Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 581
I walked to the edge of the cave entrance, lowered my head, and looked down with the light on. I saw that the cave entrance was surrounded by earth pit walls, on which there were pieces of wooden stakes embedded in the soil, which were similar to the treasure elephant queen recorded in my grandfather's notes. The tombs are very similar.

At this time, the rest of the people also gathered around, and our flashlights converged together, and the range of light was wider, but the light still couldn't reach the bottom, and we didn't know how deep the hole was.

Zhong Gong said: "We can go down along these wooden stakes."

The wooden stake is black, and it looks like a tree cellar, and it is made of the same material as the plank road on the cliff, so it should be relatively strong.

I nodded and said that I would go down first, so I was about to put the flashlight in my mouth, but before I finished this action, suddenly, a white thing appeared at the entrance of the cave.

It stands to reason that there is no light at the bottom of the hole. Without light, no matter what is underneath, whether it is white or black, we should not be able to see it.But at this moment, that white thing filled the entire bottom of the cave, like a big white bun.

I couldn't help but stop what I was doing, and turned on the flashlight that was about to be placed near my mouth. I could see the specific appearance of the thing in the first phase. However, our light cannot reach the bottom, so what we see It was still just a vague white bun.

Just when everyone was staring at it, Tofu's voice sounded from below the cave again: "Come down!" The voice was no longer as urgent as what we heard before, but a casual sentence, however, accompanied by With this sound, the white thing under the hole gradually revealed its true face.

"Ah!" Feng Guishou yelled when he saw it.

It was a huge human face, looking up at us from the bottom of the burrow, the whole face filled the bottom of the burrow.

That face...is the face of tofu.

To be exact, it's like after the face of tofu is swollen.

It stared straight at us with the same white eyes, and with a weird smile on its huge face, it continued to shout to us: "Come down quickly."

"Ah...!" I yelled this sound, and immediately after that, my legs went limp, and I fell to my knees with a bang. Those who have not experienced the feeling of fear will never be able to understand it. .

"Come down."

"Come down quickly..."

Under the cave, that voice kept repeating. My mind was filled with the face that filled the entire cave, and that face belonged to my best brother. Listening to this familiar voice, I almost collapsed. It's a complex emotion of fear, anger, and madness. I don't know what to say. By the time I control myself, I have already removed a shovel from my waist, and the horseshoe-shaped thick, sharp probe is facing downwards. , Like a tender pole, it was pierced down fiercely.

The next second, the shovel pierced the face of the person. In an instant, I heard a whistle in my ear. The sound was exactly the same as the previous sound, and it also came from the hole. Immediately afterwards, the face disappeared. .

In the depths of the ground, darkness was restored, as if nothing had happened.The sound disappeared, the human face disappeared, and there were only a few of us who were frightened and limp at the edge of the hole, and our intertwined gasps.

The horrible scene just now made even Zhuan Rui's face change.I don't know what I look like at this moment, I only know that I really lost control just now, my whole back is still cold at the moment, I stretched out my hand to wipe my face, and I was covered in cold sweat.

Zhong Gong was horrified and said: "How could this happen? What was that thing just now? Could it be, could it be that it is really a ghost?"

Zhuan Rui said in a deep voice, "Even if it's a ghost, how could it turn into his appearance." He, of course, refers to tofu.Not only the appearance, but also the voice. Could it be... as Feng Gui said with the crow's mouth in his hand, the tofu turned into a ghost?He was folded in this bucket and turned into a ghost?

Do not!I do not believe!

Even if Tofu really turns into a ghost, he won't harm me!

In the chaos, I remembered the previous situation, the whistle in the burial pit, the change of the air hole when the fire hit, let us escape into the tomb, obviously, these are all related to Tofu, he is obviously helping us, so what Will harm us?

The reason why I acted like that just now was completely out of control due to extreme fear and anger. I was afraid of that huge face, and I was angry about why it turned into tofu.But at this moment, I have a terrible thought in my heart: Is the tofu dead...

With a flashlight on, I stared at the bottomless black hole below, my head seemed to have exploded, leaving only ruins, and my whole thinking was chaotic.I didn't adjust my mentality until Feng Guishou asked what to do next.

