Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 81 Cracks, Murals

Changbai Mountain is a potentially volcanic mountain. According to historical records, the last small-scale eruption should have been 1000 years ago. Although the volcano is now silent, the nearby geothermal heat is extremely rich, and many geological crevices and lava mouths in the volcanic period are maintained. Due to the extremely high temperature, there might be a steaming crack in the ground behind the Panlong Sealing Stone, which could give off the smell of sulfur.

This is undoubtedly good news for Mengli and the others. In such an environment, it is definitely more economical to have a stable heat source than to light a bonfire. However, the huge black dragon seal stone is pressed on it, and there is little to say by visual inspection. It weighs more than ten tons, and they don't have any mountain-digging equipment, so it is really difficult to turn it over.

"Brother," Mengli, whose pale face had turned ruddy just now, looked at the little brother who was supporting her, and smiled, "I've rested, so you don't need to support me."

The younger brother didn't seem to believe it. Seeing her rosy face, he was also relieved, but said: "You just recovered now, take a rest."

Mengli stared at the younger brother's sharp-edged face with a dazed expression, but she didn't react, but her heart was full of twists and turns: younger brother will care about people? !Brother is caring about me?God!

"What's wrong?" Seeing Mengli in a daze, the little brother asked in confusion.

"It's nothing, I'm flattered by your sudden concern!" Mengli joked.

"..." The little brother was speechless for a while, still supporting Mengli, looking at Wu Xie and the others.

Mengli smiled, she knew that this was a man as powerful as a god and Buddha.As long as he is by your side, he can block all disasters and pains for you. He has no words, will not be happy, and will not be sad. He always stands there silently like a porcelain doll, watching everything indifferently. However, you know he cares about you.

It's just that he is not good at expressing... Mengli's eyes dimmed.

The fat man is a man of action. He raised his arms and beckoned Wu Xie and the others to move the stone. Several people went up and tried to carry it twice.

The fat man was out of breath, and cursed: "No way, old man, I said earlier that our equipment is not good enough. Look at the current situation, it would be great to have some explosives."

Monk Hua said: "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Our old man has crossed more bridges than you have traveled. It is right not to bring explosives. You say that we are now at the bottom of the valley, and there is snow on your head. You can put a bridge wherever you want." Blast holes, shake off the snow on them, and bury them alive in one fell swoop."

The fat man had no words to refute. At this time, Wu Xie saw many stones of different sizes stuck on the lower edge of the Panlong Sealing Stone. He had an idea and said to them: "Maybe you don't need explosives. Let me do it."

Speaking of which, Wu Xie took out a masonry hammer from his luggage, walked to the side of the Panlong Sealing Stone, carefully inspected the several relatively large stones below, and then pointed at one of them and knocked with the inside, and that stone On the one hand, it was under more than ten tons of pressure, and received a sideways hammer from Wu Xie, and immediately cracked a crack, followed by a series of stone friction sounds from Carrara. The slope began to slide.

Meng Li and the others hurriedly backed away. The Panlong Sealing Stone slid down a few inches and began to tilt again, but the stone was too heavy and stopped after sliding a little bit. Even so, they still saw the sealing stone Behind it, a crack in the rock on the mountain was exposed.

The cracks in the rock are as wide as a head, and people can barely pass through. Looking at the edge of the cave, it is in the shape of a torn rock formation. There are no traces of artificial excavation, and the smell of sulfur comes from inside.

The fat man turned on the flashlight, reached in and took a look, then turned his head and said, "It's very warm inside, but the angle is too uncomfortable to illuminate anything, and there seems to be writing on the stone wall inside."

"What is written?" Wu Xie asked.

The fat man squinted his eyes for a closer look, and said, "I don't understand, I don't know what to write." He tried to slip in, but the fat man was indeed too fat. Several times, I couldn't squeeze in.

Seeing this, Mengli smiled: "Fatty, with your size... you can barely get in without your coat!"

"Oh, why didn't I think of that!" The fat man slapped his forehead, took off his outer coat, and finally managed to get in.

Meng Li followed closely behind, wearing a coat, and slipped in easily.

The fat man turned his head and saw this scene, and said in surprise, "I'll go! Sister, you... okay! When can I be like you!"

