Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 630
The big yellow duck swung in the air, and the pipe hit the dry ground. After being yelled at by me, I calmed down a little, and cursed: "You bastard is enough damage." The lazy man finally dropped his hand on his waist Go down, and said lightly: "I am here to save you. You didn't appreciate me, but you attacked me instead. Isn't it too kind to avenge you?"

Mr. Hu said: "Okay, don't argue." Then he said to the big yellow duck: "I don't live up to it, so why blame others. It's getting late, don't delay here, this is it." I can see that Well, Mr. Hu seems to be teaching the big yellow duck a lesson, but he is actually trying to calm things down. It seems that his grandfather does not approve of staying in this weird cemetery.

At this time, the lazy man yawned, and looked straight at the center of the cemetery. There was also a stone tower in the center, which seemed to symbolize his status. It was much higher than the surrounding stone towers, and even the material required Be more careful, instead of piled up with random stones, they are piled up with polished and regular stones, and I don't know who is buried inside.

I suddenly remembered the bearded man.

Obviously, that bearded man is also soft rice dumpling. He keeps saying that he is a practitioner, so his status should not be low. Could it be that this largest stone tower belongs to him?The lazy guy walked towards the stone tower and said, "Don't you find it strange that there is a cemetery in the deep mountain? Or is your vigilance too low? You don't want to know who left these cemeteries? Maybe it has something to do with what we're looking for."

Hu Ye said with a stern face: "We have the map in our hands, and there is still a day's journey away from the destination. Now is not the time to be serious."

The lazy guy asked back, who can guarantee that the information on the map is true?Didn't even Bai Sanye say that this clue is not certain, let us play by ear?Mr. Hu was speechless by these words, so he could only shake his head, motioning for us to follow.

At this time, the tofu was finished, and he quickly followed up with his trousers twisted. When he saw our position, he couldn't help screaming: "I said, how much benefit has Mr. Bai given you, is it worth your trouble?" He didn't answer, and said slowly: "Then what good did the third master give you two to make you work so hard?" Tofu choked, and I found that the lazy guy was just too lazy to talk. If he had to work hard, he could really make people choke die.

At a distance of about thirty or forty steps, we reached the central stone pagoda. On one side of the stone pagoda, there is a half-person-high stone tablet embedded in it. It is engraved with dense Tibetan characters. Regarding the text on it, it is estimated that apart from lazy people, No one will understand.Sure enough, the lazy man squatted down and began to look at the content on the stele. After a while, he said to himself that it was so.

When Tofu heard this, he squatted down immediately and asked, "Why is this so? What is written on it?"

Lazy said: "You guessed right before. A long time ago, people lived in this mountain, a group called 'Wadan'. This is their last cemetery." Tofu looked at the surrounding stone towers and said : "The last cemetery? If there used to be an ethnic group here, are there too few graves? Where did the Wadan people go?"

The lazy guy glanced at the tofu, and then told us about the content on the stone tablet.

How many years ago Wadan existed, there is no clear record above, but according to written information and religious information, Wadan people should also belong to the Tibetan nationality, and their culture is similar to that of the Tibetan nationality. They also believe in Buddha, but there are some differences from Tibetan Buddhism. It can be said that it is a separate culture. Unfortunately, this culture has long since disappeared, even if we did not discover these Stone Tower, I'm afraid it will never be known.

Wadan people have lived here for generations, but compared with traditional Tibetans, they are more sinicized in their respect for corpses and reverence. In Wadan, there are only tower burials and cremation. As for water burial, burial or sky burial, they do not exist. Yes, that is disrespect to the dead.

Generally, most ethnic groups that place too much value on the dead have ancestor worship, and Wadan is a typical ancestor worship group.According to the records on the stele, they originally belonged to the Tibetan nationality.Historically, Tibetans have been in a state of extreme chaos for a long period of time, and the life of the Tibetans at the bottom is very difficult, often struggling on the verge of life and death.In order to survive, Tibetans urgently need to form alliances, and the objects of alliances are naturally their own brothers and sisters.

