Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 278
Since all the corpses in the Gathering Souls' Coffin Mountain have lost their souls, there is no need for a yin and yang mirror to save them, which saves Xiao Ran a lot of time.

The four climbed over the last small hill again, and then walked straight towards the big pine tree that Xu Er had mentioned.

Xu Ersheng was afraid that he would lead the wrong way, so he trotted all the way to the pine tree, looked around the pine tree carefully, finally found the mark on the tree, and hurriedly called the other three people to go over and look.

The fat man ran under the tree first, looked at the fork on the pine tree that was no longer conspicuous, and asked Xu Er, "Is this the mark you mentioned? Didn't it grow by itself?"

Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran took a closer look, and found that the forked mark was indeed less like an obvious artificial mark, and more like it was formed by the bark itself during the growth process.

Xu Er said: "I remember this place, and I recognize this tree. I actually saw it from the very beginning, and I didn't expect this thing to grow so fast. It has become like this in just over two months..."

"It's okay, you say yes, anyway, I have to rely on you to lead the way when I enter this forest, and it's all up to you."

After the fat man finished speaking, he looked at the sun in the sky, and said to Hu Bayi: "Old Hu, we've been walking for so long, and it's time to take a rest. Now that the sun is good, let's put on a bar mat first?"

Hu Ba looked at the time, and it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon.They went to the old village chief's house early in the morning to eat, drink and chat until almost ten o'clock before starting. After getting out of the car, they hurriedly marched across the ridges and embankments. They also dug a few coffins. It was really time to take a break at this time.

They simply sat in a group on a flat ground by the pine forest. The fat man picked up a few broken stones to build an earthen stove, and picked up some fallen and dry pine branches, pine cones, and pine needles as fuel. The very wide one The clay stove burst into flames in the thick smoke.

The fat man opened several cans of meat, put them together with dried meat and canned white wine on the heated stone slab above the clay stove, and stuffed some sweet potatoes brought from Xu Er's house into the stove.After a while, the aroma of various foods and liquor mixed with rosin wafted around.

Hu Bayi patted Fatty's stomach, and said, "Still drinking, Fatty? We've been staying in Zhaojing for the past few months, drinking every now and then, and you've gained almost ten catties. It's time to stop drinking. Besides We have to hurry today, didn't you just drink a round this morning?"

The fat man waved his hand and said, "Wine is food, drink more and you will be more revolutionary. It's freezing cold, although it's not as cold as Ganggang Yingzi, but drinking a little is for work. Don't worry, Hu, the four of us are here One jar, I, the acting logistics minister, have a sense of proportion."

Xu Er didn't know that the fat man was talking nonsense, so he asked in a daze, "Are you still the acting logistics director? Who is the official logistics director?"

There was a flash of displeasure on the fat man's face at first, but he immediately put on a smirk, pointed at Hu Ba and said to Xu Er: "Just take our supplies this time, the logistics minister is the boss. Hu's big honey is still a foreign girl..."

Hu Bayi immediately became serious when he heard what the fat man said, and scolded: "Fatty, you drink too much before you drink? What nonsense are you talking about? When did Miss Yang become my big honey? Bring a foreign girl back Home, my old man won't break my legs..."

"Yo yo, look at me, I'm just joking, and you're serious, which means I really mean you're in your heart..."

Xiao Ran also suppressed a smile at this time, and comforted Hu Bayao: "It doesn't matter even if it is true, Brother Hu, can we still suffer? Oh, you are still a big man like Huanghuaer, and you have a foreigner's life style. Corruption, maybe we really suffer..."

Hu Bayi let out a long "hiss" and said, "Brother Xiao, why are you also booing blindly..."

Xu Er couldn't keep up with what the three of them were saying at this time, but he could hear that it was related to men and women having sex, so he also looked at Hu Bayi with a smirk.Hu Bayi had nothing to do with the other two, so he had to send Xu Er: "The roasted sweet potatoes are not yet cooked, so we are not in a hurry to eat. Brother Xu Er, please go and explore the road first to see if those marks are still there. Wait until you have taken a wrong path. Don’t go too far, just look at a few, and come back with some dry branches.”

Hu Bayi had the experience of leading troops to fight, and when it came to these work arrangements, no matter how amiable he was, he naturally carried an irresistible feeling.Even people who heard his arrangement for the first time felt that the arrangement he said was definitely the most reasonable, especially for a young man of eighteen or nineteen like Xu Er.

Xu Er got the order, got up from the ground without hesitation, took the slingshot and walked towards the pine forest.

The fat man looked at Xu Er's back as he walked away, and said quietly: "It seems that our old Hu is really embarrassed, and doesn't want to face this young man. He obviously has a compass, so he can just walk west all the way, and send him in." Going to explore the way in the woods..."

Hu Bayi gave Fatty a blank look, and didn't respond, but shouted to Xu Er, who was still able to see his back: "Xu Er! We're here to blow the whistle for you! If you can't find your way, just listen to the whistle!"

Hearing Xu Eryuan's agreement, Fatty and Xiao Ran returned to the topic of Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang.The fat man said again: "Brother Xiao, you don't know that the night we were in Xiye Ancient City, the two of them had a heart-to-heart talk all night..."

Just as Hu Bayi was about to refute and explain, suddenly there was a series of sharp screams from the depths of the forest, like some kind of bird, or the sound of monkeys calling to each other on Monkey Mountain in the zoo.

The three of them all looked tense, and stood up in unison, ignoring the things in the temporary camp, and rushed into the woods with shotguns and engineering shovels.

Xiao Ran and Fatty called Xu Er, while Hu Bayi whistled non-stop.Regardless of whether these things are harmful to people or not, after all, Xu Er had just entered the woods shortly after there was such a strange noise, and people couldn't help but think about it.

But the more nervous you are, the more afraid you will be.No matter how they shouted, Xu Er just didn't answer.Obviously just entered the forest, but it seems to have completely disappeared.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but the three of them always felt that the pine forest was making a "rustling" sound, and they looked up from time to time, but found nothing.

After walking for dozens of meters, Hu Bayi suddenly realized that something was wrong. At this moment, they were covered by dense pine forests, and if they walked forward, they might disappear in this pine forest like Xu Er.

Hu Bayi hurriedly greeted the two of them and said, "Let's get out first, and come in after being fully prepared. Don't get stuck here."

As soon as the words fell, there were bursts of sharp and continuous screams from their temporary camp.Hu Bayi quickly took out the compass, and led Xiao Ran and Fatty out in the eastward direction.

But when they ran to the edge of the forest, they found that the earthen stove they built was not in front of them, and even other equipment was gone.

The three of them looked around, only to find that their temporary camp was more than ten meters away on the left.It turned out that the tens of meters they walked after entering the forest had already deviated from the straight line.

Xiao Ran thought to himself, could it be that Xu Er just walked around the trees one by one, and ended up going off the route?

Walking to the edge of the small camp, the fat man suddenly cursed: "It's his grandma! Someone ruined our things. Hu! Brother Xiao! There must be someone else here!"

(End of this chapter)