Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 419
I couldn't argue with Lu Su any more, and passed out halfway. I felt like I was put on the bed in a daze, and I vaguely heard Mr. Chen and Lu Su talking.

Mr. Chen said: "It was injured by a poisonous corpse. It's okay to come in time."

Lu Su said: "Then I can rest assured, and please save him quickly."

Immediately afterwards, the surroundings became quiet, and after a while, I forced myself to open my eyes, and saw Mr. Chen sitting on the edge of the bed with a big clay bowl in his hand and a cloth bag in his right hand.I took a look and found that the earthen bowl contained something like a bowl of white rice soup.

"The secret recipe for treating poisonous corpses handed down by the ancestors, drink it." After pouring this bowl of soup, it didn't take a moment for me to pour a basin of cold water on the boiling poison in my body, and my whole body was instantly sober.At this time, I saw Mr. Chen took out a palm-sized clay pot from his cloth bag, and motioned for Lu Su to take off my shirt, presumably to deal with trauma.

After the pot was opened, there was still water in it, and there was a mass of black lacquer in the water. Looking carefully, it was a bunch of black leeches.These leeches are different from the ones I usually see. Usually, they are gray-black with occasional patterns, but these leeches are as black as ink, with slender bodies and swim in the water.

I know that folks use leeches to inhale sepsis and canker sores, and I know that Mr. Chen is going to use leeches to inhale drugs for me, but I can't help but feel my scalp tingling when I look at this thing.Mr. Chen smiled kindly, and said, "Don't be afraid, this leech is different from the ones outside. We domesticate it at home, and other leeches don't suck the poisonous blood of corpses at all." I put it on my chest, and there was a cold and slippery feeling.

I couldn't help but think, if this was tofu, I'd be scared to pee.

The leech crawled on the wound for a while, and soon each found a satisfactory position and began to suck blood. There was no other feeling. As time passed, my body felt a little lighter.On this side, Lu Su hoped that Mr. Chen would go out and clean up those refined corpses himself. There was no need to use knives and sticks, as the corpse refining line had its own secret techniques, and there would be no danger.

But I heard Mr. Chen say: "The poisonous corpse is more troublesome for you. It is full of poison, and its skin and flesh cannot be touched. However, I am an old bone, and it is really inconvenient to travel far." There was a flash of brilliance, and he said: "Why don't I teach you a method to refine corpses by imperial envoys."

Lu Su was overjoyed and said, "If so, I will be very grateful."

Mr. Chen waved his hand and said, "However, the art of refining corpses is handed down in the same line. If you want to learn the method, you have to worship under my sect." unable to speak.

Seeing this, Mr. Chen sighed, and said, "My son is too honest. I am a lineage of refining corpses. If it is handed down to him, I am afraid that it will decline and make me ashamed to face my ancestors. If one of you is willing Be my disciple and inherit the mantle, even if I risk my life this time, I will definitely help you achieve your goals."

I sigh in my heart, but to be honest, from outsiders, learning the art of refining corpses is probably very remarkable or mysterious, but we are also considered as half insiders, so we naturally know the way of doing it. In addition, the technique of refining corpses is detrimental to the virtues of heaven, so it is difficult to get rich and powerful. If you are not careful, you will die of unjustifiable goods. Moreover, who would like to deal with corpses all day long?
Who knows that before I even opened my mouth, Lu Su said, "If you don't dislike me, I am willing to worship you as my teacher."

Mr. Chen was not happy, shook his head, sighed and said: "Young people, I won't lie to you. If you join my corpse refining lineage, you have to pass three tests." Then, he talked about the origin of these three tests No matter the remaining two of these three levels, the difficulty lies in the third level.

This third hurdle is also the basic skill of corpse refining, and it must be "heavy oil".

What do you mean by heavy oil?
The so-called oil refers to corpse oil. When dealing with corpses, corpse refiners need to consume old corpse oil passed down from generation to generation. After that, the body will emit corpse gas, so that they will not flush the corpse.Once the old corpse oil is consumed, some changes will gradually occur in the person. Some of these changes are relatively slight physical changes, such as becoming thinner and darker, some will immediately appear old, and some are changes in temperament. Specific according to each person's physique are different.

The old corpse oil is the oil boiled by the old corpse passed down from generation to generation. Drinking it is equivalent to putting a mark on it, and there is no way to go back on it.

