Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 117 Blowing Up the Nine-story Demon Tower
The nine-story demon building in front of you is a wooden pyramid building. The base of the wooden tower is made of stone bricks and mud, and it is nearly 200 meters wide.The body of the tower is built with thousand-year-old cypress wood, and the cypress wood is engraved with secret words.

As the name suggests, the nine-story demon building has nine floors in total.Every floor is filled with the dry corpses of men, women and children in strange ancient costumes.There are dots of red light all over these corpses and towers, and these densely packed red light spots are exactly the Dapu ghost bugs in the form of flames—the infinite karma.

When Hu Bayi and the big man saw Xiao Ran standing there in a daze, they also followed.The big man said, "Lamtso, what are you doing here?"

Before li xuan could answer, both of them gasped.Their flashlights also shone on this monster tower full of corpses.

Xiao Ran slowly spit out four words: "The nine-story demon tower..."

When Hu Bayi heard Xiao Ran say the word "demon tower", he immediately became energetic: "I said you, Gawazi, you are a soldier if you wear a military uniform, and you are not allowed to engage in superstition. Aren't they just dead people? I don't believe they can still live……"

Having said this, both hands blocked his mouth.

Xiao Ran was worried that his words would come true. Although those mummified corpses were as dry as firewood sticks, this was after all in Hu Bayi's dream. Who knows if he would really call it out.

The other hand belonged to Luo Ning. She withdrew her hand and whispered to everyone, "Be quiet, don't disturb them."

Seeing what the engineer said, Hu Bayi hurriedly lowered his voice and said seriously, "Who is it to alarm? The dead?"

Luo Ning said nervously: "No, it's that kind of fire ladybug, the dead body is full of fire ladybugs."

Hu Bayi took a photo again, only to find that those dots of red light were all dormant Dapu ghost insects. Perhaps remembering what happened before, he couldn't help shivering.

Several people lowered their bodies and backed away slowly, Xiao Ran carefully looked behind him, for fear of accidentally stepping on the air and getting hurt, just like what happened to Ga Wa in Hu Bayi's memory.

After all, this wasn't his dream. He pinched himself just now and felt pain in his flesh.If he was seriously injured or died in this dream, he probably would die of heart failure inexplicably in reality.

Fortunately, there was flat ground behind him, he turned his head slowly, and saw Hu Bayi turned around, suddenly looked behind him and shouted: "Be careful!"

A ditch suddenly appeared behind Xiao Ran out of thin air. He stepped on the air and fell into the ditch.

The ditch is full of frozen and hard animal bones. If you go in, you will have your hands and feet pierced if you don't have your intestines pierced.

At the moment of crisis, Xiao Ran turned around with all his strength, stabbed the bayonet-mounted rifle down into the frozen soil at the bottom of the ditch, then used his strength to stand up, and landed firmly on the ground like a pole vaulter. ditch side.

Fortunately, my skills are still there, otherwise Xiao Ran, who is now Gawa, must have been pierced through the feet by sharp animal bones.

"Gawa!" Hu Bayi shouted nervously.

In the pitch-black cave, the flashlight couldn't shine very far, and everyone was retreating carefully just now, so Xiao Ran's quick turns and dodges were just a vague pole vault in Hu Ba's eyes.

But when Hu Bayi yelled in concern, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle, and sat down on the ground.

He hurriedly checked his feet, there was no bleeding or piercing, it should have just been twisted.It seems that in Hu Bayi's dream, he still has to suffer the injuries that should be suffered, but he can try his best to make some changes to avoid the most serious consequences.

With Luo Ning's support, Xiao Ran stood up and moved his ankle a little. Apart from some pain, the movement was not a problem.

As soon as Hu Ba saw that Xiao Ran was fine, he carefully observed the ditch filled with bones.

Xiao Ran knew that when Hu Bayi saw the burial pit leading directly to the nine-story demon pagoda, he knew that he was thinking about the layout of the word "投" in "Feng Shui Secret Art".At the parallel position of the nine-story demon tower, there should be another same burial pit, sandwiching the nine-story demon tower in the middle, forming the situation of two dragons playing with pearls.

And there is a huge sound of running water nearby, probably located in the northwest.If the location of the river is determined, you can go out along the underground river, but this means risking to pass through the nine-story demon tower full of Dapu ghost insects.

Sure enough, Hu Bayi asked Luo Ning about his current location, and proposed this action plan to survive.

In order to determine whether this place was as he had guessed, Hu Bayi crawled in the direction perpendicular to the sacrificial pit to explore the way.Xiao Ran looked at the back of Hu Bayi leaving, and then at the nine-story demon tower full of red light in the distance, feeling a little complicated in his heart.

In connection with the inexplicable sprain just now, he felt that in this dream, he was playing a game with Hu Bayi.He must use his actions to gain Hu Bayi's trust, so as to change the direction of Hu Bayi's dream, otherwise Hu Bayi will act according to his own memory, just like the injury that he didn't need to suffer just now will still appear.

And as Gawa, he will definitely die here.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran had a bold idea in his heart. Looking at the nine-story demon tower full of Dapu ghosts and insects, he decided to play a big game for Hu Bayi, turning his nightmare into a sweet dream.

Soon, Hu Bayi finally came back and said to everyone: "I guessed right, we only have this one way, we have to go by the side of this nine-story demon building, and find the underground river to get out."

Several people got ready to move immediately, the big man cleared the way in front, Hu Bayi was in the middle, and Luo Ning walked behind supporting Xiao Ran.

There were ghost lights on the nine-story demon tower, and everyone walked sideways through the narrow passage between the wooden tower and the mica layer with trepidation.Xiao Ran felt that he could almost hear Hu Bayi's violent heartbeat and trembling breathing. The psychological shadow brought by these ghosts and insects was no less than Hu Bayi's later experience on the battlefield.

And those Dapu ghost insects, which were not as big as fingernails, seemed to have grown up under the blessing of Hu Bayi's fear. Each one was as big as a longhorn, and their wings were constantly shaking, revealing the inside of their transparent bodies. His internal organs seemed to wake up at any moment.

Fifty steps... a hundred steps... 150 steps...

It's almost there, Xiao Ran turned his head and glanced at the nine-story demon tower diagonally behind, it was already a safe distance, if he went further, Hu Bayi would startle Dapu ghost insects when he encountered a giant salamander.

He quickly grabbed Hu Bayi, Hu Bayi was terrified, turned around and stared at Xiao Ran and asked Xiao Ran in a low voice: "Gawazi, you scared me to death, what are you doing now?"

Xiao Ran saw that his forehead was dripping with cold sweat, so he kept pinching and opening his five fingers, and said in his mouth: "Fried...fried..."

He said while pointing to the nine-story demon tower.

Hu Bayi's face sank, and he said, "Don't make trouble, how do you blow it up? With grenades? There are so many fire ladybugs, we can't blow them up with these grenades, unless we have explosives..."

Hearing what he said, Xiao Ran immediately patted the backpack behind him happily and nodded repeatedly.

Hu Bayi's eyes widened, and his tone became a little excited: "Gawazi, you don't really have explosives, do you?"

Xiao Ran felt that the backpack was heavy, so he quickly squatted on the ground to open the backpack, and there was actually a bundled explosive bag lying upright in it, with the three black characters "Hesuojin" written on it.

Hu Bayi's eyes instantly changed from extreme joy to deep suspicion, and then to confusion and emptiness.

(End of this chapter)