Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 402
A thing that could roughly see the outline of a chicken rolled on the ground twice, then stood up swaying.It was the chicken wrapped in blood-eating lichen. The exposed legs were obviously rotten, and it was supported by the leg bones and tendons with a little bit of meat, and it stumbled on the ground.

Without getting too close, Xiao Ran can clearly see that the color of the blood-eating lichen is not even as bright as when it was a shriveled piece before, especially the fluffy thorns on its back, now it is really like a chicken that has been plagued by the plague Same, shriveled, limp, and dull.

Xiao Ran couldn't help feeling a little worried: "Second Uncle, this thing...can it still work? Do you want to feed some blood?"

The second uncle looked at him, thought for a while and said, "Okay, now the two live, feed you or feed me?"

Xiao Ran was at a loss for words for a moment, it would be better not to ask.But when he looked at his second uncle's gray and messy hair, his bloodshot eyes, the slightly dark circles under his eyes, and his obviously sunken cheeks these days, he couldn't help but sigh.

The second uncle seems to be under a lot of mental pressure recently. It can be seen that the failure to recast the Faqiu seal and the matter of getting the Xiao family out of the curse really made him almost collapse.

Xiao Ran didn't dare to think, if he failed again this time, would Second Uncle go crazy like his father.As for himself, he didn't feel that much pressure. After all, apart from not being able to sleep well and occasionally having hallucinations recently, the other problems mentioned by the second uncle have not appeared yet.

Gritting his teeth, Xiao Ran pulled out the Guan Shan knife and was about to slash his hand.Guan Shandao, who hadn't been born for a long time, suddenly said in a serious voice: "Wait! Boy, are you sure you want to feed it with blood?"

Xiao Ran secretly replied in his heart: "It's nothing old Sha, anyway, after Xiao Jiu washed me with blood, my wound healed surprisingly quickly..."

"Who cares about you..." Guan Shandao said, "This kind of spiritual creature is rare in the world, and it's the first time I've seen it. If you feed it with blood, God knows if you want to establish a connection with it. Thinking about it better, Might be like us; at worst . . . maybe a part of me . . . "

"Is it partly the same as you?" Xiao Ran was a little puzzled.

Yaujiu yawned and said, "Oh, I'm addicted to drinking blood just once, maybe I'll chase after you and bite you later."

Only then did Xiao Ran understand what Guan Shandao meant, and looked at his palms with some hesitation.

Seeing this, the second uncle snorted coldly: "I'm confused in battle, not at all like me..."

After saying that, he pulled out the black steel point and wanted to stab at his hand.

Xiao Ran quickly stopped drinking, and cut the blade across his palm without hesitation.

Warm blood flowed down the palm of the hand, dripping onto the chicken-shaped blood-eating lichen.

The moment the first drop of blood fell on the blood-devouring lichen, those shriveled, fluffy tiny tentacles stretched upwards in unison, aiming at the direction of the blood dripping and constantly twisting.

As the blood continued to fall, the blood-devouring lichen continued to swell, like a dry sponge absorbing water.Its color also became brighter from the place where the blood fell, until it returned to the previous colorful green, white, red and purple, just like a demon flower.

"Okay, it's almost done, stop working when you're full."

Hearing what the second uncle said, Xiao Ran quickly clenched his fists to prevent the blood from dripping down, and then took out a bandage and adhesive plaster to wrap up the wound.

The tentacles on the top of the blood-devouring lichen swayed upwards following the smell of blood remaining in the air, and found that there was no blood dripping down, so they quickly absorbed the blood on the surface, shaking in circles like a real chicken. body.

After turning around a few times, it came to the stone tablet. The fluffy tentacles squirmed like waves, and then swayed in one direction.

The second uncle winked, and the two quickly packed up their things and followed the weird-looking chicken.

If Li Dongfu turned around and came back now, he must have thought they were hunting with some new type of hunting dog.

