Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 25 Fighting?War!
Xiao Ran touched his lower back and got a general idea.He had specially made a leather pocket on his belt to hold the yin and yang mirror.The little ghost was probably shot at him, but was bounced away by the yin and yang mirror.

"What's wrong, Brother Hu, isn't that kid a ghost?" Yingzi's voice trembled.

Hu Bayi frowned and said, "How can a five or six-year-old girl live in a closed underground fortress? And she walks quietly, and that black handprint, maybe it really is... "

The fat man answered: "And she is still running in the direction of the exit, it seems that I really have to meet her for a while..."

Seeing that Yingzi was about to cry, Hu Bayi thought for a while and said: "The corpse has had enough trouble today, and now there is another brat, who knows what's going on in front of it. I think one more thing is worse than one less thing. Why don't we take a longer detour and go to the exit from the other side..."

Yingzi quickly nodded in agreement, as the old saying goes, climbing ten mile slopes is better than encountering ghosts building walls.

The fat man glared at him immediately: "I said, old Hu, you have been a soldier, and you have come under the hail of bullets. Why do you change as soon as you recover? You used to be fearless, but now you shrink back because you saw a child run away. In the past, you have to detour. Besides the great leader, who else did we obey?"

Xiao Ran nodded at the side, affirming that the fat man played steadily.

"But let me tell you, if you have to take a detour today... then let's do it. After all, Boss Xiao has saved me several times along the way, and I don't want to take Boss Xiao's risk. I’m afraid, I’ll take a few more steps as exercise…”

Xiao Ran was dumbfounded when he heard that, why did the topic change again?
If you don't take a shortcut, how can you meet a big pig-faced bat?And how to enter the iron gate with the corpses of boys and girls?
Perhaps it is possible to pass by taking a detour, but Xiao Ran can't guarantee if there will be another moth on the way. This road is too noisy, so it's better to be conservative.

He searched his memory vigorously, and quickly said: "You two, in my opinion, we don't have to be so embarrassing because of a child's shadow. Back then, the two must have been young generals who fought against imperialism and revisionism. Frightened by superstitious thoughts? I don’t know if you have heard a poem called "Salute to the Warriors of the Third World War"..."

As he spoke, he turned to the fat man and asked with his eyes.

Sure enough, the fat man got excited when he heard this, and immediately said: "Yes, yes! Hu, do you remember that when you were 16 years old, I wrote this long poem in the notebook I gave you..."

The fat man cleared his throat after finishing speaking, and recited in a straight voice: "On the eve of burying Emperor Xiufan, before marching to that world! Beside the radio, we are listening carefully..."

Hu Bayi's eyes were also excited, and the passionate memories of his youth were ignited. He couldn't help but clenched his fists and began to read aloud with the fat man.

Listening to the two of them reciting poems passionately, Yingzi looked at them, at Xiao Ran, and at the surroundings with a dazed face, as if feeling that there was a discrepancy between the scene and the sound of this scene.

Xiao Ran was not familiar with or understood that period, but the scene at this time was no less than the young people gathered together to sing "The Lonely Brave", and he couldn't help feeling a little excited.

People get old and times change, but passion itself never fades.

When their state has been mobilized, when they say "Forward! Forward! Forward!", they quickly pointed behind them and asked loudly, "Go?!"

Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang answered without a teacher: "Go!"

Xiao Ran asked again: "War?!"

The two replied again: "Fight!"

Yingzi was already impatient at this time, and interrupted: "What are you three talking about? It's still very exciting. This guy is endless, choose which way to go quickly, if you want to say whether you three go out and say it's okay ?”

Xiao Ran hurriedly waved his finger forward: "Comrades, victory is just ahead! Come with me!"

The blushing fat man said to Hu Bayi: "You said Boss Xiao was the spokesman, but I think he must be at least a political commissar! Looking at his young age, I didn't expect to know our poems at that time!"

Hu Ba nodded affirmatively to Xiao Ran's identity as "political commissar".

This time, it was Xiao Ran who led the way, Hu Bayi and Yingzi in the middle, and the fat man behind him, all the way to the passage where the kid ran.The road slopes slightly upwards, and after about 100 meters, there are steps upwards, but the passage is getting narrower and the humidity is increasing, making people feel short of breath.

