Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 468 True and False Xue An
I didn't answer Tofu, but I was very surprised that this door can be preserved to this day, which is really beyond our expectations.But at this moment, as the distance narrowed, an even more unbelievable scene appeared.Since this space used to be full of water, the ground was drenched, but there was an empty fan-shaped area in front of the gate, with no trace of water at all.

Zhang Wen was surprised: "Could it be that the water will automatically avoid it when it flows here? It's incredible."

Tofu scratched his head, and said, "You thought it was a novel, but you automatically avoided it... There must be other reasons. Oh, look at this totem pole, it's really big."

The totem pole is located just outside the junction of the fan-shaped area of ​​the Golden Gate. It is very large. There are at least seven or eight people hugging it together. Looking at the material, it should be made from local materials. The black and red totem poles are all huge, with various shapes. The different Huo Duo.

I still remember the scene of shooting at the huduo on the totem pole not long ago. I just think this thing is very evil, and it is uncomfortable to look at it.Tofu was so nervous that he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He stared at the pillar, walked slowly around the stone pillar, hissed, and said, "I said yin and yang face, and you are afraid of it. I don't think it's too scary." ..." As soon as the words fell, Tofu suddenly yelled: "Why is there someone here!"

At this moment, Tofu wandered to the back of the pillar, which is the blind spot of everyone's sight. When he called out, I couldn't help being taken aback, thinking how could there be someone?Could it be that this kid is unreliable again and wants to play scary games?Zhong Gong believed in the tofu, so he turned around and said in surprise: "There is a real person, no, it's a corpse!"

The rest of us quickly went around, and didn't bother to look at the golden door and the totem pole. When we looked around, we saw a person sitting leaning on the totem pole.He lowered his head, his hair was still there, he was not wearing any clothes, and his muscles were shriveled and whitish, making him look very strange.

Whose body is this?Why are you here?

No, what's really strange is, why wasn't the body swept away by the water?

Until now, we have not been able to find out where the source of the groundwater resurgence is, but it should be nearby.I thought to myself: Could this corpse be one of the corpses we saw at the bottom of the water before?
At this time, Zhuan Rui took out the gas mask and put it on again, and then clasped the lower jaw of the corpse with his hand wearing a corpse-touching glove, and forcibly lifted the drooping head of the corpse. There was a click between the neck bones of the corpse. the sound of.

The moment they saw the corpse, everyone gasped in unison, and even Zhuan Rui withdrew his hand violently, as if he had touched something unclean.

Because, the face of the corpse in front of me is exactly the same as Xue An in the photo Zhuan Rui showed us before!
Countless questions suddenly popped up in my mind.

Who is this corpse in front of him?Could it really be Xue An?If it was Xue An, then who was Xue An who got out alive?

Tofu's teeth were chattering, and he shrank his neck in fear. He hid behind me and said, "Old Chen, do you still remember the one thing Billy said, that was when it rained heavily that night, he got up to collect wolves?" Pi, and then saw Xue An walking into the rain, and then... that Xue An's face turned into a pointed, furry fox face? Do you think... that Xue An, actually It's always been a…”

Tofu's words added to the panic effect, Ouyang Xuan said nervously: "Then, that is to say, he is the real Xue An? But, but why did he die here? Could it be that the ancient city under the desert, and this place, what is it?" What connecting passage?" When she said this, everyone naturally looked at the golden gate.

Could it be that behind this golden door is a connected underground passage?Could it be that Xue An came from there?That's not right, doesn't that door need a key to open?Could it be that the lock has already failed?
But at this moment, Zhuan Rui's breathing became short of breath, his throat rolled violently, and he seemed to be very excited. People rarely saw him like this. Tofu quickly patted him on the back and said, "Don't get excited, breathe slowly!" , people who don’t know, thought you had a heart attack.”

After a while, Zhuan Rui calmed down a little, then sat down on the ground, and said slowly: "This is the real Xue An, it must be like this, just like back then." I know, what he was talking about was the turtle from back then. What happened in the tomb, at that time, his subordinates suddenly became two, one was a charred corpse, and the other was a new 'human' who grew out of the soil.

I also sat down, feeling that something was wrong, and said: "You mean, that Xue An is actually the rebirth of this Xue An in front of you?" Zhuan Rui nodded.

