Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 72

No matter which dynasty it was, no one wanted to take the initiative to be buried with them. During the Ming Dynasty, there were generally two ways to die for the palace people who were buried. The first was to hang themselves directly.There are also people who are unwilling to hang themselves, dare not die, and struggle.As for burial, according to different dynasties, each has its own particularities.For example, a buried woman cannot be stained with blood.

She doesn't want to die, and you can't hack her to death with a knife. What do you do with this kind of person?There is also a way.First put the person on a bed, and at the head of the bed, there is a wooden box with a hole in it, which just fits the person's neck.

After the wooden box was filled with the human head, the bed under the human body would be pulled away. Naturally, the human neck bone would be broken, and it was creepy to think about it.

However, this Gegeer is a princess, even if she is really buried with her, it stands to reason that not too many people will be buried with her.But right now, the shattered corpse in the lake is obviously beyond expectations, so what's going on?This Princess Gegeer is not a Han nationality at first glance, could it be the princess of some frontier nation?That's why so many people were sacrificed after death?
At this moment, the corpses and dead fish in the lake were still tumbling, it was shocking to look at, and the three of Wei Guangtou were nowhere to be seen, the lake was full of corpses tumbling, like a hell on earth.The three of us didn't know what to do for a while.After all, although I have a lot of theoretical knowledge, I have very little actual combat. No matter how smart I am on weekdays, I just feel in a dilemma at the moment.

Baldy Wei and the other three disappeared, and it was hard to tell whether they were dead or alive.Do we keep looking, or stop there?
As time went on, the light of the moon became weaker and weaker, and the night before dawn became more intense.Feng Guishou is the most experienced of the three of us. He paced back and forth by the lake, and finally sat down on the ground. He came up with an idea and said, "Wait, this place has existed for hundreds of years. This is definitely not the first time this has happened, let’s see the situation first.”

In the dark, we sat by the foul-smelling lake, watching the dead fish and mummified corpses floating up and down in the lake. From time to time, a human head would pop out of the water, with bones and dried meat half exposed, as if it would jump out at any time Same.

Although it was summer, the lakeside was very gloomy and very cold. Tofu collected some firewood, and we lit it by the lakeside, barely dispelling the cold air, and took turns sleeping.In such an environment, naturally I can’t sleep well. I have nightmares from time to time. Each dream is very short, and the last dream is even weirder. I actually dreamed of Princess Geger, crawling wet from the lake. When she came out, her whole body was covered in rotten flesh, she raised her face to look at me, that face made me gasp, because it was Gu Wenmin's face!

I woke up with a fright.

When he woke up, it was Tofu who was watching the night, and Feng Gui lay on his side with his hands.

The scene in my dream was still in my mind, so I couldn't help but move my eyes to the lake.Fortunately, there is no Princess Ge Geer in that place.I was a little flustered in my heart, not sure why I had such a bizarre dream, and how it connected Ge Geer and Gu Wenmin together.Thinking of Gu Wenmin, I don't know if she has given up. At this moment, she probably has returned to Fengtou Village.

Perhaps because of this dream, I always feel that this is an ominous omen for Gu Wenmin.Did my plan go awry?Could it be that Gu Wenmin was in danger by himself?All these emotions poured out, and I couldn't sleep for a while, so I took out a cigarette from my backpack and smoked it slowly.

Tofu saw that I was awake, so he let me watch the fire, and went back to sleep by myself.

It is almost dawn at this moment, but the place we are in is lifeless.The waterfowl had already been frightened away. Apart from the sound of the wind and the tumbling of the lake, there was no extra sound in the whole place, as if there were only us three living people left in the world.This is a very bad situation.

As if to confirm my guess, when I finished smoking the fifth cigarette, I suddenly felt a little change around me.I didn't notice it at first, but it wasn't until a gust of cool wind blew that I suddenly realized that the stench had faded.From the dead fish to the emergence of the corpse, the three of us have been shrouded in that stench almost all the time, but at this moment, unconsciously, that stench has dissipated a lot, and we don't know why.

Aware of this change, I immediately got up, wondering if something had changed?Immediately afterwards, he held up the torch and looked towards the lake.At this moment, the sky is not yet clear, and everything is shrouded in the darkness before dawn. Looking at it with the light of the torch, I immediately found that the water level of the lake is receding, and it is receding very quickly, and it has gone down two or three meters in a flash. about.

