Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 74 Corpse Cave
After a while, Feng Guishou looked at it for a while.The burning was normal, so he nodded in relief, his expression calmed down, and he carried the bag down the crack first.

There is mud at the entrance of this crack, and when a person descends, the mud rubs all over his body, Feng Guishou starts in front, Tofu follows closely, and I sit behind.When both of them got down to the crack, I looked down, and I could only see the top of Tofu's head, which was covered with mud, like a moving clay figurine.

I followed closely, and was planning to go down the crack, when I inadvertently glanced at the stick of incense in the crack, and couldn't help being stunned.There were five incense sticks in total, and they were burning well just now, but now for some reason, three of the incense sticks went out, and the other two sticks were still burning.

I thought it was a superstition, but I didn't expect that this incense could actually be burnt into this shape, and I couldn't help but secretly startled: I'm unlucky, it's really hard to drink cold water, and I can get caught in everything. Is the curse at work?In fact, I am not too afraid of this curse. I always eat enough for one person and the whole family is not hungry. Even if the curse cannot be solved, it will kill me at worst.

What I am worried about is that this curse will harm the people around me, just like my grandfather back then, he was fine, but his relatives, friends, wife and children had accidents one after another.

Thinking of this, I feel a little heavy in my heart. If I say that the only person who is close to me now is Tofu.No, I can't let him have an accident.

At this time, Tofu's voice came from under the crack: "Old Chen, what are you dawdling about?"

At this moment, riding a tiger is hard to get off, although this incense is weird, but it can't be given up halfway because of a stick of incense, so I fell into the cracks and didn't mention this matter to the two of them. Talking about this now will only confuse people's hearts.

The surface of this crack is very wet and slippery due to being scoured by spring water all the year round, if it wasn't for the abrupt rocks inside, if you don't pay attention, it will slip down by accident.The three of us went down silently, no one said a word, and went straight down for about twenty meters. At this time, we looked up again, and saw the curved and slanted cracks, and even the sky could not be seen, and only the wet and hideous stones remained above our heads.

Soon, Feng Guishou below said something, and told me and Tofu to stop first.The place is very narrow, and I can't see anything except Tofu's head when I look down.At this time, there was a plop, as if something had entered the water, and then Feng Guishou's voice sounded: "Jump down."

jump off?
Tofu followed and jumped down, leaving a space. At this time, I was able to see the environment below. At the bottom of this crack, there is still a distance of about seven or eight meters high, and the bottom is full of water, black and white. Painted a piece.Feng Guishou and Tofu were soaked in the water, and the two responded with flashlights.I followed suit and jumped down, only to feel that the 30-meter-deep groundwater was icy cold, making it impossible to feel that it was summer at all.

I took out the headlamp from my bag and put it on my head, and the thick lamp post projected out, dispelling the surrounding darkness.Only after looking at it did we realize that we were actually in an underground river, with dark and damp stone walls above and around our heads, and there was no place to go ashore around.

The situation is very different from the previous judgment of the three of us. We judged before that the tomb should be under the crack, and the tomb is likely to be damaged by groundwater, so the buried corpses were washed out before.But looking at the surrounding situation now, it is obvious that this is a cave formed by the erosion of groundwater, not a tomb at all.

Feng Guishou cursed secretly, and said: "It seems that there is a lot of groundwater here, and the tomb should be nearby. Let's swim forward and look for it." After Feng Guishou reminded me, I found something wrong.The groundwater here is not flowing at all, as if it is a pool of stagnant water.At this moment, Tofu said: "Listen, what is this sound?" He was timid, so he paid extra attention to the movement around him. After what Tofu said, Feng Guishou and I couldn't help listening. In the dark and empty cave, I only heard a gurgling sound, like drinking water, which sounded faintly, and I couldn't judge the specific direction.

