Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 680 Choice
Qin Shi is the name of the photographer.Now that the Sky Eye is in hand, it is actually safer to go back the same way, after all, we know the situation thoroughly.But when Team Liu came, the road was full of obstacles, and he passed out for a period of time in the middle, unable to distinguish the path, relatively speaking, it would increase a lot of unknown risks.

Now whether it's for saving lives or escaping, they have to follow Team Liu's original path.

This three-story stone-step platform is located in the very center, and on top of it is the portrait of the manipulator.On the opposite side of the portrait, there was an arched passage, and the flashlight shot through it was pitch black. Team Liu said that he walked out of that passage.

When everyone heard the words, they packed up their equipment without any delay, and led by Team Liu, they entered the passage.

This arched passage shows no signs of collapse, and there are no cracks around it. It looks relatively solid. There are many reliefs carved on the surrounding walls, most of which are fairy tales. There are many themes of silkworms and yufu. The shape looks simple and simple, but the carving is extremely meticulous. Even after so long, there is no rough edge to be seen.

As we walked, Team Liu briefed us on the situation ahead. At present, the road we are on is relatively safe. There are no organs,

At the end of the passage is a huge and heavy stone door. The stone door is a single operation, that is, the mechanism can only be activated from outside the door, and we are now inside the door.But Team Liu and the others already knew that this was a single mechanism in their previous experience, so before she opened the stone gate to enter this passage, she specially placed some iron utensils under the stone gate, so that the stone gate was not completely closed, leaving behind A crack that one person can climb over.

I lay down on the ground and turned the light on behind the stone door. The back was like what Team Liu described, an upward ladder, and we climbed out along the gap that flowed from the bottom.The structure of the stone steps is straight, there are only about thirty or forty steps, and the head can be seen when the light is turned up.

At the end of the stone steps is a large iron gate. It can be seen that at that time, 01 was attached great importance to, each more than ten meters, almost a gate.However, the iron gate is no better than the stone gate. It is already crumbling due to decay, and was destroyed by Team Liu with iron tools before, so there is a hole in the middle that can be drilled in and out.

Cyclops patted his head and said, "We are crawling and drilling at the same time, we have become drilling moles."

The inverted bucket was originally called "soil mouse", and it is also appropriate to compare it to a gopher. We drilled through the iron gate. Behind the gate is a slightly larger round arched space, facing an arched wall, which looks very strange. .Who would repair the stone room like this?It is like a circle cut in half from the middle. At this moment, we are facing the straight line with our backs, and the stone wall in front is an arc around it.

This is the first time I have seen such a structure, and I don't know what it means.

With the light of the flashlight, I saw that there are still six passages on the arched door in front of me, and it seems that they want us to choose the same.

Cyclops couldn't help hissing, touched his chin and said, "No, there is something wrong with this structure."

I nodded in agreement.In fact, in large ancient tombs or some hidden buildings, such methods of deceiving people are very common. Often, only one of the several passages is correct, and the rest are all traps.

But the problem now is that we came in the opposite direction. It stands to reason that the route we are on now should be the correct route, so it is impossible for us to have several passages in front of us.The real direction of development is: we go out all the way along the passage, and then find that we walked out of one of the passages before.

But now, the whole process is completely reversed, and a multiple-choice question that should not exist is placed in front of us. Therefore, at this moment, what we should think about is not which path to choose, but how this weird structure is. thing.

If we compare our place to the end point, it means that these six passages extend from different places and finally converge at our current location.

What's the point of doing this?
I asked Liu Dui directly what she saw at that time. Liu Dui frowned, pointed to a passage opening facing us, and said, "I walked out of this passage. As for the previous incident, I don't know, I fainted at that time, it was Qin Shi who carried me on his back."

I said, "Then, in the passage you came out of, are there any other secret passages or secret rooms?"

Team Liu gave me a strange look, shook his head and said, "Of course not, it's safe inside."

Safety?I couldn't help sneering, and said: "Then, since Qin Shi entered this passage with you behind his back, and there are no secret passages or secret rooms in the passage, the end of the passage is where we are now, and the whole is a road , Under such circumstances, how did Qin Shi disappear?"

Liu Dui was taken aback for a moment, and there was a flash of panic in his expression. It was obvious that he had lied.

The red hair shrugged, and said with a smile: "Beauty, we are all rough people, and we don't know how to be sympathetic. If you don't want to suffer, you can think about it." Liu Dui looked embarrassed, his eyes rolled a few times Finally, as if discouraged, he said: "I was too nervous, and I missed it. I did come out of this passage. I won't lie to you, but Qin Shi, he... he is also dead."

