Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 657 The Big Hole
The fat man soaked his feet in the water, listening to the voice of the conversation coming from the grass not far behind him: "The traces of that thing's activity are becoming more and more obvious. This base may not last long." This is an unfamiliar voice. The part of the people who appeared in the base later, actually those of us soldiers are very unfamiliar with their voices, because this group of people feel very proud and rarely talk to us. After a few times, I am more familiar with Baldy's voice.

"Well, the operation is about to start, I don't know if we can successfully retreat." This is Baldy's voice.

Fatty's heart moved, he didn't dare to make a sound, what action did he think?What trace?
Then, the strange voice said again: "If the snake out of the hole really starts this time, I'm afraid more than half will be killed or injured."

The bald man sighed, and said: "There is no way, sacrifices are always inevitable, what we can do is to minimize casualties." The two of them spoke, there was a rustling sound in the grass, and it seemed that they had walked away.Fatty was so startled by these conversations that he broke into cold sweat. What do you mean by more than half of the casualties?What does it mean that sacrifice is always inevitable?What is leading a snake out of its hole?What to use?

I was also shocked at the time, what exactly was it going to deal with?Why are there more than half of the casualties?I've been here for two years, and apart from the dead female dispatcher, I haven't actually had any major accidents, so when I suddenly heard Fatty say this, I felt a little bit confused, but I couldn't do anything about it.

After the incident, the base was still very calm, but our transport team suddenly became busy with tasks and began to transport a strange thing.The outside of the thing was wrapped with a white rainproof cloth, and the inside was a hard sponge. It was about two meters long and half a meter wide. It was very heavy. It was packed one by one, and it took four or five to transport it. Finally, it was piled up in the basement of the base. .

We didn't know what these things were at first, but once, during the transportation, due to the heavy rain the day before, a lot of stones were piled up on the road and the driving was bumpy.Half of one of them fell out of the car, knocked on the road, and a corner on the side was smashed.

I looked in along the gap, and saw the black wood at a glance, and it was the kind of painted wood. Combined with the specifications of the whole object, I immediately realized what was inside: the coffin.

black coffin.

Could it be that the coffins we transported to the basement during this time have always been coffins?
What's inside these coffins?corpse?

It's not that I haven't seen a corpse, but when I think about this incident, I still feel terrified. It turned out that the things I transported in the middle of the night were all dead people. I was sitting in front of the car, and there were dead people in the back. The coffin is scary no matter what you think.

But I knew that since this thing was sealed, I definitely didn't want us to know about it, so I pushed the coffin back on the car and transported it to the base again, pretending not to know.

Since then, it has been transported several times one after another.

Until one day, I received another mission, and the company called a large liberation truck to let me transport things. This time, I was not the only one, but Baldy and a dozen comrades with guns were also with me.Those coffins that were still wrapped in raincloth were carried onto the big truck. There were as many as thirty coffins, but the destination of our transportation this time was to go to the rear of the base.

It was a deeper part of the pasture. There was no road, and small cars couldn't get in. Only this kind of big truck could drive in. If a driver with poor skills comes, accidents are easy to happen.

It's no wonder they came looking for me. I joined the army at the age of 19 and engaged in transportation at the age of 20. It has been four years now, and I have nothing to say about technology.

Along with us, there is also a small car with only the driver on it, and the rest of the car is empty, and I don't know what it is used for.

The car drove forward with difficulty for about half an hour. The bald man said that he had reached the ground. Immediately afterwards, he asked the dozen or so soldiers to unload the car, but they didn't let me move.After a while, the car was empty.The bald man asked me to drive the big truck back by myself. As for the small car, it will be responsible for sending the rest of the people.

I knew that I should not be qualified to know what happened next, so I drove back to the base by myself.

When it was getting dark, the small car brought everyone back. As for the coffins, they were naturally gone.

I was very puzzled, and I didn't know how those coffins were handled.

Within two days, I saw A Biao. A Biao's full name was Lin Biao. I only met him after I came to this base. He was among the escorts that day.He is a very courageous person, rather domineering, but after two days of observation, I found that A Biao has been very strange since he came back from the escort. He was absent-minded in doing everything, and looked outside the base from time to time, as if he was looking at something.I accidentally patted him on the back. I wanted to ask him if something happened at home, but his reaction was beyond my expectation. He hugged his head violently and rushed to the corner in fright. Location.

