Tomb Raider: Villain System, Start with Umbrella Corporation

The so-called Nine Springs are huge underground rivers spread deep underground in the Eurasian continent. These underground rivers are connected to each other, but the connection method is not as simple as the direct flow of main streams on the ground. There are countless bottomless abysses that cannot be explored even with the most advanced technology. This place is like a "back chamber" of nature wrapped in the center of the earth.

Here, although Chang Shenxian is special, he is no exception. If he still wants to retain the few remaining human characteristics, he will never be able to cross a section of the dark river.

According to historical records, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor "dug three springs, laid copper to make the outer coffin..." This was the limit of how deep ancient humans could explore underground, or in other words, the limit of how deep humans could go under the dragon veins. This was a watershed.

In folk legends, it is said that after passing the Ghost Gate, one will reach the Yellow Springs, and once one crosses the Yellow Springs, there is no turning back, and one is separated from the Yin and Yang. Perhaps it can also be understood that once one crosses the Yellow Springs, one is no longer a human being.

When Wu Xie woke up on the blind man's back, he saw the blazing light of a fire ahead. Looking at the two-person team, he vaguely felt as if something was missing, but he didn't ask.

Now that he has come this far, he has to accept whatever happens. Besides, with Hei Xia Zi here, his judgment is always clear and definite compared to his own inappropriate indecision at certain moments.

"Can you see?"

The blind man nodded, looked into the distance through the layers of fog, and said to Wuxie, "We don't have much time. We must cross the depths of Huangquan before our memories completely disappear."

The blind man did not mention the fact that the immortal had been here and that there was a diamond in his brain. Then the two of them ran wildly all the way and fell into danger several times. Thanks to the diamond, they escaped danger.

After crossing the Yellow Spring, the blind man looked back where he came from. The clearly visible scene turned into a void. Everything in the world seemed to be cut off. The lost memories flooded back into his mind like a river. Scenes of the past passed by before his eyes, but it seemed as if there was a layer of glass between them and he could not touch them.

The fifth spring is the Yin Spring. Memories that do not belong to him begin to flash in the blind man's mind. From ancient times to the present, countless memory fragments appear before his eyes like fragments of chapters, and his vision becomes unusually clear.

In Tantric Buddhism, lamas believe that eyes can be divided into seven realms. The first is ordinary human eyes. The second is called "original eyes", instinctive eyes, which are as sharp as wild animals. Because they are not polluted by the secular world, their vision range is much larger than that of humans. This range does not refer to the depth of vision, but the ability to capture things that normal people cannot see.

The blind man's original eyes belonged to the second type, "natural eyes", but at this moment, his eyes became the third type, "celestial eyes", which could see the past and future lives of all beings in the two worlds.

Under this vision, he couldn't see himself, but in his eyes, Wuxie had turned into another form, not like a rice dumpling or a deformed horror, but a mixture of life energy.

This matter started with the largest tomb-robbing activity. In the Qianli Lock in Siguniang Mountain, they not only found the Warring States silk book, but also a bronze lotus platform similar to the one in Wang Canghai's tomb, with 9 corpse-eating pills placed on it.

Not surprisingly, except for Blackback Old Six who had been pushed under the guillotine by Zhang Qishan and Xie Jiu, several of the Nine Gates' top leaders joined forces to steal it and took the elixir of immortality at a Nine Gates gathering.

The only one left was used by Zhang Qishang as a step to climb up, which started the suffering of several generations that the Nine Gates had always talked about.

Since the medicine has side effects, what happens if it is inherited? The second generation of the nine people who should have been shot according to the law became the test subjects of the genetic opening.

However, the organization did not expect that the external environment would change so quickly. After that incident, the situation in the entire China was reversed in an instant, and they had no spare energy to carry out the original plan until the Wang family and Qiu Dekao appeared.

But the experiment failed before it even started. However, in a corner that they didn't pay attention to, a set of experiments was quietly carried out without anyone noticing.

In the bloody corpse tomb of Biaoziling in Changsha, Wu Laogou was the only one left in the Wu family, and the seeds of immortality were also found in that ancient tomb. That is to say, when Jiumen took the corpse-eating pill on Siguniang Mountain, Wu Laogou's body had already been transformed and he gave birth to Wu Yiqiong. Wuxie is the third generation inherited from the corpse-eating pill.

Corpse-changing grass, Qilin jelly, pheromones of endless memory, golden water of Leicheng stone coffin...

Now he is like a complex washed by countless memories and consciousnesses, becoming the most shining sacrifice in this underground world that devours memories.

If we use the scene from a horror movie to describe him, he is like a shell of flesh, with countless souls imprisoned inside, entangled and twisted with each other.

The blind man took one look and felt as if his soul was being torn apart.

"Go, I don't have much time."

"What do you mean?" Wuxie was stunned. The blind man's eyes had recovered, and he thought that at least two of them could see the destination that everyone else had reached.

"The recovery of your eyes is only temporary." The blind man explained as they headed towards the sixth spring, Youquan.

"I can't say more about the specifics." The blind man pointed to his head.

"But there is still some time." The blind man laughed sarcastically, "I hope to get you as close as possible, so that our relationship as master and disciple will not be in vain."

As soon as they crossed the Youquan, an expected person was standing not far away waiting for them.

"Qi Yu!" Wu Xie's eyes were red with anger, and he shouted angrily, "You are the one who caused all this trouble!"

"That's right~" The little black man Qi Yu has shed his human skin and seems to have completely lost his human form.

In the blind man's eyes, Qi Yu's life form is much simpler than Wuxie's, but this does not mean that his risk as a tribute is lower than Wuxie. On the contrary, he has already reached the second level of sacrifice.

The blind man was mentally prepared. The words "outside of the subjective will" from the immortal Chang made him realize that there was not just one cause of the chaos here. Countless devoured corpses and the remaining soul energy of life gathered into a signal source without self-awareness, constantly interfering with their progress. Among them, the most powerful and malicious one towards them, apart from the subject, was Qi Yu, the only one with subjective consciousness.

From the moment he entered the Black Mountains, he was always full of hostility towards them.

"It seems like you are more informed than the blind man." The blind man happily took out a cigarette from his pocket and said, "Can you share it, buddy?"

"You are Qi..."

“Hey, hey, hey! Although we are from the same clan, please don’t call out my glorious name.”

Qi Yu suddenly let out a shrill laugh, and it sounded like countless bugs were gnawing at his skull. "I never expected it, I never expected it."

"The great Living Buddha Jingjian has become like me."

Wu Xie was stunned, "What is Jingjian Living Buddha?"

Having come this far, Qi Yu was in a very good mood. He sat cross-legged on one side, tilted his head, and stared at Wuxie sinisterly for a long time.

"You really don't know anything?"

As he spoke, a dark claw-like hand leaped out from above his head, and the five fingers were put together to make a pointed gesture.

"What is that? Peacock dance? Peacock King?" Wuxie looked the blind man up and down in confusion. "Fuck, I said you are a peacock spreading its tail. Damn, this is a legacy. How can you be called a living Buddha?"

“Is the threshold for religious circles so low now?”