Tomb Raiders Notes - Zhangjia Mausoleum Keeper

"Is it a water ghost?" I looked at Brother Qi Ling squatting down and asked with some blood stains.

He stood up and stared at the calm water, and said to me: "Follow carefully."

After saying "plop", he jumped into the water.I took a deep breath and jumped down too.

Most of the water here comes from active springs at the bottom of the mountain. The water temperature is relatively low, but the visibility is very high.We can see clearly in the water, but even so, we didn't find Fat Brother.With just such a short amount of time, logically, the water ghost with the broken arm wouldn't be able to run very far with a man of Fat Brother's stature.

Except for a few stream fish occasionally swimming in the water, nothing else was found.We swam to the entrance of many caves when we came in, and judging from the current situation, we could only find them one by one.

Brother Qi Ling asked me to guard outside the hole, and he just got into the bigger hole on the left.I wanted to take the opportunity to float up to get a breath first, but out of the corner of my eye, I inadvertently saw a black shadow flashing past the middle hole. In order to prove it, I had to find out the light and swim in.

Although the hole in the middle looks smaller than the one on the left, it is quite spacious inside.I adjusted the light to the maximum, but I still couldn't see the bottom, and I didn't know where it led inside.I was afraid that Brother Ling wouldn't be able to find me later, and I didn't dare to swim deep inside again. I was wondering about the black shadow just now.

It felt like something was touching the ear, and it felt itchy.All of a sudden, I hurriedly pushed the water to the side to dodge.I thought to myself that I don't even have a guy on hand now, and it would be quite embarrassing if I really encountered a water ghost.It is safer to keep some distance away.

I stuck to the stone wall, found a support, and looked back with the light.When I saw what was in front of me, I was so terrified that I almost gasped, only to see a skeleton with no skin and face floating hollowly in the water facing me.There are still black and blue Dong clothes hanging on the body.

"He... Could it be someone from Xiaodi's village?" I suppressed my fear, and projected the light into the cracks in the rocks behind it, and found that it was filled with white human bones. The water ghost left the corpse here after eating the flesh and blood. If this is the water ghost's lair, what is in the big hole on the left?

I was thinking about it when a hand suddenly climbed up on my shoulder.In this environment, I was already like a frightened bird, and I swung the flashlight in my hand without saying a word.But even if I was fast enough, my wrist was still gripped by a slender hand.

I turned my head to see Brother Ling, who followed in at some point.He took a brief look at the tragic situation in this cave, and calmly gestured to me, meaning that nothing was found in the next cave.

He didn't have it there. Could it be that the fat brother was dragged to the depths of this hole?I turned the light back to the depths of the inside and looked around.At this time, the strength in the hand suddenly intensified, and Brother Qi Ling seemed to be sure that Brother Fat was not inside, so he pulled me out.

Since he ruled out everything here, it is very likely that Fat Brother was pulled outward by the water ghost.We swam out according to the waterway we came in, and sure enough, we saw a blood-stained bandage floating in the water not far away.

After swimming along the belt for a short time, I saw that the incoming waterway had been blocked by a huge falling rock, and the stone was stuck on the waterway, leaving only a small triangular space at the bottom corner to pass through. Stuck here.

It seems that the water ghost has already got out first, and wanted to drag the fat brother out forcefully, but underestimated the fat brother's figure.Brother Qiling let go of me, took out the machete and swam up quickly.He grabbed the fat man's skirt and pulled him out forcefully. At the same time, he chopped the knife on the furry paw that was deeply embedded in the fat man's shoulder.

The paw hurt, and quickly retracted.Not long after, another long, narrow and resentful head protruded from the cave.Brother Qi Ling was still relentless and stabbed the knife.

The face flashed and then never appeared again.Only then did Brother Qi Ling drag Fat Brother to swim up to the surface of the water.After coming out of the water, he stuck the machete deep into the rock wall, motioned me to climb on it for support, and then handed over the fat man to me, asking me to support his neck, not to soak his head in the water, and see if he could Do not try to wake him up.

I saw him take a breath and was about to dive again, so I asked, "What are you doing?"

Brother Qi Ling took out the shovel from his bag and replied, "The stone blocks the road, we can barely pass it, but the fat man can't pass it absolutely, I'll go down and see if there is a way to move it."

I know that our situation is very bad now. The karst landform is inherently fragile. The explosives ordered by the fat brother earlier destroyed the balance in part of the cave. In addition, the explosion just now destroyed the support of the entire mountain bottom. Exhausted, many places have become crumbling.If we don't get out quickly, sooner or later we will be buried in it too.

"Be careful!" I looked at Brother Qiling worriedly and told me.

He nodded, gave me a look, and dived back into the water.

I looked at Fat Brother's face that had turned pale from the water, and my heart suddenly turned cold.This time he went to the grave, he really suffered eight lifetimes of bloody misfortune. Not only did he not find what he was looking for, but I abducted the thing he finally found. The more half-dead he was, the more he tortured my conscience.

