Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 572
Many people know that lighting sky lanterns is an ancient punishment, but few people know how to light human lanterns.To light a sky lantern is to wrap a living person in an oily cotton cloth, put them in an iron pillar as thick as a person, and then start lighting the fire from the heels. The flames will not engulf the whole body at once, but slowly go up along the feet. Burning, people who are lit with sky lanterns are just burned to death alive. If you are lucky, you can die directly from shock pain. If you are unlucky, you can’t die all the time. Only then will people be completely burned to death, not to mention how terrifying.

The principle of lighting human lamps is similar, but it is not a punishment, but a very evil thing.In the early years, there was no electricity, and the population was sparsely distributed. When the country people rushed to the market, they often went out in the morning and returned home in the evening, so they often walked at night.

As the saying goes, if you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts, especially places with old cemeteries or mass graves, which are even more evil. Once you pass through these places, if you encounter some weird things , For example, ghosts hit walls, ghosts cover eyes, or a companion is passed by ghosts, etc. Most people don't know how to deal with it, so what should they do?

There is a way.

In the mass graves, there are mostly dead bones or fresh corpses, covered only with a thin layer of soil, and those who are brave will take out the corpses, tear off their arms and set fire to them as a lamp for human beings.Illuminated by human lamps, the hostility is very strong. As the saying goes, ghosts are afraid of evil people.However, the lighting of human lamps generally only occurs in troubled times. Chinese people have always feared the dead and believed in ghosts and gods. Most people do not have the courage to disrespect corpses. These appalling things.

The most recent talk about lighting human lamps was already in the period of the Anti-Japanese War.

The meaning of the mute's words is obvious, it is necessary to use the dead electricity to light the lamp.

Lei Zi said angrily: "Light your mother's human lamp, believe it or not, I will jump on you now, I will quit this job!" As he said that, he was about to raise his gun, but fortunately, Xiao Yu at the side stopped him and let him Do not impulse.Immediately afterwards, Xiaoyu said to the mute: "Mr. Wu, our brothers all live and eat under the hands of the third master. Brothers obey the order of the third master and follow you. I respect you as a character. But today, No one wants to touch my brother's body!"

Wen Min quickly smoothed things over, saying: "The matter has not reached this point, everyone, don't be so tense." After saying this, she pointed to the three-meter-high road in the middle of the sacrificial pit, and said: "There are no more things on it. Well, maybe the ghost hit the wall has dispersed, how about we see if we can go out first, and then make plans?"

These words are also reasonable, but the mute did not know what medicine he had taken, and turned a blind eye to Wen Min's words, and said coldly: "Light on the lamp, don't let me say it a second time." Thoroughly enraged, Xiao Yu didn't stop him this time, Lei Zi raised his gun and was about to hit him, who knew he was fast, but the mute was faster than him, everyone felt that the mute was short and had already rushed to Lei Zi, slashing his hands and grabbing him. After passing the gun in Lei Zi's hand, he flipped his wrist, and the black muzzle pointed at Lei Zi's forehead.

The accident happened too fast, before everyone could react, the mute had already subdued Lei Zi.No matter how you look at this scene, you are dumb and unreasonable, and you are bullying others with your own ability, but then again, in a fight, the weak will prey on the strong, and it is too common to eat gangsters.

The atmosphere was silent for a while, Zhuan Rui and I looked at each other, shook his head slightly at me, and signaled me to leave this matter alone and let them solve it by themselves.I hesitated in my heart, although reason told me that I really shouldn't interfere in this matter, but seeing the behavior of the mute, I felt very uncomfortable, as if it was the statement that was doing the evil.

Do I have to make a statement?
According to me, Wen Min's proposal just now is the most reasonable. The matter has not reached a certain stage, and we have no need to attack Dian's corpse.Unexpectedly, as soon as this thought came to mind, the mute suddenly clicked his tongue, as if he was extremely impatient, and the gun was sent forward, causing Lei Zi's head to lean back, and said coldly to the crowd: "Hurry up, don't waste time, or you will bear the consequences."

Which is more important, the dead or the living?
Of course, living people are important.

The moment the mute was loaded, Xiao Yu immediately said: "Wait, click, click!" He gave the mute a fierce look, pulled out the dagger, and squatted in front of the corpse, the hand holding the dagger was trembling.The mute has been watching all this coldly. When our eyes met, I felt so uncomfortable.

Perhaps for the mute, there is nothing more important than the truth he pursues, and no one can stop it.

In the end, Xiao Yu gritted his teeth and was about to strike, and when he cut off an arm of the corpse, a gust of wind blew up in the burial pit shrouded in dark mist.The gust of wind was so cold and cold that it made people get goosebumps instantly.

