Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 471
Before I could figure this out, I saw the two squatting down beside the corpse. Zhuan Rui gave Zhong Gong a wink, and Zhong Gong took out incense from his equipment bag and lit it. Holding the four sticks of incense and lighting it, he muttered: "Brother Xu, blame us for being late and failing to save your life. You can go with peace of mind. I will cremate you in a while. I promise to bring the ashes back and return the fallen leaves to their roots. I will never let you die." If you stay in this place alone, your family members and those who are in charge will definitely arrange it properly. But your corpse is rotten now, we have to figure it out, if you offend, I hope it is because of our good intentions, don’t blame us."

After chanting like this, he took out the smokeless stove, put incense on the stove, and used it as an incense burner. Immediately afterwards, Zhuan Rui pointed a dagger at the chest and abdomen of Wanshitong's corpse and cut it off.After this cut, the liquefied yellow water came straight out, and the stench was even worse. The rest of us couldn't help but backed away.

Tofu got angry and wanted to go up to stop him, but I grabbed him and said, "Don't go over there."

Tofu covered his mouth, and said in a muffled voice: "If you don't go through, everyone will die. It's too wicked for the two of them to do this. If you are full, you will be full!"

I felt uncomfortable, after all, this time in our team, everyone was of one mind and got along along the way, except for Ouyang Xuan who had a bit of a lady temper and had some troubles, everyone got along very well.Even if we didn't get along for a long time, when I think back, I can still think of the inarticulate smile of Wanshitong when I camped in the desert, and the admiration for Zhong Gong in his eyes from time to time.Everyone has their own idol. I heard that Master of Everything was single-handedly promoted by Zhong Gong.

When Zhong Gong was inserting incense, I saw this meticulous and iron man, his eyes were moist.Along the way, everyone has experienced danger several times and helped each other. Now that my companion has ended up like this, I can't bear it, not to mention that Tofu has always been soft-hearted, so I can only comfort him when I see his fierce reaction. Talk about the reason.

This giant corpse will only appear after a long period of decay. From the time I left with Tofu, to being trapped in the rock wall, to escaping from danger, and opening the golden gate, in fact, this process is not long, about three to four hours. How could the corpse become like this in such a short period of time?
Zhuan Rui is obviously doing an autopsy now. For the Daedou family, they must be better than us half-way monks in terms of understanding of corpses. It seems that Zhuan Rui wants to find out the reason.

Tofu still couldn't bear it, and said, "Didn't you say that it might be caused by the environment... Besides, people are dead, so what's the use of tracking them down?"

I asked back: "What if it is not caused by the environment?"

Tofu stopped talking, sat on the stone steps, with his back to Wanshitong's body, not looking at the behavior of Zhuanrui and the other two.No one was willing to watch this scene, and the rest of us simply turned around and stood on guard to prevent any mishaps from happening again, or those huduos making trouble again. ,
In about ten minutes, a simple autopsy was completed. Zhuan Rui and Zhong Gong put solid fuel on the body and started to burn the body. They took off their dirty gloves and coat and threw them on the stone steps. The expressions are a little dignified.

Finally, it was Zhong Gong who spoke first: "The results show that the corpse has been dead for ten to twelve days."

Zhang Wen was astonished and said, "How could this happen? The time should be less than four hours."

Tofu said: "Could it be that Lao Xu's corpse traveled through time and space?" At this time, with the support of solid fuel, the fire of burning the corpse was blazing. Only ashes remained.

The thick smoke produced by the corpse was very heavy, and everyone retreated to the bottom of the stone steps, looking up at the burning flames in front of them, their voices were very heavy.

Why did the know-it-all's body undergo such a change in less than four hours?Is it true that as Tofu said, this corpse has traveled through time and space?The rest of the people obviously didn't understand what was going on. For a while, everyone was speechless. The darkness was dissipated by the raging flames. Because they were wearing gas masks, the smell of burning was isolated. Twenty minutes later, the flames were extinguished, leaving a pile of off-white ashes with charred black particles on the ground.

Zhong Gong vacated a waterproof tool bag, put the ashes in it, patted the bulging bag, as if patting the shoulder of Know-it-all, then put the sealed bag into the equipment bag, and said: "Xiao Xu, I'm going home." I could see that, in fact, in the whole team, Zhong Gong should be the one who suffered.

After they packed up the ashes, they didn't have time to worry about why the corpse would rot faster. Then they went up the stone steps, preparing to follow the way they came, and go to the bottom of the cave to return. , We looked up with the light on, and found that the rope we had erected had fallen down for some reason and landed on the stone steps.

