Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 187 The Man in the Coffin

After fooling around with the tofu, everyone turned their attention to the tomb.There are no entrances and exits here, and there is no entrance and exit in the previous Bishu lair above our heads, that is to say, whether we walk up or down, we have entered a dead end.

From the perspective of the structure of the tomb, this is unlikely, because the ancients paid attention to death as life, and the tomb is also called the yin house, which is the place where the dead live. The yin house and the yang house are common, and no one would build it in the yin house dead end.

Professor Lin said: "Maybe there are some secret passages in this place, everyone should be careful." Everyone gradually dispersed and carefully looked around for possible secret passages. , the patterns on these coffins are so strange." We mainly came here for the things in Xu Fu's main coffin this time, so we didn't pay much attention to the nine burial coffins. They were all attracted, and she pointed to the top cover of one of the coffins and said, "Look, the figures carved on this coffin are really weird, like aliens."

Following her gaze, I couldn't help but gasp, yes, it does look like an alien.It's not the first time I've seen an ancient coffin, I've seen ones engraved with Teng Yunrui beasts, and ones engraved with cranes and heavenly officials, but it's the first time I've seen such a weird-looking person on a coffin.In the middle of the coffin, there is a small human figure. The clothes on his body are different from the togas and sleeves of the ancients, but more close-fitting clothes, with his hands on his chest.

I took a closer look and found something was wrong.This hand is not actually placed on the chest, to be precise, it is placed on the neck.

I couldn't help taking a breath, greatly surprised, and said, "It seems like I'm pinching myself."

Gu Wenmin nodded, obviously puzzled. At this time, the others also discovered that such weird figure carvings were found on almost every coffin lid, but the body shapes of the figures were somewhat strong and some were slender. There are men and women.Gu Wenmin speculated: "Could it be that the figure carved on it is the owner of the coffin?"

Tofu said: "Could it be that the people here strangled themselves to death? Haha, don't be ridiculous, it's impossible." Fortunately, this kid can still laugh now. If he knew what happened to him, he probably I was so scared that I couldn't cry. For the sake of this kid's physical and mental health, I decided to hide this matter to the end.

Professor Lin pushed the glasses with one lens, and said: "It is impossible for a person to strangle himself, but what Xiao Gu said reminded me, look at the faces of these characters, they are weird, with long mouths and wide faces. Wearing a strange mask, maybe it is some kind of ritual, after these people die, will they put their corpses in this shape because of this ritual?"

I said to myself that I am indeed a professional. I can think so much with only one figure sculpture, but why is the ceremony so weird?In my heart, I felt that Professor Lin's ideas were unreliable, so I didn't answer, but an idea popped up in my heart, these nine coffins were placed here so abruptly, and there was no way out ahead, could it be Xu Fu On purpose?Does he have any other purpose?
When I was thinking about this question, Tofu suddenly approached me, and his other good hand held my arm tightly, and he seemed a little nervous. He said, "Old Chen, I don't agree with Professor Lin's words."

I said: "If you don't agree, you don't agree. Don't put your arms around me, old man, you don't feel tired, but I still feel goosebumps."

When Professor Lin heard this, he asked Doufu if he had any ideas. Tofu nodded and said, "I have an idea, but I think it's a little scary. Look, the strange masks on these people's faces, and the anti-virus masks we wear. Doesn’t the mask look alike?” When Tofu said this, his voice trembled, obviously falling into some kind of association.But this association is really bold enough. I subconsciously looked at the face on the coffin, and I couldn't help breaking out in a layer of cold sweat. Yes... the mask that man was wearing was very similar to a gas mask.

No, it should be said that the more you look, the more you look like it!Almost identical!
Duan Fei was obviously a little scared, her voice trembled, and said, "Brother Dou, don't talk nonsense, it's scary."

Tofu looked very ugly at the moment, with a sad face, and stammered: "I, I'm not talking nonsense, you look carefully at the people on these coffins, two of them have thin waists and big breasts, and they are two women... , didn’t it just happen to be you and...and Miss Gu.” I was so horrified that I immediately confirmed them one by one, and carefully looked at the carvings on each coffin.

This is unbelievable, exactly as Tofu said, nine coffins, the characters engraved on them, all wearing something like gas masks, and there are seven men and two women.

Could it be that...the ones lying in these nine coffins are us?