Although Mr. Chen is eager to seek apprentices, he is an honest and simple person. He told us the pros and cons one by one. From the beginning to the end, this corpse refining is no longer in line with the trend of the times. lossy.If it was put in ancient times, it would be an iron rice bowl to support the family, but in the present, it is a loss-making business.

Lu Su's straightforward promise just now, I guess it originally planned to trick Mr. Chen into doing something, but now when he heard that the initiation ceremony was going to be held, he became a little unsteady.Seeing the hesitant expressions on the faces of the two of us, Mr. Chen sighed, and said: "Forget it, I shouldn't make things difficult for you. Let's rest here tonight. I'll go with you tomorrow."

I am grateful in my heart, thinking that this matter will be successful, and I have to thank this old man well.

The leeches on the chest were round and bulging after being sucked one by one, and they looked very disgusting. Mr. Chen took off the leeches one by one, put them in clay pots, and dragged his old body back to his room slowly.

Lu Su and I huddled together on the same bed to rest. The two had nothing to say and went to rest separately.

Early the next morning, Mr. Chen carried a small bamboo basket on his back, and followed Lu Su and I towards the intersection outside the village, attracting some watching villagers along the way.Someone asked Mr. Chen loudly: "I said, Mr. Chen, where are these two guests from?" Seeing that they looked a little weird, it seemed that they did not have a good relationship with Mr. Chen.

Mr. Chen was quite kind, but he couldn't smile at this person, and said dryly, "My family Tiande met friends outside."

The man let out a sigh and said, "You look like a capable person, that kid in your family can still have such promise."

Mr. Chen's expression was not good, he hummed and walked forward with his head bowed.Along the way, there are many neighbors like this. It seems that the Chen family is not very popular in this place. While waiting for the car, they met a troublemaker again. That was about the same.

Now I couldn't help it, sneered, and was about to speak, Lu Su stopped me, and said to the fellow with a smile: "We are friends of Tiande, we passed by his hometown, and we stopped by to see the old man. The old man is alone At home, the neighbors in the big hometown hope to take care of them." As he spoke, he gave the other party a cigarette.

As far as I remember, this kid doesn't smoke. The pack of cigarettes has obviously not been touched, and I don't know when he bought it.

The fellow had no experience, and when he saw Lu Su's style, he was taken aback, and sighed, "I never thought that Tiande would be so promising outside, I really didn't see it before, Mr. Chen, you will enjoy the blessings in the future."

Mr. Chen smiled, this time from the heart, he was proud of his son.I was quite upset, and I didn't speak.After getting in the car, I secretly said to Lu Su, "Why did you have to be so polite to that man just now?"

Lu Su smiled slightly, and said: "There is a saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. We have to leave sooner or later. We can win for the old man for a while, but not for the rest of his life. If there is a real trouble, the old man's life will be even more difficult after we leave."

I knew in my heart that what Lu Su said was reasonable, and I thought to myself that I was negligent this time, if it wasn't for Lu Su's difficulty just now, I'm afraid I would have to deal with that person well.Thinking about it this way, he couldn't help but think of Chen Tiande, and felt even more contemptuous in his heart.Speaking of which, Chen Tiande was also a pitiful person before, but now he has become like this, but leaving the lonely old man alone at home, it is really hateful.

The car took about half an hour and arrived in the town. It is daytime and it is not appropriate to move any more. We put down our things and wandered around the town with the old man, eating and drinking. The old man was very happy, which made me feel at ease.

It was very late at night, and when everything was quiet, we had already closed the doors and windows.

At the entrance of the robbery cave, Mr. Chen set up an incense table, and there were some things on it, a corpse bell, a square compass, a red rope, a knife, and a large bowl.

Lu Su and I watched from the sidelines, and saw him pick up a knife and cut his palm, and some sticky blood dripped into the bowl.Immediately afterwards, the red rope was soaked in a blood bowl, and after it was taken out, one end was tied to the corpse bell and the other end was placed on the compass.

We had already spread a black cloth outside the entrance and exit of the robbery cave in advance, and we saw that Mr. Chen was chanting words, which tasted like a stick.It was also the first time I saw the mortician cast a spell, and I stood not far from Lu Su, and didn't dare to disturb him. '

I don't know what he was reading, it was quite long, buzzing, and I couldn't hear it clearly. After about ten minutes, Lu Su suddenly let out a snort and motioned me to look at the case.

I moved my gaze down, and suddenly saw that the other end of the bloody red rope started to move, like a snake, and began to move forward slowly.

(End of this chapter)