Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 534
The iron chain fell to the ground, and with a few clatters, the old tortoise was very spiritual, knowing that the things that imprisoned him had failed, and immediately raised his head, which was dying, and his body began to struggle.This thing is really powerful, when it struggled, the stone tablet on its body immediately shook, and then heard a creak, and the stone tablet suddenly fell down in our direction.

Everyone hurriedly dodged to both sides, and then heard a bang. The stone tablet first slammed onto the plank road. The wooden plank road could not withstand such a strong impact. The entire plank road broke from the middle, and the stone tablet instantly fell upside down into the mist under the feet.

I just felt that the wooden boards under my feet were affected by this, and they kept vibrating. I was so shocked that I backed up again and again. The people on both sides of us could only keep retreating. After a while, the plank road split into two, and a space about ten meters apart appeared in front of my eyes.I am on this side, Lu Su and others are on the other side.Heizi shouted, "Brother Chen, are you alright?"

I just gave up and signaled that it was okay, thinking in my heart, how should I get over it now?At this moment, the old tortoise slowly crawled out from the groove where the stone tablet was placed, and poked out a head that resembled the face of an old man. Immediately afterwards, it continued to crawl forward. The same, followed by falling into the clouds.

Although I know that the bottom of this plank road is the water of the Nujiang River, and the turtle will definitely not die if it falls, but animals have instincts, and I have never seen an animal that dares to jump off the cliff by itself.

At this moment, Lu Su threw a rope over. This rope was connected to a safety buckle, and the other end was entangled by Lu Su on a sharp protruding rock on the cliff. Just to be on the safe side, several people on the opposite side He grabbed the other end of the rope and motioned me to use this rope to get there.

I looked around and found that there was a crooked neck tree with thick arms in the gap between the rocks above me, so I put the rope on it, and then put it around the surrounding raised stones, forming a strong rope bridge , Then he buckled the safety buckle and slid along the cableway towards the opposite side.However, just halfway through, Lu Su suddenly yelled "No, I didn't understand what happened, so I put the ropes all over there and ran forward one after another. Only then did I realize that I don't know if the plank road couldn't bear the strength of too many people standing in one place, and it started to break again.

Fortunately, Lu Su and the others let go of their hands quickly, and ran forward one after another, so they didn't fall down, but it was only a moment of safety, and the speed of the few people running away did not catch up with the speed at which the plank road broke. After running a few steps, the whole plank road disintegrated Only a few yells were heard, and several people fell down suddenly, and their figures were instantly submerged in the mist, except for the still echoing screams, there was nothing left.

At this moment, although Lu Su and the others let go, fortunately, the rope on the other side is hung on the rock. The rock is integrated and relatively strong, so the rope is still stretched straight. The place where the others were before, but the plank road where they settled down has disintegrated, and it has become a scene hanging in the air.

I was dumbfounded.

The plank road is made of strong material, we have not had any accidents along the way, how can it disintegrate so easily now?
At this moment, I was hanging in the air and looking down, I saw that it was already noon, the fog had dissipated a lot, and I could vaguely see a big river below, the distance was too high, and the field of vision was so wide, how could I see Lu Su and others .

Fortunately, this place is far away from the first bend, and the water below should have calmed down, so there won't be so many undercurrents or whirlpools. These people should be fine.

Looking directly at me hanging in mid-air at this moment, I still can't advance or retreat.If I walk on the plank road again, because the plank road disintegrated just now, the nearest section of the plank road is at least 30 meters away from me. I am not an ape, how can I get there?
Do you want me to jump off here?

Although jumping like this would not be life-threatening, but the previous few falls were all accidental, allowing a person who has not received diving training to jump down from such a high altitude automatically, Quite a challenge indeed.

Right now, I don't care to scold the old tortoise who caused us trouble. Bai Zhanji must hate me to death. Of course, if the old man can accidentally drown or something, I would also like it.

At this moment, I looked at the plank road 30 meters away from me, and I couldn't make up my mind for a while.Perhaps what Lu Su said is right, this plank road can exist for such a long time, it is because of the old tortoise that it is not in order, if the tortoise leaves, the plank road will start to disintegrate, and I don't know if the plank road behind is still so strong.

After thinking about it, I still didn't have the courage to jump down, so I just jumped down like this. If something happens, there is a stone or something in the river, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?To be honest, this trip, the people in the team almost have their own thoughts, except for the sunspot who seems to be tricked by Lu Su, whoever dies will not be wronged, and the death of any one will have no effect on me.Regardless of whether there is a structural diagram of King Juer's tomb, I will always go there if I want to break the curse.

