Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 416 Non-Newtonian Fluids

The second uncle eagerly pushed Xiao Ran away, ran to the entrance of the dark hole with a flashlight, looked up, down, left, and right, and turned around and said in surprise: "There is indeed a way, and it is much brighter than the broken ladder that came up. It seems that this way The road is the right way!"

Xiao Ran also walked to the cave and took a look, and saw an obviously neatly repaired staircase that spiraled up and down. The height and width of each step were uniform, and there were clear gray mud bricks stacked on top of it.

This staircase was nothing like the one they came up with before. It was only a mixture of natural wood and rattan. Each step had different specifications, just to prevent people from accidentally stepping on the wrong foot and triggering the mechanism.

Xiao Ran was still worried, so he carefully asked Shenxing Wuyujian: "Brother, is there any mechanism on this staircase?"

After a few seconds, Shenxing Wuyujian replied: "It's within ten feet of each other, but there are only some door locks, so keep your heart in mind. Just go up boldly. If anything happens, brother, I will I’ll tell you in time.”

Ten feet, that must be more than 30 meters. At least the height within ten floors is safe.Judging from the cross-sectional view of the big tree, it was impossible to reach the top after ten floors. Xiao Ran finally felt relieved.

But looking back at the kneeling mummies, Xiao Ran felt a little unwilling. He hesitated whether to rely on his own speed to quickly grab the things from their hands, regardless of whether there were corpses everywhere behind him, or whether there were corpses everywhere behind him. Cut off their heads and then use the open weapon.

The second uncle was ready. He turned to look at him and suddenly said, "Are you worried about what they have in their hands?"

Xiao Ran turned his head and looked at his second uncle in surprise.The second uncle chuckled and said: "Your second uncle and I have been fighting for many years. I can guess at a glance whether the weapon is in the mouth, in the hand, or in some other hole.

"Either you follow the rules of your ancestors and don't do either of the two; or you do it right, kill them first and then use the bright weapon. From now on, you can be regarded as the No. 1 reformer. No matter how you do it, just do it!"

After hearing this, Xiao Ran looked around the hall. After closing his eyes and taking a long breath, he smiled miserably at his second uncle and said, "Forget it, I can't do that either. If there is a weapon for digging, it will surprise so many corpses. If a few more run out, the evil will become bigger. We have no fate with these things for the time being. We will come up with other tricks later..."

The second uncle patted him on the shoulder and said: "When we finish the matter of Faqiu Seal, maybe we can find a way to suppress this evil corpse evil. Even if we can't suppress it, let's break your precarious fate first." It’s been a long time in this life, and what’s left of this little fortune?”

Xiao Ran nodded. He was just a person who enjoyed adventure and adventure, and the money matter was just a sidekick.Moreover, there are no obvious weapons in the hands of these mummies that he is determined to get, otherwise he should just keep them as food for now.

The second uncle had already stepped onto the spiral staircase excitedly, and Xiao Ran followed closely behind.Just after he stepped into the doorway, a rustling sound suddenly sounded behind him.

His scalp went numb and he turned around suddenly to look back.The mummy was still a mummy, and the stone seat did not suddenly come back to block the door. Everything in the hall was as usual, but...

Xiao Ran rubbed his eyes and looked carefully at the entrance of the cave. I wonder if it was his imagination. There seemed to be some new vine branches growing at the entrance, slightly blocking an inch or two around the entrance.

After waiting for a while, there were no other changes, and the second uncle above was urging again, so Xiao Ran had to put down his doubts and follow up.

This spiral staircase is spacious and flat, with larger pieces of luminous stone embedded in the tree walls on both sides. The strong light of the two wolf-eye flashlights illuminates the entire passage one after another.

Every ten meters up the spiral staircase - three feet in Shenxing Wujian's words - there will be a small cubicle with a radius of thirty or forty square meters, with broken doors on the four walls leading to other places.

As he walked up, Xiao Ran opened the doors that were ajar due to decay from time to time. There were no bones or anything valuable inside.The leftover pottery vessels are placed in a puddle, as if the owner had moved away, leaving only a few simple utensils to decorate the house for sale.

The two speculated that perhaps with the passage of time, the shaman king living in the tree no longer restricted his people from leaving to make a living.The Han army and other ministries of the Han Dynasty, which were originally responsible for garrison and supervision, also relaxed their supervision of these people, so these survivors gradually moved out and integrated into the surrounding ethnic groups.This also further confirmed their reasoning about the continuation of the Jin Tai Nai ethnic group and the method of making zombies outside.

Later, Xiao Ran simply stopped pushing open the shabby doors. While letting Shenxing Feather Arrow monitor the mechanism, he let the Yin-Yang Mirror and Soul-locking Lingzhu detect whether there were any monsters, souls, etc., and he also activated the listening sound. Check whether there are antiques or not.Just like this, all the way up, the only sounds in the passage are the gradually heavier footsteps and the increasingly heavier breathing.

After walking up seven or eight floors, the two finally arrived at a small hall without stairs. The broken wooden doors on the four walls were no longer there. Instead, there was an arched door on the wall directly opposite the staircase. It is nearly two meters high and more than one meter wide. The surface seems to be blocked by a film.

Xiao Ran put on his gloves and touched the film a few times. It felt like a thick layer of gelatin. Although the surface was dusty and rough, it was extremely elastic, just like a large piece of shaved animal skin.

But what kind of beast can have such a big skin?Elephant or rhino?
Xiao Ran remembered that he had read some archaeological documents left by his father. The part about ancient creatures mentioned that there were once elephants in the Yellow River Basin and rhinos in the south. However, with climate change and human activities, these animals gradually became extinct or left.

But no matter what, the ancient elephants and rhinos were too far away from the White Mountains.

"Xiao... Xiaoran... I guess this is the peak..."

Xiao Ran turned around and saw that his second uncle was holding on to the tree wall, his face was pale and sweating, and he was almost out of breath when he spoke, so he quickly helped his second uncle sit down and rest first.

After the second uncle sat down, he turned around and looked at the membrane again, thinking that no matter what kind of skin it was, it had to go in. They were not here for archeology.So he picked up the engineering shovel, moved his wrist, and struck hard at the film.

Unexpectedly, there was a "dang" sound, and the engineer's shovel was shaken to a "buzzing" sound. Xiao Ran felt that his eyes and teeth were trembling. Along with the trembling of his cheeks, the membrane door in front of him also slightly doubled.

"What the hell?!"

Xiao Ran shook his head and pressed the film with his hand.The thick membrane bounced slightly under his pressure, and it was definitely not a rock-like material that could make even an engineer's shovel tremble.

They were already at the door, yet they were bullied by a broken membrane.Xiao Ran, who was already a little tired, had no patience at all at this time, so he simply put away the engineering shovel, put his hand on the handle of the knife, and prepared to try the Guanshan knife again.

"Xiao Ran, we've been walking for a long time. We've reached the top anyway. It's quiet here without the wind. Let's take a break and have something to eat first?"

The second uncle suddenly spoke, interrupting Xiao Ran's movements.Xiao Ran turned to look at his second uncle who was quite weak, then glanced at the film-like door, and nodded slightly.

He returned to his second uncle and took out the cans and compressed biscuits from his bag.

"...beef...stew..."

The second uncle looked at the film door and murmured to himself.Xiao Ran didn't hear clearly. He looked up at his second uncle, then looked at the can in his hand, and said, "There's no beef stew, only canned braised pork. You just have to make do with it, right?"

The second uncle turned his head, looked at Xiao Ran with a dumbfounded expression and said, "You kid, what I'm talking about is non-Newtonian fluid."

(End of this chapter)