Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 429 Guard
Around the dozen doors at the bottom of Tongtian Taisui, after being destroyed by the parasitic monster just now, they were all completely opened, which saved Xiao Ran and the others' effort.

Xiao Ran counted and found that there were eight doors in total, corresponding to the four directions.Thinking of the 28 stars inlaid with fluorite above, this cave encompasses both heaven and earth.

The eight doors look exactly the same, and what comes out of them is no different at all. There shouldn't be any priority. Whichever one comes first can be used.

Xiao Ran and his second uncle discussed briefly and decided that just in case, it was better not to go separately. It would be better to go together, with a wider gap at most.

The two chose the door to the north. Xiao Ran took the lead and went in first, while his second uncle stayed outside the door for the time being.

Behind the door is a corridor that is roughly the same height and width as the door. It is about two meters high and more than one meter wide. It can pass one person at a time.It was also because of this reason that those weirdos came out one after another.

The length of the corridor was about seven or eight meters. When Xiao Ran entered the door, he saw that there seemed to be an open standing coffin at the end of the door.He moved forward, crossed the corridor, and entered a relatively higher and more natural tree hole. The coffin, which was simply cut from a thick tree trunk, stood against the tree wall at the end of the hole.

"Brother, please take a look, are there any other agencies around here?"

A few seconds later, Shenxing Wuyujian replied: "There was one in that broken coffin, but it was already useless. But..."

Seeing that Shen Xing was hesitant without an arrow, Xiao Ran asked: "What's the matter?"

"Hehe, there are times when Stinky Qiu Ba is making such noises. There seems to be something in the coffin. Anyway, just don't go in." Bei Jiuguo said.

"Something? What thing?" Xiao Ran asked.

Bai Jiukuo smacked his lips and said, "I can't really tell. It's not some kind of spiritual weapon or foreign object. It seems a bit like your needle..."

"It's not evil either..." Yin Yang Jing said.

"Ba Yan, there is no soul here either..." the Soul-locking Lingzhu said.

"It's not the smell of corpses or blood, but it's just a bit strange..." The Guanshan knife also made a clanging sound.

To be able to make such a magical weapon so uncertain, and still look a bit like that needle, could it be that it really is a magic weapon?

Let's take it one step at a time. Xiao Ran decided not to waste any useless efforts and put down the coffin first.He looked at the left and right sides again and found that the tree hole was not isolated. There were door openings with the same height and width as the corridor on the left and right sides, leading to the tree holes next to them. However, the door openings were overgrown with branches. At first glance, they looked like hollow screens and murals. generally.

He chopped off the branches with a shovel and walked to the tree hole on the left.This tree hole is semi-sealed. There are no other passages except the door openings on the left and right sides. The rough empty coffin stands with its opening facing the tree wall.

Xiao Ran continued to walk forward through several similar tree holes. It was not until he saw a passage opposite the standing coffin again that he cautiously touched outside the passage.

As soon as he poked his head out of the passage, he saw his second uncle's back about ten meters away.He was carefully guarding the side of the northern cave entrance that Xiao Ran had entered before, with his back to the direction of Xiao Ran's current location, and looking inside.

Probably because Xiao Ran suddenly disappeared, the second uncle looked a little anxious and shouted into the passage: "Xiao Ran! How is it inside? Are you safe?"

Xiao Ran suddenly became excited and shouted to his second uncle's back: "Second uncle! I'm here!"

The second uncle was frightened by the sound coming from behind. He turned around quickly and took a flashlight. He saw Xiao Ran smiling playfully at the northwest door. Suddenly his eyes rolled white and he fell softly to the ground with a "hiccup". .

"Second uncle!"

Xiao Ran's scalp suddenly exploded, and he rushed over, cursing himself fiercely in his heart. He insisted on scaring his second uncle like this, but now he was out of luck.

