Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 403 Towering Tree Mausoleum
After the previous tossing all the way, after they reached their destination, they slackened their strings instead, chose to believe in blood-eating lichen blindly, and followed it blindly in the woods.

In fact, after the first circle, they should think about it, the entrance should be surrounded by this denser forest.

The two took a breath, packed their things and walked towards the woods behind the stele.

It was only then that Xiao Ran discovered that the actual number of trees in the forest behind him was likely to be much less than what they had imagined.

The thin "trunks" on the outskirts of the forest are actually branches and aerial roots hanging from above, which penetrated into the soil and took root again.

This dense forest, if seen from mid-air, looks more like a huge cage formed naturally.

But if they can produce aerial roots and branches as thick as small saplings, how big are the bodies of these trees?

Xiao Ran told his second uncle about his concerns, and the second uncle shook his head and said, "I don't have time to think about it now, and I can't even remember how I got there. I have no impression of this forest at all, we just You can try to walk inside and have a look..."

With their knives and shovels, the two chopped off the outer branches and moved deeper into the forest.

Branches and twigs kept falling under the two people's feet. Xiao Ran's slashing went from impatient to numb, and finally he just moved forward mechanically.

"Be careful, it smells like death!"

The rough sound of Guan Shan's knife rubbing against his ears suddenly made Xiao Ran startled, but it was too late for the knife in his hand to be retracted, and he continued to cut forward.

There was a muffled "bang", and Xiao Ran felt as if the knife had been smashed into a broken door panel. What appears to be behind the "door panel" is so empty that his knife can swing from side to side after entering it.

The instinctive fear of the unknown space made Xiao Ran feel uneasy.He quickly raised his foot to step on the position under the knife, and then pulled it back suddenly.

With a sound of "click", the knife was pulled out with a whole piece of bark, and at the same time a dry black face rushed towards him.

Startled by this dead face, Xiao Ran took a few steps back and raised his flashlight to shine forward.The second uncle, who was a few steps behind, rushed over at this time. Looking at the things in front of him, the two spewed out national curses in unison.

"I X!"

Under the light of the flashlight, a shriveled corpse wearing a dirty animal fur coat protruded half-stretched from the bark torn apart by Xiao Ran, hanging obliquely on the tree trunk.The felt-like hair was stuck together, fluttering slightly with the flowing air.

"This guy...is he dead?" Xiao Ran asked subconsciously.

The second uncle looked at him as if he was mentally ill, and said, "Otherwise? Who can live up to this virtue? How much famine is owed?"

Xiao Ran quickly explained: "I mean, this thing should not be rice dumplings..."

As he spoke, he raised his knife to touch the mummy.

Guan Shandao suddenly said: "Stop! Don't touch this thing with me, it smells like a dead man, it's deadly. Not only this one, but the whole neighborhood is full of this smell, the closer you get, the more obvious it is..."

At this time, the second uncle had already walked up to the mummy, looked it over carefully, and sighed: "This is buried in a tree... A person has a face, and a tree has a skin. As long as the skin is still there, the tree will die." No. They just lifted up the bark, took out about a person's place inside, stuffed the corpse in, and then closed the bark..."

"Tree burial?" Xiao Ran blurted out.

Tree burials are not uncommon, he had heard about them from Hu Bayi before.If nothing else happens, Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Shirley Yang will go to Yunnan to see this kind of tree burial with their own eyes.

The second uncle raised his shovel and tapped on the tree next to the corpse. The tree made a hollow sound of "bang bang" one after another. It seemed that the large area next to it was all tree burial caves like this mummy.

"Not only tree burials, but also group burials..."

After the second uncle said this, he smashed open several hollow tree burial tombs one after another, and corpses of different sizes fell crookedly from the tree trunks.

Xiao Ran carefully turned on the flashlight and checked the tomb behind the mummy.After looking at it a few times, he said in surprise to his second uncle who was still smashing the bark: "This is not a forest...it's a whole tree! This towering tree is like a building...no, it's like a building... The whole mass burial mausoleum is too big..."

Having said that, he and the second uncle were stunned, and the two looked at each other quietly, but each was thinking.

In Xiao Ran's mind, the words Mrs. Jin said to him - neither stone nor soil are the royal tombs.

This tree is so huge, and so many people were buried in a group, is this tree the royal tomb?

The second uncle obviously thought of another thing. He slapped his head and said, "I seem to remember it. Before I fell into the hole that time, I seemed to walk on a road with tree textures on both sides. You said this tree Like a building…”

"That's right, that's right, the custom of scorpion, where you are born and where you are buried, the upper part is the building... the lower part is the grave?!" Xiao Ran said in shock.

The flashes of their own flashes of inspiration, plus the various inspirations from Mrs. Jin, superimposed together, allowing them to draw a conclusion.

The entrance to the passage leading to the tomb of King Xiong is just behind a certain trunk of this giant tree.

"Come on! Let's start from here, go in opposite directions, pry one by one, and we will definitely find the entrance to the passage!" The second uncle's tone instantly cheered up.

Before Xiao Ran could stop him, the second uncle shoveled and shoveled and walked away, leaving only dry corpses on the tree that fell or stood upright.

Seeing his second uncle grow stronger and stronger suddenly, Xiao Ran felt a bad taste in his heart, let the old man move around, he has other ways.

He pulled out the Guanshan knife, and took out the soul-locking pearl, and said, "You two, one of you can smell the smell of dead people, and the other can hear the slightest sound of souls left by dead bodies. Please help me Once I get back to the radar, I don't have to bother these corpses into...the wood is safe.

"I'm going forward, you guys keep an eye on it, if there is no smell or sound suddenly, it must be the entrance."

"Good people are righteous!"

Yin Yang Jing, who had nothing to do with this matter, spoke first to praise.

Unexpectedly, Guan Shandao said impatiently: "It's enough to give you face if you let me use it as a hatchet. Don't really use me as a dog. This shit can be done with a bearded one. Don't see blood. Find me again!"

After saying this, the blade of Guan Shandao was obviously curled up by a point or two, obviously he was unwilling to cooperate.Xiao Ran had no choice but to put him back into the scabbard.

Locking Soul Ding Lingzhu said: "Bayan, this matter is very easy to handle. In fact, you were circling around the tree just now, and I heard that there seemed to be no sound..."

"Then, you, no, tell me earlier?!" Xiao Ran gritted his teeth.

Locking Soul Ding Lingzhu said: "I... I didn't know what you were thinking just now..."

"Forget it, it's important..."

Xiao Ran rubbed his temples, and began to walk around the big tree.If you don't hurry up, the second uncle and his elders will have to lift up the graves of this piece of extinct households, and the old Xiao's family will have committed an old crime.

Guan Shan Dao didn't cooperate, so he had to use the engineer shovel to cut down the branches hanging in front, but the speed was obviously slower.Walking tens of meters along the way, it was completely dark outside the "forest" composed of aerial roots and branches, and sparrows could be heard occasionally.

Xiao Ran mechanically waved the engineering shovel, smelling the refreshing fragrance of plants and trees in the woods, thinking that if Hu Bayi was here, he would be able to tell at a glance that it was a huge tree mass burial.

The fat man must be the same as the second uncle at this time, prying open each piece of bark one by one to see if there is anything valuable, and then ask Hu Bayi to scold him...

Suddenly Locking Soul Ding Lingzhu shouted: "This is the place! Cut it down!"

Xiao Ran was so excited that he chopped down the tree next to him without even thinking about it.With a "click", he staggered and fell into the tree.

(End of this chapter)