Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 19 The Mural After the Mural
When everyone returned to the ancient tomb, Hu Bayi poked a few times on the tomb wall with a shovel, cutting out several shovel marks instantly like cutting tofu, the tomb wall then scattered into slag, and a big hole was exposed.

Hu Bayi took a photo with a flashlight, and several people followed behind to look, and found that the interior of the tomb was quite empty, and the dim yellow flashlight swept across, and the outlines of bottles and cans could be vaguely seen.

The angle of the hole is also chosen very well, it is only more than one meter away from the ground of the tomb, which is much more reasonable than the robbery hole in the barren tomb in Xigouzi Village.

Thinking of that hole, Xiao Ran couldn't help but wonder again, why did the person who robbed the hole there do nothing wrong with Coffin Qiu?What is he going there for?

Forget it, it's useless to think about the past. Compared with that matter, there is something more urgent to do now.

I saw the fat man rubbing his hands together, like a hooligan who met a big girl, he laughed and wanted to go into the hole, but Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran hurriedly stopped him.

"You don't want to die? The corpse gas has accumulated in this tomb for hundreds of years, and we didn't buy a gas mask. You want to pave the way for us and clear the corpse gas inside first?" Hu Bayi said.

"Ah? Then what should we do? Can't go down? I don't think it's so mysterious..." the fat man asked.

"Didn't you see that I brought a bird cage? Just grab a sparrow and put it in it and try it out."

After Hu Bayi finished speaking, he asked Fatty to set a trap to catch sparrows, and Fatty followed behind and muttered: "I thought you brought the bird cage to catch a bird for fun..."

The two made a simple trap with a rice cooker, rice grains, rope and wooden sticks, and caught three sparrows in one go.Hu Bayi packed a sparrow and threw it into the tomb. Several people chatted outside and waited. After about 10 minutes, the cage was pulled up, and the sparrow was almost hard.

"Okay, let's go and rest first, let's talk about it after the poisonous gas dissipates." Hu Bayi greeted everyone.

Last night, it was the corpse slave and the hole drilling, and they were all exhausted.After returning to the hillside to eat dry food and drink water, I was a little tired again.But everyone was afraid of oversleeping, so Hu Bayi began to tell Fatty some common sense about ancient tombs.

Listening to the two of them chatting, Xiao Ran suddenly felt an itchy neck.He stretched out his hand and scratched, and there were some scab-like things between his nails.

"What the hell is this?" he thought to himself.

"What could it be, Blood Bodhi? You took a blood bath next to that corpse slave yesterday, and now those things have almost entered your body." Achilles Jiukuo replied.

"It can be absorbed without eating?! Isn't this stuff poisonous?"

"It's not for food, it's for external use. You're playing it wrong. Just don't worry about it. I'll wash your blood and make sure you live ten years longer..."

ten years?It seems that there are not many, how much is too much.However, Xiao Ran still curled his lips: "It's only been ten years, I thought you were capable..."

Achilles made a long "hiss" and said, "I found that you have misunderstood me a lot, which makes me very puzzled..."

"Comrades, I see that the time is almost up, let's go! Don't run into those burrowing monsters when it's too late." Hu Bayi said suddenly.

Everyone got up and went back to the tomb in the valley, and threw another sparrow down.This time, after more than ten or ten minutes, the sparrow was still alive and kicking, so the three men drank a bowl of fortifying wine, masks, gloves and other equipment.

When the two touched the golden talisman, they looked at Xiao Ran a little embarrassedly.With a smile, Xiao Ran took out the nine-piece pendant on his chest: "I also have an amulet, and nothing is as evil as it."

"Take me! I also want to see what it's like in the ancient tomb!"

Seeing that the three of them had absolutely no intention of bringing her with them, Yingzi became a little anxious.

Hu Bayi was in a bit of a dilemma. After all, the tomb was not like the forest, where Yingzi could basically walk sideways with a gun and a dog.He himself was also the first time a big girl got on the sedan chair, and he was not sure about protecting Yingzi.

Xiao Ran knew in his heart that Yingzi had to go down, so he persuaded Hu Bayao: "No matter how dangerous the tomb is, at least we should be with the three of us. It would be even more troublesome if Yingzi ran into the unknown monster last night by himself. Anyway, in the wilderness Ling doesn’t need someone to guard against the wind, so let’s take Yingzi with me, after all, if you want to know the taste of a pear, you have to taste it yourself. If it’s really not possible, I’ll be responsible for protecting her!”