"You?" Mengli glanced at the fat man up and down, "Think about it!" She has been training her body's flexibility since she was a child, and it is as hard as practicing dancing, or even worse. After I stretched my muscles, I rested for a week, but I couldn't recover.

Seeing Mengli's almost disgusted eyes, the fat man scratched his head, a little embarrassed: "Hehe... I'm just talking, just talking."

Chen Pi Asi asked Ye Cheng, Lang Feng and Pan Zi to stay outside to take care of something, and the rest of them followed Fatty and Meng Li and got into the gap.

The whole here is a crack in the rock that was cracked during the movement of the mountain. After entering, I found that the crack is a steep downward direction. The inside is very dark, and it looks extremely deep.

There is not much space at the opening of the gap, two people cannot stand side by side, and it is very difficult to walk inside the gap. The bottom is full of big and fast stones with sharp edges and corners. The sulfur smell in the hole is very strong, and the temperature is at least [-] degrees. Even the stones are hot.

Meng Li and the others took a few steps forward, and the fat man shone a flashlight on one side, and said, "Look, what are these characters?"

Wu Xie turned his head. The characters were not engraved on the wall of the gap, but on a random rock at the bottom. They were a few unfamiliar characters, a bit like Chinese, and a bit like Korean, and the engraving was very messy.

"Jurchen Wen." Mengli glanced at it and said.

Monk Hua leaned over to take a look, nodded, and agreed: "It is indeed a Jurchen character."

"What did you write?" the fat man asked.

Monk Hua wanted to study it, but Mengli frowned and said, "Copy it down first, and study it later, it's not the time yet."

Monk Hua thought of their current situation, nodded, and copied these words into the notebook.

Fatty took the lead, and several people lined up and continued to walk deep into the cave.

Speaking of walking, in fact, there are more opportunities to use hands than feet. The whole gap is almost [-] degrees downward. Whether there are steps or not, it is almost all by climbing down. The inside is wide and narrow, sometimes high and sometimes low. In some places people You have to sit down to pass.

The only thing that made people feel comfortable was that it was much warmer inside. Wu Xie and the others started sweating after crawling, so they had to unbutton their clothes.And Mengli took off her coat and tied it around her waist.

At this time, the fat man asked: "Old man, tell me, could it be that the stone is blocking the seam by chance?"

Chen Pi Asi pondered and said: "The mountain was built to build the mausoleum, and materials were collected locally. There are so many chaotic stones outside here, it should be the quarry used for quarrying when building the mausoleum. Maybe this seam was discovered when they were quarrying. I know why, and I have to use a sealing stone to suppress it in the end."

After descending less than 100 meters, the smell of sulfur became stronger and stronger, and the rocks became darker and darker, and they all began to show the brilliance of glass, which is the trace of mica melted at high temperature.

Wu Xie wondered wildly whether they would be dead if the volcano erupted.

Suddenly, the fat man who led the battle stopped and shone the flashlight. It turned out that the crack in front shrank suddenly, and the rocks overlapped, leaving only a very small gap to go down.

Wu Xie squatted down and used a flashlight to illuminate the inside. This was caused by the collapse of the gap. The gap inside was so small that it seemed that he had to crawl to get in.

Chen Pi Asi looked at the entrance of the cave, and knew that he would not be able to climb in due to his physical strength. After discussing it, Wu Xie asked Monk Hua to accompany him to wait for them. have what.

Wu Xie and the others took off their coats to minimize their size. Meng Li just took off the coat around her waist. This time, it was the little brother and Meng Li who led the way. The four of them went down and squeezed into the gap bit by bit. inside.

Wu Xie thought that this collapse was only temporary, and if they climbed a few steps forward, there would be an exit. If it was real, they could turn around and go back in time. Unexpectedly, this section of the gap was very long, and after climbing for a long time, they could still pass through the front , deeply unexpected.

The stone points inside were very sharp, Wu Xie climbed a few steps, and the clothes on his body were scratched in several places.The rock squeezed his lungs, and as the temperature got higher and higher, Wu Xie gradually felt it was difficult to breathe.

The fat man at the back felt the same as Wu Xie, he grabbed his feet and said, "No, there might be a problem with the air quality in here, we came in without looking, it's too reckless."