But I know it's useless to think about it now, so I just try to call him constantly, hoping to bring him back to consciousness.I yelled for a long time, but he didn't respond at all. It stands to reason that if the fat brother learned the turtle's breathing technique, even if he was dragged into the water by a water ghost, he wouldn't be drowned in such a short time?

And in an emergency, he also knows how to untie the bandages on his body and come to guide us. This old naughty boy will not play the trick of pretending to be dead with me again, right?

I leaned next to his ear, and faked crying with my voice, and said while crying: "Fat brother, don't die, I was wrong, I dare not lie to your baby again, if you wake up now , I promise to return everything to you."

But after I finished speaking, Fat Brother still didn't move. Could it be that I'm pretending not to be good?So I raised the tone a few more times and repeated the words again. He still didn't wake up. Now I started to panic. Could it be that the fat brother is really dead this time.

At this time, the top shook again, and stones fell down.I put my hands on his head, feeling sore in my heart. Although I firmly believe that Brother Ling will find a way to get us out of danger, I don't know if Brother Fat can persist until then.

"Brother Fat, don't pretend! When are you going to tease me? Why don't you choose this critical moment of life and death? Let me tell you, if Brother Qi Ling can't get rid of the stone, we will all die here today, you At that time, there is no need to pretend, and it will be staged directly on the spot. If I were you, I would wake up now and go down to help see what's going on?"

I looked at Fat Brother who was still motionless, and finally ran out of patience, and shouted loudly: "Fat Brother..."

The fat brother still didn't respond, not only did he not respond, but his face became more and more red.Only then did I realize that the situation was not good. I raised his head high and found that there seemed to be something alive wriggling in his neck, so I opened his mouth and stretched out two fingers to pinch his collarbone. Push the thing forward.

"Damn it, it's actually a live fish." After the thing forced out, it jumped into the water and swam away.The fat man also seemed to come back to his senses, coughing violently and non-stop.

I climbed on the handle of the knife with one hand and supported him with the other, and I didn't have any extra hands to help him pat his back.After a while, Fat Brother finally regained his strength, and the red tide on his face also subsided a little.He waved his hand at me and said, "Sister, I don't dare to eat sashimi anymore."

This fish should have been accidentally choked by Fat Brother when he was fighting the water ghost, but he was just pulled back from Huangquan Road, and he was not serious when he opened his mouth. I was really speechless.I had no choice but to stare at him and ask, "Are you interested? If you are interested, grab here yourself. I'll go down and see what's going on."

The fat brother saw that I had no time to talk, so he stopped talking nonsense, and reached out to grab the handle of the knife.I took a deep breath and dived into the water.I didn't know until I got into the water that Brother Qi Ling couldn't shake the big rock, but he had already enlarged the hole. Fortunately, it is limestone, which is more fragile after entering the water. way out.

I gestured to tell him that Brother Fatty was awake, so that he could feel at ease.He nodded, and after digging a few times, he probably felt that the width was enough, and the time was tight. If there was any further delay, the waterway outside would be blocked later, and it would be even worse.

He handed me the shovel for self-defense, and motioned me to wait here, and he was going to drag Fat Brother down.Before going up, Fat Brother dived down by himself. It seems that he has recovered, and the three of us went out one by one.There was no trace of the water ghost outside, presumably he was afraid of Brother Ling's tricks.

Swim further out to exit the cave and swim back to the lake.Brother Qiling floated to the surface to retrieve our raft, and the three of them climbed aboard and escaped danger.

Before he had drawn far, the hole just now collapsed, just a tiny bit away.We secretly rejoiced that we were lucky.And quickly rowed to the jungle on the other side.After docking, we ate something and took a short rest.Although the fat brother was rescued now, it was quite troublesome to go through the jungle, and he was still injured all over his body.

I ground the few remaining thistles into powder and applied them to the wound to stop his bleeding.While bandaging, my heart was full of mixed feelings.Fat brother saw that I was depressed, so he took the initiative to strike up a conversation, but I was still not in high spirits and ignored it.He finally couldn't help complaining: "Sister, you can't talk to me a few more words, this is called distraction, otherwise it will hurt me so much!"

"What do you want to say?" I asked him without looking up.

"Look, this was bitten by a poisonous wasp before, this is a leech, this is a mosquito, this is a bat, and this is a new bite from a water ghost. It seems that after I go back, I really need to wash and disinfect the spa. There is no good place to be bitten." The fat man looked at his wound with emotion, and smacked his lips.

I suddenly increased the intensity of wrapping the gauze, and said to him: "Who made you come here alone?"

Fat Brother frowned in pain, but he was choked by me and couldn't say a word.At this time, Brother Qi Ling, who had been standing with his back to us, had been silently watching the collapsed mountain ridge for a long time, and seeing that the atmosphere of our chat was almost frozen, he turned around in time, looked at Brother Fat and asked, "Who are they? "