Qilin Jue [Tomb Raiders Notes]

On the edge of the cliff, the impact of the avalanche continued.

Zhang Qiling clenched the black knife supported by the □□ mountain, and when the upper part finally calmed down, he looked down at the black glasses on the lower right.

The place where the black knife is fixed is about two meters away from the edge of the cliff, and there is a protruding rock platform above it.

Looking up at the platform above, Zhang Qiling grabbed the hand of the black glasses and pulled it up forcefully, allowing him to climb up.

Then when Zhang Qiling was about to go up, he felt his waist suddenly sink, and a huge force made his abdomen hurt, making him almost unable to grasp it.

Zhang Qiling lowered his head, looked at the tight rope wrapped around his waist, and frowned slightly.

Everyone was connected with ropes before, but one part was disconnected during the avalanche, and as a result, the five people walking behind were washed down the cliff.

Zhang Qiling and the black glasses climbed onto the mountain and did not fall, but the three people behind Zhang Qiling had no place to support, which caused them to slide down the almost right-angled mountain wall, and the connecting rope was also pulling Zhang Qiling downward at this moment. .

"Give me your hand." The black glasses supported the rock, and stretched out his right hand to Zhang Qiling.

The waist was pulled down by a huge force, Zhang Qiling couldn't move his hands, so he had to grab the twine and lift it up to relieve some of the burden, but his body was still sliding down bit by bit.The three people hanging below are flopping around to find a point of strength.

"Don't worry about it, give me your hand!" Seeing Zhang Qiling struggling and falling slowly, the black glasses were a little anxious.

Panic cries for help came from below, Zhang Qiling paused for a while in a balanced posture, and then suddenly pressed down hard with the hand holding the black knife.With a click, a part of the black knife came out.

But this action made the black glasses startled, and his heartbeat stopped suddenly.

Stepping on a raised fulcrum under his feet, Zhang Qiling relaxed a little, looked at the black glasses, and said he was fine.

After the people below found a place to support and began to climb up, the rope around the waist was loosened.Zhang Qiling grabbed the hand of the black glasses and jumped onto the platform with his strength.

The black glasses looked at the people below, then looked at Zhang Qiling, and opened his mouth to say something.But in the end it was just a sigh.

At this moment, the people above are still looking for them, but it seems that this place has been overlooked, and no one has come.

The black glasses looked up at the edge of the cliff which was less than two meters away, and was about to say something when Zhang Qiling suddenly said, "Did you hear that?"

"What?" The black glasses were stunned for a moment, and asked inexplicably.

"Someone is coming." Zhang Qiling looked up.

"Probably the ones who stayed above." Black Glasses said.

Zhang Qiling shook his head slightly, "No, it's not these people, it's someone else, coming here."

The black glasses froze for a moment, thought for a while and then fell silent, listening quietly.

There was a faint humming sound in the air, continuous, like the sound of a motor starting, it seemed that some mechanical vehicle was coming here, and it became clearer and clearer.

A figure suddenly protruded from the edge, saw Zhang Qiling and the black glasses, looked down again, and said to the people behind him: "They are here."

Seeing that everyone was gathered together, Hua Qi said to the porter beside him, "Change the road."

This road can't go any further, who knows what's behind.

Bart nodded, "The snow has fallen, but the other side of the mountain should be cleared. Please wait a moment, my boss. Let's go over and have a look." Saying that, Bart and Wu Shun walked towards the side of the mountain.

Hua Qi sighed, seeing that Zhang Qiling and the others had come up, he picked up the equipment and put it on his back.But when he was about to order something, something happened again.

There was a slight vibration from the snow layer under his feet, which was not obvious but clearly felt.

Thinking it was another avalanche, everyone looked up to the top of the mountain with trepidation, but saw that there was no sign of an avalanche on the whole mountain, but the snow under their feet was indeed shaking.

Zhang Qiling was untying the rope around his waist. When he felt movement, he also looked towards the snow mountain. When he realized that it wasn't Xue Beng, he was thinking of something. He turned to look at the crowd, but it was too late to remind him.

