Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 80 Centipede Dragon

Wu Xie patted off the snowdrops from his eyes, and for a moment he didn't know where he was, only felt that there was a stone point on his back, and Ye Chengcheng was below him, yelling there.

Wu Xie settled down, and subconsciously looked at what Ye Cheng was afraid of. Looking down carefully, he found that they were leaning on a steep rocky slope, five or six meters away from the bottom of the slope, and the rope in their waist Hanging on a rock corner, they didn't roll down directly. The bottom of the slope was full of snow blocks and stones that slid down with them just now. Inside the snowdrift, several black and slender claws were exposed.

Looking along the paws, the snowdrift is looming, and there is a black, thick and thin thing coiled around a bucket. The ring-shaped body is full of scales, some are hidden in the snow, and some are exposed outside the snow. I thought it was a hibernating snake, but upon closer inspection it looked like a centipede.

This thing was attached to the stone, motionless, I don't know if it was alive or dead, I couldn't see the head and tail, and I didn't know how long it was.

Wu Xie wondered, this is above the snow line, and there are very few living things. What kind of creature is this? Looking at those centipede-like claws and its size, I felt instinctively uncomfortable.

Pan Zi insisted on going down, Ye Cheng kept yelling, the fat man also saw what was below, took a ball from the snow beside him and smashed it on the back of Ye Cheng's head, cursing softly: "You motherfucker, lighten up!" Do you want to wake him up?!"

Wu Xie looked around. This should be a closed small valley, filled with avalanches, but because the stones were piled up too messily, a lot of air bubbles were generated. The fat man walked up to it, and stepped on the fragile snow layer at once. , All of a sudden, it caused a chain reaction, and the snow layer collapsed all of a sudden, and they were all brought down by him.

The snow on the top is still falling down. Many times after such a landslide, the surrounding snow will gather like quicksand and re-bury the collapsed place. This process is extremely fast, and many alpine expeditions are here. In such a situation, the staff will be reduced, and the entire team will disappear in a few seconds.

Fortunately, the snow on the side was still solid this time, probably because they were tied together by ropes and pulled down one by one.

Here is the leeward side, the wind is obviously a lot less, not as cold as before.

Wu Xie took a few breaths, sat up cautiously, and moved down a few steps. Although the slope is steep, the surface of the slope is covered with broken stones, some of which are as big as the head of a Jiefang truck, and some of which are only the size of a ping-pong ball. , Climbing is very convenient, going up and down is not difficult.

Pan Zi had already untied the rope, and because he was not far from the bottom, he jumped down with the snow, and rolled to the bottom of the slope after hitting the ground.

The little brother half hugged Mengli, looked at her somewhat distracted eyes, patted her face, and said in a deep voice: "Mengli, don't sleep! Hold on for a while."

Mengli held the little brother's hand, smiled weakly at him, and joked with all her energy: "Brother, be gentle when you slap your face in the future, okay? It hurts."

Fatty looked at the two "showing affection" beside him, his eyes lit up, and he thought: "This little brother and sister are sure to succeed!" But he didn't dare to say it out, and he wasn't sure what the consequences would be if he said it.

Seeing that Mengli can still joke, the little brother breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly, "Persist for a while."

"I know," Mengli nodded, and looked at Pan Zi below, "Let's go down too! Pan Zi can't do it alone."

"Yeah." The little brother jumped down with Mengli half in his arms, and landed safely.

Seeing that the little brother and Mengli came down, Pan Zi seemed to have found the backbone, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, nodded to them, and touched the black thing one after the other, the person above suddenly raised his heart to his throat .

After walking a few steps, the little brother, Mengli, and Pan Zi all straightened up and obviously relaxed. Pan Zi looked at the little brother and Mengli, shrugged his shoulders, and gestured for Wu Xie and the others to come down.

The fat man untied the rope and rolled down. The little brother had already swept away the snow from the stone carving. It turned out that it was a stone dragon lying on a stone cliff. It was carved with black stone. The cliff stone carving is very vivid. Hidden in the snow, I really can't see it.

Wu Xie and the others came down one after another. When Chen Pi Asi saw the stone carving, his expression changed obviously. He couldn't stand steadily, so he asked Monk Hua to help him, and went straight to the front of the stone carving on the cliff, and started to touch it.

This dragon is different from other dragons. There are countless centipede-like feet carved under its body. It is obviously not a carving from the Central Plains. It should be a dragon alienated from the nearby nomads.

The fat man asked: "Why is this dragon so ugly, like a worm, it looks so evil, it's much uglier than the one on the dragon wall of the Forbidden City, it must be carved badly."

Monk Hua glanced at him contemptuously, and said, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, this is a hundred-legged dragon, not a flat dragon. The early dragon carvings of the Eastern Xia Kingdom all looked like this. In the early days of China, ancient Chinese Dragons come in very different shapes, and some dragons have pig noses, which is not surprising."

The evolution of Chinese dragons is very long. At the beginning, the dragon crawled and crawled. Just find a beast head and put it on the snake. At that time, each tribe had its own dragon totem. Each tribe evolved separately, and finally the dragon form Also vary.Later, with the spread of Han culture and the fusion of Yi and Xia cultures, the image of the Han dragon began to mix with the dragons of various ethnic minority tribes. In the end, the dragons were gradually unified into the current Panlong.

