Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 111 Kunlun Shenmu
The water monsters swarmed up and surrounded Lu Su and me, but at this moment, we were already at the end of our strength, because of the lack of oxygen, the movements of our subordinates also slowed down, the lungs seemed to explode, and the brain was in a dull pain.In a daze, I thought to myself: It seems that this time I will really be buried under the water, it is a pity that Lu Su is a hero.

After the two of us died, there was only a naughty Feng Guishou and a sinister old woman left. With Tofu's dull head and Gu Wenmin's current weak physique, how could he escape from this ancient tomb?

At this point, thinking about the golden coffin and Zhenhai stone is already a joke, it doesn't matter if I die, what should Gu Wenmin and the other two do?
Thinking of this, I felt unwilling, angry and painful, and fought back desperately, thinking that even if I died, I would have to kill enough to get a few backs.

Lu Su probably had the same idea as me. The two of us were back to back in the water, and with the only effort we had, we managed to make another passage.I turned on the light, but I saw that the entrance of the passage was facing downwards, and there was a dark water hole at the bottom of the groundwater below. I couldn't tell what it was for, but at a glance, there were traces of artificial carvings at the entrance of the hole.

I was taken aback for a moment, remembering Gu Wenmin's experience of falling into the water and getting into the sarcophagus somehow, wondering if this water hole could lead to the outside world?At this time, a dead horse is acting as a living horse doctor, so I immediately grabbed Lu Su and motioned to drill into the water hole.Lu Su was also very courageous, the steel knife in his hand swept across, chopped the nearest one in half, and immediately withdrew to swim into the water hole.

Usually this Lu Su is well-dressed, but now his eyes are reddened, his breath is between life and death, and his diving posture is not to mention ugly.I myself was not much better, my brain throbbed and my muscles twitched a bit, and I ran for my life into the water hole in a posture worse than dog planing.

If the water cave is a dead end, then Lu Su and I can only accept our fate.

The two of us drilled inside, and those things quickly chased after them, but when they reached the entrance of the cave, they stopped, but their heads were all blocked outside, and their eyes with irises stared at us, but they did not chase in.I felt something was wrong, and a bad thought flashed in my mind, and I said to myself: The way these things look at us, why is it a bit like the way I used to catch sparrows?

Put a stick on it, put a wooden cage on it, put some grains or what the wild rabbit likes to eat in it, the sparrow slowly enters the wooden cage along the grains, and I stand not far away and stare until it goes in completely.

Could it be that this water hole...is just that kind of wooden cage?

I couldn't hold it anymore, and within two swims, my brain couldn't think because of the lack of oxygen. Finally, I couldn't hold my breath and started to drink water.Just when I thought I was going to become a water ghost, I was suddenly grabbed on the shoulder, and then I was lifted up along the trend of the water hole, and I surfaced in a few strokes.

I knew in my heart that it should be Lu Su who saved me, but right now I couldn't say a word, I just floated on the surface of the water and coughed to breathe, my eyes were congested and red due to being in the water for too long, and I couldn't open them for a while. I couldn't see what the environment was like. With my eyes closed, I could only hear Lu Su and I panting.

The two of us panted for a long time before we were relieved. We opened our eyes and looked at the location, but found that there was also a water cave behind the water cave, but in comparison, the man-made traces of this water cave were too obvious. All sides were polished into a square shape, like a huge stone chamber filled with water.And the water cave when we came was on the mountain wall not far from my feet, those monsters in the water didn't catch up for some reason.

Both Lu Su and I were caught by those monsters a few times, leaving several bloody holes. Fortunately, the most powerful thing about that thing is the sharp teeth in the mouth, and the claws on the hands are not very sharp. The skin trauma looked scary, but it was nothing serious, but the pain was unavoidable.The more I thought about it, the more it hurt, so I diverted my attention by looking at the environment.

Originally, I guessed that there would be a way to the top behind the water cave, but now it seems that this idea is wrong, this place is a dead end.

At this time, Lu Su said: "There will be no one who builds such a place for no reason, brother Chen, can you see the way?"

We were soaked in the water, with no place to stay, surrounded by cold stone walls, without any extra things, I couldn't see any way, so I shook my head.

Lu Su frowned slightly, and murmured, "If there is nothing on it, it must be under the water." He looked at the water below us, and the headlights naturally shot into the water, but the sight was incredible. It turned out that there was a female corpse lying in the water in the middle of the cave!
The exact water, the water cave we are in, has a quadrangular pyramid at the bottom, about ten meters high, and a transparent coffin is placed on the top of the pyramid, close to the water surface.Through this transparent coffin, the things lying inside can be seen at a glance. It is a female corpse wearing a gold and silver thread shroud, a jade belt wrapped around her waist, and a coral rock in her head.

