Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 366 Another Nightmare

Xiao Ran quickly sorted out his thoughts. First, his father disappeared inexplicably, but there was no loss of life or property. Then he came back and found that the things in the house had been turned over...

"Liu'er! Don't bother with rat medicine, this rat is probably about the same age as you, go make an inventory with me first!"

While shouting, Xiao Ran went to the reception room first, only to hear a "bang" from Liu Shengli, probably because the basin in his hand fell to the ground.

Xiao Ran was already nervous and annoyed, but was startled by Liu Shengli's sound, and couldn't help but mutter to himself, this kid must have lost his mind at first, and really thought there was a rat as big as him.

But this is also understandable, after all, he has seen quite a few flies as big as him before.

Xiao Ran first opened the hidden safety line in the reception room, and the big sack of money inside was still lying obediently, maintaining the state when it entered before.Xiao Ran opened the sack, and a musty smell unique to old banknotes came over his face.

"Hmm... it stinks! Old Xiao, what are you doing here at night? Can't you sleep without smelling a little smell?" Achilles Jiugui complained.

Xiao Ran said disdainfully: "I can't bear this smell when I'm old, you deserve to be an object forever. Don't you know that life is to have fun in all kinds of rotten stench?"

"Don't say that everyone's life is like a fly, you save this kind of fun to blame yourself!"

After all, these banknotes have passed through the hands of many people, especially those who came from the countryside and remote areas. At that time, they still had the habit of hiding money in the soles of their shoes. It's really fermented.

Money is something like stinky tofu sometimes, it smells disgusting but tastes good.

Liu Shengli just came in with a fire hook at this time, and it seemed that he was a little suspicious of a mouse as big as him.But as soon as he entered the room, he still involuntarily covered his nose, subconsciously looked at li xuan's feet, and then at his own.

"Manager...why does it smell so bad? Is it my foot or yours?" Liu Shengli asked.

Xiao Ran was furious: "If you want to say it, be clear! What are your feet or mine? Am I the same as your feet? Give me that hook!"

Liu Shengli smiled and handed the fire hook to Xiao Ran, and hurriedly hid aside, not knowing whether to hide the smell or fear that Xiao Ran would hit him twice.

Xiao Ran took out the bundle of banknotes with a fire hook, and made a rough estimate in his heart, and there were indeed a lot.Other important documents, ledgers, spare keys, etc. are also in the cabinet.

He closed the safe, and trotted to the warehouse with Liu Shengli.The warehouse door was opened, but there was no strange smell or sound. Xiao Ran first turned on the flashlight and shone the light on the ground, and his heart was mostly at ease.

Since the last time I went to Shanxi, no one has entered the warehouse for a long time, and a layer of dust has accumulated on the ground.In particular, the footprints left by him when he came in last time were also covered by a thin layer of ash, without any recent traces.

Even so, he took Liu Shengli into the warehouse, checked every corner carefully, and took the opportunity to take stock of all the inventory, whether it was from the Shang and Zhou dynasties or from last week, from the tombs of the Sui and Tang dynasties, or from ponds. Nothing was missing from the inside.

They did find a rat hole in the corner, and some rat droppings scattered under the shelves.But looking at the size of the poop grain, and calculating the size of the mouse where the poop exits, it should not be able to make the "ding ding bang bang" sound that Liu Shengli said.

That's why he meowed so strangely, it seemed like the god of mischief came to visit this night, playing tricks on their whole family, not for anything else, just for fun...

Xiao Ran asked Liu Shengli to sprinkle some rat poison in the warehouse, and then closed the door to sleep.He himself wobbled back to the bedroom and threw himself on the bed.

After a whole night of tossing and drinking, he soon fell into a semi-drowsy state.Who is tormenting their whole family tonight?What is the purpose?
Is it a black blind man?should not.Hei Xiazi asked for something before, and he came directly to deal with him.Even if he had something that the blind man wanted to take without telling him, it was impossible for him to create so many loopholes based on the skills he didn't know when he entered the basement without authorization last time.And I have been here before, if I want anything, I took it last time.

It would be even more impossible for ordinary thieves. They didn't enter the most important storeroom, and their bedroom kept the familiar mess. These two places should be the focus of those little thieves' theft.Besides, if it is a thief, the thief must not leave empty space, even if they have to take one or two of those fakes.

Who would that be?He went through one by one in his mind, and he really couldn't figure out who would go to the nursing home to hide Xiao Changfeng first, and then went to the basement of the store.

Or are these two things actually irrelevant, a complete coincidence?All in all, their family seems to be targeted.It seems that letting father and second uncle stay in the nursing home is not an option. After this period of time, they have no serious health problems, so it is better to bring them back...

