Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 640
The actions of the two of us had already attracted the attention of lazy people and others, and the three of them jumped off the rock one after another, and followed our gaze to look in.At this time, I heard Hu Ye let out a sigh, and said: "Human Mianlian, everyone, step back and stay away from it." After finishing speaking, he gestured for us to follow him, and after a while, we moved away from the big rock. .

Human face lotus, I seem to have heard Wei Nanjing mention this thing before. When I first entered the industry, Wei Nanjing told me a lot of anecdotes. It is said that human face lotus is a kind of flower that grows on human corpses. The stamens of the flowers resemble human faces, and emit a faint smell like the smell of corpses.When meeting a living person, the human face flower will move, and spread a kind of pollen while turning, which will make people mesmerized. If they smell it too much, it can also paralyze people's brain and eventually cause people to shock and die. At this time, that person The human face lotus will live on the new dead body.

This kind of flower does not grow everywhere, and it is relatively rare, and it mostly appears in some evil places.

But, it was under the rock just now, and there was no corpse?

Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked Tofu if he was okay. He had been in contact with that human face lotus the longest, so I wondered if he had been hurt by the pollen.Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished asking, Tofu smiled, as if he was drunk, his whole body was a little shaky.Fortunately, Mr. Hu was well-informed and said that it was probably due to inhalation of some pollen. He twisted the person to the side of the water to wake up before he could cure it. That's stupid enough, but I can't mess around anymore. I looked at the wolves staring at the wolf pack in the distance, and I signaled everyone to find a place to stay according to the original plan.

This rest lasted for three or four days. We naturally had to find a safe place. After walking for more than half an hour, we found a sunken mountain pass. We sealed the irrigation vent with rain cloth as usual, and everyone rested in this place.Since the place is not far from the trickle, we can also go fishing in the water, so food is not a problem.

The wolves became even more anxious. Seeing that we could not only make the sound of fear, but also the fire that made them fear, the wolves howled one after another for a while, as if they knew that my mother would be difficult to do, and the voice revealed a kind of despair.

The big yellow duck looked at the pack of wolves and said that the pack of wolves were already starving, and if they couldn't eat us, the pack of wolves would starve to death.We were all puzzled as to why these wolves did not leave this place to hunt, but we had no idea, so we could only stand in a stalemate.

At this time, Tofu suddenly pointed at the wolves and exclaimed, "Look, there are still cubs." I looked in the direction of his fingers, and there were indeed a few half-grown cubs.Wolves in high-altitude areas usually mate in April and conceive for two months, that is, give birth around June, while pups usually take half a year before hunting with their parents. He was only three months old, skinny and dying, as if he would die at any moment.

I frowned, feeling even more uncomfortable.

Why don't you leave here?

You're starving to death, why don't you leave?

It's really strange.

At this time, the tofu suddenly came to the big yellow duck's ear, murmuring and murmuring, but after a while, the big yellow duck shook his head vigorously and said, "Don't do such a stupid thing." The tofu said angrily, "We have fishing lines. There are so many fish in the water, it's easy." I understood Tofu's character, and guessed that he wanted to catch some fish to feed the wolves.We are going to rest here for three or four days, and there is really nothing to do. Instead of being so guarded against wolves, we might as well try to feed them.

The ancestors domesticated wolves into dogs, which is actually almost the same way.

I took a gun and went to the water's edge to fish with tofu.The fish in this water are not caught by anyone, so there are a large number of them. The fish are fat and stupid, unlike those fish raised in lakes in big cities. Experienced people know that those fish are not easy to bite.

Tofu and I dug some earthworms, and fishing was almost effortless. On average, there was one bite in 2 minutes. After half an hour, there were already [-] big fish, each weighing four to five catties.We threw the fish towards where the wolves were.

The wolves were very cautious, all bristling their hairs, staring at the fish not far from them, but did not move.I knew that the wolves were very vigilant, so I went back to the cave with tofu. After a while, I heard a howling of wolves from outside. I guess it was the wolf king giving orders. There is not a single bit of fish left.

Although there were a lot of fish, for the whole pack of wolves, it could only be regarded as a temporary reprieve from the famine, but they became much calmer. The female wolf began to squat down to nurse the cubs. fed.The big yellow duck immediately poured cold water on it, and said to Tofu, "Wolves are greedy. If they get used to you finding food for them, they will follow you all the time in the end, and you won't be able to shake them off."

