Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 562 Stone Room
At this moment, I survived a desperate situation, and my head was still in chaos. After Zhuan Rui finished speaking, Tofu seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then he glanced at the passage in front of him. just run.

"Damn it!" I couldn't help scolding my mother, and quickly followed without saying a word. Tofu was injured, and his speed was not as fast as mine. After running a few steps, I was caught and pushed to the ground, and so was I. Angry, he slapped him on the head and said, "Let you run away and see how I deal with you today."

Tofu wailed: "Don't hit me, don't hit me, I'm still smart, if I fight again, I'll become a fool."

I pulled him up, grabbed him by the collar, didn't let go, and said, "I'm leaving my words here today, don't try to fool around, what's going on? Why do you know the mechanism here! what's going on?"

Tofu swallowed his saliva, he seemed frightened by me, and said, "First, let me go first, let me think about it."

I said, "What if you let go and run?"

Tofu said with a bitter face: "I can't even run against you, let go, let go, I say it's okay?" Seeing that he was about to confess, I let go of my hand. The kid ran away again, and I was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and I continued to chase without saying a word, but after two steps, I suddenly felt a shock from the ground, and before I had time to react, I fell down from the ground. The people who followed me were not spared either. In an instant, we all stepped on the ground, and in the next moment, we fell to the ground, crying for our father and mother.

When I fell down, I knew I had stepped on a mechanism, but Tofu ran ahead of me, why was he all right?Damn it, is it this kid's trick again?Grandma, don't get caught by me, or I'll let you eat instant noodles for a year without seasoning packets!
Everyone wailed and fell to the ground, and the flashlight also fell to the side. The surrounding area was completely dark, and the light was extremely dim. After picking up the flashlight and readjusting the aperture, the light became brighter.Only then did everyone realize that the place where we are now is a sealed stone room with an area of ​​about 30 square meters. There are some reliefs carved on the walls of the stone room. It doesn't look like it was used to kill people.

Everyone immediately looked up, only to find that the top of the head was a block of large square bricks, and the tunnel above our head was obviously camouflaged, and now it fell down, and the hidden compartment above it was immediately closed.At this moment, Tofu's voice came in dully through the floor tiles, and he said: "You guys stay here and leave the rest to me."

What do you mean leave the rest to him?

I yelled: "Dou Bozhi! You fucking turn on the mechanism!"

Tofu said: "Old Chen, why did you keep forcing me! Some things, I don't know myself, I have to go to confirm. You stay here, and I will let you out after I confirm. Don't worry, curse I remember what happened, and it must be done properly!"

Zhong Gong was also angry, and said: "Your sister, let us out!"

After a while, Tofu said, "I don't have a sister..."

Not to mention how depressed I was, I said, "Okay, I won't force you, can you let us out first? Is there anything we can discuss?"

Tofu said: "No, no! If you don't force me, you will beat me!"

I thought to myself when did this kid become smart, and now I really can't scare him anymore, so I said, "I promise I won't beat you up, okay?" It was dispatched, but there was no response.

Finally, Wen Min sighed, shook his head and said, "It should be gone."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Bai Zhanji fell and wailed endlessly, saying: Don't be afraid of enemies like wolves, but teammates like pigs.Originally partnered with Lu Su, okay, but why did he end up with our unreliable gang.

Zhong Gong said: "Brother Zhao, you have it. Whoever wants to take an old man with him in the fight, it's good that we can take you. You can be content."

Zhuan Rui and I looked at each other, speechless.In fact, Zhuanrui is a man who is cold outside and hot inside, and he is very righteous. He usually tosses tofu a lot on the surface, but since Yao Fang and his party, he also regards tofu as his brother, otherwise he would not bring people to Juer Breaking through the king's tomb, now that we are trapped is the second thing, the most important thing is that neither of us can figure out why the brother who thought he could see clearly suddenly changed his face suddenly.

What kind of tricks did that damn corpse fairy do?
I thought about it, but I couldn't figure out the entanglement for a long time. Wen Min suddenly said: "It seems that Xiaodou has left. He is alone. Although he knows the mechanism here, he is not good at it. I always feel that something will happen. Let's Hurry up and find a way to get out."