Yes, I am the leader of this team. Zhuan Rui and Zhong Gong followed me to take risks. Now is not the time for chaos.As for why Feng Guishou came here, I don't have the energy to think about it anymore.

I thought for a while and said, "I want to go down, I want to find out what's going on. I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die."

Feng Guishou said: "You can think clearly. When I think of that thing just now, hiss... I feel horrified. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you have any good intentions. Think about Wu Shui's injuries before, do you really want to go down? "

I said, "I have to go. If you are afraid, just wait here for us."

Feng Guishou immediately sneered, saying that I would be afraid?I, Feng, have fallen all over the world, and I have never been afraid.Judging by his appearance, he intends to go down with us.I can't figure it out, Tofu and I got him into trouble at the beginning, what's the benefit of him doing this now?
With a darker idea, I even suspect that he wants to shoot a dark gun behind his back, but the price of this dark gun is too high.Seeing Feng Guishou's indifferent expression, I didn't think much about it, so according to the original plan, with a flashlight in my mouth, I started walking down the wooden stakes embedded in the cave wall, lowered my head and watched the movement below closely, Zhuan Rui Wait for someone behind me.

The burrow was straight up and down, and within the range of the flashlight, except for the wooden stakes, nothing else could be seen.Just when I was halfway down, a yellow object suddenly appeared in my sight, and the light shone on it, reflecting the hazy yellow light. I saw it clearly in an instant. It turned out that there was a huge brass mirror in the center of the bottom of the big hole. , almost standing in the bottom two-thirds of the space.

At this moment, in the brass mirror, the shadows of the four of us moving on the wooden stake are reflected, vaguely, and I can't help but think, is the face I saw just now actually in this mirror?But why is there a face in the mirror?

The reflection of the mirror is corresponding. If the face was facing us in the mirror at that time, then correspondingly... there should be a face opposite the face!
When I thought of this, my whole body went numb, and I looked up suddenly!

I thought that I would see the previous face on the top of the cave, but in fact, I was too worried.It was black and empty, and there was no human face that I imagined.For some reason, I breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Zhuan Rui was surprised and said, "There is actually a bronze mirror underneath."

Feng Guishou said: "More than that, look, isn't the shovel you threw down just now on the bronze mirror? It seems that that face is actually in the mirror!" Feng Guishou obviously thought of something with me, he He also looked up, and finally hissed, and said, "What is the reason for this bronze mirror to be placed here?"

Zhuan Rui was silent for a while, then uttered two words, "Scary."

"Scary?" I was a little puzzled.

Zhuan Rui explained in a deep voice: "The mechanism in the underground palace is not only what it looks like on the surface, just like some curses are carved in some ancient tombs, it is actually to scare off the tomb robbers. Look at the bronze mirror, don't you find anything wrong? ?”

When he said this, I couldn't help but carefully observed the huge bronze mirror, and suddenly discovered that the surface of the bronze mirror was not flat, but convex.Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that such a mirror will diffuse and magnify the impact of objects.

I exclaimed instantly, and said, "That face just now... is actually a magnified face!"

Zhuan Rui nodded, and finally shook his head again, saying: "It is said that ancient mirrors can detect ghosts. If it is really a projection, then there must be light and a reference. But there was no light just now, and... there is no reference." Zhuan Rui After all, he was very experienced, and within a period of time, he analyzed it very thoroughly. He continued: "There is no light, no reference object, so the face that appeared in the ancient mirror just now has only one possibility... a ghost."

Everyone was silent, all looking at the bronze mirror below.The further we went down, the figure was distorted and magnified in the mirror, becoming swollen, and now it looked like four huge fleshy balls.But looking at it, I suddenly felt my scalp numb, and said: "No, this is not our shadow."

Why would I say that?

Because I found that although our figures slowly swell in the mirror as our bodies move, the surrounding wooden stakes also have projections, but in the ancient mirror, the projections of those wooden stakes have not changed!
So that is to say, only our shadow is changing.

(End of this chapter)