Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 672

The four of us walked straight along the tunnel, and the side roads that appeared from time to time around proved that the current position of this tunnel was formed through various attempts. 01 When drilling this hole, there is actually no specific goal.

Obviously, it was originally located under the ancient city.

I really can't figure out how such a thing can appear in the ancient city of swallowing silkworms.To say that animals are not animals, and that people are not people, that kind of terrifying combined regenerative ability makes people feel more like a super huge leech.

Immediately afterwards, we moved forward for another forty minutes. I don't know if it was my illusion. I always felt that there would be a dark wind blowing from nowhere in the cave from time to time. The wind blew past my ears, as if there was something Something invisible was panting coldly into its ears.

If the situation does not allow it, I really want to buy a piece of incense and see the specific situation.

Sloth hardly spoke, and walked in front with a steady pace that was always uniform.Cyclops walked in the middle with Harichagai on his back, and I was the last one.At this moment, I noticed some changes in the structure of the burrow. If the previous burrow looked like a circular tunnel made by some large animal, the shape of the burrow began to become neater as I walked forward. Ridges are faintly seen, showing signs of artificiality.

The one-eyed dragon said: "It seems that we have arrived at the place. This is an unfinished burrow, which was made like this by 01 in the later stage." While talking, the burrow has changed from round to square. , and some unfinished stone slabs gradually appeared around.

A question suddenly popped up in my mind, how did 01 unearth such a long burrow with such a large area?I know that animals dig holes with their front paws and unearth them with their back feet, but that's limited to relatively shallow burrows.Most of the deeper caves still have to be unearthed back and forth very hard, just like people.

It's hard for me to imagine the appearance of 01 unearthed in this burrow for about three hours. I always feel that something is wrong, and it should not be as simple as we thought.

As the lazy man walked, he observed the unfinished stone slabs around him again and again,

To be precise, the shape of these stone slabs is no longer a problem, and the rest of the project is just inlaying, so they are stacked in an orderly manner on the side of the tunnel, with the 'changing silkworm pattern' that I am more familiar with.Soon, the end of the tunnel appeared in front of us. It was a circular arched passage, and many large broken stones could be seen in front of the passage. From this, it can be seen that the place should have been a stone gate, but the stone gate did not know. Why was it destroyed, only stones remained.

A strange smell floated into our noses along the arched passage. The smell was not bad, but definitely not good, like some kind of rotten smell.I smell the smell of corpses a lot, but this rotten smell is different from the smell of corpses, so I can't tell you the specifics.

The four of us are all experienced, and immediately realized that there might be something weird behind this passage.It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided, everyone became more vigilant, and then walked towards the artificial passage while the lazy man cleared the way.

As I passed the arched door, I looked at the crumbling stones around me. There was no sign of explosives, but it seemed to have been smashed by some kind of force.

What is it that has such great power?Besides, the ancients more than two years ago couldn't have used such things as explosives, right?

There is no other entrance and exit in this place. Could it be that 01 came out from behind this arched door?While thinking about it, everyone still walked into the passage. Under the illumination of the miniature lights, we could see the surrounding environment clearly. At this moment, I only felt my scalp go numb.

There was nothing superfluous around, but the ground, the two walls, and even the top were all covered in blood.

The traces of blood seemed to be sprayed out, painted everywhere, scarlet and scarlet, and there were some painted-like things in the blank spaces occasionally exposed on the two walls, which looked like decorative murals on the walls, but they were all covered by blood. covered.

Obviously, there had been an extremely brutal killing here.

Harichagai immediately stated the key points of the matter.He said that there is a lot of blood in this place. If only a few people died, it is impossible to have this effect. The only possibility is that many people gathered in this passage.

The width of the passage is about three meters, there is nothing else, it is completely used for walking.So, what caused so many people to gather in this place at the same time?

Harichagai speculated and said, "Are you avoiding something to gather?" The four of us looked at each other. Although we didn't say anything, our expressions already explained everything. Everyone probably thought of the same answer 01.

Broken stone gates, bloodstains, but no corpses, where did the corpses go?The only possibility, isn't it being eaten by 01?That one is really a monster, and the ancient city of swallowing silkworms that produced this monster is even more mysterious.

Everyone walked forward along this bloody passage, and not long after, there was a faint sound of rushing from the front.It took me a while to realize that it was the sound of water.