Wu Xie wanted to look back, but the space was too small, so there was nothing he could do. Thinking about climbing a long distance just now, he was reluctant to go back now, and in the current situation, crawling backwards might be more painful than when he came here, so he said: "Let's go a few steps forward, and if we haven't reached the end, we will back out."

The fat man responded, and at this moment, suddenly, the little brother in front called out: "En?"

Meng Li asked: "What's wrong?"

Wu Xie turned his head and looked forward, but the front was empty. The little brother and Meng Li who had been blocking him just now were gone, leaving only a dark passage in the stone crevice, and he didn't know where it led.

From when Wu Xie heard the conversation between the little brother and Mengli, to the time when he found that the little brother and Mengli disappeared in front of him, it definitely didn't take more than five seconds. Even a mouse couldn't be so quickly in such an environment. Disappeared in front of my eyes, let alone a person.

Wu Xie suddenly felt something was wrong, and subconsciously took a step back, wanting to take a closer look, but in a daze, he saw the little brother appearing in front of him again.

The fat man was right behind Wu Xie, startled by Wu Xie's step back, and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Xie was puzzled by Monk Zhanger for a while, and said falteringly, "No...it's okay".

The little brother didn't seem to know that he and Mengli had something strange just now, so he paused, greeted Wu Xie and Fatty, and began to speed up and crawl forward.

This disappearance appeared in an instant, although Wu Xie felt it very clearly, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he suddenly lost his confidence, and he was very puzzled. Could it be the air that made him hallucinate?

The situation does not allow Wu Xie to think too much, the fat man pulled Wu Xie's feet behind him to urge him, Wu Xie was puzzled while climbing a certain distance, and when he climbed over the section where the little brother and Meng Li disappeared, Wu Xie paid special attention to it. Looking around, there was no depression or place where he could have an illusion, and he felt vaguely uncomfortable.

Passing through this section, and advancing for about 10 minutes, the little brother suddenly loosened his body and leaned out. Wu Xie saw that the front became spacious and knew that the exit had arrived.

At the end of the gap is a lot of rocks. After climbing out, the little brother took out a few fluorescent sticks and threw them around. The warm yellow light illuminated the whole place. Wu Xie turned his head and found that this should be the entire mountain The relatively spacious place in the crack is about the width of four or five Jinbei small breads, and the length is about one and a half basketball courts. The bottom is full of large and small gravel, which were torn down by the address activity when the crack was formed. of.

Fatty expanded the aperture of the flashlight, looked around, and said, "It's strange, there are even murals here. It seems that we are not the first people to come here."

Meng Li and the others walked up and found that there were indeed large colored murals on the cracked mountain wall, but the murals were in poor condition and the color was dim.

The entrance to this place is blocked by a huge sealing stone, and there are murals inside. What exactly is this place?Wu Xie was puzzled again.

Walking back and forth, among the gravel, they found several small hot spring holes, which were very shallow, but steaming hot and indescribably tempting.But no traces of other people's activities were found.

Going further inside, the gap gradually narrowed again until it became a small gap with the width of two people. It went deep into the rock, and hot wind blew out from the gap from time to time. At the end, I don't know where it leads.

Several people exchanged opinions and thought that there is no need to go in again. This is already a good place to escape from the snowstorm. The fat man tested the air and there is no big problem. He turned on the wind lamp for permanent lighting, and the little brother crawled back to inform the outside people.

After a while, Monk Hua and Ye Cheng came in one after another, and Shun Zi was also pulled in by Pan Zi. Wu Xie immediately went to check his condition, and found that his face had started to turn rosy because of the temperature here, but his hands and feet were still cold.I don't know if I can survive it.

The way up is led by him. If he dies, although it is not impossible to say no, but there will always be a lot of difficulties. In addition, Wu Xie also likes this person very much. I really don't want him to be so innocent because of them. die.

Monk Hua checked his heartbeat and pulse, then asked Wu Xie to step aside, soaked a towel in hot spring water, put it on a stone to cool down slightly, then wiped Shunzi's body, and waited until his whole body was covered with blood red before giving him water. After pouring some hot water into it, Sunja began to cough violently, her eyelids twitching.

Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief, and Monk Hua said, "Okay, I can't die."

As the atmosphere eased, Fatty and Ye Cheng took out their cigarettes, lit them up and started smoking.At this time, Chen Pi A Si was also helped in by Pan Zi.

