Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 597 The Mystery

After Harichagai said this, we changed the topic and began to check the main hall.Tofu said that he has been here for more than two hours, and since he has no relevant memories, he has basically achieved nothing with his little ability.

The entire main hall was empty, and there was no corpse on the only corpse bed. I looked around, and a strange idea came to my mind: this corpse bed has no traces of being pressed, and the surface is smooth, and there is no corpse oil or lacquer powder. It shows that at the beginning of construction, no coffin or corpse was placed on this corpse bed.A corpse bed that has never been used is placed here, as if waiting for someone to lie on it.

The three of us started searching the main hall again, but as Tofu said, we found nothing.Finally, I turned my gaze to the corner of the wall, which is where Tofu drilled a hole to escape, and I asked him how the hole came about.

Tofu squatted down, beat the light into the hole, and said: "I went in and saw it before. There is a side hall behind this hole. Hiss... By the way, there are still bones in the side hall. This hole is probably the one from that one." It was typed."

I immediately said: "Go in and have a look." Immediately afterwards, the three of them crawled through the hole in the corner.

Drilling to the opposite side, it was indeed as described by Tofu. This is a small side hall, facing the outside. In fact, there is also a door that can lead to the outside room, but the door is locked.And along the wall not far from the hole, there is a corpse wrapped in clothes lying on its side.

Harichagai said it was strange, and said: "There are doors everywhere in this place, no matter it is the main hall or the side hall, you can go out. What is this person doing with such a hole?" I am afraid that no one can answer this question. Walking up to the dead bone, he asked Tofu, "Have you touched this corpse before?"

Tofu shook his head, with a respectful expression on his face, and said, "I just crawled in to have a look, and the corpse didn't bring anything, just a suit of clothes. I'm not interested in touching it." I'm not interested, so I nodded, put on the gloves for touching the dead body, and wanted to search around to see if I could find some clues from the pockets of the dead body. After all, although he died in this place, he could make it all the way here Come on, presumably the identity of this person in life must not be simple.

Who will he be?

I started checking it for stuff.

It was wearing a yellow outdoor suit with many large and small pockets and zippers. Judging from the style, the corpse was male.After fumbling around for a while, all I found were spare parts, such as small pry bars, iron hooks, windproof lighters, and batteries.However, when I touched its inner pocket, I suddenly found a small folded clip.

This should be a document holder, only half the size of an adult's palm, made of leather, and the leather should be in good condition. It is well preserved and even has a shiny surface.I guess this is because the corpse oil that grew during the decay of the corpse infects it, so it has this texture.

I was curious about the identity of this person, and because I was wearing gloves, I didn't feel disgusted, so I immediately opened the small clip.Sure enough, there was a certificate in the folder, which was an old-fashioned ID card. The glue on the outer layer of the certificate got into the air, making the whole certificate blurry, but I did see the name on it clearly. It said: statement.

I wondered if I read it wrong, so I blinked hard, but when I opened it again, there were still these two words.

Tofu was very surprised and said, "Another statement came out? I said, Lao Chen, how many fathers do you have?"

My mind was also a little confused, and I said, "Of course there is only one father."

Tofu said: "Isn't the corpse in the cave a statement? This is it? Then old man Zhao is lying?"

I thought about it, and there is absolutely no need for old man Zhao to lie about this matter.But if the bone in front of him is a statement, then whose bone is in the cave?What happened to the mute outside the door?

Could it be that the truth he showed me is this?

No, I have to find the dumb to figure it out.So I said to Haricha: "Do me a favor, let the man outside come in." Before, I was worried that there was any danger in the main hall, and it would be inconvenient to bring a mute, but now it seems that this worry can be dispelled.

Harichagai gave an OK sign, and got out of the hole to find the dumb man. After a while, Harichagai carried the dumb man back in, but his expression was a little strange, and he said, "Damn, it's a good thing I'll go In time, the one surnamed Lu came."

