Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 542 Trees

Heizi fearfully said: "In the middle of the night, with this kind of sound, could there be female ghosts? I heard that some sexy ghosts attract men in this way, and then suck them into a pile of skin and bones." Naturally, Bai Zhanji laughed at this. After a meal.

I immediately got up and said, "Heizi, the three of you should stay here to guard the equipment, and Xiao Yu will go." Xiao Yu, Feng Huo Lei Dian and I immediately followed the woman's voice with weapons in hand and flashlights in our hands.At this moment, it was still pitch black all around, and the only light source was the flashlight in our hands, and the direction of the sound came from the upper reaches, that is, the south.

Xiaoyu and I searched that location during the day and found nothing unusual.

The farther we walked, the clearer the voice became, and the people who heard it blushed and their blood swelled. However, in this situation, when we heard this voice, we were more vigilant.

Soon, the sound was getting closer and closer, and it seemed to be right in front of us. Everyone formed a triangular formation. As they moved forward, they looked around with the flashlight. At this moment, I suddenly saw a big black hole in my sight.

The sound seemed to come from inside.

Everyone's eyes could not help but be attracted by this big hole.This is a tree hole with a thick body and smooth skin. There is a scorched black hole in the middle, which seems to be split by lightning.

Xiao Yu hissed, listened attentively, and finally said in a firm tone that the sound came from the tree hole.Everyone walked cautiously to the side of the tree hole and looked into the tree hole with the lights on, only to find that the tree hole was a little deep, with twists and turns inside, leading all the way to the bottom of the tree root, and it was so dark that they couldn't see clearly.

As soon as we stood by the entrance of the cave, the sound became clearer, and there was a faint fragrance wafting out from the tree cave.The voice seemed to have sensed our arrival, and suddenly stopped, and then, there was only a vague sobbing sound left.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not understanding what was going on for a while. Lei was very irritable. He checked his weapon, turned on the light, and glanced into the tree hole, saying that he would go down to have a look and let us respond from above.After speaking, the whole person got into the tree hole.

The rest of us stood by the tree and waited. However, just as Lei got in, suddenly, the entire tree hole suddenly closed, like a big mouth, and two rows of staggered jagged objects popped out around the tree wall. At first glance, it looks like a big mouth with jagged teeth is tightly closed.

Immediately afterwards, a loud cry of thunder came from inside, the voice was a bit muffled, and then there was no movement.

Those of us who were waiting for Lei to be a pawn, were watching, but suddenly there was such a change, and we were all stunned.But in the next second, I immediately realized that we had been tricked, this is probably a man-eating tree!
Could it be that the dumb and Lu Su were also swallowed by the man-eating tree?
I just felt my heart twitch, and then, Xiaoyu shouted: "Quick, save people!" Then without a word, he dropped the gun, drew out the paratrooper knife from his waist, rushed to the closed sawtooth and stabbed fiercely.Every time it was poked, there was a burst of rotten flesh, and the rest of us hurriedly joined the rescue camp. As the paratrooper knives continued to destroy, the woman's voice sounded again, but this time the voice was not so ecstatic. Instead, it was accompanied by a sound similar to screaming.

Soon, the whole closed mouth was developed by us, and Xiao Yu scolded: "This time, let's see how you cannibalize people. I have heard before that there is a female ghost tree in Yunnan. Some voices, luring men over. I didn't expect to see them here."

I nodded, it seems that Heizi's guess is half right, there really are female ghosts, but it's just a female ghost tree.It is said that in the Amazon Basin, there is also a kind of beauty tree, whose body looks like a naked woman, can secrete a kind of fragrance, make people have various hallucinations, and be trapped alive beside the tree until death, the body rots, Turn it into nutrients for the growth of the beauty tree.Compared with the beauty tree, this kind of female ghost tree is much easier to deal with.

As Xiao Yu said, he rushed to the bottom of the tree hole and shouted: "Lei Zi, are you still there?"

There was no sound from below, Xiao Yu's face darkened, and he said: "Under the tree hole, it should be the digestive system of the female ghost tree. I'm afraid something unexpected happened. I'll go down and have a look."

As soon as I thought about the fact that the dumb had been missing for a day and a night, and now I was told what kind of digestive system was under the female ghost tree, my imagination became uncontrollable in an instant, and the clothes dumb and Lu Su were swallowed by the female ghost tree appeared in my mind, The scene of being digested with only rotten meat left is not to mention how uncomfortable it is for a while.Immediately, I took out the rope, buckled it around my waist, and said: "I'm going down, if there is any problem, just shake the rope, and you immediately pull me up."

