Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 413 Jumping through the sky
The uncle and nephew stared at the next painting carefully. The scene in the painting took place in a place surrounded by trees, which was very similar to the large woodland they were in now.

In the center of the forest, two Witch Kings with animal skins and sheep heads were standing on either side, facing each other, with a group of armored cavalry painted as six-legged scale monsters sitting in the center.

Not only the Witch King, but also the followers and clansmen of different status around the Witch King seemed to be separated on both sides like mirror copies, and they were attacking the cavalry in the middle with their swords.

These cavalrymen, just like the uncle and nephew now, were frightened by this scene and lost their fighting spirit.Their spears fell all over the ground, and their square flags also fell to the ground, mixed in with the overturned corpses, looking miserable.

"What's going on? Why did the Witch King and his men suddenly double in number?"

The second uncle ignored Xiao Ran's question. As usual, after reading the painting, he first looked around for any engravings to save himself the trouble of guessing.Sure enough, without much effort, they found two lines of small writing next to one of the Witch Kings.

"Leap...realm...through the air...time shuttle...reverse...walk..."

The second uncle read out these words slowly and repeated them several times in his mouth, as if he was thinking about something.

Suddenly the second uncle's expression changed, as if he had seen a ghost, his lips were trembling, and glistening sweat oozed from his forehead.

When Xiao Ran saw this, his first reaction was that his second uncle had been cast a spell by the Witch King in the painting?He quickly crossed over in front of his second uncle, separating his line of sight from the painting, then shook his second uncle's shoulders and shouted.

"Second uncle! Second uncle! Are you okay? Look who I am? Second uncle!"

He saw that his second uncle was still staring at him, his eyes filled with fear and confusion that he couldn't understand. He was even more sure that his second uncle had been bewitched by the Witch King.

"Second uncle, your nephew is sorry for you!"

Xiao Ran shouted loudly, raised his hand and hit his second uncle in the face.But after all, he had always respected his second uncle and didn't use much strength. The moment the slap came close to his second uncle's face, he closed his eyes tightly.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly felt his wrist being held back. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw his second uncle's hand moving toward his face.

There was a crisp "pop" sound, and the second uncle slapped him instead.Although the force of this slap was not heavy, and it could not even be said to be painful, it made Xiao Ran, who was frightened and anxious, jump to the side.

Immediately afterwards, the second uncle hammered his chest, and a ball of black and red blood clots and sticky phlegm were violently sprayed to the ground, and then he started coughing repeatedly.

Xiao Ran didn't know what was going on, so he rubbed his hot face and hurried over to pat his second uncle on the back.

"You little bastard... you are rebelling... and you want to hit me..."

The second uncle said to Xiao Ran with red eyes while coughing.Xiao Ran carefully looked at his second uncle's face at this time and made sure that he didn't have the evil expression before. Then he took a long breath and said: "I thought you... were possessed again just now..."

"Bah! How can that broken painting still make me possessed? I just had blood in my mouth and didn't spit it out. It got stuck and almost choked me to death..."

Hearing what the second uncle said, Xiao Ran curled his lips: "It doesn't sound any better than being possessed by evil spirits... Are you okay now? Isn't it because of internal bleeding?" The second uncle shook his head: "I I know my body is fine. I feel much more comfortable now. Let’s go back to this painting. Combined with the meaning of those lines, it seems that the Witch King has some kind of time and space travel magic, and he has created two They themselves, and even many other ethnic groups, increased their military strength and suppressed the Han army in terms of momentum."

"Time travel? Just a leap through space?" Xiao Ran's face was full of disdain, "It's getting more and more mysterious. How can this Witch King be so powerful?"

The second uncle turned to look at him, thought for a while and said: "Ancient chronicles are mixed in truth and falsehood. It's possible that the Witch King found a substitute to scare the other party. But as for the spells related to time, you have been there before. Do you remember the Jingjue Kingdom? I found out in some information that their tribe seems to have mastered a spell that locks a specific period of time, which is much more complicated than this..."

A word suddenly flashed in Xiao Ran's mind - transformation of the realm.The second uncle is right. Compared with the illusion of realm, even if the Witch King really has the ability to travel through time and space, it is indeed far inferior to the method of the Ghost Cave Clan.

Besides, didn’t he come from time travel himself?Although he couldn't explain the principle clearly, he himself was the last person who should deny time travel.

But now was not the time to talk about this with his second uncle. He also changed his serious tone again and asked his second uncle: "Then if this spell is real, wouldn't this Witch King be able to travel back and forth at will, destroy the Han and rewrite history?"

This time it was the second uncle's turn to look disdainful: "I have never heard of anything in this world that does not require a price. This spell is so easy to use and can be used casually, so why didn't he use it before? ? Besides, war always requires human lives. No matter how you travel through time and space, people will die in war, and the people who die are either people from the past or people from the future. Isn’t this just drinking poison to quench thirst? "

Xiao Ran thought about it carefully and gave his second uncle a thumbs up.He felt that he would have to have more heart-to-heart talks with his second uncle in the future, as the old man saw things much more clearly than he did.

The second uncle ignored his flattery, waved his hand and led him to look down.

Sure enough, in the next few murals, the reorganized Han army was overwhelmed, and the Witch King's army was defeated like a mountain.Finally, the Xinji tribe retreated to this big tree. The Witch King was beheaded, and the remaining tribesmen knelt down and begged for surrender before the cavalrymen carrying the banners.

There were especially many words engraved on the edge of this painting. The second uncle looked at it for a long time and told Xiao Ran that the general meaning of these words was that the sorcerer king used witchcraft to harm the people and disturb the people, so that in the end his tribe was doomed.However, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty showed extra mercy and allowed his tribe to live within a hundred miles with a big tree as its core, under the supervision of other tribes and the remaining Han troops, and not to leave the boundary for generations.

The Xinji tribe, which belonged to the Witch King, gradually withered away. Although with the passage of time and the subsequent civil strife in the Han Dynasty, many tribesmen took the opportunity to risk their lives and escape, but in the end they could not stop the slow pace of annihilation.

Xiao Ran speculated from this that Jin Tai Nai's ancestors should be the descendants of those tribesmen who escaped from the designated area. Therefore, he combined the traditions of the Xinji tribe, including the craftsmanship of making corpse demons, and the "Xinxian Immortal" who supports the five immortals in one. And so on, it all spread, so much so that the Jurchen tribe later used it to create the general Shisha in the tomb of General Yerengou.

The confusion that had always been in his heart was finally solved. When he returned to Zhaojing, or even to Ganggangyingzi, he could tell Hu Bayi, Fatty and Yingzi about this adventure.

But the most important thing right now is to find the entrance to the cave that the second uncle mentioned from this big tree.

The second uncle scratched his head and said: "I didn't look at the following paintings just now. Now we are just short of the last painting. If there is any other way, it will be on the last painting. If we still can't find it... we will just able……"

"Tear down this broken tree from the inside! I don't believe we can't find a way out!" Xiao Ran said fiercely.

This time, the second uncle was stunned, and then gave him a thumbs up.

(End of this chapter)