Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 689 Reality and Dreamland

The eyes of the three of us all looked directly at the entrance and exit that we hadn't been to before. Not long after the words of the lazy man fell, a little yellow light appeared in the dark entrance and exit, which seemed to be the light of a flashlight.Immediately afterwards, the ray of light slowly approached us, followed by the sound of subtle footsteps.

In the dim light, I saw a vague figure, even though it was far away, I recognized it at a glance. That person was Wen Min who disappeared?

She obviously noticed us too, paused for a moment, then ran towards us quickly, her face and figure becoming clearer and clearer.I saw her in a mess, but she didn't seem to be seriously injured. However, when I was about to say hello to her, she suddenly raised her gun, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at us.

Instinctively, at the moment she raised the gun, although I was shocked, my body reacted quickly. I suddenly turned to the side, squatted down, and hid behind the coffin.Immediately, there was a bang bang bang, and the bullet was deeply embedded in the coffin.

Harichagai, who was sitting on the coffin lid, quickly rolled down and hid behind the coffin, screaming strangely: "Could it be that she was also parasitized?"

My heart was in a mess, and I hid behind the coffin while shouting: "Wen Min, stop!" The gunfire paused, then stopped, and Wen Min stood at the entrance of the square, still holding the gun.Her hand holding the gun was trembling, and her eyes seemed a little lax, as if she was extremely tired, and as if she was about to fall down at any time, she said coldly: "Chen Xuan and the others can't appear here, don't make these illusions anymore, I don't want Will fall for it."

phantom?

Did she take us for hallucinations?
How could she have such thoughts?

I immediately said: "The cave in 01 is directly connected to the underground. We came up along the cave. The Sky Eye has already been obtained. You put down the gun first, and we have something to talk about." She didn't seem to believe me at all, and didn't let go. So I said, "If I'm really hallucinating, do you think a gun can hurt me?"

Hearing this, she slowly let go of the hand holding the gun, and then said coldly, "Come out."

The few of us emerged cautiously from behind the coffin, and we couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief seeing that she really didn't intend to continue shooting.At this moment, I don't know what they went through. Wen Min looked at me vigilantly, and then looked at the one-eyed dragon who fell to the side, and said, "What's going on with him?"

I organized the words and explained our experience as simply as possible. She listened, her expression slowly relaxed, and then said to me: "Come here, I want to confirm." Seeing her vigilant expression, I was very nervous. It's hard to imagine what went wrong to make her like this.

So I slowly walked towards her. When I came to her, she reached out and touched my face. After a while, her indifferent expression suddenly collapsed. , It’s true, my God, why did you come to this ghost place.”

I know, she finally believed our identities, hugged her back, and asked: "What happened? What hallucination?"

Wen Min took a slow breath, and took out a powerful searchlight from the equipment bag.This light is very strong, has a long range, and is also large in size. We only carry one in our equipment.She didn't speak, but turned on the powerful searchlight, and randomly hit us above us.

This place is very high. Before we had limited light sources, we couldn’t see the situation on the top clearly. Now, with the powerful searchlights on, the situation on the top suddenly appeared clearly in our eyes.The moment I saw the situation clearly, Hongmao and I both gasped, because, on the top 30 meters away from us, there were countless huge reliefs, densely distributed, as if they were in the shape of big bellies The 'Meng Mandrill', with an extremely weird smile on their faces, looked down at us from above, and it made one's scalp feel numb.

After only one glance, Wen Min turned off the powerful searchlight, looked extremely tired, sat down next to the nearest coffin, and said, "You should also know that this is a dream mandrill. According to folklore, it can eat dreams and create Dream, after we entered this place, everything is like a dream, and we can no longer tell what is real and what is fake."

I said, "Do you always feel that you are in a dream?"

Wen Min shook his head, looked at Lili's body not far away, and said in a deep voice: "Have you ever thought that maybe the experience after entering the ancient city is just a dream, and when you see me now, maybe I also It's just your dream, or, you are my dream?" I felt that there seemed to be something wrong with her sanity, she was a little confused, and I was startled for a moment, so I stretched out my hand and pressed hard behind her ear , the acupuncture points in this place can make people who are mentally stimulated quickly wake up. Of course, the effect is not immediate, but it is better than nothing.

When I pressed her, she flinched, her loose eyes slowly gathered together, rubbed her brows in pain, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm just scared of being tossed about."

Harichagai clicked his tongue and said, "Officer Gu, you are not like this usually, what happened?"

