Tomb Raiders Notes - Zhangjia Mausoleum Keeper

thousand coffins

My feet couldn't help trembling and I knelt down on the ground, calling softly "Father and Mother."

They didn't respond, gray-white eyes were exposed in their slightly dilated pupils, and they stared at me lifelessly. I knelt and moved up slowly, and stroked their cheeks with trembling hands. They were so cold that they were already stiff. , the bruise and black on my father's face, the shirt I found in my bag is being held in his hand, the open chest is full of bullet holes, and the corners of my mother's mouth are bleeding red and scabbed blood Seeing this, my nerves suddenly collapsed. My hope all the way, the hope of being in a desperate situation, years of longing and guilt at the knees of not being married all pierced my heart directly like a sharp knife.

Suddenly, I felt sweetness in my mouth, and then spurted out a mouthful of hot blood, and then felt that the whole world was spinning backwards, "Let me go with you!" This was the last sentence I thought before I fainted.

What's this?The cold drops fell on my face, and I opened my eyes to see that my father and mother were still alive, looking at me with love on their faces.

"Are you really alive?" I cried and laughed while hugging them, and my mother gently touched my head and said, "Zi Lin, I miss you so much, I'm going crazy thinking about you."

"I'm sorry, my daughter is unfilial, I should have come back to see you long ago." I said choked up.

"It's okay, we don't blame you, you are our pride and our hope, we hope you stay away from this place forever, but you! You shouldn't have come!" The mother sighed.

"Why? Why shouldn't I come? Is it wrong for me to come to you?" I asked aggrievedly.

Mother didn't speak, but silently tried the tears in the corners of her eyes.

Then I turned my head to look at my father, staring at this familiar yet unfamiliar face and asked, "Father, were you the one who saved me last time?"

He nodded slightly, and then said: "This is a place you shouldn't have come, go back!"

"What about you?" I asked

"Us? We can't go anymore. We belong here." The father suddenly burst out laughing. People are very uncomfortable.

"Father, father... please don't laugh." I covered my ears and begged uncontrollably.

Finally he stopped and looked at me, the light in his eyes dimmed again in an instant, turning into gray glass beads, finally a drop of tear slipped out, his mouth moved, but he could no longer utter any words. The voice, and the figures of the two hugging my mother faded away, dissipating in the air like smoke.

I know what he said with that mouth shape. It is a sentence of parents' last concern for their children, and that is two words: "Go!"

"Father, mother, please don't go, please don't go" I struggled weakly, my hands scratched in the air, but I couldn't grab anything, "Why did you leave me alone? I'm so scared, I miss you, please Don't go, please come back and talk to me, tell me about the past few years, listen to me talk about how I miss you these few years, give me some more time to be filial to you! Please!"

I yelled heart-piercingly, burst into tears, and finally couldn't hold on anymore and lost consciousness.

"Zilin, Zilin... who is calling me softly? Is it father?" "Father, you are back!" I opened my eyes happily, but met Pokerfing's bright eyes, he saw me wake up I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's my father? Where's my mother? I saw them just now, and they were still talking to me. My father saved me before, and I still have his clothes in my bag. If you don't believe me, I'll show you." Crackling and talking a lot, the emotions have lost control and are close to madness.

Poker-Face let go of watching me dump my bag, then rummaged around and found the old clothes, and smiled proudly: "Look! Look! I didn't lie to you! Look He really saved me before, I didn't lie to you."

"Zilin... calm down, listen to me, they've already gone, there's no point in doing this anymore, just now, my little brother used his thoughts to call back their souls, and they're gone now, if you let them go like this again How can I walk with peace of mind!" Wu Xie clasped my arms tightly with both hands, shaking them non-stop, as if trying to wake me up.

"Is that so?" I stopped and replied blankly.

The fat guy knelt down, patted my shoulder and said, "Sister, your parents have been waiting for you for so long because they couldn't let go of you. Now that you've come and said the last words, let them go! I hope they There are spirits in heaven who can bless us to go out smoothly."

I lay on the ground, my heart hurting again and again, I curled up and couldn't say a word.

Poker bottle slowly helped me up and leaned against him, I looked at him weakly, and he also looked at me quietly, with a lot of sadness in his eyes, this feeling of losing a loved one, Does he feel the same way?

I finally regained some strength, and slowly asked: "Can the mind call back the soul? Can you call it again?"

The stuffy oil bottle shook his head.

"Since my father is dead, why was he able to save me before? And what are his weird behaviors?"

"Our ancestors once discovered a soul-returning technique, which is actually similar to the concept of mind power. It is related to the last memory before death. His soul has not been scattered, and he is wandering around in the tomb. How could he not save you when he saw you? What! He took off his clothes to cover up your human aura, and took your clothes to lure the snake away." Poker-Face paused at this point.

Wu Xie on the side sighed, "Father's love is really great!"

"Then how did father suffer such serious injuries? Who did it?" I continued to ask.

"That group of people, their vanguard troops came in with me. After I killed them all, there were people behind who found out about your home. They should have kidnapped your mother first and forced your father to lead the way. We all I was wrong, the people who died in the passageway in the tomb of King Li were not tomb robbers, they should have been with them, and they all came for Zhang Jiazu's tomb, they should have come in from this tomb, from that tomb Want to get out!"

"Brother, you are saying that the tomb of the head of the Zhang family is connected to the tomb of King Li above, that is to say, there is a road leading to the ground, are we saved?" Fat brother became excited.

