Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 625

Immediately afterwards, Tofu immediately noticed something was wrong, pointed at him and shouted: "Why do practitioners still hunt?"

The man replied with a strange tone: "Why can't you hunt? Did I say that I am a Tantric?" We were astonished by this statement. In this border area between Sichuan and Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism is the main form, and there are also traditional Buddhism and Taoism. Secondly, but even so, it is not killing. What is this person practicing?
Tofu muttered, "What else could it be?"

Just as I was about to answer, the man had already started to live, and he also took out a Tibetan knife and started cutting yellow mutton.He sliced ​​the yellow mutton into pieces and roasted them on the fire. There is a simple chimney above the wooden house. Most of the oil fume floats into the chimney, and a small part swirls in the room, allowing us to smell the rising smoke more clearly. Meaty.

While grilling the meat, he said: "It's getting dark, this place is very dangerous at night, you can stay overnight with me, but I will charge you a fee." Is there a fee? Are you a monk? Well, even if you don’t go out, do you still need money in this deep mountain and old forest?” As he spoke, the man reached out and took out some white things from an earthen pot Sprinkle it on the mutton, it should be table salt, and now the fragrance is even stronger.

He replied to the tofu, "These things need money to buy."

At this moment, Mr. Hu stepped forward and said, "Thank you for your kindness. We have our own tent, so we don't need to borrow it from you." As he spoke, he frowned and gestured to everyone, motioning us to leave and not to approach this strange man again.Tofu smacked his mouth, staring at the golden and fragrant yellow mutton roasted on the simple iron rack, gulped.

Seeing this, the practitioner pierced a piece of meat the size of an adult's palm with a wooden stick and handed it to the tofu, apparently as a treat, but he didn't hold us back either. He nodded and said, "Close the door." We left the wooden house , Tofu couldn't wait to bite the meat, grinning his teeth from being burned, and finally could only blow on the freshly roasted meat, and said while blowing: "This person looks pretty good."

I couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and said, "Whoever feeds you is a good person, right?"

The big yellow duck snorted and said, "That man is weird. He kills while claiming to be a practitioner. He has a strange figure and seems to have foreign blood. I don't think he's a good person." Then he turned his head and asked What should Master Hu do? Master Hu looked at the sky, and because of the delay, it was already very late, he frowned, and said: "We have already been discovered, there is no need to detour, let's camp here. "

We found a flat place, picked up the fallen leaves on the ground, picked up a large amount of firewood for backup, lit a bonfire, pitched a tent, ate some dry food, and went to sleep in different shifts.Tofu and I are still in the same class, and we will stay for two more hours, while the rest will stay for an hour and a half each.

I was exhausted during the day, and with the accident last night, I didn't have any energy at all at the moment. On the contrary, Tofu dozed off from the vigil yesterday. After sleeping all night, my spirit was not exhausted.Seeing me yawning, he patted his chest and said, "Go to sleep, I'll be fine by myself."

I said, "I'm not going to believe you unless I'm crazy."

Tofu was very depressed, and said: "I don't know good people, forget it, then you can take a nap by the fire. You have to trust your companions, you know? Grandpa Dou is also a man after all, what do you think of me?" He In that case, I thought so, but I didn't feel comfortable going into the tent, so I took a nap by the fire.As soon as he closed his eyes, he soon fell asleep.

Although I was thinking of taking a nap, I was so tired that I fell asleep almost as soon as I closed my eyes.

I don't know how long it took before someone started shaking me, saying, "Lao, Lao Chen, wake up." It was Tofu's voice, but the voice was a little strange, as if I was about to cry.I opened my eyes in a daze, and saw that the tofu was extremely close to me, and the whole body was shrinking, which was very weird.

I shook my head to wake myself up, and immediately looked around, but I didn't see anything wrong.Seeing Tofu's frightened expression, he couldn't help laughing, and said, "Aren't you a man? Don't be shy, what's wrong?"

Tofu swallowed and said, "Listen, do you hear any strange noises?"

