Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 236 Head Buffet

Seeing so many heads, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered the legend about the village name of Xu Er Village.

He turned his head and asked Xu Erdao: "Xu Er, the history of your Futou Village, does it mean that someone chopped off many heads, and the heads all floated to the surface of the river?"

Xu Er scratched his head and said, "We've all heard this story since we were young, but it's all said a long, long time ago, it seems to be earlier than this. I heard you say that this tomb is only a few hundred years old? Futou Village seems Farther than this time..."

Xiao Ran nodded. With so many heads and the word "Futou Village", he felt inexplicably connected.Maybe it's not like what the village chief said, Futou Village means the first village, and the River Piaotou may have something to do with it.

However, for these guesses, it is necessary to visit more old people who know the past and explore more evidence, which is too difficult.He is not an archaeologist or a folklorist, nor does he need to be.

He took a closer look at the most exposed skull in front of him. The hole on the top of the skull reminded him of the human fly baby, and the round mouthparts with finely serrated teeth of the larvae. He instantly thought of something that made him shudder. screen.

The flashlight passed by the side of the lower jaw of the skull, and hit a brown round edge, which looked like a piece of pottery.Xiao Ran was curious, took Xu Er's wooden handle shovel, and dug a few times along the round edge, and a round pot-bellied clay pot instantly appeared under the human skull.

When the three of them saw this, their eyes widened.Xiao Ran cleaned up the undersides of the two skulls next to him, and sure enough, there were round, pot-bellied pottery pots.

It seems that these human heads were not simply half-buried in the soil, but placed on clay pots.Xiao Ran said a few words "Don't blame it" in his heart, and gently stirred the skull with the tip of the shovel, only to find that the skull was not placed on the surface of the soil in the clay pot, but part of it seemed to be buried under the soil.

"Whether you were male or female, old or young, whether you were repairing bridges and roads or killing people and setting fires, life and death have nothing to do with me. Turning over your remains today is also to add to the crimes of that old beast of Tianling Sanren, If there is a chance in the future, I will even avenge you. I hope you will actively cooperate with the work, accept the inspection patiently, and not stand on the opposite side of justice and the people. No wonder..."

Xiao Ran didn't know if this was considered an opening of the coffin, and whether he needed to light candles.But after confirming with the Soul Locking Lingzhu, I found that there were so many skulls present, but I didn't hear any soul voices. I can basically confirm that these heads were indeed eaten by the brain-drilling flying insects. The guess about the hole in the top of the skull is not wrong.

He called Liu Shengli and Xu Er to turn the clay pot full of soil upside down together with the skull.The contents of the pot and the skull were all scattered on the ground.

"Vine! Cauliflower! That, that is... the cannibal dill!"

Xu Er pointed to something on the ground and exclaimed loudly.In the soil scattered on the ground, apart from the drilled skull, there were also several withered and decayed vines, which were connected to the skull.

Xu Er and Liu Shengli were too impressed with this thing, because of that giant vine cannibal, they mistakenly thought that Xiao Ran was dead twice, and even thought that they had indirectly killed Xiao Ran once.

Xiao Ran felt that fragments of clues were gradually intertwined, and it seemed that his previous deduction was wrong.From the very beginning, that mutated giant vine cannibal can not be regarded as a product of failure. For Tianling Sanren, it should be some kind of unexpected harvest.

He discovered that giant vine cannibals can co-exist with human heads. In this way, if human heads can be planted in petri dishes similar to flowerpots using cannibals as a medium, it can give human flies or blue flys a successful experiment. , to provide the most convenient food.

In other words, this large field of cultivated human heads is a large field of crops, or the buffet of the entire hole, for human flies or basking flies.

Xiao Ran's heart hung up in an instant. Does this mean that there are still live gnats or human flies in this hole?For example, in the stomachs of those wax corpses...

Thinking of this, he quickly turned his head to look at the three wax corpses that had surfaced.The wax corpse was still lying quietly, and the abdomen would only squirm slightly when he shone the flashlight over it, and nothing had hatched as he had feared.

Anyway, quickly looking for an exit and leaving this place of right and wrong as soon as possible is what he cares most about right now.

Of course, if you can find something like a coffin and go out to touch some decent artifacts, it's not a waste of time to go out, and you can talk to Hu Bayi and the others when you go back.

Xiao Ran briefly explained to Liu Shengli and Xu Er his reasoning about Tianling Sanren's accidental discovery of the characteristics of cannibal radishes, and the use of flowerpots and cannibal radishes to keep human heads fresh and eat them for human flies or slugs. I admired Xiao Ran, and felt horrified by the actions of that Tianling Sanren. I was glad that I didn't meet such a person.

"Xiao Gang, we didn't find the lamp, it's such a big hole, it's so dark, let's not fall into any ditch..."

Xu Er rubbed his hands timidly, with an unconcealable fear on his face.It is true that there are not moving wax corpses here, or dead skulls all over the place. Everyone will feel chills behind. Maybe a little light can make everyone's heart peaceful.

Xiao Ran sighed, maybe he could only come according to the arrangement of this old bastard, Tianling Sanren.He waved his hand and led the two of them down the slope again, to the edge of the pit where the wax corpse was, and pointed to the small black thing in the belly of the wax corpse.

"Look, what is that?" Xiao Ran said.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er took advantage of Xiao Ran's flashlight to look at the thing with a fork in the abdomen of the wax corpse, they couldn't help but looked at each other, and shook their heads at Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran said: "If I'm not mistaken, this is a lamp twister. The old man of Tianling Sanren regards these wax corpses and oil pits as large oil lamps, which can be regarded as a kind of sky lantern. In this big cave, It is estimated that only these wax corpses can be used as oil lamps."

Xu Er suddenly realized: "When I was young, I heard the storytellers from other villages say that Dong Zhuo in the Three Kingdoms period lit the lamp with his stomach after he died, and it didn't go out for several days. I thought it was that old cripple making up Yeah, no one actually does that..."

After hearing this, Liu Shengli gasped, and asked Xiao Ran: "Manager, then...are we really ordering? Isn't that a crime?"

Xiao Ran said helplessly: "The evil was also made by Tianling San, we just followed the trend. We walked all the way, which roads and doors were not repaired by him? You can't even say that walking is helping the evil, right? If If you are afraid of the dark, you can only order something."

He asked the two of them for their opinions with his eyes. Liu Shengli and Xu Er looked at each other and nodded.

After a while, three huge wax corpse oil lamps lit up around, illuminating the area under the slope path brightly.

(End of this chapter)