Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 327
Both Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi kept beating around the base under the coffin, while Fatty and Xu Er searched for those bombed gold and jade nearby, like cleaners on a train, constantly beating Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi. Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran were very annoyed when they said "lift your foot", "give way" and so on.

Just as Xiao Ran raised one foot and asked the fat man to take out a small piece of gold from under his foot, Xu Er came over and said he saw a jade bump.He had to take a step back, and for a moment he couldn't stand still, and the shovel hit the stone slab at the bottom of the coffin.

At this time, Hu Bayi's shovel just hit the center of the stone slab, and both of them made hollow, muffled sounds.Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran looked at each other, feeling pleasantly surprised. At the same time, they inserted the head of the shovel into the stone slab and pushed it with all their strength. The stone slab made a friction sound and moved a little to the side.

Seeing this, Fatty and Xu Er hurriedly put down their work, ran to Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi, imitated the two and stuffed the shovel into the gap under the stone slab.The desire for money and the series of encounters along the way have cultivated a tacit understanding among the new team.The four of them worked together, and after several times of prying, the heavy stone slab finally slid aside, revealing a small square hole under the stone slab.

"What the hell is this? Is there a doll's grave under the woman's grave, or is it empty?" the fat man asked.

Hu Bayi said: "This is called the waist pit. It is located in the center of the tomb. It is probably a small pit dug below the waist of the owner of the tomb. In it, the sacrificial objects or accompanying animals are placed. If the social status of the tomb owner is high enough, it may be There are still people who died. But..."

Fatty's eyes widened when he heard that: "What? Human sacrifice? You're stuffing people down to be buried with you, right? Damn..."

After seeing the two mercury-soaked babies in the Kwantung Army fortress, and those workers slaughtered by devils, the fat man became very angry when he heard about people being martyred.It's just that now even the corpse capital is gone, so he can only use the shovel to knock on the side of the pit twice bitterly.

Seeing that the fat man had finished venting his anger, Xiao Ran asked Hu Bayao: "Brother Hu, what you said just now was nothing but what?"

Hu Bayi said: "This kind of waist pit tomb is actually very ancient. It was popular in the Shang and Zhou dynasties and disappeared in the Warring States period, and the pit is also empty, which is strange, as if this tomb is also an antique. "

Xiao Ran nodded and didn't say anything more, but he was as puzzled as Hu Bayi.That's right, this waist pit is less than one meter long and about half a meter deep. It should have been filled with funerary objects, but it was empty.Hu Bayi is right, this waist pit is like many antique porcelain vases, it has lost its original practicability and is more like a decoration.

However, none of these people are newcomers to Dao Douer, especially Xiao Ran, who has experienced a series of ups and downs recently, and will not easily waver or make judgments based on superficial phenomena.

There must be something strange about this waist pit. With this in mind, he jumped into the pit without saying a word, scratching the soil at the bottom of the waist pit with his feet. According to the urine from the beginning to the present, there must be something strange about this waist pit .

After a few strokes, the dirt on the surface was swept to the sides, and the bottom of the waist pit turned out to be a stone slab.

"It's true that there is a world inside! You are busy, let's hurry up and finish it!"

Fatty saw the stone slabs underneath, guessed that the workload was not too much, and he was still thinking about the pieces of gold and jade in the pit.He called Xu Er to shovel the soil together, ran out of the pit and lifted it upwards, the heavy gold and dazzling jade pieces were quickly filtered out with the help of the breeze.

Of course, in addition to the gold and jade, there was also black meat residue exuding a burnt smell. Hu Bayi was so angry that he shouted: "Fatty, you two, stay away! The meat residue is about to fly into your mouth!"

Fatty and Xu Er were busy, and Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi also quickly accelerated their movements.As the broken soil was swept away, the entire bottom of the waist pit was also cleaned out.

In the very center of the stone slab at the bottom of the pit, a metal ring was exposed, and there was a small hole in the center of the ring that was not obvious, and it was this small hole that made Xiao Ran finally sure that he did not dig the wrong place.

He hurriedly flipped through the backpack, took out the key obtained from Xia Niang Temple from the bottom, and compared it with the keyhole.He looked up at Hu Bayi, who was looking at the key in his hand with surprise on his face, and suddenly realized: "This is the key! It seems that this place is really that holy place?!" .

Xiao Ran nodded, his heart was so excited that his hand holding the key trembled slightly.

For fear that he would make a mistake, he looked at the keyhole again carefully, and then carefully inserted the key in.The key opened the marbles one after another with incomparable smoothness, and finally penetrated perfectly into the lockhole.

This time he didn't have to worry, the key and the lockhole were indeed matched.But with a "click", the key seemed to be firmly sucked by the lock and could not be pulled out at all.Even worse, no matter how much he turned left or right, the key couldn't be turned.

Xiao Ran had no choice but to give up turning the key first, and according to previous experience, first try to push the key down slowly.Pressed by the key, the lock cylinder actually sunk down like a button.

With another "click", the lock cylinder also stuck.At this time, Xiao Ran tried to turn the key again, and the key turned smoothly as expected.He turned the key clockwise once, and the key stuck again.

Xiao Ran was feeling puzzled when suddenly there was a familiar sound of mechanism under the stone slab.With a harsh friction sound, the ring around the keyhole slowly rose more than ten centimeters.The material of this ring cannot be seen, it is covered with weird decorations, the shape of the ring reminds Xiao Ran of a tractor steering wheel.

Holding the "steering wheel" with both hands, recalling the sequence in which Xia Niang Temple's organs were opened, he began to turn it: "...the first from the left...the third from the left...the third from the right..."

While turning around, Xiao Ran carefully recalled the sequence at that time, and instinctively felt that there must be a commonality in the opening methods of these two places.After going back and forth several times, the metal ring made a sudden sound, and then slowly lowered back, and the key also loosened.The stone slab under his feet began to shake.Xiao Ran quickly pulled out the key, put it back into the bag, and jumped out of the pit.

The stone slab at the bottom of the waist pit turned out to be a hidden door, slowly moving to one side, and finally disappeared completely from the ground.

Under the secret door, a platform more than one meter deep was revealed.Xiao Ran raised his flashlight to take a picture, but he saw that the platform was connected with a series of stairs, extending to a deeper underground without end.A breeze mixed with earthy and damp came out of the hole, like a big black mouth breathing.

"Brother Xiao...how do you have a key? Is there a door under here?"

The fat man who missed the plot just now had already finished packing his gold nuggets, and when he ran over, he only saw the moment when Xiao Ran pulled out the key and opened the door, so he asked in a daze.

Xiao Ran turned around and grinned at the fat man who had been stupefied, and said to everyone: "I'll let Brother Hu tell you about this key later, now this is where we are going, would you like to come with me again? A trip..."

The cold wind howled across the vast wasteland, and there was no sound of living things or dim lights in the empty night, only boulders whispering to the wind in the wilderness.

(End of this chapter)