Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 106 Destroyed in a vacuum?

Seeing the surprised look on Fatty's face, several archaeologists couldn't help laughing.

Su Dipeng imitated the example, and also hit a clay pot with an archaeological hammer, and the pot also shattered into a pile of fragments and powder with a sound like a sigh.

"Okay, stop making trouble, and quickly record all these things." Hao Aiguo taught the three students with a straight face.

Seeing that the fat man was still at a loss, Professor Chen explained to him: "This hall should be the main hall of the Queen Jingjue's palace, so it is well ventilated. After thousands of years, items like pottery have been severely corroded. Rats and other rodents that like to grind their teeth often gnaw on them. Many pottery has only a loose and thin shell left, which will naturally fall apart when touched. As for the sound you hear, it is only the moment when the pottery is broken, and the air inside is released. It’s just an echo of what we’re seeing all the time…”

The fat man looked at the corner, and there happened to be a few gerbils poking their heads, shaking their beards and staring at the crowd.He picked up a broken piece and threw it, and the rats scattered in fright.

Professor Chen and Hao Aiguo took three students to carefully record everything in the palace, while Shirley Yang inspected the palace carefully, not missing any chance to find the remains of her relatives.

Xiao Ran estimated the time in his mind, and about an hour has passed since he entered the secret path.But he couldn't urge Professor Chen and the others to speed up, he could only wander around in the pile of broken metal anxiously.

In addition to decorative ornaments, rusted armor and weapons can be seen everywhere in the palace.The shapes of these things are different, and the largest proportion is a kind of scaly armor, which can be vaguely seen with black pigments that have not yet fallen off.

There are also other weapons and armors of various shapes, ranging from lightweight daggers and maces to two-handed giant axes with two-handed pickaxes and forked spears. The totems and patterns drawn on them It is full of the customs of the Western Regions, and obviously has the characteristics of different nationalities.

Looking at it from a distance, the distance between these armors and weapons such as swords and shields on both sides still follows the proportion of the human body. It must be that the corpses have decayed into ashes, leaving only these armors and weapons that are not easy to decay, quietly telling the surrounding area The tragic bloody battle when the coalition forces of various countries entered the palace.

Xiao Ran asked Suohun Dingling Orb if there were any Gumo warriors or other soldiers' souls here, but the answer he got was very surprising.Locking Soul Ding Lingzhu said that their souls and most of the bodies of the coalition forces were imprisoned in an unexplorable abyss.

Xiao Ran guessed that maybe when the coalition forces invaded the Jingjue Kingdom, the surviving priests of the Jingjue Kingdom, or the Jingjue Queen who was still alive, used the power of their worshiped eyes to throw all the coalition forces into that country. In the imaginary space like a big hole, there are even some subjects of the Jingjue Kingdom's Guidong tribe.

Xiao Ran suddenly thought of a possibility, so he asked Professor Chen: "Professor, do you think it might be those people in the Jingjue Kingdom who had mastered the power of eyes, for example, the queen who was actually dying when she saw the coalition forces attacking?" Entering the Jingjue Kingdom, so with the last breath of energy, the people in the Jingjue Country were thrown into the imaginary space regardless of the enemy or friends, causing a short vacuum in the city, and the surrounding wind and sand buried the Jingjue Country ?”

Professor Chen thought for a while, then smiled and said: "Perhaps it can be understood in this way. After all, from the perspective of air, when anyone is in an environment with air, he is actually squeezing the air around his body. If this People don't move, but suddenly disappear out of thin air, then there will indeed be a vacuum environment with the same size as him, and the surrounding air will instantly fill this space. If tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people disappear together, it will indeed Accumulate a relatively large vacuum environment, and let the surrounding air engulf sand and fly in. However, this can only be a hypothesis, and it is no longer within the scope of knowledge of the discipline of archaeology.”

The fat man next to him widened his eyes, shook his head and said, "I don't understand a word of what you're saying, and I know that these junk things can't even be sold for a good price. But this throne can be dismantled, Get a better price."

As he spoke, he walked towards the throne and sat on it.His philistine tone, full of money, made Professor Chen and Hao Aiguo frown.

Xiao Ran looked at the jade seat from bottom to top. The base is a large piece of smooth and white jade like milk jelly, and the body of the seat is a whole piece of dark green jade of unknown quality. The material seems to be the same as that in the temple of priests. A jade eye is similar.

The body of the Jade Throne is engraved with wind, thunder, clouds, rain, flowers, birds, animals and insects, symbolizing the power and ambition of the owner of the Jade Throne to control everything in the world.In addition, gold and silver are used to inlay corners. These gold and silver have been corroded for thousands of years, and the surface has a layer of gray-black oxide layer.

Looking up over the top of the fat man's head, there is a red jade eye engraved on the top of the back of the jade seat, which is integrated with the entire dark green seat.

The moment he looked at Yuyan, the masked face appeared in front of Xiao Ran's eyes, and his soul seemed to be pulled away.

He quickly looked away, gasping for breath, silently caressing his stomach with his hands, the small piece of hair mound in his clothes made him feel at ease.

Sure enough, the further you go in, the greater the influence of the Jingjue Queen. Before, she would release the illusion of one eye to induce hallucinations. I didn't expect to skip this step now.

"Fatty! Why are you disorganized and disciplined everywhere? This jade seat is a symbol of feudal emperors exploiting the working people. You are also of proletarian origin, what are your principles and positions?"

Hu Bayi saw the fat man sitting on the jade seat with a big face, and kept dangling with a fat leg on the armrest, laughing and mocking the fat man.

The fat man snorted disdainfully, and said: "You can pull it down, you have no idea, now the economy makes sense. Why can't this thing be worth 100 million dollars? I just don't know how to dismantle it, and it doesn't matter if it is dismantled." Easy to move..."

Hu Bayi said: "Don't think about how to move, this is the territory of Queen Jingjue, maybe her ghost is still wandering in the palace. Seeing how fat you are, stay here as a face. If you are hungry, you can still take two bites as a reserve."

When Sa Dipeng heard the words, he shook his hand and dropped a shield on the ground, breaking it into three pieces. Hao Aiguo was so angry that he criticized again.

The records of the archaeological team have been sorted out, and Xiao Ran hastily pointed out that important places related to the Queen, whether it is the living palace or the mausoleum after death, must be near water.If you want to further find the queen's secret place, you have to start with the water source.

Everyone hastily circled the entire hall, and near the gate, they saw a black stone roof that had been blown down by explosives.Professor Chen regretted again, saying that judging from the extent and traces of the damage, it was at least several decades old.

When the fat man heard this, he rolled his eyes in disdain: "Walter the explorer, that is, a tomb robber, foreign devils don't have a good thing..."

Hu Bayi knew who he was talking about by accusing Sang Huai, but fortunately Shirley Yang was not around now.Just as he was about to say something to the fat man, Shirley Yang came out from a side room in the distance and shouted to everyone: "We found the water source!"

(End of this chapter)