Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 418 Living Wall
Although Xiao Ran was also a little happy, this joy was fleeting due to the changes in the breach.

At this time, there was something sticky and soft above the gap. It was complying with the universal gravitation proposed by Mr. Newton, and it fell downwards and collapsed little by little until the entire gap was completely covered.

The knocked-off pieces on the ground became soft again and slowly turned into round soft beaches.The material looked like what the second uncle said, it seemed to be some kind of gel like resin.

Xiao Ran shook the kettle, looked at the huge membrane door, and said helplessly to his second uncle: "Second uncle, Uncle Newton is having a hard time with us. This is just a little water. I'm afraid such a big door is not enough..."

The second uncle scratched his head and said: "That was an experiment just now. The little water we have is definitely not enough. Do you remember that there are some sealed jars in the houses below that are quite heavy. If I am not wrong, there are There must be some wine or other liquids. It should be enough to bring those up."

Xiao Ran suddenly understood and said, "Then let's go now..."

"Tsk, you kid did take a nap, but I never rested. This kind of work is left to the young people. I have to take a rest..."

After the second uncle said that, he stretched out and sat lazily against the wall, his eyes immediately fascinated.

Xiao Ran had no choice but to dump the contents of his backpack on the ground and walk down carrying an empty bag.He calculated as he walked, going up from the hall with the epic round wall, if every residential floor was counted as one floor, they would have climbed more than ten floors.

To be on the safe side, he had to go down at least seven or eight floors before starting to collect the sealed jars in case there was not enough liquid.

He went all the way down, but after walking three floors, he turned a corner and was dumbfounded.

A natural wooden wall appeared in the middle of the stairs in front of them, blocking the downward passage tightly, as if they had accidentally passed through the wall when going upstairs.

No, there was absolutely no such wall before. It would be a ghost if a living person could walk through it.Xiao Ran walked to the wooden wall, carefully looked around the edges, and then touched the wall.

This wall seems to be made of the same kind of gum as the membrane blocking the door above. The only difference is that there are many branches mixed in the wall, and the roots of these branches are connected to the surrounding tree walls.

Could this be some kind of mechanism?After they went up, what kind of spinning and twisting happened on this floor?

"Brother Ran, I know what you want to know. There is no mechanism here. This wall grew by itself."

Before Xiao Ran could ask, Shen Xing Bu Yujian spoke first.

Xiao Ran was shocked, the wall he grew?What's going on?At this moment, he suddenly remembered that when they just went up the stairs from the round wall hall, he looked back and found that the hole seemed to have shrunk a little. Is there any connection between the two things?
At this time, Li Jiukuo also said: "Old Xiao, don't forget, this tree is alive. You are in the body of this tree now. It doesn't seem to welcome you. If you don't hold on, this wall will be destroyed." It's going to grow on your face..."

When Xiao Ran heard this, he looked at his feet. Sure enough, while he was hesitating, the wall seemed to move forward a few centimeters.And when he raised his head, the wall where his hand touched suddenly shrank back slightly.

He suddenly felt a chill and retreated as if he had accidentally caught a mouse, until he retreated into the small hall above.

There is no time to study this wall now. As Bai Jiuguo said, this tree seems to want to swallow him and his second uncle in its own way.Now he can only collect enough liquid before this happens, and break open the membrane door above.

There were three floors of rooms, and he remembered that one of the floors was a kitchen, so he should be able to collect enough.Xiao Ran kicked open the broken wooden doors. As long as it was a sealed clay pot, he would pick it up and shake it. Hearing the sound of liquid gurgling, he would stuff it into his backpack.The upward stairs here were in a spiral shape. When he came out of the last room on this floor, he could already see the edge of the newly grown living wall directly from the stairwell. It could be seen that the wall was also moving with all its strength. .

He did not dare to stop for a moment, and went up one after another to collect sealed clay pots from all the rooms on the three floors. If the backpack could not fit, he held it between his armpits and chin. Finally, he even had a pot between his thighs.

Climbing to the top floor panting, the second uncle almost laughed out loud when he saw Xiao Ran performing acrobatics.But when he heard Xiao Ran say that the tree had actually grown a wall to surround them, the second uncle stopped laughing and hurriedly opened the pots together.

When you open the first jar, the aroma of lees instantly rises, and there are grains of rice and unknown wild fruits floating in the slightly turbid liquid.

They opened jars one after another. Most of the jars were filled with wine made from various wild fruits and unknown types of grains, but some of them exuded a strange smell, which made the two of them gag.

The most amazing thing is that there are two jars containing semi-viscous paste.The two identified it and determined that it should be some kind of primitive doenjang. This discovery directly pushed back the history of local people eating doenjang by 2000 years.

But now is not the time for scientific research. The second uncle looked at the dozen jars collected by Xiao Ran and frowned: "It's not enough... For such a big door, these are not enough..."

For a time, an atmosphere of disappointment and anxiety spread between the two.Even if the uncle and nephew are peeing on the spot, they can only collect a small jar of liquid. They can't bleed, right?
Xiao Ran looked at the two-meter-high membrane door, and then at the jar on the ground. When his eyes glanced at the hole that his second uncle made during the experiment, he suddenly had an idea and said excitedly to his second uncle: "Second uncle! Let's do it!" You don’t need to pour water on the entire wall, just hit the edge and the whole wall will fall down, right?”

After the second uncle heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he patted his head and said, "Do it!"

Just as they were told, the uncle and nephew poured jars of rice fruit wine and human head soup on the edge of the membrane door.At this time, I changed my mind and realized that the dozens of jars of liquid on the ground were somewhat surplus.

The two of them finished pouring the liquid and looked at the two jars of ancestor-level aged miso, all of which got stuck on the edge of the membrane door.

Time passed by minute by second. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but Xiao Ran always felt a constant rustling in his ears, as if the deadly living thing was rolling towards them inch by inch.

He kept looking down the stairs anxiously. Although the living wall never appeared in his field of vision, the increasingly turbid air announced that the living wall was constantly squeezing their living space.

"Second uncle, how long have I been sleeping just now? It's almost over!" Xiao Ran asked anxiously.

The second uncle looked at his watch, gritted his teeth and said a few words: "5 minutes... digging!"

After his second uncle gave the order, Xiao Ran picked up the shovel and hit the top of the membrane door where the liquid was spilled.With a crisp sound, the frozen gum fluid above turned into pieces and fell down, and a faint trace of cold air blew in.

As the gap opened, the surrounding frozen fluid also produced radial cracks.The uncle and nephew attacked together, and brick-like pieces continued to fall.

Several loud cracking sounds were suddenly heard. The gum fluid on both sides of the door, which had not yet been knocked open, finally could not bear the weight of the entire door membrane, splitting two gaps, and the top of the door membrane drooped like a huge tongue. Come down, bring the whole piece of gum fluid sloshing down and fall down.

Xiao Ran quickly pulled his second uncle aside, and as the big tongue fell to the ground with a "snap", a large ball of fresh air-conditioning, accompanied by the bright moonlight, rolled in from behind the doorway.

(End of this chapter)