Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 71
The water in the lake, with more and more dead fish, has a stronger stench.The waterfowl perched on the shore of the lake flapped their wings one by one, jumped out of the reeds, made strange noises in their mouths, and ran around as if fleeing for their lives, and disappeared after a while.

The sudden changes one after another caught the three of us by surprise, and we dare not go into the water blindly for a while.

The silvery moonlight shone on the lake, and the white belly of the dead fish could be seen very clearly under the moonlight. For a while, none of us spoke, and we faintly felt that something ominous was about to happen.

How did these fish die?

Is it related to those ghosts?Or is it related to Wei Guangtou and others who jumped into the water?
While he was thinking about it, the originally calm lake surface suddenly surged, and the dead fish floating on the surface were squeezed and began to roll in the water, as if something huge was about to come out from the bottom of the lake.I was startled, and immediately took out the pistol I had found next to Fatty Lin's body, and pointed it at the lake, in case there was any change.As time went by, the movement on the water surface became more and more serious, but nothing came out. For a while, I was not sure what the situation was.

However, at this moment, Feng Guishou seemed to have discovered something suddenly, pointed at the lake shoreline under our feet, and said, "Look, the water in this lake is rising."

Tofu and I lowered our heads when we heard the words, and we found that the water in the lake was slowly rising, and at the most bizarre moment, the water was like boiling water, the surface of the water kept rolling, stirring up the dead fish inside.Tofu guessed in surprise, "Could it be that there is underground lava connected to the bottom of this lake?"

I couldn't help shaking my head. The situation in front of me is too weird at this moment, and I can't make blind guesses for a while. Feng Guishou thinks that the current situation is unclear, so we'd better observe for a while.The three of them stood on the mountain, and saw that the water level of the lake kept rising for some reason. Obviously, there must be something like an underground spring at the bottom of the lake, and this spring produced a lot of water in an instant, otherwise the water level would not have risen so much quick.

About 20 minutes later, the entire lake surface has been raised by six or seven meters, and the water surface is only about two meters away from our insteps. When we squat down, we can clearly see the dead fish churning on the water surface.

I stared at the dead fish and speculated in my mind: Is the sudden death of these fish related to Wei Guangtou and the others, or is it because of the lake water problem?Why did the lake suddenly rise?This lake looks calm, but in such a short period of time, there have been so many changes. If the three of Wei Guangtou jumped into the water, could something have happened to them?

Just as these thoughts flashed through my mind, I suddenly discovered that there was something hiding in the dead fish in the lake. The thing disappeared in a flash, but I could clearly see that it belonged to a person. hand.

I couldn't help taking a breath, and said in a low voice, "Is there someone in the lake?"

Feng Guishou and Doufu didn't see it, their expressions changed drastically when they saw me, they said there was someone in the lake, and they immediately guessed, could it be the three of us Guangtou Wei?If it was the three of Baldy Wei, they would definitely show up, and it was impossible for a living person to stay in the water for such a long time without coming out.Then the human hand I saw just now is probably a dead body.

Tofu's complexion changed, his voice became a little hoarse, and he speculated: "Could it be that Wei Guangtou and the others died in the water?" Although we had already prepared for this, we still felt a little heavy in our hearts at the moment.Baldy Wei and we don't have much friendship, but we are all together. This operation was well planned. Before entering the ancient tomb, something happened to them suddenly. I couldn't help but feel sad.Tofu has always been soft-hearted, let alone, looking at the tumbling lake, he sighed again and again.

That hand just flashed across the water just now, and the lake was churning, and now I don’t know where it was pushed by the waves. There is a saying that the living sees the dead, and the dead sees the dead. I weighed it up and decided to go into the water. Anyway, let's salvage the corpse first to see what happened.It’s just that I don’t know if it’s my illusion. I just feel that the lake water is getting darker and turbid as time goes by. I don’t know if this jump will cause some kind of skin disease.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glance at Feng Guishou next to me. He just pretended not to see my gaze at this moment, staring at the lake with a heavy face, not knowing what he was thinking, but he had no intention of going into the water.This Feng man was honest on the surface, but in fact he was full of gossip. He said that he must fish up the corpse, but his tone changed, but he said that he had old arms and legs, old eyes and dim eyesight, so he was really not suitable for going into the water.

