Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 243
The entire cave was shaking slightly, and even the vents above were constantly falling clods of soil, and some small animals whose species could not be clearly seen were squeaking and falling from the top.Occasionally, a few of those who survived the fall also screamed and crawled into the dark place of the cave wall where the fire was not illuminated.

The three people present couldn't help being horrified. Could it be that the engraved image on the stone gate is wrong at all?The stone on Empress Xia's chest actually represents the entire cave. Once all the wax corpse oil lamps are activated, will the cave collapse?
If this is the case, this huge stone cave will become a big bun for the three people buried alive.

The sound of the mechanism came from far to near, all the way to the feet of the three of them, Xiao Ran shook his head, and hurriedly greeted the two of them: "Run! Run towards the dragon head!"

The three of them stumbled and trot towards the slope trail, climbing towards the dragon's head with hands and feet.The flashlight in Xiao Ran's hand shone on the thin water curtain in front of the faucet, and the water curtain that was originally as quiet as a mirror also made waves as it shook, wet the ground in front of the faucet.

Liu Shengli crawled forward with his head buried. The continuous tremor prevented him from being distracted from looking at the road. As a result, his foot slipped and he fell down the edge of the slope without even uttering an "ah".

Fortunately, Xiao Ran kept looking back to see if the two were safe. Seeing Liu Shengli crawling further and further away, he had a premonition that something would happen, so he quickly flew over and grabbed Liu Shengli.

"Ah! Manager! Help!"

One of Liu Shengli's wrists was firmly grasped by Xiao Ran, and the other hand waved helplessly in the air, trying to grab something but couldn't.

"Now I know how to call it! Don't shake it anymore, if you shake it again, I will follow you down!" Xiao Ran shouted.

"Manager! I don't want to die!"

"I can't die! I'm disabled at most!"

Where they are now, they are about seven or eight meters away from the pile of skulls below, and it is really not easy to die if they fall.But here is a dark place, if the neck hits the ground first, it will be hard to say.

Xu Er also rushed over at this time, stretched out his hand to grab Liu Shengli's other hand, and together with Xiao Ran hurriedly pulled Liu Shengli up.

There was a constant rumble behind him, Xiao Ran pulled Liu Shengli up, and shouted to the two of them: "Show your tricks, don't fall again! Run quickly!"

Just as Xiao Ran took two steps, he suddenly felt something was wrong.Xu Er who was next to him followed up, looked at the mouth of the dragon, and said to Xiao Ran: "Xiao Gang, look at that water curtain, it's not moving again. The ground doesn't seem to be shaking anymore..."

But what was that loud noise?Xiao Ran hurriedly turned around. At this time, the distance was too far, and the flashlight could no longer touch the boulder in the center. He could only see slight ripples in the puddle below the slope, and the flames on the wax corpse oil lamp were also swaying slightly. The vibration had indeed stopped.

Could it be that the boulder is really opened up like in the picture?So the loud noise just now, apart from the opening of the boulder, was also the echo from the arched cave?
It should be right.Xiao Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead, unexpectedly it was another false alarm.It seems that the vibration just now was only caused by the rotation of the underground mechanism, not that the cave was about to collapse.

The three of them went down the slope all the way, and the unnecessary escape just now consumed a lot of physical strength, and the three of them felt somewhat weak under their feet.

The boulder was gradually illuminated by the flashlight. From their perspective, it was still a round piece, as if it hadn't changed in any way.But under the boulder, beside the supporting stone piers, a lot of broken stones have been scattered, which means that the boulder has been opened along the gap on the side.

The firelight in the cave also stabilized at this time, no longer flickering due to the vibration.Xiao Ran brought the two of them back to the boulder again, and standing diagonally opposite the boulder, he could clearly see that the boulder had been separated towards the dragon's head and the tomb under the movement of the slide rails on the stone seat below.

He asked the two of them to be very careful, in case the boulder was opened and there were other mechanisms attached to it.

