Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 676 Echo
I was furious, and secretly greeted the eighteenth generation of his ancestors. Harichagai was right, although he was recruited by Zhuanrui for help, but if it really came to a critical moment, I might not necessarily go to rescue him.It's okay to save people, but that's under the condition of your own safety.

What I said just now was indeed against my will, but the feeling of being exposed directly is really uncomfortable.

So I asked, "What hands and feet?"

The red hair shrugged very awkwardly, and said, "I'll tell you when I get out alive. If it wasn't for that damn 01 that made me a burden now, I wouldn't have made it clear. Chen Xuan , the surnamed Dou treats you well, you don’t want him to die too badly, do you? Chen Xuan, I leave my safety to you.” After speaking, he laughed twice, and then turned his gaze to passage ahead of us.

Lazy goods and others have already walked to the front, and now I can only vaguely see the halo of the flashlight, at the same time, Cyclops shouted: "Master, hurry up, you two, I don't know I thought you two were in a relationship." This person used to be quite serious, but after hanging out with tofu for a long time, he developed a bad mouth.I shook my head and followed with Harichagai.

There are many cracks around the tunnel. It seems that it can no longer bear the pressure of the earth, as if it will collapse at any time. From the cracks, you can see the brown soil layer inside. As we move, some soil dregs will fall on our bodies from time to time .

I'm a little curious about the moaning of the ancient city that the lazy guy said before.The few times I have been in contact with him, I feel that this person is not like the kind of person who talks nonsense. Since he said that just now, there must be some reason.

The two lazy people seemed to be waiting for us at the same place. After a while, Hongmao and I rushed forward. Suddenly, we heard a strange sound in our ears.The sound is relatively weak and cannot be heard in the passage, but it can be heard clearly at the current position.

Logically speaking, the passage should be flat, but probably due to the pressure and collapse of the underground building, the second half, that is, the section in front of us, broke, the terrain suddenly lowered, and a lot of groundwater seeped in.If we want to move forward, we have to wade through the water and bend forward, and we can't see clearly what is going on ahead.

It was very loud, like the sound of wind and like water, sometimes dull, sometimes depressing, I realized after listening for a long time that it was the sound of water, to be precise, it was the echo of flowing water.It is probably the groundwater pouring in, and the water potential swirls in it, but because of the sealed underground structure, this sound is formed.

It is conceivable that the infiltration time of these groundwater should not be long, otherwise, the entire underground building would have collapsed long ago.

In an instant, I understood that the so-called voice from the ancient city meant that the underground building would be gone in a short time.

Although Harichagai's physical strength is not good at the moment, but his mind is still very bright, he immediately showed a look of sudden realization, hissed, and said: "I see, this place is a cage, I guess it is used to detain those Human cocoons, the groundwater is connected here, and those human cocoons probably came out of it."

Cyclops touched his chest and said, "To build such a place, what are these human cocoons doing? The most important thing is, how did these human cocoons come from?"

The red-haired shrugged, indicating that he didn't know.The lazy man yawned for a long time, shook his head fiercely, as if trying to wake himself up, and then said calmly, "Let's go." He took the lead and walked ahead.The water here is not deep. We took off our shoes, put our trousers on our thighs and started wading in the water. As we went forward, the echo became louder. After a while, the passage came to the end, and a strange stone room appeared at the end.

To be precise, it should not be a stone room, because its surface is black, as black as rotten iron. We touched it with our tentacles, and it was indeed iron, but it was almost rusted, exposing the stone panels behind it.

I couldn't help but be surprised, this is like a reinforced secret room, the outer layer is inlaid with stone slabs, and the inside is sealed with iron, which can be said to be an iron wall in ancient times.The passage came to an end here, and no other entrances and exits were revealed.

Is this a dead end?
Everyone was wading in the water, moving their flashlights to observe the surrounding environment. Then, on one side of the stone wall, we saw a big hole. The hole seemed to be smashed by some huge force. The groundwater should come from this position. It rushed in, and at the entrance of the hole, a small vortex formed, and the suction was not strong, but if the human cocoons were originally placed in this secret room, it would be enough to suck them out.

It seemed that Hongmao's guess was correct.

After probing around, we finally confirmed that this place is completely sealed, there is no entrance and exit at all, we can't help but look at each other, feeling a bit of bad luck, and so on, isn't our previous hardships all in vain?

The one-eyed dragon muttered: "We forgot to burn incense for the patriarch when we went out, so we haven't met anything that suits us." Just after finishing speaking, the lazy guy suddenly raised his head, staring straight at the top of our heads, as if there was something wrong with us. What a find.

