Tomb Raiders Notes - Zhangjia Mausoleum Keeper

Phantom Crocodile Moth

I took a deep breath and suppressed all my fear. Smoke was coming out of my thirsty throat, and my lips were dry and white. I couldn't sit still at all. Get up, take the torch in Fat Brother's hand and look around, hoping to find an exit.

I used a torch to shine on the hole where I just fell down. Fortunately, those corpses did not chase down again, otherwise we would have no way to go to the sky, and there would be no way to go to the ground, and the drain that just slipped down seems to be impossible to climb. Going up, this place looks like a closed warehouse now, neither the door nor the hole to go out, I knocked on the wall, there was a dull sound, it seems that they are all solid bricks It is almost impossible to dig through the wall, unless Pokerfinger is there, borrowing his two brick-digging fingers, I can't help but sigh when I think of Pokerfinger.

Leaning against the wall, wondering how he is doing now!

After the fat man smoked a cigarette, he threw the cigarette butt away, stomped on it, then patted his buttocks and said, "How about we use explosives?"

"No, this tomb doesn't have a load-bearing wall, and if it's blown up, we won't be able to escape." Wu Xie is a student of architecture, so he's naturally more knowledgeable, so there's nothing Fat Brother can do about it.

"Don't you find it strange? Since there is a sacrificial altar and a sacrificial pit here, the ancients would definitely hold ceremonies in this place. How do people come and go?" I asked suspiciously.

"That's right, so there must be an agency that can come in and out." Wu Xie nodded in agreement.

"Zi Lin, why don't you squeeze some blood and wipe it on the wall?" Fat Brother smiled and made a suggestion.

After I heard it, I immediately turned into a sad face, I couldn't bear to look at my blood-stained hands, and if this continues, I'm afraid I will be useless.

Wu Xie glanced at me, then glared at Fat Brother, and said angrily: "You really think her blood is the master code key, be careful that the corpse above will chase you down and bite you if it smells."

The fat brother remembered that those corpses seemed to like my bloody smell very much, so he curled his lips and smiled.

I knew he was joking too, so I didn't care about it. I walked to the altar and looked at it. The altar is supported by four large pillars, and there are many fine characters carved on the corners of the pillars. , I beckoned to them both, signaling them to come and have a look.

The fat brother studied for a long time and shook his head, but Wu Xie suddenly changed his face, and stammered, "This... seems to be a dead text."

"What is a slang?" I asked curiously.

"The extermination text is written for ghosts. This is the sacrificial place. If it is engraved on the altar, it should be some kind of ritual written by the wizard, or it must be written because the blood of these human sacrifices is too resentful. The scriptures will be sealed."

"Then did you mention things like exit last time?" Fat Brother asked anxiously.

"I don't understand the specifics, and I only read similar words in my grandfather's notes." Wu Xie shrugged helplessly at us.

I stared at the piece of writing that looked like a ghost drawing, and thought to myself that this place is empty, why there is only an altar left here, and these dead writings must be a bit strange now.I looked up at the two of them, and suggested that we push the altar away to have a look.

Wu Xie thought for a while and nodded, but he said solemnly: "If you push it open, there may be an exit, and it may also be the door to release evil spirits."

Fat Brother yelled at him three times, and cursed: "Innocent, shut your crow's mouth, you usually say whatever you want in the grave, so you should talk less and keep silent."

Wu Xie looked at me helplessly and smiled, the three of them took a deep breath, and pushed hard towards the altar, the thing was a real green stone, despite the grinning of our teeth, we remained motionless , Is there really a mechanism, and the mechanism must be activated?I wiped my sweat and thought to myself.

Everyone was a little discouraged for a while, but things that cannot be pushed are even more strange. After all, it is impossible for pillars to grow together with floor tiles.Thinking about it this way, it seems that I have seen hope again.

Wu Xie squatted down and looked at the writing again, and suddenly waved his hand at us and said, "Don't worry about it, come over and look at it, pointing to the piece of writing" and said: "This piece of writing was flat just now, but now the word has protruded." .”

