Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 474 The hidden entrance

The four of us turned on four lights and surrounded this small area for a long time, but we didn't even notice a crack.It stands to reason that as long as there was an entrance and exit in this place, there should be traces left, but this stone wall is integrated with the surroundings, and it is impossible to detect anything that has ever existed.

Zhuan Rui knocked on the stone wall with his hand, and listened for a while, but he didn't seem to get anything. Then, he knocked on the stone wall with the handle of the dagger again. Due to the greater force, the sound that came back this time was faint. Empty sound.

Immediately afterwards, he said: "There is a space behind, but this stone wall is very thick."

Tofu said, "Then what should we do?"

Zhuanrui uttered a word: "Explosion." Some people described modern tomb robbers, saying that they are no longer tomb robbers, but blow up tombs. Find the right location, put explosives, everything will be fine, and just leave after moving things.In fact, this type of tomb robbers now account for the majority, they are rude and ignorant, let alone archaeologists hate them, even those in our circle are very shameless towards this tomb robber.There are rules in the business of tomb robbery, which are called: take inexhaustibly, do not damage, and return to the soil after everything is done.

The meaning of this sentence is that if there are too many things in the bucket, you can’t finish them, and you can’t damage them wantonly. Firstly, you will leave things for the owner of the tomb, and secondly, you will leave something for your colleagues later. The less, and secondly, the robbery hole had to be filled up when leaving, and the tomb was sunny and rainy, destroying the tomb.

Speaking of which, our group is relatively well-behaved. The things in the tomb are unnecessary and will never be deliberately damaged. Most of the time we use explosives, and they are also in critical moments.The place is vast, and there is nothing wrong with using explosives. After hearing Zhuan Rui's words, everyone called Zhong Gong over, moved the sleeping Ouyang Xuan nearby, and began to place explosives.

This time the weight was quite large, so the rest of us stayed away.Setting explosives is Zhong Gong's forte.

Tofu stood beside me, stretched his neck, and said, "We've found our way. You said that thing won't make trouble again?"After a while, there was a loud bang, and the whole ground shook. In an instant, rocks flew, the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, and a cloud of exploding smoke floated on the mountain wall.

Zhong Gong coughed twice, and said: "It should have exploded, wait for the smoke to dissipate, and see what's going on inside." After a while, the smoke gradually became thinner and lighter, and slowly dissipated. The irregular hole was exposed, and it was dark inside, and I don't know what the situation is.

Zhong Gong was the first to go forward to investigate. He blocked the entrance of the cave and looked in. After a while, he turned around and shouted to us: "It's a stone step going up. It looks like it's going out."

I said to Tofu: "Finally found the way, go, put Ouyang Xuan on your back, let's go home."

All the equipment on Tofu is hung on the corpse fairy, he is the most relaxed among the group of people, so although this kid is lazy, he can't shirk it, so he carries Ouyang Xuan on his back, and the group of people, led by Zhong Gong, entered the room that was bombed by us. In the opened hole, follow the stone steps all the way up.The stone steps are not straight up, but curved, presumably in a spiral shape. According to this trend, the exit of the stone steps should also be located in the palace.

About ten minutes later, Zhong Gong in front of him suddenly stopped, snorted, and said, "Here is a history room." Around this stone room, there are some grids cut along the mountain wall. It seems that this stone room was about one The transfer station is probably used to place some sacrificial things, and it has a lot of space.

At this moment, my light hit a smooth stone wall without grids on the right, and I suddenly discovered that there were some murals painted on it.The use of murals has a long history, and it has long been unverifiable. In ancient times, people used the form of carving to carve murals on stones, so that they left behind many unimaginable patterns that are known today.And Yaofang was located in a certain period of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and it was a very important discovery that this kind of murals using pigments appeared.

The paint on the stone wall has long lost its bright color, so red is not red, yellow is not yellow, all faded into a kind of brown, and the picture is difficult to recognize.I leaned forward to take a look, but saw that the mottled and incomplete people in the painting were all terrified and fled in all directions, as if something terrible had happened.

And behind these fleeing people, there are circles of spiral lines. These fleeing people seem to be escaping from the scope of this spiral.Tofu came over at some point, and suddenly said: "Wanshitong said before, on that lost map, behind the golden gate, there is such a spiral line drawn, does the spiral on it refer to the golden gate? What's behind?"

