Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 113 The Ultimate Coffin
Xiao Ran quickly withdrew his feet and took a few steps back. He sat down on the ground and panted heavily. He felt his back was pricked by needles, and large beads of sweat slid down his forehead.

How could this be?He knew that he had a different physique from others, and it was easier for the Queen of Essence to attack his senses and confuse his mind.But he didn't see the corpse fragrant konjac, how could he almost be buried in the abyss?

"Bayan, what happened to you just now? Why didn't you listen to my advice and walked around by yourself?" Suohun Dinglingzhu said.

Xiao Ran was puzzled, he had been adjusting his direction according to the instructions of the Soul-locking Lingzhu just now, and finally almost stepped into the abyss.How come this bead who has been honest all the way has learned to shirk responsibility?

A strange fragrance came again, and dizziness came immediately.The voice of locking the soul and setting the spirit beads sounded in his mind again: "Bayan, go a few steps forward..."

He quickly held his breath to gather himself, and the voice urging him to move forward slowly disappeared.

Xiao Ran felt something was wrong, he was obviously wearing a gas mask, why could he smell that strange fragrance?He touched the gas mask carefully, and sure enough, he found a small gap near his chin.

It may be that the poison mask was hanging on his waist just now, and when he bent over to pick up the flagon, he somehow splashed formic acid, which burned a hole in the mask.

Hu Bayi and Fatty hurried over at this moment, thinking that he had fainted on the edge of the cliff, they quickly helped him up and retreated a few meters.

"Brother Xiao, you scared me to death. We were assembling the searchlight there, and we saw you dangling in front of us like a headless chicken. When we turned on the light, we saw you collapsed on the edge of the cliff, and we almost lost sight of you." Fatty Say.

Xiao Ran looked back, it turned out that he was only about 40 meters away from everyone in the rush just now.

The team behind came towards them with searchlights, Xiao Ran sighed, it seemed that he still couldn't handle the queen by himself after all, so he could only take a step forward.

Professor Chen stopped next to a fallen giant pupil statue and studied it carefully.This giant pupil statue was kicked off the platform by Xiao Ran before.Under the shattered shell, a mummy in white gauze also fell to pieces.

"It turned out that the priests of the Queen of Excellence were actually sealed in these giant pupil statues and became the Queen's funeral." Professor Chen said.

The fat man picked the mummy's clothes with a shovel, and saw that there were no gold or silver ornaments, so he said disdainfully: "These god sticks who oppress the common people have served the queen for a lifetime, and they have become canned bacon in the end. They deserve it!"

Professor Chen said: "Perhaps this is exactly what they want. Only those trusted by the Queen are eligible to be buried in the same place as the Queen. Only those chosen by God can be sacrificed. This custom is practiced in many ethnic groups. exist."

The searchlight slid across the entire cave wall, circled a few times, and fully illuminated the environment where everyone was currently in.They are now in a huge cave, surrounded by black rocks, which should be at the foot of Mount Zagrama.

They were standing on a huge cliff, the pile of funeral objects was located close to the mountain wall, and there were many tall statues of gods with giant pupils around them.

"Here... this is the ghost cave!" Hao Aiguo exclaimed.

The searchlight flashed across the upper cave wall, and a step that looked thin to the naked eye spiraled down, and the last step stopped at the cliff where the funerary objects were piled up.The scene here is the same as the murals in the corridor of the temple, the natural cave with a diameter of one thousand meters, and the stone steps like a thin line.

Everyone was amazed, and Professor Chen couldn't help trembling with excitement.Only Xiao Ran was worried, he whispered to Suohun Dinglingzhu: "As long as you kill the queen, all the curses will be lifted, right?"

After more than ten seconds, the Soul Locking Lingzhu replied: "Yes, Bayan..."

Xiao Ran felt that this answer lacked confidence, but it was finally an affirmative answer.

Shirley Yang looked at the steps around the stone wall and sighed: "It seems that the ghost cave people are not people who climbed from the ghost cave to the ground, but named after this huge cave as a holy place. The hole, where will it lead in the end?"

Hu Bayi stood on the edge of the cliff where Xiao Ran almost fell just now, took a look and quickly retreated: "Maybe it leads to hell, this hole makes the eyes dizzy just by looking at it."

Professor Chen shook his head when he heard what Hu Bayi said, and said, "Leader Hu's words have become a theory of ghosts and gods. This ghost cave must have been formed naturally. The ancients worshiped the uncanny workmanship of nature, so they regarded it as a miracle." , and took it as their clan name."

At this time, the searchlight flashed across the front, and the fat man suddenly exclaimed for everyone to see.In the center of the cave where the light reaches, a slightly raised stone beam hangs at the end of the cliff, looking from a distance like a slender finger protruding from the cliff.

The most important thing is that at the end of the stone beam, there is a huge log, like a giant tree cut from it, with a diameter of more than two meters.

The wood is kept in a natural state, with distinct branches and some green leaves standing on the branches.

Around the giant tree, more than a dozen large iron chains were wound around each other, binding the giant tree to the stone beam.On the giant tree, the devilish corpse-scented konjac grows entrenchedly, its whole body is emerald green, its petals are closed, and four bright red leaves surround the flower bud.The flower stem is as thick as a large bucket, and countless branches protrude from the root of the flower stem, tightly wrapped around the giant tree like those iron chains.

Hu Bayi stared, stuttering when he spoke: "This, this...is this the Kunlun sacred tree?! Xiao Ran, do you remember that I told you what my grandfather said in the underground fortress of Pengyuegou? Those. The most excellent coffin material is the shade wood, but there is actually another kind of divine wood on top of it, which is only recorded in ancient books. It is said that even if a section of this Kunlun sacred tree is cut, without sunlight and water and soil, It can also remain the same forever. If the corpse uses the Kunlun Shenmu as the coffin, it will be as immortal as the Shenmu. Is the corpse of the Queen Jingjue in this Kunlun Shenmu?!"

Shirley Yang looked at Hu Bayi curiously. Obviously, the words "Pengyuegou Underground Fortress" caught her attention, but she still focused on her eyes: "That's right, it was also mentioned in my father's research." Kunlun sacred tree. It is said that this tree has the same lifespan as Kunlun Mountain, and even the first emperor of Qin could not have dreamed of it. I did not expect Queen Jingjue to have such a skill to get the most expensive coffin in history."

Everyone in the archaeological team was very excited and wanted to go forward to find out in a hurry.Xiao Ran noticed that Professor Chen was agitated, and hurriedly supported the professor and shouted to everyone: "Don't go there! There is corpse-scented konjac on the Shenmu, which will take people's hearts away!"

Fatty and Hao Aiguo shouted almost at the same time: "What?!"

Hao Aiguo frowned and looked at the fat man, and said, "Xiao... Comrade Xiao Xiao, you are also from a family of archaeologists, how can you say such irresponsible words?"

Xiao Ran explained: "Mr. Hao, this kind of flower on the Shenmu is called corpse-scented konjac. It can confuse people through its smell and color, just like many plants have hallucinogenic effects. Don't approach it without authorization. You have to get rid of this thing first."

Upon hearing this, Professor Chen asked Xiao Ran, "These... are all told by your father, right?"

Just as Xiao Ran was about to answer, he felt a fresh fragrance rushing towards him.He looked at the corpse-scented konjac, and found that the magic flower had turned its head in their direction at some point.

(End of this chapter)