Tomb Raider: Villain System, Start with Umbrella Corporation

Zhang Musi's mouth was dry and his legs were trembling as he walked into the door. When he saw the door closed, he was about to cry out loud.

Even though he was sure that the door was safe, he couldn't resist the fear.

There was nothingness before his eyes, a foggy darkness, with a few pots of fire illuminating only a small area. The ghost soldiers continued to advance in the nothingness. He quickly took something like a bonfire and followed their footsteps.

The information said that the world behind the door is nothingness, and only the fire of truth can illuminate the truth.

Under Zhang Muchi's pajamas was a battle armor that was enough to sustain his survival for half a month. The structure of the golden bug determined that he would not be invaded by any foreign objects, nor would he be affected by insensitive deviations. However, these equipments that were equipped for safety reasons brought him great panic here.

The situation in front of me was too weird. The area illuminated by the "real fire" was a hollow structure in the mountain. It was unremarkable. I could see that there were still gravels and bumps on the road under my feet, but outside the clear outline formed by the light, there was nothingness like space, as if space did not exist.

This feeling first brings about a deviation, as if one has strayed into a two-dimensional world, where only the areas touched by the brushstrokes exist, and everything outside the picture is nothingness.

Zhang Musi was extremely sure that this feeling was not a visual impression deviation caused by the darkness, because when he shone the real fire forward, the ghost soldiers marching in front of him suddenly disappeared, and there was nothing but gravel on the ground. Even after the fire faded, they still moved forward unaware.

This "fire of truth" must have worked. After circling a huge circle, the Yin soldiers moved forward. Zhang Muchi's raised foot suddenly froze in mid-air.

In the area illuminated by the fire, there was a bottomless abyss under his feet. There was nothing when he stepped on it, but the ghost soldiers advanced forward as if they were walking on flat ground.

After thinking for a while, he tentatively moved the fire away. When he stepped back to the original place, he could clearly feel the hard rock under his feet.

This is a chaotic space. Zhang Muchi realized that he was in a chaotic state of yin and yang. Two different spatial forms coexisted in superposition. In the past, old people often said that yin and yang were different paths, and people in the yang world would never return once they entered the underworld.

All detection tools frequently reported errors in this chaotic state, and Zhang Musi had to move forward based on his own judgment.

With the faint light, Zhang Musi carefully searched everywhere for traces. Sure enough, he found a bronze carved object the size of a flower bed embedded in the ground, extending all the way into the abyss.

Below the abyss was a chain that led to an unknown place. He pulled it tentatively, but the chain did not move. He touched the equipment on his body, and then he felt a little relieved. He stepped off the cliff, climbed the chain and walked down to the abyss step by step.

The chain is wide enough to circumvent a person, making it easier to climb than a ladder.

After climbing for an unknown amount of time, he discovered that the walls around him began to change. Layers of copper sheets were inlaid on the rock wall. The further down he went, the denser the copper sheets became. After just a few steps, the exposed rocks were no longer visible; they were completely covered by layers of bronze sheets.

The descending chain has already been embedded into the mountain here.

Although he couldn't determine the distance, he knew that this depth was beyond the limit that a normal human body could withstand.

He could clearly feel the blood in his body starting to heat up, and a complete tattoo emerged from his body. He could confirm that the shape of this tattoo was definitely not a small piece formed by the daily heat of blood, but a huge pattern spread all over his body.

This is a special change that will only occur under ground pressure. In ancient times, there was a special burial method in which the coffin needed to be buried at least several thousand meters underground. Since ancient times, such tombs have allowed people to enter but not exit. Any tomb robbers who enter such ancient tombs will, without exception, die on the way out of the tomb, with blood vessels bursting and their hearts stopping. However, no matter how they explore, they cannot find any mechanisms or traps. Even the explorers moved repeatedly nearby and did not find any. This tomb, which seems to be cursed by the tomb owner, is called the "Jedi Tiantong" in the burial scriptures. It is a tomb that is absolutely impossible to enter.

In fact, the real reason is the expansion syndrome caused by ground pressure disorder. The human body has no obvious perception of this, but once it returns to an area more than 3,000 meters above the ground, the blood in the whole body will immediately boil like boiling water.

Even now, there is no particularly effective treatment. This is the limit that Wang Zanghai and Chen Wenjin have reached.

The area further down is not accessible to anyone except the Zhang family. The Zhang family's extremely strong heart and heartbeat like a mountain are adapted to this kind of ground pressure.

"buzz"

Suddenly, the empty mountain was filled with dense sounds, as if countless people were talking at the same time, but it did not sound like noisy whispers. It felt more like a huge prayer wheel, echoing like countless Taoist monks chanting mantras.

This kind of echo seems to arouse the "devil" in people's hearts. Countless moments in life that can arouse strong emotional fluctuations are repeatedly echoing in the mind, causing people's spirits to fall into violent fluctuations, and a slight carelessness will lead to mental breakdown.

The roaring sound of a huge prayer wheel came from all directions. The deeper you go, the louder the sound. This place is deep underground. Unlike the bell-shaped music-collecting instruments in Leicheng, the upper space here is a normal shelter, and there is no wind. Where does this sound come from?

Zhang Muchi covered his ears tentatively, but the seal still irresistibly penetrated into his mind, as if a group of monks were chanting scriptures in his skull. The longer the time went on, the more he felt as if his internal organs were coming alive and were about to break out of his flesh, similar to the process of becoming an immortal, with the skin turning into the immortal's molting, and the organs and soul condensing into an immortal body.

Zhang Musi thought for a moment and remembered a theory mentioned by Shirley Yang.

Even in the dead silence of an ancient tomb, there is a "sound". From the distant past to the endless future, there is a sound that no one can hear, and it has always existed in the world.

Just because we can't hear anything doesn't mean there is no sound. That is the echo from the earth's rotation. However, after billions of years of evolution, humans, all living things, and even plants have adapted to the echo and vibration from the earth, so they "turn a deaf ear to it."

The huge bronze device underground is exactly an inverted thunder-listening device, but what it listens to is not thunder, but the sound of the underground.

Zhang Musi stopped in his tracks, he noticed something strange and different. According to Wang Canghai and Zhang Qiling, at this stage where he was able to hear the mantra, he should be able to feel those moments in his memory that were enough to cause emotional fluctuations. They had repeatedly told him to control his mind, and the side effect of Zhang family's Canghai Flower in clearing away the memory of emotional fluctuations was for this moment.

When this stage is over, he will see the Ultimate.

"Ultimate" is not their way of being mysterious, but it is something that cannot be said in a realistic sense. Once it is said, it will lead to unacceptable consequences.

The difference is that apart from the physical changes, Zhang Musi's mind does not have any memory fragments except the sounds, as if he was just born.

Not knowing what caused the abnormality, he continued to descend tentatively. Finally, a voice calling him appeared in his mind.

But it didn't seem like it was calling his name, the voice said.

"Zhang Musi"

In the next instant, he lost consciousness, as if his soul had left his body and fell into darkness.

Before he lost consciousness, he cursed in his heart, "Damn it! You really can't trust the news from heresy!"