Due to the special material of the upper stone chamber, it is impossible to nail it into the ground, so we used a very long iron chisel to cross the square hole, and then we erected the rope, and the movable buckle was pulled tighter and tighter. Said, no matter what happens, it is impossible for this rope to slip down.

Tofu said: "It's over, it's over, the rope has slipped down, how can we go up such a high distance?"

I motioned everyone to gather the lights in one place and hit the hole above, and said: "We have the claws to detect the sun. As long as the iron chisel across the hole is still there, we can put another rope." What is even more strange is why the rope fell down.

At this time, everyone's lights were all turned to the upper position, and the iron chisel in the middle was still in place.Everyone felt that there was something wrong with the sudden drop of the rope, and after testing the hole above for a while, they didn't find anything wrong.

Where did Ouyang Xuan suffer so much? After all the tossing, her body seemed to be a little uncomfortable, and she folded her arms and complained of being cold.Zhuan Rui probed her forehead and said that she had a fever, so she had better leave this place as soon as possible and settle down early.So everyone didn't think much about it, they took out the Yin-exploring claw, put the rope on the Yin-exploring claw, and launched it through the mechanism box, with great force.Seeing that after the mechanism box was launched, the rope flew upwards suddenly, and the penetrating claw firmly stuck the iron chisel above it.

Zhuanrui pulled it hard twice, and it was very firm, so he climbed up first. Everyone's eyes were fixed on Zhuanrui, and they didn't look away for a moment. Someday, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared, just blocking the top of the cave, and it was unclear whether it was a human or a ghost.

I was taken aback and shouted, "Zhuan Rui, come down quickly!"

Zhuan Rui obviously noticed it too, and wanted to retreat, but at this critical moment, the rope, which was obviously stable, suddenly slipped away!In an instant, Zhuan Rui, who had climbed ten meters high, suddenly fell down.

In desperation, I subconsciously jumped forward and slammed into Zhuan Rui who was about to hit the ground.This collision weakened the gravity, but Zhuanrui and I were unstable. We couldn't control our figures for a while on the downward-sloping stone steps, and we rolled down, knocking our heads and bumping our feet. It was unavoidable. Needless to say the pain, the key is that the two sides of the stone steps are suspended in the air, and there is no guardrail at all. The two of us couldn't control it, so we rolled directly towards the edge of the stone steps.

At the very moment, I reached out and grabbed Zhuan Rui's feet, and Zhuan Rui also reacted very quickly, and quickly grabbed the stone steps with both hands, and the two of them hung in the air like this.

Now Zhuan Rui is relying on two hands to bear the strength of the two of us, the muscles in his arms are tense, while Tofu and the others rushed down in a hurry, grabbed Zhuan Rui in a hurry, and pulled him up.When the two of us climbed the stone steps, our faces were also blue and purple, we were out of breath, and we were afraid for a while.

I breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Zhuan Rui: "Thanks to you, otherwise I would have fallen just now."

Zhuan Rui gave up, and said: "If you hadn't hit me just now, I would have been disabled if not killed."

Tofu said: "You two, don't be polite to each other. What was lying on the hole just now?" I shook my head and said, "I didn't see clearly." His face looked terrified, he squinted his eyes and said, "I saw it, it was the thing that led us down before."

brought us down?

My heart skipped a beat, isn't that the kid?
Hiss... what on earth does that kid want to do?I recalled its actions all the time, and suddenly realized that the girl seemed to be leading us to this place all along, and now, when we want to go up, it hinders it.

Is it trying to trap us here?

Tofu was very surprised, and then said angrily: "It's a shame that I cremated it. This kid is too heartless. If it wasn't for Mu Mu who doesn't eat soft rice dumplings, Mu Mu would have to swallow it!" No, he said, "If that girl keeps guarding the top and making troubles, we won't be able to go up at all. We have to find a way."

Zhuan Rui said: "Let him down, so that we can deal with each other face to face."

Tofu hissed, and said, "How do you plan to deal with it? Zhuanrui glanced at Tofu, and said calmly: "If you tell me now, will it still be fooled? "After speaking, he gestured to Zhong Gong, signaling to invite incense.

As usual, Zhong Gong first lit a Jade Beauty, and in an instant, the orange flame suddenly turned green.

Tofu said in a low voice, "I'm out of breath."

(End of this chapter)