Could it be that groundwater seeped in?It was only at this time that we discovered a strange phenomenon. We are now underground, and this passage is obviously part of the ancient city of Tuncan. Why does this ancient city still have underground buildings?

In fact, many cracks have appeared in this channel, and it is estimated that in more than ten years, it will probably collapse.At the end of the passage is a gate with iron bars, but the iron has long since rotted, and the lazy man kicked it with his foot, and the whole gate fell down.

Only then did we realize that the end of the passage was actually empty.

It was dark and seemed to be a large space.The iron fence did not fall to the ground, but kept falling, and the most annoying sound was the sound of something falling into the water.With the light of the miniature searchlight, we could see a large space behind the passage. The light went down a dozen times, and at a height of about ten meters below our feet, there was a puddle of black water, which seemed to be groundwater.

The one-eyed dragon said: "This water doesn't seem to seep in, it seems to be a naturally formed underground water hole, hey, look..." Although he only has one eye, he is quite clever. When observing, he seems to have discovered something. The finger points to the left, signaling us to look.

The place where we are now is a groundwater hole, and the passage we came from is located on the wall of this hole, with no top and no water.The place that the Cyclops is pointing to is on the left side of our passage, about four or five meters away from us, and a black thing can be vaguely seen.We immediately gathered the lights together and turned on them, only to find that there was a step cut out according to the terrain, which was only four or five meters away, leading straight to the shadow.

And that black shadow is surprisingly a chain bridge with wooden planks on it, leading to the invisible place on the opposite side.

The wooden boards on the chain bridge have long been corroded and clean, only some rotten wood pieces inlaid in the thin cracks let me speculate on its prototype.The lazy man moved his nose, as if looking for the source of that rotten smell.After entering this cavity, the rotten smell became more intense, faintly, as if brought up from the water vapor below.

Is there something in the water?
To get a better view, we turned off the miniature searchlights and fished out flashlights from our gear.The advantage of the miniature searchlight is that it can be hung anywhere, freeing up hands, which is more convenient, but the light is not too strong.At this moment, we changed the flashlight, and our visual range became wider.

The flashlight was aimed straight at the opposite side. It seemed that the distance was quite far away, but I still couldn't see the environment clearly.Immediately afterwards, Lazy squatted on the edge and turned down the light of the flashlight.Since the distance from the water level is not too high, we can see the environment on the water surface clearly.

The water seems to be stagnant, the water surface is very stable, and the place where the flashlight cannot reach is dark, like a cold and huge black hole.The light cluster formed by the light flows on the water surface as the lazy thing moves, the light gets farther and farther, and the vision becomes more and more obscure. However, at this moment, in the dim light, I suddenly saw , There seems to be something floating on the water.

Obviously, I was not the only one who saw that thing, and the one-eyed dragon immediately stretched his neck and said, "What is that thing?"

Lazy said: "It's not a living thing anyway." It seems that he is more sensitive to living things, that is to say, the thing floating on the water should be a dead thing that doesn't move.

At first, I thought it was stagnant water, but obviously I was wrong. The water just flows slowly. There was no reference object for comparison before, but now there is something floating on the water for comparison. I immediately realized The water is flowing.

We are now in the south, but the direction of the thing's flow is from east to west. Since it is not approaching us, the few of us still can't see its true face clearly.At this time, Cyclops looked at the chain bridge on the wall, patted his thigh and said, "Look at another position." Then, he took a flashlight, walked up the steps to the chain bridge, and then shook the chain twice with his hand. , to test firmness,

After a while, he felt that there was no problem, so he put the flashlight in his mouth and moved with his hands on the iron chain. After a while, he moved to a position five or six meters away.Due to the change of position, the light also changed. In an instant, the light of the flashlight shone directly on the floating object in the water.

That thing is white, about the size of a person, and looks like a huge white cocoon, very weird.The one-eyed dragon was holding a flashlight in his mouth, unable to speak, but his expression was obviously full of doubts. The remaining eye looked at us, and now he was asking: What is this thing?

I shook my head.

At this time, in the shadows at the edge of the light, another identical floating object appeared in our sight, which looked very strange.

I thought to myself: Could it be that they gave off that rotten smell?

(End of this chapter)