Tomb Raider: The comprehension is against the sky, and the achievement is indestructible

Chapter 105: The Ghost, the Mountain God, and the Second Checkpoint

Seeing many giant toads in the water, everyone abandoned their kayaks and moved forward along the stone platform on one side of the cave.

Huba was walking in front when he suddenly said loudly:
"Master, there is an altar here!"

Su Mo and the others walked over quickly and saw an ancient stone altar in front of them. On the stone wall there were some simple carvings of ancient people.

Although they have experienced the baptism of two thousand years, some of the murals are still well preserved because all of them were chiseled first and then polished, and the lines are thick and deep.

Shirley Yang's knowledge of archaeology surpassed others. She then looked at the murals and explained:
"It looks like this is a mural of the ancient Dian people worshipping the mountain god. This mountain god looks like a mandrill, with a human face and long arms, a body covered in black hair, and has infinite strength. It moves as fast as the wind and can tear tigers and leopards apart alive!"

"This mountain god lives in the gourd cave, and the locals offer him sacrifices by capturing toads..."

Having said that, Shirley Yang saw the last mural, but suddenly closed her mouth, her face full of horror.

But in the last mural, there was a huge mountain god with a face as black as iron and a pitch-black body. He was standing there with a cold expression, and there were many women with strange postures around him!
These women were obviously dead, lying flat on the ground with their backs facing the sky, but their hands and feet were crawling in a strange reversed posture. Their features were exactly the same as the female dead person that everyone had just seen!
Fatty Wang couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Could it be that this mountain god is a thousand-year-old zongzi, and these women are his corpse pets?"

Huba thought for a moment and said:
"In my opinion, this mountain god is most likely a thousands-year-old zombie with a lot of corpse poison in its body. The people of the ancient Dian Kingdom in the murals captured this big toad and hung it in with a long pole not to worship it, but to use the toad's toxins to attack it!"

Shirley Yang couldn't help but frown:
"Then...how do we explain these female corpses?"

Huba was speechless for a moment.

If this mountain god is an old zongzi, the ancestors of the ancient Dian Kingdom in the mural attacked it with toads, but what about those female corpses surrounding it?

And all of these female corpses were walking with their joints reversed, which looked extremely weird. It couldn't be that they were all the old Zongzi's pet corpses as Fatty Wang said?

They and the young man were a little puzzled and turned to look at Su Mo.

Su Mo looked at the murals here and smiled faintly:
"After all, it's still a magic trick!"

"Bane?"

Su Mo nodded:

"Old Hu, you are partly right. In the murals, the ancient Dian ancestors used toads to attack the mountain god, but this mountain god is not some thousands-year-old zongzi. It is a giant mandrill as Shirley Yang said!"

"The Gourd Cave in the mural is the cave we are in. It is a cave that is large at both ends and narrow in the middle. King Xian used a large toad to attack the mandrill. After capturing it, he used witchcraft to feed it!"

"Feeding with magic?"

Huba and the others couldn't help but feel even more bewildered, feeling that what Su Mo said made them feel confused.

"Do you still remember the terracotta figurines and the knife-toothed viperfish in the Snake River, as well as the giant green-scaled python? That was the first barrier that King Xian set up using the magic of war to protect the Insect Valley and his own tomb!"

"This gourd cave is the second barrier that King Xian used to protect his own tomb, and the magic is still used!"

"Those female corpses are also ghosts! The oxygen content in this gourd cave is extremely high, so the insects and toads are very large. The toads eat insects, and after death their bodies sink into the water and are eaten by the ghosts. After the ghosts devour the toads, they will be eaten by the mountain gods in this cave, forming a perfect closed loop!"

After hearing Su Mo's words, Huba, Shirley Yang and the others were all shocked and opened their mouths wide:

“Is there really a mountain god in this cave?”

Su Mo nodded: "Let's just call it the Mountain God. It's deep in the cave!"

As they were talking, they heard the sound of water gradually getting louder in the distance.

A few people turned their heads and saw several female corpses appearing on the water.

These female corpses were exactly the same as those depicted in the murals. They were all lying on their backs on the water with their arms and legs bent downwards. It looked as if all the joints were broken. What was even more peculiar was that they did not seem to be controlled by the buoyancy of the water and were able to float on their own.

After a while, more and more female corpses emerged in the water. In just a few minutes, hundreds of female corpses emerged, emitting a faint blue light, like clusters of ghost fire floating on the water.

The originally dim space seemed to be illuminated by these ghost lights, but the entire space was shrouded in an extremely cold atmosphere.

These female corpses drifted downstream, drifted towards deep water, and gradually gathered deep in the cave.

And where the female corpses gathered, a bright red mist appeared!

The bright red mist was as bright as paint spray, and it surged and contracted rhythmically like breathing. In this surge and contraction, the female corpses were gradually swallowed up by the mist, as if there was a bottomless pit deep in the mist, which was endlessly devouring the female corpses!

Shirley Yang couldn't help but widen her eyes and tried her best to lower her voice:
"You are right. These female corpses are used to feed the creatures in the cave. Could the one in the red mist be the mountain god?"

Hubayi couldn't help but exclaimed:

"With so many female corpses, how big must this mountain god be if it eats them this way!"

Fatty Wang gritted his teeth and said:

"Who cares about the mountain gods or water gods? We may not be able to defeat so many Zongzi. We might as well take the opportunity to walk by!"

Su Mo shook his head:

"I said, this is the second checkpoint used by King Xian to protect his own mausoleum. We can't pass through quietly!"

When Huba and the others heard Su Mo's words, their hearts skipped a beat. Then they looked forward along the edge of the cave, only to see that the stone wall in front of them was indeed curved in an arc, and was finally covered by the red mist.

This place is indeed as Su Mo said, it is the second checkpoint used by King Xian to guard his own tomb. Unless the mountain god hiding inside is killed, no one can get through!
Fatty Wang suddenly lost his temper, gritted his teeth and jumped out, pulling the bolt of his gun:

"Damn it, since we have to fight, we might as well just kill it!"

After saying that, he raised the Thompson submachine gun in his hand and shot at the dead bodies floating on the water.

Da da da……

The sound of the Thompson submachine gun firing like a typewriter suddenly resounded throughout the cave, and the bullets shot into the red fog like a string of fire snakes.

In an instant, the thick red fog covering the water surface suddenly surged up as if it was boiling. Many female corpses in the fog suddenly seemed to be frightened and suddenly jumped up from the water surface, like giant water spiders!

One by one, the naked corpses, with their faces up, swam rapidly on the water with their hands and feet in a strange reverse joint posture, running around on the water like a pot of boiling water, and the dark blue light on their bodies became even more intense because of the shock!

The entire Hulu Cave suddenly became like a disco where demons were dancing wildly because of these chaotic lights and shadows. It looked weird and crazy!
At this moment, a low gasp came from the depths of the red fog, like a giant waking up from his sleep!
(End of this chapter)