Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 375 Artifact Shelter
As soon as the old lady uttered the first two words, Xiao Ran's whole body trembled again.

"New moon? You mean the new moon..." Xiao Ran asked with wide-eyed eyes.

The old lady looked at him curiously, and asked back: "At your age, you also know the new moon? But it's not surprising, after all, you have such an uncle. It was called this name a long time ago, but it was changed to Red Star Hotel later. It is a restaurant for the people. But the main business there is not eating and drinking. After the death of the head lady of the Yin family, some regular customers also left, and now there are few people going to the restaurant. Only us old friends, occasionally go to see..."

The car swayed and left this large area of ​​old rich people, Xiao Ran had a feeling that this car was already going to take him to another world.He took out the wallet imported from the United States that the big gold tooth gave him, and there was a photo of him with Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Yingzi stuffed in it.If it weren't for these, he would have doubted his previous experiences.

He shook his head to clear himself up. After all, since Heixiazi appeared in Jingjue Ancient City, he should have known that the two worlds were probably interlinked.

Under the hint of the bodyguard, he took the initiative to put on the blindfold, and the car returned towards the capital.This time he didn't dare to fall asleep again, and when he thought of Dumbledore's appearance and that crazy voice like a female ghost, he couldn't sleep at all.

He tried to ask Yau Jiukuo: "Xiao Jiu, if...you will make me look like that? Are you physically and mentally tortured?"

Yi Jiuqian groaned a few times, but did not speak again, Yin Yang Mirror and Soul Locking Lingzhu were also silent, which made Xiao Ran feel a chill of sadness in his heart.

He was so preoccupied with these things that he ignored the time.I don't know how long it took, the car stopped suddenly, and there was already a lot of noise outside the car, obviously returning to the most lively central area of ​​Zhaojing.

Under the gesture of the bodyguard, Xiao Ran took off the blindfold.After getting off the car, a building full of modern Western style appeared in front of him, with four bright red metal characters "Red Star Hotel" hanging on the door, which seemed to be inconsistent with the building itself.

Under the protection of bodyguards, the old lady led Xiao Ran into the restaurant through a side door.

As soon as I entered the restaurant, a desolate depression hit my face.The restaurant is an old-fashioned two-story courtyard structure. The upper floor is a circle of elegant seats around the building, and the lower floor is scattered seats with dozens of tables.There is also a big stage directly opposite the hotel door, and I don’t know how many scenes in the world have been performed.

But whether it is the love between the Buddha and the eldest lady, or the turbulent disputes in the rivers and lakes, everything is over.At this time, there is not even a table of guests here, only a few waiters with white hair are cleaning, or leaning against the table to take a nap, they must be the old buddies left by the previous lady of the hotel.

An old man saw the old lady coming in, and hurriedly called everyone to greet him.The old lady greeted them lightly, and told them to continue to work, but Xiao Ran noticed that the old lady frowned slightly, and her chest rose and fell slightly, as if she was sighing.

"Old lady, the story of this restaurant is not over yet, there must be a new drama in the future, and you must be one of the protagonists..."

After Xiao Ran finished speaking, he was looking at the old lady of the restaurant and turned to look at him with a complicated expression: "You are not the first person to say that... Forget it, let's do things first."

After finishing speaking, the old lady informed the bodyguards and walked to the elevator on the left side of the gate.Xiao Ran was wondering who else besides him would know about the future, and he had said this earlier than him. Seeing that the old lady wanted to take him away, he politely said: "You don't need to eat, don't dare to bother..."

Having said that, his stomach growled suddenly. He was already hungry when he saw Deng Bo eating chicken, dim sum and Erguotou like a storm.

The old lady led him into the old-fashioned elevator with rolling shutters, and said calmly: "It's not about eating, it's your business. Your second uncle gave us the nail here..."

After saying this, she looked at Xiao Ran carefully and said: "The people in your Xiao family are quite alike, no matter in appearance or inexplicable way of speaking..."

Before li xuan could ask the old lady what she meant, the old elevator suddenly moved and drove down unsteadily.Xiao Ran was afraid that the elevator would fall, so he quickly stood against the corner of the wall.He looked at the old lady, and found that no matter how the elevator shook, the upper body of the old lady kept standing gracefully and proudly, without any instability. It seemed that the Huo family's family kung fu was really extraordinary.

After about 1 minute, the elevator finally stopped.After opening the door, the bodyguard touched the switch on the wall with a flashlight. Following a flicker, the lights came on one after another, and a carpeted corridor appeared in front of him, with two rows of old western-style wall lamps on the wall.

The three of them walked forward slowly, and there were rooms on both sides. According to the old lady's explanation, these rooms were specially built during the turmoil of the year to allow the family and friends of the owner of the hotel to take refuge, and now they are basically abandoned. , the inside is almost the same as a rough house.

They went all the way to the room at the end. After opening the door, the layout inside was still the same as when the owner was there, and it looked like a ladylike room with a European-style four-poster bed in the middle and a European-style four-poster bed on the opposite side. dresser.

