Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 390
Tofu's words are too unreliable, I said: "What kind of human body lock, if it is so easy to open, Lu Su still has to recruit him to go all over the world, is he as busy as his grandson?"

Tofu hissed and looked puzzled.At this moment, he suddenly stared at my face, as if he had discovered a new world, and said, "Old Chen, there is something before that I dare not tell you."

I looked at his strange expression, felt a little nervous, and said, "What's the matter?"

Tofu said: "When the dynamite exploded, your face was scratched several times by the ice cubes, and your face was almost disfigured. I know that you are actually very stinky, and you need to shave for 10 minutes. I am worried that you will suffer." I can't get this stimulation, so I didn't tell you. But now, the wound on your face is gone."

With Tofu's reminder, I couldn't help touching my face, and sure enough, I couldn't even touch a scar from the previous wounds.

Tofu and I looked at each other without speaking, thinking about what was going on in our minds.Immediately afterwards, I realized that the pain in my chest had almost disappeared.Just now, he was concerned about the nervousness of Tofu's injury, and he was highly concentrated for a while, and he didn't worry about his own injury. Only now did he feel that there was no discomfort in his chest that had been hurting all the time.

I suddenly thought, could it be related to the red mist sprayed by the soldiers that day?
When I thought this way, I let the tofu stay where it was, and climbed back by myself, only to see that the smoke in the ice cave had dissipated, and the crimson sky soldier had shrunk into a piece of soft skin, and the ice cave was filled with smoke. There is a mineral smell that has not dissipated, and I don't know what substance is contained in the red smoke.

But just this is already shocking, no matter what the red substance is, one thing is certain, that is, the heavenly soldiers were refined from human corpses, and those red substances are obviously human. masterpiece.If they can really make people super resilient, then the meaning is too great.You must know that modern medicine cannot achieve breakthroughs in many surgical operations, mainly because the recovery speed of organisms cannot keep up with the destruction speed of surgery.

Medical scientists have been looking for solutions to the problem, but now... these substances that allow people to gain amazing resilience have been discovered by our ancestors thousands of years ago, and they were used in the process of refining heavenly soldiers .

Let's make a hypothesis, if the Celestial Soldiers are refined by Puzhen, does that mean that Puzhen can manipulate this strange substance?
If he uses these red smokes on himself, what kind of effect will it produce?I told these inferences to Tofu, and Tofu thought about it: "In the words of old man Zhao, this belongs to the scope of Chinese mysticism. The mysticism of our ancestors and modern Western technology are two different things. However, according to your inference , The speed of wound recovery is accelerated, which means that the activity of slit division is strengthened. If this effect spreads to the whole body, that person's human cells will always be in the healthiest state..."

The two of us immediately came to an astonishing conclusion, that is, if our inference is true, then that person will be in a state that will not age, will not get sick, and will recover quickly from all injuries.

While speculating, Tofu said: "My dear... this is going against the sky. But it's not right. Since this is the case, what kind of Xuanbing tomb will Puzhen build for himself? He won't die at all, okay?" Regarding this point, It is also difficult for me to give an answer. After all, this happened thousands of years ago, and everything just now is just our speculation. How did the red smoke come from?How long can it act on the human body?These are all unknown, so it is too early to draw conclusions easily.

Until now, Tofu and I had no time to look at the surrounding environment.The outside of the drop-shaped ice cave is radial. The further you go, the bigger the space of the ice cave.At this moment, Tofu and I are both in good spirits, and our injuries have healed. Except for a thin layer of scab on Tofu's back, we can hardly tell that it is someone who has been injured.

There is a man-made mark left on the ice cave, which is a vertical bar, which is the one I used to use before. It is probably left by Lu Su and the others to record the direction.Everything will be easy if there is a mark. Tofu and I quicken our pace and move forward along the ice cave. Every time we reach a fork, we can see the marks left by Lu Su and the two of us. The time for walking through the cave was saved a lot, only about four to ten minutes, and the marks in front of us changed.

To be precise, it's not that there are no more marks, but that there are suddenly more marks.

I saw next to a vertical line, and the arc line we saw before. Obviously, the person who left the arc line mark at the beginning may have taken a different route from us in the mid-term, but in the later stage Confluence again.Lu Su and the other two left their own marks beside this arc, so the marks became two.

I knew in my heart that it was not far from the end of this ice cave, and I was even more energetic with Tofu. While guarding against the appearance of trapped corpses, the two of them were careful about the movements of the heavenly soldiers. The pressure is extremely high, and the only comfort I feel is that my physical strength is good now. '

Not long after, the ice cave in front of us suddenly came to an end. Tofu and I stood in the ice cave and took a look, but saw a bottomless and extremely dark crack under our feet. Xuanbing platform.

