Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 634 Burning Zongzi

Everyone rested almost, so they walked down the hillside.

This section of the road is really difficult to walk. There are no trees and stones, and the surface is covered with a layer of dead leaves. When we step on it, our feet will slide. In addition, we are carrying equipment and wrapped in primitive cloaks. It is inconvenient to move around. Next, the big yellow duck fell down.When he fell, the whole body rolled down, knocking us down one after another. If it was on flat ground, it would not be a big deal, but on this slippery downhill road, a chain reaction immediately started.

The big yellow duck's fall knocked everyone down, and the whole group rolled down like glutinous rice balls. The surface here must be soft leaves, otherwise they would not know what they were thrown into.

This roll was spinning like a dick, and I couldn't stop at all. After a while, I felt my body go limp, and my whole body fell into a pile of thick dead leaves, so I stopped.At the same time, I heard Tofu yelling: "Is there any mistake? We are too unlucky. Who would build the ancient tomb in such a ghostly place. We are not like Tu Fuzi at all, we are more or less like Tu Fuzi." While we were talking, we got up one after another, but saw that the head of the tofu was stuck in the pile of dead leaves, and now it was pulled out, and the head was full of rotten leaves, and its face was as black as an iron pot .

I smiled wryly and said, "It's not easy to mix in any industry these days." As I said that, I observed the surrounding environment and found that we had rolled all the way to the bottom, and where we are now is the bottom of the slope. Therefore, the dead leaves on the upper layer piled up, causing the leaves here to be very thick, so soft that lying on them, half a person could sink into them.

Everyone felt that they were walking forward, hoping to take care of the rotten leaf ditch, but after two steps, the lazy man stumbled suddenly, as if there was something in the rotten leaves under his feet.He let out a gasp, a hint of surprise appeared on his ordinary face, then he lowered his head, put his hand into the leaves of the tree, and began to grope.

Now we have all left the leaf ditch, and Lazy is still inside alone, and I don’t know what to look for.

Seeing this, Tofu asked, "Did something drop?"

The lazy guy ignored him. In the next second, his movement of touching something suddenly stopped. Then, he started to lift his hands up. It seemed that he touched something big under the leaves. It seemed to be quite heavy. It should not be us. s things.

With the lazy man's strength, a dark, foul-smelling thing was lifted out.When I first brought it up, I thought it was a piece of rotten wood, but when I looked more closely, I was immediately shocked. There was no wood there, and it was clearly a person.

To be precise, it was like a wooden pile, lying straight and straight, covered from head to toe with rotten leaves and black mud, so at first glance, it was almost impossible to recognize the human form.

Could it be that the lazy guy tripped over this thing just now?

How could there be a person under the leaves of this tree?

The next moment, the man was completely pulled out from under the rotten leaves by the lazy man. Immediately afterwards, with a flick of his hand, the lazy man threw the man towards us like a cargo.Everyone backed away in fright, and the body fell to the ground with a bang, and the posture of the body was very strange.

Ordinary dead bodies, although the body is stiff, are relaxed, but this corpse is a bit too straight, with both hands tightly pressed to the side, a bit similar to the posture when standing in a military posture.Being thrown by the lazy guy, the rebound force of the corpse hit the ground, causing some rotten leaves and mud on the corpse to be shaken out and splashed on our trouser legs.

The lazy guy jumped up, pulled out his legs, jumped onto the hard ground, yawned, and said to us, "Look what this is."

Tofu blinked, and cautiously approached, suddenly his expression froze, he stammered a little, and said, "Okay, it looks like a zongzi!" In Daodou's lingo, not all corpses are called zongzi, only the ones that have transformed into corpses Corpses, such as white-haired, red-bodied, and flying corpses, can be called zongzi, while those ordinary dead bones and rotting corpses are called otherwise.

Tofu said it was a zongzi, which meant that the corpse showed signs of transformation. Everyone was shocked and gathered around.Taking a closer look, he saw that the corpse was male and female, and he had no clothes on his body. It was just covered with thick scabs, probably some dry mud, which had been stuck to his body for a long time, forming a thick armor instead. At first glance, it looks like a straight clay sculpture.

As for the face of the corpse, although it was covered with mud, it could be seen that there was no sign of corruption. In places where there was less mud, some burrs could be vaguely seen, as if the face of the corpse had grown hair.

