Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 78 tasteless
After working for a long time, it turned out that it was really not a fragment of Faqiu Yin.Xiao Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry in his heart, he didn't expect that this jiujiu was pointing at another artifact, how could this guy be as stealthy as the fat man.
But after such a long time, I finally came across an object that can communicate with people.Soul-locking Lingzhu, judging from the name, it is more like some kind of magic weapon.

Xiao Ran decided to ignore him for now, and now that he has attracted the attention of others, if he concentrates on communicating with this soul-locking orb, it will inevitably make them even more suspicious.

"Xiaoran, how do you know this door is on the ground? It was also your father who told you? "

Professor Chen adjusted his glasses, with a hint of excitement on his face.

Xiao Ran waved his hand: "That's not true, I just found out when I tripped over this pull ring."

Professor Chen still nodded in satisfaction: "This also shows that you are a bold and careful person. It would be great if you could be my student. Sati Peng is too timid, and he is really not suitable for archaeology..."

It seems that this old man really wants Xiao Ran's son to inherit his father's career, but now is the time to say these things.Xiao Ran quickly changed the subject and said, "There seems to be a coffin below, let's go down and have a look first?"

Shirley Yang didn't say much, just threw an illuminating cold fireworks down, and the scene in the tomb below was immediately clear at a glance.

The area of ​​the tomb was about the same size as this sacrificial room. There was a square coffin in the middle of the tomb without any decorations. It was more like an airdrop box than a coffin.

There are sacrifices on the upper level, tombs on the lower level, and coffins that are close to cubes.Even Professor Chen shook his head after reading it. This is already a blind spot of his knowledge.

"This custom of offering sacrifices to the dead in the tomb may be unique to the countries and nations of the ancient Western Regions. However, the separation of the place of sacrifice and the tomb may have been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains. This is the result of the collision of two different civilizations , can be regarded as a unique product." Professor Chen analyzed.

At this time Hao Aiguo also rushed over, threw three wolf furs on the ground, and said to Xiao Ran with some dissatisfaction: "Comrade Xiao Xiao, what's the matter with you? Frighten our team members with those feudal superstitions, Sati Peng Make me bring this down for you..."

Xiao Ran explained with a smile: "I just wanted to tease him because I saw how timid he is. These animal skins are to seal the door again when we go out."

Professor Chen nodded approvingly, even praising Xiao Ran for his carefulness.Hao Aiguo was speechless for a moment, but when he saw the tomb below and the cube-shaped coffin, his face burst into joy, dancing like a child, putting on a gas mask and rushing to get down.

Several people climbed down the stairs and entered the spacious tomb one after another.Everyone flashed their flashlights to look around, and couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

On the walls around the tomb, there are colorful and exquisite murals. The people in the paintings have deep eyes, high noses, curly hair, and are dressed in exotic clothes. The level of detail is comparable to the Dunhuang murals that Xiao Ran has seen.

Professor Chen carefully looked at the murals on the wall, and suddenly waved his hands excitedly and said, "These murals are related to the ancient country of Jingjue!"

As excited as Professor Chen was, it was the soul-locking orb in the coffin.He kept calling his name, trying to get someone to take him out.

Xiao Ran slowly raised his hand, leaned on the coffin and listened carefully.Apart from this noisy soul-locking orb, there was no other sound in the coffin.

Xiao Ran was confused, did Prince Gumo in the coffin also advocate thin burial?So there are no funerary objects in the coffin?
Seeing Xiao Ran put his hands on the coffin, Hu Bayi showed him a secretive smile, and he had long been thinking about opening the coffin.

Just as Xiao Ran wanted to say hello to Suohun Dinglingzhu, Professor Chen suddenly turned his head and said to him and Hu Bayi: "Come here quickly, you see the content of these murals, the Queen Jingjue is mentioned!"

Xiao Ran has heard Professor Chen's story many times.It is nothing more than that the owner of the tomb is Prince Gumo. Gumo was once a subsidiary state of Jingjue Kingdom, and was required to pay tribute to cattle, sheep, slaves and countless treasures year after year.Prince Gumo begged to see the queen, hoping to free the country, but he couldn't care less.

In the later mural, Prince Gumo went to assassinate Queen Jingjue, but found that Queen had a special ability. As long as someone saw her face under the veil, she would turn into a phantom and then disappear.

Shirley disagreed, saying that instead of seeing the queen's face and disappearing, she thought that seeing the queen's eyes would disappear.

She mentioned that her father Yang Xuanwei once read in "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" that there was a desert queen in the Western Regions, and the ruler came from an underground nation and established a country.This country conquered the surrounding small countries, and after a hundred generations, the eyes of the last queen could communicate with the underworld. Whenever she glanced at her enemies, the enemies would disappear.

The Queen used this to enslave the surrounding neighboring countries, demanding that everyone worship her as the true God, and all rebels would be skinned and executed.Later, the Queen was condemned by God and died of a serious illness within a few years.The surrounding countries formed a coalition force to bloodbath the king's city and wanted to destroy the queen's tomb, but the wind and sand buried the coalition forces and the king's city completely.

In the following hundreds of years, the movement of the desert brought the king city back to the sky, but if passers-by dared to take any property in the city, they would be cursed by the queen and buried by the wind and sand.This point is similar to the legend An Liman said.

In the murals, it also reflects this strange queen who enslaves other countries and can make people disappear.In the end, Prince Gumo got a suggestion from a fortune teller from a distant country, and put a special chronic poison into the golden lamb meat as a tribute to the queen. Soon after, the queen died suddenly, and Prince Gumo also became ill from overwork, and was buried with his beloved wife. Under the altar of this holy well.

The record of the desert queen in "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" and the mural of the assassination of the queen in the tomb of Prince Gumo completely match the plot, so it became the basis for Shirley Yang to believe that the queen's eyes can make people disappear.

A suspicion suddenly flashed in Xiao Ran's mind, as to why there were no funeral objects in Prince Gumo's tomb.

While Shirley Yang was still telling everyone about some mural details, he took two steps back secretly and put his hands on the coffin.

The soul-locking orb was still calling, Xiao Ran interrupted him intently: "Stop arguing, you are the soul-locking orb, right?"

The cry for help stopped for a few seconds, and suddenly he shouted more excitedly: "Can you hear me? It's been thousands of years! Finally let me wait! Take me out!"

Xiao Ran asked: "Tell me first, what are your abilities?"

"Put me in your mouth before you die, you can lock the last ray of shock, and keep the body from decaying forever!" Said the Soul Locking Lingzhu.

This is a unique skill. In ancient times, paying such a tribute to the emperor's old son would not replace half of his country, and he would be named a happy prince who has no worries about food and clothing.

"And then?" Xiao Ran asked.

"Then the body will never rot!" said Suohun Dinglingzhu.

That's it?Hold him before death, never rot.The ancient emperors hoped that they could become immortals and return to life, but these days they still dream of becoming immortals.What's the use of not decomposing the corpse other than donating it to the hospital to save formalin?

"You're really... tasteless..." Xiao Ran sighed helplessly.

(End of this chapter)