Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 535
I sat on the plank road, my muscles twitched, and I didn't have the strength to stand up, so I sat down and rested.The poisonous snake also got into the thin crack and disappeared. After a while, I felt the muscles in my body relax completely, the convulsions also stopped, and the strength gradually returned to my body.

I knocked on the wooden boards under me, and the muffled sound indicated that these wooden boards were relatively strong, and there seemed to be no risk of disintegration.I didn't dare to stay longer after resting enough, and immediately walked forward along the plank road at a faster speed, trying to reach the foot of the mountain and meet Lu Su and the others. Tired enough.

After running on the plank road for about ten minutes, the trend of the whole plank road slowly descended, and the originally straight and steep mountain began to slope up. After a while, I finally reached the end of the plank road. The stone steps, after thousands of years of wind and rain, are rough and uneven, and the gaps are covered with dead grass, which is easy to slip when stepped on.I walked down the mountain carefully along the stone steps, and after a while, I suddenly found a stone tablet on the edge of the grass covered by grass and trees.

I reckoned that the stele should be left by Puzhen, and I didn't know what it was, so I stroked the grass on the surface to look at the stele, and saw two rows of ancient seal characters on the stele, which read: Three bends Three musts, the living are not allowed to enter.

Three bends and three tricks?

Could it be that Napuzhen has played tricks on these three bends?

It seems that the tomb of King Juer is not only dangerous in the tomb, even the outside of the tomb has been artificially set up obstacles.I also know about Puzhen's ability, so I became vigilant and became more careful.At this moment, I suddenly discovered that there was still a scratch on the stone tablet. After careful observation, I found that the scratch was heavy at the front and light at the back, as if it was broken by something.For a moment, I thought about bullets.

Has anyone ever had a shootout here?

Three groups of people popped up in my mind, Feidao Bai Laosi, Chen Ci, and later Zhao Erye. These bullet marks should be left by one of them. I don’t know why there will be a gun battle when we come to this place.

Just as I was studying the gun marks on the stele, suddenly, the grass behind the stele rustled, and then, a black head poked out from the grass.When I saw it, it turned out to be a huge mouse head. The bare mouse head was already as big as an adult's fist. One can imagine how fat the body is.It was not afraid of people at all, and its two black bean-like eyeballs looked at me. Before I could react, it jumped up and rushed towards my face, with a pair of mouse teeth trying to bite me.

I only know that mice are good at digging holes and climbing high, but I never knew that mice can jump so high. I was caught off guard by this mouse. Although I quickly missed the bite, my face was pulled out by the mouse claws. a hole.Not to mention how disgusting I felt, when I saw the mouse landed on the ground, its whole body was pitch-black, shiny, and its mouth was sizzling, it was not afraid of people at all, and there seemed to be taunts in its eyes, and it turned around and wanted to pounce again.

I was exhausted, and a mouse would dare to be so arrogant when I jumped out. I immediately became angry. Seeing that it still wanted to pounce, I immediately took a shovel from the hook next to the equipment bag, and slapped it directly.The mouse was nimble, and suddenly burrowed into the grass behind the stele. The grass trembled, but the black mouse was nowhere to be seen.I touched the blood on my face, and when I saw the blood, I became even more angry. I hurriedly chased after it, and slapped it along the trembling grass.

After the slap, the mouse squeaked and immediately stopped moving.I pushed aside the grass and saw that the mouse had already died and its head had been slapped flat, but at this moment, I suddenly discovered that there was still something under the mouse's body, which seemed to be wriggling.

I pulled the mouse corpse aside to have a look, only to find that there was a hole under the mouse's body, and there were some little mice that hadn't fully grown their hairs in the hole.Seeing this, I thought to myself, mouse, mouse, I would have killed you if I had known you had a rat to raise, but who would let you have a good life?

As soon as I thought of the level of cannibalism, I suddenly saw some white things faintly protruding from the grass not far from the entrance of the cave, like some kind of bones, big pieces, I don't know what it is.My curiosity grew, I pulled the grass to look, and gasped for a moment, but saw that in the grass, there was a field of bones, and there were some decayed grasses growing inside the broken human heads. desolate.

In an instant I understood that the rat probably really wanted to eat human flesh. Rats generally don’t grow up to be so big. It is said that human flesh is a great nourishing meat, and things that grow up eating human flesh are always stronger and smarter.I guess this mouse hasn't gnawed on human flesh for a long time, and when it sees me, it will be greedy, so it will suddenly attack me.

Thinking about the gun marks on the stele again, I reckon that these scattered bones are probably the victims of the gun battle.Thinking of this, he pulled the grass and inspected the pile of bones to see if he could get some clues earlier.Just then, something half buried in the dirt caught my attention.