The flashlight shined on the half of the boulder near the tomb, and saw a rectangular depression in the section like a half egg, about two meters long and one meter wide, and it was empty inside.

If there is nothing on this side, there must be something on the other side.Xiao Ran led the two of them carefully around to the other side, and saw that the center of the other semi-circular boulder happened to be a rectangular protrusion about two meters high and one meter wide.

Seen from a distance, there was no danger, so Xiao Ran approached carefully, and found that there was a full circle of gaps more than ten centimeters in front of the protrusion.

"Manager, this seems to be a cover, should it be able to be opened?" Liu Shengli asked.

Xiao Ran looked carefully in silence, and then blew on the gap.A stream of floating soil floated out from the gap, and the shape of the cover became more obvious. It seemed that Liu Shengli's guess was right.

"Liu, it's still hard work for you, go to the southeast corner and light a candle. I guess, this is a vertical coffin." Xiao Ran said.

As soon as Xu Er heard that it was a coffin, he regained his energy in an instant.But Liu Shengli said in a dilemma: "Manager, do we still need to light extra candles? Aren't all the dead people lying around are candles?"

Xiao Ran turned his head and looked around, those white wax corpses were really like big white candles with puddles of wax oil melted into them, even if they were used to worship the dead, they were cheaper than the thick candles that cost a dime apiece. Be stylish.

But the problem is that although these wax corpses are wax corpses, they are actually more like oil lamps now, and the arrangement is the same as the twelve numbers on the dial, which happens to be vacant in the southeast.

After all, he was the head of Lieutenant Mo Jin after Faqiu. Out of respect for the rules, Xiao Ran sent Liu Shengli away, and lit a thick white candle between ten o'clock and eleven o'clock in the southeast. .

When everything was in place, he read the same old prayers to the owner of the coffin, and then ordered Liu Shengli and Xu Er to pry the lid of the coffin with a shovel.

The two were busy all the way, and finally they were able to participate in an inverted fight with their own hands before leaving, to see the real fortune from opening the coffin, naturally curiosity and excitement overwhelmed their exhaustion.So under Xiao Ran's order, the two of them geared up, picked up the shovel in their hands and inserted it into the gap, and began to pry the coffin lid.

But the two of them tried their best to pry it until their teeth were grinning and their faces were red. Even the gravel under their feet was almost ground into powder by the soles of their rubbing feet, and the sarcophagus lid still didn't move at all.

Xiao Ran is a little different, the coffin that stands upright, it stands to reason that the lid of the coffin is easier to open, after all there is gravity as a good helper.Could it be that Liu Shengli and Xu Er were already powerless because of the lack of food in their stomachs and the escape just now?
He took the wooden-handled shovel in Xu's second hand, gritted his teeth and exerted force, sweat dripped from the corners of his forehead, but more floating dirt fell from the sarcophagus lid.

With a sound of "click", the wooden handle of the shovel broke in half, and Xiao Ran also staggered.It was originally a short-handled shovel, but now it is more like a pointed double-edged ax in the hand.

Xu Er instinctively dodged and took a few steps back.When he raised his head and looked at the front of the sarcophagus lid, he was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran to the middle of the two semicircular boulders, held a torch and carefully looked at the lid of the sarcophagus.

"Xiao Gang! Look, is this shape the same as that!" Xu Er shouted.

Xiao Ran also walked around to the front of the sarcophagus lid, and looked in the direction of Xu Erzhi. In the center of the coffin lid, he could vaguely see a severely worn ant figure with six hands and four legs.In the middle of the torso of the figure, there is a small hexagonal hole.

It may be that the hole was covered by floating soil just now. After the three of them tossed and shook off the floating soil, the real keyhole was exposed.

Xiao Ran took out the hexagonal prism he got from the grave before, and carefully stuffed it in.With just a "click", the coffin lid bounced up along the gap and fell obliquely towards the other half of the boulder.

(End of this chapter)