Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 107 Black Bead Emerald Gold Soup

Everyone followed Shirley Yang to the apse, which is the bedroom of the queen and other royal family members. In addition to the dilapidated jade beds, tables and chairs, there are several small decorative fountains.

The fat man looked at these fountains and sighed: "This girl just knows how to enjoy it. There is also a fountain in the house. She must have iced watermelons in it."

Hu Bayi said: "You are digging out dung, and the emperor used a golden dung shovel, and iced watermelon. How about eating cold noodles with cold water? This is the mood of life."

The two were chattering, and there was the sound of gurgling water not far away.

Shirley Yang led everyone to the back of the bedroom, and found a series of winding stone steps behind a hidden stone gate, and the sound of water came from the depths of the stone wall cave.

Everyone walked hundreds of steps along the stone steps before descending to the deepest point.In front of you is a natural cave, the size of a basketball court.But judging from the flat ground and wall decoration, it has also been artificially processed.

In the middle of the cave, there is a small underground lake, and a ten-square-meter-sized island in the center of the lake is slightly raised in the middle. The lake surface is like a circle of sapphires surrounding the island.

Seeing the clear lake surface, everyone couldn't help but want to wash their faces and hands, and feel the moisture that the clear water brings to the skin.The fat man also wanted to pour out the water in the kettle and get some new ones.After all, the water in the kettle has been soaked for so many days, and it already smells like raw leather.

Shirley Yang hurriedly stopped everyone: "2000 years have passed, and the water source has been abandoned for so long. I don't know whether it is stagnant water or running water. The underground river is also constantly diverted. The water quality in the lake may not be the same as before. If there is nitrate in it, It is also toxic by skin contact."

Hu Bayi looked carefully at the lake water, and said with a smile, "Did you see those small fish in the lake? There must be springs at the bottom of the lake. It's running water, so it won't be poisonous."

As soon as he finished speaking, the fat man cheered and poured out the water in the kettle, and bent down to drink the water in the lake.

Xiao Ran couldn't stop him, so he had no choice but to pick up a stone and throw it into the water, the water splashed all over the place, startling the fat man.

"This water is not drinkable..."

Xiao Ran looked to the other side while talking, although the others were frightened to stop by him, but Sa Dipeng, who was far away, had already had a full stomach and was sitting by the pool hiccupping.

"Brother Xiao, what are you doing? Didn't Lao Hu read it all? The water can be drunk..." The fat man wiped the water splashed on his face and glanced at Sa Dipeng, "Look, Xiao Sa drank Is there nothing wrong?"

Xiao Ran pointed to the lake: "Don't worry, watch carefully."

When the flashlight shines on the bottom of the lake, it seems that some blue dots are slowly wriggling.Those blue dots crawled out of the bottom of the water and rushed to the small island in the lake. They turned out to be densely packed blue diphosphorus insects, numbering no less than .

After they climbed onto the small island, their bodies slowly turned grayish white, and then their backs split open, and glowing worms came out of their shells, stretched their newly grown wings, and kept flapping, as if they were about to fly to the island. Sky.

When Sa Dipeng saw these densely packed insects, he covered his mouth and retched.The fat man also stared wide-eyed and said to Xiao Ran: "It's thanks to you stopping me, otherwise I would have had to drink so much of this bug soup just now."

"Where is this..."

Just as Xiao Ran finished speaking, he heard rustlings from all directions, as if a large herd of wild beasts were galloping towards the empty cave.Everyone was shocked, and they all clenched their guns tightly.

As the sound of "Zhizhi" became clearer and clearer, the owner of the sound also showed his head. Countless big mice poured into the cave from all directions, as if they didn't see the human beings in front of them, they ran past everyone's feet and poured into the lake. middle.

Ye Yixin screamed in fright, and jumped onto Chu Jian's back.Chu Jian blushed, but he didn't want to miss the opportunity for the hero to save the United States and Canada. He quickly put his hands behind Ye Yixin and hugged Ye Yixin tightly, shouting: "It's okay, Xiaoye! I'm here!"

On the other side, although Shirley Yang didn't scream, she frowned and kept dodging.Seeing this, Hu Bayi stood in front of her slightly, and placed Shirley Yang at a stone corner by the lake. A large group of mice just ran past Hu Bayi and jumped into the water.

Xiao Ran raised his thumb and whispered to Hu Bayi: "Good job!"

Swarms of rats poured into the lake one after another, aiming at the thiazolins that had just molted on the island in the middle of the lake.They stepped on each other and rushed to the island in the middle of the lake, devouring the insects like a storm, and the phosphorescent insects were all eaten up in an instant.

In addition to eating with their mouths, these big rats naturally did not forget to deal with the physiological needs of the other side. Many large black particles also fell into the water during this process and sank to the bottom of the lake.

"Tsk tsk, it seems that these big gray skins often have dinner parties here. There is really everything in this water. The whole pool is full of black pearls, emeralds, and gold soup..."

The fat man just wiped his face in disgust, and Sa Dipeng on the other side couldn't bear it anymore, and vomited "wow" at the pool.

The mouse ate and drank enough, and returned in a mighty way.The fat man saw a relatively slow-moving old mouse with a gray beard running past his feet, and wanted to lift his foot to kick it, but Li Ran hurriedly stopped it.

"These things have lived here for so many years, and they are all masters. Let's do as we please. Besides, the gray skins are also spiritual things, and they are kind to us all. Let's be lenient."

Xiao Ran's words reminded Fatty of the group of rats in Cangshen Temple, who once helped them deal with the evil rats.And Hu Ba's eyes were more grateful, because the mouse was really kind to his grandfather.

Everyone was thankful that Xiao Ran stopped him in time, and he didn't rush to fill his belly with dung soup like Sa Dipeng.The fat man shook the empty jug, licked his mouth and said to Hu Bayi: "Old Hu, take a sip of your water..."

Hu Bayi gave him a blank look: "Let you be free and loose, don't listen to comrades' persuasion, be thirsty first! I heard the sound of running water in the distance just now, there must be more than one underground water vein here, maybe it's the dark He, let’s look for it later.”

Professor Chen said: "Everyone must remember that we must listen to Team Leader Hu and Xiao Ran in the future. Any unauthorized actions may cause trouble..."

Sa Dipeng's face was no longer as red as before, but a layer of pale, and he almost vomited gall just now. Shirley Yang took out a salt pill from his bag, stuffed it into Sa Dipeng's kettle and shook it.

"You are so prone to dehydration, besides drinking water, you need to add some salt..."

Seeing Xiao Ran looking at her and Hu Bayi meaningfully, she suddenly blushed, but immediately said seriously: "Let's go on, the queen's mausoleum should be near a bigger water source, we still have to There's business to do."

Bypassing the small lake, everyone walked deeper into the cave following the sound of water.The sound of water and steam in front became more and more obvious, and the walls became more humid, and even some greasy moss grew on the wall stones.

There are many artificially excavated stone chambers on both sides of the passage, with iron fences as the doors, and chains and torture tools on the walls inside. It must be the cell where the Queen Jingjue held prisoners.Black rat feces were scattered among some small pieces of broken bones.

(End of this chapter)