Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 98 Memories
It turned out that the snake had dark green and black scales all over its body, and it had a huge body, with a big bump protruding from both sides of its head, faintly resembling two horns.

The three of them are well-informed people, so they naturally thought of Longshe.

Lu Su couldn't help thinking: the places where dragons and snakes have always existed are places with excellent geomantic omen. The dragons and snakes come from the upper reaches. Could it be that there are some treasures above?Youdao is one mountain, one precious eye, one eye, one prince.It is said that the royal relatives must be buried in a good cave in the mountain. Could the ghost king Yulong's tomb that we are looking for this time be upstream?

At that time, how did they know about the suppression of Jiaolong by the Bureau of Corpse Breeding, and they couldn't help but speculate, could the dragon referred to by the Ghost King Yulong refer to the dragon and snake in this place?

It was because of this wrong guess that the lives of Wei Nanjing and Luo Ren were ruined.

The dragon snake was seen by the light, but it didn't respond. It only saw a few people, and then it still drifted with the tide, and soon disappeared.At this time, the water had receded, and the three of them stood at the mouth of the cave by the underground river and watched.After some speculation, it was determined that the upstream should be the destination.At this time, he couldn't find the exit, so instead of doing this, he might as well find the ancient tomb and take something to escape from the ancient tomb.

Several of them are experienced veterans who are good at planning. However, even after thousands of calculations, they still miscalculated the dragon and snake's step.

After the three of them made up their minds, they followed the raised stone wall beside the underground river and cautiously went upstream.There are very few footholds on the stone wall, and if you don't pay attention, you will fall into the huge waves below, and there is absolutely no possibility of rescue. Needless to say, the thrills involved.

I don't know how long it took, when several people were tired of climbing and almost doubted their own judgment.
Suddenly, artificial traces appeared on the stone wall opposite the underground river.

With the light of the flashlight, on the dark and damp stone wall opposite, there are countless huge black iron chains hanging on the stone wall scattered and disorderly.A few people didn't know for a while what those iron chains were fixed on the stone wall for, but it was obvious that it was man-made. Since someone had been active here, there must be a way out.

This underground river is hidden deep in the ground, and who will be active below it?Who else but those who built the tomb?
The three of them were overjoyed, took out the probing claws they carried with them, and pressed the launch mechanism.After aiming, the probing claw fired towards the stone wall opposite the underground river. After several attempts, it finally hooked firmly to the opposite iron chain.The crowd fixed the other end of the rope with another raised rock, and a rope bridge was immediately built on the river with huge water.

The three of them were all very skilled. They grabbed the rope, alternated their hands, staggered, crossed the river one by one, and reached the opposite side safely.As he got closer, he immediately found an irregular hole.

The entrance of the cave is dark, and it is very humid due to the transpiration of underground river water vapor all the year round. There is a faint cold wind coming from inside, which shows that the space behind the passage is very vast.Several people didn't like to talk nonsense, and they looked at each other, and then Guangtou Wei led the battle, Luo Ren was second, and Lu Su was behind, and the three entered one by one.

The passage was very long, and there was no mechanism inside, so people couldn't figure out the purpose for a while. After walking for half an hour, they finally walked to the end, but at the bottom, it was a sealed stone door.

The stone gate made people dumbfounded when they first saw it, because it was built so huge that it didn't look like it was used for people to walk, but it was clearly used for giants to pass through.That's not to mention, on top of the stone gate, a layer of crimson paint, like cinnabar, was smeared, and there was a faint yellow in it, and I don't know what miscellaneous things were mixed there.

On top of the cinnabar, there is another very strange pattern painted.But it was a figure with disheveled hair, dressed in red clothes, and his body twisted weirdly, as if he was dancing.When the person in the painting dances, he throws his hands forward, as if shaking the water, or as if he is about to jump out of the stone gate and dig people's hearts, which makes people feel terrified at first glance.

I heard Lu Su say this, and I have vaguely guessed some of the next things in my heart.

I thought to myself: Isn't the painting on the stone gate the one raised by the Corpse Bureau?Could it be that Lu Su and the others went down the spring and went all the way to a deeper place?Behind that stone gate, could it be the Jiaolong who was forcibly suppressed?
It's not just me, both Tofu and Feng Guishou thought of this, and Tofu even asked outrightly.

