Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 407 Corpse Fairy
Seeing his dead body, I couldn't help being startled, and thought: Could it be that the old man Zhao was not dead at all, so he climbed up the ice wall?Taking a closer look, I felt something was wrong again, because the body of the old man Zhao had shrunk by more than twice the size. Although the skeleton was the same size, it seemed that all the muscles in his body had been sucked out, leaving only a slack dry body. Skin.

All of a sudden, I thought of the heavenly soldier who was 'deflated' by me in the water drop ice cave. It seemed that after the deflation, it also looked like this, with only a layer of skin left.

However, if there is really only one layer of skin left, how can human skin crawl on it?

There is only one reason, something hung it up!

I told the two of my thoughts, Lu Su shook his head and said, "No, you are wrong about one thing. When the mute killed it, it didn't look like this." After careful questioning, I found out that it turned out that the old man Zhao turned into a heavenly soldier , unlike those heavenly soldiers that were refined, it didn't let go of its breath at all, so it was still the same after death.

I thought it was strange, even if something hung it up, how could it be like this?
At this moment, Lu Su said: "It did it, it sucked this corpse."

The mute and I looked at Lu Su at the same time, he smiled wryly, and said: "It's a long story, but I know, the thing that took Brother Dou..." He pointed upwards and said: "It must be going up. gone."

Hearing the words, the mute pursed his lips, and said coldly, "The dark wind should be blowing from above. It seems that there is an exit from above." The three of us looked at each other, without further words, and immediately began to climb up the ice wall .Fortunately, there are many protruding ice picks on the ice wall, and Mr. Zhao’s equipment has penetrating claws, so it is very convenient to set up the rope. We climbed the rope and climbed up. After a while, we climbed to the position where Mr. Zhao was. At that moment, I suddenly found that there was something in the ice pick hanging from old man Zhao.

It's a shoe, a tofu shoe.

At this moment, I'm almost sure that it was the thing that grabbed the tofu, and in the process, it also snatched old man Zhao's body.I remembered a word Lu Su said before: smoking.When I think about it, I just feel shuddering.

What happened to the tofu?

The three of us didn't dare to delay, and climbed up along the ice wall. The higher the ice wall went, the narrower the distance between the two walls, it was like an inclined shape, forming an isosceles triangle between the two.

When I climbed to the top, the two walls were almost closed, and the only exit was only half a meter wide. The inside was dark, and I didn't know where it led. A dark wind blew out from inside.Looking down at this moment, I only feel that the whole person is suspended in the air. Even a person like me who is not afraid of heights feels dizzy and his legs are weak.

The mute was more reluctant and kept silent.Although I had many opinions on him before, but this time he was seriously injured in order to save me, and later when Lu Su forced him to shoot thunder, he also took good care of Tofu. Now, no amount of dissatisfaction has disappeared. .I have been watching him so that if he fails and something goes wrong, I can help him at any time.

But the dumb person is really a ruthless character. Even though he was sweating profusely and the bandages were oozing bright red blood, he didn't even frown. When he saw the air outlet above, he climbed in without saying a word. I originally wanted to go in by myself first. Thundering, I didn't expect the mute to go up first, seeing his figure jump up all of a sudden, leaving only a pair of feet, I couldn't help but get nervous.

Fortunately, there was no danger, and after a while, the mute's feet also retracted, and then he heard his intermittent voice blown by the wind: "There is no...danger...come up." I followed closely and climbed up. Lu Su followed closely behind.

When I climbed in, I immediately found that this should be a man-made ice passage, but the place is very narrow, and people can only crawl on the ground in it.

I thought to myself: This ice tunnel is above the rift in the ice wall. It is really hidden. It doesn’t seem like it belongs to the project in the Xuanbing Tomb. What is this secret ice tunnel used for?

Strange, how did the ancient corpse in the coffin know?
I can't help recalling the appearance of the ancient corpse in my mind. Dressed in feathers and wearing a fairy crown, the face is beautiful and lifeless. When people see it, they have the feeling of a fairy descending into the world. It really doesn't match up with the zongzi. What is the identity of a person?Looking at its dress, it is somewhat similar to Puzhen in the mural, but Napuzhen is already in his twilight years, his beard and hair are all white, and he is full of wrinkles. After a thousand years, how can he look like this?

What's more, why did Puzhen lie down in that coffin?

The zongzi that popped out now seems to be as written on the Xuanbing Tablet. It has the power to reach the sky and the earth. Not only is it infinitely powerful, but it can also fly into the sky and escape from the ground like a flying corpse. It is terrifying to think about it.Now it sucked the Heavenly Soldiers and kidnapped the tofu, but it doesn't know what its plans are.

At this moment, the three of us climbed into the ice passage, which sloped upwards, and there was a constant dark wind blowing in. We could only squint our eyes when we were inside, and our voices were blown intermittently by the wind.As I climbed up, I asked Lu Su: "It seems that you know a lot. Who is the person in that coffin?"

