Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 420 Blood Contract—Celestial Needle
"Old Xiao, now is not the time to lose your temper..."

Xiao Ran's anger and blood surged at this moment, and Bai Jiuguo could only remind him in a soft tone.

Looking at the hole that was shrinking every centimeter in diameter, Xiao Ran forced himself to calm down and asked Bai Jiukuo: "Is there anything you can do?"

Pei Jiuguo also quickly replied: "We have to start with that needle. Even if he doesn't speak, all of us combined are not as good as his needle point."

Xiao Ran looked coldly at the celestial dial needle on the ground, and the most direct and cold idea came to him.

He picked up the needle and touched his neck. Bai Jiukuo seemed to feel something and shouted hurriedly: "Old Xiao, calm down, don't be stupid..."

"I'm calm..."

Xiao Ran said and took out the soul-locking spirit bead, wiped it on his body and threw it into his mouth, thinking to himself: "Suozi, if something happens to me...you lock my soul, my second uncle will find a way... …”

"Bayan...obey..."

Listening to the Soul Locking Lingzhu, Yin Yangjing shouted: "Good man! God has the virtue of a good life! A good life..."

He seemed to be persuading Xiao Ran not to ignore his own life, but thinking that Xiao Changkong below was also a life, he was speechless for a moment.

"What a good boy! Brother Ran, brother! You sacrificed your life for your loved ones. It is filial piety and benevolence. You are a good man! If anything happens to you, my brother will die here with you!"

After Shen Xing had no feathers and arrows, Yin Yang Jing could only say bitterly: "Sacrificing one's life for righteousness, sacrificing one's own life for the sake of living, even if it lasts for eternity, it will be worthy of its name... Good man, if there is an eventuality, I will make a complete dojo for you..."

Xiao Ran was not reluctant to meet several artifacts again. He opened his collar, took a deep breath, and inserted the celestial dial needle without hesitation.

There was a "pop" sound, and blood splashed into the night sky.For the first time, Xiao Ran knew that breathing could be very painful, so painful that it was heartbreaking and dizzy.

He gritted his teeth and pulled out the celestial dial needle, and saw that the black needle wrapped in blood was actually shining brightly, and dark light flashed from time to time. It was really "colorful black".

But he couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or reality, because as blood gushed out from his neck, his whole body felt cold, his eyes were shining with stars, and his hands and feet were as weak as ever.

He reluctantly moved forward two steps, and then fell headlong into the entrance of the passage. The hand holding the celestial dial needle was stretched out just on the edge of the hole.He used his last bit of strength to insert the celestial dial needle into the cave wall, and then slowly rotated it counterclockwise.

In an instant, a more distinct feeling of soul separation emerged than before.His whole body was so numb that he felt nothing, his eyesight flickered in and out, and his ears seemed to be covered with a layer of cloth, and he could only hear vague sounds of different shades.

"Old Xiao..."

"A good man..."

"Bayan..."

"Brother Ran..."

"Little calf..."

The voices of the artifacts reached his ears, and Xiao Ran smiled miserably. Maybe this was really the last sound he heard before his death.Unexpectedly, the people who saw him off were actually these voices that ordinary people could not hear.

He continued to turn the celestial dial needle, and the changes in light and darkness around him became more obvious, but he had a firm idea: Use my life to save my second uncle's life!
A buzzing voice suddenly reached his ears. He listened carefully. The voice was not his second uncle or anyone he was familiar with. It was also different from the distinctive voices of several artifacts. It was a kind of incomprehensible sound. The voice had no timbre of emotion, but it carried a pressure like a god.

"...Sacrificing life...forgetting death...the blood contract can be determined..."

After the voice settled, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a warm current flowing through his body. As his hand turned, the wound on his neck no longer hurt unbearably.Although other senses were still dull, the changes in light and shadow in front of him gradually took shape.

He saw a vigorous figure that kept appearing in the underground palace and mountains and rivers, fighting various monsters, beasts, corpses and monsters, and found treasures of different shapes one after another.The man's clothing and appearance also changed from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China to modern times. It seemed that he could travel through different time and space, or that he had lived for at least 100 years and never aged.

The words "Black Blind Man" flashed through Xiao Ran's mind, but the figure of that man was very different from Black Blind Man, and it made him feel extremely familiar.

The turning in the hand is still the same, the five senses gradually return, the sound in the ears gradually becomes noisy, and the celestial dial needle also changes from the coldness that was alienating thousands of miles away to a friendly warmth.

As the rotation came to an end, Xiao Ran finally saw the man's face clearly. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and his mind went blank.

The person who went to heaven and earth, traveling for hundreds of years, turned out to be himself!

His eyes suddenly turned white, and he felt weak all over. Then a large amount of fresh and wild air mixed with the forest poured into his lungs. He gasped and collapsed backwards.

At the last moment before he fell into coma, he saw that the hole that had originally shrunk to the size of the wellhead was now as wide as two people.

After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt a stinging pain in his trachea, and the uncontrolled contraction of his lungs caused him to cough violently, which also made him wake up from the coughing.

He immediately went to look at the entrance, but there was no entrance there. There was only a shallow bulge protruding from below, like a scar that healed after an injury.

"Second...second uncle!"

Xiao Ran yelled in panic, with a hint of crying in his voice, but in his ears came a familiar sound of reproach that made him feel extremely at ease: "Why are you howling! Wait until I die before you howl..."

He raised his head and saw his second uncle's frowning but tearful face.At this time, he was half lying in his second uncle's arms. The second uncle held a water bottle in one hand, and the hand holding him held the soul-locking spirit bead. The choking just now must have been caused by the second uncle feeding him water.

"Second uncle..."

"Okay, okay! Don't be pretentious, gentlemen. Get up as soon as you wake up!"

After the second uncle said this, he let go, and Xiao Ran immediately lay down straight on the ground.He jumped up and felt light all over his body. He raised his hand and touched his neck, and was surprised to find that there wasn't even a wound.

"Hey, as long as I'm here, can I still let you have such a skin injury?" Bai Jiukuo said secretly.

When it comes to treating internal and external injuries, that is naturally the responsibility of Bei Jiukuo.But it seemed that he recovered from his injuries so quickly that the second uncle didn't know what kind of life and death decision he had just gone through.

"Second uncle, you...climbed up by yourself?"

The second uncle wiped his face and said: "Yes, you were knocked down after using the celestial needle. It seems that you are still weak. This kind of reversal can only last for a short while. I must hurry up." Climb up and wait for you to pull me out, and I will really be reimbursed. By the way, this is for you, and this..."

At the end, the second uncle handed the Guan Shan Dao and the Soul Locking Lingzhu to Xiao Ran.Xiao Ran stroked the blade of the sword with some distress. Unexpectedly, Guan Shan Dao actually said the same words as his second uncle: "Masters, stop being pretentious..."

Seeing that both the man and the knife were safe, Xiao Ran felt relieved and put away everything.The second uncle on the side looked at the celestial dial needle steadily, seemed to think about it for a while, and then handed it over to Xiao Ran.

"You're right, it's time to take over this thing. If I use it again, I'm afraid I won't be able to overdraw it in a few years." The second uncle said.

Xiao Ran took the celestial dial needle and confirmed again that the needle was indeed warmer than before.Thinking of what had just happened, he felt that he had established some kind of connection with this thing, just like he had signed a contract with other artifacts.

But what about the self active in various periods that I saw in the hallucination?Xiao Ran scratched his head with the blunt point of the dial needle, he really couldn't figure it out.

At this moment, the second uncle's low voice came over: "It's not good, something seems to have made a nest on top..."

(End of this chapter)