I have relatively good hearing. I used to hunt rabbits and pheasants in the mountains, all thanks to my good ears.After listening carefully for a while, we figured out the direction of the sound. It came from the stone wall on our right. However, the sound came from the bottom of the water, so it was indistinct.

I told the two of my findings, and then pointed to the approximate location.Feng Guishou was very cautious, moved his hand holding the vajra glove, plunged into the bottom of the water, and swam up in less than a minute, saying: "There is a water hole on the stone wall, and the water here is flowing into the water hole. It should run dry soon." Speaking of this, Feng Gui explained to us with a smile on his face: "I understand. The real underground river is behind the water hole. Usually when the river rises, the water will flow from The water comes up to this point in the hole, and when the river falls, the water will be pumped back. If I'm not mistaken, we're already in the tomb."

Tofu doesn't know how to do it, but I'm not one who doesn't know how to do it. When I heard what he said, I thought it was nonsense.Although I haven't really seen any big tombs, the specifications of the tombs are still clear.The environment we are in now seems to be a naturally formed water hole, how could it be a tomb?Feng Guishou didn't explain much about this, but just asked us to wait quietly.After soaking in the water for more than half an hour, the bones of me and the tofu soaked were stiff, and the water here was finally drained, and the water hole was exposed.

It was a big hole that two people could enter and exit. The entrance and the inside of the hole were washed very smooth by the water flow. I climbed into it and saw that behind the hole was a large underground river with a drop of about ten meters.Climbing at the entrance of the cave, with the help of the searchlight above the head, I can see the groundwater rolling white waves, gushing from the dark place, the sound of the water is deafening, like ten thousand horses galloping, the momentum is extraordinary.

It seems that what we expected before was really good. This end is an underground river, and the place where we jumped off just now should be the location of the ancient tomb.It seems that the tomb of Princess Gegeer was built according to the structure of the ground at the beginning of its construction, so there was such a large water hole vacant.

When I exited the cave, where I was originally, there was only a layer of shallow water below the instep on the ground. There were rocks on both sides, and there was no way back. The only way was the front.If Baldy Wei and the other three also come here, then the only way is in front of them.The three of us didn't say much, Feng Guishou took the lead, Tofu walked in the middle, and I stepped behind. The three of us each wore headlights to observe the surrounding environment in case of any accidents.

Digging mushrooms upside down is a dangerous occupation. There are three sources of danger at most.The first type is insects and snakes. Because the ancient tomb is dry and comfortable, it is easy to become a gathering place for some insects, snakes, foxes and badgers. If one is not careful, there may be no bones left; the second type is from institutions Dangerous, China has a long culture of burial customs, and there are endless anti-theft agencies. Tomb robbers without two brushes can easily die under various agencies.The third type comes from people. In the past, Bai Laosi first cheated on his companions, and later passed the curse on to his apprentice Chen Siyuan for his own benefit.

This man surnamed Feng looks like an old hand, and he is very scheming. For such a person, he can't say that he hates or doesn't hate them.The three of us walked all the way, and the terrain of the cave gradually increased, and we could vaguely see a lot of dark things at the end, and as the distance got closer, there were bursts of stench.

The three of us had already guessed what it was just by smelling it.Not surprisingly, the piled up there should be the buried corpses washed out by the groundwater earlier.Sure enough, after walking a little further, the pile of dark things appeared in front of our eyes.It was a sight to see in the lake before, but it is another sight now that all the corpses that were buried were all wet in one place.

The road ahead of us is littered with such corpses.Perhaps due to the feng shui climate here, these corpses did not completely decompose, but formed something like a mummy.Due to the impact of the water flow, many corpses seemed to have been stirred by a washing machine. They were either missing arms or broken legs, and the dried meat on their bodies was wetly hanging on the bones.At a glance, countless stumps were piled up together, black water was flowing, and the stench was unstoppable, completely blocking the road in front of us. If we want to get over, we can only walk through these piles of corpses.

(End of this chapter)