Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 393 True and False
As soon as that 'I' got closer, taking advantage of Lu Su and the dumb being unprepared, he suddenly opened his mouth wide and bit the dumb who was closest to it.This is not an ordinary bite. When the thing opened its mouth, it turned into a mouth full of blood, and its entire body was also blurred, leaving only a faint blue flame in the end.The mute was caught off guard, being bitten like this, there was a sound on the neck, but there was no tooth mark, but a mass of black and blue, as if frostbitten by some cold air.With sharp eyes and quick hands, Lu Su slashed across with his knife, and the faint blue flame immediately dissipated into the void.

So just now, seeing Tofu and me, Lu Su's first reaction was, could we be fakes again?That's why I tried to make a stab, and I didn't let my guard down until I saw that I almost fell for myself in order to protect Tofu.

I felt something was wrong when I heard this, and said, "If there is something wrong with this place, then how did Xiaodou and I get in here?"

There was a half-smile on Lu Su's face, and he said, "Then you go back and have a look, can you still find that road?" Pull out a searchlight and go back.

I still don't believe it, can the road I walked disappear directly?
Tofu got up and said, "I'm going too." Then he followed me back.While walking, we looked back from time to time, and we could see Lu Su sitting where he was and looking at us.The passage is not a straight line, but has a certain arc, so after walking a certain distance, we can no longer see Lu Su.

However, the further I went, the more alien I felt, this is not where we came in at all!
In the first half of the passage we came in, there were many icicles, but there was nothing here.

Tofu became a little nervous and said, "Old Chen, how about...how about we go back?"

When I saw Tofu being so cowardly, I got angry and said, "Why go back? If the problem is not solved, it will be a fart to go back. You are still not a man, so go back by yourself if you are afraid." Isn’t this because you are afraid, since you have such an exploratory spirit, of course I will accompany you to the end!” In order to show his bravery, Tofu rushed in front of me, and not long after I walked away, a dazzling bright light suddenly appeared in front of me, Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of clicking footsteps, and in the strong light, a familiar figure walked towards me and Tofu.

I saw that it was not dumb and who it was.

Seeing Tofu and me, the mute also looked very surprised, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said coldly, "Why are you guys?"

Tofu said: "Why can't it be us? Our internal injuries are already healed. If we didn't see you not moving for three days and worried that something happened to you, we wouldn't come to this ghostly place." I yanked the tofu back and said, "He's not dumb!"

Tofu was taken aback, looked at the person in front of him, and asked doubtfully, "Could it be that he is also...how did you see it?"

I stared at the mute's neck and said, "There is no injury on his neck. Lu Su said that the mute was bitten once, and his neck was frostbitten by Yin Qi." Hearing this, Tofu immediately looked at the mute's neck, and then Jumping three feet high, he said: "It's a fake!" After speaking, he drew his dagger.

I reckoned that it was made from soft zongzi, and it would be useless to hold a knife, so I revealed the buffalo horn that Lu Su gave me.

The mute in front of me has been looking at me and Tofu coldly. Under our precautions, this thing did not attack.I reckoned that the mute in front of me was just an illusion, and behind the illusion was just a cloud of blue will-o'-the-wisps.I decided to attack the ghost first, so I grabbed the buffalo horn and quickly attacked the face of this thing. Unexpectedly, just as I made a move, the "person" in front of me stretched out his hand fiercely, and instead clasped my wrist. With a sarcastic and contemptuous smile, he sarcastically said: "Idiot." Immediately after I turned my wrist, I only felt a pain in my wrist, and the horn in my hand fell to the ground in an instant.

I was so angry that I took advantage of the momentum to turn around, raised my leg and slammed it towards its neck. It stepped back, but swept it to my chest. In an instant, not only did I not kick it, but I was caught by it. With one foot on his chest, he reached the ice wall next to him.

Immediately afterwards, it said coldly: "Have you ever seen a zongzi that I can make like this?"

I shook my head, thinking that if every soft rice dumpling was so powerful, then the profession of Daodou would have perished long ago.The one in front of me is not a zongzi, but a real person!
Seeing me nodding, the mute slowly withdrew his legs, Tofu swallowed, and asked me if I was okay, I said, "Why don't you try being kicked by him?"

Tofu quickly shook his head and said, "You were the first to suspect that he was a fake, and I was instigated by you." Then, he looked at the mute next to him, and muttered, "But what happened to his neck?" Hearing this, he frowned in disgust, and said coldly, "I didn't have any wounds on my neck, did Lu Su tell you this?"

Tofu and I nodded one after another.

The mute frowned, and his voice became even colder: "Where is he, show me."