No, to be more precise, are these nine coffins prepared for us?
I looked at the rest of the people, and almost everyone had cold sweat on their foreheads, and their faces were ashen. For a while, in the silent tomb, we could only hear our increasingly heavy breathing.This idea is so weird, it may be just a coincidence, but the mask just happens to be similar to the gas mask.There is a custom of covering the face in the burial customs. It is not unusual for the corpse to wear a mask when it is encoffined. We must have thought too much.

I am a person who pays more attention to reality, and I don’t want to be scared to death by some illusory imagination, so I took a few deep breaths, calmed down my beating heart, and taught Tofu: “Don’t be so superstitious, according to what you said , Could it be that Xu Fu has long deduced that after more than 2000 years, a group of us will come to rob the tomb, and then specially leave nine coffins for us?"

Speaking of this, I thought of another loophole, so I added: "Besides, there are more than nine of us, there are ten of us in total."

Four robots, three professors Lin, Wu Sidong, Duan Fei, me, Gu Wenmin, and Tofu, exactly ten people in total.Even if Xu Fu is really good at counting and preparing coffins for us, the number of coffins is not right.

When I said this, everyone felt relieved when they were raised just now. Robot No. [-] took off the gas mask, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said, "Let's not scare ourselves, the speculation just now is too absurd." Even if Xu Fu really knows how to count, shouldn’t we only prepare our coffins, shouldn’t there be Fusang people breaking in?”

Tofu asked suspiciously, "Fusang people? What Fusang people?"

Gu Wenmin withdrew the part about him, and told Tofu about meeting the corpse in the tomb, and Tofu immediately turned pale with fright, saying: "It's too despicable, they want to rob the land, and now they even want to rob us of mushrooms. We can't delay any longer, we must quickly find the main tomb... No, since this place is a dead end, where did the rest go?"

Tofu's question hit the point, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to tell why.At this moment, Wu Sidong suddenly pointed to the coffin next to us, and said in a hoarse voice with panic and weirdness: "Could it... be inside? Don't you think this coffin is too big? I'm afraid... ...More than just pretending to be nine people?"

Tofu is timid, Wu Sidong frightened him so much, he quickly said: "Don't make random guesses, you mean these people climbed into the coffin after they ran into the tomb? They didn't Fool..." As soon as Tofu finished speaking, there was a sudden bang in the silent and dark tomb.

The sound was dull and very close, and it happened to come from our right hand side.Everyone turned their eyes to the source of the sound. There was only a huge black wooden coffin there.

The sound came from the wooden coffin, there is something in it!

My first reaction was: the dead body.

Duan Fei and Wu Sidong are novices who have only touched dry bones. Where have they ever encountered such a weird situation, they were too scared to say a word.Robot No. [-] licked his lips, put on his gas mask again, and made two gestures to everyone.The first gesture is for us to back up; the second gesture is for his three teammates to converge.

The four of them had a tacit understanding, and they stood at one end in an instant, surrounding the huge black coffin from four sides.If the enemy does not move, I will not move.The robots didn't do anything directly, but held guns and stared at the coffin.

The voice in the coffin rang a few times, as if something was pressing on the coffin lid and was about to come out.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

In the silent tomb, the sound made one's scalp tingle.Gu Wenmin moved closer to me, she was still scared after all, I patted her hand to calm her down.

Tofu swallowed his saliva and said, "The glutinous rice is used up, the buffalo horns are not ready, and there are zongzi coming out. Lao Chen, I am a wounded one now, and you are responsible for protecting me."

I said: "I only protect women, I am not responsible for men."

When Tofu heard this, he immediately squeezed his throat and said, "She...she is actually a girl." Seeing that Tofu was frightened and shameless, I said, "Okay, okay, don't smear the name girl anymore, wait If something goes wrong, you and Wen Min don't care about anything, just hide first, and I'll deal with the rest."

Tofu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Old Chen, don't say anything, good brother!" While speaking, he hugged me from behind.

I immediately got angry and cursed: "You are fucking sick, is this the time to joke? Take your paw away."

As soon as I finished speaking, I realized something was wrong. Tofu and Gu Wenmin were standing on my left and right sides respectively, how could he hug me from behind?Thinking of this, I couldn't help but lower my head to see the hand embracing me, it was a dry purple black hand covered with grease.No, to be more precise, it was a pair of hands that belonged to the dead!
Before I could react, those hands exerted force suddenly, pulling me back.The force was very strong. In an instant, I felt my thighs hit the coffin behind me, and then I fell backwards.

The touch told me that the lid of the coffin behind us was opened!And at this moment, my thighs are touching the edge of the coffin, and because of the strength behind me, I can't help but fall into the coffin.

(End of this chapter)