"This place once collapsed in a large area, it's hard to say now." Poker-Face shook his head.

"Then what should we do now?" Wu Xie asked.

"Get Zilin's parents settled first, let's talk later!" Pokerfing gave me a gentle look and asked for my opinion.

I nodded with difficulty.Finally accepted this reality from the heart.

Poker bottle stood up, turned the candlestick at the corner of the altar, and a stone wall on the right slowly moved away, revealing rows of neat coffins, at least hundreds of them, the scene was very shocking, These coffins are all made of cypress wood, painted with black paint, some are too old and have been mottled one after another, some even the coffin lids are old and broken, and the corpses inside can be seen directly.

"This... what is this place?" I asked Poker Bottle.

"Thousand coffins, the place where the Zhang family's death in Yunnan." Poker-Face finished speaking lightly, walked directly to the two coffins, and opened the lids.

"Why are these two empty?" Fat Brother asked.

"Not only these two, but the two rows in the back are also empty, they are prepared for the descendants of the tomb guards." Poker bottle said and glanced at me, which made me startled. I don't want to stay here after death. This ghost place, although they are all relatives of the same family, but there are so many people, noisy, crowded and noisy, it is not what I want at all, thinking about it, I shook my head violently, in fact, it is not bad to be able to accompany my parents, When they were alive, they spent too little time with them, and it would be nice to stay by their side after death.

Poker Bottle and Fat Brother slowly moved my parents into the coffin. They had closed their eyes forever and slept peacefully. I put my father's clothes and mine in the coffin. Then he put his rusty gun that he picked up earlier beside him, and said silently in his heart, "Father, you are a warrior." He helped his mother tidy her hair, and kissed her already stiff hand lightly, Tell her, don't be afraid, the man who loves her the most is by her side protecting her!

After finishing these tasks, I knelt down and kowtowed to them, saying goodbye in this life, and I will be your daughter in the next life, guarding you, being filial, taking good care of you, and never leaving you even half a step.

Wu Xie and Fat Brother helped me up, then bowed to the coffin with Poker Ping, and then Poker Ping closed the coffin lid. I watched my parents' faces slowly disappear under the coffin lid, and suddenly I remembered what my father said to me last: "Tell me to go quickly".

Along the way, it is almost full of hardships and dangers, what should be encountered and what should not be encountered, almost all imaginable and unimaginable things have appeared. Is there anything more terrifying and dangerous in this tomb?I looked around at the pitch-black coffins, and suddenly wondered what would happen to these people who had been stored there for so long?

At this moment, the candlelight in Fat Brother's hand flickered from side to side suddenly, and there was a sound of gurgling in the distance. Candlelight, while looking at the dark place in the distance, cursed: "Fuck, what is it?"

Poker Bottle took the candle in his hand and illuminated it in the southwest direction, his complexion suddenly darkened, and he said hastily: "Get out of here quickly, there is a big crack in the eye wall of the corpse suppressing dragon, I'm afraid it's leaking the corpse's breath. There will be mishaps."

We saw that what he said was serious, and our hearts trembled. We hurriedly quickened our pace. There was no turning back, so we had to bite the bullet and walk through the coffins to the opposite side to find the exit.

Poker-Face led us quickly through the first row of coffins. I was almost clinging to him, not daring to drop a step. Fat Brother and Wu Xie followed closely behind. When I walked around a dilapidated coffin, I suddenly felt His feet were tight, as if he had tripped over something, and his center of gravity was unstable, so he threw himself on the back of Poker Bottle. He turned around with a stride, supported me and pulled me back. I couldn't help crying out in pain, "Ouch!" The force in my body didn't relax, but pulled me even tighter.

Looking at it by the candlelight, a black and blue withered hand stretched out from under the coffin at some point and grabbed my ankle, making me unable to break free. Poker handed the candle to the fat guy who walked behind me, Pull out the Dragon Yin and cut it off, chopped off the hand. At this moment, there was a shrill scream from the coffin, and then the coffin lid made a loud "creak, creak, creak" sound, as if the things inside As if they would rush out, the rows of coffins around them also made such noises. It seems that something is wrong, they are about to collectively pick up the corpses.

At this time, a gust of wind came from nowhere, and blew out the candle in Fat Brother's hand.

"No, ghost blowing the lamp!" Fat Brother said tremblingly.

Poker bottle protected us and retreated to the edge of a stone wall, pushed aside a coffin next to it, and a dark and deep hole was revealed underneath, signaling us to go in quickly, it seems that this hole was dug by him before, it should be There was no problem, and we didn't have time to hesitate. Wu Xie and Fat Brother slid down first, and Poker Bottle pushed me in. I dragged him and said, "What are you going to do?"

He sighed and said: "The wall of the dragon's eye has been broken. I'm afraid these hundreds of incorruptible bodies will all rise up and kill each other. As the patriarch, how can I just watch my clan members die and have no peace."

"Then what can you do?" The seriousness of the matter greatly exceeded my expectations.Before I could finish asking, several coffin lids flew up behind Poker-Face, and several skinless and faceless mummies crawled out from inside, attacking us with a "boom boom boom".

"Don't worry! I'll go find you when I'm done." Poker-Face pressed my head into the hole, and quickly moved back to the coffin to block the hole.

The hole was facing down, and my body couldn't stop sliding down.