Chapter Twenty-Six: The Tomb Tiger
"There are only three of us left, and everyone else ......," Wang recalled their experience bitterly:
A month ago, we were given a census breakdown that said that starting in 1974, the average number of missing people and livestock in a grassland on the border between Mongolia and Inner Mongolia suddenly exceeded that of the rest of the country, which was unusual. Originally, the matter was to be handed over to the police for investigation, but the Information Section found a newspaper with a page that said that in 1974, tomb robbers had stolen a bottle of jade tomb guard from the border of the grassland. I felt that something was wrong, so I decided to lead a team to the Balar grassland to find out, but I didn't expect to kill four colleagues. Speaking of this, Lao Wang hid his face and wept, and waited until he calmed down a little before continuing, "This fog can go up to the third floor of the building ship at most, otherwise even if we escape the green monster, we won't be able to escape this poisonous fog." ”
We analyzed the cause and effect and felt that the tomb keeper was not ordinary, and that there must be a connection between its theft and human disappearance. And having a tomb keeper means having an ancient tomb, and all seven of us agreed to investigate, so we drove two jeeps to Balar, and one broke down on the road. I was afraid that something would happen, so I left a sketch in the car, which was drawn by a grave robber in the prison, and he gave us a map to reduce the sentence, marking this shipwreck cemetery.
"It helped us a lot, and it was that sketch that we got here. Lao Li said.
"But we can't get out. The bald man slapped everyone back to reality.
"Listen to me. Lao Wang sighed, "Kill the tomb tiger, and we can go out." ”
"Tomb Tiger?" no one knows its concept except Lao Wang.
We went down to this ancient lake, we didn't expect there to be so many boats, at first we also got lost, and kept going around in circles, but later, we used the method of Theseus in Western mythology to get out of the labyrinth and found a tomb.
"Who is Theseus?" Tara hadn't heard.
"In Western mythology, Theseus killed the Minotaur Minotaur, the monster is the prototype of Taurus, and after Theseus killed it, the thread that was used to lay down came out of the labyrinth where the minotaur was imprisoned. Wood explained.
But we couldn't find the way down when we came down, and even if we found the tomb, it was difficult to go back from this irregular place, and we were always unconsciously changed by the shipwreck, and there was no view below at all, and we couldn't get out.
"Someone did it deliberately. A hoarse voice said. It was already dark, and the time was soon coming, and the wood was no longer wood at this time, and Lao Li and the bald man both felt that what he said made sense, and these boats should be deliberately arranged as a labyrinth.
"Don't interrupt, continue to listen to Lao Wang. Akagi leaned the other two teams against the wooden wall of the cabin.
We found a strange thing, the tomb door was broken from the inside out, as if something had come out of it, and there were a lot of burial goods inside, and the tomb robbers didn't seem to have gone in to search for it. It's just that there is one less tomb keeper outside the door, and the other one is exactly the same as the one stolen by the tomb robbers. There was no reason why the tomb robbers had stolen only one tomb keeper, they should have been scared away by what came out of the tomb.
The tomb is in the style of the Zhao Kingdom, there is no coffin inside, only a stone platform, which seems to be enshrined in something, like a sacrifice.
"And then you were attacked by the Tomb Tiger?" Duanmu asked Wang.
"Well, we noticed that there was one less person and it started to fog up. ”
"The fog is most likely the breath exhaled by the tomb tiger. "Duanmu has been in contact with different forms of tomb tigers in Bashu, they are all animal corpses that have been returned to the soul of the wizard, only one soul and two spirits, only the beast nature remains, sealed in the tomb, suppressed with tomb beasts, like to eat living people, mostly used to prevent theft and guard the tomb, Duanmu thought, there should be important things in this tomb.
"How long has it been since I've brushed my teeth to exhale like this, and won't it be smoked to death by itself?"
"Tomb Tiger, what is it like?" Duanmu ignored the bald man and asked Lao Wang again.
"I didn't see it clearly, it seemed to be prostrate, and I only saw green paws. ”
It is likely to be a feline, and crawling is a unique action when a feline hunts, Duanmu thought to himself, a bobcat, a leopard, and a tiger are all possible, but unfortunately the proprietress is not there, and it should be easy for her to solve.