The old lady walked to the bookshelf, carefully looked at the books on the shelf, selected one of them, pulled the spine of the book and pulled it out, there was a "click" sound, and the crooked book was slowly closed in again. went back.

The old lady then walked quickly to the dressing table and pulled out a small drawer on the side, which also made a noise.Next came the wall lamps, vases, and bedposts. A series of organs were all turned on before the book was retracted, and the old lady returned to the four-poster bed.

After the wheels of the whole room stopped, the bed trembled suddenly, and the end of the bed slowly lifted up with the whole floor, revealing a staircase below and the iron door at the end.

The old lady covered her nose with a handkerchief, and when the dust cleared, the bodyguard took the lead and opened the iron door with the key given by the old lady.

The iron door seemed to have not been opened for a long time, and there was a creaking and rusting sound.With the iron door fully opened, Xiao Ran suddenly felt as if he was in a mental hospital, or a prison full of antisocial personality felons.

"Fresh meat is coming! Blood is coming!"

"Take me out, and I will give you endless glory and wealth!"

"Handsome little brother, let me go with you, I guarantee you will have endless beauties...beautiful men are also fine..."

……

It was the first time Xiao Ran encountered so many voices full of autonomous consciousness together.The bodyguard turned on the light in the basement behind the iron door. This is a huge exhibition hall, and the display cabinets inside are full of various old and new objects, such as bronze mirrors, bells, jade waist plaques, etc. There are also tools such as hammers, scissors, drumsticks, and some trivial parts such as bone-penetrating nails. In short, they all look worthless.

However, these seemingly worthless things are all "artifacts" full of spirituality.

Xiao Ran never thought that he would see so many artifacts in such a dense place in such a place.He looked at them one by one curiously, and when he passed a silver hairpin, he suddenly heard a pleasant voice: "Entertainer stay away, the little girl is different from these monsters, she was just left here by a heartless person, please benefactor take me go out……"

Xiao Ran stopped in his tracks and stood in front of the silver hairpin.In an instant, the whole hall fell silent. The silver hairpin stopped for a while, and cried out in an excited cry: "You...you can hear the slave's voice! Benefactor, save me! Benefactor, save me!"

In an instant, the whole hall came alive, all the voices shouted frantically, asking Xiao Ran to take him out, and without exception they said that he was a good thing, not a monster that harmed people.

Xiao Ran was annoyed by the shouting, and was about to say something to calm them down, but at this moment, several anxious voices came into his head.

"Don't answer..."

"Good people don't say anything..."

"Be careful Bayan..."

Xiao Ran was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether he should answer, but at this moment the old lady came over nervously and asked, "Little comrade, are you okay? These things..."

Xiao Ran quickly defended with a smile: "It's okay, I just look at so many tattered things, it seems that this silver hairpin seems to be worth some money."

The old lady smiled as if relieved, and said: "The previous owner of this silver hairpin was a flower picker in the previous dynasty. It is said that with this thing, he can imitate a woman's voice and posture. With this thing, many girls have been harmed." .”

"Then...then why is this thing here?" Xiao Ran asked.

The old lady's expression was full of contempt: "I heard that it took a long time to become a woman completely. When I picked flowers for the last time, I found that I couldn't change back, so I screamed in panic and was arrested. Later The yamen verified the situation and threw him into a prison full of male death row prisoners. One can imagine the fate..."

It was Yinchaizi who also screamed: "Take me out! I will let you have endless sex! Take me out!"

There was a cold sweat on Xiao Ran's head instantly, he didn't expect these things to pretend to be so harmless and innocent, deceiving people to give him freedom, fortunately he was reminded by the three people on him just now, so he didn't respond stupidly.

"Ever since your second uncle gave Dumbledore the bone-penetrating nail, Dumbledore has been researching this kind of thing. I also used some old folk stories and used some connections to collect a lot of these kind of things, and they are piled up here. These things look tattered, but each one has a lot of background, and another example is this stone tiger..."

As the old lady spoke, she led Xiao Ran to a tiger-shaped stone pier, which was a thing used to suppress evil by the gates of Dazhai and temples in the old days.

"This thing was in front of a haunted house before. Usually the whole family living there would die until only one person remained. In the last family, there was only one paralyzed man left, and everyone else died, but the paralyzed man lived for more than 100 years. , and finally committed suicide..."

Xiao Ran looked at the ground tiger stone sculpture that was suspended in the air and left the ground, only to hear the stone sculpture silently repeating: "Except for the master, they are all outsiders. Except for the master, everyone must die..."

Ganqing is the same as the Tibetan mastiff, it only recognizes one owner, except for that owner who can live a long life, everyone else must die.The master's longevity is equivalent to exchanging the lives of other family members.

The old lady picked out a few more introductions. These artifacts all have a characteristic, that is, they have both advantages and disadvantages. They can give people a certain special ability, but there is also a price to pay.

"Ask these things to bestow any ability, and you must not get it for nothing. In the words of foreigners, this is a deal with the devil. So, you should understand what your second uncle means. If you don't want to pay any price in the end, then here is also It’s a good home for those things on you.”

After hearing the old lady's words, Xiao Ran was shaken again when he heard the howls in the hall.

(End of this chapter)