Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 97
On the way to the ruins, Professor Chen looked at the anxious Xiao Ran with compassion in his eyes.In his eyes, this young man in his twenties is still a poor child without a father.And when he looked at his friend Yang Xuanwei's daughter Shirley, there was a trace of loneliness in his eyes.

He speeded up as much as possible and followed the team forward, but he still didn't forget to discuss the feng shui layout of Jingjue City with Hu Bayi.

"Leader Hu, you have seen the whole city from the top of the tower just now, what do you think of the feng shui of this exquisite city?"

Hu Bayi pondered and said: "The Zagrama Mountain in the north is like a black dragon lying in the desert. And this huge and exquisite ancient city was built in the desert. There must be a huge underground river hidden under the sand, which is similar to the Zagrama The movement of Mashan corresponds to the movement. Since Queen Jingjue can see the sky with her hands and eyes, she must also have some feng shui techniques to see the secrets of the sky. The backbone of the black dragon makes it forever the housekeeper of Jingjue City and the Queen's Mausoleum.

"From that mountain pass, Queen Jingjue quarries a lot of stones, and the scale of the tomb must not be small. But I have a doubt. You said that Queen Jingjue's palace was built underground, so the queen's tomb will be Where is it built? From the point of view of astrology, this is also a treasure cave for hiding gods. Could it be that the palace and the mausoleum are built together? Will it be too crowded and unlucky..."

Professor Chen said with a smile: "Although there were cultural exchanges between the ethnic groups in the ancient Western Regions and the Han area, they each had their own main culture after all. They may not all have strict taboos on the two realms of life and death like us. I heard that there are ethnic groups in Southeast Asia who believe in death. The loved ones only temporarily fall into a dormant state, and regularly dig up their dead bodies, change their clothes, and put them at the dining table to eat with everyone. Of course, these are far away.

"However, the Ghost Cave Clan in the Jingjue Kingdom comes from the underground, so the underground is a good place for them, whether it is a private house or a private house. I guess the residence of the Queen Jingjue is divided into three floors, and the ground floor is the castle, which is used for daily government affairs. The ground floor is the queen's private residence, that is, the palace; the lower level is the queen's mausoleum."

Everyone searched again in the ruins of Jingjue. Although the direction of the ruins of the palace could be seen from the tower, the Queen Jingjue ruled the subjects in terror and isolation. It still took a lot of effort to reach the palace.

Xiao Ran looked at the sun in the sky, feeling very anxious.Due to the influence of the magnetic force of Mount Zagrama, he could only estimate that it was around ten o'clock to eleven o'clock, which was already approaching noon.There are still about five hours before sunset. If it's just a few rice dumplings, monsters or wild beasts, their team can easily handle it.

But the curse of the Essence Queen is a sandstorm. No matter how powerful they are, how can they twist nature?
Fortunately, Professor Chen had put down his passion for investigation for the time being, and was focused on searching for the entrance of the underground palace. After searching in front, Xiao Ran finally led everyone to the biggest ruin.

The stone gate of the building is a faceless monster with a big mouth, and the door is embedded in the mouth of the beast.

Professor Chen carefully looked at the black stone gate and the remaining black stone pillar steps in the ruins, frowned and said: "This is not like a palace. According to the cultural traditions of the Queen and the Ghost Cave people, this place should also be a place related to religion, more like a temple."

Hearing what the professor said, Shirley Yang sighed imperceptibly, and said, "Then let's keep looking?"

Xiao Ran was in a hurry to enter the underground palace, and said to the professor in a hurry: "Queen Jingjue puts herself above the patron saint of Jingjue and even the imaginary space, second only to the eyes of the highest source of power. Is it possible that what she established is an ancient * *** rule. She is both the Queen of Jingjue and the god of Jingjue City, so the palace that handles government affairs has also been built as a temple dedicated to the true god, so that she can awe the subjects of Jingjue Kingdom and surrounding countries."

Professor Chen nodded and said: "That makes sense! Moreover, building the palace with this kind of magnetic stone can also play a certain role in preventing assassins who want to assassinate with sharp weapons. This is also in line with the style of a ruler like Queen Jingjue .”

That being the case, here is the most important clue at present.Xiao Ran, Hu Bayi, and Fatty Wang picked up the shovel and quickly cleared a passage.

This scene reminded Xiao Ran of the time when he was digging a hole in Savage Valley.But this time, their reasons were much more legitimate.

Since the underground door of the temple has always been closed well, only a lot of sand has accumulated at the door, and the passage after opening the door suddenly becomes clear.

Just in case, everyone opened the door a little bit to get through the wind.Fatty has developed a fixed thinking pattern, as long as there is a hole, he has to drill it, and as long as he drills it, he can get money.

After waiting for a few minutes, he was eager to get in the door.Hu Bayi was too late to pull him, but was grabbed by Xiao Ran.

Hu Bayi wanted to take this opportunity to say a few words about Fatty, and to praise Xiao Ran's prudence, but Xiao Ran took out a gas mask and handed it to Fatty.

"The weather in this desert changes every now and then, so let's hurry up and go in."

After Xiao Ran finished speaking, he also put on the gas mask, turned on a cold smoke, and entered the door together with the fat man.His current level of anxiety is not inferior to Fatty's at all, after all, he is for everyone's life.

Everyone was wearing gas masks, holding cold fireworks, walked down a stone-step passage for more than [-] meters, and came to a stone hall.

The stone hall is very grand, ten meters high, and covers an area of ​​hundreds of square meters, which completely exceeds the area of ​​the temple ruins above.A total of sixteen huge stone pillars stood scattered, supporting the entire stone hall.

Everyone cautiously explored in the stone hall. At the deepest point directly opposite the entrance of the passage, there is a half-person-high stone pier on the floor, with a jade eyeball placed on it.

The whole body of the eyeball is green, the pupil is slightly blue, and there are naturally formed red lines around it, like the red blood in the eyeball, the shape is almost unreal.

The first time Xiao Ran saw that thing, a trace of indescribable disgust rose in his heart.He felt that this eyeball was full of deep evil, as if the other end of the eyeball was connected to the brain of an unknown demon with invisible nerves and blood vessels, and was tempting the person in front of him to sacrifice his soul.

He turned his head to look at the fat man, and sure enough, his expression was that of giving his soul.

"Hey, this thing... is absolutely priceless, it's much more valuable than opals!" Hu Bayi sighed.

The fat man was even more impolite. He rushed up and stretched out his hand to rub it, and then pulled and tugged to pull the jade eye off and put it in the backpack.But no matter how hard he exerted, the jade eyes just didn't move at all, as if they were welded to it.

Xiao Ran smiled at the side without saying a word, he knew that the jade eyes had to be opened with the fat man's jade pendant, and it was better not to open them, otherwise he would have to spend time dealing with those Jing Jian Ah Hans with bags on their heads.

Speaking of seeing Ah Han, he raised his flashlight to shine on the roof, wanting to see if there were any huge snake eggs hanging high.But at this moment, a sharp scream came into his head, making his brain buzz, and he covered his ears and bent down.

(End of this chapter)