He rushed all the way to his second uncle and held him in his arms. He saw that his eyes were still rolled upward behind his gas mask, and his whole body was tense and shaking.

Xiao Ran was completely panicked, and said with a hint of crying: "Second uncle! What's wrong with you? I was wrong, I shouldn't scare you...Second uncle..." Seeing Xiao Ran's tears about to fall, the second uncle suddenly He relaxed his whole body, rolled his eyes back, raised his hand and slapped Xiao Ran's mask: "Damn it, play this scary trick with your second uncle, let's see if I can scare you to death!"

After saying that, he stood up as soon as he straightened up, and looked at Xiao Ran who was kneeling on the ground with a stunned expression on his face and smiled proudly, like an old naughty boy.

Xiao Ran raised his sleeves and wiped his eyes. It felt like he was a child again.He frowned and said, "Don't ever scare me with your life again. I can't stand being scared in this deep mountain and forest..."

The second uncle nodded solemnly: "Well, I won't scare you next time, I'll just show you the dead part. Don't talk nonsense, what did you find inside?"

"I just walked for a short distance, and the passages behind these doors are connected, probably in a ring shape. There are also many coffins in the passages, which should be those of those weirdos just now..."

Xiao Ran briefly described the scene inside and his own speculation. The second uncle simply took off the gas mask and stuffed it back into his bag, saying, "No matter what you have, let's go in and take a look."

Xiao Ran also took off his gas mask. Unexpectedly, the air inside Tongtian Taisui was surprisingly fresh, except for the pungent smell of burnt beard mixed with acidic liquid.

Seeing that his second uncle entered the corridor first, Xiao Ran quickly followed and got in again.

The second uncle walked all the way to the standing coffin, scanning the inside of the standing coffin and the fallen coffin lid up and down with his flashlight.

"This is not a coffin, it's just a torture instrument..." Second Uncle Di sighed.

Only then did Xiao Ran see clearly that there were broken iron chains on each side of the left and right sides of the standing coffin, which should have been broken by the weirdo who just broke away from it.But no matter what, this is what binds people inside.

Xiao Ran used his flashlight to shine on the left and right coffin walls under the iron chains, and saw numerous scratches on them.On the inside of the fallen coffin lid, there were several large rusty iron spikes, corresponding to several joints such as the person's shoulders and thighs.

This configuration reminded him of a book about the Western Middle Ages that he had read before, which mentioned an "iron maiden" torture instrument, which also had steel needles inside to pierce people to death.

He mentioned this idea to his second uncle, who shook his head and said in denial: "You said it was a torture instrument used to kill people, but look at this coffin lid, what other features it has."

After he finished speaking, he kicked the coffin lid, and a large piece of black material, which was either rust or cement, fell from the middle of the coffin lid, leaving a small hole.

I don't know which one, but there is an extra small hole on the coffin lid, but it is smaller than the top hole.

"Iron chains, iron nails, feeding openings, and ventilation openings are not torture tools to execute people. They are meant to make people suffer inside while they are still alive, or... it turns people into something else," the second uncle said.

After listening to his second uncle's words, Xiao Ran suddenly realized what he was thinking.It seems that those people who are parasitized by blood-eating lichens are artificially created by these lichens.Maybe it was to worship the Tongtian Tai Sui, or maybe it was to wait for someone to activate the switch outside, and treat these parasites as guards to deal with the invaders.

Thinking about it this way, the huge Pseudodontus roschii was actually used as a scapegoat for them.

But there is another possibility, that is, it is both...

"This...is standing like this, what is the hole below..."

Xiao Ran was thinking with his head down when he suddenly heard his second uncle mumbling to himself.He raised his head and saw his second uncle standing in the coffin, looking down at the bottom of the coffin between his feet.

An ominous premonition arose in Xiao Ran's heart.

"careful!"

Bai Jiuguo shouted loudly, causing Xiao Ran to jump up from the ground instantly.

(End of this chapter)