Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 555
The four of us hung on the cliff with ropes, looked down at the densely packed fishes on the water surface, and felt that these fishes looked weird. Their heads were covered with a layer of carapace-like protrusions, and their mouths showed sharp fangs. They looked ugly. Unbearable.

Wen Min was a little surprised, and said in a low voice, "What kind of fish is this, how did it grow like this?" Zhong Gong hissed, and said, "I haven't seen it before, but, looking at their teeth, I'm afraid they can eat people."

I cursed in my heart, how come there are some people-eating things growing in this place.

But at this moment, our arrival obviously attracted the attention of these fishes, and they gathered around us for a while, crowded together at our feet, bouncing and jumping out of the water, obviously wanting to bite us.

Now I am at the bottom of the rope. The jumping ability of these fish is astonishing. Each jump is more than two meters high. Wouldn't it just fall into the water of the lake?Could these piranhas have given him...

I hurriedly asked Fatty Li: "You said you were swept away, what happened?"

Unexpectedly, before Fatty Li could reply, there was a sudden movement in the lake. The fish that had surrounded our feet started to disperse again, but they jumped towards the surface of the water even harder.If it was said that they jumped more than two meters before, now some of them can even jump four or five meters. For a while, the water in the lake splashed everywhere, and the sound of splashing water was endless.

Wen Min asked in astonishment: "What's wrong with them?" But at this moment, Fatty Li seemed to know something, and suddenly said in a broken voice: "Here we come."

His voice was low and hoarse, intermittent, like a drum leaking through the wind.While speaking, he saw some dark shadows suddenly appearing in the white mist in the distance.When everyone saw it, they couldn't help being shocked, it was the strange birds that attacked us before.

I was just wondering why I didn't see them when I came down, but I didn't expect them to pop up in a blink of an eye.

However, this time, these strange birds did not attack us. Their figures shuttled through the white mist like lightning, and they picked up a strange fish wherever they went. Only then did I understand that these birds were hunting , it seems that when no one eats them, they live by eating fish in the lake.

Zhong Gong couldn't help but wondered: "These fish are really weird. When the natural enemies come, they don't hide in the water, but jump to the surface instead. Isn't this being delivered to someone for lunch?"

We were also very puzzled, but we didn't dare to discuss it for too long, for fear of attracting the attention of those strange birds.

Soon, Zhong Gong's doubts were explained, and more and more strange birds flew over to hunt, but at the same time, the moment those piranhas jumped up, they would also open their mouths to bite the flying strange birds , For a while, there was a fish and bird battle on the lake, and the scene of eating each other.

The crowd watched with horror, but they didn't dare to make a sound. They hung on the cliff and didn't dare to move. After a long time, they only felt that the muscles in their hands began to tremble. Feed the fish.

Zhong Gong lowered his voice very low, and asked Fatty Li: "Where did they go?"

Fatty Li immediately talked about what happened afterwards intermittently.

It turned out that those strange birds suddenly attacked on the iron chain. The situation was too urgent, so Bai Zhanji asked Fatty Li to save him quickly.Fatty Li is Bai Zhanji's messenger, so he is under his control, so he naturally obeys his words.Due to Tofu's lack of physical strength, he moved slowly on the iron chain, so when the incident happened, he was extremely close to Fatty Li.

Probably because those strange birds don't eat rotting corpses, and Fatty Li smells like corpses, so they don't attack Fatty Li.Seeing this opportunity, Tofu immediately hugged Fatty Li, refusing to let go, and shouted, "Help me, save me."

That white chicken is old and frail, how can it stand against the attack of the strange bird, if it is too late to save it, it will die.Fatty Li didn't have time to care about the tofu for a while, so he let him hold it. Instead, he held the white chicken in one hand and climbed the rope with the other. He was like a spiderman, walking quickly with his legs on the iron chain.

Fatty Li's original intention was to take the two of them to the cave to avoid danger, but when he reached the end of the iron chain, he suddenly felt a great attraction coming up from the cliff.This is an inexplicable power, as if something is calling, Fatty Li couldn't help but look down, and saw the white mist under the cliff, and at some point, it turned into black Yin Qi!

Fatty Li was originally a messenger, and the gloom had a natural attraction to him, so at that moment, Fatty Li lost his mind, and the strength of his subordinates relaxed.His loosening was terrible, Tofu and Bai Zhanji fell into the abyss before they could even scream.

When I heard this, I thought to myself, the bottom of the cliff is obviously shrouded in white mist, how could Fatty Li see a cloud of black mist?Could it be that the black mist is what he called Yin Qi? I heard that the living cannot see Yin Qi. If what Fatty Li said is true, it means that there were many dead people at the bottom of the cliff, otherwise there would be so many Yin Qi. Bad luck.