I subconsciously looked up and saw that there was no iron seal above our heads, but it was also sealed with blue bricks. Looking at the lazy guy, he seemed to think he could start from above.When I thought about it, I thought, could it be that he thinks there is some mechanism in the upper echelons?
Thinking this way, I took out the shovel and lengthened it to about five meters, then went to poke the zenith, and poked it a few times. I only felt that it was very strong, and there was no sign of mechanism activation.At this moment, the lazy man held my hand, looked at me blankly, and said, "Don't move." Immediately afterwards, he continued to raise his head and continue to stare up.

I almost thought that this kid was out of his mind, but soon I discovered that his ears were moving.

It was a tiny twitch.

I immediately realized that he was not seeing with his eyes, but listening with his ears.

Could it be that he was listening to some voice?
I, the red hair and the one-eyed dragon all stopped moving. For a while, there was only the sound of water rushing back in the secret room. The lazy guy slowly closed his eyes, pressed his hands on the knife at his waist, and remained motionless, like an old man. The monk entered meditation.I didn't bother him, and my eyes couldn't help but lock on the top.

It seemed that the sound was coming from above.

Could it be that there is a hole in the sky above?

Time became extremely slow at this moment, and I felt that seconds seemed like years. I don't know how long, the lazy guy suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Smash it, you can hit it anywhere." After getting out of the shovel, he began to hit the surrounding rotten iron walls with the shovel.The metal and iron were intertwined, and the sound was very loud. Although the three of us didn't know what his intentions were, we didn't delay.Experience tells us that in a dangerous environment, sometimes we must fully trust our teammates.

The whole knocking process lasted for 1 minute, and then the lazy guy signaled us to stop, and then began to listen as before.

Cyclops opened his mouth to ask something, but held back.Seeing his actions, Lazy rarely explained actively: "There are people up there, we must draw their attention."

anyone?

I said, "Are you sure it's a human and not a ghost this time?"

The lazy guy didn't answer my words and continued to listen.

Cyclops asked, "Has that person noticed now?"

The lazy guy hummed.

If this place is people, not ghosts, then the identities of the people above are easy to guess, it should be Wen Min and the others.I was a little excited, but at this moment, the lazy guy said: "Listen to the footsteps, it should be a woman, but there is only one person. If it is that female policeman, she may be able to find an agency to save us. If it is that female doctor or female team leader, Not necessarily."

This kid is really awesome, his ears are almost the same as the wind ears, and he can even judge the identity of the other party by the sound of footsteps.

I didn't think to myself, they entered the ancient city together, and now there is only one person left. Could it be that something happened and they got separated?

After a while, Cyclops couldn't help asking about the situation above Lazy, and Lazy half-closed his eyes and said, "She's still up there, looking for a mechanism... Well, something happened." When he said this, his ears were very tight. It moved twice quickly, and then, for about ten seconds or so, everyone heard a small sound in their ears.

"Click... click, click, click..." The sound is very subtle. If we hadn't kept our ears open, I'm afraid it would be easy to ignore it. I am not unfamiliar with this sound, it is the sound of the machine when it is running.Accompanied by this sound, countless dusts suddenly fell from the top of our heads. Everyone was caught off guard. They were fascinated for a moment, their eyes were burning hot, they retreated and lowered their heads, spitting continuously, and couldn't see anything clearly for a while.

When I was able to open my eyes, I realized that a square hole had appeared on the top of my head. On the edge of the hole, there was still a person lying on his stomach, staring at us with wide eyes.

The identity of that person disappointed me a little. She was not Wen Min, but Liu Dui.

Her surprised eyeballs seemed to pop out, and said, "You, why are you down there?"

Cyclops breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "Miss Liu, this is called a meeting from a thousand miles away." This old man never forgets to tease girls.After the initial shock, Team Liu reacted quickly, and then threw down a rope. Everyone stepped on the water and almost froze. Seeing this, they quickly climbed up the rope.

Everyone didn't bother to observe the surrounding environment, so they quickly wiped off the water on their feet, put down their trousers, and put on boots and socks to keep warm.After finishing this, the lazy guy didn't care about anything, just fell to the ground and said, "Take a rest for two hours, I can't walk anymore."

can't walk?Will he be unable to walk?I was about to talk when I realized he had fallen asleep.

For the first time, I saw that someone could actually fall asleep in a second.

(End of this chapter)