Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 162 The Fire of Escape
We gathered in one place, the night was as dark as ink, and the sea breeze was cool. Apart from the sound of wind and waves, there was the unique sound of humpback whales, which made everyone feel uncomfortable.I subconsciously looked at my watch, and because it was waterproof, I still walked around as usual. It was already two o'clock in the morning, and it would be dawn in three hours.

This ship has been heading south, drifting, and we don't know where it will take us.

Everyone thought hard about the countermeasures, but they were at a loss.The time passed by one minute and one second, and I looked at the watch countless times. Finally, when the watch pointed to [-]:[-], I felt a sudden shock in my heart.

The sun rises early on the sea, at 05:30 at the latest, and the sky is about to shine through.At that time, will we be able to get rid of this USO, or will it disappear with it, as folklore has it?
Everyone's expressions became more and more ugly. At this moment, Tofu said: "I heard that the disappearing USO will take the people on the boat to the bottom of the sea and drown them alive. I don't want to be submerged again. I said..." He Looking at Robot No. [-], he said, "If that kind of thing really happens, remember to sneak up and shoot me in the head, so that I can die more quickly."

When he said this, Ah Ying was even more frightened. She cried, lowered her head and wiped her tears, and said, "I don't want to die yet."

No one wants to die, but Tofu's words reminded me of one thing, so I said to everyone: "Time is running out, if this goes on, we will all die sooner or later. I have an idea of ​​putting it to death and rebirth, no I know if everyone dares to give it a try."

Professor Lin cheered up and asked me what I thought.I then told everyone about the method that I suddenly thought of just now.

There is a saying that ghosts are afraid of yang fire, and the human body has yang fire, and ordinary fire is also yang fire. If the yang fire is large, it can drive away evil spirits, but if the yang fire is small, it cannot suppress evil.When walking at night in some rural areas, a simple torch is used while lighting a flashlight, mainly because of this consideration.

I thought, instead of being trapped on this ship and waiting to die, I would take a risk and set the whole ship on fire. At that time, the wind will help the fire, and the ship will definitely catch fire. Maybe it can deter evil spirits and solve the current predicament .Of course, if that doesn't work, and the fire starts up again, we're probably going to be burned alive.

When Robot One heard this, he didn't object, but said, "I'll give everyone an honorable bomb."

This idea was quite risky, and no one responded for a while, but at this time, the hour hand had already pointed to five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was no longer as dark as before, but faintly gray, and it would be dawn soon.And I also discovered a phenomenon, that is, as time goes by, the speed of this USO is getting faster and faster, like an arrow leaving the string, full of weirdness.

Seeing that the sky was going to be bright, everyone gritted their teeth and had no choice but to risk their lives and immediately went down to the cabin.Since the fire goes up, we chose to set the fire in the cabin.Since there was no solid fuel, everyone dug out dry clothes from their bags and lit the fire. After a short while, the flames burned through the wooden boards, and long tongues of flame rose from the dry hull in an instant.Seeing that the fire was almost ignited, everyone ran to the deck immediately.

My heart darkened, thinking: Fuck you, I'll see how you play tricks this time.

Not long after, the tongue of flame spread from the bottom of the cabin, and thick smoke billowed for a while, making everyone very uncomfortable.Seeing that the fire was about the same size, I gave Tofu a wink, signaling him to try jumping into the sea again, maybe the thing was scared by the fire and would no longer dare to make trouble.Tofu was very elf at the moment, and immediately jumped out from the side of the boat.

But soon, he fell from the sky in front of us again, screamed and said, "My surname is Chen, next time you do this kind of thing yourself."

I said, "I did it myself, doesn't it seem that you are too useless?"

Duan Fei leaned over to me again, normally eccentric, her radiant little face was a little pale, she didn't say much, she just hid behind me, looking very scared.

Fortunately, the sea is very windy, so the thick smoke doesn't bother us too much.Soon, more than half of the ship was burned. At this moment, the ropes on the mast also broke, causing the originally stowed cloth sails to spread out.All of a sudden, everyone gasped in unison, feeling their hairs stand on end and their scalps numb.

I saw that the canvas was originally white, but it was covered with bloodstains. The bloodstains seemed to be splashed, scarlet, and faintly formed some human faces.

At first glance, it seems that there are countless bloody faces staring at us on the sails, not to mention the thrilling feeling of heart pumping.

Gu Wenmin covered her mouth in fright, her eyes trembled, and she said after a long while: "The shape of this ship is a bit like the shape of the European period hundreds of years ago. Maybe the people on this USO have suffered a lot hundreds of years ago. A massacre." Tofu swallowed his saliva: "What should I do now, the fire is so big, I still can't jump out...It's over, it's over..."

