Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 108 Biting the Phoenix into the Water
The abyss is still pitch black, only the strange jade bridge runs high across it, giving people a very strange feeling.

After a while, Lu Su said: "There is no entrance and exit behind this jade bridge. I think if we want to find the breakthrough of the golden coffin, we must go down to the abyss to find out what is the boundary under the abyss. By the way, we Bring up your equipment bag."

Tofu nodded and said, "That's good, that's good. The equipment bag must be brought up. People are iron and rice are steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. Only when you are full will you have the strength to work."

I said, "You just know how to eat, the situation under this abyss is weird, I'm afraid it's not an easy place to go."

Tofu shrugged, pointed at Gu Wenmin, and said: "We old men can go hungry, but Miss Gu didn't eat anything from the beginning to the end. If this continues, she should be starved to death. The danger has to go." I secretly laughed in my heart, knowing that I wanted to eat tofu, but I used Gu Wenmin as a cover.

We both had a tacit understanding and understood that Tofu was singing a double reed to me, so we answered, "You are right, but my shoulder is injured and it is inconvenient to climb the rope. I am afraid it will not be easy to go down. How about you ?”

Tofu said, "No, no, I'm afraid of heights."

Feng Guishou hissed, and said: "Didn't you want to die before, boy, did you have to go down to hunt people? Why are you afraid of heights now? Don't play tricks, at least you can do your part. "

As far as Tofu's skill is concerned, going down is almost like sending him to death. Just as I wanted to help him deal with Feng Guishou, I heard Lu Su say: "Brother Chen is injured, Xiaodou... Xiaodou is afraid of heights, this matter is still up to me." Do it, you wait here, if there is any situation, I will send you a signal."

Tofu and I were waiting for his words, and the two pretended to decline, then watched Lu Su slide down the rope and gradually into the abyss.

I teased and said: "Xiaodou, isn't the surname Lu your idol? How dare you let your idol go to thunder?"

Tofu looked serious and said, "It is precisely because he can beat thunder that he has become my idol."

Feng Guishou was beside him speechless, Tofu walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said, "It's alright, alright, don't look down on us, aren't you shy too?" After all, people are selfish Yes, in order to save Gu Wenmin, Tofu and I naturally didn't care about danger or not.But now there is no need to go down the hole. Since there is no need, why take the risk and be the first bird?Including Feng Guishou himself, who focused on pushing this work to Tofu.

We are not fools, how can we make him happy?

There is a saying that those who are capable work harder, the three of us played tricks, and this task fell to Lu Su.He seems to be willing, I have always been dark-hearted, and I have a thick skin when necessary, but Lu Su is so righteous, it highlights that we are too despicable.Tofu sighed and said: "In this world, there are always some people with noble character who are destined to be heroes and admired by others."

I said, "And then?"

Tofu shook his head and said, "But good people don't live long, and evil will last for thousands of years."

Gu Wenmin couldn't laugh or cry while listening, and said that Tofu and I made a bunch of fallacies.

The four of us plus a woman surnamed Ren waited by the platform for only a few minutes, when a code signal came from below, and the rope shook three times, which was a safety signal we had agreed upon in advance, and it seemed that there was no danger under the abyss.

After a while, Lu Su crawled back along the rope, but he was soaked and his chest was bulging, as if he had something in his chest.

When the person came ashore, Lu Su shook his clothes, and three fresh fish that had been disemboweled and had their gills and scales removed slapped down.

I immediately understood, and asked, "Could it be connected to groundwater?"

Lu Su nodded, took off his shirt to reveal his lean figure, and began to wring the water from his clothes. Tofu looked at him, then at his muscleless arms, with a melancholy expression, and began to worry about his eighth spring.

According to Lu Su's description, there was a huge space under the abyss, filled with water, the water was very deep, and there were no waves.

Because the place was too big, it was impossible to salvage the previous equipment bag, so he temporarily caught a few fish in the water and used them as food.Although this sounds easy, it is actually very difficult to catch fish with bare hands in the water. I tried it in the river when I was a child, and only succeeded twice. It must have taken a lot of effort for Lu Su to catch these three fish .

The few of us thanked each other, and then we used movable steel pipes to skewer the fish and grilled it on solid fuel.The fish meat is relatively tender, and if the heat is not well controlled, it will be burnt. Tofu directly stuffs all the fish into my hands, and let the professionals do the professional things. In order to prevent my barbecue skills from getting rusty, I specially gave me a chance to practice .

While I was grilling the fish, I heard Lu Su say, "After eating in a while, we have to go down to explore. I found that there seemed to be something under the water, but there was not enough light just now, so I couldn't see it clearly."

Now that we have made a breakthrough, there is no need for us to be lazy, Tofu said: "I think we should let Miss Gu and Lao Chen stay. They are both wounded. Let's go down."