The crack was more than ten meters wide, and there was a rope in the middle. There was no ice slag on the rope, and it seemed that it had been used recently.

Tofu exhaled white mist from his mouth, and said, "It seems that he has gone to the opposite side. Where is the opposite side?" At this moment, the searchlight in our hands was on and off. An Arabic numeral 3 is displayed, which means that the power will be completely cut off and extinguished after 3 minutes.

The searchlight has entered power-saving mode, unable to emit strong light, and the visibility is only within a radius of about five meters, so everything on the opposite side can only be seen as a vague outline, only the edge of the platform, in the dark In the bright light, there are hideous lines.

Knowing that there was not much time, I squatted down and pressed the rope. The rope was made of steel and was very strong, so Tofu and I locked the safety buckle and rowed to the opposite side.I had just swayed to the middle, and as the distance from the lights increased, things in the distance of the platform were gradually exposed in my sight. Only then did I see, on both sides of the platform, stood impressively one by one in heavy armor. The warriors are lined up straight on one side. As the light draws closer, the heavy bronze armor on their bodies emits a faint light.

I was secretly startled, the first thing I did after boarding the platform was to observe these warriors.In the unique environment of Xuanbing Cave, these heavy bronze armors with intricate flowers seem to have just been cast, without any trace of time, they are exquisite and amazing.

Counting them carefully, there are a total of eighteen heavy armored warriors in this row, all of the same height.In the heavy armored helmet, one can see the lifelike faces kept under extremely low temperature, but the dead people's unique stiff lines on the face, and the thick cyan color on the skin make the corpse look extraordinarily terrifying .

It has always been the privilege of princes and princes to be buried with warriors. How could there be warriors in Puzhen's tomb?

Tofu didn't think about these things. He was scared and excited at the same time, inspecting the bronze heavy armor of the warriors one by one, and said: "Old Chen, we have worked so hard for so long, and what we see is either ice or snow, or iron armor. Chains, now I finally see a solid product. This thing is so well preserved, can we get a set out?"

I said: "This thing is very heavy, and it's not easy to get it out, so don't imagine it."

Tofu was not happy, and he was about to say something, but suddenly his expression changed, he let out a cry, he yanked my arm, pointed to a warrior next to him, and said, "Old, old Chen, look quickly, this man is gone."

I think his words are a bit messy, what is missing?Following the gaze of his fingers, he immediately understood the meaning of the tofu, but saw the last warrior standing in place with a pair of bronze armor, but the corpse inside was gone.

My heart skipped a beat and I thought, "What's going on here?"

There has always been a saying in the folks that there are eighteen demons, and there are eighteen arhats in Buddhism, and there are eighteen kinds of handprints for exterminating demons; warriors are buried in underground palaces, and those above the princely level are all counted with the upper number of nine, that is, eighteen or eight. 81 and so on.

This Puzhen is not a prince, yet there are eighteen sacrificial warriors placed in this Xuanbing tomb, which is already intriguing, but now one of the heavy armors is still empty, which is even more puzzling.

At this time, Tofu's imagination began to expand again, and he looked around suspiciously, and said cautiously: "Old Chen, tell me, did the corpse in the bronze armor turn into a dumpling and run away by itself? It might be Is it near here?"

I said angrily: "Wu Yazui, where are there so many zongzi? You think the zongzi are mass-produced? They have to be formed under special conditions. Besides, what if the corpse is raised? The zongzi won't be so boring. I know I'm taking off my armor." As soon as I finished speaking, the searchlight in my hand flickered down the hill, then went out suddenly, and the surroundings fell into deathly darkness for a moment.

I knew that the power of the searchlight was running out, so I quickly took out the windproof lighter and lit it. The willow-like flame burned peacefully, bringing me and Tofu's face very close.I knew I couldn't waste time, so I followed the location listed by the samurai all the way, followed by the dim light of the lighter, and squinted my eyes to inquire about the surrounding environment.

At this moment, a pile of things on the ice caught the attention of Tofu and me.

It was a burnt black lump, and I recognized it at a glance. It should be solid fuel, but after the fuel was burned out, there were many crystals left. It should be the old-fashioned cylinder fuel in the past. From this we can see , this pile of fuel is relatively long.

A thought suddenly flashed in my mind, and I thought: "Could it be that this was left by the statement 30 years ago?"

(End of this chapter)