And the place in the lake where the spring water used to spout before began to absorb water again at this moment, forming a huge vortex. The corpses and dead fish in the lake were sucked into this vortex one after another, and most of them had disappeared.

During this night, the continuous phenomenon in the lake has already made people astonished. At this moment, this huge vortex is like the eye of the sea, and the water level in the lake is dropping rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.In a short while, it has dropped to a lower position than when we saw it for the first time, and the lake eye did not stop, and it was still going on. I couldn't help being startled, thinking: Is it possible to suck up the whole lake?
Thinking of this, I immediately woke up Tofu and Feng Guishou, and the three of them stood on the mountain, stunned for a while at the vision in the lake below.

After a while, Tofu said: "This... what kind of lake is this, it's too strange."

Feng Guishou showed a thoughtful look, staring at the still shrinking lake, and said: "This lake should be connected to a large underground water source..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped, and then his eyes stared blankly looking at the lake.

At this time, the surface of the lake has shrunk to only about ten meters, it seems that it can no longer be called a lake, and it is more or less called a spring, and the whirlpool has gradually disappeared.At a glance, the lake was originally located under the mountain, revealing the silt and stones at the bottom of the lake, and a clear spring is located in the center of the lake.Half a round of red sun has risen in the sky, and the golden light breaks, penetrates the clouds, and shines on the spring water. A piece of golden light flows, making people dazzled.

In an instant, I understood what Ren's so-called golden spring meant.Standing on the ridge at this moment and looking at it, under the rising sun, the golden spring water, like a golden pearl falling into the surrounding mountains, firmly attracted the eyes of the three of us.

It wasn't until this moment that I understood why Baldy Wei and the other four miscalculated the location of the tomb at first. It turned out that they had found the wrong reference object.This lake didn't exist in the first place, it's just that this holy spring, it is estimated that the situation of last night will often appear, so a lake will be formed. With the lake as a reference, naturally the tomb cannot be found.If I'm right, the real tomb should be under the mud at the bottom of the lake.

Presumably, the people who built the tomb of Princess Gegeer did not expect that with the change of time, the spring will change so much that it will flood the ancient tomb.Feng Guishou obviously also understood this level, his expression changed, and he said: "I hope it's not a water hole."

Tofu couldn't understand slang, so he asked me in a low voice what Shuidongzi was.

The so-called water caves are ancient tombs that are not well sealed and have been flooded or damp. There are also some tomb thieves who will not fill the tomb with soil after robbing the tomb, so that rainwater will pour into the tomb. Therefore, when encountering a water cave, It means that the artifact in the tomb is likely to be damaged, or it has been preempted by the peers.

Of course, where there are water holes, there are fire holes.Huodongzi refers to ancient tombs that are sealed and have not been stolen.In this kind of tomb, open flames are generally not allowed after the tomb bricks are opened, because the closed air flow in the tomb all year round will form a flammable gas, which will ignite as soon as an open flame is seen.

The tomb robbers in the past did not have flashlights. Before digging the tomb, they would first insert a hollow bamboo pole or iron pole into the tomb, and then light an open flame at the end of the iron pole facing outward.If the fire lights up, like an air gun, it means that it is a well-sealed tomb that has not been stolen.When you encounter this kind of tomb, you need to pry open the tomb bricks to take a breath, otherwise people will get burned if they use an open flame.

On the contrary, if it is not lit, it means that the tomb may have been flooded, out of breath, or has been visited by people.

With sharp eyes, I found a faint crack in the mud, and I couldn't help saying: "I guess your wish will come to nothing. I will guarantee it with my head. This is definitely a water hole." Feng Guishou followed my gaze and found the place. He couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said: "It seems that this trip is not going well. Since those ghosts were able to come out of the tomb at that time, there must be a passage. It seems that they got out of this crack, and the inside must have been covered with water. Submerged, no matter how good something is, it will be almost rotten after being soaked for hundreds of years."

Tomb robbers dig mushrooms for the purpose of digging them out and selling them for money. Since the contents are soaked in water, the situation can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)