I knew in my heart that he didn't want to take risks, and Tofu has a straight temper. Hearing that Feng Gui's hands were full of shit, his face showed an angry look.Tofu glanced at me, then blinked at me. Before I could figure out what was going on, the boy suddenly fell down and pushed Feng Guishou. The shameless Zhao'er was instantly pushed into the lake.

Tofu sat down on the ground and pretended: "Oh, I should have gone to the gym to exercise more. I have walked too much in the past two days and I can't stand on my feet. Brother Feng, I was also careless. I’m sorry. Anyway, you’re already in the water, so you might as well just fish up the corpse.” I almost didn’t laugh out loud, thinking that Tofu’s trick is shameless, and the acting skills are too bad, no one can’t see him Is it intentional?
Feng Gui was pushed into the water by the tofu, but we still have a cooperative relationship on the surface, and he is not easy to get angry. He stared at the tofu skin and laughed, and then he turned his head and swam towards the center of the lake. Sometimes it dives into the water, as if looking for a dead body.

When Feng Gui moved to a place a little farther away, Tofu got up from the ground and said with a playful smile, "Isn't this a good move? The old boy just wanted to take advantage of it and didn't do anything. He really took the two of us." Be a gunman. How about it, I’m doing well, right?” I smiled and said, “It’s really good, but you have to be careful, I think this Feng has already missed you. These mushroom-digging people are not good. Cha, you'd better stay away from him in the future."

While speaking, Feng Guishou in the water seemed to have discovered something, and suddenly jumped out of the water, his face was ashen, and he swam towards the shore vigorously.He had a strange look on his face, he turned his head to the side and vomited without saying a word when he landed, and he didn't bring the corpse or anything.

Tofu and I looked at each other, both puzzled. After Feng Guishou finished spitting out, I couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?" Water was dripping all over Feng Guishou's body. Looking carefully, it was indeed black water. Not my previous delusion.There seemed to be something wrong with the black water. He guessed that his body was itchy, and he started to scoop it up after vomiting, cursing while scooping up: "Unlucky, there is more than one corpse in the lake, there are many broken corpses."

"Crossed corpses?" Tofu was terrified, and said, "Wei Guangtou and the others were thrown into the lake by someone's broken corpses?"

Feng Gui took off his clothes and threw them aside. While wiping the dripping black water, he said with a serious expression: "No, there are all corpses inside. There is a spring under this lake, which keeps spraying water. And all that spewed out was black water. The black water was mixed with these mummies. I suspect that these mummies in the water are probably some living people who were buried. The structure of the tomb has been damaged by the lake water, so when the spring erupted , These corpses were brought out." Feng Guishou had rich experience, and after diving into the water, he made a guess.As for the dead fish in the water, [-]% of them were polluted by black water, so they all died.

Tofu felt unbelievable and looked into the lake frequently.As the tumbling of the lake became more and more intense, many residual limbs and heads in the water began to be mixed with the dead fish, rolling together with the fish. The stench in the water was unstoppable. Under the faint moonlight, countless severed limbs Like sinking and floating in boiling water, it looks very strange.

Tofu said: "Although I am an artist and my history is not very good, how can I remember that in the Ming Dynasty, there was no burial system for living people?"

I said, "Who said that? During the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor died, his concubine would have to be buried with him."

Tofu firmly expressed doubts, thinking that what I said was challenging his memory, so he argued: "Don't bully us who are engaged in art. Do you think my history is not good? The system of sacrificial burial, since the textual research, first originated in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It ended in Qin. After Qin, there will be no living people buried."

I couldn't help but said: "You only know one thing and don't know the other thing. After the Qin Dynasty, the Han and Tang Dynasties abolished the system of burial for living people, and changed it to accompanying burial, that is, near the imperial mausoleum. But after the Song Dynasty, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian, Manchu and other frontier ethnic groups successively ruled the Central Plains, and they kept the tradition of human sacrifice, which prompted the resurgence of Central Plains human sacrifice. Therefore, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although There is no large-scale human martyrdom, but there is palace martyrdom. That is, the concubines, palace servants, and guards are buried with them."

(End of this chapter)