Lu Su said, "Brother Chen will go with us."

Tofu probably saw that I was injured and was worried that something might happen to me, so he said angrily: "Hey, what do you mean, my brother was injured and was poked a hole by Lao Feng's dagger, can he go into the water? Grandpa Dou, I am one against ten, One husband is the gatekeeper, ten thousand husbands are not allowed to open it, can I go with you!"

Lu Su smiled slightly, shrugged his shoulders, and said softly: "There is a foothold below, so we don't need to stay here. People are scattered, and accidents are easy to happen. If I guess correctly, the golden coffin is probably under there, but Let Brother Chen take a look." It turns out that the underwater shape is very strange, as if there is some kind of man-made situation in it.

Although Lu Su is very skilled, he doesn't know the situation of some tombs.Back then, Bai Laosi stole Yang Fang's secret books and became very popular in Taoism. I can also be regarded as Bai Laosi's successor, so Lu Su wanted me to go down and observe it.

After the discussion, the fish in my hand was almost grilled. Fortunately, the fish was big. Even though there were only three of them, everyone was full. Dang even packed up their things and went down the rope one by one.

Unexpectedly, this abyss is not as deep as we imagined, it is only about fifteen or six meters deep, but the water vapor below is thick and covered with a layer of thick fog that does not disperse, so the light cannot penetrate at all, so it looks deep. Bottom.When we went down to the bottom, there was no way to go, so we could only swim in the water. After swimming to the right for a few meters, there was a raised natural stone platform. Everyone got up to avoid it, gathered the light sources in their hands, and adjusted the brightness to the maximum. Only then began to observe the surrounding environment.

I saw that the entire water cave was oriented east-west, with a big head and a thin tail, like a big snake. The snake head is where we are now, presenting a triangle shape.

Not long after I observed it, I saw some tricks. I couldn't help but secretly startled, and explained to everyone that the water snake in front of me was indeed a pattern of biting a phoenix into the water.

Originally, the phoenix is ​​a divine beast in the fire, and the most taboo thing is water. The sacred spring happened to be at the place where the phoenix turned its head, like a bright pearl, and also like a drinking place for the phoenix. It was originally excellent.

It's a pity that this underground is a karst cave, and countless underground water tributaries are formed naturally, so there is no place for Phoenix to stay.

There is a lot of water and the snake is born. This Fengshui big snake has a huge head, as if it just swallowed something and is about to swallow it. It will undoubtedly collide with Fengshui's Fengshui turning its neck. If the two meet together, it must be swallowed by the big snake. Tired fire phoenix.Those who are buried here are like young phoenixes that have entered the mouth of a demon snake, and if someone dies here, they will surely be haunted.

At first glance, the snake array seems to be formed naturally, but a closer look at the surrounding stone walls reveals that there are traces of artificial carvings, which are obviously intentional when the mausoleum was built.

Putting this place into this situation, anyone who dies here will inevitably be driven by the vicious snake, which can be said to be like seeing a dead body.

I instantly understood that the reason why Ren Ling turned into a flying corpse in an instant must have something to do with this 'underwater demon snake'.

After listening, Lu Su asked again: "Then can you deduce the location of the golden coffin?"

There is nothing I can do about it. Grandpa’s work notes are limited after all.What's more, "the coffin cannot see the water" is a tradition of thousands of years. It is against the common sense to put the coffin under the water. How can I see anything from the water.It stands to reason that there is a 'water snake demon' here, so the golden coffin must be far away from it.

If this is the case, then we were really played to death by Princess Geger this time,
While explaining to everyone, I turned the light and gradually directed the light towards the water surface. However, at this moment, the water reflected the reflection of the jade bridge above under the light.

You know, we are fifteen or sixteen meters away from the jade bridge above our heads, and the light can't reach the top of our heads at all, so how can there be a reflection of the jade bridge underwater?This phenomenon simply breaks through the common sense of physics.All of a sudden, several of us, including the woman surnamed Ren, all changed color.

The woman said bluntly: "Could it be that there is an upside-down jade bridge under the water?"

Her words reminded me of the ghost mirror's tomb that trapped us before, and my heart skipped a beat, with an ominous premonition.

The jade bridge in the water in front of us, as the angle of the light in our hands changes, appears and disappears like a reflection, and is distorted from time to time with the water flow, which completely violates the optical phenomenon, which makes people feel very strange. The conjecture put forward by Ren's woman has become somewhat suspicious.

Is there really a jade bridge underwater?
What is the use of these two bridges once they go up and down?
Everyone's eyes gathered at the bottom of the water in unison, and no one could say one, two, three for a while.At this moment, Gu Wenmin's eyes were sharp, and she let out a sharp cry, "There are people under the water!"

(End of this chapter)