It was a piece of white bone, which should belong to a human rib, but there was a deep mark on the bone, and the bone was almost broken.I searched again and found that there were many scars on these bones, and I don't know whether they were suffered during life or were gnawed by rats after death.

Didn't these people die in a gun battle?
Did they encounter any danger at that time?
I counted at least five skulls, that is to say, at least five people died in this place.

Chen Ci came here alone at the beginning, and Bai Laosi didn't bring too many helpers at the beginning. The only one who brought a large number of people was Old Man Zhao. It seemed that these bullet marks were left by Old Man Zhao's people.When they got here, they probably were in distress.

I looked around and saw no danger other than the rat that grew up eating human flesh just now, so I didn't plan to stay any longer, and hurried down when I got out of the grass.Unexpectedly, only a few steps away, there was a loud creaking sound behind me. I turned my head in shock, and my scalp was numb all of a sudden, but I saw a large piece of grass popping out of the grass behind me somehow. Black mice, all the size of basketballs.

The next moment, these mice all rushed towards me. No one has ever run before a mouse. I ran forward in a panic, but was still scratched by a few mice. In a hurry, my feet stepped on the air, and I fell to the ground , Rolling down the steep slope, I can only hold my head in desperation to prevent my head from being hit, not to mention the pain on my body.After a while, I felt that my body was lifted into the air, and my whole body fell into the water with a plop, and the icy river water immediately enveloped me.

Fortunately, these big mice can't swim. As soon as I entered the water, they stopped chasing me, and disappeared after a while.

Now it was against the current, I grabbed a rock to barely maintain my figure, some small fishes by the river gathered and pecked me up like a big earthworm, it didn't hurt so much, it was quite comfortable.I stepped on the water with both feet and looked around, but I didn't see Lu Su and the others, so I could only sigh and continue to swim forward resignedly.

As soon as I got into the water, I thought of the old tortoise before, and thought that the old tortoise had no conscience, and would repay me for what it said, why didn't I see it to repay me?It's okay to dive and leave by myself, and destroy the plank road, otherwise I won't be separated from the team.

Just as I was thinking about it, a hard object suddenly popped up from under my feet, and I looked down in shock. I couldn't help being horrified: "Old turtle, it's you."

With its top, I sat on the back of the turtle. This old turtle is huge, otherwise it would be impossible to carry a stone tablet.I sat on the back of the tortoise, and the old tortoise turned to look at me with an old man's face, and then went upstream on the river, all the way upstream.

I was overjoyed for a moment, touched its head, and said, "I was thinking of you, so you came." The old turtle shook his head, continued to swim forward, and did not dive into the water, making it clear that he wanted to carry me across Jiang.In this way, I remembered the scenes of Tang Seng riding a turtle across the river in Journey to the West. I felt novel for a while, so I sat on the back of the turtle and looked at the two banks.

Dogs can hear human language after they have been raised for a long time. Animals have lived for a long time, and they will naturally understand human nature. This old turtle said that he would repay me. Now it seems that he wants to take me upstream. From a distance, you can see the cliff close , exposing the river bank, and farther away, the Nujiang River turns around the cliff again, which is the second bend.

I couldn't help but took out the binoculars and inspected the river, trying to see if I could find any traces of Lu Su and the others. Not long after, I saw a few figures by the river, pulling the rocks to swim forward.Except for Fatty Li, the courier who is tireless, the rest of the people are in a panic. Now that I am holding a telescope, I can see them, but they cannot see me.I can't deal with this group of people on weekdays, so it's good to vent my anger now. I said to the old turtle: "If you see that there are no people in front, slow down and follow them. When they get tired, let's follow. Understand what I said What's up?" The old turtle turned his head and nodded twice, on his human-like face, the turtle's beak was bent and wrinkles were furrowed, revealing a smile that seemed to agree.

I was very surprised and said: "Old turtle, old turtle, you really have become a spirit. I heard that spirits have three tribulations of heaven, earth and human beings. Puzhen has been carrying the stele for thousands of years, and it is estimated that it is your human robbery. If you want to cross the earthly robbery tomorrow, you will learn from those foxes and snakes and find someone to avoid the robbery. If you find me, I will never refuse."

The old turtle nodded again, and slowed down abruptly. Then, I sat on the back of the turtle and looked at Lu Su and the others from a distance with a telescope.The worst thing is to kill chickens in vain. He is old and frail, but he insists on tossing. Although there are messengers to take care of him, he still shrugs his head, as if he is about to die.

After a while, a few people stopped, probably unable to swim anymore, and huddled together under the cliff, holding on to some vines to stabilize their figures.I thought the time was almost up, so I said to the old turtle, "Speed ​​up."

(End of this chapter)