Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 631 Ashes
The next second when the shovel was pulled out, it hit the embedded stone tablet hard.

This shovel is very thick, and the horseshoe-shaped tip is extremely powerful. This time, it directly cut the stone tablet with cracks. Before we could react, the shovel hit it again, three times in a row, and the whole stone tablet shattered crack.

Tofu gasped, his expression suddenly changed, and he said angrily, "Are you still human?"

The lazy man laughed again, and my heart skipped a beat.When he laughed for the first time, he attracted wolves and killed two people; when he laughed for the second time, he sealed the kid in the big yellow duck. What did he want to do this time?

Regarding Tofu's question, the lazy guy said lazily, "What is human nature?"

Seeing that the tomb had been broken and the matter was a foregone conclusion, I gave Tofu a wink to signal him not to be impulsive.But at this time, the lazy man pointed to Tofu and said to him: "You, go in." His hand gestured to the hole exposed after the broken stone tablet, and it was obvious that Tofu was allowed to drill into the five- to six-meter-high cave. Go see it in the stone tower.

Of course Tofu didn't want to, and said, "You're such a bullshit, go do what you do yourself."

Lazy said: "This hole is too small, who do you want to go to?" Tofu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Lazy meant that he was not tall, and his face turned dark immediately.I took a look and found that the square hole was only half a meter high, and it was really narrow. The thinnest among us was actually the big yellow duck, but although he was skinny, he had a big frame, so it was not easy to get in.Although tofu doesn't belong to that kind of skinny chick, but in our group, we really want to look thinner and have to 'take on this important task'.

Master Hu saw that the matter was a foregone conclusion, so he didn't stop him, so he let Tofu go in to have a look. After all, he is the leader of the team, and he still has to give face.Although Tofu was upset, he had no choice but to bear it. Holding a flashlight, most of his body crawled in through the hole, leaving only two legs outside, and remained silent for a long time.

I asked him what was going on inside, and Tofu's voice came out from the stone pagoda loudly, saying: "There is nothing, there is a clay pot inside, it should be for ashes..." After a pause, Tofu said again: " There was a string of beads next to the jar, there was a picture on the jar, nothing else."

Without waiting for my reply, Lazy directly ordered to take out the jar and beads of tofu paste.

Tofu said: "It's fine to take out the beads, and you won't let go of the urn?" The lazy man said indifferently: "Do it quickly, or you will be the next one I won't let go." Although the tone of his words didn't change, but The meaning of it is indeed self-evident.Most people may be deceived by his ordinary appearance, but after a few days of understanding, we know that this person is a full-fledged sadist and pervert. There is really no need to have any grudges with such a person, so I let Tofu follow suit.

Tofu still listened to me very well, cursing his mother while stepping back, and when he backed out, he was already holding a large jar in his hand, and he was wearing a string of sky blue beads on his wrist.Before he could get up, Lazy squatted down, looked at the string of beads, without saying a word, put it around his wrist a few times, and the original string of blood-red beads in his hand looked very eye-catching.

I don’t really know much about Tibetan things. Tibetans believe in Buddhism, but I remember that Tibetan Buddhism was introduced to the snow area around the fifth century in the park. Later, Princess Wencheng brought Chinese Buddhism with her when she entered Tibet. Only then did Tibetan Tantric Buddhism flourish.

There is no date recorded on this stele, but judging from these stone pagodas, it should be when Tibetan Buddhism flourished. The string of sky-blue beads is probably a treasure of Tantric Buddhism, otherwise it would not be buried in this stone pagoda.

The lazy guy put on the beads and went to observe the pottery pot. Only then did I see clearly the painting that Tofu mentioned. It was a golden Buddha with a solemn treasure appearance, glaring at him, holding a subduing magic pestle, and a yellow flower under his body. There are wild beasts with stripes, and there are Tibetan inscriptions on the side, which we can't understand.After a while, the lazy man slapped away the mud seal of the urn, and when he tipped the urn, the ashes inside immediately scattered out, just like a gust of mountain wind, blowing it away in an instant.

I was shocked, and I thought that even if it was a real rebel, he would not be so disrespectful to the dead. The behavior of this lazy person really made people have to frown.

However, along with the ashes, there was one more thing.

The thing hit the ground with a bang, and we saw that it was a dark sign, which seemed to be made of silver, and there were several raised Tibetan characters on the surface.

We also acquiesce in the behavior of lazy people. After all, it is impossible to turn against him for the ashes of a person who died a thousand years ago. Although I feel uncomfortable in my heart, I can only bear it.Only Tofu was still furious. Seeing the lazy man staring at the sign falling out of the ashes urn without making a sound for a long time, he asked, "What is this?"

