[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

He also looked at Master Liang, he is not that familiar with history, looking at this bronze tree, it is already amazing to be able to recognize something from the pre-Qin period.

Master Liang spread his hands and said, "This thing can't be seen with the naked eye, so I can only guess it for you. You can see that the rust color is black and gray. It may be one of tin bronze, lead-tin bronze and lead bronze. It is a possibility of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The biggest, maybe [-]%. I can’t say the other [-]%, you also know the rules of our industry, I know these are good, and I can only talk about it in depth.”

Master Liang's judgment is well-founded, but the more important problem is that this bronze tree is too big. With the level of craftsmanship of the ancients, it is almost impossible to use traditional techniques to make a mold first, and then cast the finished product. Only possible with a new process.Another more important issue is that this bronze tree consumes a lot of materials. Whether such a large amount of metal could be smelted during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties is still open to question.

In any case, this bronze tree can already be called a miracle. This should be the center of the entire ancient tomb, and it is also the last thing guarded by the ancestors of the She Kingdom. Then, according to what Boss Li said before, this tomb is even worse than the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. Awesome, there should be many treasures, but they didn't find any artifacts along the way.

It can only be explained that the baby is related to this bronze tree.

Wu Xie thought for a while, and said to the three of them: "Is it possible that what Li Pipa can see is related to this bronze tree? There is nothing else nearby. Why don't you go to the tree and see if it is hidden by a treasure?" In the tree?"

Of course the old itchy agreed, and said: "It's all about this, it's no big deal to climb a few steps, there are so many sticks on it, it's like climbing stairs, you don't need to use much effort."

Although Master Liang was forced to come here by the three of them, he has come here, and he is really unwilling not to go up the tree to see what treasures are there. He also nodded and said: "The last level is up, so I have to go up to see what treasures are there. .”

The three of Wu Xie all looked at Gu Ran. He is the strongest fighting force in this team, and he was the leader all along the way. Naturally, he should listen to his opinion at this time.

Gu Ran pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Then go up and have a look."

Gu Ran still took the lead and ran up the tree. The density of branches here is just right, which is very suitable for climbing. Wu Xie, as the second strongest among the four, put on gloves and followed Gu.After all, climbing up was quite exhausting. After climbing for a while, Master Liang's physical strength could no longer hold up, and his old itchy legs were trembling, so the four of them stopped to rest.

Gu Ran looked at the distance between himself and the three people behind him, climbed two steps down, moved closer to Wu Xie, and whispered in a voice that Lao Ti and Master Liang couldn't hear: "I want to go up to have a look, I just now I remembered some pictures, this tree, I have been there before, I have an intuition, there is something I want to know."

Wu Xie said suspiciously: "We will eventually climb to the top."

"Think about our experience along the way. Which is more dangerous, this tomb or the tomb under the sea? Why have people been to the tomb under the sea, but there is almost no news here?" Gu Ran pointed to the tree. You may not be able to reach the top of the tree."

Wu Xie thought about it for a while. Indeed, the undersea tomb has organs, forbidden women, drought scorpions, and zongzi. Except for Zhe Luo frog and corpse array, there is almost no danger here. It is impossible for the owner of the tomb to have no design in this regard.It is only possible that these things are on the top of the bronze tree, guarding the most important treasure.If Gu Ran's guess is true, then the three of them will indeed hold back.

"And..." Gu Ran hesitated for a moment, "If it's just you, it's fine, Lao You and Master Liang, I don't want them to know too much about me."

Wu Xie thought for a while, then asked in a low voice: "You seem to be very wary of the old itch all the way, but Master Liang, you are quite at ease."

Gu Ran sighed, and knocked Wu Xie on the head resentfully, "Master Liang is a man who takes money to do things. He followed us, to put it bluntly, just to make money. This man has good eyesight. I don't want to He won't ask about what you tell him, and he won't have any wrong thoughts. Even if you really let him know something, you can settle it with money after you go out.

But Old Itch is different, you recall, he has too many flaws.According to my guess, his purpose is to let you go to this tomb, but I don't know what he is planning. "

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Wu Xie fell into deep thought. As Gu Ran said, this old tick has been lying to him all the way.Lao Xie is not as smart as the third uncle, so his lies have many loopholes, but the journey along the way is too hasty, Wu Xie didn't calm down and think about it.

At the beginning, Lao You said to go to the funeral pit, but judging from his deeds later, his goal was this tomb.And Wu Xie suspects that Lao You has already passed down this tomb, otherwise it would be impossible to explain that he remembered the way in many places on the road.

