Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 578 Fire

The blaze brightened up, instantly turning everyone's faces orange. We have been traveling underground for a long time, and our eyes have adapted to the obscure light. At this moment, the raging fire suddenly ignited, illuminating the surroundings. It is so transparent that we are not used to it.

I couldn't help squinting my eyes to adapt to the strong light.

And at the moment when the flames lit up, the girl on the ground, as if she had received some order, retreated in unison, followed the stone pillars, and quickly disappeared, and the entire tomb was just like when she came. , became empty, and the only trace left was the scorched corpse that was eaten and left with only crumbs, and some black rotten meat was sprinkled.

Panting heavily, everyone looked up at the four lamps hanging in the center of the tomb.They gathered in one place, with a circular arc bottom, like four large iron pots, each iron pot was hung by four finger-thick iron chains, and I don't know what kind of lamp oil was put in it, and the fire was very hot.

Zhong Gong asked in surprise: "Why did this burn by itself?" He said, looking at the mute.Obviously, it was because the mute had activated some mechanism that these four fires would spontaneously ignite.The dumb expression didn't relax, on the contrary, he glanced at the four 'chandeliers', and frowned instead, as if he noticed something bad.

Everyone knew the ability of the mute, and seeing his expression, they couldn't help but feel a little terrified.

Shen Hao said: "Those girls are afraid of fire, now we are safe for the time being, master, what shall we do next?" He looked at Zhuan Rui, it was obvious that the mute had woken up, and it was time to make a decision.Zhuan Rui looked at me, indicating that I should give an explanation.

I took a deep breath and saw that the mute's pale face was covered with sweat. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I helped him to sit down and said, "Why did you suddenly leave us and break into this place? How could you Injured so badly?"

The mute sat cross-legged on the ground, and said coldly, "It's pointless to ask these questions now."

I was a little annoyed. If I didn't see him as a wounded patient, I really wanted to beat him up. I suppressed the increasingly irritable emotions in my heart, and I said, "Then what's the point?" The mute looked at me with dark eyes, Finally, he pointed to the four chandeliers in the center of the tomb and said, "This is not the correct password."

As soon as we said this, we didn't react yet, but Feng Guishou's face showed a surprised expression, and then he squatted down, looked straight at the mute, and said, "That's behind the cross mark, it's correct. , or wrong?"

I understand why Feng Guishou was so surprised, and why he asked this question.There is only one correct password for the Eighteen-Aperture Combination Technique, and any incorrect combination represents danger.In desperation, the mute probably touched a certain combination blindly, which caused the four 'chandeliers' to ignite and spontaneously ignite.But the dumb man said that this combination is wrong, and what follows must be accompanied by danger.

I looked around, and there was no change for the time being.

Only the fire was still burning fiercely.

The orange-yellow and warm flames, after the mute uttered these words, made people feel a little bit of coolness.

After Feng Guishou asked, the corner of the mute's mouth suddenly twitched, as if he didn't want to answer the question, but strangely, he then said: "It's also wrong." I suddenly felt that something was wrong. If he doesn't want to say something, he won't speak directly.But now, the mute's subtle expression just now was obviously tangled, and I was secretly shocked, because based on my understanding of the mute, I suspected that he was lying.

This is a very contradictory question, because in my image, the mute is an arrogant person who doesn't even bother to tell lies.What could make him lie?
This is just my speculation, and there are too many people, I don't want to question him now, so I asked the mute: "What are your plans now?"

The corners of the mute's mouth were pursed into a straight line, and the dancing flames reflected in his pale face and bright black eyes.He stared straight at the four fires, and finally said, "Get out of here."

I said, "Aren't you going to investigate the truth?"

The mute glanced at me and said, "Who am I? This question is not important anymore." As he spoke, he stood up strongly, as if he was about to leave.Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden crash in the tomb, and then, the four big chafing pots hanging in the center of the tomb suddenly sank, as if the iron chains could not support their weight, and went down. It slid down a bit, but it didn't fall directly to the bottom, just hanging wobbly like this.

At this time, from the top of the tomb's treasure roof, some sand-like things began to slide down, which seemed to be the slackness of the iron chain, destroying the structure of the tomb.Everyone knew that there was a change, and they all became vigilant. Their eyes were fixed on the top of the tomb. The cracks in the floor tiles above were obviously loose, and sand grains kept sliding down from the cracks.