They followed the chicken and wandered through the woods for an hour, when a stone tablet appeared in their field of vision.

Xiao Ran and Second Uncle looked at each other, and an ominous premonition rose in their hearts.

Xiao Ran ran to the stone tablet first, looked at the words on the stone tablet, and his face sank instantly.The second uncle followed up panting, and raised his eyebrows at Xiao Ran.Xiao Ran understood what he meant, and replied with some helplessness: "Han... the Monument of the Li Country..."

"Grandma, this chicken bastard took us for a walk..."

The second uncle was a little annoyed, he raised his foot and kicked the chicken-shaped blood-eating lichen, kicking it aside.But the blood-devouring lichen got up like a chicken, shook its body, and then spun around in place.

Looking at the strange thing's movements, Xiao Ran curiously asked Second Uncle: "Second Uncle, did you see this stele when you came here before? You can't find the wrong place, right?"

The second uncle scratched his head and thought for a while, and said: "I was hurt and tired at the time, and I was in a daze. I remembered that I had indeed seen the stele, and I remembered it when I went back and looked for someone to read these words, and then I realized that it was a Han. Liguo Monument. But after seeing this stele, I remember walking for a while before falling into that hole..."

After thinking about it carefully, Xiao Ran's eyes lit up: "Could there be more than one monument?"

The second uncle was full of unwillingness to believe it, but in the end he had no choice but to nod his head reluctantly: "If this is really the case, then we will have someone to find..."

"You don't need to work so hard, I have a way!"

Xiao Ran carefully picked up the woven bag on the ground, wrapped it around the blood-devouring lichen, and then ran over 100 meters away.He carried the bag and turned around in place for more than 20 times, until he was about to fall over, before throwing the bag on the ground.

After thumping in the bag for a while, the lichen chicken got out, stumbled and wrestled on the spot, tossing for a while.

When Xiao Ran's head was no longer dizzy, he saw the chicken finally swaying towards the northwest corner of the stele.

He was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed, and when he was not far from the stele, he shouted for his second uncle to follow.

This time, they followed the blood-eating lichen for more than an hour, until the sun was in the west, and the golden sunset pierced through the gaps in the forest like golden threads, piercing the ground, and the blood-eating lichen suddenly turned ninety speed, and ran forward quickly.

The uncle and nephew quickly followed, but the further they walked, the more they felt that something was wrong, until they saw the stone tablet again.

Monument of Liguo in Han Dynasty.

"Damn it, Ganqing made a bigger circle this time!"

Seeing the blood-devouring lichen spinning around the monument, Xiao Ran couldn't hold back his anger anymore, so he simply kicked the chicken wrapped in the blood-devouring lichen and flew to the tree behind.The blood-devouring lichen also seemed to be tired from walking, dangling on the tree trunk, and stopped moving for a while.

The uncle and nephew sat on both sides of the stele, neither of them wanted to talk, they just drank water silently and panted.

After a while, I saw the setting sun put away the golden threads piercing into the forest, and the forest was slowly covered with a layer of cold gray.

Xiao Ran couldn't help but said viciously: "Second Uncle, since you remember correctly, why don't we just dig under this stele, or we'll blow up this forest..."

The second uncle was taken aback when he heard the words, then turned his head and asked Xiao Ran: "What did you say?!"

"I said... tear up this forest. I'm just talking about it..."

The second uncle ignored Xiao Ran's explanation, and hurriedly ran out dozens of steps, looking up at the large dense forest behind the stele.

"Xiaoran, have you noticed that the forest behind the stele is much denser than the surrounding area, and the tree species are also different. The blood-eating lichen just now led us around the forest, maybe..."

Xiao Ran's eyes lit up, and he also looked at Lin Zi behind him: "Maybe, the entrance is in the woods!"

The uncle and nephew looked at each other and at the blood-devouring lichen hanging on the tree, they both shook their heads helplessly and sighed.

(End of this chapter)