[Tomb Raiders Notes] Play to the depths, enter the venue by yourself

Array of Thousand Coffins (Additional Chapter 2)

After getting off the cliff, Wu Xie looked a little slower than him and was panting for the old itchy, only to realize that his physical strength was actually much better than the old itchy. You must know that he belonged to Tim when he was in the undersea tomb of the Lu Palace. The grade of the head is not completely dragging the oil bottle now anyway, and I am a little happy to think of this change. At this time, Zhang Yan was looking around with a flashlight, not even letting go of the cracks in the coffin.

Wu Xie was a little surprised when he saw that Zhang Yan was holding up a flashlight to take pictures. He had never seen Zhang Yan use a flashlight before, and he sometimes wondered if Zhang Yan's eyes had mutated. , became a night vision eye.

Wu Xie saw a small path between the coffins leading directly to the front through the electric light, but the light was limited, and he could only see a dozen meters away, and he couldn't see it any further. However, when he looked on the cliff, he had already seen that this road was It went straight to the flat ground, but it was only after coming down that I realized that the smell was too bad. Wu Xie immediately thought that there might be a danger of poisoning if he stayed for too long, so he immediately called the other two to open the way.

After the few people walked a few steps, Zhang Yan suddenly said, "This is not a cave burial, this is a coffin formation piled up with corpses in coffins after a large-scale killing"

"Murder?" Wu Xie gasped. How dare they jumped into a mass grave or pile of corpses? "How did you see that?"

Zhang Yan drew his sword and opened a coffin casually, and the bones inside were scattered out immediately. He pointed to the cut mark on one of the bones, "This is the result of a knife wound to death." Then he randomly opened several other coffins." It’s the same here, the method and time of death are similar, and the coffins are also built at the same time.”

Wu Xie squatted next to the fragments of the coffin and looked carefully, picked up a strange thing that seemed to be a bamboo hat, and looked like a part of armor, and looked carefully with the flashlight, "This seems to be a tartar hat [official hat of the Qing Dynasty] Huh?" As he spoke, he carefully peeled off a piece of the official hat, and after seeing what it was, he took a breath of air, "There are still peacock feathers, how could officials above the fifth rank die in this place? ?”

Zhang Yan nodded, "It's not just this one, the coffins that came all the way just now are basically people in this official position."

Wu Xie was horrified. Could it be that the people listed here were all officials? How could it be possible? There were only a few officials in the Qing court, and there were thousands of corpses here, even if all the fifth-rank officials were killed, it would not be enough to count.He subconsciously looked at Zhang Yan, wanting him to continue talking.

"I also took a look at the Hemu collection of the previous group, and there is one thing recorded on it—" Zhang Yan was a little impatient because he didn't understand, and he was in a hurry to go to the bronze The old itch of the tree was interrupted, and he even patted Zhang Yan, "Well, have you settled the topic yet? We really don't have time. I'm so interested. Let's talk slowly when we go back."

Wu Xie rolled her eyes immediately, and didn't bother to pay attention to the old itchy interruption. She continued to look at Zhang Yan and asked him to continue, because it was too weird to pile up a group of corpses here. First, since it was a massacre, the corpses were thrown away randomly. No, it’s fine, why put the corpse in the coffin, and secondly, why arrange the coffin like a strange armor, if you want to trap people, wouldn’t it be better to use non-rotten stones?

Zhang Yan then went on to say, "There was one in the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty called Tietou Xiaoqi. You should know that they arrived at the bronze tree and dug out a blue and white stone dragon pattern box from it. After Emperor Qianlong opened it and looked at it, he secreted it that night A few ministers were recruited into the palace, and they talked about it in the middle of the night. Afterwards, the Qianqing Palace caught fire. Except for one famous one, none of the other ministers died well, and they were all killed inexplicably in the end. Think about it here , then this should be the scene of the murder of the general who dug out the white stone dragon pattern box."

Wu Xie was taken aback when he heard this, "Why haven't I heard of this before?"

"I guessed it from the notes in Hemuji, but it should be close to ten, let's move on." Zhang Yan looked at the old itchy who couldn't wait, and turned to Wu who was still thinking about things in a daze. When Xie said that, Wu Xie nodded subconsciously, took a last look at the pile of split coffins, and followed closely.

Wu Xie followed Zhang Yan to walk around in the coffin array, thinking that the black things on the ground might be a mixture of dead people and rotten coffins, he felt a cold sensation on the soles of his feet.

After walking with Zhang Yan for a while, he looked at Zhang Yan who turned in front of him from time to time, and was a little puzzled. After all, when he saw it from the sky, it should be a straight road. Why did Zhang Yan turn so often?But thinking that I didn't know anything about the formation, I didn't open my mouth. I just thought that after I went back, I must find related books at home and look through it. Feel something flashing past?"

Zhang Yan, who was at the front, suddenly stopped, looked back, and said, "It's just a mouse."

Wu Xie and Lao Xie had obvious doubts on their expressions, one was a doubt that he didn't feel anything at all, and the other simply didn't feel like a mouse, "Zhang——Zhang Yan, you can't be—you're here Are you fooling me? I——I just looked at the shadows passing by, it doesn’t look like it, old—how can a mouse be like that?”

Zhang Yan didn't bother to pay attention to his doubts. Since he came down, he has been in a bad mood. He turned his head and continued to walk forward, "Follow up, don't fall behind."

Wu Xie looked helplessly at Zhang Yan, who was already moving forward on his own, and then at the dissatisfied old itch, shaking his head. Although he was curious about what it was, it was really important to hurry, so he took the old man Itchy hurriedly followed, "Forget it, let's go out first."

