Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 191: Experiment Record
Startled by this voice, Xiao Ran was a little flustered. He didn't have time to look at the things in the sarcophagus, so he quickly ran into the corridor.

Sure enough, the stone door at the entrance under the steps was closed, and there were no obvious switches around to open the door.

At the other end of the corridor, there was also a "click" sound at this time.Xiao Ran instinctively felt that the situation was not good, so he ran towards the secret room with his legs almost without thinking.

As soon as he ran three meters, he used his inertia to lay down a sliding shovel and slid towards the secret room.Immediately afterwards, at the end of the corridor near the secret room, a stone door fell from above, almost hitting the ground by rubbing the top of Li Ran's head.

Xiao Ran lay in a distorted posture between Zhaobi and Shimen, panting heavily with cold sweat on his head.Shimen fell on top of his head, shaking his ears "buzzing".If it weren't for his legs moving faster than his brain just now, he would be trapped in the tunnel now.

Although he is still trapped now, at least the secret room is fairly ventilated, so he doesn't have to worry about suffocation.There must be a mechanism in the secret room, which can open the stone door of the corridor, and there is nothing else to do now, so you can look at the things in the sarcophagus with peace of mind.

He supported the screen wall to get up, moved his limp hands and feet, and walked around to the sarcophagus.

Under the light of the flashlight, inside the sarcophagus lies a thing covered with reddish-brown dry stains, which looks like a huge cicada chrysalis.

Xiao Ran was surprised, could it be that there was a big moth waiting to emerge in this sarcophagus?Judging by the size of the chrysalis, once the moth comes out, it must occupy at least half of the secret room.

He picked up the knife and poked the cicada chrysalis slightly with the tip of the knife.The shell of the cicada chrysalis shattered into one or two pieces and fell to the side.After carefully taking photos, he discovered that the so-called cicada pupa was actually a roll of rags, and blood or other liquids were poured on the surface to form a hollow cloth sac with a fixed shape.

He followed the broken opening and picked apart the cloth bit by bit, and the contents of the cloth bag were exposed to the flashlight.

Seeing the contents of the remaining half of the cloth bag, Xiao Ran couldn't help but gasped.In some translucent green liquid, a child's corpse with a head as big as a bucket lay quietly.

The child's body was completely naked, with no gender.His eyes and forehead protruded slightly, his nose was flat and almost had only two nostrils, his mouth was set very low, as if an opening had been opened in his chin, and fine fangs could be vaguely seen in his mouth.

Compared with the head, his body is relatively thinner. Between the hands and the legs, there are three things that look like hands and legs protruding from each side of the body.Under his body, there seemed to be some translucent thin wings.

Looking at this thing that looked like a human and an insect, Xiao Ran felt a chill in his heart, he didn't understand how there could be such a strange thing in the world.

Xiao Ran took a careful look at the sarcophagus again, only some sealed altars and jars were placed at both ends of the coffin, and various pills could be vaguely seen written on the paper labels on them.

Touching gold pays attention to "two nos and one take", that is, not to destroy the body of the tomb owner, not to damage the structure of the tomb, and not to take away all the funerary objects.

It seems that there is nothing to take in this sarcophagus, and while the liquid in the cloth pouch has not evaporated, it is better to quickly cover the coffin, so that you don't have to look at this ugly thing anymore, and you don't have to worry about the damage and pollution caused by the air to his body .In this way, this independent opening of the coffin to touch the gold can be regarded as barely beginning and ending.

He put the torch on the rosette next to him, lifted up the coffin lid on the ground, and prepared to close the coffin.The flashlight shone on the inside of the coffin lid, and a dusty object caught Xiao Ran's attention.

It was a raised interlayer, which seemed to give a small pocket to the coffin lid.In the interlayer, a book with yellowed pages can be seen.Xiao Ran stretched out his fingers, and carefully took out the book.

The book was falling apart, and the paper inside was dry and brittle.Xiao Ran had no choice but to put the coffin lid aside first, and carefully followed the contents of the book with the flashlight.

Most of the books are vivid pictures, there are people and animals, and each page only needs a few very brief words.

On the first page, there is a very large cat, which looks exactly like the plateau lynx with full fur in the abandoned village.Next to the lynx was written three words: wildcat.

It seems that hundreds of years ago, the local people called this lynx a wild cat.

On the second page, next to the lynx, there is a ball with patterns painted on its surface, and the text is marked with "and living pill".Xiao Ran guessed that this meant feeding the living pills to the lynx.As for this living pill, Xia Qiusheng mentioned in the Supplement in the alchemy room above that it was a kind of pill found by the Sanren of Tianling.

On the third page, the lynx has grown in size, with hairless body and white eyes, limb-like growths on its sides, and a high bulge on its head.Next to this deformed lynx, there are four words written: Scavenger-eating beast.On these four characters, a cross was drawn with a red pen.

It turns out that this Tianling Sanren created this kind of thing hundreds of years ago.Now Xiao Ran finally understands where the local lynx came from. It turned out to be the product of the plateau lynx eating live pills.

He turned back again, and on the fourth page there was a drawing of a crow, on the fifth page it was also a living pill, and on the sixth page it was still a crow, with the word "Wei Ji" written next to it.

Xiao Ran guessed that it was because the crow ate the living pill, but there was no change.

He then flipped back and found that the hand-painted book should be Tianling Sanren's "Experimental Notes".He has been feeding live pills to various animals, including fish, birds, snakes, rats, cats, dogs and more.There are very few cases where a lynx turns into an evil beast and a crow remains unchanged. Most of them die after eating, but on the third page of each group of pictures, "death in one day" and "death in three days" are marked Wait for the change in the date, and put a red cross next to it.

This Tianling Sanren, with his style of experimenting with animals, might become a chemist or medical scientist in a certain field if he lived for hundreds of years.

When turning to the end, Xiao Ran frowned.After experimenting with many animals, he finally set his sights on humans.A portrait of a man with beard, hair and clothing appears in the book, with "village gangster" written next to it.

But after this villager took the living pill, two things happened, one was "death in five days", and the other was like a lynx, turning into a monster with hairless body and protruding head, beside which was written The word "living corpse" is marked with a red cross in both cases.

Different results can be obtained, it seems that Tianling Sanren has done more than one experiment with humans, they are really cold-blooded animals.Xiao Ran overturned his previous thinking, no matter when and where such a person is, it is impossible to become a scientist who shoulders the future of mankind.

There are still a few pages left, Xiao Ran couldn't help but think, the experiment has been done with human beings, and different results have been obtained, so what will be more outrageous in the end?

He had just turned a page backwards when suddenly there was a "click" not far away.Following the sound, it turned out that the stone lotus petals used to block the wind beside the candle had fallen.

The candle flame in the corner trembled a few times in the breeze, and then went out with a "flutter".

(End of this chapter)