Lu Su looked tired, sighed, and said: "You are right in thinking, but it's a pity that we don't have your experience, let alone know in advance, this is a big mistake."

At that time, although the three of them thought it was weird, they didn't know about the Corpse Raising Bureau and Jiaolong. They just thought they had found the entrance of the ancient tomb and were overjoyed.

While Lu Su was researching how to open such a huge stone gate, Luo Ren suddenly pointed to the top left of the gate and said, "Look, there is a hole next to the stone gate. It seems that someone made it deliberately. It probably leads to the stone gate. Behind." As he said, he climbed up to check first, but found countless snake scales in the cave, and at the end of the cave, there was a vast and dark space, like the world behind the stone gate.

Then Luo Ren called the two to climb up to the entrance of the cave, and said: "There are snake scales in this cave, there may be snakes behind the stone gate, everyone be vigilant."

These three people were brave, and they were not afraid of snakes, so they crawled along the entrance of the cave.

After entering the space behind the stone gate, with the help of the flashlight, I couldn't help but be secretly startled.I saw that in this huge space, there were countless iron chains as thick as adult thighs, and the iron chains were entangled with each other, like a dense spider web.

Looking along the pattern of the spider's web, there is a shockingly huge thing tied up on the ground in the center.

When Luoren saw the thing, he almost bit his tongue and said, "Dragon! God!"

Wei Nanjing shook his head and said, "Impossible, it doesn't move at all, it looks like a stone statue."

Indeed, the overall color of the thing bound by the iron lock in the center is exactly the same as the color of the cave behind the door, and it is motionless. At first glance, it looks like a huge dragon-shaped stone statue chiselled along the trend, and it cannot be seen that it belongs to the cave at all. characteristics of living things.A few people were surprised at first, and then they decided it was a stone statue. In order to find out what this place was for, they approached the stone statue. Luo Ren even kicked it, as if kicking a rock, and touching it with his hands was cold and hard. .

Wei Nanjing said: "This stone statue is lifelike and exquisitely crafted, but I don't know what it's useful for."

At this time, several people were in the direction of the dragon's head, and Lu Su stood a little farther away. Compared with the dragon-shaped stone sculpture, he cared more about the iron chains.

It was not easy to make iron in ancient times. Casting so many iron chains is not a small project, including materials, casting, transportation, and final fixing. It is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. What is the significance of doing so?Is it for decoration, to bind a stone statue?

The more Lu Su thought about it, the more something was wrong. He turned his head to look at the sleeping Shilong, and the more he looked at it, the more lifelike it seemed, as if it were a living thing.He felt uneasy, so he reminded the two of them aloud, "There is something strange here, we should stay away from that thing." As soon as the words fell, his uneasiness was confirmed, and in the empty stone room, the sound of ghosts crying suddenly , The sound came from the top of the head impressively.

Above the head was a net made of iron chains, which already obstructed people's vision, and in addition to the dim light, it was impossible to see what was above.When several people heard the sound of the ghost crying, they couldn't help being shocked. Lu Su even lifted the ghost crying knife to one side, and he was full of 12 energy, ready to release the accident at any time.

The three people's light sources gathered in one place to shine upwards, and the field of vision suddenly widened a lot. When they saw the scene above clearly, they felt their scalps go numb for a while.It turned out that there were countless figures squirming above the head, but they were deformed corpses.Some faces down, staring at the three of them with rolled-up eyes.Under the corpses was a dark iron fence, so those corpses could not come down.

Hearing this, I already understood.Presumably at that time, the three of Lu Su should have been under the burial pit, and the reason why those corpses suddenly wriggled was precisely because of the three of us, the red-clothed zongzi who were alarmed at that time.

Things in the world are often such a coincidence. At that time, the three of us fell into the burial pit, and a group of corpses came out of the nest. In order to protect ourselves, we had to overturn the corpse raising cauldron above our heads.

This corpse raising bureau was originally used to suppress the evil dragons below, the corpse raising cauldron was overturned, and the corpse raising bureau was destroyed. Although nothing happened to Tofu and me, it was bad for Lu Su's side.

(End of this chapter)