Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 217 Survival in Fire?

The mountain walls embedded with stone gates are completely natural, completely maintaining their natural state, and have not undergone symbolic polishing or repairs. In many places, there are still traces of hammers, shovels, picks and hoes left during excavation, deep and shallow pits Hanging on the stone wall, it seems that the construction is still in progress, and the workers just go to take a short rest.

The stone gate on the stone wall is quite finely carved, with dragons and phoenixes carved on it, flowing clouds covering the sun like a landscape painting, and cranes and unicorns are lifelike.

Xiao Ran shone the flashlight on the edges and gaps of the stone door carefully, trying to find out the switch of the stone door.But this door looks more like a small painting carved on the mountain wall, not like it can be opened from left to right or lifted upwards.

Xiao Ran took a few steps back and took a look at this natural stone wall, no matter how he looked, he couldn't see that there were other hidden doors.

Each of the ten doors in the main hall has its own purpose behind it, and they are all part of the various longevity plans of the Sanren of Tianling.He had no reason to carve a picture behind one of the doors, or just build a passage leading to the medicine field.

Could it be that before the tenth gate could be finished, there was a war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, so Tianling Sanren left in a hurry?
But it doesn't make sense, since it can't be finished, why is it necessary to just leave a stone carving on the stone wall?
Xiao Ran looked at Liu Shengli and Xu Er who were beside him, both of them looked at him firmly, pinning all their hopes of escape on the tenth door.

Although Xiao Ran still has a backup plan in mind, this plan is too risky, unless it is absolutely necessary, he should give priority to finding other ways out.That being the case, let's look for it with all our strength.

"On this rough stone wall, there is such a stone carving, and the edges are still very clear, indicating that this is probably a door. Let's look around, there should be a mechanism that can open the door."

The stone wall was more than ten meters wide. Xiao Ran asked Liu Shengli and Xu Er to move, and held up a torch to take a closer look at the stone wall to see if there was anything that looked like a mechanism. , report to him.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er turned around and inspected carefully according to Xiao Ran's request, their eyes almost popped out, but they didn't find any switch that looked like it could be flipped or pulled.

Unwilling to give up, Xu Er also took a closer look at the other three walls.Liu Shengli has learned to use his brain before moving his mouth after going through so many things in this day. Seeing Xu Er looking at other walls, he simply observed carefully on the ground.

Xiao Ran was still looking at the mural carefully. It was engraved with the four auspicious signs of dragon, phoenix, leopard and tortoise. The sky is also surrounded by sun, moon, clouds, mountains and mist, stars hang under the sun and moon, and there are rushing rivers on the ground.

He thought of the practice room hidden under the steps of the storage room, where there were also stone carvings on the screen wall, which was the key to the opened stone door.He carefully looked for patterns on this stone carving, but no matter how many hoofs and heads he counted, he couldn't figure out why.

After a while, Liu Shengli and Xu Er came back, both chattering and eager to report to Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran pointed to Liu Shengli and said, "You come first!"

"Manager, I didn't find the mechanism, but I just scanned the flat ground where we sat before, and found a pattern on the ground, as if I've seen it before."

Xiao Ran and Xu Er followed Liu Shengli to the flat ground where they were sitting before, and they found that there seemed to be a pattern composed of squares and circles under a layer of fine crushed lime soil.

He hurriedly ordered Xu Er, who had faster legs and feet, to bring back three brooms from the corner of the execution room, and the three of them swept the ground, causing dust to float in the entire cave, and the three of them coughed and sneezed non-stop.

But when the ground was cleaned up, Xiao Ran took a photo with the flashlight and found that there was indeed a huge stone slab on the ground, about two meters wide and three meters long, and engraved on it was the portrait of the six-handed and four-legged man who looked like an ant.And every half a meter on the slate, there is a slit parallel to the two broad sides of the slate.

On the edge of this huge stone slab, there are obvious gaps, which are separated from the surrounding ground at first glance, not just stone slab paintings carved on the ground.

He asked Xu Er and Liu Shengli to clean the ground around the stone slabs, and found that although the walls and roof of the cave hadn't been repaired much, the ground had obviously been carefully laid, but it was just that there was no light before, and there were several layers on the ground. It was covered with gravel and soil centimeters deep, so I didn't find any clues below.

There is a stone carving on the wall, and another stone carving on the ground. Which one is the door that can be opened?

Seeing Xiao Ran frowning on the ground, Xu Er leaned up and said, "Xiao Gang, should you listen to me too..."

Xiao Ran observed the human-shaped stone carving carefully with the flashlight on, and nodded in response: "Well...you tell me."

Xu Er pointed to the top of the iron gate behind him and said, "Xiao Gang, there are many holes on it, and I think it looks a bit like the stars on that stone painting."

Xiao Ran moved the flashlight to the top of the iron door, and indeed saw a few small holes in the top of the door.But when he took a closer look, he found that there was no small hole, but a few glazed yin and yang fishes mounted on the wall, the same as those in the bedroom of the Sanren in Tianling, half filled with black shark oil.

Thinking of what happened before, Xiao Ran couldn't help taking a breath, and quickly asked Xu Er if he approached with a torch.

Xu Er heard Xiao Ran say that these things are the same as the mechanism that almost killed three people in the bedroom before, and he was full of lingering fear, and shook his head again and again: "No no no no! If I didn't come close to me, I wouldn't take it as it is. Hole..."

Xiao Ran shined his flashlight on those yin-yang fishes, and always felt that the arrangement was very strange, as if they were some kind of fixed star map like the Big Dipper and the Six Stars of the Southern Dipper.

But just now he looked at the stone gate for a long time. Although the stars on it also have their own order, they are completely different from the arrangement of Yin-Yang fish on the entrance door.

"Good man, the things on this door should be the seven constellations in the south, and each yin-yang fish represents one constellation." Yinyang mirror said.

Southern Qisu?So put it this way...

Xiao Ran hurriedly ran to the edge of the stone wall, Liu Shengli and Xu Er didn't know what happened to Xiao Ran suddenly, so they hurriedly followed behind.

"Daoist, take the star on this stone carving, it is..."

"Northern Qisu, poor Taoists still won't be fooled by this." Yin Yang Jing hurriedly replied.

Xiao Ran hurriedly took a flashlight and ran to the walls on the left and right sides to take a closer look. Sure enough, there were several thick nails embedded in the walls, and the shapes on the left and right sides were West and East Qisu respectively.

Xiao Ran went back to the iron gate, looked at the southern Qisu yin-yang fish on the gate, and thought rapidly in his mind.

The yin-yang fish is filled with shark oil, which melts when exposed to fire.In the south, Qisu is the god of Suzaku, and the five elements belong to fire.Could it be that this place is different from the bedroom, and you have to encounter fire to survive?

After thinking about it, Xiao Ran decided to give it a try.He asked Liu Shengli and Xu Er to wait outside the door, while he found a few stones to step on, and held a torch to roast the glazed yin-yang fish.

As soon as the mermaid oil in the yin-yang fish melted, it turned upside down and sank like the device in the bedroom.After all the mermaid oil in the seven yin-yang fish melted and sank one by one, a series of "click" sounds suddenly sounded in the cave, all the way from the iron gate to the stone carvings on the stone wall inside the cave.

(End of this chapter)