Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 133 Ancient Sheepskin Book
Everyone gathered around the parchment, not daring to touch it for a while.

Professor Chen always believes that we should be cautious when dealing with the things left by these ancient countries, otherwise we will repeat the mistakes of Walter and others.Judging from the influence of the corpse-scented konjac just now, Queen Jingjue laid out more than one layer of traps.Even if the people who broke into the mausoleum did not die in the pile of funerary goods like Walt, they would kill each other under the influence of the corpse-scented konjac.

Judging from the number of remains they found in the funerary pile, several people in Walt's group must have died of this kind of cannibalism, and the only surviving person must have witnessed these tragic scenes. out of order.

In addition, the expedition team led by Shirley Yang's father Yang Xuanwei, including Xiao Ran's father Xiao Changfeng, has not found the remains so far. Professor Chen believes that this team may also have died in these traps.

Speaking of this, Professor Chen's eyes were lonely for a while, and he looked at Shirley Yang and Xiao Ran with some distress. Shirley Yang denied this. She said that it was like the feeling of dreaming about the Queen's Mausoleum. From the moment she saw the Kunlun Shenmu and Corpse Konjac, she felt that his father's team had never reached Jing Absolutely ancient city.

"Maybe they died in the desert...or..."

Shirley Yang's tone was a bit encouraging to herself, although she knew that this possibility was very slim.Xiao Ran opened his eyes, met Shirley Yang's gaze, and nodded encouragingly to her.

"Professor Chen, didn't you say before that since you are here, you have to do what you have to do. Now this broken book may record the way out and all the secrets of Jingjue Ancient City. have a look?"

Hu Bayi deliberately used the two things of the way out and the secret of the ancient city to tease everyone's hearts.

"Old rules, let me listen to everyone's opinions first." Professor Chen said.

Among the three students, Chu Jian and Ye Yixin firmly believed that they should open it.Xiao Ran noticed that their hands were pulled together at some point. It seems that Chu Jian's protection and care for Ye Yixin along the way has finally moved Ye Yixin. Love really gives courage.

But Sa Dipeng and Hao Aiguo objected, thinking that it is best to stop here, especially Hao Aiguo, who has just been sucked a lot of blood by the corpse-flavored konjac seedlings, is really afraid of these endless strange appearances.

Hu Bayi, Shirley Yang, and Fatty all agreed to open the parchment.So far, the majority of those who are in favor of opening it, but Hu Bayi still asked Xiao Ran symbolically, "Brother Xiao, what do you mean?"

Xiao Ran had recuperated by now, and felt that his physical strength had recovered by at least %, so he got up and said, "I agree to open it, but pay attention..."

Before he could finish speaking, the fat man took the parchment out of the stone box immediately.

"The minority obeys the majority, Fat Lord, I represent everyone... ah..."

He took it while talking, but he lost his grip on one of them, and the parchment fell straight to the ground.

Xiao Ran was startled, he knew that there was a sentence recorded in this book, once the parchment fell to the ground, there would be a sandstorm, and the ancient city of Jingjue and Mount Zagrama would be buried under the sea of ​​sand forever until the end of time.

He quickly pulled out the Guanshan knife and threw it in the direction where the parchment book fell.After Guan Shandao was released from his hand, it flew out like a sharp arrow, and stuck straight into the ground with a "crash", forming an angle with the big stone box, and the sheepskin book was placed on it like this.

Xiao Ran let out a long breath, but his actions startled everyone.The knife sank into the ground next to the fat man's feet, and the fat man shrank his feet and jumped aside in fright.

Hu Bayi was curious as to why Xiao Ran suddenly shot with a knife, and those who had never seen Xiao Ran's ability, apart from being as curious as Hu Bayi, were even more surprised by his quick reaction and the strange power with which he stabbed the knife into the ground.

"This... this book is thousands of years old, it's too precious, but be careful, in case it turns into powder like those clay pots in the palace... Anyway, let's read what's inside first!"

Xiao Ran hemmed and hawed an explanation, but the last sentence was approved by everyone. Shirley Yang picked up the book and studied with Professor Chen with a flashlight.

Hu Bayi and Fatty were not interested in those books, so they began to study the knife that Xiao Ran stuck in the ground.The fat man grabbed the handle of the knife and shook it vigorously, but he couldn't get the knife out.

Xiao Ran walked over, held the knife handle, pretended to shake it twice, and pulled out the knife instantly, Chu Jian and Sa Dipeng beside him were dumbfounded.

"The main reason is that Brother Fatty has loosened it, so it's easy for me to pull it out. What's written in that book?"

Xiao Ran changed the subject, Shirley Yang raised his head and said, "It's all prophecies from prophets, and luckily, this book is full of pictures, without words, so we can roughly infer the meaning of these prophecies."

After some research, Professor Chen and Shirley Yang deciphered the contents of the ancient sheepskin book.As Xiao Ran knew, it was recorded in the book that a long time ago, near the holy mountain Zagrama, there were dense rivers and lush water and grass. Animals and plants thrived here, and four tribes lived here.

Later, someone discovered a bottomless cave in the holy mountain. Everyone wanted to know what was in the cave, so a high priest ordered someone to make a jade eyeball sacrifice, hoping to use the power of the true god to explore the bottom of the cave.Unexpectedly, this action made him blind and died, and also caused many poisonous snakes with strange eyes to appear near the holy mountain, killing countless people and animals.

Later, the four tribes elected two saints, who led the warriors in the tribe to kill the snake mother.The snake mother, with a human head and a snake body, also has limbs, can hatch eyeball-like eggs, and hatch hundreds of poisonous snakes.

"Oh! Except for the snake mother, we have encountered other snakes and eyeball eggs. Is the snake mother still alive?"

Fatty still had lingering fears when he thought of the experience of encountering black snakes many times before. Shirley Yang shook his head and said: "This kind of snake with a human head and a snake body and four limbs is just an exaggerated description by people in the past, just like in ancient mythology, wind, rain, thunder and lightning all have human forms."

Professor Chen continued to tell everyone about the following content. Although the snakes were cleaned up and even the corpses were thrown into the bottomless pit, the saint received an oracle to spy on the bottomless pit with a jade eye ball before. disaster.Later, the Prophet was born, and began to help the tribe avoid disasters with his own ability, and even predicted things in the vicinity thousands of years later.

The prophet predicted that 800 years after his death, his tribe would migrate to distant places to avoid disasters, and a new tribe came to Zagrama Mountain to rule here.The content after this is a story that everyone is somewhat familiar with.

This new tribe is the predecessor of Jingjue Kingdom.They came from the western desert and found the ghost cave in the mountains.The tribal wizards claimed that this was the residence of the demon god, and the tribal Jingjue Queen had ghost eyes that could see the underworld, and also mastered the ritual of summoning and driving the black snake through the jade eye sacrificial vessel.

She used this to conquer and enslave more than ten surrounding countries, but in the end the true god was angered, and the sandstorm buried the ancient city of Jingjue, the ghost cave, and those demon-like black snakes into the ground.

Seeing this, Shirley Yang and Professor Chen looked at each other and said, "It seems that the prophet is among us..."

(End of this chapter)