Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 467 The Golden Gate
Tofu was obviously also very unhappy, but seeing that Zhuan Rui and I insisted, he reluctantly nodded and agreed, saying that he might as well leave the corpse fairy to me, so that he could take care of him if something happened, so he said to the corpse fairy: "Wood, you follow me!" Can Chen Xuan do it?"

The corpse fairy tilted his head.

Tofu gestured to me, repeated it several times, and heard the corpse fairy say a few words after a long while: "No...Chen...xuan... fierce..." Damn, I suddenly felt that this corpse fairy usually You must be pretending to be so dazed!But seeing its serious rejection, I was momentarily choked and speechless.Everyone was in a bad mood at the moment, so I let it go and said to Tofu, "Okay, I'm notorious now, so let him follow you, and take care of him if something happens."

After everyone discussed, they rearranged their equipment. During this period, Ouyang Xuan kept silent, expressing her dissatisfaction with this decision, and I ignored her. While packing up the equipment, I told Tofu some precautions. What trouble did he cause again, while I was talking, he plucked his ears and said, "Aren't you annoying, why don't you talk so much at ordinary times, don't make it like a life and death parting, okay, it makes me feel weird. Then he changed the subject, stared at the corpse of the big bug not far away, and said, "What do you think this is?"

Zhang Wen on the other side said: "We have seen this thing before, but you may not have noticed it."

"Have you seen it?" I recalled it. After entering the desert, I have seen poisonous scorpions and poisonous snakes, but I have never encountered such a huge and weird insect. I couldn't help shaking my head and asked, "What do you mean?" Zhang Wen tweeted Pushing his own glasses, it's not surprising that we don't remember.

In the palace when I came here, the golden throne had all kinds of strange animal patterns on it. Because it was too complicated, the rest of us only took a rough look, and the focus was on Hu Yuduo.In the golden throne, there is such a bug-like thing.Since Zhang Wen has always been very interested in Fang Guo culture, he observes more subtle than the rest of us, and is also aware of some details that we don't care about.

At first, he saw a worm-shaped thing on the throne, with many strips scattered under it, shaped like a fusiform jellyfish, and thought it was a jellyfish. What about the styling stuff?As the old saying goes, the sea can turn into a mulberry field, but the Tengger Desert is a large grassland and mountains, which are incompatible with the sea jellyfish. What's going on?
He didn't think about it too much, at first he thought that some of the alien species above, just like Huyuduo, were a kind of deified totem, which belonged to fictional things.But now I can see the whole picture of this big bug.He immediately confirmed that the jellyfish on the golden throne was the big bug in front of him!

I was secretly surprised, and said, "Aren't those things fabricated? Could it be that they really exist?"

Zhang Wen shook his head solemnly, and asked me, "Do you think dragons exist?"

Tofu said: "Of course it exists. Lao Chen and I have seen each other before! After finishing speaking, we talked about the scene of our battle with the evil dragon in the tomb of the ghost king Yulong. Zhang Wen asked again after hearing the words: "But it is a dragon. Not a real dragon.We Han people take the dragon as our ancestor and call ourselves the descendants of the dragon, but who has ever seen a dragon?We worship dragons for thousands of years. There are countless legends, patterns, characters, and cultures about dragons, but who has really seen them with their own eyes? "

I understand the meaning of the article. Sometimes what people haven't seen doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't exist.Yaofang is an ancient country where theocracy and kingship coexist. It believes in shamanism, and shamanism is a religion worshiped by all things.It can be seen from the previous totem poles that their totem is Huyuduo, which is their main god, and the rest of the totems are also some gods, but they do not belong to the main god of Yao Fang.

These seemingly fictitious totems are like dragons, no one can tell whether they are real or not, but now, the things in the totems are in front of our eyes, and Zhang Wen's words reveal its identity, which still makes people feel surprised .

At this time, Tofu also packed the equipment bag, so he put the backpack on the body of the corpse fairy, put it on the buckle, and continued to use this mobile package.He clapped his hands and said, "They're all dead anyway, and it's useless to think so much. I'm just wondering how this thing survived. You said that there were no fish or shrimp in the water. Could it be that after so many years, just Did you grow up drinking water?"

