Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 420
This scene, just looking at it, just feels unbelievable.Lu Su and I stared wide-eyed for a moment, staring at the red line without blinking, only to see Mr. Chen opened his eyes at some point, and the corpse bell in his hand made a hoarse sound.

The sound of this kind of bell is different from the bells we usually hear. It is a bit muffled, and the tone is not crisp. At first, the red line moved straight forward, but after two steps, it suddenly stopped.Before we could react, the red rope raised its 'head' abruptly, just like those snake charmers dancing snakes, the raised part swayed from side to side, and kept bumping forward, as if attacking,

"Let's go!" After five strokes, old man Chen suddenly shouted, the blood-stained red line suddenly jumped forward, and moved against the table again, this time, towards the compass in the middle.

Surprised, I asked Lu Su in a low voice, "You are well-informed, have you ever seen such a tricky thing before?"

Lu Su thought for a while, then lowered his voice and said, "I've seen people who collect snakes. They draw talismans in the air, and they can gather snakes around them. It's very powerful."

While speaking, the red rope had already climbed onto the compass, and a magnetic needle was placed in the center of the compass. When the red rope got under the magnetic needle, Mr. Chen stopped suddenly, and put the corpse bell in his hand on the compass. The voice seemed to be stern: "Duh!"

As soon as the words fell, I suddenly smelled a pungent stench from the tip of my nose, and then, something suddenly sprang out from the entrance of the robber's hole next to me.I was startled, and when I took a closer look, it turned out to be a poisonous corpse covered in purple hair!One of the hands of this poisonous corpse has no palm, just like the one we met before.Immediately following the poisonous corpse, another black-blue young corpse suddenly jumped out. It looked like a child, about one meter high, with a huge head that was bald and covered with green veins like earthworms.These two zongzi jumped out one after the other, stood motionless on the black cloth we had placed in advance, their eyes were wide open, and their eyeballs turned back and forth on the three people in our room, making people shudder. .

Thinking about it, they should have been manipulated by Mr. Chen to break out of the thousand-year-old secret room. I took a closer look and saw that the purple-haired zongzi had some broken bricks and stones stuck on it. It looked like they were broken walls. And out.

Youdao is like a mountain, the scene in front of us is beyond our control, so Lu Su and I turned our attention to Mr. Chen.Don't look at Mr. Chen, who is dark and thin, dressed in homemade gray clothes, and looks like a poor peasant, but now he feels very mysterious.After our two days of contact, his image has always been simple and kind, with a hint of humility, but at this moment, his old and rickety back straightened up, and his expression was calm, giving people a powerful feeling that everything is under control Feel.The change before and after is astonishing.

At this moment, Mr. Chen sacrificed the bowl of blood from before, and walked to the two refining corpses with the bowl in hand.The biggest difference between the zongzi made from refined corpses and those made from natural corpses is the talismans. Some patterns similar to talismans can be seen on the body of the bald boy and the poisonous corpse.

Mr. Chen held the blood, put the index finger and middle finger of his right hand together, stained with blood, and drew something like a spell on each of the two corpses. At this moment, a white light flashed in the eyes of the two corpses, and then the eyeballs disappeared. turn.

Until then, Mr. Chen shook his body, shook his hand, and the blood bowl fell to the ground.I thought something was wrong, my heart skipped a beat, I strode forward to support the person who was about to fall, and hurried back.

"It's okay, it's okay... I'm old, I really can't toss about it anymore, I'm just a little worn out, don't worry, these two refining corpses have been subdued."

Only then did I feel relieved, and after helping Mr. Chen to sit down, I observed that he was fine, so I quickly bandaged the wound on his hand. Immediately afterwards, I asked Mr. Chen to stay outside, and Lu Su and I put on The guy even went down the burglary again.

Soon, we arrived at the location we had excavated before, and saw that the ground was in a mess, full of broken green bricks and soil scum.In the dark burglary, with the light shining in, one can see that there is a dark space inside, and a very strong spicy smell comes out of it, and there is no smell of corpses for a while.

Lu Su winked at me, and walked in front first, only to see a square secret room inside. With Lu Su's rich experience in inverting, he found several organs not long after entering, which were similar to what we expected. Although there are organs inside, they are not comparable to the configuration of a large ancient tomb, so as long as you avoid them carefully, there is no danger.

In the first secret room, there were more bottles and jars, and I don't know what was inside, most of them had rolled to the ground, shattered, and the contents inside had evaporated completely.Connecting to the front of this secret room, there is also a wooden door, which is already decayed. I just stretched out my hand and pushed it, and then fell to the ground, kicking up countless dust.