Lu Su asked back, "Can't you guess?"

I knew I guessed it right, so I couldn't help but be even more puzzled: "Why is Puzhen in there? Its ability is much better than that of flying corpses, what is it now?" Zongzi is classified according to the classification, starting from the low-level hairy Zongzi. Flying corpses are more powerful than flying corpses. Flying corpses are the most powerful form of corpse transformation. They are also called corpse spirits. After a long time, making holes is a trivial matter. The most terrifying thing is that they will gradually give birth to wisdom.

Now Puzhen after the corpse transformation is much more powerful than the flying corpse, almost beyond my cognition.

After I asked, Lu Su was silent for a while, and finally said: "I don't know, I don't think it's a corpse change."

"Isn't it a dead body change?" I was stunned.

Lu Su calmly said: "You can't think about it with ordinary thinking. Remember what I told you. I have a friend who is engaged in biomedical research. He told me a metaphor about keys." With a sound, I suddenly understood in my heart, and said: "The black lamp has many incredible powers, and it uses the 'key', and Puzhen is the one who made the key."

Lu Su said: "That's right, since that's the case, why didn't he use the power of the key?"

I felt my heart beating suddenly, and said coldly: "You mean, he is not a corpse, but a living person."

Lu Su said: "To be precise, it is a person who uses a key to open the great lock of God."

Lu Su's conjecture made people a little startled. According to this statement, the thing that hijacked the tofu could no longer be called a zongzi, nor could it simply be called a human being.If a person reaches the point where he is neither born nor dead, nor old nor decayed, he is still a human being?

No.

The ancients called this kind of person an immortal.

In other words, the one who robbed the tofu was not the Zongzi who had turned into a corpse, but a... Corpse Immortal?
Over the past year or so, I have seen a lot of bizarre things that are beyond common sense. I have experienced all kinds of goblins and ghosts. Yinyang Liubu Village became a fine weasel, an evil dragon suppressed by the Corpse Bureau, and a ghost sailing on the sea. The boat, the skinless corpse in Xu Fu's tomb, the Yinsi treasure hall wandering in the world and the underworld, the messenger of the living corpse offering sacrifices to evil gods, and those hard and soft rice dumplings.The appearance of these things has already shattered my materialistic thoughts to pieces.

But... Immortal?Corpse Fairy?This is bullshit.

I believe that there are mountain spirits and ghosts in this world, but it is unbelievable for people to believe that there are gods in this world. Rather than that, I prefer to believe that the one who kidnapped the tofu is a corpse fairy.A corpse fairy is a corpse after all, so it's much easier for me to admit that it's an immortal.

Suppressing the churning emotions in my heart, I forced myself to calm down and said, "How do you know that old man Zhao was bitten by a corpse fairy?"

Lu Su seemed to smile, and there was an unknown meaning in the laughter, it was like a wry smile, and said: "I have been trying to find the key, and in this process, I have put in more painstaking efforts than you. I can’t say for sure, but I know, I don’t have a chance now.”

No chance?I didn't quite understand what Lu Su meant, so I asked him why.

Lu Su's voice became gentle again, and said: "Because the corpse fairy... let's call it that... Corpse fairy. Only it knows how to make keys, but I'm not sure how to deal with it, not at all."

This time Lu Su was very sure, his words contained helplessness.I also feel very uncomfortable, because this means that the chances of us being able to rescue the tofu are too small...

Immediately afterwards, I thought of another question and asked puzzledly, "If that's the case, what are you still following us for?"

The mute said coldly: "Because this place is the exit."

When he said this, I realized that at the end of the ice road, there was a little skylight.

Could it be that this ice passage leads to the outside of the cave?
The three of us hurriedly climbed out along the entrance of the cave, and when we saw it, the whole world was a vast expanse of whiteness.Only then did I realize that the three of us were on the mountainside of a snow-capped peak.At this moment, the wind and snow are raging, the sky and the earth are white, and the sun is completely covered by snow clouds, making the weather look gloomy.

At this moment, I suddenly discovered that there is a flat-topped snow peak on the opposite side of the snow peak. I was surprised for a while, and thought, isn't that flat-topped snow peak the entrance to the Xuanbing Tomb?Unexpectedly, after this lap, we actually crossed to another snow peak.

At this time, the mute squatted down and looked at something. I followed his gaze and found a lot of blue ice cubes coming out of the exit.The mute said coldly: "This entrance was sealed before, but it was shaken open by the corpse fairy not long ago."

In the wind and snow, there is a series of clear footprints, walking along the entrance all the way down the snow mountain. It is self-evident who owns this series of footprints. I stared at the footprints in the snow, only feeling that my eyes were hot as if to Bleeding, because the footprints are only of one person.

If tofu and corpse fairy are together, then there will definitely be two pairs of footprints left behind.

And now there is only one pair, what does this mean?
(End of this chapter)