I said: "We can't stay in this place anymore, let's quickly..." Before the words finished, they heard a bang, and everyone looked back along the place where the sound came from, only to see that the stone door was suddenly closed.

"Damn it." Shen Hao said, "It looks like it's going to kill us, what should we do!"

We don't yet know what's going to happen next, but experience tells us it won't be good.

At this time, the mute calmly uttered a word: "Explosion." After he finished speaking, he added a rare sentence, saying: "Go quickly." Only then did the people react, and immediately walked towards the tomb door.Wen Min is now able to move on his own, I supported the mute, Shen Hao carried Zhong Hua on his back, we naturally fell behind.Zhuan Rui, Zhong Gong and Feng Guishou ran ahead, and soon reached the tomb gate.

Unexpectedly, Zhong Gong let out a strange cry, stepped back abruptly, and said, "Damn it!" Zhong Gong was with a well-bred person like Zhuan Rui, and rarely heard him swearing. I was shocked by this swearing. Ask what's going on.

Zhong Gong didn't answer me, but Zhuan Rui said with a serious face: "That red-clothed zongzi, stand outside!"

The stone door is not tightly sealed, there is a thin slit in the middle, under normal circumstances, when the tomb door is closed, something like cinnabar will be filled in the slit.The door of the tomb was opened, and the cinnabar disappeared naturally, so the situation outside could be seen through the crack of the door.

Now that I have reached the door of the tomb, I was startled when I heard the words, so I moved closer to look at the crack of the door, and when I saw it, it was all red, and the only thing that wasn't red was a sheet that looked like it had been powdered with white powder. His face, with a big mouth like a crescent moon, grinned all the way to the back of his mouth, and he was looking at us through this crack.

I was taken aback, and thought what to do, blasting open the door of the tomb, and going out would be a game over.The red-clothed zongzi suddenly disappeared for unknown reasons, and the whistle-like sound came from nowhere.At this moment, it appeared strangely again, blocking the outside.

This thing is extremely powerful, the horn of the buffalo was immediately cracked by it, and Wen Min's vitality was also seriously injured after being passed by it once. There are too many injuries in our team, and there is really no way to deal with this red-clothed rice dumpling.

Everyone couldn't help but fell silent, looking at each other with horror on their faces.

This time, the mute stopped talking, stared at Shimen with dark eyes, and then looked behind him.At this moment, there are more and more sand-like things, and they spread among the floor tiles. More and more floor tiles appear to be loose, but the strange thing is that none of the floor tiles really fell down. .They seem to be disintegrating, but they are very strong. Zhuan Rui speculated: "There should be an interlayer in the floor tiles. The really powerful things should be behind these quicksands."

Really great stuff?What will it be?
At this moment, Feng Gui gritted his teeth and said, "We can't decipher this combination of eighteen orifices, and it's useless to stay here. Let's blow it up and fight with the red-clothed zongzi outside."

As time went by, more and more of that kind of sand-like substance, and it rained in the entire tomb, we had to take out the gas masks and wear them to keep those things from falling into our eyes.I observed the fine sand carefully, and suddenly found that this 'sand' was unusual, it was very delicate, light yellow in color, and reflected a slight white light under the firelight, and the tentacles were dry, and I didn't know what it was.

Feng Guishou's words didn't get any response from the crowd, he said anxiously: "You don't know how powerful this mechanism is, just look at him, he just got the password wrong and made it like this." He pointed at the mute, as a negative teaching material.

The mute raised his head, and suddenly gave him a sharp look, as if he was about to speak, but at this moment, the 'big hot pot' above started to slide down again. This time, it made a clattering sound and hit the ground directly. In an instant, the burning substance inside seemed to be pushed out, and sparks, large and small, splashed on the floor tiles.

To be exact, it splashed on the sand that had covered the floor tiles.

Immediately afterwards, a scalp-numbing scene appeared.

Those sparks splashed on the 'sand grains', like ignited oil, quickly spread into a sea of ​​flames and went towards the surroundings.

In an instant, I thought of the charred corpse behind the stone gate.

Is this how it died?
(End of this chapter)