Wen Min glanced at him, seeming to organize his words, and after a while, said: "Actually, I don't know what happened, some are real, some are fake, mixed together, I don't know how to distinguish Already." After a pause, she continued, "Maybe you can offer some advice."

She looked very tired, and with our previous tossing, she also felt tired now, so she lit a fire on the spot, and when the warm fire was burning, Wen Min breathed out comfortably, and stretched out her hands to warm the fire.While warming up by the fire, she took out some food and shared it with us. While everyone was eating, she began to talk about her strange experience.

She said: "When I first came in, it was a little dangerous, because there were many insects and snakes in the ancient city, and finally we found some inscriptions on a bronze tripod." Team Liu told us about this part, so I clicked Nodding, indicating understanding.

Wen Min said again: "Following the information left by the inscription, we entered this temple that worships the Eye of the Sky, and then everything became very strange. At the beginning, we encountered many institutions, a lot. During this process, Lili , Qin Shi, they are all dead."

I froze for a moment, if this is the case, then what happened to the Qin Shi we saw before?

Hongmao put it bluntly, and said: "Organs don't exist. Since then, you have been in a dream?" Wen Min nodded, and said with difficulty: "After everyone died, I was the only one who stayed in the I found this place, but I couldn’t find a way out, and there were traps everywhere. I tried to find a way out, and in the process, I discovered that there was a dream mandrill in this place, so I wondered if I was dreaming, and if I was dreaming, how could I You can wake up."

Immediately afterwards, Wen Min began to try various methods to wake herself up. In fact, she felt that her mind was so clear that she was not even sure whether she had fallen asleep. Everything was just a guess.

Perhaps because of her strong willpower, she really woke up and found that the so-called institutions, the adventures and deaths along the way did not actually exist.At some point, she fell into this strange place alone.

During this process, she tried to find teammates and a way out, but almost every once in a while, she would re-enter the dream, and then the surrounding environment would undergo a major change. Although she was still in this sacrificial pyramid, the structure inside was constantly changing. Changes, and the characters that appear on the stage are also different.

Sometimes she met Qin Shi, sometimes Liu Dui, sometimes Lili, and even met people like us several times. The countless dangers and fears made people almost lose their minds.But her willpower was extremely strong, and she broke free from the dream again and again, but fell into it unconsciously again and again.

The Lili in front of me died at the hands of Wen Min, and the whole process was similar to what I had speculated before.Liu Dui, Lili, Wen Min, Qin Shi, they reunited together, each telling their experiences after separation, almost everyone is different.

But soon, Wen Min suddenly realized that the reason why he knew that he was being dreamed had a lot to do with his personal experience and willpower, but why did the three of them also know that they were being dreamed?The three of them were clearly separated before, so why is their experience so similar to theirs now?
She immediately realized it was a trap.

Sure enough, an accident happened. The moment she turned around, she found that Lili opened her mouth, and a purple-red thing protruded from her mouth, sweeping towards her from behind.What followed was a gun battle, where they were Wen Min's opponents, and they were quickly defeated.

There is no need to go into details about the whole process, because even that shootout, she is still not sure whether it really happened or not.

At this moment, Lili's body was beside her, clearly proving that everything at that time was true.In other words, Lili should have been parasitized by something before they all fell into a dream.

Liu Dui and Qin Shi who escaped during the shootout should also have problems, but Wen Min couldn't tell at the time.

Then, she continued to look for a way out, and then fell into an endless loop, constantly falling into dreams, and constantly reunited with Qin Shi and even the dead Lili. Every time they reunited, the other party told her: Everything before was just an illusion after you fell into a dream. , no one died, everyone was alive.

Then, all kinds of horrible and strange situations emerged continuously, challenging people's nerves.I thought about the situation, and immediately realized the real horror of Mengdrill.It not only makes people fall into a dream and cannot get out, but in the dream, it directly destroys people's sanity.

The constant interweaving of reality and terrifying dreams has continued until now. Wen Min said: "If you can't leave here, everyone will collapse in the end." But the question is, we have to figure out, is everything now a dream or real?

If Wen Min's statement is true, if we were dragged into the dream as early as the moment we saw Mengbai, then is it true that all my later experiences, including these people sitting with me now, are all fake? of?

I felt a little tingling in my scalp, and I shook this terrifying thought out of my mind, saying: "Calm down, there will be a solution, I don't think this is a dream."

(End of this chapter)