I was shocked, thinking how did he come so fast?Then he asked, "What about the rest?"

Harichagai said: "They are all here, but it seems that the situation is not optimistic, and they are tied up."

Oh shit.

I looked at the mute who was still in a coma, and said to myself that I knew this before, and Wen Min should have let Wen Min shoot the surnamed Lu directly. What was this dumb man thinking at the time, and why did he take Wen Min's gun instead?It's good now, the person surnamed Lu tied him up, obviously he came to be a hostage.

Although Zhong Gong and the others were not bad at skills, they were not at the same level as Lu Su.

Hari Chagai said again: "They are coming towards the main hall, and they will arrive in about 10 minutes. I think the surname Lu is trying to blackmail us with hostages."

Blackmail?

What exactly is in this main hall?What can he blackmail us?
Although the dumb face is pale and covered in blood at the moment, I have to force him to wake him up. I won't go into details about the process in the middle, it's just not very glorious anyway.The mute woke up, looked at the surrounding environment, his blurred eyes suddenly reunited, and said in a hoarse voice, "You guys have come in."

I nodded, let someone half lean in my arms, and said: "Yes, we are in the side hall now, Lu Su has kidnapped our people, and they will arrive in about 10 minutes, tell me now, what is the truth you are talking about?" ?” The mute coughed violently twice, staring straight at the corpse on the ground, and said, “I remembered everything, unfortunately, it’s too late.”

Tofu couldn't bear it, and said: "It's not too late, your life is like a cockroach that can't be killed, you will be fine. You tell us what's going on, we have solved the problem, so we can take you out .”

The mute closed his eyes, seemed to be adjusting his breath, and seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, he finally spoke, but his words made me dumbfounded.

"Back then, I worked so hard to get the map of the silk book. Unfortunately, I was alone and the silk book couldn't be deciphered. But my time was running out, so I took the silk book and went to the king's tomb alone... "

I almost didn't know how to speak for a while, and finally managed to squeeze out a sentence: "You really are a statement."

The mute ignored me, but went on to continue, saying: "This ancient tomb has many mechanisms, but in the final analysis, there are three things that are the core. One is the girl, they respond to the earth's energy of the corpse formation, and surround the whole place. The king’s tomb is actually in the land under our feet, full of them. Once these things break through the ground, no one can escape.”

Tofu was surprised, frowned, shook his head, and said, "Why can't I remember this. So, we actually walked into a female mountain? Then what is the second one?"

The mute said: "It's the demon-repelling mirror. Puzhen once used it to raise an evil army, which is what we encountered before. They lurk in the demon mirror, come out when encountering light, and will kill people from the ancient tomb. The organs were restored one by one. These things are intelligent, but unfortunately, I died in their hands twice in a row."

Died by their hands twice in a row?What does it mean?
The mute seemed to know my doubts. He glanced at me, and then continued: "Later, I came here with a serious injury. This hole should be left by Bai Laosi back then. I don't know why he opened it. This hole, but breaking in all the way, but getting nothing, is really disheartening."

I looked at the corpse next to me and said, "And then?"

The mute coughed twice, and said: "But I'm not reconciled, Bai Laosi can find a way to transfer the curse, why can't I? There is a hole he made in this place, there must be a way ahead, so I pushed away that door."

The direction of the mute's finger is the carved wooden door of the side hall, which should be pushed outward and can go out.The door was unremarkable, and there was really nothing special about it.

All eyes were on the door.

what's behind the door
The mute said: "Behind that, I found a way to transfer the curse, and then, I left this place and started to implement my plan."

Tofu stammered, "You left this place? Then this corpse, and old man Zhao...what's going on?"

The mute said coldly, "I didn't say I wasn't dead."

These words caused the surrounding atmosphere to fall into silence.Tofu swallowed his saliva and said, "Then, are you actually a big rice dumpling?"

(End of this chapter)