[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

"I smell strong alkali again." Gu Ran smiled, moved his hands, and pointed the flashlight forward, "We're here."

A huge ancient building stands not far away, it looks extremely old in the darkness, and there are many unspeakable secrets buried there.

"Ancient Zhang family building..." Wu Xie almost squeezed out these words from his throat.

The fat man patted Wu Xie, and he did the same, trembling all over.

Finally arrived, Gu Ran lay on the ground and looked at the building not far away with his head tilted, feeling a sense of difficulty.

"Zhang Qiling!" Wu Xie shouted suddenly, Gu Ran was taken aback, and then heard Wu Xie's voice echoing in the empty cave, but there was no answer, the echo disappeared, and the whole space returned to a kind of cold silence Among them, it was so quiet that it made people panic.

"Let's go." The fat man patted Wu Xie on the shoulder, then came over and pulled Gu Ran up, "You have to see it with your own eyes, whether it's dead or alive, besides, didn't Gu Ran say that the little brother is still alive. "

The door of the Zhang family's ancient building was gray and white, covered with dust, and rotted so badly that it could be seen that it was pitch black inside, just like what they saw in the mirror above, and there was absolutely no light from the flashlight.

The fat man noticed that some dust on the window had been wiped off, he stepped forward and pushed the door open.

The creaking sound of the door hinge made one's teeth ache, and it was even more uncomfortable in this environment where so many dead people were buried.

The fat man and Wu Xie looked at each other, the fat man made a gesture of "please first", Wu Xie said, "Didn't you always take the lead in the past?" In fact, it was usually Gu Ran who took the lead and the fat man supported, but now Gu Ran is injured. Heavy, it's fine if he doesn't lie directly on the ground, so naturally he can't be allowed to charge forward again.

"You two don't give way, let me do it." Gu Ran pushed a person's shoulder away with one hand, and walked into the ancient building of the Zhang family from between the two of them.

There is nothing on this floor, only equipment scattered on the floor in the middle of the room.

The three walked over, and the fat man squatted on the ground, trying to grab a bag, but Gu Ran stopped him, pointed at the white powder on the bag and said, "Don't touch it, it's a strong alkali powder, shake it up, you The airway is burned out."

The fat man withdrew his hand, and after realizing it, he said: "I said why your voice feels hoarse. I thought you were injured, and the co-author has already been hit by a trick."

"All their things are here, where are the people?" Wu Xie asked.

Gu Ran bent down to look at the equipment, and instructed the fat man to sweep away the dust on it. Then he saw clearly that many bags were opened. After checking, he found that the gas mask and flashlight were not there, so he should have packed lightly.

The surrounding environment is clear at a glance. The three people carefully inspected such a large building several times but found no stairs. The fat man muttered: "Could it be that the stairs are outside the ancient building? There is a special purpose in the design of the ancient building. The staircase for viewing the view, winding up the ancient building.”

"Impossible. If it was outside, Dumb Zhang and the others wouldn't put their equipment here. It must not be far from the stairs." Gu Ran shook his head in denial. It would be too risky to put the equipment here before going out to find the stairs. They must be The equipment was disassembled only after finding the stairs to go up.

"Wu Xie, is there a saying in Fengshui that some buildings have to abolish the stairs for the sake of Fengshui's breaking and erecting, or not put the stairs on the bright side?" Gu Ran asked suddenly after turning around twice.

Wu Xie nodded: "It should be an invisible staircase, let's look for it."

There are a few pillars in the building that are very strange, they look like load-bearing pillars, so they ignored them at first, but after a closer look, these beads are carved with unicorns, and the heads of unicorns are very prominent, this should be what they are looking for up the stairs.

Copy of Zhang Family Ancient Building 12

The fat man kicked the pillar a few times, then quickly hid aside, and waited for the dust on it to fall to the ground before climbing up, covering his mouth and nose with his clothes.

The position of Qilin's head is very easy to climb, and it will reach the top in a short while.

"Don't touch the top." Gu Ran stood below and looked at it and said suddenly, "The top should be stuck. If you push the upper floor, the dust will fall off. The Zhang family won't take the pillars when you two get down. If it is designed as a staircase, going back to the ancestral house is like picking the lock by sliding the door, it is too unsightly and does not conform to the tonality of their feudal big family, this pillar may have another name."

The fat man was on the top, even if Gu Ran reminded him, he could not help but inhale some dust. After coming down, he felt a little itchy throat and started coughing.

"Slow down your breathing and try to inhale as little dust as possible, otherwise your internal organs will rot if you stay for a long time." Gu Ran reminded.

With a sudden click, the head of the unicorn that the fat man had stepped on before moved, and a staircase descended from above.

"The reaction of his mechanism is slow enough." Gu Ran was dumbfounded, "Go up and have a look."