Seeing that I was willing to take the lead, Xiao Yu naturally wouldn't stop me, so Dang even nodded in agreement.

After taking safety measures, I immediately got into this big mouth shaped like a tree hole, and went all the way down the 'throat' under the mouth.The throat is a bit deep, about three meters, so it can be seen that the part of the tree below the soil is buried very deep.Due to the curved structure of the 'throat', I couldn't see the bottom at a glance.However, the further I went down, the stronger the smell I smelled before, and I suddenly felt that my hands and feet were trembling and I couldn't control them.

Could this smell paralyze one's nerves?
I pinched it hard among my own people, and my whole body suddenly became more awake. After turning a corner, my eyes suddenly became clear, and the structure of the entire digestive system was presented in front of my eyes.With the help of the dim flashlight, I immediately saw Leizi who had disappeared just now. I saw that there was a round space like a stomach sac, and the ground was filled with a kind of dark green mucus, and Leizi was lying on it right now. In the mucus, although the eyes were open, the whole person was motionless.

I looked around, and suddenly saw a squatting person in the corner, that person hugged his knees in the corner, buried his head in his knees, although he couldn't see his face, he was not a dumb person in that attire Who is it again!
I was shocked, and I didn't care about Lei Zi, so I jumped down immediately, walked up to the mute, and shook him: "Wu Shui! Wu Shui!" He didn't respond to me. I shook his head and poked his head. His breath and pulse.At this time, I found that the mute was still alive, but his breathing was very weak, and there was some green mucus sticking to his body. When I touched him, the mucus touched my hand. In an instant, I felt that my hand was almost numb. up.

I immediately understood that this mucus is a very strong paralyzing substance.Fortunately, I jumped off the whole body instead of rolling down, so the only part that was in contact with the mucus was my feet, and I was wearing waterproof hiking boots. He wrapped his hands around his hands, then untied the rope, switched the mute to the rope, shook the rope, and shouted: "Pull up!"

Xiao Yu and others outside received the signal and immediately pulled the dumb up.I waited below, but felt that the longer I smelled this smell, the more numb my body would become, so when Xiao Yu and others let the rope down again, I didn't dare to delay any longer, holding Lei Zi, the two of them were pulled together go up.

As soon as I reached the ground, I froze, as if I had been given general anesthesia. When Xiao Yu asked me what was going on, my throat seemed to be blocked, and I couldn't speak at all.Fortunately, Xiao Yu was smart enough to see the green slime on our bodies and knew that it was related to this thing. He immediately took off his clothes and wiped the three of us from head to toe before carrying us to the camp.

During this process, the mute opened his eyes, glanced at me, and closed them again.I just felt as if my whole body was filled with lead, but my consciousness was very clear.When we arrived at the campsite by the river bank, Xiao Yu immediately threw the three of us to the river to wash, and said while washing, "Wash it clean, rest for a day, and the effect of the medicine will wear off." I thought of Lu Su at this moment, He wasn't in the female ghost tree, so where did he go?I looked at the mute, who was sitting in the river with his eyes closed, his face expressionless, and he let Xiaoyu make it clear to him.

After a while, the three of us were washed and stripped clean, and we were put into a tent to hold our corpses in a pair of underpants. It was already noon the next day.Both of us were weak, tired and hungry. When we could move, we got out of the tent and ate like crazy. We didn't feel alive until we were full.Heizi washed our clothes and dried them now. I changed my clothes and went in to see the mute. He woke up, but he still couldn’t move.

My heart skipped a beat, and I thought that this kid was usually so awesome and gave me a lot of embarrassment, but now the feng shui has changed.

Thinking of this, he went to the outside room to get a piece of barbecue, put it on Mute's mouth, and watched him swallow but not eat, his throat was drooling, and his stomach was still growling, not to mention how enjoyable it was.Due to the mute's current situation and Lu Su's absence, we can't leave for the time being. We think we'll ask him about the situation the night before when the mute recovers.

In the evening, the mute was finally able to speak and move, but the effect of the medicine may not have completely subsided, and he walked a little shaky and looked very weak.He grabbed the dried meat I put in during the day, staggered to the fire and sat down, with a blank expression, maintaining a slow pace, and slowly ate the cold piece of meat .

(End of this chapter)