Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 563 Ghost Soldiers
Zhuanrui looked at the relief sculpture quietly, thought for a moment, his voice was still lukewarm, and said: "I don't believe in the theory of Hell, even if there is, the ghost soldiers in the underworld, are they transferred at will by mortals? You carefully Take a look, the way these ghost soldiers fight and kill people, what do they look like?"

According to Zhuan Rui's words, I couldn't help but look carefully at the ghost soldiers in the relief. Suddenly, I felt a huge shock in my heart, and I lost my voice: "Zongzi!" What kind of ghost soldiers are these? There are three types. The first is to put your shoulders together, and then tear the person in half with a swing of your arms. This is the longest way for Zongzi to attack people. The second is to insert five fingers directly into the enemy's neck. It is a direct addiction to biting, and it seems that it is the most common attack method for corpse-filled rice dumplings.

In an instant, I realized that the so-called ghost soldiers were not 'borrowed' from the underworld at all, but a group of dead dumplings!And this Queen Baoxiang probably knows the secret technique of manipulating corpses, so she was able to use "ghost soldiers" to defeat the Han army thousands of years ago.

I was shocked, and said: "It seems that these are just rice dumplings. This Baoxiang queen knows how to manipulate corpses, and it probably has the same origin as Chen Tiande's corpse refinement." Zhuan Rui shook his head and said: " The art of refining corpses has always been strange, and Chen Tiande's is just one of them, this small Ailao is located in the dangerous mountains of Yunnan, and the art of witchcraft, gods and ghosts is prevalent, it is difficult to trace the origin of it."

I looked at the reliefs on the stone wall, and felt something was wrong. If these were zongzi, not ghost soldiers, then how did the legend about giant-eared elephants recruiting ghost soldiers come from?If the legend of giant ears recruiting ghost soldiers is false, then this elephant is just an ordinary elephant with deformed ears. Why would Queen Baoxiang spend all her power to build a mausoleum for it?

All of this suddenly became a huge mystery. At this moment, I suddenly felt that this tomb of the giant ear king might not be the tomb of an elephant at all. Does it hide some amazing secrets?So, Queen Baoxiang, why did you make up such a secret?What is she trying to hide?Puzhen also participated in this mountain-building project, so does Puzhen know the truth?What is the relationship between these two people?
If it wasn't for Zhuan Rui's reminder, I would have overlooked this extremely secret detail.

At this moment, firstly, Tofu gave me a big face change, and now it throws such a mist bomb, and my mind is also a little confused, messy, and I took a few deep breaths before forcing myself to calm down, and decided to go first. To find a way out, the problems have to be solved one by one. Now that I think about it, even if I want to break my head, there will be no results.The two of us turned our eyes away and continued to explore other locations of the stone chamber, knocking and tapping, but there was no clue at all.

At this moment, Wen Min seemed to have discovered the sound, he let out a snort, and said, "Come and see, what is this?"

I saw her squatting in the southwest corner, facing inward with a flashlight, with her back facing us, as if there was something in the corner.When everyone was called out by her, they gathered together and took a closer look, only to see five plum blossom-shaped holes in the corner of the wall. When they stretched out their hands, they could still feel a burst of noise coming from the small holes. A dark wind.

Because the hole is small, the dark wind is also imperceptible, and the wind comes in bursts, like waves, very regular.Wen Min said: "It seems that this is the ventilation hole. Tell me, where does it lead to?"

Zhong Gong said: "It must be leading to the outside of the mausoleum. We have entered the underground palace now. This is the entrance of the underground palace. It is not far from the outside, so we left such an air hole."

It was rare for Bai Zhanji to take the initiative to speak, and said, "I don't know what it is for leaving such a stone room."

Zhuan Rui said: "There are no traps in this stone room, and there are ventilation holes. It doesn't look like a murderer, but someone imprisoned."

Set up a dark room to imprison people under the Shinto?No matter what I think, I don't feel right.

Prisoner?
In the mausoleum, do people still need to be imprisoned?
At this time, Wen Min said: "I see, the tombstone outside the cave said that there are no treasures in the underground palace, but since the mountain was opened as a mausoleum, and the giant ear was buried according to the emperor's specifications, there must be sacrifices. This stone room will Could it be used for burial? I heard that there are living burials and dead burials, so maybe this is a living burial pit?"

In ancient times, most of the sacrificial burials were to kill people and buried them in the mausoleum. In the sacrificial burial, there were also living martyrs, who tied up the living people and threw them into the burial pit alive. Then the mausoleum was closed and left to starve to death. die.It is said that this kind of living sacrifice was not liked by the Han Dynasty, and most of them were used by some barbarians in ancient times.

