Tomb Raider: Villain System, Start with Umbrella Corporation

They were now in the underground palace of the main building, and the surrounding stone walls were made of volcanic rock to isolate Miluo.

The enclosed space is empty. Apart from the pillars connecting the upper and lower levels, there is a corridor connected by a stone door. At the end of the corridor is the main tomb chamber connected to the underground river and the front room used to store and organize coffins for transport into the main building.

According to the young man, the clan leader's secret chamber is on the side of the main tomb chamber. Zhang Musi, relying on his full equipment, is not afraid of the strong alkali at all. He strongly demands to visit the tower first and then go to the secret chamber. When the other two don't care, he votes unanimously in favor.

Entering the ancient building in a formal manner will not trigger strong alkaline gases. As rain washes the mountain, the inside of the mountain will also be covered with alkaline liquid, which lasts long enough to complete the burial activities.

The group continued to climb up along the rock studs along the original route without any hurry.

Zhang Musi suddenly remembered the strange plaque in front of the building at the bottom of the lake. He was confused when he saw it at that time. There was no need to dig a hole in the plaque anyway.

"Mute, what does the Fan Tianzi Bao on the plaque in the front building mean?"

Zhang Qiling gave him a strange look and then repeated "Fan Tianzi Bao"

"Yes, what does this mean?" Zhang Musi was confused. He couldn't even understand the literal meaning of the plaque.

"Fan Tianzi Bao" Zhang Qiling repeated it again with emphasis.

A sudden flash of inspiration came to my mind. Shit, it was "Turning the sky to protect oneself!"

Damn... I'm thinking too deeply...

So the couplet "Having already celebrated the victory at Yanran, I still think of reciting poems at Qufu" is a Northeastern dialect saying "Leave in a puff of smoke, and if there is trouble, go to the tiger and kill the enemy"

Shit, is this the Zhang family's style? If the enemy comes, I will just run away after they release smoke. This is a mistake. I thought I had changed the Zhang family's style, but it turns out that it is fundamentally wrong!

No wonder the name was Zhang, who would dare to write his real name? I'll give my ashes to Yang!

I have to say, this style is really to his taste. Since no one here is a good person, he feels relieved!

“The reason why the first floor is empty is…”

"It's faster to escape without obstacles."

"The reason why these Milotos are kept on the second floor is..."

“There’s nowhere to throw it.”

"What secrets are recorded in these densely packed words on the beam?"

"Those who trick people into opening these iron figurines will gain immortality."

“This statue…”

"What idol?"

"Isn't this human-faced turtle the totem of Shennong's country?"

"No, it's just a mascot sculpture made from the leftover scraps."

...

"How can this be auspicious?"

"Human Free from Ghosts and Gods (Human Face and Turtle Body)"

"Sorry…"

If the strong alkaline gas is the killer weapon to kill outsiders physically, then the mute tour guide's commentary is the sneak attack to break down the Zhang family's spiritual defense.

I thought that entering the Zhang family ancient building would open the door to the ultimate secrets of the world, witness countless cruel truths that subvert cognition, and listen to the roar from history in the long river.

After all! There are eight volumes in total in the notebook, and this building alone has written four volumes: "Yinshan Ancient Tower", "Qionglong Stone Shadow", "The Finale (Part 1)" and "The Finale (Part 2)".

So this building is a gathering place for puns?

Zhang Musi was a little out of breath when he reached the third floor. His eyes became dim because he couldn't eat the melon. He raised his arms weakly and pointed at the top of his head without hope. He said weakly, "Then these are the Thousand Hands that can't be buried."

The extremely high ceiling was interspersed with countless beams, forming a huge chessboard. In the middle grid, in the shadows of the beams, hung upside down were tens of thousands of wooden boxes of various sizes and shapes with patterns on them. It looked extremely spectacular at first glance.

But... hey...

"Puchi...cough" the blind man couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Zhang Musi's gaze drifted over slowly, watching the blind man holding the pillar with one hand, shaking wildly and laughing until tears were about to come out. Finally, hesitantly looked at Zhang Qiling, a cunning smirk on the corner of his serious face that he didn't have time to retract.

Great! I was actually deceived by a mute!

"Dumb! Your conscience is seriously broken!"

When the mute saw that he was discovered, he simply rolled his eyes and made no secret of his contempt for Zhang Muchi's intelligence.

In a word, Jiumen's death was not unjust... The mute looked handsome, who would have thought he could lie! I would rather believe that Chenpi was a vegetarian and did not kill than believe that the mute would lie.

This matter can't be solved without a fight!

Zhang Musi didn't hesitate at all, he leaned forward and punched the mute in the face, but the mute dodged easily, and Zhang Musi's movements were synchronized as if in a mirror, in the same direction. The two of them circled around the mascot crazily, and the mute didn't feel guilty at all, and after circling three times, he directly fought back.

"Mute! You bully me in front of our ancestors? Is there any justice in this world?"

bang bang

"Ancestors! Help! Zhang Qiling is bullying his own people!"

bang bang bang...

You know what, this shout really worked. The mute hit harder and harder. Zhang Musi is not used to being sick. Can't you fight?

Then I'll just admit my mistake and see how you respond!

The mute looked at the man in front of him with a sincere attitude and standard posture, and finally put down his fist.

Ha, done! That’s it!

Zhang Musi was very proud and had no sense of shame at all. He shook off the dust on his body and became the upright and unrestrained man again.

"So what's going on? You haven't been lying to me this whole time."

"The plaques and inscriptions on the beams in the front building are indeed real, but the first floor is empty..." Zhang Qiling thought for a moment, with a look of disgust as if he wanted to say a lot. "In order to cut off the dragon vein, the materials used in the underground palace are all stones that the Miluotuo in the mountains shuttle through. They can absorb the dragon vein to the maximum extent. Part of it is supplied to the ancient coffins in the underground palace, and the other part of the energy is conducted upward through several pillars and consumed by the corpses of the rest of the Zhang family."

In other words, the entire Zhang family ancient building is like a huge hamster wheel, and the corpses stored in it are little hamsters, placed in the position of "knocking bones and sucking marrow" in the dragon vein, constantly absorbing and consuming, and finally cutting off the dragon vein.

"How was this done?" This is what Zhang Musi is most concerned about. He wants to avoid any possible threats in the future.

"The side effect of the Zhang family's longevity is that they will transform into corpses. I don't know the specific principle, but if the corpses are placed on the ancient building of the dragon vein, after a period of time, most of the corpses will enter the process of self-dissolution and finally turn into bones. A very small number of them will take a very long time."

"The power brought by the dragon vein is special. Outsiders are not allowed to enter the Zhang family's ancient building, mainly because the Zhang family's ancient building cannot be seen by others."

"What does it mean?"

"Everything here on the dragon vein decays very quickly. When this ancient building decays completely, it means that the dragon vein is dead. The first floor is empty because there is no place to put anything."

After saying that, Zhang Qiling sighed and leaned against the pillar with a look of emptiness on his face. Zhang Musi still had a hundred questions in his mind, such as the right hand he brought back, why it decayed faster, and where were the decayed ancient buildings before...

When I turned around, I saw that the mute had closed his eyes and refused to say another word.

"That…"

"I have lost my memory!" The mute interrupted Zhang Musi's words before he could even open his mouth.

Seeing him closing his eyes and looking like a rogue who would not say another word, Zhang Musi pointed at the mute with trembling fingers, but he was at a loss as to what to do.

You...I...eh...

孽 孽!