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

Cheng Wei is not as honest as Cheng An.

Before being rescued by the Zhang family, he had been traveling for thousands of years and had seen too much. There were countless ways for him to pretend to be someone they were familiar with. Even people close to him might not be able to notice anything unusual in a short period of time, let alone a situation like them that they hadn't seen for thousands of years.

Cheng Wei pulled Cheng An out from behind Cheng Ji and walked a few steps forward, blocking Cheng Ji, who Cheng Nian'an didn't recognize, behind him. He then responded to what Cheng Nian'an had just said: "The situation was urgent at the time. Cheng Shuyu teamed up with a lot of people to mix in with the team, and also designed to use the Zhang family to lure my brother away. The tribesmen left in the team were basically children. Cheng Shuyu didn't take them seriously at all, so naturally she didn't care whether this group of people lived or died."

Cheng Nian'an nodded in response and walked into the house while talking: "With her arrogant personality, she never thought that these children could survive until now without the secret method of improving their bloodline. I found some clues about her contract with the devil and pieced together what happened at that time. Come on, let's sit down and talk in detail. It's just that your two friends..."

As he spoke, Cheng Nian'an glanced vaguely at the strange man who was standing there without saying a word. He led a group of children to hide in this mountain space for thousands of years. There were many people who accidentally broke in, some were good, and of course some had bad intentions. He was tired of these and thought it was better to have less trouble than more.

He had been to the Fox Fairy Mountain where the young master was sleeping many times, but he had never entered. He just looked from a distance to see if the Fenghou Qimen that maintained the operation of the underground palace had been lifted. He couldn't bear to disturb the young master's rest. As long as he woke up, the formation would naturally be lifted.

When the awakening time came, he went there, but there was no sign that the formation was unlocked, which meant that the young master did not wake up again.

Now that the tribe member has come in, although he is not the person he wanted to wait for, he doesn't have much time left.

I probably won't be able to wait for that person.

When Cheng Wei heard Cheng Nian'an's words, he pretended to be embarrassed and smiled. He introduced Cheng Nian'an in a serious manner: "Look at my memory. I forgot to introduce you. This is Zhang Qiling, the current patriarch of the Zhang family, and this..."

Cheng Wei was stuck, not knowing what identity to give Cheng Ji so that he could fool people without being discovered.

Cheng An also understood Cheng Wei and the others' concerns at this time, and said quickly: "Secretary! This is Patriarch Zhang's secretary!"

Cheng Wei also responded: "Yes, yes, it's the secretary of Patriarch Zhang, the kind that is close to him. He is a member of the Zhang family. He is safe and trustworthy. Don't worry."

Cheng Nian'an then nodded doubtfully, carefully closed the door, and led the four people to sit down.

After sitting down, Cheng Nian'an took a sip of the tea that the servant had just poured, then slowly continued, "I was locked up by her at that time because those people wanted to threaten the young master to cooperate with them in those longevity experiments. With Cheng Shuyu's level of strength, if she wanted to lure the young master over without exposing herself, the only person who could have any connection with the young master was me."

"Later, I escaped. She had no other options. And just in time, the Yi Team members took on the job. Cheng Shuyu decided to go all out and informed those people of the mission. She also made a clone of me as a backup plan. You are the parties involved in what happened next, so I don't need to say much. Let me first tell you about some of the things I have investigated over the years."

Before he spoke, Cheng Nian'an couldn't help but glance at Cheng Ji who was wearing a veil. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that the figure of this secretary of Patriarch Zhang was somewhat familiar, but the veil covered the whole face and he couldn't recognize it.

He was not worried about Cheng An and Cheng Wei. The elevator from the way they came was restricted, and it was impossible for anyone without Cheng family blood to come in through that door.

Oh yes, he changed the restriction once. Nothing else changed, except that he added a new restriction in the second maze. No matter whether Cheng Shuyu walked the correct steps or not, she would be taken to a new tomb chamber. He specially cleared out the things in that tomb chamber, just to make the sign hanging in the middle more eye-catching.

The words on the sign were written by him personally: Cheng Shuyu and dogs are not allowed to enter.

