Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

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Xiao Ran and Xu Er went down the hanging ladder to the pit, and saw that the three walls of the pit and the ground below were artificially repaired. They were very smooth and reinforced with stone slabs.Just because of the age, there are many grass roots drilled out of the gaps, it seems that these stone slabs are integrated with the land, like a natural rock formation.

Hu Bayi raised his hand to light the inside of the passage, and saw many vines like tree roots growing from all around the passage, all of which were gray and white.Layers of occlusion prevent the flashlight from reaching the end at all.

Xiao Ran looked at the dark passage and the gray and white long conical objects protruding from all sides, and suddenly thought of the inner wall of the mouth of the mushroom mandrill, and couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

"Those things in it all grew out later. It must be difficult to build such a passage, and the exit is still in this forest." Hu Bayi said.

The fat man bent down and looked carefully for a long time, his big belly made him panting heavily, he asked pantingly: "The other end, isn't it simple? What could it be? The palace of the old emperor? Or the mausoleum of some local emperor? "

Hu Bayi said with a look of disgust: "Your imagination is too developed. What kind of imperial tombs and palaces can there be in this deep mountain and old forest? One is also a mountain king. But it is not impossible to say that the other side is a big tomb. , this passage was probably dug in advance by those craftsmen who repaired the tomb to escape, in order to prevent being used as a sacrificial object. In short, whether the other side of the passage is the yin house or the yang house, we have to go and see for ourselves. "

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the other people, asking for advice with his eyes.

Xiao Ran returned the compass in his hand to Hu Bayi, pointed to the pointer on the compass and said, "Brother Hu, the direction of this passage happens to be to the west, and you might be able to avoid those annoying people by walking this way." Mushroom mandrill, I think, this is..."

"God's will! Fat Lord, I am the vanguard of God's will!"

The fat man had a smug look on his face, as if he dug this tunnel.Seeing that Li Ran and Fatty didn't have any objections, Hu Bayi naturally took the lead in everything, so there was nothing to say.

The height and width of this passage are more than one meter, and only one person can bend over at a time.As usual, Hu Bayi walked in the front, followed by Xiao Ran and Xu Er, and the fat man was in the rear.

Hu Bayi waved his engineering shovel in front, chopping down the thick vines and tree roots blocking the way.Xiao Ran followed behind, reprocessing the parts that Hu Bayi hadn't cut off.

Those off-white long conical protrusions are not as hard as tree roots, but rather soft.When Xiao Ran passed by a relatively short protrusion, he actually bent it.But when he walked away, the bump bounced back and returned to its original shape, like some kind of soft plastic foam.

Suddenly curious, he stopped to pick up a protrusion that Hu Bayi had cut off, and took a careful photo with the flashlight.In the cross-section of that thing, many filaments can be seen, and these gray-white long roots can even be torn apart along these filaments.This kind of character and touch reminded Xiao Ran of something.

mushroom.

"Brother Hu! Are these things the same thing that grows on mushroom mandrills?"

Hu Bayi stopped, and carefully illuminated with the flashlight, studying those mushroom-like protrusions.Xiao Ran turned his head again, and asked Xu Er: "Xu Er, have you heard from your grandfather that the mushrooms he took back then were not so long?"

Xu Er shook his head and said, "He just said that it looks the same as that mountain god's head, and I've never heard of such a thing."

Hu Bayi looked at these things carefully, and suddenly seemed to remember something, looked past Xiao Ran and Xu Er, and asked the fat man, "Fatty man, do you remember when we jumped in the queue, we picked hazelnuts in the forest and saw a A long gray mushroom, which seems to be a bit similar to this thing."

The fat man thought for a while, then patted his head and said, "I remember! At that time, we picked some back, but was scolded by the old party secretary, saying that it was a fungus growing on the corpse, and the whole basket of hazelnuts could not be eaten if it touched it." Yes. That thing is called... what is it called..."

Both of them thought about it, raised their heads and said in unison: "Zirong!"

After hearing what the two said, Xiao Ran and Xu Er hurriedly threw away the gray thing in their hands.

Hu Bayi still held the gray strip in his hand, and said to Xiao Ran and Xu Er: "It's okay, brother Xiao, as long as you don't stuff it into your mouth, you don't have to worry about being poisoned. , and these are not exactly the same as that kind of mushroom. The corpse is very small, about the size of a common shiitake mushroom. These things, if I guess correctly, should be the roots of that kind of mushroom. They are so big, It can still grow on living creatures, it is probably mutated."

Mutated corpse?With a face full of disgust, Xiao Ran kicked away the long gray roots at his feet, and said, "Let's be careful and fasten the hat tightly. As far as we know, only Xu Er's grandfather feeds mice to grow mushrooms." The case is probably similar to the corpse velvet you mentioned, it only works when you eat it. But you can't go wrong if you are careful..."

Hu Ba nodded and said: "Brother Xiao is right, this thing is too evil, so be careful to drive it for ten thousand years."

Several people put on gas masks first, and Hu Bayi was more careful on the road behind, trying to cut off the mutated corpse roots protruding from the wall at once, and Xiao Ran was responsible for sweeping these cut roots aside.

Walked all the way forward for more than 100 meters, passing through several less obvious turns on the way.When Xiao Ran looked back, he could no longer see the light at the entrance.

Suddenly there was a loud noise coming from the passage behind, and the fat man at the back turned his face and quickly ran towards the direction he came from.After a while, he ran back in a hurry and said to several people, "It's collapsed! That entrance has collapsed!"

Waves of flying dust swept from behind at this time, and the sound of landslides kept ringing behind him.The four of them all looked nervous, and they couldn't care less about chopping down those protruding mutated corpse soft roots and those hard pine roots. Passing by is better than being buried alive by the landslide tunnel behind.

Hu Bayi yelled "Pay attention to the left" and "Be careful of the top of your head" and other prompts in front, while bending over as much as possible and running as fast as possible.But the mutated corpse roots seemed to be getting denser and denser, as if they had inadvertently broken into the mushroom nest.

Xiao Ran and the others didn't care about thinking, they could only follow Hu Bayi and run forward, letting those soft mushrooms slide across their body and face, the only thing they could do was try not to let their mouth and nose touch those roots.

Hu Bayi ran and stopped suddenly, Xiao Ran slammed on the brakes and stopped, almost bumping into Hu Bayi's back.He saw Hu Bayi shining a flashlight around, at this moment they seemed to have reached the end of the tunnel, and there was an empty space ahead.

Before he had time to ask about Hu Bayi's situation, Xu Er and Fatty rushed over and bumped into his back one after another.

Unable to defend himself for a moment, he was bumped and rushed forward, knocking Hu Bayi out of the passageway in an almost dramatic way, and he also staggered and fell from the passageway.

(End of this chapter)