Ouyang Xuan interjected in a bad tone and said, "Have you forgotten those zongzi that committed suicide? Maybe it grew up by eating those zongzi." Tofu disagreed, saying that she had photographed those zongzi with a shovel , it turns out that those are soft zongzi, soft zongzi is air, how to eat air?
While discussing, everyone decided to go into the water.At this moment, as soon as I lowered my head, there was a dark abyss under my feet. Although I knew that there was water below, it still made people feel scared.The water surface was at least five or sixty meters away from where we are now, and we didn't have the courage to jump directly, so we got an iron chisel to act as a ground nail, threw the rope down, and fell into the darkness.Tofu put on his gloves and headed down the rope.We smashed two ropes in total, and a group of six people went down along the ropes.We don't need to worry about the corpse fairy, as if it has a suction cup, it can move up and down freely.

I followed Tofu, and the distance between the two was about five or six meters wide. I estimated the height and estimated that it was about to enter the water. At this moment, Tofu suddenly let out an exclamation, followed by a series of swear words.

I shrunk down a few meters and found that the tofu had stopped in place. I asked, "What's going on?"

Tofu turned up the headlight on his head to the maximum, pointed to the bottom, and said, "Look." I followed his gaze, and couldn't help saying, "Damn!" I finally understood why Tofu was so excited Because the water below is gone.

The dark groundwater that had nearly drowned us before disappeared without a trace, leaving only the wet mountain walls.

Tofu's face is blue, you know.Ouyang Xuan was in a bad mood before, and suggested to use a chisel, anyway, there is water below, so just jump down!Fortunately, everyone was more reliable and ignored Ouyang Xuan's venting words, otherwise, if they really jumped off, wouldn't they have to be smashed into a ball of tomato sauce?

The rest of the people also noticed the change at this time, so it goes without saying that they were surprised, especially Ouyang Xuan, whose face turned pale from fright, and cold sweat broke out on her forehead.Fortunately, the rope was long enough to hang down to the bottom, about two meters above the ground, so it was no problem to jump down.

When everyone went down to the end, they felt that the surroundings were extremely humid, and the air in their noses contained the unique smell of water vapor.

Zhang Wen was surprised: "Why is the groundwater gone?"

Zhuan Rui pondered, and said, "This place is a tiankeng. The groundwater before must have come up from other channels, and now it has probably receded."

I felt something was wrong, saying that it was less than an hour since Tofu and I were attacked, and we came down now, so much water, even if the underground river resurfaced, it is impossible to drain it in such a short time? "If this speed is followed, does that mean that this place has been in a state of rising and ebbing for thousands of years?

If this is the case, those big stone pillars supporting the steps, no matter how strong they are, can be pierced by water, they would have collapsed in the past thousand years.

What exactly is going on?

Before I could figure it out, Tofu suddenly said: "Never mind it, wouldn't it be better to have no water, now we don't have to worry about turbulence, let's hurry up and find that gate." No need to act alone, everyone immediately walked towards the previous turbulent flow area according to the original plan.However, due to the perennial water accumulation in this place, the bare ground is very slippery at the moment, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall on all fours.

In the process of advancing, we will pass some large stone pillars at the base from time to time. If we look closely, we can see that these stone pillars are built with gray stones one by one. More than 2000 years ago, if we wanted to complete such a project , it is not easy.

During this period, occasionally some relics on the ground can be found, probably some lampstands left in the past, and now only a few broken stones remain.According to the map scene described by Wanshitong, the huge door should be opened on the mountain wall, and there is a big totem pole in front of the door. Looking at the direction of the previous turbulent flow, I have a vague feeling of bad , Xin said that the location of the gate is similar to the direction in which the turbulence was swept away, so the gate may have been destroyed by geological movements or groundwater.

I estimate that this time we should return without success.Of course, I didn't make this guess. In the darkness, everyone headed towards the southeast of the tiankeng at the fastest speed.

Even if it was walking, it took about ten minutes to reach the end. Tofu wanted to solve it early and go back early, so he kept rushing to the forefront. At this time, he heard him shouting: "I saw it, I saw it , the gate is over there!"

Indistinctly, on the dark mountain wall, a yellow thing is particularly eye-catching, and after a certain distance, the thing becomes bigger and bigger, and it becomes clearer, it is a golden gate. , Tofu said; "I'm a good boy, wasn't the gold production in this place particularly rich in ancient times?"

(End of this chapter)