The biggest flaw in Old Itching came at the beginning, but at that time Wu Xie's attention was all attracted by the hexagonal copper bell, and he ignored the loopholes in Old Itching's words.According to Lao You, he wants money, 400 million. Wu Xie can't get the money, but Gu Ran can. He risked his life to come to Qinling.

It can only show that the old itch has a purpose other than money.And this purpose should be related to Wu Xie, as Gu Ran said, Old Itch needs Wu Xie to go to the grave together, and he doesn't want Gu Ran to get involved.So what things in the tomb must be done by Wu Xie, but Gu Ran can't know?

Gu Ran saw that Wu Xie was frowning tightly, and rubbed his head: "I've already arrived here, and I will soon know the purpose of Old Itch. I have observed it, and his skills are about the same as yours. You should be on guard against him. Nothing will happen in time. Did you bring the poisonous needle belt I gave you in the corpse field? Once the old itching changes, do it quickly. That thing doesn’t kill you, it just makes him lose his mobility. I have an antidote.”

Wu Xie scratched her head in embarrassment: "I used it when I was in Lu Palace, that is when you and my brother separated from us."

Gu Ran said, "Wait a minute." He rummaged through his bag, and took out a box of poisonous needles and a very short dagger. After thinking for a while, he pulled out a small hollow metal ball and handed it over to him. To Wu Xie, "The dagger also has this kind of poison, so I'll give it to you. If something happens, you can put a drop of your blood into this ball. There are Gu worms raised by me inside, so you can contact me. I can feel something wrong with you."

Wu Xie took it, put the things in his pocket, and nodded.

Gu Ran patted Wu Xie on the shoulder: "I'm going up, pay attention to safety." As soon as the words fell, Gu Ran grabbed the bronze branch and climbed up. The speed was extremely fast, faster than when he took Wu Xie and the others to climb together. How many times, there was no one in the blink of an eye.

The bronze tree below is easy to climb, Gu Ran was guarding against the old itches, and wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible, almost using all his strength to climb up.Soon, Gu Ran found that the bronze branches above were getting denser and denser, and there was no way to climb against the trunk, so he could only hang upside down and climb up by stepping on the tip of the branches.

Gu Ran climbed out of the branches, calculated the distance, and thanked Er Yuehong in his heart who had taught him light-weight kung fu. Without his help, it would have been difficult to climb up this section.Gu Ran's speed slowed down. This section of the road was very difficult for Wu Xie and the three of them, and it was impossible to catch up.

After climbing up for a few minutes, Gu Ran saw many mummified corpses with masks hanging on them not far away. The hands and feet of these mummified corpses were stuck in the branches, and their faces were all facing down. fall off by gravity.Gu Ran took a look and felt that these things seemed to be staring at him.

Gu Ran climbed up cautiously, approached a mummy, and took off the mask on its face with force. Although the face of the mummy had shrunk and looked very hideous, it could be seen that it was a person.

There are so many dead people hanging densely on this bronze tree.

Gu Ran suddenly felt that there was something strange about the mask in his hand. The mask didn't have a string, and it wasn't fixed on the face by external objects. It could only be that there was something strange about the mask itself.Moreover, the shape of this mask is very strange. At the back of the mouth, there is a small spiral protrusion with a small hole on it, which is directly stuffed into the mouth.

Gu Ran tore off the mask from the hole, revealing a section of something like a crab's foot, Gu Ran pulled it out, it was a petrified insect.There was only half of the worm, and Gu Ran shone the mummy's mouth with a flashlight, and sure enough, there was another half of the worm in the mouth, which was inserted into the throat.

This is the bug of ethnic minorities.

Gu Ran had seen similar things in a tomb in Yunnan. These insects would crawl on people without anyone noticing, ranging from being controlled by people to being directly killed, which is very evil.The insect Gu on the mask was Chi Gu, he had seen it before, this kind of insect could crawl into a person's body through the mask, and a person could not take off this mask for a lifetime, and his behavior was controlled by the insect.

It is probably designed to protect the bronze tree, and the person who wears the mask becomes the guardian.

Gu Ran threw away the mask and bugs in his hand, took out a piece of blood-stained gauze from his bag, tore it into two pieces, and wrapped it around his hands.This was blood from Zhang Qiling's body when he was in Lu Palace.Fortunately, he didn't just throw it away at the time, so he brought it back this time.

I hope dumb Zhang's blood can also repel insects after it dries up.

Gu Ran crawled over these mummy corpses and beat them up with a flashlight. About 70 to [-] meters up, the bronze tree trunk was covered with this Chi Gu mask.The bugs in those masks should all be alive, there are too many of them, even if they are for the blood vessels of the dumb ones, that part of the road is too difficult.