Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 229 Underground Palace

The people lying there, they can't take them back. Although they knew that they would definitely not be able to wait until they came in next time, they still left some water and food: If they survived like that ghost, then All they left was a glimmer of hope.

Wu Xie and Fatty took the little brother and walked back carefully all the way, and soon they reached the ground floor, but—on the floor of the iron figurines, Mrs. Huo's body was gone! !

"What's going on?" Wu Xie was already sweating profusely, and his feet were trembling unconsciously.

It's not that I was scared, but I carried my little brother on my back. Of course, he was also slightly frightened.

The fat man was also exhausted from carrying other things on his back.

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, he stopped and said, "Then Mrs. Huo has become a dumpling, right?!"

"Impossible!" Wu Xie immediately refuted his words, because Mrs. Huo had Mengli's blood on her body, which was pure unicorn blood!

"Okay, okay, let's find the way! Now we, we have to find the way for the little brother to come in!"

The copper door was closed before, so the little brother and the others must not have come in from the way they came.

The ground is full of messy footprints.

Wu Xie looked at the fat man with puzzled eyes.

The fat man sighed and said, "You are with me. I think you are slowly becoming stupid. Look at the door here."

Wu Xie followed what the fat man said and realized what he was talking about.Entering through the door, there were only two clear footprints, and one could tell it belonged to him and the fat man.

"Brother, they didn't seem to come in from the door." The fat man said, "Look, the footprints here are very messy. Now we can find out where they came in from the patterns on the soles of my shoes."

Wu Xie looked down at the countless footprints under their feet, and knew that the fat man's method was feasible.

They searched backwards according to his method, and soon came to the middle of several pillars.They discovered that the little brother's footprints came from a pillar.

This pillar is covered with carved patterns in the style of Pixiu, which is really quite rare in ancient tombs.

"There must be a mechanism." As he said that, the fat man studied the details on the Pixiu one by one, so carefully that it was a bit wretched, but no matter how he studied, he felt that these Pixiu were dead and could not be pressed.

Just when they were wondering, the little brother on Wu Xie's back suddenly moved - his hand stretched out.

Wu Xie looked back at him.He was extremely weak, his eyes were still closed, and he didn't know if he was fully awake.

The fat man also looked back at him, and asked softly, "Brother, what do you want to do?"

"I'll come." The little brother on the back said softly.

Wu Xie immediately understood what he meant, and took a few steps forward.His oddly long fingers stuck to the icy pillar, and then he used his fingers to gently slide on all the patterns.

With his back on his back, Wu Xie quietly walked round and round the pillar.No sound was dared to come out.

When they circled No.20, they heard the little brother say: "No. 13 in the first row, sixth in the second row and seventh in the third row. Tap each one gently .Remember the order."

After speaking, his hand immediately dropped down.

Fatty complied immediately.After finishing, I suddenly saw these pillars began to rotate slowly.Turning and turning, a gap appeared on a pillar in the middle that probably only allowed one person to pass sideways.Inside the gap is a passage, all the way down, leading directly to the ground.

On the inner wall of this pillar, there are climbing spikes.

"A brother in the family is like a treasure!" said the fat man.

When the fat man went to knock, Wu Xie asked the younger brother: "Brother, where is Mengli...?"

The little brother's fingers moved subconsciously, and his voice was hoarse: "She carried... blood... and left..."

The little brother spoke intermittently, and Wu Xie probably understood a little bit, but there were still some things that he didn't understand, and the little brother was like this now, so he couldn't ask anything.

After unlocking the trap, they went down to the bottom, took a light with a lighter, and couldn't help being surprised—they saw a room made of stones, and looking at the surroundings, it should be an underground palace.

"Is this also part of the Zhang family's ancient building?" the fat man asked.

Wu Xie nodded. According to the previous practice, the underground palace of this ancient building should be the tomb of Zhang's ancestors.I'm afraid that the people buried in this place are all quite old seniors.

"How to do?"

"Brother came out from here, obviously the import and export is here! Brother, you are a good person to do it to the end, let's do a GPS again." Fatty said to the little brother.

The little brother didn't respond, it seemed that he fell asleep again.

The fat man looked at it and could only shake his head, and said, "The GPS is out of battery."

"Let's go, let's be careful. Since the way out is here, we can always find it." Wu Xie said, "When we encounter mountains, we open roads, and when we encounter water, we build bridges. Let's take one step at a time. I'll put my brother down, let's look around first. .”

There is no dust here, so you can have a good rest.

Wu Xie had never been so tired before.The little brother got off his shoulders, and he immediately felt dizzy, rubbed his shoulders, and followed the fat man to check around.

As soon as Wu Xie and Fatty left, the little brother who was sleeping against the wall slowly opened his eyes, those eyes that were as indifferent as water, had a little more emotion.

He looked into the distance faintly, his eyes were full of melancholy, and a wordless emotion faintly revealed in them.

"Brother, I'll take you home, okay?"

Her words are still ringing in my ears.

"Send you home" means "send", not "take", maybe she just said that because she knew she couldn't go back.

Thinking of this, the sadness between his brows became more intense, and under the tightly furrowed brows, a pair of clear black eyes had long lost their former brilliance and become dull.

go home?I don't have a home.Maybe a place with you can be called a home, without you, how can I have a home?

He sat silently with his head bowed, his eyes fixed on the ground, with a dazed look, and then slowly closed his pupils.

"Brother, you are Zhang Qiling, the last Zhang Qiling of the Zhang family, a master of underground tomb robbers, and a disabled person living on the ground..."

"Zhang Qiling is a code name, but also a responsibility... My appearance is to alleviate your pain and share your responsibility."

"I think my heart is like a rock, but after all, I am not a grass...Little brother, I also have people and things I miss...but I...can't go back..."

Come back home?

I have no home.

Mengli, you—give me a home.

--Zhang Qi Ling

(End of this chapter)