To put it bluntly, this is not a united team at all, but a group of people who got together for their own interests.

Instead of taking the risk of jumping down to meet them, it is better to choose the safest method.

However, how do I get to the plank road that is more than 30 meters away from the opposite side now?
After confirming the next action, I observed the environment here. The only hope was to climb over the cliff with bare hands.The cliff is straight and steep, and only one or two hanging trees will grow in some big crevices occasionally. Apart from that, there is no grass growing.

The only thing that can be grasped is some protruding rocks on the cliff, with curved arcs, which are just suitable for people to climb. However, because the angle of the mountain is too vertical, I have to keep it in the process of climbing. Keep your body straight.

This is easy on the flat ground, but it is a very difficult task to place it in the midair of a cliff.

I didn't hesitate for too long, took a deep breath, and slowly moved to the cliff. Then, I carefully freed up a hand and unfastened my safety buckle.

At this moment, I can't look down. Since my body is so straight against the cliff, I can't look down at all. I can only turn my face sideways, looking at the 'road' ahead, and judging where I will land and where I can grab my hands. , Don't mention how tense the muscles on the body are.

I just felt that every step I took was a huge challenge. After a few steps, I was almost sweating profusely and my muscles were trembling.At this moment, my whole mind is highly concentrated, and I can't think about other things at all. I keep building myself in my heart: even if I fail, at best I will fall, and I won't die. Come on.

However, as the old saying goes, people are unlucky, and drinking cold water will get stuck between their teeth.When I climbed two-thirds of the way, there were several days of cracks on the cliff in front of me. The cracks were uneven and very easy to grab.I was overjoyed, and immediately grabbed it, and it went much smoother, and I was about to reach the plank road. Suddenly, I heard a hissing sound in my ears, and then I suddenly saw, In the slit in front of my eyes, there is a snake head.

A triangular, green tongue, spitting out a letter and looking at me.

Viper.

There are many insects and snakes in Yunnan. Although I have traveled to many places and know a lot of things, I dare not say that I know everything about biology. There are too many types of snakes. I really don’t know this one.But the biggest characteristic of poisonous snakes is that their heads are triangular.I was suffocated, my whole body was tense, and I was stuck on the cliff, not daring to move.At this time, the poisonous snake didn't attack me either. The snake's preparatory action before attacking other creatures is to shrink its neck back, and then it will pop out in an instant.

But the snake has been relatively relaxed, just spitting out the letter, slowly crawling out from the crack, and then climbed onto my shoulder.I don't know what this thing wants to do, it doesn't seem to be afraid of people.At this moment, my whole body was tense and sweating profusely. The snake's cold body and rhythmic muscles crawled on my shoulders. It felt like I was being massaged, but it was quite comfortable.The two feelings of tension and comfort are mixed together, not to mention how weird.

At this time, the triceratops had crawled along my shoulders and got into my clothes. My clothes were not tucked into my trousers. At this moment, I can only pray that it can crawl out from the hem and go anywhere. Just stay on your body.

If it was a non-poisonous snake, I would definitely not care so much. I will go up the plank road first, and I will bite it once I bite it.But this is a poisonous snake, if it is bitten by a deep mountain valley, then it's okay?Although there is snake venom serum, but the serum is in Lu Su's place, whether I can wait until Lu Su rescues me is not certain.

Because, as soon as the snake appeared, I could only stand there with tense muscles. This was a very exhausting task. After a while, my muscles began to tremble. If this continues, the only end is diving.

At this moment, the damned triceratops finally crawled down from my hem, but instead of climbing up the rock, it wanted to continue to drill into my pants. Fortunately, I was tied with a belt, so this thing couldn’t get in. Finally he gave up on the top and began to crawl down the river along my thigh. Now I was even more nervous, my body was stiff, and I didn’t even dare to breathe, for fear that it would bite my little brother, and if I was really bitten. , I will be disabled even if I don’t die!
Fortunately, the poisonous snake probably had enough to eat, so it crawled down my legs in a moment, and got into the crack again. It probably lost its curiosity about me, so I breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly speeded up until it was on the ground. On the plank road, the whole body became limp, and the muscles that had been tense and stiff all the time twitched uncontrollably the moment I relaxed.

(End of this chapter)