Because the platform for holding the corpse was built like a pyramid, the coffin was not too deep from the water, and we could still see the female corpse in the coffin clearly through the headlights.After hundreds of years, the female corpse is still lifelike, with long eyelashes, red lips, and oval face.The most peculiar thing was her skin, which was not blue-purple that is unique to the dead, but extremely ruddy, like a sleeping living person.

Even Lu Su said jokingly: "This is a real version of Sleeping Beauty."

I have seen countless corpses this month, but where have I seen such a shockingly glamorous female corpse? I just felt my eyes glued to me after just one glance. After a while, I forced myself to look away and said, "This corpse is wearing a It's a golden silk wearing a heavy phoenix shroud, could it be the Ge Geer we're looking for?"

Lu Su said: "I don't know if it will be another empty coffin."

We didn't expect to dive into the water and meet the coffin in the water, and the coffin was in the water, and the female corpse in the coffin was so lifelike, it was incredible.Lu Su stared at the coffin without intending to act rashly. After a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "Ah, I see. This is the golden coffin. It can't be wrong."

Seeing that Lu Su was full of confidence, I asked, "How can I see that?"

Lu Su said: "Look at the coffin where she is lying. The coffin is the bed where the corpse lives. The funeral objects can be bad, but the coffin must not be bad. This is the place where the dead will sleep all the time, so good coffins are rare. Please. Tell me, what is the material of this coffin?" I took a look at it, and saw that the coffin was transparent, reflecting light under the light, and there were some angular crystals inside, so I said, "It looks like a crystal coffin."

Lu Su said, "Have you heard that crystal coffins can be preserved?"

If we only talk about the crystal coffin, it has no antiseptic effect.In my impression, I only heard that the black cellar wood and the thousand-year-old golden nanmu can be preserved, but the black cellar coffin, the wood is pitch black, and the golden nanmu, the wood color is yellow, and there is nothing similar to the transparent coffin in front of me .

So I said: "Don't play charades, if this is not a crystal coffin, could it be a diamond coffin?"

Lu Su smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "This coffin looks like crystal and diamonds, but it is actually a kind of wood. Have you ever heard of Kunlun Shenmu?" When he said this, I suddenly remembered a legend.

The Kunlun Shenmu was first recorded in the mountains and seas. According to legend, it is a tree that grows upside down. It grows in the thousand-year-old ice layer deep in Kunlun Mountains. The roots are on the top and the trunk is facing down. The eternal cold air of Kunlun Mountain, its wood is like ice crystals, used to restrain corpses, it will not rot for thousands of years, what it looks like when it dies, it will look like it when it is made.

However, there is an even more magical statement about the Kunlun Shenmu.

There is a folk saying of leaving the soul in three days, that is, after a person dies, the soul will not leave the body immediately, but will be hooked by the black and white impermanence of the underworld on the third day.It is said that the Kunlun Shenmu was transformed from the scepter of the Queen Mother of the West, and it contained divine power. It was put into the body of the Kunlun Shenmu. The little ghosts dare not seduce their souls. They only need to find a very dark place and be buried for 500 years. Then they can push out of the coffin and come back to life. .

Lu Su suddenly mentioned the Kunlun Shenmu, and when I looked at the female corpse in the coffin again, I felt a chill run down my spine, and said to myself: The female corpse in this coffin is so lifelike, is there really a possibility of resurrection?

Lu Su firmly insisted that this is the golden coffin of the princess, and it is not impossible. After all, the Kunlun Shenmu can be said to be the best among coffin materials, and no one would be willing to use such a coffin to make a "virtual coffin".

But then again, the sacred tree is only recorded in the mountains and seas, and it is a legendary god, so how could it really appear in the world?

Besides, this Tatar princess was originally an unfavored and intimate princess, and was also regarded as a demon. If there really was such a sacred tree as the Kunlun Shenmu, wouldn't the emperor keep it for himself?How could it be used to embalm a princess?
I asked this series of questions, but Lu Su couldn't answer. He tilted his head and thought for a while, then smiled and said, "It's fate that we stumbled into this place by accident and saw this corpse. It's useless to think too much, open the coffin You can tell it at a glance." This Lu Su looks gentle, but he is bold in his heart, we are both scarred and have nothing else, he actually wants to open the coffin just like this?Regarding his approach, I can only say that it is... too kind to me!
I don't like to procrastinate in my work. If I go back to move the rescuers and walk the waterway again, not only will I be tortured physically, but I will be tortured psychologically. What's more, I don't want to drag Tofu and Gu Wenmin into the water. Lu Su proposed this at this time The way I did it was completely in harmony with me. We looked at each other, took a deep breath, took a deep breath, and walked towards the Kunlun Shenmu coffin at the top of the pyramid with the steel knife and the tool in hand.

(End of this chapter)