Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 472 Voices in the dark
The flame of the candle suddenly became bigger, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.People have anger, ghosts have ghost breath, and ghosts pant, that is, the candlelight feels the breath of ghosts, so it will change color accordingly.This candle is like a green bean, burning peacefully, covering the faces of the people around with a layer of light blue.

Immediately afterwards, Zhong Gong took out the incense and lit it. The smoke from the incense could determine the location of the rice dumpling and make the soft rice dumpling visible.

The scented smoke curled up and quickly dissipated in the air. Zhong Gong frowned: "What if you don't like it?" Judging from the smoke and the gasping of ghosts, it is obvious that Please Xiang failed. Under normal circumstances, if the soft If Zongzi hides above, it will make the smoke condense and not disperse during the process of inhaling the fragrant mist. It goes straight up all the way, but now it is very normal, it will slowly disperse after rising no more than half a meter.

Zhuanrui frowned, then sat on the stone steps, staring at the hole in the dark above, as if he was asking the girl who made trouble, and he seemed to be asking himself: "What exactly do you want?" Tofu sighed, Sitting down on the ground, he said: "We have seen so many amazing zongzi, but we never thought that they would be planted in the hands of a little girl today."

Zhang Wen said with a wry smile: "I have been through strong winds and waves, but I didn't expect to capsize in the gutter."

Tofu was furious, and shouted at the top: "If you have the ability, come down for me, let's single out!"

Zhuanrui seemed to think of something because of this sentence, and suddenly stood up and said, "It hasn't come down, can't it come to this place?" His words also reminded me, thinking of the zongzi guiding us everywhere before, It seemed to be leading us, but it never appeared afterwards. Could it be that there is really any taboo about this place?
At this time, Zhang Wen said: "It was too dangerous just now. Fortunately, I didn't climb very high when I was in charge. At that time, I had to climb a little higher. If I fell, how could Brother Chen catch it. So, we can't take any more risks, and the head of the house , I think there must be other exits in this place.”

Zhuan Rui didn't speak, I asked, "How can I see that?"

Zhang Wen said: "As you said before, Xiao Xu described the appearance in that map. This place is a large-scale sacrificial place, and many people will worship here. Think about it, so many people, and some sacrificial materials , Where did they come from? Is it possible that they are all like us, climbing down from such a high place one by one?"

Without waiting for everyone to open their mouths, Zhang Wen said again: "The entrance to this passage appeared because we blew up the totem pole with a detonator at that time, so this collapse was formed. The real entrance and exit must not be here."

Everyone understood what Zhang Wen meant, and Tofu blinked, feeling a little puzzled, and said, "But, we've searched this place all over, and we haven't seen any other entrances and exits."

Zhong Gongdao: "Will there be a mechanism? I think it's better for us to investigate again." At this moment, the girl on the road above is guarding it, and it is completely impassable. In desperation, everyone can only follow along. Go down the stone steps again, ready to find other entrances and exits.

The stone steps are very long, and climbing back and forth like this is enough to make people overwhelmed. When everyone went down to the bottom, Tofu suddenly said, "Do you think there is an entrance behind that golden gate?" It's so weird that even corpse immortals are taboo, so I told Tofu not to think about it, unless you are desperate, you must not touch the gate.The rest of the people also agreed one after another, and then they started a long search.

This place has a very large space, but such things as secret passages can’t be opened wherever you want, they have to be set up according to the terrain. Therefore, we deduce that if there is an entrance to the secret passage, then the entrance and exit cannot be at the bottom of the feet. The only possibility is to open on the inner wall.

Immediately afterwards, based on the layout of the palace above, we roughly speculated on the most likely location, which is the northeast direction. If this direction cannot be found, we can only conduct a carpet search, which will take a lot of time.

Our equipment is relatively sufficient, and there is no need for everyone to save money. We turned the lights to the maximum, walked to the southeast and began to search carefully, looking for possible institutions.The crowd dispersed without knowing it. When I looked back, I saw the lights scattered in all directions.I didn't look at other people, but glanced at the location of the tofu, and saw that he was walking around with the corpse fairy, well-behaved, and there was no sign of trouble, so I was relieved.I searched forward again, one minute and one second passed before, and more than an hour passed in the blink of an eye, but the search was fruitless.

