Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 419 Strangulation
The "rustling" sound became more and more obvious, and the second uncle also turned his head warily and looked at the stairs where the sound came from.

Xiao Ran knew in his heart that the sound was not an hallucination caused by fear, and his second uncle also heard it.This big tree is integrated up and down. It must have felt that the membrane door leading to the top was opened, and the wall below also accelerated its rise.

But vegetation is vegetation after all, and the reaction seems to be a few beats slower after all.At this time, the uncle and nephew no longer hesitated. After packing up and bowing, they rushed towards the light and airy door.

Xiao Ran rushed to the door and saw that behind the door was a slope surrounded by vines. The black velvet sky illuminated by the moon was clearly visible outside.

He took the lead in climbing up the passage, but he stumbled as he climbed up a slope of less than ten meters. He always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of weightlessness accompanying his progress, as if he had drunk too much, making his head dizzy. .

Could it be because I was a little exhausted from running up and down just now?

Impossible, he is just a little unbalanced, but he does not have the dizziness, ringing in the ears, and sweetness in the throat that occurs when he has low blood sugar.At this time, another rustling sound buzzed in his ears. He instinctively pointed the flashlight at the source of the sound nearby, and his heartbeat accelerated instantly.

The vines on the four walls were like giant earthworms of different thicknesses, slowly squirming.It was precisely because this kind of squirming was not obvious that he thought it was his unsteady walking that caused his imbalance.

He looked up at the end of the passage. The exit above the slope seemed to be slowly tightening. It was obvious that this passage was also intended to strangle them.Turning around to look at his second uncle, he saw that he was stumbling up the stairs, almost taking two steps up before falling one step down. He was so tired that he couldn't stop breathing.

The second uncle looked over Xiao Ran's shoulder and saw the gradually shrinking entrance to the passage, and the squirming living wall behind him had now appeared in sight at the turn of the stairs.

"Xiao...Xiaoran...you go out first...be careful...recast the Faqiu Seal..."

The second uncle didn't seem to want to be a burden to Xiao Ran. He spoke intermittently, and a difficult smile appeared on his pale and sweaty face.After he finished speaking, he reached to his waist, took off his pocket bag and threw it towards Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran stretched out his hand to catch it. He knew that the pocket was full of things that his second uncle often brought with him when he went on adventures. This move meant that his second uncle really gave up himself for him.

Xiao Ran gritted his teeth bitterly, took out the Mountain Viewing Knife, and shouted to his second uncle: "Wait for me!"

He held the knife horizontally in his hand, pointed the blade toward the palm of his hand, and pulled it with a slight force.Blood seeped out and covered the blade. The blade suddenly glowed red, and the rough voice of Guan Shan Dao sounded at the same time: "Boy, are you planning to risk your life?"

Xiao Ran inserted the knife horizontally into the wall of the passage with force. The mountain-viewing knife turned into a thorn and supported the tightened wall of the passage, hanging on the second uncle's head.

"Old Sha, hold on for me. If anything happens to my second uncle, you can die here with him!"

Guan Shan Dao said angrily: "You threaten me..."

Xiao Ran stopped listening to his nonsense, took out the Flying Tiger Claw from his second uncle's bag, threw it upwards, looked back at his second uncle's caring and comforting face, and then ran out of the passage on his hands and knees.

He didn't care whether the tree felt pain or not. As he climbed up, he pushed hard on the squirming vines as if to let off steam. This move made him step more firmly and his sense of imbalance was much lessened. He jumped in just a few steps. Out of the passage.

The fresh, cold air instantly enveloped his body and poured into his lungs, refreshing him.But he couldn't care less about enjoying this. The passageway at his feet had shrunk to the size of a wellhead. If this continued, his second uncle would be squeezed to death in it.

It wasn't about to come, he seemed to have heard an unclear "uh-uh" sound coming from below, as if the second uncle was being squeezed out of the last trace of life in his chest.

Xiao Ran hurriedly dug into his second uncle's pocket, and sure enough he took out the celestial dial needle.The reason why he used Guan Shan Dao to hold on for a while and came out first was because he thought of this method at the critical moment.He held the needle in his hand and inserted it into the inner wall of the passage, then imitated his second uncle's method and rotated it counterclockwise.

He originally thought that as his second uncle said, using this artifact would consume a lot of energy and blood, but he didn't expect that the needle would follow his wrist and spin in a circle. Even because he used too much force, He almost dodged himself head-first into the passage.

The entrance to the passage seemed to have stopped shrinking, and the rustling sounds of moving vines and living walls temporarily disappeared.

That's it...?
Xiao Ran looked at the passage that was still as big as the mouth of a well. It stands to reason that if time flows partially backwards, this passage should return to its original state.

During the hesitation, the rustling sound sounded again, and Xiao Ran was startled. At this time, the sound of Guan Shan Dao was faintly heard from the entrance of the cave: "Little calf... I... am about to break..."

He was about to be cut off. Wouldn’t the second uncle’s body of flesh and blood be reduced to flesh?Xiao Ran suddenly panicked. He could only pull out the celestial dial needle, insert it in another place, and turn it counterclockwise again.

As before, the celestial dial needle made another neat circle on the passage wall. The difference was that the passage wall did not pause as before, but still slowly tightened.

"No hurry...no hurry...blood...blood!"

Big beads of sweat flowed from his forehead and palms, and the unhealed wounds in his hands were mixed with blood and dripped on the ground. Xiao Ran suddenly realized that even if he couldn't hear the celestial dial needle speaking, even if Bei Jiuguo had said this thing To be closer to God, but in the end we have to enjoy blood, food and offerings.

He wiped the blood from his hand on the celestial dial needle, and for a moment he seemed to see a flowing light flashing from the celestial dial needle. So he quickly inserted the needle into the inner wall of the channel and turned it counterclockwise.

This time, the celestial dial needle seemed to be stuck by the wall of the passage. Xiao Ran tried his best to make the needle rotate slowly.But at the same time, he felt as if his five senses were slowly dissipating, and a drunken sense of detachment surged throughout his body.

As he turned, the passageway mouth first stopped shrinking, and then expanded at a slow speed.

Xiao Ran held his breath and turned, until he felt a sharp pain in his wrist. He realized that he had turned the celestial dial needle in a circle, and his five senses returned to his body, and then a feeling of fatigue when he just woke up surged throughout his body.

The mouth of the passage has not completely returned to its original size, but has retreated slightly larger than the mouth of the well.But this width seemed to be enough. Xiao Ran turned on the flashlight and looked down, and saw his second uncle sandwiched in the passage, slowly waving towards him.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was not satisfactory, at least he could save his second uncle's life.Maybe the celestial clock needle doesn't belong to him after all, or maybe the scope of the time he wants to reverse is a bit wide, so the effect isn't very good.

He took out the Flying Tiger Claw and put his upper body into the passage, trying to lower the rope to pull his second uncle up.But just when the rope had just dropped three or four meters deep, the rustling sound like a reminder sounded again, and he was stunned on the spot.

"Old Xiao! Retreat!"

Xiao Ran shouted loudly, and Xiao Ran woke up from a dream. He quickly struggled out of the passage, only to see vines growing in the passage again, and the entire passage slowly retracted inward.

A heart-breaking despair surged up, and Xiao Ran pulled out the celestial dial needle on the wall of the passage and threw it to the ground.

(End of this chapter)