This centipede is a mixture of a dragon and a centipede, but I don't know why, seeing so many arthropod feet growing under an ordinary dragon, not only can't give people a sense of might, but it makes people feel very It's uncomfortable, and it feels a little weird.

After listening to Monk Hua's introduction, the fat man smiled and said, "Brother Scar, I don't see that you are quite literary, so this stone should belong to the Eastern Xia Kingdom?"

Monk Hua looked at the stone carvings, and looked up at the top of the hillside, wondering: "That's right, but, where did this dragon carving stone come from?"

It was already dark at this time, Mengli and the others each turned on their flashlights, and while sweeping away all the snow on the stone with their hands, they found that the stone was almost a huge flat plate five meters high and three meters wide, leaning against the rocky slope on one side. On the top, the stone is extremely flat and black, which is obviously different from other stones here.

Wu Xie looked at the marks where the stone was broken, and said: "It may have collapsed from above. The fourth grandpa is right. The place we are going to is still above. Look at the asymmetrical shape of the dragon. This is the double dragon." Xizhu, there should be another side of such a stone carving, usually carved on a stone gate, with one on each side."

Chen Pi Asi coughed, and said weakly: "Fart, half-knowledge, talk a lot, what kind of stone gate, this is the sealing stone in the tomb passage."

As he said that, he pointed to the dragon's mouth, Monk Hua went over immediately, put his hand into the dragon's mouth, and pulled out a black wrist-thick iron chain for him. You pulled it out."

Chen Pi'a said four times: "This is the horse chain used to pull the stone seal when sealing the tomb. This side is facing inward."

Wu Xie blushed when she told him, looked left and right and said, "Ah, sure enough, I was wrong, but why did Feng Shi appear here?"

Monk Hua pulled the iron chain vigorously, but the stone remained motionless, and a trace of doubt flashed across Chen Pi Asi's face, he shook his head and looked up.

Wu Xie groaned in his heart, knowing what he was worried about. If the sealing stone also collapsed from above, it meant that the tomb passage above was seriously damaged. Even if they found it, could they still go in?

The wind and snow were raging overhead, and it was already dark to the point of night. Wu Xie looked at his watch, wondering when the snowstorm would last.

The discovery of this stone sculpture increased the confidence of several people in finding Tiangong, but Wu Xie didn't know whether to be happy or depressed. Monk Hua took a photo of the stone sculpture. Gu Hao, it's time to take a rest, this place is just sheltered from the wind, what's going on, wait until the wind stops.

Several people sorted out the equipment, and Monk Hua went to take care of the wounded soldier. The little brother still maintained the posture of holding Mengli halfway, because he knew that if he let go, Mengli would probably fall to the ground.

Seeing Mengli's nearly comatose state, the little brother frowned, and patted Mengli's face again, but this time the movement was very light.

"How are you?" the little brother asked in a low voice.

Mengli leaned half on the little brother's body, her voice was weak: "I'm probably tired, let me lean on for a while."

Suddenly, Monk Hua ran over and told Wu Xie that it was a bit troublesome, and Shunzi basically didn't respond.

Wu Xie put Shunzi down and shook his head, but he could only give a blunt acknowledgment, his consciousness was blurred, and he knew it was hypothermia at a glance.

"We have to start a fire, otherwise he won't last long." Pan Zi walked over and said. "If you fall asleep, you won't wake up."

Wu Xie looked around, there was no firewood at all, and if he wanted to start a fire, he might have to burn the sledge.However, a lot of equipment is needed to go up the snow-capped mountain. Without a sledge, the road below may not be able to go on.

Monk Hua looked at Chen Pi Ah Si, obviously not daring to make decisions for himself, the latter's face was very gloomy, he didn't know if it was frozen or what, he frowned and said: "Don't let him die for now, I have something to ask he."

Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief. Monk Hua unloaded the sledge and prepared to pull out the wooden sticks to use as firewood. However, the sledge is also soaked in snow now. I don’t know if I can light it. I was worried , Wu Xie suddenly smelled a smell of sulfur.

I don't know where the smell came from. Wu Xie told Monk Hua not to move, and stood up to smell it carefully.

The others also smelled it at the same time, and they all stopped what they were doing. The fat man took a deep breath and said, "Comrades, it seems to smell like hot springs!"

Chen Pi Asi winked at Ye Cheng and Lang Feng, and told them to go out to look for it. The fat man picked up his backpack and said he would go, but Pan Zi stopped all three of them. Mengli said, "Why panic, don't forget that we have experts here."

At this time, the little brother had already leaned down, touched the rocks underneath one by one with his two unusually long fingers, and suddenly frowned, "Huh?"

Standing beside the little brother, Mengli patted his back, and then, under the doubtful eyes of the little brother, pointed to the hundred-legged panlong sealing stone to the side.

Several people came to the Panlong Stone. There was no smell here just now, but now the smell of sulfur is already obvious.

The little brother touched the faucet, looked behind the stone, put his hand on the faucet, pressed it, and said, "It's strange, the back of the faucet is empty."

In the final chapter of the story, I am no longer wandering, because you said that you will use your life, remember me.

——by Zhang Qiling

(End of this chapter)