Tomb Raider: The Fox's Ways to Seducing the Kirin

"Also, you exceeded the Fenghou Qimen limit again today."

Cheng Ji's body stiffened when he heard that. He still remembered the pain from the previous fifteen days vividly. Not only his buttocks, but his whole body felt like it had been taken apart and reassembled. Not a single part was in good condition. He didn't want to try this life-threatening feeling again. It was already a huge torture to have experienced it once.

Cheng Ji made the right decision almost before his words could stop his brain. He removed Fenghou Qimen and decisively changed the subject, saying, "Brother, let's hurry up. After this matter is settled, we have to hurry to Gutongjing. Zhang Qishan will panic after taking the Corpse-Eating Pill. He even collected information about Gutongjing so much in advance. I'm afraid he will start the plan ahead of time, and then we won't have enough time, and there will be trouble again."

After all, business was more important. Zhang Qiling nodded in agreement with the young man and said nothing else. He then took the young man's hand and walked in the direction that the two brothers Cheng An and Cheng Wei had just explored.

After turning two corners, they arrived at the passage that had just stopped Cheng An and the other man.

The entire passage was dim and pitch black. Even when Cheng An shone the flashlight over there, there was no light at all. Fearing for further accidents, Cheng An and Cheng Wei did not move forward. Instead, they chose to go back and inform Cheng Ji and Zhang Qiling of what they had discovered and then discuss countermeasures.

After all, Cheng Ji has been joining in the fun for so many years, and he has already studied most of the ordinary mechanisms and formations, but he lacks passion for this industry. In addition, he is not short of money and is not interested in the things in the tombs. Therefore, under normal circumstances, he can rely on his two bugs of Fenghou Qimen and Guidao to control corpses and spirits to walk around in ordinary tombs, and there is no need to specially study more advanced mechanisms.

But now he was still in a dilemma. After all, he had just been warned about the upper limit of the number of times Fenghou Qimen could be used. If he used Fenghou Qimen again and brought bad luck, he might really die.

Cheng Ji turned his head and looked at Zhang Qiling in a serious manner. He cleared his throat and said, "Hey, brother, can you figure out how to solve this formation? If not, I can only..."

"Okay." Zhang Qiling didn't even give the young man a chance to finish his words. After all, he knew exactly what was going on in Cheng Ji's head. Fenghou Qimen could overlook the entire feng shui layout of the tomb and dominate every tree and grass in the entire space. Cheng Ji habitually put him under his protection and didn't want him to get hurt by unknown things.

When he didn't control the number of times the young man used Feng Hou Qimen, he was so careful that even a small scratch would make Cheng Ji think that it was caused by a problem he didn't notice.

In Zhang Qiling's opinion, Cheng Ji's idea is a bit morbid. It is a bad habit he developed a few years ago when he thought he did not belong to this world. It is not just doing things without regard for his own safety, but he does not think of himself as a living person.

Zhang Qiling has been helping the young man to correct this bad habit for a long time, and now it seems that the effect is obvious.

When Cheng Ji heard Zhang Qiling's reply, he curled his lips, but still stepped aside with trust so that Zhang Qiling could perform more stably.

Zhang Qiling walked to the tomb wall on the right side of the tomb passage and looked carefully at the patterns carved on the wall. They seemed strange but actually contained a mystery.

"Here." Zhang Qiling pointed to a deeply carved line on the tomb wall and said to the three people from the Cheng family.

Cheng Ji and the others came over as he said, and looked at the somewhat unique line with serious expressions. It was winding and even had varying numbers of circles carved next to each section of the line.

"It is a floor plan of this passage. The turns represent the direction, and the number of circles represents the number of steps to be taken."

Cheng Ji frowned and counted the steps he would take in a while, carefully memorizing the diagram. First, walk straight for three steps, then turn left for four steps, then turn right for fifteen steps, and finally turn left for thirteen steps...

The conditions are so stringent that the size of each step must be calculated precisely. If a step is different from the requirements, one may be trapped in this maze and unable to get out.

"Remember?" Zhang Qiling saw that the time was about right, so he asked. Cheng Ji had already stood beside Zhang Qiling, and Cheng An and the others turned their heads and nodded to Zhang Qiling when they heard Zhang Qiling's question, indicating that they were ready.

Zhang Qiling took the boy's hand and put it behind his back so that he could hold onto his clothes. He then gave him a worried look and said, "If you lose all senses after entering, follow the route you just remembered. I'll wait for you at the end."

Cheng Ji looked at Zhang Qiling, whose father-like attributes were gradually lighting up after spending so much time with him, and nodded with a smile in his eyes, indicating that he already knew.

After some simple preparations, the few of them entered the maze.

After entering, just as Zhang Qiling had said, he lost all his senses. Although his hand holding Zhang Qiling's clothes was still in place, he lost the sense of the hem after entering. His fingertips no longer had the touch of clothes, and he had no idea whether he was still holding on or whether he had been broken free.

The same is true for my feet. I have no idea where I am stepping and can only take a step and turn based on the force I have calculated.

I don’t know how long it took, but when Cheng Ji took the last step, the light in front of his eyes suddenly returned. At that moment, he fell accurately into a familiar embrace.

Cheng Ji looked up and kissed the thin lips that he had longed for, as if he hadn't seen her for a long time.

Of course, they could only do it briefly, as the time and place were not suitable for them to be more affectionate.

At the same time when Cheng Ji let go of Zhang Qiling after playing tricks on him, Cheng An and Cheng Wei stepped out of the mechanism one after the other.

Cheng An, who came out first, only had time to see the ending. He looked at Cheng Ji's rosy lips and shook his head regretfully.

It seems I can only wait until next time to go up to the roof.