After seeing that it was me, A Biao also looked very embarrassed, and with anger, he said that I was fine, why scare him.I feel wronged, so I just pat you. As for such an exaggeration?Could it be that A Biao was frightened by something?
I saw that there was no one around, so I asked A Biao if something happened.Don't hold back when something goes wrong, we are all comrades in arms, and we will always find a way for you.A Biao didn't want to say more, but he had a strange expression on his face, turned around and left, but after walking two steps, he backed up and said to me: "If you have the opportunity to leave this base, you should try to leave as soon as possible, this place... This place is going to kill people, I can't tell you too much, just take care of yourself."

These words made me feel the alarm: what does he mean by this?I immediately said: "We don't work in the company, how can we resign if we want to." Seeing that there is no one around, I lowered my voice and said: "I also see that something is wrong, even if you want to leave, there is nothing wrong with it. Deserters. If you are really good for me, just tell me what's going on, so I can be prepared."

A Biao heard what I said, but he didn't buy it, shook his head and left.In the next few days, I will escort it once. Each time I escort the things and the quantity is almost the same. I still unload the things at the old place, and then I will drive back to the base first by myself.

There are several delivery drivers in the base. I don’t know if they have noticed anything abnormal. Those few are veterans. They have been in the army for more than ten years.

The accident happened not long ago.

One of the drivers, who we call Lao Xu, went outside to do a task. This time, he was not transporting supplies or coffins, but what exactly he was transporting, Lao Xu kept a secret, and the rest of us couldn't tell the truth. .

But Lao Xu never came back.

He is missing.

That day, everyone went out to look for it, but the area of ​​the pasture was too large. When it was almost night, we returned to the base according to the regulations of the troops not to go out at night and not to turn on the lights.That night, people's hearts were fluctuating, and the entire base was filled with a kind of high pressure. This kind of pressure came from the unknown of everyone.

At least most of us who come here don't know the details of this base.We don't know what it's for, what it means to be stationed here, what's being transported around, what the grid is for defense, or why there's no light at night.

Everything, like a huge fog, persecuted all the people who didn't know, including me, very oppressive.

When I was looking for a driver in the wild, A Biao and I met by accident. Because the search was distributed, there were only two of us around.At this time, A Biao suddenly stopped me and said, "Run."

I said, "Run?"

A Biao nodded and said, "I think something will happen in these two days."

I felt a little angry in my heart, and lowered my voice: "Can you make it clearer, what exactly are you trying to hide?"

A Biao swallowed, and said, "Do you know what we saw after you left that day?"

He continued: "A big hole."

There is a large hole covered with grass, about ten meters in diameter, and rainwater and soil are deposited along the hole, making the inside and outside of the hole covered with grass.

The bald man asked everyone to unpack it, and only then did the escorting soldiers realize that they were transporting coffins.Immediately afterwards, the bald man observed for a while, and he didn't know what he was looking at. A young man beside him suddenly said, "There is movement." In fact, A Biao heard nothing but the wind.

Then Baldy gave the order to push all the coffins into the hole.

A Biao and others focused on obeying orders, and they pushed the coffin down.A thick coffin rolled down the hole, flattening all the dense weeds below. As the pitch-black body rolled, the coffin lid was also thrown open, and a coffin covered with white cloth rolled out of the coffin. Tangled corpses.

The corpse was thrown out of the coffin with this tumbling force, and the moment it flew out, a black thing stretched out from the grass and grabbed the flying corpse violently.

It was a human hand, to be exact, a very long but very thin human hand.That hand was really weird beyond words, its surface was dry and greasy, and it stretched out from the grass, not to mention the horror.

Immediately afterwards, the corpse was pulled into the depths of the grass, and everyone suddenly heard a crackling sound from the hole full of weeds, as if something was gnawing on a bone.

Could it be that that thing is eating corpses?
At this time, the bald man looked at the sky and ordered to retreat, and the remaining coffins were placed beside the entrance of the cave.After returning, A Biao kept thinking about the things in the cave, and always felt that they were human, but not human.

It turns out that there have always been many corpses hidden in this base.

Where did these corpses come from?What are they for?What's in the big pit?
After being tortured by these problems for a few days, the second escort mission began. When they arrived at the place, everyone found that the lid of the coffin that was placed at the entrance of the cave last time had been opened, and the corpses inside were gone. To be exact, there are only some chewed meat residues and white cloth left.

(End of this chapter)