At the moment when no one could react, the snow in front of them suddenly cracked cracks, which stretched quickly and windingly, and at the same time, there was a "crack" sound like a cracking ice layer.Suddenly, with a loud bang, several cracks expanded to the limit and collapsed, revealing a huge pit on the ground.

The people standing on the snow field all screamed in horror and fell down.

Zhang Qiling and Black Glasses were originally standing outside the snow pit, and when they saw the snow collapsing, they immediately retreated and left.

However, a heavy force around his waist suddenly grabbed Zhang Qiling, the rope around his waist hadn't been untied, and he was being pulled towards the snow pit at this moment.

The black glasses grabbed Zhang Qiling's hand, but they were still connected together, there was no way to rely on their hands and feet, and both of them were pulled into a snow pit as deep as a bottomless pit.

The moment he pulled it in, the black glasses looked helplessly at Zhang Qiling. Although Zhang Qiling had no expression, there was still a sense of helplessness in his eyes.

The snow pit is not vertical to the bottom, but extends to the depths of the snow mountain with a certain slope.

The body kept rubbing and falling from the icy cold mountain, and the hands and feet seemed to be numb to the point of being unconscious, so they could only let the body fall.There was a rush of wind in my ears, my neck was scratched by a small rock passing by quickly, the scarf around my neck was cut open, and the skin inside was scratched, but there was no bleeding, the blood seemed to have stopped in the cold flow.

Consciousness also slowly blurred.When the body slammed into something and stopped, all the cold wind stopped.

Zhang Qiling raised his hand to support the rock beside him, stood up slowly with support, then raised his head, took a short breath for a moment, and opened his eyes.

There was darkness in front of his eyes, only the meager light from above.Zhang Qiling narrowed his eyes slightly, and when he opened them again, he could see almost everything around him clearly.He always adapts quickly to everything in the dark.

This place is like a cave, empty and silent, surrounded by ice-covered mountains, under the ice surface glows an extremely dark and deep ice-blue haze, like a faint starlight in the lonely darkness.

On the ground is a thick layer of snow that has slid down from above.The others were lying on it, motionless, and seemed to have passed out.

"Hmm..." The black glasses stood up slowly, raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, the sunglasses on his face fell somewhere.He opened his eyes, then closed them uncomfortably, and said in a low voice, "Qi Ling? Are you there?"

The sound echoed faintly in the empty cave.

Zhang Qiling looked at the ground, then walked to the side of the black glasses, picked up the sunglasses that fell there, wiped off the snow foam on them, and then put them on the black glasses.

At this time, several people on the ground moved and gradually woke up.

After putting on the sunglasses, the black glasses relaxed his body, looked around, and looked at the few people who were still a little confused on the ground, and sighed helplessly: "It's really troublesome."

"What... is this place?" Hua Qi patted his head, which was not sober, and stood up from the ground, and several others also stood up.

"Yeah, it's really dark, turn on the flashlight." A man said, hearing his own voice echoing in the cave, "Is this a cave?"

The light of several flashlights suddenly lit up, and the light extended endlessly as if piercing through the darkness, illuminating the dark cave.

Hua Qi casually took photos of the surroundings, and the ground not far away was full of scattered equipment. Moving forward, there were uneven cave walls on both sides, and the ice covered above reflected the cold light of the stars.

But when the flashlight shined directly forward, it was found that there was only a dense darkness, and it could not be illuminated to the end.

"There seems to be a road there." Hua Qi said to the man next to him, "It doesn't look like a cave here."

The man looked at the hole where they fell, thought for a while and said, "See if you can climb up first, be on the safe side, and take a few people to the front to see."

Hua Qi nodded, and said to the people behind him: "Come over and organize the equipment, and the rest, go ahead with me and have a look." Then, Hua Qi looked at the man, "Then I'll leave it to you, sir. Four."

"Well, don't take too long." The fourth child said.

The guys closest to the gear on the ground started rummaging for useful tools.Hua Qi pointed to two of them, then looked at Zhang Qiling and the black glasses, and said, "The four of you are with me."

Zhang Qiling and the black glasses looked at each other without saying anything, and then walked behind, while Hua Qi led the way to the depths of the cave with a flashlight.

