Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 329 Human Maggots in Pupa
Hearing Xu Er's almost broken scream, Xiao Ran didn't bother to study the unknown ball in front of him, and ran towards Xu Er behind him, only to see Xu Er sitting on the ground with his eyes wide open, using his hands and feet on the ground. He kept retreating, and the flashlight in his hand kept flickering, occasionally passing by the area in front of him, illuminating the mess on the ground.

Xiao Ran hurriedly stopped, raised his hand and pointed at the area in front of Xu Er, and saw that a spherical object had been broken into pieces, the reddish-brown liquid inside was flowing everywhere, and a dark red humanoid body was wriggling on the ground, stretching out. The two deformed and twisted hands crawled towards Xu Er little by little, making animal-like guttural noises from time to time.

Based on previous experience, Xiao Ran felt an obvious threat from this red body, and he didn't have time to think about whether this thing was harmless, so he could only draw out his knife and slash at it.

But at this moment, the red body suddenly jumped forward, avoiding Xiao Ran's knife just in time.The blade slashed fiercely on the ground, sputtering out several sparks, almost making Xiao Ran dodge.

Xiao Ran was shocked by the quick reaction of the red human figure, which actually dodged his own attack at such a critical moment.But the figure seemed to have reacted at this time, turned around slowly, and crawled towards him.

Only then did Xiao Ran see clearly the appearance of this humanoid body, it looked like a person whose skin had been peeled off, with its eyes and teeth exposed.In addition to the two deformed arms stretched out in front, there seemed to be several protrusions on both sides of the body, while the lower body below the waist was wriggling like half a caterpillar.

Xiao Ran was disgusted by the thing in front of him, so he couldn't help but took two steps back.But at this moment, two groups of black shadows suddenly flashed behind Xu Er, rolling Xu Er to stand up.

Xu Er yelled loudly, but the fat man's voice came from behind him: "What are you talking about... What is that?!"

Xiao Ran also came back to his senses at this time, seeing that the red skinless man had crawled to his feet, grabbed his boots and bit down.

He couldn't hold back, so he had to plunge the knife down quickly, and the skinless man's chin was cut off by the sharp blade in an instant.At this time, the fat man also rushed over, swung his engineering shovel and smashed it on the head of the skinless man.

The head of the skinless man seemed to be very fragile, and it was instantly deformed by the fat man's shovel.Xiao Ran quickly pulled out his foot and stepped back, Hu Bayi also rushed over from behind, and the fat man and the two shoveled again and again, and finally the skinless man let out a scream from his throat, and there was no movement at all.

The fat man panted heavily, turned back to Xu Er behind him, and asked with a smile: "Didn't you and Brother Xiao see some human flies in Xia Niang Temple? Are you afraid of this human maggot?"

Xu Er tremblingly said: "This...is this different...you won't be afraid next time..."

Xiao Ran looked at the half-human, half-worm thing on the ground, he didn't know what it was, but was awakened by the fat man's words.If those formed are human flies, then the undeveloped ones on the ground are human maggots...

Thinking of being hugged by a half-human, half-maggot thing just now, and almost biting it, his throat tightened suddenly, and he almost vomited out.

Hu Bayi carefully inspected the broken ball on the ground and the human maggot's body, and said, "Brother Xiao, this thing looks familiar. You said you saw a small thing before, it was soaked in a reddish-brown The liquid, as well as the prince we met before, are handled in the same way. I guess the ones we see now are the real chrysalis, and the two are just imitations based on these things."

Xiao Ran was staring at the human maggot, the protrusions on both sides of the human maggot's body really looked like undeveloped hands.And its lower body is also in a state of moulting.

Hearing what Hu Bayi said, he raised his hand and pointed at the four walls of the passage. The round pupae that were still hanging should be full of developing human maggots, but they just entered into a dormant state for some reason. middle.

"These things... what should we do? Let him destroy them all?" Xiao Ran asked.

The fat man hurriedly answered: "It's not difficult to destroy this thing, they are all immature, and Lao Hu and I have already killed one just now!"

His face was full of pride, as if he had done some great feat.Hu Bayi gave him a sideways look and said, "Don't touch it recklessly, we'll save all that effort..."

Hearing what the two said, Xiao Ran could instantly imagine that when he and Xu Er were exploring the way just now, the fat man at the other end disobeyed the instructions and broke a chrysalis without authorization.No wonder the two cooperated so orderly when they eliminated the human maggot in front of them just now, without even a hint of surprise.

Hu Bayi turned to Xiao Ran at this time and said, "Brother Xiao, I don't think there is any need to destroy them all. When we came over just now, we saw a few pupae that had split open, and the contents inside were all mummies." .These things have been hanging for hundreds of years at least, and they are still not fully developed. I think as long as they don’t get in the way, let them fend for themselves.”

Xiao Ran nodded, the workload was indeed a bit heavy.But he immediately thought of another thing, and asked Hu Bayao: "You didn't return the same way, this passage is round, right? And there is no fork, right?"

Seeing the two people nodding their heads in agreement, Xiao Ran asked again: "Is that the wall on the inside, on the opposite side of the entrance door, there is another door?"

Just as Hu Bayi was about to speak, the fat man interrupted again: "There is no door, but there is an identical hexagonal wall, which is also glued on..."

This time even Xiao Ran couldn't help but think of Fatty Bai, but he still held back.Now he suddenly understands the sense of familiarity. The structure here is similar to the back-shaped tomb under Xia Niang Temple, except that the structure here is concentric circles.

Xiao Ran briefly explained these discoveries, and they walked back towards the hexagonal wall that the fat man mentioned.The fat man repeated his old trick, kicking the sealing wax on the surface of the wall again, and knocking off all the sharp residues along the way.

Several people entered the hexagonal doorway. The height of the space inside was far higher than that of the passage outside. It was nearly ten meters high, and the area of ​​the entire space was more than square meters.

Finally, they could stretch their bent waists a little bit. They held their waists and wriggled while raising their flashlights to look around.

The surrounding walls and the top of this space seem to be covered with a layer of wax, and there are also many ball-shaped pupae hanging on the corner between the wall, the ceiling and the ground.

In the center of the space, there is also a column that stands tall and upright, also made of that kind of wax, and above the column hangs a bunch of ball-shaped chrysalis that are close together, like a bunch of huge grapes.

Several people looked around the wall carefully, Xu Er was very curious about the pillar in the middle.He seemed to want to prove that he was not so timid, so he bravely walked towards the pillar.

At the same time, the three of them suddenly heard Xu Er's "Ah", and at the same time there was a crackling sound.When their flashlights were shining on Xu Er, Xu Er was no longer there, only a big hole in the ground remained.

(End of this chapter)