The few people walked for a while, and when they were about to see the open space vaguely, Wu Xie suddenly felt cold behind him, and a gust of wind struck over him like lightning. His scalp flew over, and at this moment Zhang Yan also suddenly turned around, stabbed with a sword, and directly nailed the thing to the wall of the coffin beside him, Wu Xie and Lao Xie hurriedly raised their flashlights to look, It turns out that it turned out to be a gray-black fluffy big mouse, about the size of a lynx, and its limbs were still twitching non-stop. Seeing that it was really a mouse, Wu Xie and Lao Tiao looked at each other, and immediately panicked. Laughing, the two idiots were actually suspicious for a long time behind Zhang Yan, but they didn't expect that they were really just rats.

Wu Xie couldn't help sighing in his heart, his mother's was too big, the whole thing was bigger than a cat, and he didn't know what breed it was. The coffins here were so dilapidated, they were probably their masterpieces.Maybe they still grew up eating the corpses in the coffin, and I don't know how many mice like this are still in the thousand coffin holes.

Zhang Yan pulled out the sword, and the mouse immediately fell to the ground with a chirp. He glanced at the mouse in disgust, shook the sword that was not actually covered with blood, wiped it with a cloth, and then put it back into the scabbard on his back. Inside.

At this moment, Old Itching seemed to be thinking of something with Wu Xie, and his complexion changed, and he said, "No, this mouse emperor was killed by us, I don't know if his mouse son and grandson will trouble us, I think If you don't retreat quickly, don't stay at the scene of the crime."

Wu Xie immediately nodded in agreement, and the two immediately urged Zhang Yan to leave quickly. Zhang Yan who was being dragged forward was a little helpless, "Wrong, I'm going this way."

After walking for another four or five minutes, the three of them successfully passed the coffin array and walked to the edge of the open space they had seen before. In the middle of the open space, there was a robbery hole that could just accommodate one person. At that time, Wu Xie subconsciously looked back at the coffin array. Zhang Yan, who was letting the old itchy go down first, saw Wu Xie who was looking back, wondering what he was looking at, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I just find it a bit unbelievable that this journey will be so smooth." Wu Xie laughed to himself while talking, and suddenly felt that he might be a bitch, right?Why did he not get used to it after it went so smoothly all of a sudden? Could it be that he is still addicted to watching rice dumplings?

Zhang Yan also smiled, "Is it going well? Don't tell me you still want to find all the zongzi in the coffin formation and fight? Hurry up and go down."

Wu Xie also felt that his idea was really absurd. After laughing a few times embarrassedly, he quickly jumped into the robbery cave under Zhang Yan's urging. After seeing Wu Xie also entered the cave, Zhang Yan looked back at the place silently. Sighed and said, "Excuse me"

In fact, in this cave of thousands of coffins in his eyes, resentful souls wander around and have nowhere to go, and blood of hatred is hidden deep in the soil...

At this time, Wu Xie was urging Zhang Yan to come down from below. Zhang Yan came back to his senses and responded. He still gave up the idea of ​​burning this place. After taking a last look at this place, he turned over and jumped into the robbery cave.

When Zhang Yan went down, Wu Xie and Lao You had been waiting for him for a while, and Lao You even ran to the side and lit a few white jars of ever-burning lamps in the corner, and the tomb was brightly lit.

After seeing Zhang Yan coming down, Wu Xie continued to observe the tomb. This is a typical joint burial. He looked at the largest open coffin in front of him. The corpse inside was wearing a suit of armor and a helmet, as if it was a Qing Dynasty. The rider, unfortunately, his exposed face is covered with black mold, which looks very unlucky.

Originally nailing the coffin again after finishing the work would not have caused such serious mildew. Wu Xie couldn't help but feel sorry for Lao Tiao who didn't know how to deal with the aftermath. He couldn't help sighing silently in his heart. A typical example of unqualified civilian robbers, he must be educated when he goes out in the future.

But Wu Xie, who had made up his mind, was a little confused immediately. He had been checking for a long time. The specifications of this tomb were not high. Help." And where is the bronze tree that Zhang Yan said, Old Itch may have fooled him again, but how could Zhang Yan not lie to him about this kind of thing?

Just when he was so confused and wanted to ask what was going on between Lao You and Zhang Yan, he suddenly saw Lao You see that Zhang Yan had come down, he walked to the side of the main coffin, took off his own belt and made a cover, and put it on all at once. On the neck of the moldy dried vegetable corpse, he pulled it up.

Wu Xie immediately walked over to ask Lao You what he wanted to do, and saw Lao You waved his hand, smiled mysteriously, reached under the coffin and pulled it, and heard a creak, the stones behind the coffin sank, and a secret passage appeared.

Wu Xie originally saw the shabby tomb here, but he didn't expect that there would be such a mysterious tunnel. Suddenly he became suspicious. When he looked inside, he saw a staircase slanting down. He took a flashlight for a long time and couldn't see the bottom.

At this time Zhang Yan also came over, followed the light to look into the secret tunnel, and asked Old Tick, "Is this tunnel directly leading to the bronze tree? How long is it?"

Lao Xie pulled his belt back, looked at Wu Xie and replied, "Yes, the distance is quite long, but I haven't measured how long it is, but the temperature below is too high to rest, we are still in the distance. Stop here for a while, eat some dry food, and it’s better to go down after nourishing your energy.”

Zhang Yan stretched his hand in, felt the wind blowing from the cave, and acquiesced to this statement.