The fat brother and I looked up and saw that there was a slightly protruding character, which was not on the same plane as the other characters. Wu Xie motioned us to step aside, and he vigilantly pressed his finger on the protruding character. .

Hearing the sound of "Boom", the whole tomb room shook, and then the altar moved to one side slowly by itself, revealing a neat section of steps from the inside, and the other end went straight down to an unknown place.

"Hey... the exit is coming!" Fat Brother shouted happily.

We were finally rescued, we couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, packed up our things and went down the passage.The steps of the steps are polished very flat, and there are detailed patterns of spirit beasts carved on the sides. We went down a long section of steps, and the more we went down, the more chilly we felt. The manhole was on fire, and now everyone was only wearing a T-shirt, and it got colder and colder as they walked, and goose bumps appeared all over their bodies.

After going down the steps for about ten minutes, I finally reached the bottom. I looked around and it seemed that I had arrived at a huge cave. On the two walls, we really have the feeling of going back again.

"Could it be that we're back in the territory of that old ghost, King Li! Damn, he's just so reluctant to let us go." The fat man cursed.

It seems that I am obviously not the only one who has this illusion. Except that there are no hanging ladders and coffins, there is a bottomless abyss looking down, which is exactly the same as the scene in the tomb of King Li.

"I have a bad feeling." Wu Xie said suddenly.

Fat brother and I looked at each other, feeling a little terrified, the surroundings were pitch black, dead silent, and even the atmosphere was the same as before.

"What the hell is there, what are we afraid of if we have a guy in our hands, naive, if you really can't do it, you can leave me an honorable bullet." Fat Brother said this freely, but I felt bitter when I heard it.

"Now there is no way forward and no way back. We can only follow the roots of these trees to the bottom to have a look." I said helplessly.

Wu Xie took out a length of rope like Pokerfing did before, tied one end to his waist and the other to mine, and then smiled at me.At this moment, I was so moved that I almost cried again.

The fat guy next to him also deliberately walked over, gestured an orchid finger to Wu Xie, and said coquettishly: "Innocent, I want it too!"

Wu Xie felt as if he was about to vomit, pulled his hand away, and said with a smile: "Fatty, I'm not here, so I'll be the flower protector. Do you know what happens later? "

Fat Brother nodded vigorously, patted his chest seriously and said, "Comrade Tianzhen, don't worry, I promise to complete the task."

Then we grabbed the tree stems and swung them out one by one. A lot of spring water seeped out of the cave wall here, it was wet and slippery, and it was difficult to exert strength. I can only rely on hard support to wrap the blunt tree roots around the palm of my hand a few times, praying in my heart that if I can get out safely, my hand will not be useless.

Fat Brother is flexible in his hands and feet, and he is faster alone. In a blink of an eye, he has opened a distance from us. He changed his hand and held the torch, and yelled at us, telling us to hurry up.

Wu Xie and I were already sweating profusely. We glanced down unintentionally and almost screamed when we saw the big guy behind Fat Brother. Fortunately, Wu Xie stopped him in time. He gently told me to calm down, don't startle the snake, I He took a deep breath and took a closer look. What stopped behind the fat man was a butterfly-like thing with two big wings like a paraglider. It stopped motionless in the air. I really don't know what kind of power it relies on. Can be suspended in the air and fixed.

At this time, the fat guy below suddenly yelled at us and said, "Damn, I can't move my hands anymore, it seems to be tied up!"

Originally, the two of us planned to touch down slowly to see clearly before making plans, but now we can't see it, so we can only speed up, Wu Xie yelled at the fat brother: "Fatty fat man, stay still, don't look behind, you are behind!" There is something."

At this time, we were already very close to him. By the light of the fire, we saw that what stopped behind him was a fat moth with two long antennae on its head. The most frightening thing was that its mouth was open wide. , like a spider spit out a strip of thin and long silk, this is really the first time I have seen moths spin silk.

