the most powerful geologists will be helpless when they come here.

Everyone looked at each other and had to stop.

Tofu said: "Let's see, in the current situation, we have only one way."

Lu Suen let out a sigh, and said softly: "What?"

"Pack up and go home, those who should break up, those who should eat, eat."

I kicked him and said, "If you don't talk, no one will think you are dumb. If you want to go back to Gaolaozhuang, you can go back by yourself." Tofu clutched his butt, walked to the ice caves and wandered around, looking here and there. Look, suddenly, Tofu seemed to think of something, turned his head to look at some holes at the top, and suddenly said: "You said, did the person who was frozen in the ice just crawled in along these passages?"

What he said made Jizi, who insisted on his own opinion, immediately excited, and said excitedly: "It must be like this, we are going to rescue Mr. Wu." I really have some doubts, whether the mute got into a certain ice hole.

According to what we saw at the time, the mute kept a motionless posture, so that means that he was probably driven into the ice cave by something, and he couldn't have entered by himself. Now, the mute may Still in that weird coma state.

Thinking of this, I nodded and said it was possible, whether that person is dumb or not, we have to find a way to find out first.When Jizi saw that I was helping her, Jizi immediately showed a grateful expression, and said, "Mr. Chen Xuan, thank you, it's not in vain that Mr. Wu has always regarded you as a relative."

This last sentence made me stunned, and even Tofu was dumbfounded.

Tofu murmured, "Old Chen, is the mute really your father? Then why does he pretend not to know you?"

(End of this chapter)