Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 421 Tongtian Tai Sui
When Xiao Ran heard his second uncle's words, he quickly raised his hand and looked around.

The nearly circular platform at the top of the tree has a maximum diameter of nearly 20 meters.The platform is sunken downwards, and the surrounding raised tree walls form a natural wall about four meters high.Against the wall, there were decayed wooden tables and chairs scattered around, and some broken clay pots and clay bowls lying on the floor.

In the center of the platform, there is a giant bowl-shaped object made of tree branches, broken animal skins, fur, broken bones, etc. It is visually five or six meters in diameter and looks like a huge bird's nest.

"With such a big bird's nest, how big is this bird..." Xiao Ran sighed.

The second uncle carefully looked at the branches on the edge of the bird's nest and the concrete-like mixture of bones, skin, and hair.Suddenly, he discovered something. He pulled a hollow hollow bone as thick as a thin bamboo pole on the edge of the nest and pulled hard.

There was a crashing sound, mud and sand mixed with torn fur and broken bones scattered all over the ground, and bursts of dust rose up.On the second uncle's hand, there was a huge feather that was more than one meter long and two feet wide at its widest point.

"These are probably the feathers of the owner of the nest. Judging from the size, they are definitely not small. For such a big bird, one of us can only feed him one meal." The second uncle said.

Xiao Ran swallowed and asked: "Can you tell what kind of bird this is? What if it doesn't eat meat, but eats some leaves and fruits?"

The second uncle was helpless when asked by Xiao Ran. He looked around, aimed at a piece of mud beside the nest, and knocked on it with a shovel.The "building materials" in the nest fell down again in large chunks.

The second uncle poked at it with his foot, picked up a smooth spherical object and threw it to Xiao Ran, saying, "Manager Xiao, let's see what kind of thing this is..."

Xiao Ran subconsciously reached out to pick it up and shined a flashlight on it.In his hand, there was a chinless human skull, yellow and white mixed with black, and it was unknown what generation it belonged to.

Xiao Ran threw the skull aside in disgust, and heard his second uncle say seriously: "No matter what kind of bird this is, it is definitely not a good one. If you are lucky, this big bird may have been dead for who knows how many years. No matter what , let’s quickly find a way to the bottom. And..."

The second uncle hesitated for a moment, then said in a slightly softer tone: "You must not risk your life to save me just now. The future of the Xiao family lies with you, not with me."

Xiao Ran felt hot in his heart, and was about to reply with a few words about blood being thicker than water, but his second uncle waved his hand and turned around to find the way.

"This old man..."

Xiao Ran shook his head and smiled, putting everything behind him and looking for the downward passage in the opposite direction to his second uncle.

According to the second uncle's interpretation of the cross-section of the big tree, there must be a passage entrance on the top of the tree that leads directly to the underground of the giant tree.But the top of the tree is almost full. In addition to broken tables, broken stools, mason jars, and even bird's nests, it doesn't look like there is any entrance to a mechanism.

For this reason, he specially asked Shenxing Wuyujian to conduct a survey, but after going around half a circle, Shenxing Wuyujian only provided one piece of information, that is, the bottom of the platform was empty.

This confirmed the second uncle's speculation, and from this perspective it was a good thing.

"Bayan, has a soul..."

While walking, Soul Locking Lingzhu suddenly reported a new discovery.Xiao Ran's heart tightened and he quickly asked: "What direction? Is it good or bad?"

The soul-locking spirit bead replied: "It's right here, the soul is too weak, and others can't feel it..."

nearby?Xiao Ran looked at the dust and dead leaves on the ground and had to use his feet to search for them.

But before he took a few steps, he felt a trip under his feet, followed by a crisp sound, and Xiao Ran stumbled forward and stumbled forward a few steps.

Finally standing firm, he quickly turned around and saw half a scattered skeleton mixed in with the dead branches and leaves, and there was an irregular small hole on the ground not far behind the skeleton.