Doufu grasped the point of the question, showed a frightened expression, became nervous, glanced around suspiciously, swallowed and said, "Then you mean that the Huyuduo in this place... also have that kind of ability? Will it purify and regenerate us too?"

Zhuan Rui glanced at Tofu, but said nothing. Obviously, this idea was not limited to Tofu.

I took a deep breath and suddenly felt a chill around me, as if something was peeping at us in the dark.In fact, this feeling of being spied on is an illusion that people often have in an extremely unsafe environment. Zhuan Rui's words made everyone's hearts rise to their throats, especially the corpse in front of them, his identity, his identity, etc. The experience is even more frightening.

If everything we speculated really happened, then I can almost imagine that Xue An was buried under the ancient city in the yellow sand more than 50 years ago in order to save Bilier. He must have some chance to prevent him from being buried alive , A person crawled and rolled in the ground, came to this place, but died here, more precisely, he should have been killed in this place by Hu Yuduo.Immediately afterwards, beside its corpse, another person slowly grew out, and then this person opened his eyes, changed into his own clothes, and left here.

Shamans believe that everything is animistic and that everything is a god.Therefore, the specific beliefs vary from place to place, and even from village to village.People who believed in Huduo in ancient times worshiped it for its ability to "grow back" the dead, and regarded it as a god of purification and rebirth.

What happened to Billy in the past caused everyone to have a question: after being 'purified' by Huduo, the people who 'grow back' are really the same as before?The fox-like face that Bilier described at the time was obviously Hu Yuduo's face...

And we are now in such an extremely dangerous place.

Tofu asked Zhuanrui: "This place has come to an end. The only thing we have to take back is the divine words that we have used the camera and paper before. I don't know if it will be useful. Yin Yang face, what are you going to do next? That golden door , [-]% of it is connected to the ancient ruins under the desert, do we still want to go?"

The power of love is relatively blind. Don't look at Ouyang Xuan's temper as a young lady who is afraid of bugs and earthworms, but when it comes to Zhuanrui's future, her attitude becomes very hard. She snorted and pointed at Tofu's nose and cursed. : "Coward, if you are afraid, go by yourself, no one will keep you."

Tofu's self-esteem was hit, and he was unhappy. He said, "Hey, am I afraid? I call it "planning for a rainy day, plan for the future, and I didn't say I want to break up. Don't you want to ask the opinion of the yin and yang face!"

Ouyang Xuan scolded angrily: "Who dares you to call that, even if only half of the face is good-looking, it is much better than you, a fat bun who is lazy, greedy, timid and in the way!"

Tofu hopped along and said, "I, I..." At last, I found that Ouyang Xuan seemed to be right, and couldn't find anything to refute. Finally, I pulled the corpse fairy and said, "So what, mine is compared with the squad leader's." He is handsome and has better skills than him, if it weren't for him, you would have drowned in the water."

Ouyang Xuan sneered and said: "Yes, it's okay with that face, but a corpse is a corpse, no matter how handsome it looks, you are willing to sleep with it and live with it! Except for the face, it is a walking dead, stupid and dumb, It's annoying to watch!" Apparently, Ouyang Xuan diverted her fear and anger, probably because she felt that tofu is easy to bully, and people like to be picky.

I couldn't help but frowned, and said coldly: "When is it? Shut up what you are doing." I always seem indifferent and unkind, so Ouyang Xuan didn't dare Provocate again, but this time, it was Tofu who was really angry, his chest heaved with anger, his eyes were burning, and finally he stared at Ouyang Xuan and said: "From the beginning, I liked your straightforward personality, but being straightforward doesn't mean you don't keep your words .It has a name and a consciousness of its own, not a walking dead!"

The corpse fairy rolled his eyeballs, and let out a gasp, as if he wanted to speak for Tofu, but in the end he didn't say anything, tilted his head, and returned to his wooden appearance.When Ouyang Xuan was about to continue arguing with Tofu, Zhuan Rui changed the subject and signaled not to start a fight. This is not the time for a fight, and then he walked towards the golden door, as if he wanted to see what was inside the door heaven and earth.

The crowd followed behind him, and he had just taken two steps, when suddenly, I felt something tripped under my feet, and I fell down a lot.

(End of this chapter)