Zhong Gong looked up at the place where we landed, and said, "I'll go up and have a look." Immediately afterwards, he, Shen Hao, and another man named Han Zhonghua built a personal ladder, with Zhong Gong at the top, trying to I tried to push the floor tiles on it, but it didn't move at all, and there was no response.

Zhong Gong hissed, took out the chisel, and said: "A stone brick seems to stop us, wait, I will break this thing open." After finishing speaking, he began to chisel the big floor brick above our heads, but did not chisel twice , he suddenly let out a cry of surprise, then scolded his mother, and said, "Egg cake wall!"

The so-called "egg cake wall" is jargon, referring to a lost craft, in the casting process of the floor tiles, a unique formula is added to make the whole floor tiles as hard as iron, even tighter than iron, this This kind of craft was lost after the Han Dynasty. Only one of the recipes is said to be egg white. Therefore, this kind of floor tiles is jokingly called egg cake wall, which is very troublesome to encounter.

Ordinary bricks and stones can be loaded with explosives if you are in a hurry, but the structure of the egg cake wall is one-piece and cannot be blasted unilaterally. If the east wall is blown up, the rest of the walls, including the Baoding, will collapse. When encountering such a wall, if you want to There is only one way to leave: pour vinegar.

But the question is, where can we find vinegar right now?
It is said that when the Great Wall was built, the clay used between the wall bricks was the embryonic form of this formula, which made the Great Wall still stand today. This formula was modified by others to form this unique tomb brick. It only appears in the tombs of the Qin and Han Dynasties.The dynasty of the tomb of King Juer happened to be in the middle of the Han Dynasty, and Puzhen, a strange man who traveled all over the world, even used egg cake walls in the tomb. In the eyes of knowledgeable people, the entire tomb of King Juer is made of steel and iron, which is really tricky.

When everyone discovered this, they couldn't help but feel discouraged. Do we really have to be trapped here until the tofu releases us?
Shen Hao murmured: "This place is so dangerous, if something happens to that kid and he dies and won't be able to come back, don't we have to..." He looked around at the crowd as he spoke, and then Bai Zhanji answered: "Hmph, you can't rely on others. There must be a reason why there is an extra stone room here for no reason. I think it's better to find out if there are other institutions." His words reminded me, and I flicked the flashlight around After looking around, he said, "There must be other exits from this place."

Zhuan Rui asked, "How do you see that?"

I pointed around, and then spoke out my speculation.This place is only [-] square meters, and it has been closed all the time. It stands to reason that the air quality will be very poor, but the air quality here is not the case, and a total of eight of us fell. It's been an hour, has anyone ever felt stuffy?

Everyone shook their heads and immediately understood that the only reason was: there must be ventilation holes in this place, or some hidden ventilation equipment.

Immediately, we began to search this stone room carefully, and I was immediately attracted by the reliefs on it. The content on the reliefs made me feel strange and familiar at the same time.Engraved on it is a scene of a queen riding a large emblem with a floppy ear.

In the notes my grandfather placed in the basement, it was also recorded that a similar scene was engraved in the vertical burial tomb of Queen Baoxiang. Therefore, although it was the first time I saw it, I did not feel it was unfamiliar.Just like what grandpa described, the scene on the relief is very imaginative.The beautiful face of the treasure elephant queen came alive. She was holding a sword in one hand and a big bowl in the other. A puff of black smoke came out of the bowl, and the ears of the giant-eared elephant under her were stuck to the ground.

As the relief went down, a strange scene appeared. I saw that as the queen of the elephant elephant chanted the spell, the ears of the elephant trembled, and countless ghost soldiers emerged from the ground, killing the Han army. , Everyone has a look of horror and fear on their faces, and the ghost army is extremely cruel, without weapons in their hands, but they can tear people in half alive.

At this time, a voice suddenly came from behind me, saying: "This is the Queen Baoxiang you mentioned?"Zhuan Rui said, "Is she using this elephant to recruit ghost soldiers?"

I said: "Maybe it is...but the big bowl in her hand is very strange, I don't know what it is used for." Grandpa had taken out a big bowl that was exactly the same from the tomb of Queen Baoxiang. Aside from finding an unknown map from the mud seal, there was nothing unusual about the big bowl.

At this moment, Zhuan Rui suddenly said, "I don't think these are ghost soldiers."

I was a little surprised by his sudden opinion, and said, "It's not a ghost soldier? Then what do you think it is?"

(End of this chapter)