Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 404
The sudden fall made Xiao Ran feel weightless for a while, as his upper body fell down, his two legs suddenly lifted up in the air, and then he fell with his head down towards a dark space.

"Be careful below!"

With a yell, Xiao Ran woke up from the momentary blank mind caused by the fall, he quickly pulled out the shovel and stabbed vigorously to the side, and the engineer shovel instantly sank into the tree next to him, only then was he able to fix himself in a suspended state.

"Xiao Ran!"

The second uncle's voice came from the upper back, Xiao Ran resisted the inexplicable squeeze in his chest, and agreed loudly.Within a few seconds, he felt his legs being held in his arms by his second uncle, and at the same time a beam of flashlight was sent up to take a picture.

The flashlight illuminated the things under his face and the environment he was in, and Xiao Ran couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

At this time, he was hanging upside down at half the waist of an earthen trap, and less than half a meter below were spikes standing upright, covered with moss.

More than a dozen long thorns and barbs inserted horizontally on the wall of the trap were bent downward by his body at this moment, clinging to his chest and back. No wonder he felt a sense of oppression in his chest.

What's more dangerous is that if the second uncle pulls him hard now, these barbs will penetrate his muscles and internal organs bit by bit along the rib gap, which is definitely an extremely painful way to die.

"Second uncle! Don't pull it, there are barbs!"

Xiao Ran was a little panicked, the second uncle bit the flashlight in his mouth, and squeezed out a few words with difficulty: "I see...do you have something in your hand?"

Xiao Ran hurriedly shouted: "Yes! Yes! Just hold on to me, I'll be fine soon!"

He carefully stretched his hand back through the gap in the barb, and pulled out the Guanshan knife from his waist.As soon as the knife was unsheathed, a burst of loud laughter came into his head.

"Hahahaha! I haven't seen you for a while, have you learned a new trick? Can't you do it without me?"

Guan Shandao took pleasure in other's misfortune, Xiao Ran didn't hit a single place, and secretly shouted: "You old boy, stop talking nonsense, wait until I go out and get you to shovel shit..."

After Xiao Ran said this, Guan Shandao was temporarily speechless.Xiao Ran hurriedly and carefully swung the knife, cutting off all the surrounding barbs, and then he called the second uncle to use his strength, and he inserted the knife and shovel into the surrounding tree body, and retreated little by little.

After finally crawling out of the trap, both uncle and nephew were exhausted, especially the second uncle, his face was pale and his lips were trembling, he was panting and coughing like a broken bellows.

While resting, Xiao Ran pulled out the barbs still hanging on his body and examined them carefully.Those barbs were stained with a lot of black paint, and debris fell off after a slight touch.

"Don't touch it with your hands, it's shit..."

Fortunately, the second uncle reminded him in time, otherwise Xiao Ran would use all five senses to see what kind of rare thing it is.He had an instant disgust on his face, as if he had really put this thing in his mouth. He wiped his hands with the leaves with his mouth curled up and his teeth bared, and quickly pulled out all the remaining barbs with the leaves.

"I still think it's some advanced technology, it's actually this disgusting thing, and I don't think it's disgusting to create this trap..."

Hearing Xiao Ran's complaints, the second uncle was almost resting at this time, so he stood up from the ground with a shovel, patted the dirt on his body and said: "It doesn't matter if it's disgusting or not, as long as it works. This kind of barb really If it penetrates into the flesh, the wound will definitely be tetanus. When I was on the battlefield in Vietnam..."

At this point, the second uncle stopped suddenly, and looked behind the trap with a flashlight as if nothing happened.Xiao Ran asked puzzledly: "Vietnam? Second uncle, don't say that you, like Hu Bayi, also went to the southern front? Why don't I remember this at all..."

"Where have I never been? Let me be serious first. I feel that this place is right. I seem to be walking on such a road between trees. There are wood grains on both sides. It is probably the road behind!"

The second uncle's slightly excited tone made Xiao Ran temporarily dispel the idea of ​​further questioning. Anyway, he couldn't remember too many things before, so he will think about it later.But the scene in front of him made him amazed.

After the layer of bark he broke open, next to the ground is the trap he almost fell into just now. The diameter of the trap mouth is about 1.5 meters.Behind the entrance of the trap, there is a wooden semi-artificial step, which bends crookedly upwards, and turns around after about a dozen steps.On the inner walls of the trees on both sides of the steps, there are many large and small fluorites inlaid.

Those fluorites were obviously the same thing as those in the hands of the villagers in Yingwei Village. At this time, the aerial roots, vines, and bark for cover outside the tree hole were cut open, and the moonlight shone in through the cracks in the trees. It also slowly lit up.

"It seems that among this group of people, there is a habit of living in trees and using trees as mausoleums. If I guessed correctly, the living people live on top of this giant tree, and the standing tree behind the bark is underneath. Grave. Being protected by the tree during life and providing nourishment to the tree after death is also a kind of cycle. The unity of nature and man is so valued, the top of the tree should be the altar for primitive sacrifices..."

After the second uncle finished speaking, Xiao Ran asked suspiciously: "This thing looks shocking, but didn't you fall into a hole in the ground, is there something in the hole? Such a tall tree, no matter how you look at it, it is not close to the hole."

The second uncle scratched his head and said: "Just looking at the entrance of this tree hole, I really feel impressed. Let's go up first, maybe we will find it when we go up."

After speaking, the second uncle tightened his luggage, stepped over the trap first, and walked up the cave wall.Seeing that his second uncle was determined to go, Xiao Ran had no choice but to check the equipment, and hurriedly followed the trap.

Unexpectedly, he had just climbed a few steps, and before he saw the second uncle's back, he heard a roar from above, followed by second uncle shouting: "Get out of the way!"

The tree steps under his feet trembled, and a burst of flying dust quickly approached with a rumbling sound.Xiao Ran jumped up instinctively, and then spread his hands and feet outwards, leaning on the tree wall with all his strength.

Almost in the next second, a huge artificially processed stone ball almost touched his chest and rolled down until it landed on the trap and got stuck, covering more than half of the tree hole.

When the danger was lifted, Xiao Ran was worried about his second uncle's safety, so he quickly fell from the top of the tree cave, took a few steps up, and saw his second uncle hiding in a depression on the wall of the tree cave, and he escaped unharmed because of this.

"Second Uncle... My dear Second Uncle... Are you always trying to kill me?"

Seeing that his second uncle was fine, Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief.The second uncle scratched his face, a little embarrassed, and said: "This means that you are in the way. If I hadn't brought you with me, wouldn't I have avoided Hao'er just now?"

Xiao Ran raised his head and took a look at the top of the tree hole obliquely above, where there were still a few vines woven into a net and dangling in the air.I followed the rattan all the way down to take photos, and finally came to a gap in the cave wall next to my second uncle.In the second uncle's hand, at this time, he was holding a piece of fluorite with a moderate size and the shape of the gap.

"Second Uncle...why are you always like that Wang Kaixuan? When you see a big shining one, you think it's a treasure. You have to pick it off. Isn't this just a trigger?"

The second uncle curled his lips: "Don't compare me with that fat man, I just see that this thing is useful for lighting, can you save the flashlight?"

Xiao Ran was too lazy to pierce him, the sudden jump just now made him a little weak.He looked around and found a raised wooden stake close to the tree wall opposite the recess where the second uncle was hiding, so he sat down on his buttocks.

Just as he was relaxing all over, he suddenly sank, and the tree stump sank halfway down, and then there was a "creaking" sound from the groove where the second uncle was.

(End of this chapter)