Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 286
Unable to continue to act as a guide for the team, Xu Er froze for a moment.Seeing this, Xiao Ran said: "Fortunately, you led us all the way here just now and found those marks. If we came by ourselves, just relying on the clues you mentioned before and following the marks, I'm afraid these mushrooms would have already been stunned by them." I know where it went."

Hu Bayi also came over and patted Xu Er on the shoulder and said, "Little Comrade Xu, you led the way very well before, and thanks to you we were able to avoid fighting to the death with those mushrooms. You walked back and forth several times just now. Let’s go, let’s change posts first, and then we have to rely on you to scare those dead monkeys.”

Hearing that everyone was so sure of his job, Xu Er's face had a gleam of joy again, imitating the appearance of a fat man, holding the engineer shovel in his hand, and following Xiao Ran like a thug.

According to the direction pointed by the compass, Hu Bayi led everyone around one pine tree after another, walking all the way west.From time to time, there were "rustling" sounds from the nearby woods. It seemed that those mushroom mandrills had always been vicious, keeping a distance from the four of them and following nearby.

The further he walked, the more complicated Xu Er's expression became.Seeing that Xu Er's brows were tightly furrowed, Xiao Ran asked, "Xu Er, do you think there's something wrong? Are we going the wrong way?"

Xu Er scratched his head and said, "The direction must be right, that needle must be easier to use than mine. Just now, there are a few places that I saw familiarly, as if the black blind man said there was something wrong with it, so I need to turn it around." direction."

It was only then that Xiao Ran and the others remembered that in Xu Er's previous description, the black blind man followed the so-called smell of death with his own nose, constantly adjusting his route, and finally arrived at the large mass of graves.

And even though they had a compass, they just walked west all the way with their heads depressed. Could something go wrong in the middle?
Hu Bayi was also frowning at this time, turning his head and said to several people: "In this kind of forest, it is impossible for people to walk in a straight line. I reckon that if the black blind man walks for a while, he will find that the route is deflected, so Make another adjustment. We don’t need to panic, even if it’s not the same as his route, we can’t go wrong if we go west.”

After all, the fat man knew Hu Bayi well, looked at Hu Bayi's expression, and asked, "Old Hu, are you sure you can't be wrong?"

Hu Bayi gave a "tsk" and said to the fat man, "Don't mess with my army's morale, the road is right under your feet, just follow along, there's so much nonsense."

The fat man laughed a few times, ran forward a few steps and said, "I'm going to take a pee first, you guys rest here for 2 minutes and wait for me..."

Hu Bayi looked at the back of him running away, and quickly shouted: "I want to smoke and hold back, now the sky is dry and the ground is full of flammable materials, don't burn the forest!"

The fat man waved his hand to show that he heard it, and after walking around a few trees, no one could be seen.

Taking this opportunity, Xiao Ran simply walked with Xu Er in the direction he remembered for a while, looking for any signs that could still be seen clearly.

Just in case, the two didn't dare to go too far, they were only about ten meters away from Hu Bayi and the others.Within this range, the tiger smell on Xu Er's body was enough to cover the positions of Hu Bayi and Fatty.

"It's strange...it looks familiar, why didn't it..." Xu Er said while touching the trees.

It is not surprising that he has an impression of these trees.After all, when I returned, in order to find the mark left by the black blind man, I looked at many trees carefully. It is not difficult for some characteristics to be imprinted in my mind for several months.

Xiao Ran persuaded: "It may be that the engraving was not deep at that time. It has been two months. Don't underestimate the healing ability of these trees."

Xu Er nodded, and no longer struggled.

"Help!"

Fatty's voice came from a distance, followed by a "bang" gunshot.Xiao Ran and Xu Er were taken aback for a moment, then quickly turned around and walked in the direction where the fat man was just now.

They bypassed several trees and gradually approached where the fat man was.At this time, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind a nearby tree and bumped into them.After a closer look, it turned out to be Hu Bayi.

The three of them didn't say anything more, Hu Bayi called the fat man, and ran towards the fat man.

After going around a few trees, they saw the fat man was in a relatively spacious open space, his legs had already sunk halfway into the ground.The fat man didn't dare to move, he could only hold his gun up and aim at the top of the tree. Not far away, there was a mushroom mandrill whose upper body was sieved and lying on the ground.

"Dayan Paozi?!" Hu Bayi exclaimed.

Xiao Ran felt uneasy, this is not the Daxing'an Mountains, and the seasons and climates are different, so there shouldn't be that kind of semi-swamp smog.

Hu Bayi hurried over to try to pull the fat man, but the fat man just yelled "No", Hu Bayi was already lying on his side, and then there was a "crash", and the large area where the two were sitting sank down. After falling down, Hu Bayi and Fatty were also swallowed by the collapse in an instant.

"Brother Hu! Brother Fat!"

Xiao Ran and Xu Er rushed to the side of the collapsed pit, but heard the two of them wailing "Ouch".Looking down, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that the bottom of the pit was no more than three meters, and with the soft pine needles and broken soil on the bottom, the two of them were fine. They were just lying in the pile of pine needles rubbing their legs and buttocks.

At the fat man's feet, there was a wooden board broken into several pieces, which looked like a door panel.

Xiao Ran glanced at the surrounding area of ​​the pit, which was square in shape, which was consistent with the size and shape of the wooden door panel.If you guessed right, this should be a hidden door to a passage.

"Brother Hu! Catch the rope and I'll pull you up!"

Xiao Ran shouted, while Xu Er had already untied the rope and made preparations.Xiao Ran took the rope and gave Xu Er an approving look.

But the fat man below shouted: "No need, there is a ladder next to it... Is there a ladder?!"

In the end, it seemed that even he himself couldn't believe what he saw.Xiao Ran hurriedly and cautiously walked around to the other side of the pit, and he saw a row of hanging ladders inlaid on the wall of the pit, but it was covered with a lot of pine needles, so it was completely invisible from the position just now.

"Fatty, your fucking urine is sour? How did you pour such a big hole? It's also thanks to our man's luck and fate. If the bottom is full of thorns, we will explain it here."

"Old Hu, you think everything is on your southern border battlefield, and the pit is full of thorns, why don't you hope that the bottom is full of treasures..."

Being able to bicker means that the two of them are really fine.Xiao Ran picked up the flashlight and carefully took a picture, and said: "Brother Hu, fat brother, this should be a secret door, please see if there are any other doors or passages below, it should lead to other places."

Hu Bayi took out his flashlight and took a photo on the side directly opposite the hanging ladder, then swung the engineering shovel a few times, chopped off some pine roots and vines, looked up and said to Xiao Ran and the other two: "Come down quickly, let's go back!" There really is a passage, but it’s pitch black and I don’t know where it leads to.”

Xiao Ran picked up Hu Bayi's fallen compass and looked at it. The passage below also leads to the west, maybe it's a new road, so he called Xu Er to climb down the hanging ladder.

(End of this chapter)