Robot No. [-] looked at Tofu with a serious expression, and said, "Do you want me to take you on the road?" Tofu looked like he was about to cry, and said, "I can't bear you... If you are hit in the head by a bullet, you will die all at once, or Have to suffer for a while before dying?"

Robot No. [-] said: "We only hit other people's heads, but we haven't tried it ourselves, so we don't know."

Tofu shrank his neck and stared at the muzzle of the gun in fear. It was obvious that he was afraid again when the incident was imminent, and began to reconsider whether it was better to drown, burn to death, or be shot to death by a gun.The fire was getting bigger and bigger, we hid on the deck, the flames gradually began to spread, the surrounding heat wave hit, and the eye sockets of the roasted people were hot.

I couldn't help but hugged Gu Wenmin next to me tightly, and didn't speak anymore. At this time, I can't do anything. At the last moment, I just want to hug the person in my arms tightly.

Her soft hand tightly grasped my wrist and said, "I'm still angry."

I looked into her gentle eyes and said, "You won't lie at all."

Tofu wiped the smoked tears and howled: "It's shameful to show affection." Then he begged all the gods and Buddhas in his mouth, saying that as long as he can get out of trouble this time, he will be a vegetarian from now on.I was shocked. For Tofu, not eating meat is a more serious issue than life. He can swear such a poisonous oath, which shows that he is extremely desperate.So I said to Tofu: "Death doesn't hurt at all, it only takes a few seconds to be hit in the brain by a bullet, Xiaodou, be strong."

Tofu said with a sad face, "I can't be strong."

I sighed and said, "I know, you've never been hard in your life."

Gu Wenmin pinched me, and spat: "What time is it, you are still so unscrupulous." At this moment, the fire was imminent, and everyone was forced to stand against the side of the boat by the fire, and their faces were baked. A layer of oily sweat, mixed with soot, everyone has a black and white face.Just when everyone was in despair and began to seriously ponder the issue of the glorious bomb, I suddenly heard a crackling sound in my ears, which seemed to come from the bottom of the boat.

It sounded a little like a beam snapping, and then our bows began to tip and fall.

Professor Lin was overjoyed and said, "It seems to be the sound of the keel breaking." The so-called keel refers to the main beam in the center of the bottom of an old-fashioned ship in the past. Once the keel is broken, the ship will naturally solve the problem and split into two pieces .With this break, the bow of our boat plunged into the water in an instant, and before everyone could react, their bodies had already fallen into the water.

When we came into contact with the icy sea water, instead of panicking, we looked at each other in dismay, and then burst out laughing. Tofu patted the sea water and said, "Damn, Grandpa Dou, I'm back again!"

Not to mention carp, his oily face was extremely excited, and he said, "Thanks to Brother Chen's ingenious plan, it's great to put this trick to death and use it later."

Everyone was soaking in the water, while the UFO called USO quickly sank into the sea.We float on the sea, enjoying the joy of the rest of our lives.It took a while for everyone to suppress their excitement. At this moment, a faint ray of light has appeared on the horizon. It is estimated that the sun will come out in another 10 minutes.

At this moment, there is a vast sea around, and the reef belt where we lived before is no longer known how many sea miles away. We were floating on the sea, and the joyful mood did not last long.

This time the situation was even worse. We didn't even have a raft. Could we just swim in the sea like this?When do you have to swim?
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw the tofu lying motionless in the sea, as if I had discovered something, I couldn't help but my heart moved, and I asked, "What's wrong?"

"Pee."

Damn... everyone, get away from him quickly, before I can teach him a lesson, Tofu curled his lips and said, "Don't look disgusted, we don't know how long we're going to float on the sea, maybe shit is coming, You can still hold it back in your stomach. The sea is full of feces, and fish poop is soaked in the sea. You know ambergris, that thing is made of sperm whale poop, and..."

I hurriedly interrupted him and said, "From now on, you are not allowed to say a word." Originally, I didn't feel it when I was soaking in sea water, but after being exposed by tofu like this, I suddenly felt that something was wrong all over my body, and the three women felt even worse. Needless to say, his face was black as the bottom of the pot.

But when it comes to whales, I suddenly remembered and said, "That humpback whale is gone."

Gu Wenmin said: "Maybe it has already left."

Tofu gesticulated and seemed to want to say something. I gave him a cold look, but he raised his eyebrows and remained silent.At this moment, a jet of water suddenly sprayed out from among the crowd, and before I could react what was going on, there was a hard object under my feet that dragged us up, and when I looked down, it happened to be the seat whale.

It took a breath, just below us, and when it floated up, everyone sat on its back.Tofu didn't care about the ban, and said happily, "Xiao Hei, I knew you didn't leave. What did you do?" Xiao Hei's eyes stayed on Tofu for half a second, ignoring this idiot, enjoying himself on the sea. Youzai swam around, not intending to throw us off.

(End of this chapter)