Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 196 Stop Burning!

As soon as a stream of fire poured down on his head, Xiao Ran yelled in his heart that it was not good. If he guessed correctly, the two masters above should have lit the fire with shark oil and poured it down.

Merman oil is resistant to burning, once it sticks to the body, it is afraid that people will be burned to ashes, and this oily fire can last for many years.Thinking of the flame on the arm of the big man just now that instantly enveloped the whole body of the little man like flowing water, Xiao Ran seemed to see himself turned into a pile of ashes, burning endlessly in the abyss.

In desperation, he quickly let go of the ladder in his hand, and his body quickly fell several meters.Seeing that the hanging ladder was about to come to an end, he quickly reached out and grabbed the last two ladders in front of him. At the same time, he tightened his arms and pressed his whole body against the stone wall.

The running fire ignited by the merman oil poured down from his back, almost touching his back.He was relieved to see that little bit of flame disappearing into the darkness of the abyss.

At this moment, Xiao Ran could only hold the ladder with both hands, and his entire lower body was suspended in the air.When he realized this, his scalp felt numb immediately, and he quickly climbed up with his hands alternately, finally letting his feet step on the ladder, and finally he was relieved.

On the platform above the head, the voices of Liu Shengli and Xu Er could be vaguely heard.He didn't dare to make a sound at the moment, for fear that the two stunned youths would not hear his voice clearly, and would treat him as an enemy again, and pour a spoonful of kerosene down the ladder.

Xiao Ran held his breath and kept silent, and climbed up cautiously, trying not to make any movement.

Xu Er and Liu Shengli on the platform were listening and discussing.

"Xu Er, do you think that monster is dead?"

"Ah, it should be dead. It didn't die the first time, and it should be burned again the second time. I think the oil is quite durable."

"How about we take another look?"

"No way, Brother Liu, I'm afraid of heights, I still feel dizzy when I look down."

"It's okay, don't burn it!"

"Can……"

When it was a few meters away from the platform, Xiao Ran heard the conversation between Liu Shengli and Xu Er clearly, and hurriedly shouted up: "Stop burning! It's me!"

The two were unprepared, and suddenly heard the movement, screaming in fright, and Liu Shengli shouted: "Not dead yet! Burn it again!"

Xu Er stammered, "Okay...ok...it seems to be Xiao Gang..."

Liu Shengli scolded: "You grandma is so stupid, the manager is in that room, how could it be him! Hurry up and burn it!"

"But... no... I'm out of gas..." Xu Er said.

Xiao Ran climbed up to the platform in three steps at a time, stood in front of the two, shook the flashlight on the blank ground, and cursed: "You two idiots! Are you deaf even if you can't see clearly? Huh? I almost let you down just now!"

With the help of the firelight, the two of them saw clearly that it was really Xiao Ran, and they rushed towards him in ecstasy.Xiao Ran was afraid that one of the two idiots would use too much force, and the three of them would fall into the abyss together, so he hurried forward to meet them, pushed them on the shoulders and said: "Hugs are unnecessary, we don't appreciate the courtesy of foreigners. Is there any water? I'm dying of thirst!"

Liu Shengli handed the water bottle to Xiao Ran, and said with tears in his eyes: "Manager, you suddenly fell silent just now, we thought you...you..."

He looked at Xiao Ran's raised slap, and swallowed back the words behind him.

"What happened just now?" Xiao Ran asked.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er talked to each other and gave a general idea of ​​what happened outside after Xiao Ran entered the secret room.

It turned out that after Xiao Ran opened the sarcophagus and triggered the door-closing mechanism of the secret passage below, the two people outside were blocked by the iron gate, only heard a sound inside, no matter how much they called, they could not hear Xiao Ran's response.

The two waited on the platform full of bone fragments, watching the torches in their hands almost burn out, but Xiao Ran still did not come out.The two of them had no choice but to continue waiting, so they had to light the oil lamps on both sides of the iron gate.

On the one hand, they were afraid of the dark, and on the other hand, they had previous impressions. They were always worried that they would attract ghosts when they lit the lamps, so they turned around in unison as soon as the lamps were lit, and moved away from the oil lamps on the wall.

But after all, they were afraid of what would happen, and not long after they turned around, they heard two "huhu", and the fire behind them suddenly went out.

The two of them mustered up the courage to turn around and look. There was nothing behind them except the darkness and the two wisps of lamps emitting long green smoke.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er summoned up their courage and lit the oil lamp again.This time they just turned around, and before they had time to take a few steps, there were two more "whoops" behind them, and as the figure illuminated by the oil lamp in front of them disappeared, they were once again shrouded in darkness behind them.

The two looked at each other, both a little nervous, knowing that the ghost blowing the lamp was behind him.But now there is only one torch still burning. If there is no light, let alone the psychological despair, this dark hall will also become the world of that ghost who doesn't like light.

The two seemed to have discussed it, and turned their heads together with their eyes closed. When they opened their eyes again, there was still only the dark iron gate and the smoking lamp in front of them.

Liu Shengli lit two oil lamps with the torch in his hand. This time, the two turned their heads as soon as they turned around, but immediately they understood that turning their heads was better than not turning their heads.

A monster with disheveled hair and white eyes was lying face down on the wall, had already blown out one oil lamp, and was about to blow on another.

The monster was completely naked, its body covered with dried blood and dust, and six limbs as thin as forearms sprouted from its sides.The two of them had never seen such a disgusting thing. This half-human, half-insect bug was bigger than a human, or it was even a ghost.

Xu Er instinctively swung the extinguished torch in his hand, trying to hit the monster's chin, but he missed it and hit the oil lamp.The merman oil in the lamp immediately rushed to the monster with the flames, causing the monster to fall off the wall and roll and howl in pain on the ground.

Xu Er and Liu Shengli quickly retreated a few steps, wanting to stay away from the monster.But the attack just now enraged the monster. While howling, it crawled towards the two of them, trying to pull them to their death, but it still kept blowing the flames on its body, trying to blow out the fire on its body through the previous method.

Liu Shengli and Xu Er had no choice but to turn around with the monster. Fortunately, the flames on the monster's body slowed down its movements, and they were safe for a while.

After running around the pillar twice on the platform, the monster suddenly stopped, sniffed at the edge of the platform, and quickly climbed down towards the bottom of the platform as if he had discovered some new target.

There was no danger just now, Liu Shengli and Xu Er also knew that the monster was really afraid of fire, so they carefully removed the other lamp with half a lamp left, and agreed that if the monster came back later, they would burn the lamp. Then use lamp oil to deal with it.

After a while they heard a scream from a monster, and felt that the thing must be coming up, so they ran to the edge of the cliff and waited. Splashed down.

At this point, Xiao Ran finally connected the two situations together.He thought about it carefully, and the adult fly actually didn't intend to hurt them from the beginning to the end, but was just instinctively extinguishing the light sources within her reach.

The reason for this may be that the eyes of the little manfly cannot adapt to the light.

(End of this chapter)