It was a pity that the arrogant and conceited woman couldn't even find the entrance, so she naturally had no chance to appreciate the gift he had specially prepared for her.

Cheng Nian'an came back to his senses and met the gaze of the Zhang family head. He just noticed the close behavior between Zhang Qiling and his secretary. He thought that their relationship was not just an ordinary superior and subordinate. It would not be good for him to continue to look at them, so he retracted his gaze and continued, "Later, I went to the place where Cheng Shuyu had imprisoned me. Because the temporary organization they formed at that time was just to disintegrate the Cheng family, the purpose was achieved, so naturally the place was no longer useful, so when I went there, it was already empty."

"But I found an incomplete formation diagram in that room. I'll draw it for you." Cheng Nian'an put down the teacup in his hand, stood up, walked to the cabinet beside him, casually took out a piece of paper and a pen from the drawer of the cabinet, spread them on the table in front of Cheng Ji and others, and drew the incomplete formation in his memory.

Cheng An and Cheng Wei had little contact with formations, and they could only vaguely tell from the formation diagram that it was a diagram of a contract. As for what the contract was and how effective it was, they had no idea.

The Cheng family did not do in-depth research on formations and talismans. To be precise, before Cheng Ji, the Cheng family had not done much research on formations and talismans. Cheng Ji was the first one in the family who started to study formations and talismans, so they also followed suit.

Many of the formations that are well-known today are actually developed by people in later generations based on the wisdom found in ancient relics. It can also be said that those used by later generations, including Qi Men Dun Jia, are all deformations of ancient spells. Moreover, with the passage of time and the change of inheritance, many of the once powerful formations and talismans are no longer as powerful as they once were due to incompleteness.

As for why Cheng Shuyu drew this formation at that time, they had no way of knowing, nor could they tell what the purpose of this formation was.

Cheng Wei glanced at Cheng Ji beside him without leaving any trace, but he couldn't see someone's expression through the veil. When Cheng Wei was about to shake his head, Zhang Qiling's voice rang out: "Evil Spirit Summoning Array."

Cheng Nian'an looked at Zhang Qiling with approval. He didn't expect that after so many generations of inheritance in the Zhang family, there would still be someone who could recognize this incomplete formation at a glance. Even he had studied it for so many years before he figured it out. If the young master was here, he should be able to recognize it faster than this person. After all, his young master was so powerful.

Cheng Nian'an nodded and agreed with Zhang Qiling's words: "Yes, this is an ancient magic array, the evil spirit summoning array, which can summon evil spirits from ancient times and force a contract. But this array has a disadvantage, that is, once summoned, it cannot be changed. All the requirements of the evil spirit must be completed. If it is not completed, the life force of the contractor will be used to offset it."

Cheng An frowned when he heard this and said, "Then why did Cheng Shuyu go to such great lengths? Was it just to bring down the Cheng family? This doesn't make sense. Besides, this evil spirit should be able to help her do a lot of things, right? Is there any solution?"

Cheng Nian'an crumpled up the picture he had just drawn and threw it into the unlit oil lamp on the table. He picked up a match from the cabinet, struck a fire and threw it in as well.

Watching the ball of paper burn to ashes in the oil lamp, he slowly said, "Yes, but I can't tell you the solution. This evil spirit did help her do a lot of things, like the sudden surge in her blood concentration at the beginning, and the organizations she hypnotized to help him do things. I also found that the young master's sudden sleep was actually her handiwork. To be precise, it was this evil spirit who did it."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present subconsciously clenched their fists.

Cheng Nian'an noticed the solemn atmosphere and continued without pausing, "The original deal between Cheng Shuyu and the evil spirit was to have the evil spirit kill the young master directly, and the evil spirit did so. However, because the young master practiced the Way of the Devil, the evil spirit did not succeed. It was only by sneaking up on him that the young master was forced to fall asleep. As a result, Cheng Shuyu proposed a lot of conditions to the evil spirit."

Cheng Wei seemed to remember something, looked up at Cheng Nian'an and said, "The hypnotic organization you mentioned, is it the Wang family?"