Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 328 Stone Ball
The passage below the waist pit is only about one meter high, and the steps are narrow and dense, making Xiao Ran and the others feel as if they have entered the kingdom of some kind of half-length dwarves.

The stairs are long and deep, and the more you go in, the more depressing you feel. All of them instinctively turn their heads from time to time to look at the little light behind them, in order to feel a little more at ease.

This time Xiao Ran was at the front, Xu Er followed behind, Hu Bayi and Fatty were at the back.Hu Bayi intermittently told Fatty some details that Xiao Ran had said before, including the origin of the key and so on.

The fat man responded nonchalantly. What made him feel at ease was not the communication with his companions, nor the fading light behind him, but the baby lump in his hand.

From time to time, he took out small pieces of gold or jade from his pocket, shone them with his flashlight, laughed nonstop at the reflective pieces, and kept muttering: "This, can be made into a bracelet... this , make a ring and sell it for at least two thousand... this one, string it together as a necklace!"

Hu Bayi saw that he was not in the mood to chat, so he stopped talking to him and turned his attention to the front.

The stairs were not straight, but twisted and twisted continuously. After walking about 800 meters, a hexagonal wall suddenly appeared at the end of the passage.

Hu Bayi and Xiao Ran stared at each other with doubts on their faces.Especially Xiao Ran, he thought that there might be an iron gate or a stone gate at the end of this passage, or some mechanism waiting for them, but he never thought that it would be a dead end.

Seeing the wall, the fat man sat down on the ground, beat his waist and said, "No, my waist is almost broken, I have to rest for a while. You study slowly, if it doesn't work, let's turn around and go back. I can make it in time for the Chinese New Year." Make a fortune before..."

Xiao Ran shone the flashlight on the hexagonal wall, moved the tip of the shovel on the wall, and knocked it from time to time, and found hollow sounds coming from the wall, as if it was a hollow wall.

A little bit of wind blew from the wall, Xiao Ran felt a little curious, so he searched carefully, and found that there were some holes the size of soybeans on the wall.He shone a flashlight into the hole, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see what was there.

Hu Bayi also checked around the perimeter of the hexagonal wall, and finally shook his head helplessly at Xiao Ran. He didn't find any mechanism related to opening the door, not even the oil lamp stand that was common before.

Under Xiao Ran's gesture, Hu Bayi also raised his hand and tapped on the stone wall lightly, and also found that the wall was empty.

"It seems that there is still space inside, but how to open this wall? Should we not search carefully?" Hu Bayi said.

The fat man heard the two people say that the wall was empty, so he quickly put his small pocket of gold and jade into his backpack and put it away. He held up a flashlight to take a picture, and asked the two of them suspiciously: "You have studied for a long time, and you have studied it for a long time. Is this thing empty?"

Xiao Ran and Hu Ba looked at each other and nodded.Hu Bayi asked: "Then what?"

The fat man curled his lips and said, "I think your heads are empty..."

After finishing speaking, he kicked down the wall while the other three were shocked.The hexagonal wall made a sound like breaking glass, and it shattered into pieces.

Xiao Ran looked at the fat man in astonishment, and quickly drew his knife to block in front of the three of them.Hu Bayi also immediately pulled out the pistol at his waist, nervously facing behind the broken hexagonal wall.

After Fatty's foot, a large amount of dust flew up along with the collapse of the wall.Fatty pushed the two of them away indifferently, fanned the ashes in front of him, looked at the collapsed wall, and said, "There are roads on the left and right sides!"

"Fatty... you are not reckless and uncomfortable? What if there is a trap?"

Seeing that the fat man was fine, Hu Bayi put the gun back into his waist and complained to the fat man.

The fat man chuckled and said, "With the two of you studying for so long, I'm at ease with you. Tell me, which way shall we go?"

At this time, the hexagonal wall has become an irregularly shaped cavity, and some sharp triangular-like protrusions hang around the cavity.Xiao Ran simply swung the shovel to knock off all the remaining sharp weapons, so as not to cause unnecessary injuries to everyone.

Hu Bayi picked up the fragments, looked carefully, and knocked on the wall again, wondering: "These things look a bit like glass, and a bit like thick wax, and the sound is quite pleasant when knocked. ..."

"I think this thing is just a cover-up. The hole is covered with a layer of broken things, just to scare you people who like to think too much, just kick it." Fatty's tone was quite smug.

Xiao Ran leaned out from the hexagonal hole, looked to the left and right, and saw that the passages on both sides were arc-shaped and went inward. There were some stone balls of different sizes and irregular shapes around the passage, some of which were hanging On the top of the passage and on the walls, some are only piled on the edge of the ground below.

This scene made Xiao Ran a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he saw it.Hu Bayi also leaned over at this time, took photos of both sides with the flashlight, and said: "Otherwise, Fatty and I will go to the right, Brother Xiao, you and Xu Er will go to the left, so that our strength distribution is fairly even, and it is easy to take care of each other." .Let’s go all the way to the end to see if we can meet each other. If we encounter a fork in the road, we will turn around and come back to discuss it.”

This is considered to be the safest plan, there will not be any single person who will place an order, or even die in an accident without knowing why.When the four of them were ready, they headed towards the left and right separately.

Those irregular stone balls up, down, left, and right made Xiao Ran instinctively feel a little dangerous.But in order to avoid potential danger, when he passed by a stone ball leaning to the side, he observed it patiently.

He found that the stone ball was not leaning against the channel wall due to gravity, but was glued to the channel wall, but the joint was covered with dust, and it was impossible to tell what material was used to connect it.

He raised his finger and tapped the stone ball cautiously, and found that there was also a hollow sound coming from inside, and the touch was very similar to the feeling of glass or thick wax that Hu Bayi said.

It seems that this stone ball is the same as the thing pasted on the hole, but I don't know what kind of ingenious work it is.

He told Xu Er not to touch it recklessly, and continued walking forward.The entire channel seemed to be in a circle, and he heard the fat man's loud voice getting farther and farther away, until in the end there was only an echo that could not be heard.

Suddenly, there was a sound of "cracking" from behind, and Xiao Ran hurriedly turned around to take a photo. It turned out that the stone ball fell off the wall just now and was shaking in the middle of the passage.

The stiff trajectory of the stone ball made both Xiao Ran and Xu Er's hearts tense to the extreme.Xiao Ran quickly told Xu Er to hide back, while he drew out his knife and carefully approached the stone ball that fell off suddenly.

He walked all the way to the stone ball, and the stone ball stopped shaking at this time.He saw that the bottom of the stone ball was wet, so he looked carefully, and found that there was a narrow opening in the stone ball, and some brown liquid was flowing out of it.

The stone ball was indeed empty, and judging from the cross-section of the edge of the crack, it couldn't be called a stone ball, and it was indeed exactly the same as the thing on the hexagonal door opening.

He was about to take a closer look at what was inside the spherical object, when suddenly there was a crisp sound of something smashing behind him, and then Xu Er's exclamation resounded through the entire passage.

(End of this chapter)