Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 687 Who's Hand

The material of the rope is different from what we carry at first glance.It was pitch black and looked shiny, and I don't know how the lazy guy held it before.Just at this moment, Lazy, Harichagai and others also climbed up one after another. We were more or less covered with dirt from before. It was really unbearable, so we threw away our coats, and the weather suddenly became a little cold.

The one-eyed dragon was knocked out at the moment, Harichagai looked embarrassed, and sat on the shoulder of the stone statue. The equipment bag on his back was beating non-stop, as if it contained a pack of wriggling snakes.I said: "How to deal with this thing?" Such a time bomb, always carried on the body, always makes people feel terrified.

The lazy man received the hanging rope in his hand, then used the end of the rope to tie the strap of the equipment bag, and then threw the equipment bag down.In this way, the thing was wrapped by the equipment and hung in mid-air.

I suddenly felt that something was wrong. What if someone from the archaeological team came in and found an equipment bag hanging in the air, and then opened the bag to have a look, wouldn't it be...

Of course, this idea is a bit far-fetched, maybe the time will change, and when this place collapses, it may not be discovered by the archaeological team.

Thinking of this, I turned my attention to the black rope above my head. Obviously, it has undergone some special treatment. Even today, it is still extremely flexible. I grabbed it twice with my tentacles, and it was indeed very slippery.This kind of rope doesn't seem to be for people to grab, it's so slippery, it's too unsafe to grab.

Thinking of the way the lazy guy was swinging around in the air with this rope before, I couldn't help secretly admiring it.

Seeing me looking at the rope, the lazy guy said, "This rope should be used to transport things. There used to be something like a basket at the end." It is impossible to climb manually.What's more, since this kind of strange standing statue has special meaning in the ancient Shu Kingdom and has been deified, it is impossible for them to crawl around on their own gods.

In this way, one can only use tools such as ropes to get in and out. The wheel above is the best proof, but the carrying tools such as baskets at the end of the rope are probably already decayed.

And this slippery rope also just reduces friction, and it will be much more convenient when it is folded and lowered.

The lazy man was wearing gloves. He climbed up the rope first, and finally climbed up the bronze wheel with his hands. With his legs retracted, he stood at the edge of the entrance above.From our position, from a straight angle, only his jaw can be seen.

The lazy man waved the light in his hand, and seemed to be checking the surrounding environment. His expression was lazy, as if he didn't notice it.After a while, he gestured to us and signaled us to go up.

I walked at the end to hold the line, let the unconscious one-eyed dragon and Harichagai go up first, and I was the last.

When I got to the top, I saw that it was a huge space, completely pitch black, and I couldn't see the end when the flashlight was turned around, and I couldn't see the top when the light was turned on.

Hongmao calculated our itinerary all the way, and said: "We went straight down at the beginning, and now we climbed up along this stone statue. I guess we should reach the ground. This place is so big, could it be Team Liu?" Describe that thing?"

Liu Dui said that when the four of them traveled through the ancient city, they found a bronze tripod, and the inscription on the tripod recorded it.In order to suppress 01 and the people in the ancient city of swallowing silkworms, a grand project was launched.This project includes two parts, the underground and the ground. The underground is where we walked before, and the ground should be where we are now.Team Liu described it as a quadrilateral flat-topped pyramid.

This ground building is a huge altar. At a specific time, the priests of the ancient city of Tuncan will hold large-scale sacrificial activities, and the object of the sacrifice is the eye of the sky.Through this sacrificial activity, they stimulate the power of the sky eye, thereby suppressing 01.

It suddenly occurred to me that 01 would escape later. Could it be that the people who swallowed silkworms in the ancient city suddenly disappeared, and thus Tianyan lost the power of sacrifice, so 01 escaped?
So why did the people who swallowed silkworms in the ancient city suddenly disappear?
I don't know what the internal structure of the pyramid is, but according to Team Liu's previous description, what we see now must be only a part of the pyramid, and we don't know where Wen Min and the others are now.

I carried the one-eyed dragon on my back, and Harichagai used his magic staff as a walking stick, walking slowly, and the lazy guy cleared the way ahead. To be honest, this time it was thanks to the lazy guy, otherwise, the few of us might not have survived. until now.

After walking for a short time, some shadows suddenly appeared in the dark space, as if something was piled up, we couldn't help speeding up our pace, as the distance and light got closer, the three of us couldn't help being surprised: the coffin .