With the light, the space behind the door is instantly exposed to our sight.From the same point of view, this is a larger secret room, but in the secret room, one coffin after another stands impressively.The shapes of the coffins vary, from the square big Han material to the full material with a circular arc top. They have different shapes and heights. They stand upright in the secret room, occupying most of the space.

Each coffin was not sealed, so when the light was turned on, the corpses inside were immediately revealed.Probably because these are the corpses of the predecessors, they are dressed in a very dignified manner. The most recent corpse is also wearing black clothes and braids, but there is no 'fig leaf' on the face, but there are many runes.At a glance, these ancient corpses all have their eyes closed, and their expressions are not hideous. Compared with the two refined corpses just now, they are much more pleasing to the eye.

These corpses are in a state of refinement, and there is no special way to drive them, so there is no danger of corpses. Before coming here, Mr. Chen has told us that these coffins are arranged in order of age, that is to say, the coffins we are looking for The thousand-year life-guarding corpse king should be the one in the far left corner of the last row.

Because Chinese materials were used at that time, the coffin was very tall. I saw it at a glance. It was a red lacquered wooden coffin with cloud patterns carved on it. It seemed that the coffin belonged to a relatively wealthy generation.Comparing with the current situation of Mr. Chen, it really echoes those old sayings: Feng Shui turns around, flowers do not bloom every day, the emperor also has poor relatives, and the ancestors of beggars may also be tens of thousands of lords.

I pointed to the cloud-patterned red lacquered coffin and said, "Where is it?" Lu Su nodded, and the two of us immediately walked around the coffins and walked up to the thousand-year-old life-guarding corpse king.The moment I saw the corpse king clearly in the coffin, I couldn't help applauding: what a corpse king, with a burly figure, muscles bulging like iron, a black face, thick eyebrows and wide mouth, wearing a black-bottomed red-lined overcoat, black hairband When the oil spreads out, it is full of majesty, with the faint demeanor of a general.

If this corpse king 'comes back to life', how powerful would it be?
Lu Su and I looked at each other, each carried half of it, and immediately ran out of the secret room.Fortunately, with the help of Mr. Chen, the itinerary went very smoothly.After the corpse king was stolen, Mr. Chen put the two refined corpses back.

We hid the dead king under the bed, quietly filled the entrance of the thief's cave and buried it back. The house was not in a hurry to move back, and we rented it for another month. People who rent houses can't find abnormalities anymore.

Immediately afterwards, we transported the body back.

The process of transporting the corpse was not difficult. I went out and bought clothes, shoes and socks to change it according to the body shape of the corpse king, cut its hair, and put on a pair of big sunglasses and a sun hat for it. Only the part from the nose to the neck is exposed, and at first glance, ordinary people can see it as a man with a darker complexion and a greasy face.

That night, with flashlights on, we took this corpse king for a walk on the road in the township. Along the way, Mr. Chen held a compass in his left hand and a corpse bell in his right, staring at the corpse king in front of him. Looking at something, the old voice was a little hoarse, and said: "This should be the last time I walk a dead body in my life. I never thought I could ask the bones of my ancestors to help me." It is customary to call the corpse.

Immediately afterwards, he heard him shake the corpse-dispelling bell, whispered in his mouth, and began to lead the way.Following his movements, the corpse king also walked behind him, his figure was not stiff, like a living person.This is the first time for me to see a corpse exorcising with my own eyes. I met a corpse exorcising craftsman in Yinyang Liubu Village before, but it was a soft rice dumpling.

The three of us gradually left the town and walked on the winding mountain road connecting the village and town, surrounded by mountains and no one else.It is said that Daodou will rush corpses when encountering dead corpse artisans, but this corpse king is worthy of being cultivated for thousands of years, and he is very obedient. Mr. Chen said that this corpse is a lifeguard corpse, and it is of the same blood line. It is very easy to control, just as simple as holding your left hand with your right hand.

After half an hour's drive, we walked for two hours and finally returned to Mr. Chen's house.As it was getting late, Mr. Chen was old and frail, and he was already very tired, so we didn't ask any more questions, washed up in a hurry, and went to bed to rest.

When I woke up early the next morning, I could smell the aroma of food. I had exhausted too much energy from walking at night last night, and now my stomach was growling.I got up and looked, and it turned out that Lu Su got up early in the morning to make breakfast.Looking at the table, it was made of corn porridge and a few seasonal side dishes from the farmhouse.

The three of us ate around the table, and the thousand-year-old corpse king not far away was sitting on a chair in an orderly manner. I think the three of us together are really strong enough, facing a thousand-year-old corpse covered in corpse oil , There is no pressure at all, eat what you should eat, drink what you should drink.Mr. Chen praised Lu Su as a good man, and he would definitely attract his wife to like him in the future.

(End of this chapter)