As a result, the Tibetan nationality derived polyandry, which has been handed down to this day. Of course, this phenomenon has decreased a lot now, but it still exists.Often, several brothers would marry the same woman in order to form an alliance and protect their property and territory. In ancient times, there was no such thing as a paternity test, so the child was born without knowing who it was. Anyway, it might be yours. Nature should be treated well.Such an unclear relationship has instead become a bond, which binds the whole family together, enabling them to live tenaciously on the high mountain altitude where the land is sparsely populated.

Otherwise, according to the conditions of the snow area in ancient times, if everyone is divided into countless small families, life will be extremely difficult.

Wadan is also a branch of Tibetans. Because they could not bear the long-term turmoil in Tibet, they moved into this place under the leadership of a 'Bawo'.Bawo means hero in Tibetan. This Bawo was the leader of Wadan, and he was buried in the highest standard pagoda after his death.

Of course, the stone towers we see now are actually the products left by cremation. The real tower burial is to cast a high tower and keep the body.

Wadan has preserved the traditions of the Tibetan people. Therefore, in Wadan, polyandry or close relatives are all very normal. In this way, due to blood relationship, some deformed children will be born. Most of these children often have die young.The many small stone towers we see on the periphery are those deformed children who died young.

At this time, I thought of the child I saw last night, and suddenly realized that it might have died of abnormal brain development, because its head was very large, but we didn't pay attention to this problem last night.

Tofu said: "Why do they still marry close relatives when they know they will give birth to deformed children?"

I said: "The ancients didn't know this. They thought it was a 'retribution', so their religious beliefs became more firm, and they believed that only the atonement in this life can resolve the retribution." The lazy man nodded slightly, yawned and said: "So Wa Dan It is also an ethnic group where religion is above all else.”

According to the stele records, the ethnic group in Wadan became weaker and weaker. First, it was because of deformed children. Second, it was because they spent most of their energy on religious activities and naturally had nothing to do. Therefore, later on, the ethnic group declined to almost extinction.

However, the survival ability of human beings is strong, and they finally survived tenaciously.

Until an accident happened, which changed the fate of this group.

This accident has a legendary color attached to it, so we can't tell whether it is true or not.According to the content on the stele, the Great Depa Master Dala of Watan had a premonition that a disaster would happen, so he issued an order for the tribe to relocate.

In an extreme religious environment, no one would object to such an order, no matter how absurd, so Wadan bid farewell to his homeland in tears and prepared to move.However, just a few nights later, there was no moon and no stars, and the people in Wadan had no time to migrate, and disaster came.

That night, in the dark night, I suddenly remembered a sound like a drum beating, and immediately after that, the stars and moons in the sky dimmed.The ground suddenly began to tremble, and then, evil spirits crawled out of the ground.These evil spirits slaughtered Wadan and turned it into a hell on earth.

The leader of the evil spirits is a man without skin. After devouring the living, they continue to devour the dead, heading towards the pagoda of Bawo.In order to prevent the evil spirit from offending Bawo, Pazhudala followed him, and with the help of the Buddha's power, he opened a crack in the ground, pushed the evil spirit back to hell, and sacrificed himself.

The remaining Wadan people, after burying the last batch of dead, including their patriarch, who was the owner of the tallest stone tower, moved out of this place.

Therefore, this is the last cemetery of the Wadan people.

As for what happened to Wadan after they moved out, no one knows.

The previous record is understandable, but the latter part of the record of the evil spirit is really too nonsense. We looked at each other and felt puzzled.

Tofu muttered, "Is that living Buddha so powerful that he can tear a crack in the earth? Ancient people were very smart, but the only bad thing is that they like to exaggerate. They don't proceed from reality in everything. Such behavior is really bad."

I said: "It seems that the cultivator we met last night is probably the last patriarch of Wa Dan. That child may be a deformed child who died young. They didn't hurt us, so I don't think it matters."

At this moment, the sky was already bright, and when Tofu heard that those were deformed children who died young, his sympathy flooded, and he nodded hurriedly and said, "Let's go, let's go, don't bother with these dead people."

As soon as he finished speaking, the lazy guy suddenly pulled out the shovel from the equipment bag.

(End of this chapter)