It is said that the reason for this custom of burial is that some places pay attention to "crying spirit", that is, people who are locked in the mausoleum are hungry and cold, unable to escape, knowing that they will die, so they will cry bitterly, and there is crying in the mausoleum. It is the crying spirit, and the crying spirit is to express the love and love the tomb owner received during his lifetime, and the sound of crying can send the tomb owner's soul to heaven, so in some barbaric places, there is this peculiar custom of burial.

Wen Min believes that there are no organs in this place, but there are air holes, and it is probably prepared for the "crying spirit" to be martyred alive.

Zhuanrui nodded slightly when he heard the words, and said, "Xiao Ailao is located in Yunnan, which was a wild place in ancient times. It is possible. But..." He gestured around and said, "There are no bones here, and we Now it is located on the Shinto, according to the specifications of the mausoleum, the burial pit is after the Shinto, not only is the location wrong, but the size of the burial chamber is too small."

For a while, everyone couldn't explain why. Wen Min shook her head and said: "With this air hole, we don't have to worry about lack of oxygen. There are enough food and water sources, and we can last for four days." , our supplies have been calculated.

Zhong Gong gave a thumbs up appreciatively, and said: "As expected of a policeman, Officer Gu, let's discuss it. Can we not be so strict in the future, and be more accommodating." Wen Min smiled slightly, stretched out his hand in a gesture of shooting, and said: "no."

Seeing Wen Min's sly expression, I couldn't help but smile, feeling better in my heart.At this moment, we have figured out the entire stone room, without any mechanism or secret passage, everyone was a little discouraged, and Bai Zhanji even scolded Tofu bloody.

Wen Min and I looked at each other and smiled wryly. We didn’t know what to do for a while, and we tossed about for another two hours unwillingly. Everyone seemed a little anxious. The man named Shen Hao had no patience, and said, “Why don’t we just blow it up? That kid doesn’t know when he will be able to come back, if something happens to him and he can’t come back, wouldn’t we be trapped to death?”

Although this person's words are not pleasant to hear, they are true. Although Tofu knows the mechanism here, firstly, he is not skilled enough. Secondly, it is unknown how much Tofu knows about this place. Therefore, whether he can come back safely , No one dares to guarantee the ticket, so if we want to leave here, it is absolutely impossible to put the treasure on the tofu, we can only rely on ourselves.

After Shen Hao finished speaking, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Is it really necessary to use explosives?

What if you were buried alive?
Wen Min frowned and said, "It's too dangerous to use explosives. You can't take such a risk until the last moment. I think it's better to wait. Maybe Xiaodou will really succeed? I think we underestimated him before, but now Now, shouldn't I look at it differently?" Wen Min's words made me fall into silence for a moment, and my heart turned over and over again, as if this was the only way to go, so I could only sigh in my heart, and said in my heart: Tofu, tofu, what do you want? To prove what?Our life is in your hands, I hope you can be more confident, otherwise, we people can only risk our lives.

Next, everyone can only fall into waiting. Sometimes when they can't bear it anymore, they will touch the stone room again in vain, but it still doesn't work. Wen Min and I sit together, chatting about the topic It's nothing more than Shixian and Tofu, chatting and feeling sleepy, just about to take a nap, suddenly, there was a bang above our heads, as if something was exploding, it shocked everyone's ears Numb, how can I sleep, I just feel that the soul is startled out.

Wen Min and I stood up immediately, and Bai Zhanji said, "What's going on?"

Zhong Gong said: "It seems that something happened up there." As soon as the words fell, there was another bang, as if explosives exploded, shaking the floor tiles under our feet, and everyone huddled in this not-so-big airtight place In the space, there was a feeling that the stone chamber was about to collapse, not to mention how horrifying it was.

The sound was too loud, reverberating in this small space, causing pain in the eardrums, everyone couldn't help covering their ears, and gathered together, like a group of frightened animals, in a panic.

The sound came one after another, four or five times. Everyone was experienced and immediately realized that someone was using explosives.

Could it be that tofu is back?

This idea just flashed through my mind, suddenly, the sound stopped, and the surrounding was restored to silence, but after this one time, everyone felt numb in their ears and hearts, lost their hearing for a while, and could not hear other sounds for a while, so they had to hurry to Rub your ears.Generally, this kind of temporary deafness can be temporarily relieved by rubbing the ears and massaging the acupuncture points behind the ears. I felt my hearing gradually recover within half a minute after pressing the ears.At this time, I suddenly heard a vague voice from above. Since my hearing has not fully recovered, I couldn't recognize whose voice it was, let alone what it was saying, but in a hurry, I hurriedly spoke out. Shouted: "Who is it!"

(End of this chapter)