Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 415 It’s not a ladder to heaven but a ladder to earth

The two people in the painting are in the opposite direction to the Xunji people kneeling in front of the round wall, kneeling towards the other side.The two men were carrying bulging pockets on their backs, and they looked similar to the uncle and nephew at the scene.

Two visitors from more than 2000 years later actually appeared in the painting of this ancient tree.

"No...how is this possible...Second uncle, what kind of scientific phenomenon is this?"

Xiao Ran asked while recalling what he saw in the Prophet's Cave in Zagrama Mountain.At that time, they were confused by the corpse-scented konjac, and they also discovered the figures of their group in the prophet's paintings.

Thinking of this, he quickly took out some alcohol-smells and put it in front of his nose and smelled it, letting the refreshing feeling rush to the top of his head.After the feeling dissipated, he rubbed his eyes and looked again. The two backpackers were still in the painting.

"its not right……"

Just when he was about to ask Yin Yangjing if he was confused, the second uncle suddenly spoke.After looking at it carefully and sighing at the painting, the second uncle said in a tone of sudden realization: "I understand! That's it! These two people came to paint it. Look, the color has faded." , these two are still here.”

Xiao Ran moved closer and looked at the position pointed by his second uncle. The lines of the two kneeling human figures in the gray area were still there, but there was no whole painting as a background. The two human figures were more like ordinary scratches, so Xiao Ran did not have them before. figure it out.

The second uncle sprayed another sip of water on the human shape, then pointed at the human shape symbol and said to Xiao Ran: "Look carefully, there is a bulge on the top of the two people's heads. This is the bun of the ancients. Draw this bun , probably to distinguish them from other hairy people. If I guess correctly, the person who painted these two and the person who left the annotations on the other paintings are the same person...or the same two people."

Only then did Xiao Ran fully understand: "That's it! Two seniors have already been here!"

The second uncle nodded and said: "Not only have they been here before, but their understanding of the demonic skills of Xinba and this tree far exceeds ours. Maybe it's because we are in the same era after all. Let's look for it again and see. Is there any other information?"

The two of them continued to look up along the painting. The hall they were in seemed to be the core sacrificial place, and further up were the repetitive dwellings, kitchens, warehouses, etc.

If there is anything strange about it, it is that the round wall in front of them seems to be not only on this level, but runs through the entire giant tree from top to bottom, just like the backbone of the tree.On the round wall, there are also swirling patterns painted on it.

All the way to the top of the tree crown, there was a platform surrounded by tree branches, with a door-shaped sign in the middle, which seemed to lead somewhere.

Looking at the door, Xiao Ran instinctively felt that that was their target.But when he contacted his second uncle's previous memories, Xiao Ran said somewhat helplessly: "Second uncle, we are getting farther and farther away from the underground cave you mentioned, but it is closer to the sky. With this tree, it is Build a ladder to the gate of heaven..."

The second uncle's face was solemn, and he stared at the tree in the painting silently, looking up and down, as if he was trying to find a cave in the tree.

"Ladder to heaven...ladder to heaven...what did you just say? Ladder to heaven?!"

Xiao Ran originally thought that his second uncle was going crazy again, and was trying to find an excuse to distract him.Unexpectedly, the second uncle suddenly raised his head and asked what he just said with wide eyes.

Before Xiao Ran could answer, a surprised smile broke out on the second uncle's face again: "I know! Ladder! It's not a ladder to heaven, it's a ladder to earth! Look at the pillar in the middle from top to bottom, with the spiral pattern painted on it. It's a ladder! We have to go up first, and then go down this thing!"

The second uncle became more and more excited as he talked, and at the end of the sentence he slapped the wall of the painting hard.A "buzzing" echo that could not be heard without listening carefully came from behind the round wall of the painting.

Xiao Ran looked at his second uncle with admiration. At this time, his second uncle was "hissing" and sucking in the cool air, while he was still laughing "hehe" excitedly.