Lazy looked away and said: "The nameplate is similar to a small thangka. The last time this thing appeared in the snow area was before Tang Dynasty. These stone towers seem to be a long time ago. They should be the product of the period from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty. .”

It seems that Lazy is very familiar with the progress of Tibetan civilization, so he made such a guess based on a brand that I couldn't understand.Immediately afterwards, he said again: "The thing that the third master asked us to find this time is said to be a treasure that was hidden in the mountains during the Han Dynasty. Don't you think there is some coincidence between the two?"

I understood the meaning of lazy goods as soon as I heard it. According to the information revealed by this nameplate, the existence time of this tile can be inferred from the rise of Tibetan Buddhism to before the Tang Dynasty, and the buried treasure of Puzhen was at the time of the fall of the Xiaoailao Kingdom. In the end of the Han Dynasty, the distance between the two was only more than 200 years. So, could the evil spirit recorded on the stone tablet be a human?A group of people with ulterior motives?
If this idea holds true, then the only thing we have to confirm is time.Did this tile move into the mountain after Puzhen buried the treasure, or did it exist before Puzhen buried the treasure?

If it is the latter, then the batch of evil spirits that appeared later are probably Puzhen people. Puzhen is good at ghosts and mysticism. Xiao Ailao Kingdom also recorded that Queen Baoxiang invited evil spirits from the ground , [-]% is also Puzhen's fault.In order to hide the treasure, he used ghost mysticism to almost destroy the entire Wadan, but the surviving Wadan people did not know the truth, superstitiously believed in ghosts and gods, and thought that evil ghosts came to the world, so what happened later.

But in the same way, if the truth is the opposite, and Wadan moved in after Puzhen buried the treasure, then what happened to the evil spirits later?Is it an exaggeration of the ancients, or is it true?

If those evil spirits are exaggerated enemies, then why did those enemies break into this place?

Although Wadan people are well connected with the world, their life is very simple. They have no wealth, and their clansmen are deformed. What can induce people to invade?

It was recorded on the stele that the leader of the evil spirits was at the end, heading all the way to Bawo's pagoda. No matter how you look at it, it looks like something done by tomb robbers.Could it be that after Puzhen hid the treasure, another group of forces knew the reason, so they seized the treasure afterwards?
These two guesses represent two results. First, Puzhen used secret techniques to directly destroy Wa Danren in order to hide the treasure; second, after Puzhen hid the treasure, Wa Dan moved in. Later, many Years later, a mysterious force intervened and completely wiped out Wa Dan.

I told everyone about this inference, and the big yellow duck heard the words and said: "Who is Puzhen? From what you said, that person seems very remarkable. The third master didn't tell us so much. But according to your According to the saying, we only need to find out when the Wadan people moved in and out, and we will know what is going on." Then he asked Lazy, saying: "You are Tibetan, you should know Tibetan things, can you What clues can be seen from these objects?"

The lazy guy was playing with this and that nameplate at this time, thought for a while, nodded and said: "It should be moved in before the treasure was hidden."

Tofu looked for trouble, and said: "How do you know? Didn't you just say that you can only deduce the approximate dynasty? Now you are so sure?" The lazy man smiled casually, and said lightly: "Different periods, Tibetan characters are different. " He shook the nameplate in his hand and said, "You should be lucky, because in this world, except for me, there should be few people who can understand these words."

After all, he put the sign away, looked at the sky, and said: "Let's go, whether their deaths are related to the treasure, we have to find the treasure before we know." , Tofu's sharp eyes, suddenly saw a white bone under a stone tower not far away.The bone was wearing clothes, and there was a rotten bag next to it. A rusty shotgun fell on the bone, and the whole person was a pitch-black mass. If the white head was not exposed, we really would not have found it.

The big yellow duck recognized it at a glance, and said in surprise; "It's the shotgun used by that bearded man."

Master Hu said in a deep voice; "He is probably a poacher, he was fascinated by ghosts and died here. If it wasn't for Brother Dou last night, we would have been trapped to death at dawn." Turned into a stone tower, the whole person is trapped in the tower, if there is a tool to escape, if not, I am afraid that I will be suffocated in it.

Speaking of it this way, that little ghost saved our lives. If it hadn't attracted our attention, we would probably be sleeping peacefully in that graveyard right now.

Tofu probably thought of this, and gave the lazy guy a hard look, but the lazy guy didn't feel guilty at all, yawned and continued to walk at the end, as if he would fall down at any time.

We didn't pay attention to that corpse, that person died by himself, and wanted to drag us to be buried with him, which is really not worthy of sympathy.

(End of this chapter)