After this series of changes, Mengli and the others were exhausted and had no strength to speak, so they each found a comfortable place to lean down.

Mengli leaned aside, and what she could see was Wu Xie and the little brother, Wu Xie was still too innocent and kind, the little brother...we were going to part at last...Thinking of this, Mengli lowered her eyes and missed the little brother's investigation The deep eyes that came over.

Ye Cheng took out the compressed can, threw it into the hot spring water and distributed it to everyone.

While eating, Wu Xie and Monk Hua looked at the murals just discovered. This place is obviously formed naturally, and the space is narrow. Why did you paint murals here? Just now, the little brother disappeared in front of him suddenly, and the huge sealing stone at the entrance of the cave , giving Wu Xie a very unnatural feeling.

People who deal with antiquities are always very interested in murals and reliefs, which carry a lot of information.

However, there is not much information on the murals. The murals of Tiannv Feitian are mostly placed on gorgeous palaces or ritual vessels. They just show a beautiful scene of singing and dancing, and have no practical significance.Most of the mural fragments here are like this. They are all people who crawled out of ancient tombs. After seeing too many, they lose interest after seeing it.

Wu Xie was about to go back and rub his toes. He had sweated a lot during the journey, and his toes were numb from the cold. At this time, he heard the fat man "tsk", stretched out his thumb, and began to use Fingers peeled off the mural.

Wu Xie asked: "What's the matter? Although this thing is worthless, it is also a relic of the predecessors, and you can't destroy it."

The fat man said: "What nonsense are you talking about? My nails are worthless? I don't peel off ordinary things. Come and see for yourself. This mural has two layers!"

"Two floors?" Wu Xie frowned, what did she mean?

The crowd surrounded him again, and walked over to see what the fat man was talking about. The fat man asked them to look at his fingers, and saw that the red cinnabar material was scraped off, and then looked at the area in front of the fat man. Sure enough, There is a piece of composition in the corner of the mural that is obviously different from the one on the side, and the things painted are also different, but this place is extremely inconspicuous, and if it weren't for the sharp eyes of the fat man, he would definitely not be able to see it.

This was apparently caused by someone repainting a mural to cover the original mural.

The upper layer gradually peeled off due to exposure to the air, exposing the mural behind it, which is often the case in oil paintings.

The fat man continued to scrape with his fingers, and some bright colors began to appear where he scraped off.

Wu Xie also scraped the mural with his fingers, and found that the surface layer did not seem to have completed all the processes, so the fat man could simply wipe off the color with a random scrape. Otherwise, if the complete steps were followed, the murals after Tang There will be a special layer of clearing material on the outside, which will protect the mural like varnish, making the color less likely to fade and peel off.

Chen Pi Asi frowned very tightly, and soon, a large mural the size of a washbasin was peeled off. Behind the mural, there appeared a half-carriage painted with colorful paints. The carriage was obviously floating on the clouds, almost A woman in Mongolian costume waited on the side of the carriage, and the owner of the carriage was a fat man. Wu Xie had never seen this man's costume.

This is a narrative mural, Wu Xie suddenly became nervous.

Obviously someone painted a narrative mural first, but for some reason, someone replaced it with another one in a hurry, and the time may be very tight at that time, so the mural outside did not even have the final process Finish.

Chen Pi Asi looked at the whole mural, then looked at the surrounding environment, and said to Mengli and the others: "This... has something to do with Tiangong, clear the entire wall and see what the mural says .”

Mengli smiled, her eyebrows curved: "Si Grandpa, if you let me scratch with my nails, then forget it!" Then she reached out from the pocket of the coat she was carrying, took out a few cards, and handed them to Wu who was eager to try. Xie, "Use this!"

"Oh," Wu Xie took it in a daze, and after a closer look, it seemed that they were a few tarot cards, but he didn't recognize any of the pictures and words on them.Wu Xie distributed the cards to the little brother and the others, and began to work carefully, peeling off the murals on the stone walls.

When the little brother took the Tarot cards, he was taken aback for a moment, then glanced deeply at Meng Li who was talking to Chen Pi Asi, and rubbed his fingers against the Tarot cards in his hand, what exactly did she know...

Large pieces of murals peeled off, and after a while, a colorful and majestic picture scroll gradually unfolded in front of them.

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