Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 319 Boulder Castle
According to the arched and square holes of different shapes and sizes on the boulder, several other people could see that there used to be doors and windows there.At this time, when I got a closer look, I realized that the boulder was indeed more like an abandoned city.Only from a distance of more than ten meters, the four walls of this giant ashlar have been weathered and withered, so there is no way to go up.

The fat man rubbed his hands and said, "Damn, I really want to see what's on it. Since it's a small tower, there are no artifacts, so there must be some daily necessities, right? What if there are gold, jade ornaments and porcelain..."

Xiao Ran took out the Flying Tiger Claw from his backpack, shook it and said, "That's easy to say, I'll go up and have a look first."

The fat man looked at the thin rope, and said cheerfully, "Then you are the only one going up. If you see something good, you have to shout a few times at any time. Anyway, there is no one else here."

Xiao Ran threw down his backpack, engineering shovel and other things, leaving only the flashlight and Guan Shandao by his side, then swung the rope and threw the Flying Tiger Claw to an edge more than ten meters high.

His movements were as light as an ape's, and he climbed onto the stone platform in two or three strokes, and there happened to be an arched door in front of him.

Xiao Ran put away the rope, and walked inside with a flashlight, only to see that there was almost nothing left in the earthen room that was ventilated on all sides except the original structure of the house.

Xiao Ran took a flashlight to look around, and the fat man below couldn't hold back any longer, and kept shouting: "Brother Xiao! What's up there? Tell us about it!"

Xiao Ran poked his head out from the edge, and shouted to the people below: "There's nothing left, it's an empty shell of loess, just like those dilapidated houses in Xiye Ancient City!"

"Oh……"

The volume of Fatty's "Oh" was very loud, and his disappointment and loneliness were amplified infinitely.

Xiao Ran took a photo on the other side of the stone gate, and found that there was a corner, and after turning the corner, there was a staircase leading to the top.

He climbed up the earthen stairs and reached another relatively spacious room.This room should be a large bedroom, with a large stone bed carved directly from the boulder itself, and a large bunk, which can accommodate at least a dozen people by visual inspection.

On the other side of the room is also a door, and outside the door is a passage. There are several rooms of different sizes on both sides of the passage. It is difficult to see what it was used for before.

Xiao Ran walked to the end of the passage, and saw two stairs leading up and down.So Xiao Ran looked randomly along the stairs and rooms, and besides the big bedroom before, he also found several small bedrooms, and a cell divided into three compartments, most of the other rooms were already It is as empty as a rough house, and there is no use for it at all.

Most of these large and small rooms, passages, and stairs are on the outside of the boulder. Perhaps the builders did not dare to dig too far into the center to prevent the boulder from collapsing.

Xiao Ran's flashlight moved back and forth along the outer wall of the boulder, and the three people below also ran around with Xiao Ran, listening to Xiao Ran's report of his discoveries from time to time.

Xiao Ran walked all the way up, and finally arrived at a relatively large room, which was a hall supported by six stone pillars.On the innermost wall of the hall, there is a vague relief, and there is a stone square table in front of it.

Xiao Ran carefully looked at the relief with a flashlight, and roughly saw a human figure, but on both sides of the human figure, there were five limbs on each side, and he was already very familiar with this shape.It seems that this hall is another temple dedicated to Empress Xia, and it should be the main activity place for those who lived here before.

There is an arched door on the wall on both sides of the relief, and a few stairs can be vaguely seen behind, but the way up is buried by the collapsed earth and rocks.

Xiao Ran roughly guessed that maybe Tianling Sanren was not the founder of Xia Niang worship, but just a preacher.After some changes occurred at the base of this Xia Niang temple, he left here with those living pills and the corpses of the first saints, to continue to spread the worship of Xia Niang, and take this opportunity to conduct those inhumane longevity research.

He quickly returned from the original path, climbed down the rope again, and told the others everything he saw and guessed.After hearing this, Hu Bayi said, "It seems that we have found the lair of the Tianling Sanren, and we should dig him out next..."

The fat man looked around and said, "Dig? Where are you going to dig? There are no graves around here."

Hu Bayi said: "Just now we were spinning around with Xiao Ran, you just stared at the top, of course you didn't see anything below, you follow me."

Hu Bayi led a few people around to the south side of the boulder. Near the middle, there was a slightly raised ground. If you look carefully, it is indeed different from the surrounding ground. It seems that it was buried and piled up later.

When the fat man saw the ground, he suddenly realized: "Oh! Sit north and face south. They have already reached their hometown, so there must be nothing to hide. At most, they just buried it like this. But what you mean is that the Sanren of Tianling buried it himself. Bury yourself?"

Hu Bayi said: "Although this place is called the Tibetan God Bureau, judging from Xiao Ran's discovery, those people have transformed this place into another place. It is very likely that it is a place for alchemy and medicine to seek longevity like the one below Xia Niang Temple. The place is not the tomb. We can only dig out what's going on below."

Hearing about digging a hole, the fat man regained his spirits, picked up the engineering shovel and shoveled towards the ground.The shovel collided with the ground and made a "dang" sound. The tip of the shovel was only inserted a few centimeters into the ground, and the soil below was frozen solid.

The fat man flicked his tingling wrist, and said to Hu Bayi: "Old Hu, this thing can't be dug out. I think explosives are used. Anyway, we have a lot of it now..."

Hearing that the fat man wanted to use explosives, Li Ran was the first to stand up and wave his hands: "No, no, this stone is almost carved into hollows. If the explosives blow up and the whole collapses, we can't guarantee whether we can run..."

Hu Bayi flicked his flashlight around and said, "Brother Xiao, don't worry about explosives, but I don't want to use explosives unless it is absolutely necessary. It stands to reason that we should be prepared for digging different grounds, like ancient tombs." Vinegar is used to ram the earth. If it was the glacial and frozen soil of the Kunlun Mountains back then, we would use ginger juice. If we had known this was the case, we should have prepared earlier..."

He looked at it carelessly, as if trying to figure out a way.When his flashlight shone on the opposite stone wall, Xiao Ran suddenly saw something on it, and quickly raised his flashlight to shine it.

At a position more than one meter above the mound, there is a cross-shaped symbol, which looks like the marks on the trees in the pine forest, and it was made by a black blind man.

Xiao Ran walked to the side, and saw three small words engraved on the side of the cross symbol: poke here.

Xiao Ran raised his shovel and dug, and the loess fell down.He looked around and happened to catch a glimpse of the Luoyang shovel in Xu's second hand.The Luoyang shovel is made of multi-section hollow iron pipes, and when the head of the shovel is unscrewed, it becomes a big straw.

He took the Luoyang shovel from Xu Er, removed the head of the shovel, and poked the pointed end into the stone wall, and a stream of broken soil shot out from the iron pipe in an instant.

Xiao Ran picked up the engineering shovel again, and slammed the top of the iron pipe into the stone wall. After a few shovels, a dark red turbid liquid suddenly gushed out from the iron pipe and poured it on the slightly raised ground.

(End of this chapter)