Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 342 What's in the Chrysalis

Looking at the mural that suddenly appeared, Xiao Ran couldn't believe his eyes.He shook his head vigorously, suddenly felt dizzy, even felt a sense of suffocation, and his heart beat wildly.

It may be that the sudden tension made him a little nervous. He quickly took off his mask and breathed in the dirty but sufficient air around him. Only then did his originally red vision become clear again.

Seeing him standing blankly in front of the mural, Hu Bayi and Fatty also rushed over.Seeing the mural that suddenly appeared and the content on it, his expression froze for an instant, and he took a deep breath.

"This painting...Where did it come out? It was obviously not there just now! Is it because I was blind? It didn't exist just now, right?"

The fat man wanted to rub his eyes, but his hands touched the goggles in front of him, so he had no choice but to shake his head to shake away the moisture condensation inside the goggles.

Hu Bayi cautiously raised the shovel and touched the mural.The tip of the shovel slid across the yin and yang textures in the mural, making a "click" sound of collision. This tactile feeling shows that the mural is not an illusion, but a real existence.

The three of them were a little dumbfounded, although the five figures were only drawn with simple lines, very freehand.But the tragic scene of the separation of body and head made the three of them feel chills.Who are the extra people?How could Xu Er disappear out of thin air?And on the left and right, what kind of monsters are those two figures of human flies with obvious feminine characteristics?

Speaking of the human flies on the left and right, Xiao Ran, Hu Bayi, and Fatty looked at each other, thinking of the two wax chrysalis on the left and right that hadn't opened yet.

They didn't care about looking for Xu Er again, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards the wax chrysalis in the middle of the tomb.

The flashlight illuminated the wax chrysalis on the left and right sides, and the one on the right remained in its original state, sitting firmly on the half-meter-high stone seat, like a sculpture of a moon boat.

The wax chrysalis on the left, which was touched by the fat man, also kept its previous shape lying there, seemingly unchanged.But the ground under the wax chrysalis was wet, and Xiao Ran could smell a familiar smell in the air, which was the smell of fishy smell mixed with rotten moss.

His heart sank, and Hu Bayi also turned his head to look at him, eyes full of tension through the goggles.

They hurriedly ran towards the wax chrysalis on the ground, but before they ran halfway, the hearts of the three of them were already frozen.From a distance of more than ten meters, it is enough to see that the wax pupa must have been broken, and the liquid flowed out of it.

The three of them took out their pistols and shotguns at the same time, and approached the wax chrysalis steadily.When there were still five or six meters away from the wax chrysalis, Hu Bayi stretched out his hand to stop the other two, and said in a low voice, "The shotguns of both of you have too large a striking surface, and you are easy to accidentally injure them. Brother Xiao, you should use your best knife, fat man Go get that shit over there, and if there's anything in there, I'll clean it up with a pistol, and everyone stay safe."

After arranging the task, Hu Bayi stopped in place, took out his pistol and carefully aimed at the wax chrysalis not far away.The fat man walked in the front, carrying an engineer shovel to lift the wax chrysalis, while Xiao Ran drew out his Guanshan knife and followed not far from the fat man, ready to respond at any time.

When he got close to the wax chrysalis, the fat man first touched the wax chrysalis with the tip of the engineering shovel. The wine-red liquid was still oozing from the bottom of the wax chrysalis, but there was no movement.

Xiao Ran simply jumped onto the half-meter-high stone platform next to him, raised the tip of his knife and prepared to stab at the wax chrysalis.The fat man turned around to look at Hu Bayi, twisted his body to make Hu Bayi's view as clear as possible, and shouted in a low voice: "I'm ready to drive! Old Hu, keep your hands steady, don't scrap me."

"What nonsense! Hurry up!" Hu Bayi said.

The fat man swallowed his saliva, inserted the tip of the shovel under the wax chrysalis, and yelled "Ah", and then with both hands, he forcefully pried the wax chrysalis up a few centimeters from the spot, and turned over quickly.

After the fat man finished the task, he quickly stepped aside.Xiao Ran held up the knife and was about to stab him, but he just shook his hand and was instantly dumbfounded.

"Brother Hu! It's empty!"

Hu Bayi's eyes widened, and he lowered his gun slowly, carefully looking at the wax chrysalis in front of Xiao Ran.There was a hole in the bottom of the wax chrysalis, and there was still a little burgundy liquid swirling inside, but there was nothing else.

Xiao Ran raised the flashlight to carefully illuminate the opening, there were still some waxy shards that had not completely fallen off, hanging on the edge of the opening like minced meat.

The fat man also leaned over and looked inside the wax chrysalis, as if he wanted to see if there was any magic weapon inside.Xiao Ran said to himself: "These few fragments that didn't fall down are disconnected on the inside, but still connected on the outside. Looking at it like this, it seems... to be disconnected from the inside..."

"What do you mean? You mean something came out of there? It's like pushing the door?" The fat man asked with wide-eyed eyes.

As soon as he spoke, he heard Hu Bayi not far away shouting in panic: "Be careful!"

Hearing Hu Bayi's shout, Xiao Ran instinctively bent over and jumped off the platform, and then a heavy object landed on the platform where he was before with a "bang".

The fat man on the side didn't have time to think too much, he quickly grabbed Xiao Ran who had just rolled off the platform, and quickly stepped back.At this moment, several gunshots were fired from Hu Bayi's side, and only a sharp and ear-piercing howl could be heard from the platform.

Xiao Ran and Fatty stood firm, and raised their flashlights to shine on the platform, only to see a human fly with liquid still on its body, flapping its wings, jumping up from the platform and flying into the air.

It was a human fly with a bulging waist and slender limbs, long wet and sticky hair hanging on both sides of the shoulders.It has obvious female features, but it is different from the human fly mother in the underground of Xia Niang Temple. The eyes and mouth of this female human fly are more like insect-shaped moths, and the body is covered with black and dense fluff like moths. The tips of the hands and feet are also insect-like long limbs, and the two large wings separated are also longer than its own body.

If the other human flies are humanoid with the characteristics of a bastard, then the human fly in front of him is just a giant buffalo with a bit of a human shape.

The two long limbs of its upper body, or two hands, were hit by Hu Bayi's bullets.One has been broken, and the other is hanging askew on the body, and it looks like it is about to fall off.

Apparently the two shots just now made him feel pain and anger, so he gave two sharp whistles in the air, and then swooped down quickly towards Hu Bayi.

Hu Bayi originally wanted to raise his gun to shoot, but in an instant he noticed the gap in mobility between the two sides, so he quickly turned sideways to flash the card.The sharp limbs of the woman fly were nailed to the place where Hu Bayi was standing with a "bang", and then flew into the air quickly, leaving only eight deep holes in the ground.

Its pounce and flapping of its wings set off waves of dust on the ground, so that the fat man next to him thought that Hu Bayi had been pounced, and shouted heart-piercingly: "Old Hu!"

(End of this chapter)