I nodded, thinking that Tofu's theory is very possible. This spiral must represent some kind of danger, and the terrified people on this mural must be Yaofang people who want to escape from danger.Tofu glanced down, suddenly let out a sigh, and said, "Look, who is this person? Is it the petrified ancient corpse from before?" But in the next picture, another scene was drawn, a A person in a black robe, with a double fish-eye mask that we have seen before, walked towards a palace complex in the distance, and the palace in the picture is also very strange, drawn with distorted lines of.The walls are distorted, the top of the palace is distorted, and even the people in the palace are distorted, and this person who is wearing a mask and cannot see his face is walking towards the distorted palace step by step.

The painting of this scene is extremely delicate, including some details of this person's body, but the color is mottled, so it is difficult for us to identify, but it seems that this person is probably the petrified ancient corpse.

It seems that this person is not from Yao Fang, but rather a traveler.Some practitioners in ancient times, including shamanism, practiced the way of walking. According to the dress of the whole person in the picture, it should be a shaman who traveled to the ancient country of Yaofang.

Next, the man walked into the distorted palace, and a totem pole stood at the entrance of the palace. On the top of the pole, there was a fox-shaped Huuduo beside it.Immediately afterwards, there was the scene of casting the golden gate. After the gate was locked, the spiral was locked behind the gate.

Looking further down, it is a scene of sacrificial offerings. The golden gate was opened by a masked shaman, and then a group of people wrapped in cloth leather stepped into the gate one after another.On the faces of these people, there was fear and even a sacrificial look on their faces, and they did not resist.

After they walked into the golden gate, their figures suddenly disappeared like the devoured flames we threw in before.

I couldn't help but gasped, and immediately understood that this was a living sacrifice, and the object of the sacrifice was the spiral locked behind the golden gate.I don't know exactly what this spiral represents, but based on the content of this mural, I have also deduced some clues about the ancient kingdom of Yaofang.

It seems that this "spiral" appeared suddenly, which brought great disaster to Yao Fang. At this time, a great shaman came here and taught Yao Fang to forge a golden gate and open it to Yao Fang. The spiral is locked behind the door. At the same time, this wizard should believe in Huyuduo. Perhaps Huuduo can really restrain the "spiral". Therefore, the ancient Yaofang Kingdom became a place where shamanism was worshiped, perhaps for the sake of The spiral of appeasement, thus also forms the human sacrifice.

The zongzi we saw walking back and forth on the stone steps before may be those who were used for sacrifices.

After hearing my analysis, Tofu was surprised and said: "So, those Huyuduo are actually used to guard the golden gate? The reason why they suddenly attacked us before was because we wanted to open the gate?"

I nodded and said, "It should be like this."

Tofu pondered for a while and said, "What is behind the golden gate? Not good... You said that we opened the gate but didn't close it. Would the 'spiral' inside come out?" I wondered. He muttered for a while, thinking that he didn't know, but it seemed that if Zhuanrui wanted to find a way to solve Huyuduo, the main clue was still on the petrified ancient corpse, but unfortunately, the map had been lost. When [-]% of the groundwater ebbs, it has already been brought to the deeper water bottom along with the groundwater.

In the place facing the stone room, there is still an upward stone step. Everyone searched around in this stone room. Maybe the things inside were taken away by someone, or maybe it was decayed after a long time, but they couldn’t find it. Something of value, so we followed the stone steps and prepared to continue up.

At this time, everyone's attention was on the front, and the dark stone steps had no end, and it was very tiring to climb.Tofu carried Ouyang Xuan on his back, and he couldn't move anymore, so he said to me: "Old Chen, why don't you carry it for a while, so that I can take a breather."

I said: "Don't rely on me for everything, be self-reliant and self-reliant. Besides, am I creating opportunities for you?"

Tofu said angrily: "When I liked her, you didn't give me a chance. You knew I would give up, but now I'm creating an opportunity for Mao. The surname is Chen, I see you clearly, you hypocrite!"

"Thank you."

Tofu shouted, "I'm not praising you!"

I saw him blowing his hair, and I thought it was interesting, suddenly, in the darkness ahead, several black and white faces popped up, this was really sudden, Zhong Gong, who was walking in front, was caught off guard, and backed away in shock step, almost slipped and fell, and exclaimed, "What!"

(End of this chapter)