I strained my ears to listen, but I could only hear the unknown birdsong in the darkness, and the rest, as for the strange sounds, I didn't hear them for a while.Immediately afterwards, Tofu pointed to the direction to my left, and said, "I heard someone's laughter just now. When I looked at that position, I saw a big figure rushing past."

I thought to myself, how could there be someone in the middle of the night?Not to mention running to our side to laugh, isn't it full of food?I asked Doufu if he was the practitioner. Tofu shook his head, his voice trembling, and said, "It's a child. I only see a back view. The head is bald and there is no hair. The clothes on his body are also pitch black."

child?
How could there be children in this place?

I wondered if Tofu was wrong, but seeing his frightened expression, I felt something was wrong.Although tofu is timid, it is not so timid.At this time, Tofu lowered his voice and said cautiously: "You said... could it be... there are soft rice dumplings?"

I said: "Even if there are soft rice dumplings in this place, there shouldn't be children. Although this place is backward, but the spiritual beliefs are pure, and the proportion of abandoned babies is very small. Even if there are children who have turned into soft rice dumplings, they shouldn't appear at this place."

Tofu nervously said: "What should I do?" I got up, said to observe for a while, and while talking, I looked at the watch on my wrist by the way. When I woke up, my eyes closed and opened, and I didn't feel anything. It's been more than an hour, and it's time to change shifts in half an hour.

I heated up the bonfire a bit, and in the darkness, I could only hear the crackling of firewood, but nothing else.For a while, even Tofu himself wondered if he was delusional. Seeing that the time for shift change was approaching, I asked Tofu to call the big yellow duck who took over. As soon as Tofu turned around, I suddenly caught a glimpse of it from the corner of my eye. position, something popped out suddenly.

The thing was about the height of a child of four or five years old, with a bald head, and its back was facing us. At the same time, I heard a burst of laughter in my ears, as if some child was laughing.

Out!
It seemed that Tofu was not mistaken. Without further ado, I immediately chased after it. I clasped my wrist and grabbed a throwing knife. Since the distance was not far, I hardly needed to aim and shot it.The reason why I dare to kill so hard is because I know that this elusive thing is definitely not a child, and it is probably something unclean.

As soon as I threw the throwing knife, the thing suddenly became shorter and disappeared from my sight.This vigorous blow nailed the flying knife to a tree. At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind me: "What are you doing?"

I turned around and saw that it was a lazy guy.

He looked at me, then at the shining silver flying knife on the tree, obviously waiting for my answer.Tofu reacted, and immediately said: "There is a child, it is probably unclean, and Lao Chen is dealing with it."

The lazy man frowned, pointed to the flying knife, and said calmly, "I only heard its sound, but nothing else."

I thought of the extremely high alertness of the lazy guy, and suddenly realized: Yes, if there is really movement, why did the lazy guy only find out now?Could it be that only Tofu and I heard that laughter?" At this time, Tofu seemed to think of something, and said in a low voice: "That thing has been running with its back to us, as if it was trying to lead us somewhere. "

The voices of the three of us whispering woke up Master Hu and the big yellow duck.The big yellow duck yawned and said, "It's the middle of the night, what are you bothering about, something went wrong?"

Tofu said: "There seems to be something unclean."

The big yellow duck stared blankly, looked at Tofu with a strange expression, and said, "Impossible, do you know what Master Hu used to do?" This sentence made Tofu and I startled at the same time. Is there something between the two? relation?
The big yellow duck seemed to want to explain, but at this moment, Mr. Hu waved his hand and looked at the location where the flying knife was shot. At this time, he said, "It's the location of the wooden house." At this moment, the night is very dark, and there is no bonfire in the wooden house. It was also swallowed up by the night, and it was only after Master Hu reminded me that it was indeed in the same location as the wooden house.

Tofu immediately said: "That person reminded us before that it's dangerous at night, maybe that's what he was referring to."

Without further ado, Master Hu said, "Let's go and have a look." It seemed that he wanted to enter the wooden house.I thought of what the big yellow duck hadn't finished saying, and I couldn't help thinking: What did the big yellow duck mean by what the big yellow duck said just now?
What did Mr. Hu do before, and what does it have to do with those unclean things?
(End of this chapter)