Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 33 Three-Eyed Tower Belly

The fat man looked carefully at the worms in the coffin with a flashlight. They looked shriveled like dried sea cucumbers, with spikes all over their backs, and pyramid-shaped gastropods growing on their abdomens. Interspersed with black fine down.

Its head has a sucker-shaped mouth with small dense fangs inside. There are three slender eye-stalks on the top of the head, and there is a yellow eyeball on the top of each eye-stalk.

When the fat man pinched it with his hands, the insect slowly twisted its body like a cicada pupa, and its eye stalks also twisted continuously, but the three eyes kept staring at the fat man.

"What the hell is this?" Fatty's face was full of disgust.

"This is a three-eyed tower slug. It sucks blood for a living. At the same time, it injects venom to cause hallucinations. After a long time, people will lose consciousness and become a living dead without thinking. They will also help it find new hosts..."

Xiao Ran spoke out the information about the strange insect in front of him like reciting a text, like a biologist.

He said these words purely by the instinct of muscle memory. When he saw Fatty Wang pinching this wriggling little monster and heard him ask a question, the memory of this three-eyed tower belly suddenly flooded into his mind.

In his mind, people who looked like zombies appeared in his mind, walking aimlessly in the muddy river valley with shaking limbs, green mucus continuously flowing out from the cracked skin.

On the surface of the lake in the distance, a huge creature like a small island in the middle of the lake stood upright with eyestalks as thick as a tree trunk. Three huge eyeballs shone yellow in the moonlight, and huge spikes that surfaced were covered with Silt, rags, and fragments of human and animal bones, like a living dead forest.

The three eye stalks seemed to have discovered his existence, twisted one by one, and slowly turned towards him.The giant three-eyed tower slug as big as an island opened its cave-like mouth and roared at him, its densely covered teeth like steel needles gleaming coldly.

Those living dead dripping with green pus, as if they had heard the order, turned to him one after another, and walked over staggeringly.

Suddenly a bright light flashed, as if the sun was rising, and the huge three-eyed pagoda in the center of the lake had disappeared, leaving only the bubbles and waves on the lake.Those living dead were also ripped apart under the sunlight, slowly turning into pools of green sludge.

"Boss Xiao...Boss Xiao..."

A suspicious voice woke up Xiao Ran, and he saw Hu Bayi shining a flashlight on his face, Fatty and Yingzi were also full of concern.

"Boss Xiao, do you even know this thing? It seems that there are some not-so-friendly memories. I'm stunned." The fat man said.

Xiao Ran thumped his head. Since the time travel, the memory of this life has not been fully recovered. It is often only when he sees certain people, things, and objects that he can recall some relevant details.

But the memory picture about the three-eyed tower belly just now is like a football that suddenly broke through the window, except that it itself is in his mind, Xiao Ran can't remember the source and whereabouts of this knowledge at all, he can only see the ground fragments.

He could only smile and said, "I've seen it in books before, and I'm also a miscellaneous..."

"Then this thing made us hallucinate just now?" Yingzi asked.

Hu Bayi picked up a dry bone and rummaged through the corpses in the coffin, saying: "I guess, this is only one of the reasons. Let's open this interlayer, and what we see is a fresh-faced person who is still breathing. Now this The sub-skeleton was covered in dust, it couldn’t have become like this in an instant. I guess this Onmyoji has set up more than one layer of mechanism, we should have just opened the interlayer and fell into his way, and then we were unknowingly caught by these bugs Climb on the body, this is double insurance."

Xiao Ran nodded, and said to the fat man: "Fatty Lord, I knew a little about these guys before. According to the legend of devils, this kind of onmyoji will use some messy methods to recruit some demons and ghosts. They are the shikigami I told you before. .

"The devil's letter is in duplicate, and the Japanese one has some content that is different from the other one. It mentions a word called 'network bride', which is said to be a spider-shaped monster that can turn into a woman to confuse people. , Is it a bit similar to what we saw just now?"

Hu Ba nodded and added: "Boss Xiao is right, I read the little devil's letter in Japanese, and it probably said something that only devils can understand, such as what kind of Internet brides he made as a means of defense, and The way to break the illusion. The other letter is specially written for our people. Whether it is our army, ordinary people, or other tomb robbers who read that letter, being so confused by him is the result of our just now. or even worse..."

The fat man cursed bitterly: "Damn it, if it wasn't for Yingzi's big sister who hit me by mistake, we would have to explain everything here today!"

He looked at the wriggling bug in his hand, threw it on the ground and stomped on it a few times.

But the strange thing is, no matter how much the bug was stepped on, it started to twist again after a while, and it seemed that it was difficult to kill with ordinary human power.

"Fatty, this thing is barely considered a kind of slug, but it has stronger vitality than ordinary slugs. Unless your foot is a hydraulic machine, you really can't step on it..." Xiao Ran said.

"Then what's the deal? You can't just throw this pimple for such a harmful thing?" Yingzi asked.

Xiao Ran smiled and said: "It's not that complicated to make it die. This thing is afraid of salt, fire, and dehydration. It is estimated that the onmyoji fed this thing with his own blood, but after so many years, it will almost die. As long as you don’t let it live in a place with plenty of water, it won’t be so flexible, it won’t grow up, and it will dry out after a while.”

"Can it still grow up? Let's give it a ride!"

After the fat man finished speaking, he took a few steps back and shot at the three-eyed tower belly slug, which was immediately smashed into mud.Then he did the same thing, "physically superseding" the other living three-eyed tower belly slugs.

It seems that all fear comes from lack of firepower, which is always true.

After dealing with these broken bugs, the fat man's mind became active again, and he asked: "What kind of Yin and Yang people said in the letter that there is still some treasure hidden in this underground fortress that we haven't had time to take away. Do we have to look for it again? Don't put it in front of your eyes." The cooked ducks are all missed.”

Hu Bayi was still fiddling with the bones in the coffin carefully. Hearing what the fat man said, he raised his head and asked, "This little devil is full of tricks. Do you dare to believe the words in the letter? Are you afraid of being tricked by him again?"

The fat man smacked his lips and turned to Xiao Ran: "Boss Xiao, what do you think?"

Xiao Ran recalled what was mentioned in the letter, as well as the hallucinations just now, and said: "If there is really nothing hidden, this onmyoji feeds insects on his body, and specially arranges double traps to trick the people who come here. Said, we should explore again..."

"Come on! Old Hu, Boss Xiao and I are on the side, let's obey the majority!"

After the fat man finished speaking, he pulled the dazed Yingzi to his side, indicating that the camp was further expanded.

Hu Bayi ignored him and raised his head to greet them: "Look, what is this?"

(End of this chapter)