Cyclops frowned and said, "How did you die?"

Team Liu took a deep breath and said, "I killed him. After he came out, I hid his body there." This time, she pointed to another passage, and it seemed that he threw the body inside.

I couldn't help but ask, "Why?" We all had blood on our hands, I'm not surprised she killed someone, but I'm surprised by her motive for killing.

My words seemed to have touched some restricted area. She shook her body, and spoke after a while, her voice was hoarse: "As I said, he was out of his mind. At first, he kept walking forward with his back on his back. Suddenly stopped and started to pinch my neck, so I used the dagger..." While speaking, she seemed to be in extreme pain, and she squatted down grabbing her hair.For an ordinary person who has never killed anyone before, this kind of killing experience is indeed enough to make people mad with pain, not to mention that the photographer saved him before that.

The reason why she called Qin Shi missing was that she didn't want to reveal her murder.

We looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally, in order to confirm, I asked Lazy and Hongmao to wait outside, and went to the tunnel where the corpse was pointed by Team Liu.

After walking about ten meters into the passage, she saw Qin Shi's body. As described by Dui Liu, Qin Shi strangled her neck, so in a hurry, she pulled out her dagger and stabbed her. The opponent's back.

Qin Shi's back was bloody, he had been stabbed several times, his whole body was already stiff, the passageway was filled with the smell of blood, his eyes were wide open, as if he was dying.

It is estimated that no one would have thought that he would die in an ordinary investigation mission.

Cyclops and I looked at each other, and finally shook our heads. Immediately afterwards, we took out solid fuel and sprinkled it on Qin Shi, and then lit the fire.

The fire was blazing, and the Cyclops read a message: "Brothers are on the road, all the way to the west; there is Yan Jun in the underworld, and the Buddha is in bliss; accumulate blessings and virtues, eliminate karma and be safe..." The fire is getting bigger and bigger, we Staring at Qin Shi's gradually charred corpse, it felt like a huge stone was crushed in his heart.

If what Team Liu said is true, then Wen Min also...

The smell of burning corpses was really bad in the passage, so Cyclops and I had to go outside while the corpses were still burning.Now the fire was bright, and the situation in the passage became clear, but there were many reliefs on the wall, and the content of the carvings was different from what I saw before. If you look closely, there are countless ghosts with hideous appearances, lifelike, It seems that it is about to break through the wall and come out, which is very strange.

I felt that this passage was weird, so I quickly walked out with Cyclops. Although Hongmao and the others were waiting outside, they also saw the flames. I didn't need to talk to Cyclops, and they understood the situation.At this time, Lazy is looking at these passages.He went through every passage, not deep, but he seemed to have mastered some rules.

He pointed to the passage where Team Liu came out, shook his head and said, "Wrong."

wrong?Is Team Liu lying again?
Immediately afterwards, following Lazy's next words, we realized that the mistake he said did not mean that Team Liu was lying, but that she and Qin Shi chose this passage to enter at the beginning, which was a mistake in itself.

He said: "The reliefs inside are evil ghosts, rocks, monsters, gods, portraits, and eyes."

Cyclops asked: "What special significance do these have?"

Standing lazily with his arms folded, he said, "I don't know, the civilization of the ancient Shu Kingdom is very strange. If our place is the end of the eight passages, then the starting point of the eight passages must be in a different location. The group of them chose the wrong way to enter the underground palace at the beginning, so they encountered so many dangers."

Liu Dui blinked and said, "So it's like this... I chose that road." As she spoke, she seemed to lose all her strength and sat down on the ground.

Cyclops patted his head and said, "That is to say, the path chosen by Team Liu is wrong, so shall we still go?"

Lazy said frankly: "The ancient Shu country worshiped the eyes, so the correct way should be this one... No believer in any religion will play tricks under the eyes of the gods. Now that you know the correct way, of course you can't do it again." Follow the wrong path."

Cyclops looked at me, and said to Lazy, "But Officer Gu and the others are still there..." He finished speaking halfway, but didn't continue.

The lazy guy still stood lazily, and said: "I can't take risks because of two corpses. Zhuanrui came to me just to help you find the Sky Eye, not to send me to die."

At this moment, all eyes are on me.

Should we go out directly along the correct route, or take the dangerous route again to find the two corpses?

(End of this chapter)