Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 398 Accidental Dead

Seeing that I unloaded the equipment bag and wanted to go up like a dumb person, Tofu couldn't help being anxious, and said, "We haven't figured out why the dumb person didn't exist, so we went up so rashly, what if you got caught too?" I also know that Tofu is worried about me, and his words are not unreasonable. Although my skills are not bad, I am still much inferior to people like Dumb. Dumb almost had an accident just now.

So I could only stop unloading the equipment and ask Tofu: "What do you think?"

Tofu scratched his head, but couldn't figure it out, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "If you want to go, you can't take the risk alone. We two brothers will go together, and if something happens, there will be someone to take care of you." He couldn't do it, and Tofu and I had to go into battle with our equipment, which made the climb more difficult.

Fortunately, there are some gaps between the drums, allowing people to settle down. Although we couldn't do it as easily as the mutes, we managed to cope with it. After a while, we climbed to a height of seven or eight meters.This distance is not high, but it is full of dangers, not to mention the process, it hurts to think about it, and I don’t want to do it a second time after walking it once.

Tofu was afraid of heights, so he didn't dare to look down at all. He kept hypnotizing himself, muttering: "This is not seven or eight meters, this is not seven or eight meters. In fact, I only climbed two meters, only two meters..."

In such a cold environment, I still have a layer of white sweat on my body, and I have to be careful even when I breathe, so as not to cause too much tension between my chest and the ice wall. I can't laugh or cry, and I don't know whether to praise him or scold him.

After a while, Tofu and I climbed to the side of the big drum, and saw that the drum was about six meters in diameter, and most of the drum body was embedded in the ice layer, with about one meter exposed.It seems to be made of wood, the surface is painted with vermilion lacquer, and because of a thin layer of ice, it is a bit slippery.The mute climbed up from here before, and used the two machetes to pierce a row of holes on the side of the drum body, so Tofu and I did the same, using chisels and other things to penetrate into the holes and climb up.Standing high in the air, surrounded by cold mist, looking down, even a person like me who does not have a fear of heights feels dizzy and has tense muscles.

After climbing up to the top of the big drum, I immediately saw the doorway here clearly.It turns out that right above the big drum, close to the ice wall, there is a hole as high as a person. We were below it before, so we couldn't see it.I turned the light inside, and the entrance of the cave was dark, and I didn't know where it led.Not far from the entrance of the cave, there is an iron chisel with a rope on it, which extends all the way and hangs down to the drum surface.

I squatted down and looked down the rope, and it was the C-shaped thing.

Sure enough, it was a person, and an acquaintance.

Tofu exclaimed: "Bai Zhanji!" At this moment, this man was no longer the same as before. He was wearing outdoor winter clothing with a safety lock on his waist, and he was hanging in the air by the rope. When we were below, we saw the shape of a letter C.

Tofu sighed for a while. Although we had already thought that the old man Zhao and his party entered Xuelong Mountain and there was no news, and they were probably killed. But when they really saw the body of Bai Zhanji, they couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness.This Bai Zhanji is definitely not a good person, but he has abilities. Now that he died here, it can't be called wronged, but it also makes those of us who are "travelers" feel sympathetic.

Tofu shook his head, and said to Bai Zhanji's body: "Being a human being, don't be too greedy. You say... your family is rich, and you are also handsome, tall, rich and handsome. You have all three, so don't enjoy it , thank God with gratitude for giving you such a good fate, and you have done all the evil things, and now the corpse is hanging here, and there is no loess, why bother."

People in this world are often like this. If there is one, they will think about two, and if they have two, they will think about three. They never cherish what they get.This white chicken has the blessing of old man Zhao. It can be said that he will not worry about it for the rest of his life. He should be content to be the second generation ancestor for a lifetime. This kind of life is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Unfortunately, people's hearts are not enough to swallow Elephant.

At this moment, Tofu is also squatting next to me, the drum is slippery, and it is easy to fall if you are not careful.I suddenly remembered the scene where the dumb fell down just now, and when I thought of the black shadow on the drum, I suddenly realized in my heart that the black shadow must have come out of the hole behind us, and it attacked the dumb by virtue of the terrain. And go, that's why the scene of the big transformation into a living person appeared before.