Fat Brother was frightened and remained motionless, but he was not the kind of person who would sit and wait to die. He bit the torch into his mouth, raised the gun head above his head, and then fired. After hearing a few gunshots, The bullets all hit the moth's body with a dull sound, and the moth was obviously frightened by the pain. It let go of the silk in its mouth, and slapped the fat brother with its wings.

Suddenly we felt a gust of wind blowing, and we swung to the side to hide. At this time, the fat brother loosened his hand, and Wu Xie yelled at him: "Fatty, throw away the torch."

As soon as the fat man let go, the torch fell down like a arrow, and the moth chased it down as if seeing a baby. The light of the fire became darker and darker, and finally disappeared into the dark cave bottom. We didn’t even hear a sound, no Feel a shiver, it seems that the bottom is still very deep.

"Damn it, what was that just now, it scared the fat man to death." The fat man cursed.

"Fatty, don't scold, that guy has finished fighting the fire, and he should come up to us for revenge later."

Sure enough, before Wu Xie finished speaking, there were bursts of "buzzing" sounds from below. These guys who were awakened were like thousands of bees going out to collect honey. Our feet were soft when we heard it. Cursing in my heart, it turns out that the bottom of the cave is the lair of that guy, and now he is mobilizing thousands of descendants to take revenge.

"Naive, you crow's mouth!" The fat man gave Wu Xie a desperate look, and pulled away the stance of preparing to fight to the death with them. I stepped back a few steps, and suddenly felt empty under my feet. Seeing that a piece of the mountain wall was embedded, I asked Wu Xie to borrow a lighter to take a photo. I couldn't help being overjoyed, and shouted excitedly to them: "Come here, come here, there is a door."

I saw a big vermilion wooden door standing on the mountain wall under the root of the tree. Although it has been dilapidated, it is undoubtedly the gate of heaven and the hope of saving lives for us now.At this time, the voice below was getting closer and closer, I didn't care too much and jumped in, Wu Xie followed, we carefully pushed open the door and saw that there was nothing moving inside, like going back to before Looking at the feeling of the quarry, I looked at Wu Xie wonderingly and said, "Could it be that we have crossed?"

Wu Xie shook his head suspiciously.

At this time, the fat guy behind us screamed. We felt that something was wrong, so we went out and dragged him in. After closing the door, we heard a sound of "thump, thump, thump, thump, thump" and felt that many things hit the door. was blocked out.We finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned on the lighter and saw that the fat man's face, neck and arms, as long as the bare skin was covered with moths, the moths looked very familiar.

I suddenly got cold, pointed at those things and said, "This moth is... the man-eating moth from the previous night!"

Wu Xie nodded, his face became very ugly, these moths bit people so hard, the fat brother screamed in pain and his face was a little distorted.

"Let's light up the socks, and use the phototaxis of the moths to see if we can let them loose their mouths." Wu Xie suggested while taking off his shoes.

"Okay" I simply took it off and lighted it with a lighter, only to see a few puffs of black smoke, and then a sour and smelly smell. We were so exhausted that we couldn't remember the socks we hadn't changed for a few days. The few pairs I brought before were worn out and thrown away, and even we were holding our noses and almost fainted from the smoke.

Those moths were relieved when they saw the flames, and rushed to the fire one after another. After a while, there was a mixture of burnt and sour smells in the air, and the smell became really indescribable. We gathered together We went to Fat Brother and burned the rest of his body with a lighter. Fat Brother groaned in pain, but he was obviously better than before. We helped him up and ran forward before the fire went out.

Nervously not arguing about the direction, he got out when he saw the exit, and ran a long way before Wu Xie dared to turn on the lighter again, helped the fat brother aside, looked around again, and suddenly stared behind me, his eyes widened. Light said something that made my heart beat endlessly.

He pointed with his hand and said, "Look, isn't that a stuffy oil bottle?"