Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 109 The Priest in the Stone Statue
Xiao Ran suddenly felt a fever in his abdomen, and then a bright light flashed in front of his eyes, and the illusion in front of him disappeared.

He shook his head and saw Shirley Yang Zheng frowning slightly, looking at him and Hu Bayi seriously.

It seems that the sentence just now was exactly what she asked, but the voice and expression were not so stern and miserable.Seeing that the two were silent, she asked again: "Be honest, have you ever robbed tombs before? You two, and that Mr. Wang."

Hu Bayi was at a loss for words for a while, so Xiao Ran had no choice but to pretend he didn't understand, and asked, "What?"

Seeing Xiao Ran's answer, Shirley Yang's eyes softened again, and his tone softened a bit: "I'm just guessing, after all, Mr. Hu knows so many secrets of Feng Shui that have been lost. Entering an ancient tomb is like entering the back garden of your own home. Xiao Ran knows so much I am not surprised by the knowledge of antiques and historical sites, but I heard from Professor Chen that your second uncle seems to have something to do with the tomb robbers. And that Mr. Wang, his manner along the way..."

Xiao Ran quickly answered with a smile: "It really looks like a tomb robber! It's still that kind of thug!"

Hearing what he said, Shirley Yang also had a smile on his face, and the atmosphere somewhat eased.Because of the vacancy that Xiao Ran fought for, Hu Bayi came back to his senses, and calmly replied: "I know those are passed down in the family. My grandfather was also a well-known Fengshui master in the old society, and he only shows them to people. The Yin House. I have heard a lot of stories told by my grandfather since I was a child, so I have a little interest in these, and I have slowly delved into them. In fact, I am the same as Xiao Ran, this is a family tradition! Right?"

At the end of Hu Bayi's speech, he handed over the words to Xiao Ran, and Xiao Ran nodded: "Well, I also learned my common sense from my father's research, just like Miss Yang, you also know some common sense about archaeological exploration. , we are all scholars, right?"

With this Huatou, Hu Bayi took the opportunity to change the topic to Feng Shui.

He said that he had never seen this kind of tomb under the city. Although he judged that the tomb behind the gate was located between Mount Zagrama and the Zidu Dark River, there was a bridge with water in front of the tomb gate, which was inconsistent with the usual Feng Shui theory. .Now in the dungeon, the steps I used to find the ground veins, observe the situation, find the star peaks, identify the water source, measure the direction, determine the acupoint field, and study the depth are all useless.

Xiao Ran also nodded and said yes, instead of thinking about the structure of the tomb, it is better to worry about the poisonous insects and beasts that may appear in the tomb at any time.After walking the steep slope behind the gate for so long, there are swarms of rats outside, but there is not even a mouse dropping inside. It can be seen that there must be danger near the tomb, so it is better to pay more attention to what is in front of you.

Having said that, Shirley Yang's thoughts completely returned to the dark road in front of him, and he stopped asking about the topic of tomb robbery.

At the end of the steep slope of hundreds of meters, the cold smoke that was thrown on the ground has been extinguished.The three of them illuminated their surroundings with flashlights. It was a huge hollow. The three of them were on a platform in the hollow, surrounded by hundreds of stone statues with giant pupils. On the edge of the platform was an upward cliff. Couldn't get to the top.

The voice of locking the soul and locking the spirit beads suddenly sounded: "Bayan, there are voices of souls in these stone statues."

The voice of the soul?Could it be...

Xiao Ran walked to a stone statue and listened carefully.In the stone statue with giant pupils, a painful wail gradually came out, full of loneliness and despair.

Then more wailing sounded, a few, a dozen, until hundreds.The stone statues with giant pupils on the entire platform let out vague screams, as if a living person was locked in an urn.

The wailing of hundreds of people made Xiao Ran's head buzz, and the sense of despair of being abandoned filled his whole soul.He quickly regained consciousness and pulled himself back from these wailing sounds.

"These people were all killed by the Jingjue Queen, right? Maybe they were the slaves?"

Xiao Ran thought in his heart, but there was no response to the Soul Locking Pearl.He took out the yin and yang mirror, trying to make a transcendence for these poor souls.But suddenly a strange feeling crossed my mind.

