Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 76 The Voice in the Well
Xiao Ran returned to the stone house where he camped, and saw Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang talking and laughing, boiling water and making tea, the second uncle was also sorting out the supplies that had just been moved in, and the others were lying on the felt cloth, already sound asleep Even Professor Chen leaned against the wall and kept nodding his head.

Especially Fatty Wang, who was lying there with half a cake in his mouth, snoring like thunder, like a canopy coming down to earth.

Hu Bayi picked up a few broken clay pots in the corner of the house, told Xiao Ran to mix some pots of warm water, woke up everyone to soak their feet, and pushed away the bubbles from the days of walking, and then let everyone sleep again.

Seeing the night fall, Xiao Ran was exhausted after a day of tossing, so he pulled a piece of felt cloth casually, and snored as soon as he lay down.

In the dream, he vaguely saw the man in black with the hair mound, going in and out of the house, busy with something.But he was so tired that he couldn't remember anything other than this little impression, and the dream gradually dissipated.

He was awakened by a burst of exclamation, and saw that everyone had woken up and was chatting around the fire.It was already dark outside, and it seemed that he hadn't slept for a long time.

"You guys woke up so soon?" Xiao Ran yawned and greeted everyone.

Hu Bayi smiled and said, "What are you doing? We've been sleeping all day and all night. Fortunately, my second uncle was watching over me yesterday, otherwise the wolf would have to take one or two away."

Xiao Ran opened his eyes wide after hearing this, turned his head to look at the corpses of three sand wolves with pierced heads by the wall, and then looked at the smug second uncle sitting next to Professor Chen. But it is much faster than him, this is the instinct that has been honed through years of traveling north and south.

Hu Bayi and An Liman dragged the waves out, skinned and cut the meat, and after a while the wolf meat was grilled on the fire until it was sizzling.

"I didn't expect to eat fresh barbecue here, thank you, Second Uncle Xiao!" Several students said.

The fat man tore a strip of roasted wolf leg meat and stuffed it into his mouth, saying, "Thank you, Second Uncle Xiao, for saving your life. But when it comes to barbecue, this wolf meat is still too dry and overcooked, not as good as the game in the old forests in the Northeast." , especially the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, since ancient times, roe deer were beaten with sticks to scoop fish with scoops, and pheasants flew into rice pots."

Several students were aroused by his words and asked him to talk more.

The fat man glibly talked about his experience when he jumped in line and the experience of the Savage Ditch last time.He omitted the plot of Dao Dou'er, and took all the experience of how to hunt along the way, how to find Shanzhen, etc., as his own. He also said how he found a big pig-faced bat and a big prairie otter in a hole in the ground. And how did he lead the hounds to hunt down the nearly one thousand catty wild boar.

The words surprised several people, and they all yearned for the abundance of materials in the old forest in the northeast. Even scholars like Professor Chen and Hao Aiguo looked curious, and they kept nodding their heads when they heard it.

The second uncle took advantage of this time to go to Xiao Ran's side and whispered: "That old fellow An Liman is not right, he slipped out by himself when everyone was sleeping last night. I followed him to have a look, he went to the ancient well in the city Side. I thought he was worried about the camel, but I saw him kneeling in front of the well and muttering, I guess the well is not simple."

Xiao Ran nodded and didn't say anything more.Of course he knew that the well was not simple, and he must go to explore it tonight.

At this moment, Shirley Yang suddenly interrupted Fatty's eloquence: "There are no fewer types of animals and plants in the desert than in the forest, and the desert we are in now was also the pinnacle of civilization in the Western Regions in ancient times. In the forest, there are only wild animals. Trees, and anything else?"

The corner of the fat man's mouth twitched twice, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly.Seeing this, Hu Bayi quickly pulled the fat man up: "Come on, let's go out and smoke one, there is a lady in the room..."

Xiao Ran also quickly got up, picked up the compass next to Hu Bayi's backpack and followed him out.

Outside the door, Hu Bayan lit up a cigarette and advised the fat man to give way to Shirley Yang. Firstly, he is a womanizer, and secondly, he is a money-paying boss, so there is no need to confront her.

The fat man snorted and said that if he hadn't seen that he was a foreigner and a woman, he would have twisted his head off and kicked him like a ball.

Xiao Ran led the two of them to chat, and climbed to the top of the nearby tower.Because there is almost no vegetation, the night in the desert is full of moon stars and the sky is picturesque.Xiao Ran said to Hu Bayi: "Brother Hu, look at the stars in the sky, this scenery is rare in our place."

Hu Bayi exhaled smoke rings and looked at the sky, thoughtful.He suddenly threw the cigarette butt, turned around and was about to go back, Xiao Ran hurriedly handed him the compass in his hand, and said with a smile: "I wanted you to teach me astrology, so I brought it for you."

Hu Bayi didn't think much about it, took the compass and looked at the sky, and said to the two of them: "Look, the Jumen star, Zuofu star, and Youbi star in the sky just form a regular triangle, and the two stars of the lunar moon and the sun are parallel. Among them, this is a group of dry armor and golden auspicious stars. Next to the underground water veins below, there must be ancient tombs..."

He pointed his finger down, pointing to the ancient well in the city.

The fat man was surprised: "In the well? Is there anyone burying their tombs in the well?"

After speaking, he retched for a while. All the water he drank in the past two days was drawn from that well.

Xiao Ran comforted him: "If there is really a tomb in the well, maybe a tomb was dug out of a hole in the wall of the well. Didn't Brother Hu say that it must be next to the underground water vein. The corpse will float if it is soaked in water , what kind of geomantic omen.”

Hu Ba nodded and said: "Brother Xiao is right, this is important news, we have to tell the archaeological team. If something is found here, they might stop arguing and insist on entering the Black Desert." .”

The three hurried back to the stone house and told Professor Chen about Hu Bayi's discovery.Professor Chen was overjoyed immediately, and rushed to the ancient well with Hao Aiguo and the students, wanting to go down and have a look.

Seeing this, An Liman, who was feeding the camels by the well, also rushed to the well to block the crowd: "No, no, no! This is a holy well! Ordinary people will be angry if they go in!"

Hao Aiguo, who was on the side, quickly came over and took his arm, and talked about policies to him. Xiaozhi was emotional and reasonable, except that the excavation and exploration were also for protection, otherwise foreigners or tomb robbers would also steal the excavation, and moved out of Anli Hu Da, who is full of faith, told him that since the stars in the sky gave him guidance, it must be Hu Da's will.

Standing behind the crowd, Xiao Ran felt funny when he heard Hao Aiguo's nonsense. This old-fashioned intellectual has also learned to prescribe the right medicine.

Anyway, Hao Aiguo was in charge of the persuasion work, he was happy to stand behind the crowd and stay out of it, as long as he waited to go down the well together.

He suddenly felt a movement in his chest, and he took out the pendant of the yarrow nine, and the compass of the yarrow once again pointed to the direction of the ancient well.Beside the ancient well, Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang and the others were still discussing how to go down the well, while Hao Aiguo was still arguing with An Liman.

He said impatiently to Yaujiu: "I know, I know, isn't this going to go down? I didn't say a word along the way, and I just poked around..."

He stuffed the pendant back into his arms, when a voice suddenly floated into his ears along the breeze.The voice came from far and near, with echoes, as if it came from the ancient well, repeating three words: "Help me..."

(End of this chapter)