Fatty Li was fascinated by this yin energy for a moment before he realized that he had loosened the chicken and tofu. He was horrified and quickly chased after him.

The speed of the messenger was very fast, and he reached the bottom of the cliff in an instant, only to find that the tofu and white chicken were struggling in the lake water.

Tofu yelled in the lake, shouting for help, while Bai Zhanji was half unconscious, presumably because he was exhaling more and breathing less.

It stands to reason that Fatty Li should go to the lake to save people at this time, but he didn't.

He just felt that there was a strange force in the lake that made him feel frightened, and this kind of fear made him hesitate.

Under the attack of the strange fish, both the tofu and the white chicken were injured, and the lake water was red.

Although the tofu's mouth was not the same as the white chicken, but there was an accident, but he couldn't bear to ignore it. I saw that he was copying the white chicken that was about to pass out with one hand, and brandishing the dagger with the other hand to fend off those strange fish. The water surface was scarlet. One piece, I don't know if it is fish blood or human blood.

At this moment, the smell of blood attracted the strange bird in the distance. For a while, the strange bird came over like a black cloud, and Fatty Li couldn't see anything clearly for a moment.When the schools of fish have dispersed and the birds return to their nests, where are the shadows of tofu and boiled chicken in the lake?

But Fatty Li knows that they are not dead, because the messenger can feel the master's life and death. According to Fatty Li's induction, Bai Zhanji is still at the bottom of the lake, and the strange thing is that he is still alive. There is something secretly, since Bai Zhanji is still alive, then Tofu must be alive too, they are probably hiding under the water.

Knowing that the tofu was fine, I breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, those strange birds and fish were still fighting, and no one dared to make too much noise.At this moment, my whole body was almost wet by the splashing water. The fish-and-bird battle lasted for more than 20 minutes before everything calmed down.

Probably because these strange birds were full, so they didn't attack us this time. After a while, they dispersed one after another, and almost all the fish on the lake disappeared. I don't know whether they were eaten by these strange birds, or they dived into the bottom of the water.

At this time, the surface of the lake was calm, and the deep lake water was emerald green. How could we still see the previous intense scene.

The few of us have been hanging on the cliff for so long, and our muscles are trembling and we are almost exhausted.

Only then did Wen Min dare to ask Fatty Li loudly, "What kind of power did you just say about the power in the lake?"

Fatty Li's voice was hoarse and his face was terrifying. At this time, we couldn't see his expression clearly, but we only heard him say: "I don't know, it's a kind of power with a lot of yang energy, a very righteous power."

The few of us were a little confused by what he said, what is the power of justice?
Fatty Li couldn't explain why, he looked a little anxious, and finally said: "I can't explain it, but it must exist. I can be sure that there must be something terrible in this lake. The closer you get to it, The faster my body rots."

Everyone looked at each other, but they didn't feel anything special. Could it be that the things in the lake are the nemesis of evil things like Fatty Li?
Zhong Gong heard the words, and suddenly said: "Then what are you talking about Yin Qi?"

Fatty Li pointed to the opposite side of the lake, where it was covered in white, and he couldn't see anything clearly, but he said, "It's right there. It's very cloudy, and there's a black mist, can't you see it?"

I thought to myself, we are all living people, how can we see such things as Yin Qi.However, what he said is strange. There are things with strong yang energy in the lake, but the opposite side of the lake is very yin energy. Don't they all say that yin and yang are mutually restraining?Why do these two things exist in one place?
Fatty Li didn't explain why, Zhuan Rui said: "It seems that these strange fish, strange birds, as well as the things in this lake and the yin energy on the other side of the lake are all controlled by humans. If we want to know the reason, we Just go to the lake and have a look."

When he said this, I realized that it was useless to discuss these things now, and it was more important to save people first.

It's just that although the number of piranhas in this lake has decreased a lot, not all of them have disappeared. If we continue like this, I'm afraid we will suffer a lot. If we can't be rescued, we will probably be gnawed into bones.I asked Fatty Li if he could sense the specific location of Tofu.

Fatty Li pointed to our feet, and said that about 300 meters ahead, Tofu and the others were there.

I reckon that the two of Tofu should be seriously injured, otherwise they wouldn't have been hiding at the bottom of the lake, and I don't know what's the secret behind the lake.

Corpse Fairy, Corpse Fairy, when you were alive, you did all the tricks, but you made those of us who come later suffer.

(End of this chapter)