It was getting closer, getting closer, Xiao Ran sniffled, and faintly smelled the stench in the air.

When he got to the end of the stairs, he raised his flashlight and felt his scalp tingling. Sure enough, he saw bats about the size of dogs hanging upside down on the ceiling and walls of the huge stone chamber.

Disturbed by Xiao Ran's flashlight, some of them fluttered their wings in dissatisfaction, and stared at mung bean eyes, revealing their sharp fangs.

If he was really unarmed and besieged by these things, it would probably not be long before he would turn into bones, not even a piece of meat left.For a moment, Xiao Ran really wanted to turn around and run away.

But before he really turned around, Hu Bayi and Yingzi suddenly exclaimed behind him.The moment he turned his head to look, he saw a fat man with an inexplicably terrified face pushing two people towards him. He couldn't dodge one of them, and lay down on the stone room floor with the other three.

The ground was wet and slippery, just as Xiao Ran was about to stand up, his hands slipped and he lay down again, some sticky and smelly things stained his hands and face.

"Ye Mingsha? Good stuff! Old Xiao, you can enjoy it quite a bit, so let's roll a few more times!" Achilles Jiukuo looked very excited.

"What the hell are you planning?" Xiao Ran asked.

Before Yajiu Kuo could answer, swarms of big bats had already flapped their wings and flew towards them. The whole stone room was filled with the sound of flapping wings and the sharp cries of bats.

A burst of flames accompanied the gunshots, and Hu Bayi, who was lying on the ground, fired first, and the others quickly picked up their submachine guns and fired indiscriminately into the sky.

Thousands of big bats were startled, and after a round of bullets, everyone had no choice but to swing their guns like clubs, waving wildly with their eyes closed.

After a long time, the sound finally stopped, and most of the bats fled along the vents and the passage where they came. Only a small number of bats that were killed fell to the ground.

"Fatty! Yingzi! Boss Xiao! Are you alright?!" Hu Bayi's voice sounded in the darkness.

Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and Xiao Ran saw a big bat that was bigger than all of its kind descend from the sky, almost the entire wall was covered by its wings, and flew towards Hu Bayi who was talking.

He hurriedly changed the magazine for the submachine gun, but his hand slipped and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the bat's huge mouth was about to touch Hu Bayi's face, the fat man suddenly yelled and threw himself on Hu Bayi, the bat's fangs only bit the willow celestial soft armor on the fat man's back.

This shot bought time for Xiao Ran, he quickly changed the bullets, and after another series of shots, the Bat King finally fell to the ground.

Several people climbed up and illuminated the surrounding area with flashlights. Except for a few surviving bats still flopping on the ground, the entire stone chamber was emptied.

All four of them got some cuts, especially Hu Bayi.Yingzi tore some rags from his clothes and bandaged them briefly for Hu Bayi, while Hu Bayi scolded the fat man.

"Fatty, why are you so suddenly convulsed? Push us all inside?"

The fat man said: "Just now I felt as if my back was suddenly pricked by a needle, and I felt like I was getting an electric shock, so I jumped forward. My back really hurts, please help me quickly..."

Hu Bayi quickly looked behind the fat man, there was a slap mark on his back that was the same as Xiao's waist.But this is not the most serious thing. The soft armor on his back is already full of scratches and small holes, and it feels like it will shatter at any moment.

"You, like Boss Xiao, were photographed by that brat. But your Liu Xianjia is about to be useless, so be careful next time, don't risk your life..." Hu Bayi warned.

The fat man turned around in response, but immediately froze, pointing behind the three of them with his long mouth: "I saw another child running past you..."

"It looks like a ghost..." Xiao Ran said in cooperation.

A few people packed up and prepared to leave.The fat man ran to a stone wall unwillingly, and scraped the moss and bat guano on the stone wall with the butt of his gun: "I saw that kid run into this wall..."

Xiao Ran hurried over to help, and within a few clicks, half of the iron door was exposed from the thick pile of moss.There are four big characters written on it with dark red paint: Standing entry is forbidden.

Xiao Ran beckoned the fat man over to have a look, but suddenly felt extremely itchy on his neck.He scratched it with his hands, and some gray-green dead skin fell off.

(End of this chapter)