To be exact, they are not ordinary coffins, but black cellar coffins.This kind of coffin is very precious, and only princes and nobles are entitled to enjoy it, but we never thought that there would be so many black cellars in front of our eyes.

This kind of coffin is very hard, buried in the ground or even placed in water, it will not rot or eat for thousands of years, and it can protect the corpse from being eaten by maggots. Keep the mummy.If the feng shui of the burial place is excellent, the wet corpse may still be kept in a lifelike state.

At this moment, we have come to the wall. The wall is made of big stones. On one side of the wall, there are no fewer than fifty or sixty black coffins neatly placed.The coffin was not painted black, but the color of the cellar coffin itself. There was no foul smell in the air, but a unique fragrance of black cellar was floating.

I took a deep breath, only to feel refreshed, and my whole body suddenly felt refreshed.The smell of the coffin can be so good, except for the pattern of "Huang Chang Ti Pu", probably only this kind of black cellar can be found.

Huangchang ticou is an ancient burial system for kings. Huangchang refers to the yellow heart in the middle of the cypress wood. A circle of walls is built around the coffin with yellow intestines, and a roof is covered on it, just like a house. The size is set according to the specifications of the tomb owner.

Think about it, the cypress grows white for thousands of years, and the yellow heart in the middle is only a few centimeters or a dozen centimeters. If only the yellow heart is used to build the underground palace chamber, the amount of trees needed is astonishing.If the size is larger, it is often necessary to cut down a whole piece of virgin forest.

Because there are too many cypress woods used in Huang Chang Ti Pu, and the cypress wood itself is insect-proof and moth-proof, with a fragrance, so when the underground palace is opened, there will often be a burst of fragrance. This process is described as "a thousand years of smelling a fragrance". .

The cellar coffins in front of me are all tightly sealed. If you look closely, you can see that they are all nailed with coffin nails. On the boxy black coffin lid, there are vaguely many runes and other things, which should be used at that time Paints like cinnabar were painted on, but the color has faded at this moment. In the dark, the runes on the coffin give people a strange feeling.I couldn't help but think to myself: Is it possible that these coffins contain some kind of evil corpses, so they have to draw symbols on the coffins?
Our eyes swept over these coffins one by one, and soon, the eyes of the three of them focused on one of the coffins at the same time. There was no other reason, because the lid of this coffin was staggered, obviously it was artificially opened.

The strangest thing was that there was a human hand drooping at the opening on the side of the coffin.

It was a human hand with slender fingers, small and slender, obviously a woman's hand.

The hand is already a little blue, and in some places, the tender white color can still be seen. Obviously, the owner of this hand is a dead woman, and the time of death should not be long.

My heart skipped a beat, and then I felt my heart beating unstoppably fast.

Who is the person in the coffin?
Obviously, she couldn't be an ancient corpse. We are all experienced people, and we can almost judge the approximate time of death just by the color of the hand.It should be about a day, which is about the same time as Team Liu said.

Is it Lili, or Wenmin?

At this moment, the only thought in my mind was, it must not be Wen Min.People are all selfish, and most people usually hide this selfishness, but once some bottom line or secret place is touched, this selfishness will be fully exposed.

I don't even have the courage to take a step forward.

Harichagai looked at me and saw that I hadn't moved, so he said: "I'm afraid there is something wrong with these coffins, go and see who is inside, you won't let me, a sick person, do it?" I had to take out my weapon and move forward.

Although she didn't know her exact identity yet, but a person would die in a coffin, obviously something happened.Reminiscent of the runes on the coffin, I couldn't help wondering, could it be a corpse change?So he was dragged into the coffin by the zongzi and killed?
When I walked towards the coffin, the lazy guy was not idle either. There was only about two steps between him and me. Soon, we stood beside the coffin, one on the left and one on the right.I took a deep breath and said to Lazy, "Open the coffin."

There was already a crack in the coffin, and there were a few scattered coffin nails on the ground beside it, and besides that, there was a pool of blood.

The blood spread all the way to the coffin, but on the black coffin, the dark red blood was not eye-catching, so I didn't pay attention to it just now, but now that I got closer, I could see the traces of the fight very clearly.There are bullet marks on one side of the coffin. Obviously, a gun battle took place here.

Wen Min is a good hand with a gun, seeing these bullet marks, I am even more worried about her.

Immediately afterwards, Lazy and I began to push the lid of the coffin. During the whole process, we were careful, and Lazy's ears moved slightly, obviously listening to the movement in the coffin.If there was something like zongzi hidden in the coffin, he should be able to find it in advance.

(End of this chapter)