Xiao Ran's eyes lit up and he quickly swept away all the rubbish around the small hole and shined a flashlight down at the entrance of the hole.Under the irregular hole, which is about a foot wide at its widest point, several leg bones and scattered foot bones can be vaguely seen, falling on a dark natural tree vine ladder.

"Second uncle! Found it! I found the entrance!" Xiao Ran shouted excitedly. Second uncle trotted over from a distance. When he saw the small hole in the ground and the stairs below, he also smiled happily.

"My guess is indeed correct! You just have to go down from the top!"

"Yes! How to do it?!"

When Xiao Ran asked this question, the smiles on their faces froze.The second uncle scratched his head and looked around the hole carefully, still mumbling: "It's definitely not possible to drill through here. Looking at this skeleton, I'm probably trying to drill down and got stuck..." "

Xiao Ran looked at the skeletons scattered on the ground, and remembered that the Soul-locking Lingzhu said that there was still a soul in the skeleton, and that he had cut it in half, and felt a little regretful. He bowed to the skeleton twice, and then carefully shoveled it with an engineer shovel. Pick up the bones and gently pile them aside.

He had just picked up a few when he suddenly saw what seemed to be a bulging thing not far from the skeleton.He walked over with a flashlight and saw that it was a leather bag that was almost weathered into pieces, with some dusty bamboo pieces inside.

Pockets... bones...

He suddenly remembered his senior who had made annotations and carved himself on the round wall mural.He hurriedly called his second uncle, who carefully identified the contents on the bamboo slips and suddenly understood.

"The names of these two first comers are no longer known. This bamboo slip records some information they recorded about the tree. These two people should be from the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are two characters here: Yongping. They came to find Kunlun. ...I can’t see clearly from behind, Tongtian Taisui...this is blood...blood pagoda? And...acid and?"

Xiao Ran felt a little overwhelmed after listening to his second uncle's interpretation, and sighed: "Isn't this person here to write mythological novels? Aren't these all mythological stories and Buddhist words?"

The second uncle frowned and shook his head and said: "People in any period will be limited to their own cognition and use the most advanced vocabulary they know to describe unknown things.

"Suan Yu, % of the time he was talking about this bird with a big nest. This person said that another person who was traveling with him was eaten by Su Yu, and he wanted to escape through a hole, but he couldn't escape, but then Su Yu flew away, and he died of sleepiness. Here, it seems that they are the ones who left the words on the wall. But this Tongtian Tai Sui and Blood Pagoda..."

Tai Sui, still reaching the sky... Xiao Ran's heart suddenly brightened, and he hurried to the side, pulled a branch as thick as an arm, and chopped it down with a shovel.

"Second uncle, look at the cross-section of the tree branches!"

The second uncle took a look at the cross section of the branch, and his face suddenly became clear: "This tree is not a tree, no, not exactly a tree, it is a mixture of tree and slime mold! No wonder the tree wall below grows as fast as it wants. , it turns out that this big tree is Tai Sui! The bamboo slip also said that they were also fascinated by the painting on the wall, and they saw what they were thinking about. It seemed that it was all caused by this fungus! now it's right!"

After hearing this, Xiao Ran looked at the branch that was half wood and half mushroom-like, and quickly asked Bai Jiuguo secretly: "Xiao Jiu, Tai Sui, such a big Tai Sui, can you live longer if you eat it?"

Bai Jiukuo replied lazily: "The body of this thing is Tai Sui, but its spiritual energy has been sucked by other things. Now it is just a rotten mushroom. If you eat it, you will be poisoned..."

Xiao Ran threw the broken branch aside in disappointment, and asked his second uncle: "Is it written in it? Have they found any clues going down..."

"For...blood food..."

The second uncle did not answer Xiao Ran's question directly, but continued to study the words on the broken bamboo piece.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew from the side, sending dust flying all over the sky.Xiao Ran was blown away and quickly spat the dirt.The second uncle on the side asked with wide eyes: "Is today the fifteenth day?"

"What?" Xiao Ran was confused.

The second uncle stared warily at the sky above his head, surrounded by a circle of branches reaching the sky, and murmured: "On the fifteenth day of the month, sourness and return..."

(End of this chapter)