As he thought about it, his thinking became more and more blurred, his eyelids became more and more heavy, and he slowly fell into a dream.

In the dream, he felt that he was walking in a passage that was neither wide nor narrow, surrounded by darkness with no boundaries to be seen, and the feet on both sides of the passage were deep abysses.

In front of him, there was a figure wearing a gray and white robe, draped loosely, slowly moving forward.On the left and right sides of him, there is also a person accompanying him, one is wearing a blue cloth robe, like a young man; the other is wearing a patterned exotic costume, with curly beard growing on his cheeks and chin.

Suddenly there was a weird "click" laugh from behind him, he turned his head with difficulty, and saw a man in a short black jacket with messy black hair and a long beard thumping his chest. Black and red murderous aura, but this kind of murderous aura has no hostility towards him.

None of these people could see their faces, but he felt extremely familiar and at ease.When he looked forward again, the surrounding scenery and people changed, and he was in a hole again, and there seemed to be something shining in the center of the hole.

The four people just now disappeared, replaced by Hu Bayi, Fatty, Xu Er and Xiao Changfeng, and there seemed to be some invisible huge stone pillars and iron gates in the shadow behind them, Liu Shengli and Yingzi carefully hid there and looked at them them.

All the people stood still, he heard someone calling him from a distance, but the name he called was not Xiao Ran, but another name.He couldn't make out the name, but it was very familiar.

With a call, he moved towards the flashing place ahead, and everyone's expressions became very panicked, as if something dangerous was about to happen.

He suddenly felt a chill coming from his body, and then lightning struck his body, shaking the entire space he was in.His body was trembling and trembling constantly, and those calling voices kept coming from the humming in his ears, and they seemed to be fascinated by ghosts, moving away and approaching.

People around him stretched out their hands to hold him, and the flash in front of him disappeared, turning into a black shadow that could not be seen clearly inside, or a black mist that could not move.He instinctively felt that there was a danger hidden in this mass of blackness that could destroy him forever.

He looked around, the people who blocked him were constantly changing, sometimes it was Hu Bayi and the others, and sometimes they turned into the previous people.The white-robed old man was right in front of him, pushing his shoulders face to face to prevent him from moving forward.The young man in Tsing Yi squatted on the ground and hugged his legs, while the foreigner next to him held his arms tightly.

And at the very front, behind the white-clothed old man, the black-clothed bearded man was standing with a horizontal sword, confronting the thing in the shadow.

"...Old Xiao..."

"Xiao Ran..."

The voice that couldn't distinguish the timbre suddenly remembered that the voice was like a radio with no power, and it seemed that many voices were mixed together.When he looked up, there was only darkness beyond the horizon.

"...not...Xiao Ran!"

An indistinct voice suddenly came from the front, and he saw a huge human face suddenly protruding from the darkness and rushing towards him.The face filled him with surprise and despair, even mixed with sadness.

Suddenly the whole space was distorted, the passage under his feet seemed to disappear, all the people and shadows disappeared, a feeling of weightlessness flooded his body, and he fell towards the darkness below.

With a "bang", Xiao Ran fell from the bed to the ground.He stared at the ceiling with wide-eyed eyes, panting continuously "hahaha", until his eyes finally focused on the lampshade and light bulb on the top, he realized that his whole body was drenched in sweat.

"Look, what am I talking about? The smell is too much to cause nightmares, right?" Achilles Jiukuo said.

Xiao Ran didn't have the heart to reply, the information and pictures in the dream were too dense.According to past experience, this kind of nagging dream must be a sign of something, but now his mind and body are very confused, and he can't figure it out for a while.

"Xiao Jiu, I didn't expect...you are a bad old man with white hair and beard..." Xiao Ran sighed.

Yachsu Jiukuo said: "What's the matter? Did you dream about me? This is not the first time you've seen me, isn't it fairy-like?"

"No, I can see in every strand of your hair that the word 'deceit'..."

Xiao Ran looked at the alarm clock next to him, it was already early seven o'clock.Now go to the nursing home to have a look, and make a round trip, an hour is almost enough.After I come back, I can just go to Lao Hu’s house for breakfast. Yingzi’s craftsmanship is really good, and then I can go to the remaining scenic spots in the early morning.

As soon as he said it, he quickly washed up and took a look at himself in the mirror. He always felt a little strange and even lost.

Thinking of last night's dream, he couldn't remember the last face.Apart from that face, it seemed that there was something important that he had left out.

Forget it, some things are like cockroaches in the kitchen, they pop up when you're not looking for them.Xiao Ran cleaned up quickly, and drove that jeep towards the nursing home.

(End of this chapter)