Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 95 The Queen's Funeral

Xiao Ran hurriedly took his hands off the wall, gathered himself together, and said to the howling Suohun Dingling Orb: "Suozi, are you going crazy? I thought you also made Queen Jingjue prohibit you from speaking..."

"Bah! I swear I will never die with her! Take me up quickly, to the top of the tower! I will remember everything when I go up!"

The emotion of the soul-locking orb was extremely agitated, and as an object, it was indeed a bit abnormal.Xiao Ran could feel the uncontrollable hatred and anger through his clothes.

What kind of enmity can a bead have against the Jingjue Queen?Could it be that he was originally square and was rounded by the Jingjue Queen?It shouldn't be for such a trivial matter...

Xiao Ran had no choice but to comfort him: "Don't worry, there is always going up, you should calm down first."

Hearing what he said, Suohun Dinglingzhu shut his mouth as expected, but he still couldn't help making the sound of "wheezing, wheezing", like a big dog that has lost a toy.

On Professor Chen's side, he was still studying the writing on the stone wall. He caught a glimpse of Xiao Ran's hand falling from the stone wall, and walked over excitedly and asked, "Xiao Ran, what do you think about these things?"

Xiao Ran grinned and said, "You haven't researched these characters, let alone me. I've only scratched the surface from my dad's research. But I guess, most of the civilizations in the Central Plains can radiate In the areas I visited, the pagodas have religious functions. The texts in the pagodas are basically sacrificial scriptures related to local civilization, or religious history, etc. This stone sheep should represent the religious view of the Guidong people. The ring of life is similar to the animal realm in the six realms... or something."

Professor Chen nodded in satisfaction, and said to several other students: "You must learn more from Xiao Ran. If he is a professional archaeologist, his future achievements will never be inferior to mine."

Along the way, Xiao Ran demonstrated his understanding of the ancient sites in the Western Regions many times, and even saved everyone's lives many times.Hearing what Professor Chen said, other people also agreed from the bottom of their hearts, even the old-fashioned Hao Aiguo looked at Xiao Ran and nodded repeatedly.

Professor Chen led everyone to continue to go up. The stone pagoda has windows from the second floor, and the sunlight clearly illuminates the scene inside the pagoda.

The stone statue on this floor is a half-kneeling figure, with deep eyes, high nose, bearded face, a felt hat on the head and a naked upper body, very much like the barbarians from the Western Regions that Xiao Ran saw in ancient paintings.

The fat man went up to the second floor. He was taken aback when he saw the portrait of the Hu man, and then he ran over and shouted in tears, "Isn't this Mr. An Liman! Why did your Hu Da tie you here? It must be because of you!" Hu Dacai asked you to kowtow to the people here to apologize for your frequent escapism mistakes before! You see, you don’t even wear any clothes, and you will be charged with the crime of being an old hooligan!”

His funny performance made several young people overjoyed, and even Shirley Yang and Hao Aiguo tried their best to hold back their laughter.From what he said, the stone statue really looks more and more like An Liman.

Professor Chen said: "If you say he is An Liman, you are partly right. If I guess correctly, this stone statue represents the people of the Western Regions ruled by Queen Jingjue, and it can also be said to be slaves."

After the young team members recorded the stone statue, they climbed up again.

When they reached the third floor, everyone's expressions became a little dignified.In the center of this floor is a standing human figure, with olive-shaped protruding eyes that are still fresh in everyone's memory. It is the stone statue that I saw in the small town where I encountered marching ants, Karaquman.

Professor Chen said to everyone: "It seems that my previous deduction is correct. The stone statues with giant pupils found in the western Xinjiang and northern grasslands all originated from the Jingjue Kingdom and were also made of the black stone of Zagrama."

Ye Yixin asked timidly, "Then there are army ants under the tower...?"

Xiao Ran shook his head: "Although army ants are ferocious, they are ordinary animals after all, and they also migrate for food. Even dead bodies are not seen in this Jingjue ruins, so they will not appear here."

Sa Dipeng asked Professor Chen: "Professor, what is the purpose of this tower? Why are there stone statues on every floor?"

Professor Chen said: "As Xiaoran said before, this stone tower is related to religion. Ancient religions always used the mouth of the gods to divide life into three, six, and nine grades. What we saw on the first floor was a stone statue of a sheep. It represents all livestock, the second floor represents slaves, the third floor has giant pupil stone statues standing, and there is also an eyeball-shaped stone sculpture on the top of the tower, which represents the totem worship of the Guidong people, that is, the worship of eyes. On the first level of the Internet, it must have a higher status than Karaquman."

The fat man immediately cheered up: "I bet, the next level will definitely be the Queen of Excellence!"

Hu Bayi wanted to hold him back, but the fat man ran up the steps impatiently, leaving only Hu Bayi sighing: "It's a pity..."

On the fourth floor, except for Xiao Ran, everyone's expressions were unexpected.

The stone statue on this floor is a half-snake-like statue, the lower body is a snake, but it has two animal legs; the upper body and head are human beings.The head of the stone statue looks like a human male, with angry eyes and a black ball growing behind his head, holding a sharp sword and shield in both hands.

The fat man exclaimed: "Could it be that this is the Queen of Essence? No wonder you said that in the prince's tomb, she covered her face. She turned out to be a half-male, half-male, human-snake monster!"

Professor Chen denied: "This should be the patron saint of the kingdom. On his head there is a spherical object similar to the black snake in the valley. It seems that the Jingjue Ancient Kingdom enshrined this snake as the god of protecting the country. Look at it this way Come on, the Ghost Cave Clan really believe that the eyes will give them the power of the gods, and the status of the Jingjue Queen has surpassed the gods."

Hu Ba said to the surprised fat man: "I already knew that this floor is not the queen, and I want to bet on your [-] beauties."

The fat man's eyes widened: "Stop bragging with me, how do you know?"

Hu Bayi smiled and said: "You don't even think about it. There are several floors in the tower, so the queen can't be in the middle anyway."

Professor Chen couldn't wait to lead everyone to the upper floor, but there was nothing on this floor, only ghost cave ciphertexts all over the walls.

"This floor...has been stolen?" Hu Bayi asked.

Xiao Ran was the first to say: "Impossible. Since this tower marks the status, it must not be some vulgar objects such as gold, silver, pearls and jade above the patron saint. Perhaps this floor was originally empty."

The professor asked curiously, "Xiao Ran, do you have any ideas?"

Xiao Ran made a fool of himself and said: "Let's go to the top to have a look first, and I'll reveal the answer later."

The reason why he was in such a hurry was because there was a constant sound of "squeak, squeak, squeak" from the Soul Locking Lingzhu, as if he was about to suffocate himself to death.

Everyone went up to the last floor, under the bright sunlight, a statue of a woman sat on a black throne, her face was carved to look like she was wearing a veil, and her clothes were luxurious and domineering. The image is exactly the same.

Locking Soul Ding Lingzhu suddenly shouted: "I have remembered everything! You have no time. After sunset, you will all become the funeral slaves of Queen Jingjue, and you will never be able to leave the ancient city of Jingjue!"

At the same time as he shouted, the anxiety mixed with despair also spread to Xiao Ran's mind in an instant.

(End of this chapter)