Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 332 Into the Bug's Nest

The fat man crashed out from one side of the passage, then yelled and swung back into the passage, and then smashed through the passage on the other side with a roar.

Seeing that the fat man was about to swing back into the passage again, Hu Ba quickly raised his hand and shouted: "Fatty man! Stop, stop swinging around! Just stay in the middle!"

The fat man obviously heard Hu Bayi's voice, and when he returned to the tunnel again, there was a sound of cursing and struggling, and the lower end of the waxy tunnel that was about to break was constantly shaking, and it was about to fall down.

Hu Bayi was still nervously looking up into the passageway, worried about the safety of the fat man.Xiao Ran estimated the passage that was about to fall, and quickly pulled Hu Bayi and Xu Er ten meters away.

The lower end of the passage shook twice, then crashed down, fell to the ground and broke into large pieces.The surrounding area was filled with dust all of a sudden, and several people hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and took a few steps back.

After the ashes fell, the fat man was twisting his fat body at the fracture of the broken wax channel, trying to maintain his balance, like a wriggling giant fat bug.

"The hemp house...the red curtain...there is a fat man living in it..."

Xiao Ran couldn't help but uttered this riddle, and Xu Er who was beside him burst out laughing and sneezed several times.

The fat man drooping in the aisle was twisting his body and slowly falling down.Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran hurried to the lower end of the rope to help the fat man stabilize the rope, and the fat man fell down relatively smoothly.

As soon as the fat man landed on the ground, he said in a trembling voice: "This broken tube, why is it still cracked? I still want to play an exciting game, so I can't help hitting it..."

The fat man rubbed his sore buttocks, while Hu Bayi scolded him for being too young, so Xiao Ran didn't have the nerve to say that the passage was broken by him.

"Xiao Gang! What do you think this is? Dead bones!"

Xu Er's voice suddenly came from the side, Xiao Ran quickly turned around and looked over, it turned out that Xu Er was squatting on the ground to check the broken passage.Among the broken pieces, there were indeed some obviously human leg bones and ribs, and there was even a face bone without a chin and a cap, leaving only eyes, nose and upper teeth.

"Brother Xiao, you said that under the Xia Niang Temple, you have seen a particularly large insect nest, and the fused white honeycomb. They seem to be made of this kind of material. But this passage is relatively thick, and it is estimated that some bones are sandwiched. They are used for reinforcement, which is almost the same as steel and concrete. It seems that those fly flies and those half-human, half-fly things are also a bit like wasps."

Hu Bayi also squatted down at this time, studying the cross-sections of the passages where the stubble was exposed.Xiao Ran nodded, looked at the up and down face bone, and thought that the thing he stepped on in the passage before might be the skull of this face bone.

"Comrades, if there is nothing wrong, let's move quickly and see where this is. If there is nothing good, let's go back the same way." Hu Bayi said.

Several people chose a direction and walked forward while exploring the way with Luoyang shovel.After walking about ten meters, the flashlight hit a wall, which was full of dense black spots, which made people get goosebumps.

Xiao Ran turned his head to take a photo, and estimated that the passage was about 50 meters away from the wall.Several people walked all the way to the wall full of black spots, Xiao Ran suddenly felt that these black spots looked familiar.

The black dots on the wall are all in the shape of long rice grains with a slight bulge in the middle, arranged at different angles, numbers and positions.Xiao Ran had seen this pattern before, it was on the wall of the sacrificial well in Ghost King Temple.

"These things look a bit like codes, and maybe they are some kind of text, which is interesting..." Hu Bayi sighed beside him.

Xiao Ran's mind also brightened, he had previously felt that these things seemed to be some kind of words, and it seemed that it was not his own illusion or reverie.Hu Bayi is also well-informed and has served in the army for many years, so he knows all kinds of codes.Since he also felt that these things looked like some kind of words, it was really close to each other.

But which race and nation does such writing belong to?Could it be that a group of lost ancestors who lived here were completely different from the civilization of the Central Plains and even the surrounding ethnic groups?
Before Xiao Ran could continue to think, the fat man interjected: "Old Hu, is it written on it? Is there a big tomb here? Is there any treasure?"

Hu Bayi glanced at him and said, "Do you think I can understand these things? Do you really think of me as a professor of archeology? Hurry up and find a lamp!"

"I found it! It's on that!" Xu Er suddenly shouted.

Everyone followed the direction he pointed, and saw an inconspicuous lamp slave base between two walls full of black spots.Xiao Ran recognized that thing at a glance, it was exactly the same as the two lamp slaves at the gate of the ancient tomb under Xia Niang Temple.

It's just that this lamp slave is really too high, seven or eight meters above the ground, and beside the lamp slave, there is a groove sunk into the wall.They shone along the groove to the side, and there was also a lamp slave base between the other two walls.

"The tray and groove of the lamp slave should be full of lamp oil. You only need to ignite one place, and all of them can be lit. I don't know why it is so high. Could it be..."

Xiao Ran took Hu Bayi's words and said, "Could it be that the person who lights the lamp can fly?"

At this time Xu Er said: "This lamp can be lit without flying, as long as there is something that can ignite it. Let me see... this!"

Xu Er took out an oval object from his small cloth bag. It was a small air-dried pine cone, which he probably picked up in the pine forest to play with.

He looked at the fat man again, and asked, "Fatty brother, pour some white wine, it will burn better."

Although the few people didn't know Xu Er's plan, the fat man still followed Xu Er's request and wet the surface of the dry pine cone with the high-grade white wine in the jug.

Xu Er took out his slingshot, took the wine-soaked pine cone as a slingshot, aimed at the lamp slave's plate, tightened the rubber band of the slingshot, and said to Xiao Ran: "Xiao Gang, light a fire..."

Xiao Ran understood Xu Er's meaning, took out a match to strike, and carefully approached the wine-stained pine cone.

The moment the flames sprang up, Xu Er let go of his hand, and a small fireball flew precisely to the lamp slave tray on the wall.The lamp oil in the tray ignited when it caught fire, and with a "boom" splashed a little bit of fire and fell to the ground in front of several people.

The grooves on both sides of the lamp slave also spread to both sides like two fire dragons, igniting the oil lamps on the walls of the entire hall along the way.

After the two flame bands ignited the oil lamps on the wall, the flames of each oil lamp went up along the wall, and finally converged to the center along the roof more than ten meters high.

A drop of flaming oil fell from the center and fell into the huge oil basin directly above the entire space. From then on, oil lamps of various sizes illuminated the entire space of nearly [-] square meters transparently.

Seeing the scene of the Wanping Hall, the hearts of several people were "thumped", and the fat man even exclaimed directly: "This is... we have entered a bug's nest!"

(End of this chapter)