How can there be wind in this airtight mountainside?
Everyone couldn't help turning their heads to the direction of the wind blowing, and Xiao Yu stopped chopping the corpse.

And at this moment, we saw a figure floating in the black mist.

To be precise, there should be ghosts in this place except us, it should be a ghost.But this ghost image is different from what we have seen before. It is very thin and long, like a drawn person, with long hair hanging loose, leaving us with only a back view. The most disturbing thing is , it is also wearing a big red robe.

As we all know, red clothes are evil, laughing corpses are evil, soft rice dumplings in red clothes and laughing ghosts are the highest and most vicious.

The mute suddenly said: "No, it's late."

late?

Could it be that he knew from the very beginning that there was another red-clothed rice dumpling here?
At this time, a burst of laughter suddenly resounded in the entire burial pit, and then, the red-clothed rice dumpling turned around slowly, and the back of its slender body was full of human faces!Faces that are constantly changing, sometimes male and sometimes female!

Among those faces, I suddenly saw a familiar face.

It's the electricity that just died and the body is still around us.

This burst of laughter was piercing and sharp, as if it was ringing right next to people's ears, it made people's ears go numb and goosebumps arose.The moment the red-clothed zongzi turned around, it rushed towards it suddenly.The speed was unbelievably fast, there was almost no time for everyone to react, and what frightened me the most was that it actually rushed straight at Wen Min who was next to me!

Women are yin, and compared to men, they are more likely to be targeted by these dirty things. I only saw a red shadow flash past, and Wen Min on the side suddenly let out a muffled snort. Immediately afterwards, Yin Feng and the laughter stopped up.

I looked at Wen Min suddenly, only to see that she was staring at us with a strange smile on her face.

I never thought that there was such a smile on Wen Min's face, evil, vicious, and weird.

The mute said coldly: "I've been turned around." Then, he retracted the gun aimed at Lei Zi, and threw it back to Lei Zi, while he drew out the pair of black scimitars at his waist.Lei Zi and the others naturally didn't have the heart to worry about the mute at the moment, and everyone stared at Wen Min as if facing a formidable enemy.

"Wen Min." I couldn't help calling her, Wen Min heard the voice, and focused her eyes on me, and then, she walked towards me step by step, step by step.That walking posture was not as clean and tidy as usual. Instead, he twisted his waist and swayed his hips to match the weird smile on his face, which made his scalp tingle.

I was worried about Wen Min's situation, and I was startled and angry, afraid that something would happen to Wen Min, so I said angrily: "No matter what you are, leave her immediately!" Of course she would not listen to me, and continued to walk over step by step, while we slowly backed away .No one knows what to do, according to the method of inverting, if a ghost passes by, you can poke the heart and the opponent's celestial cover with a buffalo horn. Of course, there is another way, that is to bite or the tip of the tongue to get the blood to the opponent face to go.

At this time, Zhuan Rui immediately threw the buffalo horn at his waist to me and said, "Use this!"

As soon as I caught it, that Wenmin's eyes moved to the buffalo horn in my hand, and then he started giggling, and the laughter became like a tweeter within a few seconds, I really doubt it , if it is pronounced with Wen Min's voice, then Wen Min's voice must have been injured.At this moment when I couldn't help but cover my ears, I felt a pain in my palm, and when I looked sideways, the buffalo horn that Zhuanrui gave me exploded, cracking my tiger's mouth. A piercing throbbing pain swept through.

I suddenly felt as if my whole body was struck by lightning, and the rest of the people also changed color. I have encountered a lot of soft rice dumplings, but it is definitely the first one that is so powerful. The horn of the buffalo turned into a pile of pieces in just a few seconds.

Wen Min continued to walk, and everyone retreated step by step.

No one knows what will happen next.Whether it is a ghost hitting the wall or a ghost on the body, this is not the first time we have met, but this place has been changed by the corpse fairy, and it has become too evil, and all methods have failed.

I thought of the changing face on the red-clothed soft zongzi just now, and I couldn't help guessing: Could it be that the zongzi in the sacrificial pit gathered together?That's why it has such great power?From the looks of it, the mute seemed to have expected it, otherwise it wouldn't have been too late.

In an emergency, I can only turn to the mute, hoping that he can come up with a solution.

The mute met my gaze, and suddenly said: "Light up the human lamp, you go, I will stop her."

At this moment, Wen Min tilted her head, her smile became even weirder, her lips didn't move, but I heard a voice next to my ear: Don't think about it.The voice seemed to be the voices of countless men and women at the same time, and it seemed indistinguishable. As soon as the voice fell, a layer of white hair began to appear on the dead body beside him.

The corpse has changed.

A dead body becomes a zongzi, how can a zongzi light a human lamp?
(End of this chapter)