Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 695 The House Snake
The one-eyed dragon said: "I don't read much, so don't lie to me. In other words, this kid already predicted that you would come 2000 years ago? Why do I think this sounds a little creepy? Then he What is the task of marrying you?"

Hongmao said: "When this mechanism was activated, Mengdrill no longer existed, so now there is no other danger in this ancient city. The only danger is those human cocoons I saw before." It turned out that those human cocoons, In fact, they were the people who were sacrificed back then. Who would have thought that these corpses would become alienated under the infection of 01, and the underground water was connected to it, which was actually a very huge hidden danger.

The tongue we saw before is actually a source of infection,

The prophet predicted that if these corpses were allowed to float in the water, as time went by, the groundwater in this area would be polluted, causing the surrounding creatures to have the same alienation as 01.

Therefore, the task he gave Hongmao was to salvage all those human cocoons in the water and burn them.

When I heard this, I couldn't help saying: "There are too many human cocoons, we don't have the ability to do it."

The one-eyed dragon said: "This prophet is too worried, he will have a hand in things after 2000."

Wen Min worried: "You can't say that. If the characteristics of 01 are really contagious, it will definitely be a disaster. No, we must stop it." Her overwhelming sense of justice was ignited again.Cyclops rubbed his nose and said, "Anyway, the Mengmandrill is gone now, and there is no mechanism in this place, so let's just leave. It doesn't matter whether it's different or not. Besides, 01 was so awesome back then, No, it is still wiped out by the government, we have to trust the party and the country, and we should not try our best.”

Haruchagai shrugged and said, "I'm afraid not."

"Why?" Cyclops asked.

"It left something for me, which recorded the method of using the sky eye. Only with this thing can you carry out your plan. Otherwise, it would be useless to throw the sky eye directly into the void." He looked at it when he said this. I glanced at it, and said again: "And that thing is at the bottom of the underground water, sealed with iron, that is to say, we have to go back."

Cyclops hissed, stared fiercely at the child's corpse in front of him, and said, "This child is too insidious."

Harichagai said: "He told me the weakness of those things. They were sacrificial offerings in life. They were tied up alive and strangled to death, and then exposed to the sun for sacrifice. Therefore, by nature, they are extremely afraid of things that killed themselves before they were alive. In those cellar coffins are The ropes on the sacrifices that have not had time to complete the sacrifice have been specially treated, and they can be used to deal with the things below."

Cyclops felt unreliable, and said that since this kid knew how to deal with those things, why didn't he do anything during his lifetime, but instead left it to us after death?Harichagai said: "Because 01 was still there at that time, with it, the people in the ancient city of swallowing silkworms could do nothing at all, but now, 01 has disappeared. Moreover, after packing up those things, we can also go back the same way. What impact will it have?" Having reached this point, we naturally couldn't refuse any more, so we had to go back the same way.

But this time, no Mengdrill came out to make trouble. When the lights were turned upwards, almost all of the reliefs of the Mengdrill had cracks to varying degrees, and the strange feeling they brought to people disappeared immediately.We opened those cellar coffins and untied the ropes from the corpses.

This kind of rope is black and shiny, and there are red circles on the rope at intervals. According to Hongmao, this is a kind of rope that has been cursed.

In the past, when the dead were buried, there would be yin and yang duangong chanting mantras. These mantras included many, some of which were chanting mantras on the clay or stones in the tomb. It is said that after chanting these mantras, wild animals and animals They would not trample on the grave, otherwise, the grave would be easily dug out by things like wild dogs.

These grave mud and grave stones that have been cursed are said to have strange powers. If people don’t pay attention and use these grave mud to paste walls, the family members will always get sick, and the dogs and chickens will not work. Efficacy and evil.

This rope was supposed to be similar to the grave mud where Duke Duan had chanted the mantra. We collected a dozen of them and opened more than a dozen coffins. Weary and sweaty, we rested for a while and returned by the same route.

When we returned to the huge statue of a man, we suddenly found that the backpack tied to the end of the rope had disappeared, and only the strap of the equipment bag was left on it, but the bag itself was gone, as if there was something The thing, with great strength, tore the bag to pieces.