A portrait with giant pupils?Karaqu Man?In the black tower, this kind of stone statue represents the ghost cave people who are the main body of the Jingjue country, and the group of privileged people who claim to be the upper class and enslave other races.

He took back the yin and yang mirror and asked Suohun Dinglingzhu: "In the stone statue, is it the priest of Queen Jingjue?"

Locking Soul Locking Lingzhu said: "Bayan, if you want to send them back to the long river of souls, I will praise your kindness. If you want to continue to abandon them in the curse of eternal loneliness, I will praise your wisdom .Among these stone statues are the servants who serve the Queen Jingjue, and they hope to be immortal with the Queen..."

Xiao Ran scolded fiercely in his heart, and was almost deceived by these old brutes who oppressed others.While the other two were not paying attention, he raised his foot and kicked down a stone statue on the side.

A loud noise startled Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang. They were looking for their way, when they heard movement from Xiao Ran's side, they hurried over.

"It's too dark, I accidentally knocked down a stone statue. But there seems to be a way down..." Xiao Ran pointed to the platform.

Shirley Yang turned on a cold firework and threw it down the platform. He found that there was only a drop of 30 meters between the platform and the bottom of the cave below. As long as he had a rope of the right length, he could go down smoothly.

Where the fireworks light illuminated, apart from the shattered stone statue with giant pupils, all kinds of gold and silver utensils, pearls, gemstones, agate and jade objects, etc., were piled up on the flat ground below, like a hill.

"His grandma's, it turns out that the burial of the Queen Jingjue is piled up here. It seems that the tomb is really the Queen's tomb below, but we can't go down." Hu Bayi said.

Shirley Yang looked down carefully, and said to the two: "It should be that after the queen was buried, the funeral servants destroyed the passage leading to the bottom. Look over there..."

Shirley Yang got up and walked to the edge of the platform, which is integrated with the platform. There is a rope ladder hanging from the side, with old-fashioned safety locks on the upper and lower ends, but the rope ladder is obviously broken. Anyone who dares to go down it will definitely not die. Half disabled.

Shirley Yang said: "This should be left by the previous explorers. We can also use the rope ladder to go down, but it is safer to use our own rope ladder."

Hu Bayi questioned this, thinking that Walt's gang more than ten years ago, to put it nicely, were explorers, but they were actually tomb robbers who came to Western Xinjiang to steal things.Since they are thieves, they must not leave empty-handed. How could they keep so many treasures and ignore them?So there must be tricks below.

And Shirley Yang thinks that although what Hu Bayi said is reasonable, Professor Chen and his team are all archaeologists, and they won't be tempted by these gold and silver artifacts, but the fat man has to be optimistic, otherwise he might do some sneaky behavior .

Hu Bayi's face sank when he heard this: "We have an old saying that a gentleman loves money and obtains it in a proper way. You Americans haven't heard of it, have you? But when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded us, they even robbed us and stole a lot of us. You Americans are among them, baby, so mind yourselves..."

Shirley Yang Xing's eyes widened and she said angrily, "You mean I'm a thief?!"

Xiao Ran was only worried about time, and now the time left for him to completely kill the Jingjue Queen was running out, so he quickly smoothed things over and said: "Brother Hu, you are so unmannered, Miss Yang is bleeding like us , and also donated money to assist our country’s archaeological work in the ancient Western Regions, is this how you treat international friends and our distant relatives?”

Hu Bayi knew that he was about to offend Shirley Yang with his words, so he quickly said good things to make amends.For women, some small things that are stumbling around on the lips, after all, it is enough to coax them.

Shirley Yang didn't say any more, turned around and went back the same way, Hu Bayi followed behind in embarrassment, not knowing what to say.Xiao Ran was amused in his heart, it seems that if he has the opportunity in the future, he has to teach Lao Hu how to make the girl happy.

A gust of wind blew behind him, and the sound of sighs and wailing passed through his head like a roaring train.Xiao Ran looked back at those priests who rode on people's heads when they were alive, but still thought about immortality and sealed in stone statues when they were dead, feeling disgusted in their hearts.

He simply raised his foot and kicked down a few more times, and the loud beating sound resounded through the entire passage instantly.

(End of this chapter)