Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 293 Clay Sculpture Switch

The fat man saw the people by the well staring at each other and then looking into the well, so he often moved the corpse clay sculpture in his hand in the opposite direction, and then quickly ran to the edge of the well.

He watched the floor tiles and slabs covered with moss and mud move slowly to the side amidst imperceptible friction sounds, re-exposing the moldy bones and thick handles below, and said in surprise: "His grandma's, I I thought I broke that thing, but I didn't expect it to be a switch!"

He wasn't sure, so he went back and moved the corpse clay sculpture again, and then ran back.this time.The stone slab reappeared unsteadily under the flashlight, blocking the bones and velvet.

Hu Ba nodded and said: "It seems that this is a cover. It is opened during the sacrifice, and live animals or people are thrown into it, and then closed after the work is done, to isolate the rotting smell and mold of the corpse. It seems that it is as I expected. The people in this Ghost King Temple are not that simple."

Tricks, living sacrifices, foreign objects, longevity, all the clues linked together are too similar to Xiao Ran's previous experience. Now it is only one step away from proving that this Ghost King Temple was created by Tianling Sanren, or at least related to him .

At this time, Hu Bayi's attention turned to the ghost king statue.Holding the engineering shovel, he tapped the corpse clay sculpture that the fat man had moved just now, and bursts of broken soil fell from it.Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he had noticed something strange.

"Fatty, come here and do me a favor!" Hu Bayi shouted.

Fatty, Xiao Ran, and Xu Er all gathered around. Under Hu Bayi's instructions, they clenched the almost straight corpse clay sculpture with their hands. Hu Bayi picked up the engineering shovel and smashed it vertically from top to bottom. On the bone at the top of the corpse antler.

For some reason, the other three instinctively tightened their legs at this moment.

With a sound of "crash", the clay sculpture of corpse velvet split instantly, and the cracked hard mud splashed everywhere, smashing the heads and faces of the other three people.

"Old Hu! Can't you slow down? Thanks to the goggles, otherwise my trick..."

At this time, Xiao Ran and Xu Er had already let go of their hands, only the fat man was still holding the clay sculpture obediently.He saw the clay sculptures shattered one after another, revealing the thing in the middle, which turned out to be a copper rod with a round head and a thin handle, which Xiao Ran was all too familiar with.

The fat man let go, and Hu Bayi swung the shovel to clean up the broken soil under the copper pole. There was a groove of more than ten centimeters under the copper pole.The bottom of the copper rod is embedded in this groove, so that it can move back and forth to play the role of a switch.

"Hey... I thought you found some incredible treasure, as I said just now, this is a switch, if you smash it, it's just a switch..."

Hearing what Fatty said, Hu Bayi shone a flashlight on several other corpse clay sculptures that were equally long and straight around the Ghost King, and asked, "Do you think these are also switches?"

A few people flashed their flashlights around the statue of the ghost king. Those long, straight corpse clay sculptures were mixed with other shorter clay sculptures. At first glance, they seemed to be just clay sculptures. Why does it feel like the copper rod in front of me is also a switch.

In order to prevent accidents, they did not dare to touch these clay sculptures directly, but, like Hu Bayi, they first used engineering shovels to clean the table under the corpse.

After a while of knocking, smashing and scratching, they finally determined that there were four switches disguised as corpse clay sculptures next to the ghost king statue.Under these long and straight corpse clay sculptures, there are grooved slides with different vertical and horizontal.

"Let's try one by one, maybe there is a switch to open the channel, everyone be smart."

After Hu Bayi finished speaking, Xiao Ran went to push the corpse clay sculpture beside him.The clay sculpture was pushed to the other end along the slide rail, and suddenly there was a sound of stone rubbing right in front of the ghost king statue.

Xiao Ran and Xu Er were very familiar with this voice, it must be a secret door or a secret compartment that was opened.

But Hu Bayi and Fatty didn't crack those traps one door after another like they did before, so that they were a little numb to hearing these voices.They quickly raised the wall and shone their flashlights around. At the same time, they both lowered their bodies and bent their knees, ready for a tactical roll at any time.

After a few seconds, the sound of stone rubbing stopped.Hu Bayi and Fatty jumped off the base of the statue first, and their flashlights shone on the floor in front of the statue.

"Look! There's a keyhole here!"

The fat man's tone was rather joyful, as if finding the keyhole was equivalent to finding the door.Xiao Ran and Xu Er also jumped off the base, and saw a recessed hidden compartment on the floor more than one meter in front of the statue, with a small keyhole in the middle.

Xiao Ran remembered the key he found in the catacomb of Xia Niang Temple, and took it out for comparison. The size of the key was much larger than the keyhole, and the shape was also different.

The light in the fat man's eyes dimmed a bit, he clapped his hands and said: "I still don't believe it, there is a keyhole and there is no key. I guess the key is probably hidden in the ghost king statue, I'll look for it..."

The fat man climbed onto the statue of the ghost king without any explanation, and shone a flashlight on the ears and mouth of the ghost king, which were not clear enough, and beat the head and body of the ghost king with his engineering shovel from time to time, trying to find out if it was hollow.

Xu Er walked to a corpse switch at this time, and consulted Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran with his eyes.After getting an affirmative answer, he also pushed the corpse clay sculpture in his hand.

This time, the entire ghost king image suddenly trembled, and a large amount of dust was shaken up, causing the fat man to sneeze.A burst of "cracking" sound spread from bottom to top, from the base of the Ghost King Statue all the way to the entire Ghost King Statue.

Hu Bayi's expression changed, and he shouted to the other three: "Xiao Ran and Xu Er, get out of the way! Fatty! Come down quickly!"

The fat man hadn't figured out the situation yet, so he turned around and asked, "What?"

In the next second, the entire ghost king image shook twice, and suddenly moved forward slowly.Fatty turned pale in shock, turned his head and saw that the people under the ghost king statue had all stepped aside, and instinctively shouted: "The ghost king is alive!"

The statue of the ghost king came to the front of the keyhole, and suddenly there was a "click", and a sudden brake stopped.The fat man lost his grip and fell from the statue on his back.

Xiao Ran bounced up suddenly, and quickly ran in front of the fat man, holding the fat man's arms firmly with both hands.At this time, the fat man's head was less than one meter away from the mouth of the well. If he fell lying on his back like this, his neck would definitely be broken.

"Xiao...brother Xiao...I owe you my life again..."

Hu Bayi who was next to him also rushed over and pulled the fat man up.The fat man sat by the well panting, and Hu Bayi teased and reprimanded him a few more times. The fat man waved his hands and said, "I... am I not looking for a key? Well... let whoever wants to go... I'll rest for a while Son……"

When Hu Bayi saw this, he didn't say any more, and carefully walked around behind the ghost king statue with Xiao Ran and Xu Er.The statue of the ghost king moved forward by more than one meter, separating from the wall behind it.They illuminated the stone wall with flashlights, and found an arched stone door directly behind the ghost king statue.

"It seems that the door is separate from the keyhole. As long as you find the key, you should be able to open the door..."

Just as Hu Bayi was talking, suddenly there was another "cracking" sound from the ghost king statue behind him, and then the huge statue slowly approached them.

(End of this chapter)