You know, the quality of our equipment bag is very impressive. It is waterproof, fire-resistant, and the sealing material is flexible. There are three interlayers. Even with a dagger, it is difficult to cut it with one or two knives. opened?
Could it be that the tongue in the equipment bag broke free by itself?

Impossible, how could it have such great power?

My heart skipped a beat, and I said, "I didn't expect that thing to escape. I made a mistake. Everyone should be careful not to let it get into your mouth." It's like playing a mental roller coaster.

At this moment, I miss the days in the shop very much, even talking about "life" with those old men in the antique city.The few heads of the family are all old people from the antique city. In terms of business, I have to have a relationship with them.

When people get old, they like to recall the past. Every time they get together, they have to listen to them talk about how they started from scratch, how they married a beautiful wife, and how they gave birth to worthy children. Listening to it every time is really overwhelming.

Everyone cautiously jumped to the ground. There were still things we left behind on the ground, such as blood, brains, vomit, etc., and the dried residue was left on the ground. Experience and Team Liu.

When I came down, in order not to irritate Wen Min, I specially arranged for her to get off from the other side, so she didn't see Team Liu's terrifying half of his head.

When we got to the ground, we looked around with the lights, but there was no sign of the tongue.This thing needs parasitism, I'm sure, it will definitely come to us again, and we must be careful and careful in everything that follows.

Everyone walked back vigilantly, Lazy's ears were always vigilantly moving slightly, with his pair of downwind ears, we felt much safer.

Just when we were about to return to the main hall, the lazy man suddenly stopped, listened attentively, then frowned, and said: "There is... there is..." He seemed to be judging, and finally narrowed his eyes, and said: " snake."

snake?
Where did the snake come from in this place?

Not to mention that we are deep underground, not to mention it is still winter.

But I really believe in the judgment of lazy people, so I said: "How far is it from us?"

Lazy said: "About 50 meters away."

The one-eyed dragon said: "Maybe it's a boa constrictor, only this kind of snake can live very deep underground, but it should hibernate right now. I said, are there many of them?"

The lazy guy shook his head and said, "Not many, there should be only one."

The rest of the people breathed a sigh of relief, a snake is really not dangerous to us, even a huge python would have to finish under the gun, so we speeded up and soon, within the range of the flashlight , Sure enough, a snake appeared.

It was a black snake with a round head and thick adult arms, not a boa constrictor.

The snake is very strange, with a red line in the middle of its back.

Wen Min was surprised and said: "I heard people say that this kind of snake with a long red line on its back will only appear in places with a lot of yin."

Harichagai said: "Although there are no corpses in this place, there are too many dead people. It is strange that the yin is not heavy. There is also a saying about this kind of snake, which is called 'house snake' or 'baojia snake'. Most of the houses have such a snake, they only move around the house, and often steal food for warmth in winter, so they don’t hibernate.”

I’ve heard this saying before, and it’s said that the home-preserving snake is a good symbol. If people of the older generation suddenly find a big snake in their home, they will generally maintain the attitude that the snake will not offend me, and I will not offend the snake, because this snake may It is a house-keeping snake. If it is killed, the family will have bad luck.

Modern people live in high-rise buildings, which are not suitable for snakes to live in their nests, so you can hardly see the house-keeping snake. But if you live in a high-rise building, and a snake that is not afraid of people suddenly appears in your home, don’t be afraid, and don’t Hit, because it is a symbol of extremely good feng shui and luck.

Of course, if someone deliberately manipulates the snake, that’s another matter. The best way to distinguish it is that the Baojia snake is non-venomous and not afraid of people. Most snakes are afraid of people. They run or attack people when they see them.If there is a snake in your home, and the snake shows signs of not being afraid of people, it is probably a house snake.

This non-hibernating snake may be a house snake, and I don't know how old it is. The red lines on its body are obviously eroded by Yin Qi, and I don't know if it will cause a big change in the snake's nature.At this moment, the snake's eyes were staring straight at us, and its body was coiled in the corner of the passage, hissing and spitting.

(End of this chapter)