Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 119
Everyone's swimming speed is getting slower and slower, the brain is also slowed down due to lack of oxygen, and the thinking ability is also slowed down. The only thing left is mechanical swimming.

Most people should have tried the feeling of holding their breath. It is a very painful thing. I think, if it really reaches the point where I can’t support it, I will consider giving myself a knife, which is better than being drowned alive.Just as I was thinking about it, the figure of Feng Guishou in front of me suddenly disappeared. I was shocked for a moment, and all my confused thoughts were concentrated in one place, staring closely at the place where Feng Guishou disappeared.

Obviously, I was not the only one who noticed the anomaly. The other three people in the water stopped their movements and looked at each other under the water with shocked expressions.

Tofu gestured and asked what was going on, but none of us could answer.

At this moment, Lu Su probably wanted to find out what was going on, so he ventured forward for a while, but then, his body suddenly disappeared, as if a house blown by a hurricane disappeared from the ground in an instant.

The situation in front of us is really too weird. For a while, Tofu, Gu Wenmin, and I all hesitated to move forward, but in just a few seconds, the three of us started to swim forward at the same time.Now, we have no way out except to move forward. If we stay underwater for a second and consume a little more oxygen in our lungs, we will be one step closer to death.

At that moment, the three of us stared at each other with bloodshot eyes, as if we were looking at each other for the last time when we were parting.

This feeling is very bad, but in front of nature, human beings are too small, we have no other way to get rid of the situation in front of us, we can't even speak underwater, except for eye contact and body contact, we can't even say goodbye Say it.

Soon, we swam to the place where Lu Su and the two disappeared before, and suddenly felt a huge pulling force coming from below. I looked down, and my heart went cold, and I felt desperate.It turns out that there is an underground vortex in this waterway, and the reason why Lu Su and the others disappeared just now is [-]% because they were sucked down by the underground vortex.

In other words, we will be taken to deeper groundwater by this vortex, and we may never have the chance to see the exit.

These thoughts are only for a moment, because in the next second, the three of us were dispersed by this pulling force. In a whirl, the oxygen in the lungs was exhausted, and the eyes could not be opened at all. It was poured directly into the nasal cavity and throat, making people feel like vomiting in pain, but before the vomiting came out, more water poured in again.

I can no longer see Gu Wenmin and Tofu, but I know that their current situation is probably similar to mine.

In other situations, with my personality, it is absolutely impossible to sit still, but underwater, let alone an ordinary person, even if I am a superman, there is nothing I can do.In the pain of drowning, I passed out. At that moment, I thought my fainting was the end, but I never thought that there was still time to wake up.

When I woke up, I only felt pain in my lungs. Just as I was about to open my mouth, I sprayed out a lot of water. I opened my eyes in a daze, but it was Tofu who was massaging my chest and abdomen.His body was also dripping wet. Seeing me wake up, he sat down on the ground and howled, "Finally woke up. I thought you were going to see Lord Hades." After speaking, he covered his face with his hands , The shoulders twitched.

I was taken aback, and said comfortingly, "Man, don't shed blood. I'm not dead yet. Why are you crying? Don't be like a woman."

Tofu covered his face, and after a while he said in a hoarse voice: "Before I was in the water, if you hadn't pushed me, I would have gone to heaven by now. I saw you lying unconscious on the ground, I have suicidal thoughts.”

I coughed twice, and said with a smile, "You are going to be buried for me...wait a minute." I was taken aback for a moment, feeling something was wrong, and asked, "Did I push you in the water?" Impossible, I couldn't protect myself at the time, and with my eyes closed, I couldn't see the underwater situation clearly. How could I have the ability to save Tofu?
After I finished asking, Tofu put down his hands, looked stunned, and said, "Who are you?"

Only then did I realize that the surrounding environment was not far from us, but there was a vast lake, and there was no one else except me and Tofu.For a moment, I didn't know where I was, and the image of my surroundings was even more blurred, and I didn't know where we drifted along the groundwater.

But only a moment later, when I turned around and saw the deserted village on the mountainside, I suddenly realized that we were still by the lake.It's just that due to the rising water potential, the former Crescent Lake has now become a vast lake, so I didn't recognize it for a while.

It's daytime now, the sun is a bit dazzling, I sat and lay down with Tofu, the birds and beasts chanted in the mountains and forests, but there was no human voice.

Where did Gu Wenmin go?
Where did Lu Su go?

Where did Feng go?
Could it be that they were unlucky and had already drowned below?

The more I thought about it, the more my hands and feet became stiff, and I quickly turned over and sat up. Due to the long-term water filling in my stomach, I felt like vomiting, which made me tilt my head and spit out another puddle of water.After spitting out the puddle of water, I felt better physically and my brain's ability to think was restored. Immediately afterwards, I said to Tofu, "It's not me who pushed you under the water."