The three of them walked up cautiously. When they reached the second floor, they took a flashlight and saw hundreds of shelves in many layers, full of iron servants lying on them.

Iron servants are arranged radially at one point, presenting a complete set of Fuxi's 64 hexagrams.

"Great." Gu Ran marveled, "There are so many Miluotuo here, the Zhang family is really awesome."

This floor is the same as the one below, with four huge pillars and a lot of messy footprints on the ground. It's hard to tell where Zhang Qiling and the others went up from, so they can only search bit by bit.

The fat man scanned the beam above with a flashlight, and there were many strange characters densely drawn on it. The systems of these characters were different, and they seemed to come from different places.

The fat man stopped and said: "It seems that my speculation is correct. As the most primitive family of tomb robbers, the Zhang family may be the only people in the world who understand the truth of Chinese history. They have sealed all the secrets they brought out from the Inversion. In this ancient building of the Zhang family."

Gu Ran said: "The Zhang family has a very long history, and they participated in almost every dynasty you can think of. What is engraved on it is not necessarily the record of the inversion, but it may also be discovered from other sources. In short, , all the lost prehistoric civilizations you can think of may be here. There are inscriptions and other texts here, which should be different civilizations from different regions and tribes at that time."

"Then if we go up, aren't we getting away from the biggest secret?" Wu Xie asked.

"The biggest secret is not here." Gu Ran shook his head, "It's already in the early Spring and Autumn Period here, and longevity occurs earlier than this, and it doesn't exist in this building."

"You know?" Wu Xie asked suspiciously.

Gu Ran nodded without hesitation: "As I said, I also entered a place in the Zhang family, but not this building. I learned the truth about longevity in the place I went."

The fat man said: "What is it that doesn't last forever? You two stop chattering. Isn't the main task of the three of us saving people? Let's find a way and go up. The little brother and the others must be on the top."

On the west side of the building, I found the mechanism to go up. Fatty went up first. There was no iron servant on this floor. Instead, there was a huge tortoise with a human face and a woman's face. The front legs ended with human hands, and the hind legs were The tortoise's feet, there is a depression on the back of the tortoise, and there is a black ball inside, which seems to be removable.

The fat man was amazed when he saw the stone statue, but he knew something. This thing was the national emblem of the Shiren Kingdom, a descendant of Shennong.

Wu Xie and Fatty were studying the embossed decoration on this floor, when Gu Ran suddenly coughed, and blood oozes from the crevices of his fingers covering his mouth.

Wu Xie quickly took the water bottle and asked him to rinse his mouth: "Are you okay?"

Gu Ran waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, if it weren't for the serious internal injury, the strong alkali dust here wouldn't have such a big impact on me."

The fat man was worried: "Let's move quickly, if we stay longer, we will be like this sooner or later."

"You guys find the way up, I'll just rest for a while." Gu Ran stood on the spot and rested for a while, it was also raining at night because of the leak in the room, basically all the medicine he made was given to Xie Yuchen and Zhang Qiling.When he came out of Miluotuo Cave, he was determined to die. Before entering the ancient building of the Zhang family, he didn't care whether he could get out alive, so he didn't save himself the most effective wound medicine.

It's good now, he has to make sure that he gets out alive, and he has to rescue Zhang Qiling again.

Fatty and Wu Xie searched around, and found Zhang Qiling and the others walking around in one place, but there was nothing around.

Seeing the two of them standing in an open space studying something, Gu Ran was about to walk over to have a look, when he heard a series of voices, he immediately looked up to where the voices came from, and with the light of the flashlight on, he found several hangers hanging on the ceiling. Thousands of little boxes.

"Damn it, the Zhang family has a collection habit, what is this?" Gu Ran almost yelled, he really didn't understand the brain circuit of the Zhang family, what kind of things could be collected by tens of thousands, and they were hanging from the ceiling to play tricks ?

The fat man pulled out the assault|forward|gun: "Just shoot one and see. Which one do you want to see? You choose one, and I will show you the skills of the fat man, so you can walk through Yang with a hundred steps."

Gu Ran casually pointed to the distance: "That's it."

The fat man raised his hand and shot, and the box on the ceiling in the distance fell to the ground and rolled a few times on the ground.

The three of them immediately covered their mouths and noses, and waited for the dust to dissipate before going over. After picking up the box, the fat man knocked it open and fell to the ground, only to find that it was a withered hand with two oddly long fingers.

Gu Ran frowned, it was obviously Zhang's family's hand, but why did they chop it off?

The fat man knocked down a few more, all of which were dry hands, some of which were completely rotten, with only a few bones left, but it could be seen that they all had two strangely long fingers.

Wu Xie looked at the top of his head and said: "This should be a Tezuka. These hands have the obvious characteristics of the Zhang family. There are so many of them and they are of different ages.