Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 312 The Secret of the Slate Painting
Fatty and Xu Er were lying on the ground, looking at the two big axes that were almost touching the soles of their feet, they couldn't help being afraid for a while, and Xu Er said tremblingly, "Mom...Mom..."

Fortunately, behind Fatty was Xiao Ran, and behind Xu Er was Hu Bayi.As long as it is changed, even if the fat man can keep his calf, he will not be able to keep his ankle.

"Let you play! How many times, can't you be more stable?"

Hu Ba took a look at the fat man who was safe and sound, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.Xu Er finally came to his senses at this moment, he got up and hid behind several people as if fleeing for his life, looking at his legs repeatedly, afraid that his current integrity was just an illusion.

Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran pulled the fat man up, and then shined their flashlights on the walls on both sides in front of them. Sure enough, there were two stone slabs facing each other at a certain distance, with similar paintings engraved on them.

Xiao Ran said: "Sure enough, it's not that simple. It seems that the black blind man really wants to leave some signals for us. Next, we have to pay attention to the paintings on both sides. They should all be ways to pass through the passage."

Hu Ba nodded and said: "This section of the road looks flat and not too long, but it is actually extremely dangerous. We really have to step by step. This first hurdle has been figured out. We have to learn from these two brats and jump over it." The area in front of the stone slab. Fatty, the two of you just jumped from the wrong position, and you just landed on the organ."

The fat man said disdainfully: "This black blind man, if you say you want to leave a signal, you should be clear about it. You have to be so sloppy. Is this helping people or harming people?"

Xiao Ran smiled and said: "Brother Fat, if he really writes it clearly, then this place won't be a tourist attraction? Anyone who comes here can easily pass by. It must be wise and brave like us, and have a lucky star like you Only the team that has been photographed can pass through safely.”

When the fat man heard Xiao Ran praise him, his slightly sullen face relaxed, and he muttered reluctantly: "It's worth it, even if I owe you another favor."

While speaking, the two big axes had been slowly retracted, and the sunken stone slab below also bounced up again, and the ground was as smooth as if nothing had happened.

Hu Bayi took the rusty Luoyang shovel from Xu Er, and poked the tip of the shovel more than one meter in front of the stone slab of the organ, and the slate also fell with the sound of the organ. The sides shovel out sharply.

He tried a few more times in a row, and found that the position that could trigger the mechanism was only within a range of about 1.5 meters in front of him, and there were nine floor tiles in total.As long as you jump over the range of about one and a half meters, you don't have to worry about triggering the leg-cutting mechanism.

Several people easily jumped over the first mechanism, walked forward more than ten meters, and reached the next opposite stone slab.

This time, on the stone slabs on both sides are the profiles of a group of human figures, which look like they are queuing up.It's just that the people on the left side are relatively dense, while the people painted on the slate on the right side are relatively sparse.

This time the stone carvings are much more abstract than the previous portraits of the two little ghosts, and it is difficult to guess the meaning.Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Xiao Ran squatted in front of the stone carving and studied it carefully, while Xu Er behind him took a look at this side, and then ran to the other side to look at it.

"This seems to be the Naihe Bridge. The place where these people stepped is an arch. But the ground in front of us is flat..."

As Hu Bayi spoke, he took a photo towards the front, and there was nothing special about the ground in front of him except that it was covered with a layer of broken soil.Xiao Ran turned around and looked at the walls on both sides, and then at the ceiling above, and saw some clues.

"Look at the two sides, and the top. There are small holes on the wall and the top. If we accidentally step on the mechanism, there will probably be steel needles coming out from all sides, and we will all be pricked into a hornet's nest." Xiao Ran said.

The fat man studied for a long time, and said: "What do you mean by this picture? Could it be that only one person can pass by at a time, and we have to line up to pass. If we go forward in a crowd, the mechanism may not be able to support our weight. Are you going to poke it out?"

Hu Ba nodded and said, "That makes sense, but to be on the safe side, let's try other methods first. If your guess is wrong, we have to fold it all in."

After hearing this, Xiao Ran looked left and right, picked up a damaged floor tile, and threw it forward.

But I didn't expect the floor in front of me to sink immediately when the floor tiles touched it.There was a "click" sound in front of them, and about two seconds later, within a range of five meters in the front passage, densely packed steel needles were poked out from all sides, up, down, left, and right.The steel needles intersected with each other, and even the passage in front was tightly blocked.

"Damn...this is a hornet's nest, it's just like meat stuffing, right?" the fat man sighed.

Obviously, although Fatty's thinking is logical, he still guessed wrong.A floor tile weighs only a few kilograms, and it can easily trigger the mechanism. If they really line up to pass, they can only be strangled one by one.

Hu Bayi looked at the steel needles that were slowly retracting, then looked back at the starting point of the passage, and turned to ask the fat man: "Fatty, what is your best long jump result? Can you reach seven or eight meters?"

The fat man replied: "It depends on how to jump. I can't jump horizontally, but I can jump vertically like jumping from a building. I can go farther than any of you..."

Xiao Ran has a little bit of confidence, if he works hard, he might be able to jump over this distance.But the problem is first of all that maybe, maybe he didn't jump over, and the bone shrinking skill can't save him.

Besides, even if he passed safely by himself, what should the others do?

While worrying, Xu Er suddenly came over and said, "These two paintings seem to depict the same person..."

Xiao Ran frowned and said, "Where is the same person, there are so many people?"

Xu Er hurriedly pointed to one of the figures and said, "Look at this man, he is the only one with a beard, and there is also this man on the painting over there."

Several other people took a closer look, and although these human figures were carved very freehand, there was indeed one person who was a little different, with a short section hanging down from the chin, which looked a bit like a beard.

They turned to the other side, and that person also appeared on the arched road, but the people in front and behind were sparser, and his position was relatively rearward.

Xiao Ran looked to the left, then to the right, turned his head back and forth a few times, and seemed to have discovered something, and asked the others: "Do you feel that the queue on the left is too dense, and then everyone goes to Backed away and opened up the distance, so it became the one on the right?"

Hu Bayi also suddenly opened his eyes wide at this time, and said, "Before those steel needles came out just now, did you hear any sound in front of us?"

Fatty and Xu Er looked at Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran in a daze, but the two behind them exchanged a look, as if they understood each other.

Xiao Ran picked up a floor tile again and threw it to the front.The moment the floor tiles fell to the ground, there was a "click" sound from the ground directly in front of them.

Hu Bayi quickly lifted his foot and stepped down on the floor tile that made the noise, and the buzzing sound before the mechanism was triggered suddenly came.Gritting his teeth, Xiao Ran strode forward, the fat man didn't even have time to pull.

But under the surprised eyes of Fatty and Xu Er, Xiao Ran passed through the trap area about five meters ahead steadily, turned around and waved to them with a smile.

(End of this chapter)