Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 42
The moment I entered the water, I only felt the scorching summer, but the river water was icy cold, my breathing stopped, my chest suddenly felt suffocated, my mind lost consciousness in an instant, and I was in the most peculiar state of coma.

I know I've fallen into the water and should be struggling, but my brain enjoys this state of being unable to respond, and the mind and brain send out two extreme commands at the same time.One let me escape quickly, and the other let me keep the status quo.

This feeling is indescribable, and I don't know how long it lasted. My psychological reaction defeated the peaceful sleep of my brain, and my mind slowly woke up. I felt cold all over my body, as if I was soaked in water, but my breathing was not hindered.

After a while, I managed to open my eyes, looked at the environment in front of me, and was stunned for a moment, and at this moment, Tofu's unbelievable voice came from next to me: "Damn, why is this happening? Why are we still in the car?"

Not bad.

Right now, we are sitting in the car.

But the difference is that our car was obviously deformed, and a lot of water was poured into the car. Looking out through the gap, we found that our car was half submerged in the river. If we went a little deeper, we would have drowned.

Rao is that I have always been fearless, and now I feel a little scared in my heart.

Could it be that after our car fell off, it actually fell into the river?
Was everything I experienced before just a dream of mine?

Immediately afterwards, Gu Wenmin also woke up. I carefully observed the reactions of the two of them, and found that Gu Wenmin was also very shocked, and said, "Why is this happening? Aren't we chasing that weasel?"

Now it seems that it was not my dream alone, but the experience of all of us.

Sitting in the flooded car, the three of us looked at each other, unable to speak.After a while, I calmed down, knowing that I couldn't stay here any longer, and said to the two of them, "Let's go, get out of the car and be in the water first, if the water floods, something bad will happen."

The hairy rooster in the driver's seat in front has not yet woken up, perhaps because of his injury.The three of us used some car repair tools to pry open the deformed car door and climb out, while Tofu dragged the rooster behind.

The car was right next to the river, and as soon as we got out of the car, we went to the shore. Next to it was a cliff that sloped upwards. There were many rocks on the cliff for people to climb up. no the same.

Could it be that, at the moment we fell off the cliff, what we saw were all illusions?Or, those are real and what we see now is fake?
In fact, we were already drowning when that weasel pushed us into the water?

I touched my palm, it was still warm.

Gu Wenmin wiped the water from his face, looked at the cliff and breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, this cliff has a steep slope, we can climb up." I nodded, and just about to speak, Tofu suddenly said: "Old Chen Come and take a look." His voice was a little hoarse, trembling slightly.

I looked sideways and found that Tofu was staring at the unconscious hairy rooster, thinking: What is there to see?Did something happen?Sure enough, Gu Wenmin and I went to Mao Rooster and squatted down, and immediately found that something was wrong. His face turned blue, and his eyes opened at some point. This was originally a good sign, indicating that he was awake, but at this moment his The eyeballs are straight, like a dead body.

Thinking of the word "corpse", my heart skipped a beat, and I immediately stretched out my hand to feel the rooster's snort, but there was nothing there, and then felt for his pulse, but it had completely stopped beating.

The hairy rooster... is dead.

The three of us sat there, speechless for a while.After a while, Gu Wenmin spoke first, with a sad expression on his face, and said, "Why is this happening?" Tofu was speechless, looked at me, and remained silent.

Staring at the rooster's body, I thought a lot. Could it be that the weasel hated the rooster for grabbing it, so it saved the three of us, but it didn't save the rooster?

No one can tell what the truth is, and even I can't explain what happened before.

I think our current situation is somewhat similar to a folktale.

It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, there lived a businessman named Cai in Suzhou.

This businessman often helps poor people and is very kind-hearted, but not long after, this businessman surnamed Cai lost a lot of money because of Xiaoxiao's frame, and was once impoverished, and his business could no longer continue.

He thought: It is said that good people are rewarded with good things. How come I have done good deeds all my life, but ended up like this.The more businessman Cai thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable. That day, he took a rope and went to a nearby ruined temple, planning to hang himself there, and die early and be reborn early.

It was a dilapidated temple that was ventilated everywhere, and only one stone wall was still good. The murals on it were still humming in the wind and sun, and the murals painted the scene of the ghost Yan Luo having a feast.

The businessman surnamed Cai looked at the mural and thought to himself: I don’t know whether I will be reborn as a human being directly after my death, or whether I will go to hell to be tortured. While thinking, I put on a rope and hanged myself.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was stretched out in a desert-like place. His mouth was full of hunger and thirst. When he saw people living in front of him from a distance, he was about to go to ask for a drink, but when he entered the city, he was almost frightened. Peeing pants, where is this place where people live, and there are ghosts who come and go inside.

When he looked down at himself, his feet were hanging in the air, and he was obviously a ghost.

The businessman surnamed Cai sighed, knowing that after he hanged himself, the ghost had already gone to the underworld, so he walked forward with other ghosts.

There is a little ghost leader in front of you who checks every ghost that enters the city, and reports the name and life expectancy before birth one by one. , Why did you come to our dead city at this time, let’s go back.” After finishing speaking, the little ghost pushed him, and the businessman surnamed Cai felt a shock all over his body, and when he woke up, he realized that he was still hanging on the rope, breathing Difficult, unstoppable pain.

He struggled violently, and during the struggle, the rope broke, and only then did he save his life.

Recalling the previous experience in the underworld, he only felt that he had a dream. When he woke up now, he couldn't judge whether those words were true or not.But with the painful experience of seeking death, the businessman surnamed Cai never dared to die again, thinking that it would be better to live than to die, so he went out to start a tofu business. Although it was a small business, the businessman still did not change his true nature.

Once, a beggar passed by his shop and stared at his tofu drooling. The businessman surnamed Cai dug out a piece of tofu and put it in the beggar's bowl, saying, "Eat it, there will be more after eating."

The tofu just came out of the drawer was steaming hot and had a strong flavor. It could have been eaten raw, but the beggar ate it loudly. After eating, he left and got up, looking very polite.

It turned out that this beggar was the newly appointed admiral. He was robbed by bandits on the way to his post and begged all the way to the post. , still exists today.

In this story, the merchant's experience of roaming the underworld in an instant is very similar to what we are experiencing now.Could it be that after we fell into the cliff, our souls left our bodies and were trapped in it by the gate of hell?

There was no wind or rain at the moment, the summer was sweltering and hot, the sky was shining brightly, and the corpse seemed to rot anytime under the scorching sun.The three of us were deeply shocked when we saw the death of Mao Rooster. It took a long time to settle down. The three of us discussed that although Mao Rooster died, his body could not be abandoned in the wilderness. After all, we took his car. If something goes wrong, it may become a murder suspect. If it is not dealt with properly, the relatives of Mao Rooster's family will not let it go.

After some discussion, although it was difficult, we decided to move the corpse out.

Naturally, I am the only one to do this. Compared with Tofu, I am not physically strong, and I am timid, and it is even more impossible for Gu Wenmin to do it by a woman.Immediately, Gu Wenming took out a long rope for hanging the camera from her backpack, tied the corpse to my back, and the three of them began to climb up the sloping cliff.

Needless to say, it was hard work. When we climbed to the top and sat beside the asphalt road, our hands and feet were already weak, and we were exposed to the sun. Looking at the bright environment around us, we felt like we were reborn as human beings.

(End of this chapter)