Tomb Raider: I Can Hear Antiques Talk

Chapter 94 Blackrock Tower

Xiao Ran pricked up his ears to listen carefully, the faint voice came from the fat man's chest, repeating "Queen", "I want to go back", "It's too late" and so on intermittently.

It seems that it is the jade pendant full of ghost cave texts, feeling that he has returned home and has become active again.

But why can he make a sound?Is he also out of the Queen's control?Or is it precisely because he belongs here that he can speak out, just like the monuments that can be seen everywhere here?
If you don't understand these things, it's useless to understand them.Now Professor Chen and the others are studying every relic in the ancient city with great interest, carefully drawing each building with different functions, and recording in detail the building shape, brick shape, area and height, etc. , I don’t know if I plan to replicate the ancient city of Jingjue in proportion after I go there later.

Now that everyone is full of energy, Xiao Ran couldn't find any good reason to persuade Professor Chen not to spend time on these ruins, his mind was taken away by the Queen's Tomb.

It's been a while since Yajiu Kuo hasn't moved, and he can only lock the Faqiu seal in the underground palace and mausoleum of Queen Jingjue, where it is most likely to appear.

Although he himself knew that those Guanshan Taibao who destroyed the Faqiu seal were unlikely to deliberately go to the ancient city of Jingjue and throw the fragments of the Faqiu seal here.

While Professor Chen led the archaeological team to record, Shirley Yang was also silently taking pictures with the camera, but her brows were slightly frowned. Obviously, she was also a little anxious. After all, the purpose of her trip was mainly to find the expedition team headed by her father Yang Xuanwei .

Seeing Xiao Ran looking at her, Shirley Yang showed a helpless smile.In her eyes, li xuan was always the person who could best understand what she was thinking along the way.

"Well...Professor Chen..."

Just as Xiao Ran opened his mouth, Hu Bayi suddenly took the initiative to ask Professor Chen: "Professor Chen, I remember you said in the tomb of Prince Gumo that the coalition forces from neighboring countries invaded the ancient city of Jingjue, and a sandstorm killed everyone. Buried. Now that the ancient city has reappeared, why are there no bones left for those who were buried?"

Professor Chen thought for a while and said, "I'm going to make a guess. After all, thousands of years ago, this place was still a vast oasis. Even if the sandstorm temporarily buried the city, the water sources, plants, and a large number of microorganisms in the oasis still exist. Those who died in the sandstorm The people here, perhaps like the mainland, all rotted and decomposed in a short period of time..."

Hu Ba nodded, and then asked: "Then you said that those expeditions that will come later, including the tomb robbers, why are there no one alive or dead?"

"The later ones... Oh! I was so excited that I forgot!"

Professor Chen slapped his forehead and walked to Shirley Yang and Xiao Ran: "These peripheral buildings can be seen later, let's look for Xuanwei and Changfeng first, maybe they have already entered the palace of Queen Jingjue..."

Seeing Professor Chen's remorse, Xiao Ran quickly comforted him, and Shirley Yang gave Hu Bayi a grateful look.

Hu Bayi wanted to make up for the previous rift, so he reminded Professor Chen on the sidelines.

The fat man complained: "I think this dilapidated place is just big. The broken bricks and tiles are not as good as Ganggang Yingzi. They are all a pile of rotten houses. Which one is like a palace? Only the toilet is more complete. , but there is no way..."

Professor Chen said: "If I'm not mistaken, this Jingjue Queen is a legendary ghost cave clan who came from the underground. Perhaps she is used to building the most advanced buildings underground. In the paintings of Prince Gumo's tomb, every time she appears The Queen of Essence, there will definitely be images of torches and wall lamps in the background, which should be used as evidence. Let's find the entrance to the underground."

Xiao Ran quickly pointed to the black tower in the distance: "The entire ruins of the Jingjue country, only that tower is relatively high, and can easily overlook the entire Jingjue ancient city. If there are any special buildings or entrances, you should be able to see them there. Let's go to the tower and have a look."

This idea was immediately approved by everyone, and a group of people walked through the ruins and headed towards the direction of the black tower.

Although most of the houses in Jingjue Ancient City have become broken walls, if you want to reach the Black Tower in the middle of the city, you still have to walk along the ancient streets outside these houses.Several times, everyone seemed to be approaching the Black Tower, but they found themselves at a dead end.

There are people like Professor Chen who are not in good health, and everyone is carrying dozens of catties of supplies, so they can only take a detour, and it is impossible to climb over the wall.

The fat man was a little impatient, and he whispered to Hu Bayi quietly: "This place where the birds don't shit, the living and the dead can't see a single person. I guess it's hard to find gold and silver treasures. Don't talk about gold and silver treasures, that's for sure. I also feel that it is not worth it to get US dollars, and now giving me a watermelon is better than anything else."

Hu Bayi said: "Before we entered the desert, the cantaloupe, watermelon, and horse grapes in the Grand Bazar were big, sweet, and cheap. At that time, I burned you. You only eat the core of the watermelon, and throw it away after two bites." Do you regret it now?"

The fat man smacked his lips: "It was then, and now is now. You said that Queen Eating Watermelon is the same as me, and she just eats the small piece in the middle?"

Hu Bayi smiled and said, "That's probably even more extravagant than you. Maybe the watermelon grapes are often frozen with groundwater, just like Concubine Yang Guifei's lychees, and they are transported all the way to the palace quickly..."

correct!This sentence reminded Xiao Ran.Instead of turning around like this, it is better to go to the city center in this way.Regardless of whether the city center is a royal palace or a place of worship, it is necessary to ensure the smooth delivery of materials and a certain isolation from civilian areas.

So on the way to the black tower in the center of the city, there must be shops and warehouses, but there will be no civilian residences... and public toilets.

He told Professor Chen this way of thinking, and together with the members of the archaeological team, based on the experience just now and Xiao Ran's ability, he got under the black tower very quickly.

This six-storey black stone tower is already tilted a bit. The base and half of the arch below the tower are buried by yellow sand, and the top of the tower is a black olive-shaped stone ball.

The color of the stone tower is not caused by external forces such as wind erosion, but the color of the building materials is natural, very similar to the Black Stone Mountains on both sides of the Zagrama Valley.

Fatty got playful, took out a coin and threw it at the stone pagoda, and the coin was indeed gently attached to the wall of the stone pagoda.

Professor Chen carefully looked at the top of the tower with a telescope, and suddenly exclaimed: "So it is!"

Everyone was puzzled and wanted to ask the professor what he meant.Xiao Ran said: "Do you see the olive-shaped stone ball on the top of the tower, does it look like the eyes of the statue of Karaquman? And the image that appeared on the mural in the tomb of Prince Gumo?"

The professor nodded approvingly to Xiao Ran, then bent down and got into the half-buried arched stone door.Everyone didn't have time to ask questions, and hurriedly followed the professor and filed in.

As soon as they entered the tower, they heard Hu Bayi and Fatty pull the breech of their guns, pointing at a black figure bent over in front of them.

Shirley Yang lit up the flashlight and took a careful look at the thing in front of him. It was a stone sheep carved out of black stone. At first glance, it looked like a beast lurking in the sand.

Only then did the two feel relieved, and followed Professor Chen to observe the ghost cave text on the wall.

Xiao Ran looked at those sunken inscribed stone inscriptions, and couldn't help touching them with his hands.But as soon as the fingertips touched the stone wall, there was a strong sense of dizziness and tinnitus, and the voice of locking the soul and the spirit beads suddenly sounded excitedly: "I know! I remembered! Quick, go up there!"

(End of this chapter)