There was a faint cold current blowing in the hole, cutting his face like a knife blade.The roof of the cave is full of stalagmites hanging upside down like huge animal teeth, and there are sharp rocks on the ground, about half a person's height, standing in rows in an orderly manner, walking among them, as if walking in the mouth of a monster , the darkness ahead is the passage of death.

The figures of several people were hidden by the darkness, only the light of the flashlight was clear and bright.

After walking for more than ten minutes, there was still bottomless darkness ahead, and the road behind also became pitch black as the footsteps deepened.

"Boss, this looks like a tunnel," said a subordinate next to Hua Qi, "Why isn't it over yet?"

"The devil knows where this is." Hua Qi said, "Look inside again."

The scattered footsteps of several people echoed ethereally in the darkness, as if they would never end.

Zhang Qiling walked behind unhurriedly, the light of the flashlight shone in front of him scatteredly.The black glasses walked beside him, but his gaze had been falling on the cave walls on both sides since just now, observing the uneven ice layers.

Suddenly he seemed to see something and stopped for a while.

Noticing his movements, Zhang Qiling looked sideways at him.

The black glasses touched Zhang Qiling lightly with his arm, motioning him to look over, then raised the flashlight, letting the light shine on a certain place on the cave wall.

Zhang Qiling looked at the landing point of the light beam.

The crescent-white light shrouded a flat rock wall. Unlike the surrounding rock walls, this rock was not covered by ice, and it was very neat and flat. Mouth, obvious traces of artificial processing.

Zhang Qiling stared at it for a while, then walked over, stopped in front of that stone wall, and shone a flashlight on it.

Then he discovered that this was not just a simple rock cut.

On the cut surface, there are faintly visible lines, and if you look carefully, you will find that it is actually a mottled and faded relief, and some places have completely faded and peeled off. It's some kind of text, and it's like a picture carving.

"This place should be artificially built." The black glasses came over and said in a very soft voice that only the two of them could hear.

Zhang Qiling raised his hand to stick it, and swept it lightly.Dots of ice crystals fell down, and the floating picture on it became slightly clearer.

The flashlight shines on the center of the floating picture, and the light colors exposed there faintly outline the outline of a picture.

Those were simply drawn figures, their bodies kneeling on their knees. In front of them was a huge door. Judging from the intricate and delicate traces, it could be seen that the door was drawn in great detail.

Seeing the door outlined above, Zhang Qiling was taken aback for a moment, then his face changed slightly.When he was about to observe carefully again, he was interrupted by a movement not far away.

"Look! What is that?" one of Hua Qi's subordinates suddenly cried out in shock.

"Don't go there yet!" Hua Qi sternly said.

A flurry of confused conversation and arguing ensued.

Zhang Qiling and the black glasses looked at each other, then walked towards Hua Qi and the others.

"Well, these things should be dead things..." The man said with a pale face, his eyes fixed on the ground, but the hand holding the flashlight trembled uncontrollably, and his companions were also frightened.

Hua Qi's face was a little pale, he frowned and did not speak.

The black glasses looked at the few people who were stunned in front of him, and walked up. When his eyes fell on the ground, he couldn't help being shocked, and the corners of his mouth that he was accustomed to straightened.Then he turned his head and looked at Zhang Qiling with a serious face.

Zhang Qiling walked to the side of the black glasses, followed his line of sight, and when his eyes touched the ground, his body paused imperceptibly.

The ground in front of it was covered with a layer of snow, and a thick layer of ice wall was condensed on it. The ice wall was uneven and bulged unevenly, like a dense patch of insect eggs.Under these raised ice walls, there are countless densely packed black shadows.

What is creepy is that these black shadows are all black beetles the size of half a finger.

The ground extending in front is full of these frozen insects. Countless beetles are densely packed like the shadow of a huge monster. Their forms are extremely complete, with their heads facing upwards and their legs in poses as if they are walking. It looked as realistic as if it was about to emerge from the ice wall.

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What's more... Although it's a bit slow, I promise, it won't be a trap.

Weakly begging those who like bottles to collect... T^T