Yingzi nodded happily: "Yes, I want to taste... I want to go to the grave!"

Hu Bayi didn't say anything more, he also found a mask and gloves for Yingzi, and gave some instructions.

The fat man next to him couldn't hold back anymore, he was anxious to go to the grave by himself.Hu Bayi quarreled with him for a few words, and finally carried forward the style of the captain and entered the tomb first.

The hole was drilled in an ear chamber, and a few people walked around the entire tomb first. The entire tomb chamber was nothing more than the main chamber, the left and right ear chambers, and a back chamber at the back, with a size of about [-] square meters.

Xiao Ran stopped for a while with his ears pricked up. Apart from a few porcelain jars that were placed outside, they were from the Song Dynasty. Other clay pots, rusty armor and weapons, human and horse bones, clothing and saddles, etc. were only of archaeological value.

Yingzi looked around with a flashlight, and suddenly saw the mural on the wall, and beckoned everyone to see it.

Hu Bayi pointed to the colorful murals and explained them to everyone.The painting depicts a foreign general wearing a fox fur. The activities in different periods, such as hunting, banquets, expeditions, feudal lords, etc., are basically the life of the tomb owner.

At the end, Hu Bayi said: "In the tomb of the Jinren general, most of the treasures were plundered from the Song Dynasty. We don't need to be polite to him today, and it can be regarded as returning to the original owner."

Yingzi was still looking at the painting carefully. Seeing that the color of the painting faded from the initial bright, she exclaimed, "This painting has changed! There is a ghost!"

Everyone was taken aback, Xiao Ran hurriedly explained: "It's because the air has entered the tomb, and the paint has oxidized. There are also many ancient paintings in the museum. In order to prevent the paintings from fading, they have to be installed in special glass cabinets. Inside are all year round. The temperature and humidity remain the same. It is said that there are more foreigners recruiting, and a fixed number of tourists are stipulated every day. Some of them store the genuine products underground, and all the exhibits are fakes, which is normal..."

Yingzi heard this for the first time, and looked at Xiao Ran with a little admiration in his eyes.Hu Bayi and Fatty were in a hurry to touch the baby, light candles and other preparations in a hurry.

It was also Xiao Ran's first visit to the tomb, which was very novel.He circled around by himself again, saw the long-handled mace on the weapon rack in the back room, couldn't help but picked it up and swung it twice, it was indeed a bit heavy.According to the plot, it's time for it to appear later...

At this time, Yingzi hurried over again and said to him: "Brother Xiao, I always look at that painting and it doesn't look right. I don't have the nerve to tell Brother Hu and Fatty, come and have a look..."

This is a novelty, another branch?Xiao Ran was very interested and Yingzi went to see those murals again.

The original color of the mural has faded a lot, and this speed is somewhat unexpected.But under the outline of the original mural, it seems that some lines constitute a different picture, as if there is another layer under the original mural.

Xiao Ran took out another candle and lit it, and carefully examined the mural.Sure enough, under the candlelight, each mural reveals a different scene.

For example, in the first painting, five animals are painted. From the characteristics, it can be identified that they are the five immortals of gray, white, fox, willow, and yellow, among which the yellow immortal is in the middle.

The second painting is a person with the appearance of a fairy in clothes and meditating, but Xiao Ran is very familiar with that honor.

The long mouth, red eyes, fangs, long letters, snake scales, fox tail, and the spikes on the head...it is the scorpion!
How did the portrait of this thing appear here?Why is it so haunted?
The third painting shows a group of people bowing down to Xie Que. In front of Xie Que, there is a bunch of red hairs on a piece of yellow paper, with a drop of blood in the middle.

In the fourth picture, the fox-fur golden man is lying in a coffin, and some strangely dressed people are putting something into his mouth.

The latter one seems to be only part of it. I saw the golden man standing in the center without a face, surrounded by vague human silhouettes, but they couldn't be seen clearly.

After that, there are only some more vague lines, and it is completely impossible to see what is painted.

"If you have dates or not, you'll have to look at it! Boss Xiao! Help me!" Hu Bayi next to him interrupted Xiao Ran who was admiring the mural.

Xiao Ran thought about the content in the painting and walked to the coffin, but a trace of doubts arose in his heart...

(End of this chapter)