Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 158
Xiao Ran carefully observed the figures on the ground with the help of the flashlight, and felt something strange.This person is really too thin, like a skeleton frame covered with a piece of clothing.

He suddenly remembered the story of the bridgeman told by Liang Baofu. He mentioned that he was lured to the cemetery by a ghostly couple. Among them, the man was skinny, and the shoulders under his clothes looked like dry bones covered with a layer of cloth.

But he changed his mind again, if this is a relatively thin person, if he was bumped into by them like this, he would die immediately.In any case, it's better to turn the person over to see if there is anything wrong.

He cautiously called out twice: "Dude, old... fellow, are you still alive?"

Seeing that the man didn't move, Xiao Ran had no choice but to bend down to look at his face.This photo made him take several steps back again and again in fright, and there was a strange smile on that thin yellow and white face.

But after being frightened, he immediately came back to his senses, went over and turned the "man" over with a sapper shovel, and picked up the ragged clothes to have a look.

It was not a living person at all, not even a dead person, but a very realistic scarecrow.In addition to the straw and wooden sticks, the stuffing in the torn clothes was indeed mixed with some withered and yellowed bones, which made the scarecrow look very realistic.

Xiao Ran thought to himself, these may be the bones of pigs, cows, sheep, donkeys, mules and other domestic animals, but they should not be human bones...

As for the face, it is not made of common coarse cloth pockets, but is made of air-dried skin, and the facial features are tattooed on it. real person.

After doing it for a long time, it turned out to be a false alarm. Looking at this realistic scarecrow, and connecting with the story told by Liang Baofu, Xiao Ran felt that some truth was about to come out.

Liu Shengli also got out of the car with a flashlight, and walked over trembling.The flashlight swept across the scarecrow with a naked chest and a smile on his face. He also screamed in shock, took a few steps back, and sat down on the ground.

"Fake! Not real!" Xiao Ran shouted to Liu Shengli.

Hearing what Xiao Ran said, Liu Shengli slowly got up again, walked up to the dummy, and took a closer look at the dummy before heaving a sigh of relief: "Manager, isn't this wicked? Putting such a thing in the wasteland..."

"This is used by nearby farmers to scare wild birds. It seems that we are not far from the nearby village. But this is too realistic, right? Is it necessary..."

Xiao Ran thought about it, but the word "wasteland" that Liu Shengli just said caught his attention.He took a flashlight and looked around, only to see that the direction they were coming from had long since lost their shape, and they had already walked into the wasteland full of loess at some point.

Under the moonlight, there are undulating hills in the distance. It is really a wilderness, with no villages or shops in front of it.

At this time, a cold wind blew up, and there was a rotten stench in the air. Liu Shengli couldn't help retching.Xiao Ran sniffled, feeling that the smell came from the scarecrow.

He knelt down covering his nose, and saw a circle of black and red sticky things hanging from the edge of the broken hat on the scarecrow's head.He picked up the hat with a shovel, and saw that on the top of the scarecrow's head, there was a pile of internal organs that had been rotten to the point of being sticky, like brains flowing sideways.

The stench became more obvious, Xiao Ran hurriedly pulled Liu Shengli back.I don't know what kind of bad taste this is, to do this kind of thing, but it does give him an ominous feeling.

As if being pardoned, Liu Shengli hurried back into the car at a trot.Xiao Ran also walked quickly to the car door, just as he was about to open the door, suddenly there was a "swipe, swipe" sound from behind, as if some animal was scurrying in the ground.

He quickly shone the flashlight behind him, swept the light, and found nothing.No animals, no people, not even the scarecrow.

His heart was trembling, and he hurried into the car and told Liu Shengli to drive quickly.He didn't dare to tell Liu Shengli that the scarecrow was gone, and now he just wanted to stay as far away from this place as possible.

"Manager, where are we going?" Liu Shengli asked.

Xiao Ran took out the map and the compass, recalled the road to the south after leaving Fengzhen just now, and said: "Go southwest, there should be a village in that direction."

Liu Shengli stepped on the accelerator quickly, and a burst of yellow dust rose from the car, and the two continued to drive on the endless loess plain.

After driving several hundred meters in a row, a winding path finally appeared in front of the two of them.There is a road, which means that it is not far from the crowded places. Liu Shengli hurriedly drove the car onto the small road, and the two finally relaxed a little.

I don't know if there is something wrong with driving on the land just now. From time to time, there is a "knocking" sound from the chassis of the car, as if something is knocking.

Liu Shengli was a little panicked. Even though he was on the path now, if the car broke down again, the two of them would have to walk in this dark wasteland.

Xiao Ran had no choice but to ask him to park the car on the side of the road first, and get out of the car to check first.After Liu Shengli went through the experience just now, he was a little frightened, so Xiao Ran had no choice but to get out of the car to check.

As soon as he got out of the car and before he had time to squat down, he realized that something was wrong. There seemed to be something hanging under the car, and a wooden stick protruded from the bottom of the car to the road.

He went around to the back of the car, grabbed the stick and tugged, and then pulled hard.A familiar stench rushed into his nostrils in an instant, and the ghostly scarecrow was also dragged out from the other end of the stick.

Xiao Ran felt the hairs stand on end on his back, could it be that he was really followed by a ghost?He quickly pulled the wooden stick and the scarecrow to the wasteland on the side of the road, then rushed into the car, letting Liu Shengli drive forward at full speed.

Whether it's the red-haired rice dumpling, or the Queen of Essence, or those strange insects and beasts that he has encountered before, they are all tangible things.Being followed by something invisible and intangible is more terrifying than anything else.

He slapped his forehead, remembering those artifacts, quickly reached out to the back seat to hold the backpack in his hands, and asked Yin Yang Jing, "Master Daoist, is there anything unclean around here?"

Yin Yang Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Good people don't panic, there isn't one."

No ghosts?He hurriedly asked Ding Lingzhu again: "Suozi, can you hear the voice of the soul?"

Ding Lingzhu said: "Bayan, there are many underground tombs here, but there are no souls entangled near you."

Although Xiao Ran felt more at ease, he was still full of doubts.How did that ghostly scarecrow hang on the bottom of the car just now?
"Manager! There is a house in front! Have we entered the village?" Liu Shengli's tone was suddenly a little surprised.

Xiao Ran looked out the window, and saw the outline of a dilapidated house in front of him illuminated by the headlights, the roof and walls were all in tatters.The open space in front of the house was full of tall and short mounds of soil, and there were a few dug holes where half of the coffin was exposed.

What kind of village is this? It's clearly a deserted tomb.Before Xiao Ran could stop it, Liu Shengli hurriedly stepped on the gas pedal. As a result, with a "bang", the right side of the car sank downwards, and the right front wheel sank in a pit.

(End of this chapter)