Long corpse hair is a sign of corpse change. Black hair, white hair, red hair, green hair, different zongzi have different colors. The hair on the face of this zongzi is covered with mud and cannot see the color, but Obviously not an ordinary corpse.

I finally know how it got this stiff posture, the corpse turned into a rice dumpling, it came out day and night, and the old corpse made a hole.It was daytime now, and the zongzi was probably hiding under the leaves of the tree to recuperate, but who knew it was dragged out by the lazy guy.In the sun, the zongzi can't make trouble at all, so they maintain this straight posture.

To be honest, every time I see a hard rice dumpling, it is always in the bucket, or at night, in such a broad daylight, it is really the first time that a whole rice dumpling comes out.

Tofu was surprised and curious, and said: "Shouldn't the zongzi be in the bucket? Why is this zongzi outside?" Then, he slapped his forehead, pointed to the ditch full of rotten leaves, and said: "Could it be that there is an entrance to the ancient tomb below? Is this zongzi out for a walk?"

This suspicion is not impossible, otherwise no one can explain how this zongzi came out.First of all, there is a process for Zongzi’s corpse change. If it has been placed under the sun for a certain period of time before the corpse change, which is what I commonly call the violent corpse wilderness, or died in the wild in an accident, such a corpse will be subject to The baptism of the sun is impossible to transform into a dead body.And now, the corpse has undergone a deadly change, which means that it should have been buried underground for a long time.

Since it was a buried body, it must not have been an accidental death.

When Tofu said this, I couldn't help but look at the tree ditch, and wondered if there really was an ancient tomb under there?What is this zongzi for?

Just as he was thinking about it, Master Hu frowned, and said that he would try it out and see if there was any structure of an ancient tomb below.

Everyone is an expert in various middle schools, so they didn't say much, they unloaded their equipment bags one after another, found out the guy, and started to use the probe to probe the cave, but they didn't find it in the end. , and no signs of ancient tombs were found.

In this way, the speculation about the tofu was overturned. This rice dumpling should also be an old corpse, most likely he got into the mud to avoid the yang energy, and its real source must not be here.

Tofu touched his nose, and said embarrassingly: "Then what should we do now, this corpse is left like this?"

Mr. Hu said: "It's burned, don't think it's fine now, it will come back to life at night, and we will suffer it, so we should eradicate it as soon as possible." If we don't clean it up during the day, at night, this thing will definitely come back to trouble us.

So we cleared out an open space, put the body on the open space, then broke the solid fuel into small pieces and sprinkled it on the body, and lit it on fire.All of a sudden, the flames blazed up, and clouds of foul-smelling black smoke shot up into the sky, making people dizzy with choking.

Master Hu said: "Even if the ancient corpse changes, it is generally not too far away from its own mausoleum. There must be an ancient tomb nearby, and nine times out of ten it has been turned upside down, otherwise it would not come out for no reason."

Tofu asked curiously, "Why don't they leave their own mausoleum?" Master Hu didn't answer him, and Tofu scratched his head with a puzzled expression on his face.I explained: "No one knows exactly why. The ancestors of Daodou said that it is because the ancient tomb is the resting place of the owner of the tomb. The reason why the owner of the tomb did not run around after the corpse was changed is because he was reluctant to leave home, let alone the tomb. The treasure in the house, so even if the corpse changes, it must be guarded so that no outsiders will steal it."

He obviously didn't understand after listening to it, and said, "Why did the ghost king come out of the tomb? Tell me, is it still staying there, or has it already..."

I didn't expect Tofu to ask this, and my heart sank.According to the later clues, the ghost king of that place is actually no longer a zongzi, but a product made by the magic lamp. As for whether it is still trapped or has left that place, it is not known.

However, I reckon that the ghost king won't come out. If it does, I'm afraid it's already bloody, and we can't be silent at all.

At this time, the thick smoke emitted by the corpse was getting bigger and bigger. In the distorted flames, the corpse seemed to be moving, but it didn't seem to be moving, and it couldn't be seen clearly.

This place is a mountain forest, which might cause a wildfire, so we didn't dare to leave, so we waited aside, planning to leave after it burned out.

(End of this chapter)