20, Tomb Raider
I haven't robbed tombs, and I haven't even read the tomb robbery novels that were very popular some time ago, maybe I don't like this kind of story very much, or maybe it's the mentality of "literati are light" at work, in short, I don't know about tomb robbing, and naturally I don't know what we will encounter next.
I can only imagine some of the tomb scenes I am familiar with, and most of them come from one of my favorite video games, Tomb Raider.
The guide of the Luo family held the mountain knife and led us in front.
According to him, the plants in the mountains grow very quickly, and they will grow again in a few days after today's blooming, and if it is not for an experienced guide to lead the way, it is estimated that novices may not even be able to find their way back when they enter the mountains.
I don't know what he meant by that.
Let's keep up, don't just run around? Of course, we are going to the forbidden tomb of the Luo family, and only he knows how to go, so we naturally won't run around.
Or is his overtone that we should bribe him or he will leave us here? If he was a money-grubber, he could have taken some of Qiao Wei's money envelopes from me and me...... Maybe he's already smoked and we don't know? A cursory look at that money should be several thousand yuan, and no one will find out if you take out a few sheets, at least I didn't specifically count how much it is.
Of course, it is also possible that this is just my imagination at work, and I have started to speculate wildly, and he himself may have just said it casually, but in fact there is no special meaning to express at all.
In any case, we still have to follow the guide towards the tomb of King Tusi, and at the same time pray that he will not leave us in the tomb and run away first.
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would take me to walk for a few hours, but we ended up in the mountains for a whole day, and even camped in the mountains at night, so it's no wonder that the guide had to bring two porters with them, and they brought the same tents for camping and pots for cooking.
We continued our journey after dawn the next day, and by noon we had finally reached our destination.
The entrance to the tomb is very hidden, it is a man-made hole in the trees of the large mountain pass.
I thought that the holes dug by the grave robbers were small, narrow "rat holes" that could only be climbed into by one person. But in fact, this is not the case, the hole is very large, although it is not enough for two people to stand side by side and walk in straight, but at least a little bend down can still walk calmly.
The guide said that they only brought the road here, and that they would never go inside the tomb, and that we had to go in and find out what secrets were in the tomb.
What the guide said earlier still made me feel inexplicably worried, so we let Oko stay outside to make sure the guide wouldn't sneak away on his own. Xiao Ouzi is very capable of fighting, and it should be enough for one person to balance these three people with a big stick, at least I think that those two laborers and an old guide who is almost fifty should not be the opponent of a young man in his early twenties who hunts all year round.
After explaining his task to Xiao Ouzi, me, Sister Qiao, Qiao Wei and Ye Hong, the four of us put on lighting and climbing tools and walked in from the entrance of the tomb.
The whole cave was pitch black, and only the lanterns in the hands of the four of us were used as a light source.
At first, the road was a little narrow, but after passing through the passage in the cave, which was about 100 meters long, everything changed.
The passage was sloping xiangxia, and when we went out, we seemed to come to the inner hall of an underground palace, which was supported by countless huge stone pillars, and the ground was full of dust and stone slag, and it felt like no one had entered for a long time.
"What's next?" I asked.
In this underground palace, my voice is infinitely reverberated and amplified, as if it can be heard from hundreds of meters away.
"Let's see where there is a road inside, and don't forget to throw this." Sister Qiao said as she folded a glow stick a few times to make it brighter, and then dropped it at the hole where we came in.
Then the four of us each took a glow stick and began to scour around the halls of the dungeon.
In addition to the cave we entered, there are two other passages in the dungeon, these two roads are about twenty meters apart, and they are parallel to the same direction, maybe we will go to the same place no matter which way we go, or maybe one of them is a death trap that will kill us all.
Luckily, we don't have to go in and explore the way ourselves.
Sister Qiao pinched a handful of soil on the ground, and then began to chant some incantations that sounded like Thai, when Sister Qiao threw the soil in her hand to the ground again, the soil turned into two and a half meters high little earth figures, and then they entered the left and right passages respectively, and went into it to find out which way is the way to live and which is the way to die.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Sister Qiao, who had been closing her eyes, finally opened her eyes, and then pointed towards the passage on the right, "This way." ”
"What's going on on the other side?" I asked curiously.
Sister Qiao shook her head and said, "I don't know, it's definitely not good anyway, the natives who explored the path were smashed after only half of the way, and the one on the right went all the way to the end." ”
From this point of view, the earthman spell used by Sister Qiao is not omnipotent, maybe the tomb robber should bring a remote-controlled car equipped with a camera as a standard configuration.
However, Sister Qiao's judgment was indeed correct, the road we took did not encounter any danger, and there was no mechanism or anything like that, except for a snake that suddenly came out at the end.
After exiting the passage, there is a "Z" shaped turnback staircase, and after going down there is a very narrow passage. This passage was not carved out by tomb robbers, and the passage is surrounded by flat stone brick walls, which is obviously what this tomb looked like when it was built.
There was only one way to go through, and we had to keep going in anyway, and this time we had to stop after walking for a short time, as the beams of the searchlights hit the two corpses.
The corpses had rotted into skeletons, and even the clothes on their bodies had been rotted into strips of rags. In addition, there was what appeared to be a crossbow arrow hanging from the ribs of the corpse.
There was a crossbow bolt trap in this passage, and the two men died under the trap.
Sister Qiao used the earthman spell again, and this time it was not the little earthman who came out, but the big fist mud arhat who was about the same height as us.
Sister Qiao let the mud arhat go in front, and when it walked next to the two corpses, one of its feet suddenly sank an inch, and with the sound of stones rubbing, three crossbow arrows swished out from the side of the wall in succession, and all of them were pierced into the mud arhat's body.
When the Arhat took two more steps, the stone brick it had stepped on rose back to its original position, where it waited for the next prey to step on.
To be honest, I was really shocked into a cold sweat the moment the bolts flew off the wall.
I really don't know how many similar traps there are on the road ahead, but luckily we have a big invulnerable guy in front of us, otherwise I really don't know how many lives it would take to get deep into the depths of the tomb.