Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 165
The stench wafted in the air with the slight cold wind, and the old village chief took several steps back, frowning, and said to Xiao Ran: "This young man... why did a plague cat come over, choking Dead, Huanhuaner carry it out!"

Xiao Ran also covered his nose, and said to the village chief: "Master, isn't this the grandma?"

As soon as the words fell, the villagers who had not dispersed at the door gathered around again, stretching their necks and looking around, their faces full of novelty.And their novelty made Xiao Ran full of curiosity.

Xu Er took a wooden stick and leaned forward. He neither covered his nose nor frowned in front of everyone, and carelessly pulled the hairless corpse, in return for the surrounding villagers to marvel with admiration.

He raised his head to look at Xiao Ran, and asked with bright eyes: "This quacking thing is a gnat? I've seen it before, why does it look like a cat..."

The village chief frowned and said, "You little bastard, who said this is a scorpion? This is a wild cat. It eats too much dead meat from graveyards. It is infected with what is it called... bacteria! Look at that Moss bumps!"

After being told by the village chief, Xiao Ran took a closer look at the corpse on the ground.At this time, the sky was bright, and the corpse in front of him was clearly photographed. Looking carefully, it really looked like a dead cat that had swelled and was covered in moss.There are also several patches of cat moss that have proliferated and thickened, becoming a bulging bump with black down mold.

Xiao Ran took a closer look at the cat's sides. Those spikes that were originally like legs had now turned into black and green powder and stuck to the torn quilt, leaving only a few holes on the cat.These spikes are probably also some kind of keratin hyperplasia after being infected with bacteria.

Could it be that, as the village chief said, this is just a big wild cat that ate too much dead flesh, infected with some kind of bacteria that can be understood as corpse poison, and produced some special mutations?

Xiao Ran pulled the village head and asked: "If this is not a grasshopper, then what is a grasshopper?"

The village head wanted to go back to the house in a hurry, he broke away from Xiao Ran's hand and said: "It must not be this, that's a fool... I'll get some Lai Su water, you Huanhuaner, take this thing out and burn it! A plague..."

From the simple and sullen expression of the old village chief, Xiao Ran couldn't see a trace of concealment.He is now almost certain that those fabricated legends have nothing to do with Futou Village.

He had no choice but to ask Liu Shengli to wrap up the corpse with him, and under the leadership of Xu Er, he went to find a sheltered wasteland outside the village, and hastily burned the corpse.

Looking at the burning flames, Xiao Ran thought carefully about last night's adventure.He was sure that he hadn't misjudged, and all the weird things that happened to this corpse were real.

He asked Xu Er: "Yesterday you also saw it, something flew out of its head."

Xu Er scratched his head and said, "Xiao Dagang, actually, I didn't see anything flying out of its head. I just saw a flying thing in the sky, and thought it was a bird, so I shot it. It's just that thing is a bit strange. It melts when the sun comes out." It's..."

Xu Er also saw it, so he didn't run away.Xiao Ran believed that the village chief did not lie to him, but the village chief himself might have never seen that kind of bug.

Back at the old village head's house, he wore a cotton mask and cleaned the yard with his wife. The whole yard was filled with the unique smell of the hospital.

"Fortunately, it's winter, or something serious happened..."

Seeing them coming in, the old village chief frowned and muttered.

Xiao Ran decided not to get entangled in the matter of grandma, but took out the bag containing the fragments of the Faqiu seal and the ghost mother statue from his bag, and took out the ghost mother statue.

At this time, the bronze statue is very quiet, just like an ordinary copper lump.He handed the bronze statue to the old village head, saying that it was a confiscated cultural relic and wanted to return it to Futou Village.

The old village chief glanced at the bronze statue indifferently, and said: "What are you doing with this? It's useless, it's all feudal superstition. Either throw it away, or ask Xu Er to take you back. Why don't you steal this too?" gone……"

Next, the old village chief babbled some more words, Xiao Ran couldn't fully understand them, but he knew that the main idea was to scold the three bridge passers-by, with the phrase "send the police" between the swear words.

Seeing the hunched bodies of the two old men, Xiao Ran felt a little sorry, so he and Liu Shengli helped sweep the yard together, and sterilized himself and the jeep along the way.Xu Er, Pi Dian'er, followed behind to help, and he had already become Xiao Ran's little follower.

When cleaning the jeep, Xiao Ran discovered that there was a lot of mold on the bottom of the jeep and on the butt of the car.He speculated in his heart, maybe the wild cat grabbed the scarecrow under the car last night first, so there was a weird scene where the scarecrow disappeared and followed the car all the way.Afterwards, they threw the straw man and drove the car to the barren grave, and the wild cat got out from under the car.

When the yard was cleaned, the old village chief's face relaxed, and he asked Xu Er to take the two of them home to arrange accommodation and meals, and he would subsidize the food stamps.For Xu Er, this was another matter of embellishment, and of course he was very happy.

Xiao Ran had enough food stamps and money from all over the country, so he naturally couldn't put pressure on the old village chief or Xu Er.He left two bottles of Erguotou and two catties of air-dried beef as a thank you to the old village chief, and then drove to Xu Er's house.

It was Xu Er's mother who opened the door. She was only in her 40s, and it was difficult to use the three words "old lady" to describe her.Xu Er's two younger brothers are 12 years old and years old.

People in the village get married early. According to Xu Er, her mother gave birth to his eldest brother at the age of 19 and a younger brother in her 30s.When my father died, my eldest brother had already started working, so the family did not suffer too much because of orphans and widows.

Xiao Ran lashed out at Liang Baofu time and time again in his heart, this guy is too good at talking.Perhaps the Bridgers only added three points of oil, but Liang Baofu must have added at least five points of vinegar.

Second mother Xu placed Xiao Ran and Liu Shengli in the west room, Xiao Ran asked Xu Er when he would return the bronze statue, Xu Er waved his hand and said there was no rush, anyway, this thing is not rare, and it is fine to keep it for a day.There is a lot of fire tonight, and every household has to prepare some food and drink, and he has to help his mother, so he asked the two to have a good rest first.

After all the troubles last night, Xiao Ran and Liu Shengli were indeed tired.He watched Xu Er busily burning the kang, he was in a daze for a while, and Liu Shengli who was next to him also snored, Xiao Ran didn't know when he also fell asleep.

He was awakened by a burst of quiet laughter, he opened his eyes in a daze, and saw Xu Er's little brother sitting between him and Liu Shengli by the oil lamp, drawing a picture for Liu Shengli who was still snoring with a brush he didn't know. He has two beards.

Seeing Xiao Ran wake up, he was not afraid of life, just looked at Xiao Ran with a smile, and handed a bronze sculpture the size of a walnut to Xiao Ran.

Before Xiao Ran had time to look at that thing, Xu Er suddenly ran in excitedly, bringing in a smell of fried food.Seeing that Xiao Ran had woken up, he hurriedly greeted him: "Xiao Dagang, let's go! The fire is on, let's eat delicious food!"

While Xiao Ran agreed, he stuffed the copper lump into his hand.He woke up Liu Shengli, and the two of them followed Xu Er out, towards the threshing field with sparkling lights.

Looking at the fire that was getting closer and closer, Xiao Ran finally knew what a real flourishing fire looked like.

(End of this chapter)