Tofu and I looked at each other, and I thought to myself: Could it be that Lu Su is lying?Judging from the meaning of the mute, it seems that he has never met Lu Su.Moreover, there was no equipment on the mute. Could it be that something happened between the two?
While thinking, I walked back and took the mute to look for Lu Su, but when I returned to the original place, there was no Lu Su, and there was no one there.

Tofu showed a suddenly realized expression, jumped up and said, "Lu Su lied to us, he ran away with the equipment himself."

The dumb put his arms around his chest, looked around with his dark eyes, and finally stopped on the ground suddenly.

I was also puzzled, following his gaze, I saw that the surface of Xuanbing was extremely smooth, reflecting the shadows of the few of us, apart from that, there were no other objects.At first, I didn't understand what the mute was staring at the ground, and I thought it was something weird about the mysterious ice layer, but soon I understood, and I suddenly felt cold sweat.

This mysterious ice floor is too clean, there is no trace of burning fuel at all.

So what happened to the fire I saw earlier?

Could it be that the fire never existed at all?In this way, isn't that Lu Su...a fake?
The more I thought about it, the more terrifying I felt. I felt a little dizzy for a while, thinking that this place is too weird, this Lu Su and the dumb, who is real and who is fake?Or are both fake?At this time, Tofu also understood, and immediately showed an expression as if he had eaten a fly, and said, "Could it be that we were eating with ghosts just now? Then... then what did we eat?" It was a little swollen, and not long after I said this, there was a burst of unbearable pain in my stomach, and the tofu screamed in pain. The two of them didn't care to talk to the mute, and after a few steps away, they slammed and pulled out. It was all a pile of black stuff, and the stench was unstoppable.

This upset stomach was very tossing, the legs of me and Tofu were weak, and we finally collapsed on the ground.The mute was a few steps away from us, with a look of coldness and disgust.Now I finally understood, Tofu and I were tricked by that fake Lu Su, and we still don’t know what we ate.

At this moment, Tofu said weakly: "Old Chen, do you know what this situation reminds me of? I thought of the meal that the bone spirit gave Tang Seng. After showing its original shape, it was full of toads, scorpions, and poisonous snakes." , You, you said... What exactly is that thing for us to eat?"

I thought to myself: Of course the materials are obtained locally, what else can we eat?Xuan Bing and I can't eat tofu anymore, what is the most in this ancient tomb?Isn't it a dead body?Guessing the beef jerky we ate before, we may not be able to tell what it is.

If I say this, Tofu's little heart will definitely not be able to bear it, so I didn't say eating dead bodies, but said: "I heard from people of the older generation that in the past, when people walked at night, if they met a snack seller on the side of the road Don't talk to people like him, let alone buy his food, because those who sell things in the wild mountains and mountains at night are probably ghost markets. In the past, people were often fooled, and it seemed that they ate glutinous rice balls, chaos, three Fresh dumplings, but in fact they are eaten from grave mounds, white candles, and dead mice. However, there is no teacher Si in this place, and there is no such thing as grave mounds, so I guess, we may have eaten a lot of ice, so we have a stomachache."

The tofu was fooled by me, and I didn't think about whether our teeth could chew the ice, so I breathed a sigh of relief, showing a lucky expression that I didn't eat the toad.

It wasn't until this moment that I had time to ask the mute: "If that Lu Su is a fake, where did he really get driven? Why aren't you together?"

The mute said coldly: "Accidentally scattered."

I felt something was wrong, even if we really separated, the mute shouldn't be empty-handed, he should have equipment, so I asked.The mute just gave me a cold look, then raised his leg and walked past Tofu and me, as if he didn't want to talk to us.

I felt a little annoyed, and shouted: "Chen Ci, stop!"

The mute's footsteps stopped suddenly, and then he turned around, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said: "I said, I'm not making a statement. He doesn't cooperate with me to make a comparison."

I also sneered, and now I understand that it's useless to beat around the bush with a person like the mute.It's useless to pretend to be false. If you don't stop him from speaking clearly now, you don't know when the next time will be.So I stood up, blocked his way, and sneered: "You keep saying that you are not a statement, so tell me, who did you learn your throwing knife from?"

The mute raised his eyebrows in surprise, as if he didn't expect me to notice this, I was a little proud, and said to myself that you can't pretend now, right?Unexpectedly, the dumb answer almost made people vomit blood. After he was surprised, he frowned slightly as if disgusted, and said in a calm tone, "Does this kind of retarded thing need to be learned?"

I was choked to death by this sentence. I have seen arrogant people, but I have never seen such arrogant ones. I suddenly remembered a sentence I read somewhere: Excessive arrogance is equal to narcissism.The mute is an out-and-out narcissist, and the rest of us... no, all the earthlings except him are probably ants in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)