Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 395 Industry Domain

After walking for about ten minutes, there was still no change in the surrounding environment. The mute followed me unhurriedly, making regular footsteps.With him behind me, I was quite relieved, so I focused all my attention on finding the way.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the rope around my waist was suddenly stretched, which made me pause.

I looked at the rope around my waist, and thought to myself, why did the mute stop?Why didn't he leave all of a sudden?Immediately afterwards, I couldn't help but turned around and looked back, who knew that my heart skipped a beat in shock.The mute's always proud expression was as ugly as if someone had slapped him in the face, his face was livid, and his eyes were cold as if he wanted to kill someone.

Why is he so ugly?
Because behind the mute, Lu Su and Tofu disappeared.

There was a buzz in my mind, and I ran back quickly, passed the mute, and retracted the rope behind the mute.I saw that the rope hadn't been cut, and the third noose was still in a complete circle, as if the person who was bound had suddenly turned into a loach and disappeared.But the fourth noose was untied artificially, leaving only a movable knot.

"What's going on here?" I asked the mute anxiously.

"I don't know." The mute's expression was also ugly, this person was extremely arrogant, who would have thought that the two of them disappeared under his nose, and they disappeared inexplicably, the blow was probably big enough.Therefore, the dumb's anger at the moment actually added some popularity to him.The usual mute is like a puppet that has been stripped of all emotions, leaving only indifference and arrogance.

When he got angry, I calmed down.

At this moment, staring at the rope in my hand, there are countless questions in my mind. If I want to understand these, I must first understand how did Tofu and Lu Su disappear?
The fourth noose belongs to Tofu and has been untied by humans. Did Tofu untie it by himself, or did someone untie it for him?
I analyze them one by one.First of all, tofu is definitely not forced. In the process of walking, if it is forced, then we will definitely hear the movement, and it is impossible for the vigilant dumb to not notice it, so the only possibility is: the rope is tofu I untied it myself.

Why did he untie the rope?

Although this kid is usually unreliable, big things never happen randomly, and he will not untie the rope for no reason.

Secondly, what confuses me the most is the third noose, which is the one belonging to Lu Su.Why does this noose stay the way it is?You know, the rope is tied close to the waist, if you want to keep it intact like this, unless Lu Su can shrink his bones, his body suddenly shrinks, causing the noose to slip off by itself.

Of course Lu Su doesn't know how to shrink bones. If so, how did he do it?

Why did Lu Su and Tofu disappear voluntarily and silently?

I couldn't figure it out, and the dumb guy beside me was obviously thinking about these questions too.All of a sudden, the mute raised his head sharply, and uttered a sentence from his cold thin lips: "That Lu Su is a fake!" I suddenly heard him say this, and felt that my thinking was a little confused.

I said: "Why do you say he is fake again? Could it be because of this noose?" Could it be that the mute thinks that the reason why the noose in front of him looks like this is because Lu Su turned into that kind of blue flame ?
The mute didn't keep silent this time. He narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "Do you still remember the first sentence he said when we met him?"

I recalled that Lu Su pointed at the mute and said this sentence: This is a fake, stay away from him.There seems to be no problem with this... wait...

A clue suddenly caught in my mind.

something is wrong,

If Lu Su has encountered many fakes before, then when he saw the three of us, his first reaction should be to doubt the authenticity of the three of us, instead of insisting that the dumb is fake!This chaotic logic, in the true and false environment at that time, was missed by us in the past, it is hard for the dumb to think of it now.

In this way, according to this situation, it can be speculated that this Lu Su who is in our team...isn't it a fake?
Did it interfere with the tofu, so that it made the tofu behave like unlocking the lock by itself?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt it was possible, but at the same time, another doubt surfaced again.

It's almost impossible to tell that this fake Lu Su is fake.In addition to appearance.And his awareness.For example, he once asked me about the injuries of Tofu and me, and if it was the fake Lu Su who changed from soft rice dumplings.How do you know that Tofu and I have been injured?If it's a fake, it's also unlikely to respond correctly to everything we say.

For example, he deduced the saying about 'balance'; for another example, he also knows the art of refining corpses, such sayings as Dan and Mercury.A soft rice dumpling, no matter how it looks, how can it even imitate its thoughts?
I raised this question, but the mute didn't answer. He frowned slightly, scanned the ice cave with his dark eyes, and suddenly said lightly: "I've been trapped here for three days. When I saw you, I thought about balance." , just didn't come to a conclusion."