I had to flash the headlight three times according to the signal agreed in advance. Due to the large space and the distance, everyone can only judge the location according to the location of the halo. I sent a signal to indicate that I did not find it. Immediately afterwards, people scattered in other places also began to reply to the signal, and they all flashed three times like me.

I feel tired when I think about it. If we can’t find it in this area, then our search area will have to be expanded. This will be a very time-consuming and labor-intensive process. Not behind that golden door?

Thinking of this, everyone has already gathered in one place, Ouyang Xuan sat on the ground directly, leaning against the wall and fell asleep, I saw that her face was flushed, obviously she was seriously ill.After all these tosses, they were caused by ancient corpses for a while, drowned for a while, and were taken away by the weird insects for a while, and almost died. They went back and forth, and they were exhausted at the moment.

Tofu's stomach grumbled twice, he rubbed his belly, and said: "Why don't you take a break, eat something and then look for something. Miss Ouyang should take some medicine and rest first." I read Looking at the watch on my wrist, it was night when I went to the palace, and now the pointer has pointed to nine o'clock in the morning, that is to say, we have been tossing and rolling all night, neither eating nor sleeping.At this moment, they couldn't find the entrance and exit, and everyone's mood was even more heavy, showing their exhaustion for a while.

After Tofu finished speaking, Zhuan Rui nodded and said to rest on the spot.

Everyone shared the dried meat and compressed biscuits, and fed some to Ouyang Xuan, and took some antipyretic and anti-inflammatory medicine, and she fell into a deep sleep.The rest of us sat around the small solid fuel fire, somewhat sleepy.Zhuan Rui didn't show signs of fatigue, probably because he couldn't find a way to relieve Hu Yuduo on this trip, and he was still trapped here, presumably because of too much pressure.In the end, we planned to rest for six hours. Except for Ouyang Xuan, the remaining five of us stayed for about an hour each.

Tofu and I were the last two in line, so we found a slightly more comfortable place and fell asleep after watching.This sleep was very heavy, until Zhong Gong woke him up in a daze, and he said: "It's you." I sat up and felt that this short sleep did not relieve much fatigue, but because I didn't wake up , appearing more tired.

I looked at my watch, because I didn't dream when I fell asleep, so I felt that four hours had passed in the blink of an eye.I sat by the fire and continued to watch. The corpse fairy stood upright not far away. In the darkness, except for the shallow breathing of everyone, there was a deathly silence.

Time passed quickly, and an hour passed. I saw Tofu sleeping on his back, and thought that I would wake him up now, and I would sleep for another hour at most. Forget it, this kid is cheap, let him continue to sleep. So I didn't ask him to get up to change shifts, and sat by the fire thinking about something.

The one who thinks closer is the weird golden gate, and the one who thinks farther away is Lu Su with a broken rib. The hospital became dumb without a sound, and when he thought of the face that was exactly the same as Chen Ci, all kinds of doubts flooded him.

These thoughts were rolling in my mind irregularly. Suddenly, in the darkness, I suddenly heard an extremely small sound, which seemed to come from the darkness to my left.

Although the sound was not loud, it was very sensitive to people who have been in this darkness and silence for a long time. I couldn't help listening to it, and in an instant, I suddenly realized: it was the sound of footsteps, which belonged to people. Voice!
And there are a lot of people, cha cha cha, like the regular walking sound of a team.

I subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, but there was nothing there except darkness.The muscles on my back couldn't help tensing up, and a thought flashed in my mind: It's impossible for many people to appear in this place suddenly. What is this sound like footsteps?
Immediately afterwards, I woke up the others to signal that something was wrong.

Tofu woke up and looked at the time. He was surprised and said, "Old Chen, why didn't you ask me to get up and change shift?" I said, "I slept like a dead pig, why should I call you? Okay, don't talk about it, everyone, pack up your things quickly." , There is something wrong." After everyone woke up, they heard the sound of people walking without me reminding them.

The so-called illness came like a mountain, and Ouyang Xuan couldn't get up at all right now, so Zhuan Rui asked Zhong Gong to stay where he was, while the rest of us turned on the lights and quickly walked towards the direction of the sound.

(End of this chapter)