"Second uncle, Jiang is really old. Without you on this journey, I really can't imagine breaking through so many joints. But now we still have a question...how do we get up?"

When Xiao Ran asked, the originally excited second uncle froze in place, and the smile on his face slowly disappeared.Finally he shook his hands with a disappointed look on his face and looked at the painting again.

Seeing his second uncle wilting, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered something and asked him: "Second uncle, you said that these two seniors used to engrave annotations, why is it that there are no inscriptions on this painting, but they engrave themselves?" In?" The second uncle turned to look at Xiao Ran, then looked at the painting in confusion, and then stared at Xiao Ran again, with excitement and anger in his tone at the same time: "I'm guilty of what you said, too. I’m confused! We should have started here just now! Why did you say you had nothing to do and interrupted me?!”

Xiao Ran pursed his lips and said: "Okay, okay, it's my fault. Don't keep going up and down like this. Don't wait until you have a stroke..."

"Bah, bah, bah! Go and cool off!"

After the second uncle finished speaking, he ignored him and looked carefully at the two people carved into the painting, then turned around and looked at the wall on the other side from time to time.Before he turned around a few times, he slapped his legs and said, "I found it! It's right there on the biggest stool!"

After saying that, he hurried over first, while Xiao Ran took one last look at the front of the two people in the painting before the water vapor on the painting wall dried up.In front of the two kneeling seniors, there is indeed a huge stool painted on it, which should be the "throne" with broken animal skins piled on both sides.

The painting wall turned gray again, leaving only the two kneeling human figures engraved on it forever as a reminder to those who came after.

Xiao Ran turned around and walked towards his second uncle. At this time, his second uncle was already kneeling in front of the throne. He carefully followed the movements of the two seniors and knelt down. Every time he bowed, he looked up to see if anything had changed in front of him.

Xiao Ran saw his second uncle kneeling there and kowtow, and felt unbearable rising in his heart.He hurried over and helped his second uncle up and said, "I can do this kind of thing. Don't worry about it anymore today. It'll happen later..."

At this point, the second uncle raised his eyes and pointed at him. He quickly laughed along with him, "Bah, bah, bah," and then knelt down in front of the throne.

"Brother Ran, please stop knocking. There is a mechanism here. It's under the stone bench. You can see it by lifting up the broken animal skin." Shenxing Wuyujian said.

Xiao Ran had already set his posture, but he almost ducked when he said this, muttering in his heart: "You didn't tell me earlier if you knew this could open the door..."

"I only know that there is a mechanism here. How do I know whether this mechanism is fatal or whether it opens the door? Your second uncle who is crazy said that the mechanism can open the door. You should be careful."

After Shenxing Wuyujian finished speaking, Xiao Ran was silent. Xiao Ran leaned forward and lifted up the piece of broken animal skin spread on the stone bench. Sure enough, he saw a groove.

"Found it! But..."

There was a burst of joy in his heart, but when he saw what was in the groove, his heart became cold again.There was supposed to be a handle there, but it was broken, leaving a groove.

A few months ago, he encountered the same thing under Xianniang Temple. The ancient institutions really used their quality to harm people. As long as they opened the door to escape, something like this would happen.

"How's it going? Can it still be driven?" the second uncle asked eagerly.

Xiao Ran grinned, stretched out his two hairy fingers, and shook them at his second uncle: "Don't forget what our family does, you can't trouble me!"

After saying that, he put his fingers into the groove, struggled to clamp the small bump left by the break of the handle, and pulled it downwards. After a while, fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. .

"Have it!"

As Xiao Ran shouted, there was a "click" from the stone seat, followed by bursts of dust stirred up by the friction.

Xiao Ran quickly stood up and stepped back, and saw the stone seat slowly moving forward. A dark hole was exposed from the original backrest of the stone seat, and gusts of cold wind blew out of it.

(End of this chapter)