It's not that the mute and the black shadow disappeared, but that they got into the ice cave.

I got up quickly, thinking that I didn't know what that black shadow was, and it was better to be careful, in case it tried to push me like a dumb man, I didn't have the confidence to stop in mid-air.At this time, Tofu suddenly asked me with doubts: "Old Chen, how did you say that this white chicken died? He is not bad at skills, anyway, he is much better than me. Secondly, he has a safety lock on his waist , even if you accidentally fall down and just climb up the rope, how could you just die here like this?"

When he said this, I also found it strange, so I couldn't help but carefully observe Bai Zhanji's body. The body was frozen and stiff, his face was pale and blue, and the muscles on his face were condensed into a strange expression because of the stiffness. His eyes protruded, as if Very dissatisfied.

Taking a closer look, there is solidified blood on his neck, but it is not clear whether it is a fatal injury or not.The mute wanted to pull Bai Zhanji up, presumably to search his body, but before he could do it, he was tricked by that unknown black shadow.This Bai Zhanji is the son of old man Zhao, and it is not impossible for old man Zhao to give him the map for safekeeping, so I said to Tofu, "I am on alert, you pull the corpse up."

Tofu didn't talk too much, he rubbed his hands together, twisted the rope with his hands, and with all his strength, the corpse was slowly lifted up.During this process, I kept paying attention to the ice cave behind me. Fortunately, the body was lifted up without any surprise or danger.

We pulled the body into the freezer and began examining his cause of death.Since it had been frozen hard, Bai Zhanji still maintained a posture with his hands, feet and neck leaned back, with his chest and abdomen protruding.When I looked at his neck, I was suddenly stunned.

Because there was a round hole in his neck, I saw it at a glance, it was a gunshot wound, and the shot was fatal.

This scene immediately popped up in my mind: Bai Zhanji put on the chisel, locked the safety buckle, and was about to go down to the center of the drum. Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone shot him from above. '

Who is this guy?
You know, this team is the Zhao family's team, who would dare to shoot at Bai Zhanji?
Could it be that the people in the team are black?
But to eat black, there must be a reason to eat black, why does that person eat black?Or in other words, before finding anything of value, what is there to eat?
Where did old man Zhao go during the death of Bai Zhanji?How could he watch someone kill his son?
I sorted out this series of questions, and asked Tofu’s opinion by the way. He thought for a while and said, “Old man Zhao may not be here, and they may have separated. As for eating black... I don’t think it’s possible. , if someone wants to blackmail him, with this person's shrewdness, it would be better to strike first."

I said: "At this time, your mind is quite clear."

Doufu said: "Those who know the subtleties like you are called small cleverness; those who direct to the source like me are called great wisdom; let me tell you this, look... instead of us wondering why he was killed Die, why don't you think about it, why is he tying a rope around his waist when he's fine?"

My heart moved, and I said, "Is there something in this drum?"

Tofu shook his head and said: "Then I don't know, anyway, Bai Zhanji must have wanted to go down." I immediately pulled out the dagger and said: "You stay on top and search his body by the way to see if you can pick it up." There's a leak. I'll go down and have a look." Immediately afterwards, I replaced the rope around Bai Zhanji's waist, tied it to my waist, and began to slide down the drum.

When the drum is close, you can smell a special smell of leather products, and what is strange is that there is no trace of connection on the drum head, that is to say, its drum head is made of a whole piece of leather into.

What kind of animal can be so big when the leather is unfolded?

At this time, the rope had been lowered to the bottom, and I was hanging at the position where Bai Zhanji died. At this moment, I suddenly discovered that there was a line of blood on the drum!
The corner of my eye twitched, and I went to see it immediately.

Obviously, this was written by Bai Zhanji struggling before he died. The handwriting was very chaotic and there were not many words. There was half a sentence written on it: It's too late to regret, kill me with Zhao...

I didn't finish the last half of the sentence, but when I saw the character Zhao, I couldn't help being shocked, thinking: Is the person who killed him also surnamed Zhao?It can't be Master Zhao, right?This idea was a little unreliable, and I quickly rejected it. After all, who would kill their only son inexplicably?
(End of this chapter)