Tofu was also stunned, rubbed his head suspiciously and said: "At that moment, everyone is in danger. Except you who are willing to sacrifice their lives to save me, who else would push me at such a time? Old Chen, did you get your head wet? Confused?"

Whether I have saved someone or not, I know very well in my heart that under the circumstances at that time, I had no ability to save others at all, so there must be someone else who pushed the tofu.If that person can save people in that situation, then he must have very high diving skills.I first thought of Feng Guishou, but I felt wrong. Feng Guishou was the first to be swept down by the current. I, Tofu and Gu Wenmin were the last to go down. There was a time difference with Feng. He couldn't possibly have a chance to save us. .

On the contrary, the time between Lu Su and us being dragged into the water was not long, so he might be the one who saved people.

But the problem is that now, Lu Su is gone, Gu Wenmin is gone, and so is Feng.

where are they?Is it dead or alive?
A series of questions swirled in my mind, and I immediately asked what happened to the tofu.According to Tofu, he was underwater at the time, drowning and unable to see anything, so he couldn't say whether the outer edge of the vortex led to the big lake. He only remembered that when he was in extreme pain, a pair of hands suddenly Grabbed his shoulders and pushed him up.

Tofu was at the end of his strength at that time, and he knew that someone was saving him, but he couldn't resist the pain of drowning, and eventually passed out.

When we woke up, he and I were lying on the edge of the lake.My stomach was distended, and I didn’t respond no matter how I screamed. Tofu didn’t care about other people at the time. He took it for granted that I was the one who saved him under the water, so seeing that I was unconscious to save him, He slapped himself hard twice, and quickly gave me first aid.

Tofu said: "If you didn't wake up just now, I was going to give you artificial respiration." Anyone?" I nodded.

Tofu shook his head and said: "Your idea is very unreliable. Let me analyze it for you. First of all, if that person has the ability to save us, it means that he was not drowning at the time and was awake. Since he is awake, It’s not like you can’t even see people now.”

I said, "So what do you think?"

Tofu touched his chin, looked at me meaningfully, and said, "There is only one truth."

Seeing his appearance, I seemed to have some calculations in my heart, so I asked, "What is it?"

Tofu kept touching his chin, and then said slowly: "I haven't thought of it yet, I just want to say Conan's lines. I always thought this sentence was cool, but I didn't have a chance to say it."

I glanced at him, wishing I could slap myself twice, and said in my heart: Chen Xuan, you have hope for his IQ, you deserve it, you deserve it for being pissed to death one day.

I just woke up at this moment, my brain was throbbing with pain, and I didn't have time to talk nonsense with tofu. I stood up and looked around the lake.There is a saying that people need to be seen in life, and corpses must be seen in death. Even if the three people really died in the lake, they should always float up.Or, their bodies got stuck somewhere?
I made a lot of speculations, but I had an idea in my heart: Even tofu can survive a catastrophe, let alone people like Feng Guishou and Lu Su?They must still be alive, but where did these two people go now?

Gu Wenmin, a woman, did she survive?

Tofu and I decided to wait in place. The two wrung out the water on our clothes and lit a bonfire.

Tofu took the initiative to go to the mountains and forests to pick some wild mushrooms to satisfy his hunger.

I was a little relieved at first, but when I saw the mushrooms he picked, I just felt like crying. I guess I couldn’t make an expression on my face, so I could only say lightly: "The brighter the mushroom, the more poisonous it is. Common sense that all first graders know. Xiaodou, please don’t pick these purple mushrooms, blue mushrooms, and red mushrooms, I want to live a few more years.”

The end result was that I threw away two-thirds of the mushrooms and left one-third, and I had to drag my exhausted body to the lake to wash.This kind of tofu is unreliable. He grew up in the city. When he was the poorest, he ate a bowl of instant noodles for two meals, but he had no experience in picking mushrooms.In fact, not everyone knows how to wash the wild mushrooms in the mountains. If you don’t know the details, the mushrooms will disgust you to death.

Mushrooms are fungi, and they begin to rot when they are fully mature, but their rot is from the inside out, and some maggots will breed. The maggots usually eat inside the mushrooms, and there are no traces of long worms from the outside. People who are inexperienced, Can't see it at all.Some people who eat wild mushrooms think that they will be fine if they find non-toxic mushrooms. In fact, most people can’t tell whether there are maggots inside the mushrooms from the outside. Generally, there are two ways to distinguish them. One is to separate the mushrooms in half, See if there are any worms in the middle, and the second is to look at the color in the middle of the mushroom. If it is dark or there are slightly raised things, it means that there are maggots inside.

My IQ on tofu is hopeless, so let him wash the mushrooms, I would rather starve to death.

(End of this chapter)