Tofu scratched his head and said: "Nonsense, the teacher told us in class that wolves are the scavengers of the mountains and forests. They eat a large number of sick animals and rotten corpses, which prevents the spread of large-scale diseases, and wolves are the ancestors of dogs. , in addition to being good at holding grudges, it is also a very grateful animal."

"Yo." The big yellow duck sneered and said, "So you are not stupid. Did your teacher tell you that our motherland is a garden?"

Tofu nods.

The big yellow duck asked: "Where are we in the garden?" At this time, there is really nothing to do except to talk.Tofu was very hurt when he did good deeds, so he nestled aside to sleep. When we were fishing for dinner, we deliberately caught [-] more wolves, each of which was a big guy. According to visual inspection, there were [-] wolves in the pack. There are some leftovers, and this time I can probably eat enough.Sure enough, the wolves did not show any attack intentions, and they stopped approaching our camp. After feeding like this for three days, the snow melted, and the hiding animals came out. One of the wolves, the wolf with white hair in the middle, He let out a long howl at our camp, turned around and took the wolves away in the dust.

Tofu looked at the big yellow duck proudly, with an expression that I was right.These three days have also swept away the exhaustion we had accumulated before. Lazy people are sleeping almost every day these days. They are typical representatives who can lie down but not sit, and can sit but not stand. Tofu even secretly asked me , Is he practicing magic skills like sleeping arhat?

Now that the rain and snow have melted, we exercised our muscles and bones, walked out of the cave, and found a slightly higher ground, led by Mr. Hu, watching the mountains and soil marks.Suddenly, he twitched his eyebrows and pointed to a place on the hill to our left, where there was an old crooked maple tree, the leaves of which had already turned yellow.

Master Hu pointed to that direction, and said in a firm tone: "There is something down there, let's go and have a look."

I estimated the distance. The so-called running a dead horse to the mountain is not a long distance in the air, but it takes more than an hour to go all the way.Fortunately, we have survived the coldest time of melting snow, and now it is not so cold, except that the land is too wet and difficult to walk, there are no other problems.After more than an hour, we arrived at the location Hu Ye pointed out.

To be honest, I don't know how Master Hu saw it, at least in my eyes, there is nothing special about this place.

Mr. Hu didn't say much, and motioned us to copy the guys to work. Except for Tofu, who didn't know anything about it now, the rest of us started to dig holes.Soon, the steel pipe increased from five meters to ten meters. I pulled out the probe shovel and poked the soil inside to look carefully. There was no sign of rammed earth, but the soil was a little black, and there was wood residue in it. It smelled, In addition to the earthy smell, there is also a copper smell.Some ancient relics have been buried in the ground all year round. After erosion, the color or smell of the surrounding soil will change. I carefully identified and told everyone that there is indeed something underneath, but the specific structure needs to be deeper.

Encouraged by this, we were full of energy, and soon, we used the shovel to feel through the things under the soil.It is 13 meters deep, occupies a small area, and is vaguely in the shape of a tower, which surprised us.

Could it be that the following is the Pawo Pagoda we are looking for?
But how could the pagoda be buried in the soil?You know, this is a depth of 13 meters. Unless some major geological disaster has occurred, it is impossible to bury the tower so deep.

Furthermore, although this is a tower shape, according to the results of our shovel just now, the upper part of the tower has disappeared, and it may be broken, melted, or rotten, and what we just found is In the lower half of the tower, when the shovel hits it, there is a feeling of hitting a rock, so we made a preliminary inference: half of the tower body is damaged, and the bottom is mostly made of stone, so the structure is still intact, and we can make a straight hole. Go down and have a look.

This is not a problem for us, everyone ate something, drank some water, and then picked up the shovel to dig holes. We are all veterans, and we are unambiguous in our work. Although it didn't take long, everyone became covered in mud ground mouse.Tofu was in a hurry. He couldn't understand what we said, and he didn't know what we were doing. He just watched us make a straight hole with a look of admiration.

More than two hours later, the lazy man's shovel made a thud, he wiped the mud off his face, and said calmly; "It worked."

(End of this chapter)