His words reminded me, and I suddenly realized that I had heard about the combination of pills and mercury and the art of refining corpses that Lu Su talked about later, and I knew it in my heart.When the mute said this, I understood what he meant: Could it be that Lu Su's thoughts were actually borrowed from the mind of the mute and me?
Could it be... those ghost-like things in the blue flames have the ability to read people's hearts?
I felt my hairs stand on end for a moment.If that's the case, that's pretty scary.How do we defeat an opponent who knows what we are thinking, who even knows how to use our thoughts to mislead us?
Breaking it down, after Tofu and I entered this place, we wanted to meet Lu Su and Dumb, and we were hungry, so we also wanted to eat.And then encountered the first fake.Lu Su gave us food.

The second time, when we reunited with the mute, only Lu Su was left without hearing. Therefore, the three of us were more or less thinking about Lu Su at the same time, so he appeared for the second time.This time, he took away the tofu.

I don't know what to do with tofu.

Just like what the mute described, after he and Lu Su walked into the ice cave, Lu Su suddenly disappeared, and then, the people he saw, except me and Tofu, were almost all fake.

So where did the disappeared Lu Su go?
Where will the disappearing tofu go?

I couldn't help but grabbed my hair and scolded my mother severely, what the hell kind of rice dumpling is this, it can read minds!At this time, the mute seemed to have thought of something, the corner of his mouth suddenly curled up, he hooked his finger at me, and said coldly: "Boy, come here."

I said to myself that you are not my father, if you let me go, I will go there?Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, the mute is not an unreliable person, so I leaned over to hear what he thinks, but just as I approached, this kid suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped me on the back of my neck. When I tried hard, I felt a buzzing in the back of my head, and then my eyes went dark, my limbs became weak, and I didn't know anything.

The moment I fell, the mute seemed to catch me, and I didn't know what was redundant.

I didn't expect the mute to do such a thing, and I immediately fainted. In a daze, I felt a jolt, as if someone was carrying me on my back, and after a while, I seemed to be supported by someone on my shoulders. In short enough toss.

When my consciousness began to return to my brain, the first thing I felt was pain, bursts of pain in the back of my head.Immediately afterwards, I heard an indifferent voice say: "Don't pretend to be dead when you wake up." I opened my eyes with difficulty, and saw that it was dumb.

I said: "Wu Shui, you are so fucking hot. Hiss...why did you faint me." Immediately afterwards, I found that the surrounding environment was already comfortable, not the ice cave before, but a relatively large space inside.Except for the lighter used for lighting next to it, most of the place was shrouded in darkness.

I was a little surprised, and thought, why did I get dizzy and change places after waking up?
I asked the mute where it was, and the mute said, "We have already left that place, and this is where it exits."

He extinguished the lighter and turned on the searchlight. After a powerful beam shot out, I could clearly see the environment I was in now.In front of us, there is a huge piece of unfreezing water. The range of this piece of unfreezing water is so wide that you can't see the end at a glance.

As for the rear, there is an ice wall, facing us, is a passageway covered with ice cones, and our shadows are reflected on the ice cones.Now I am completely convinced that the dumb and I have left that ghost place.But what I don't understand is why the dumb can find a way to crack it so quickly?

As if seeing my doubts, the mute raised his chin slightly, with a cold and haughty look on his face, and said coldly: "It's the 'karma', don't think about anything, it will come out naturally."

industry?I vaguely felt that I seemed to have heard a word somewhere, and after thinking about it in my mind, I immediately remembered the origin of the field.It is recorded in the Miscellaneous Notes of Ancient Gods and Monsters: There is a fire of enlightenment in the underworld, and the soul passes through it, transforming into thousands of illusions, burning out the worldly thoughts, and then you can get rid of the past. The realm of emptiness of thought.

As for the karma, it's not really only in the underworld. Yang Fang's secret book has recorded something similar to the karma, which can be done by manpower.That is to say, take a hundred years and thousands of tomb soil and boil it into a paste, sprinkle it in a certain range, and a man-made industrial field will be formed in that range.

So, what is a hundred thousand graves?
This thing is difficult to say, but easy to say, that is, to find a large cemetery with a history of more than one hundred years, and collect the grave mounds of a thousand hundred-year-old graves in the garden.It is very easy to find a century-old cemetery, but the key is that the tomb must have a thousand years old graves, which is very rare.

Within the area surrounded by the karma, once a person walks in, it is like walking into an illusion, and all things come into being when the heart moves, and it is impossible for a living person to completely cut off his own thoughts, so this kind of place is called a place of karma. A place where only the dead can come out.

(End of this chapter)