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

Suddenly, danger arose!

A crack appeared under the feet of Cheng Ji and the other person. As the ground shook, Cheng Ji and the other person were sucked in by a huge suction force.

Before falling into darkness, Cheng Ji only had time to grab a piece of Zhang Qiling's sleeve, but the suction was too strong and it was in vain.

In the tomb chamber——

The young man lay motionless on the cold ground, his originally clean and tidy white shirt stained with red blood.

The exposed skin still bore traces of the recent incident, blue and purple, shocking to the eye. Her beautiful, bright eyes were tightly closed, and she was unconscious.

The woman sitting next to him was wearing a blue school uniform and looked to be in her early twenties. She would occasionally measure the temperature of the boy's forehead with her hand and would heave a sigh of relief when she saw that he was not feverish.

Seeing the woman so nervous about this strange boy who suddenly appeared, the sharp-nosed and monkey-faced man sitting not far away couldn't help but sneer: "Lin Yan, why are you so nervous about him? Do you expect him to take you out when he wakes up? What can such a little brat understand? It's good enough that he doesn't share our food when he wakes up."

As he spoke, the man looked up and down at the pale but still delicate and beautiful face of the young man, and smiled obscenely: "Or is it that our Miss Lin can't stand loneliness and looks down on us ugly guys and falls for this pretty boy?"

The woman named Lin Yan frowned and glared, "Li Weizhou, please be more careful with your words. Judging from the clothes this child is wearing, he doesn't belong to an ordinary family. He must have gotten separated from his family and dropped this child accidentally. Maybe he can really save us."

"And he was lying right in front of us, and you were so cold-blooded as to watch him die without helping him?"

Li Weizhou sneered at what Lin Yan said: "Yes, yes, yes, whatever you say is reasonable, Miss Lin. He looks half dead, don't let him die here, it's unlucky."

"Don't go too far!"

The young man with glasses standing nearby saw that the two were about to quarrel, so he stepped out to smooth things over: "Stop quarreling, stop quarreling. We haven't found a way out for three days. Instead of waiting to die here, we might as well trust Lin Yan. Who knows, maybe he is really a young master from a rich family, and his family can come and take us out together."

As soon as the young man spoke, the two people who were originally on the verge of a fight calmed down. I think this young man should be the one with the most say among the three people.

The slight struggle of the young man lying on the ground attracted the attention of the three people.

Under the gaze of the three people, the boy slowly opened his eyes.

Seeing that the boy had woken up, Lin Yan hurriedly approached and asked, "Little brother, how are you? Are you okay? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Before the boy could even open his mouth, Li Weizhou interrupted him: "Why are you asking so many nonsense questions? Women are always nagging. Hey, little brat, do you know how to get out?"

Cheng Ji ignored the man who was talking behind him, sat up on his own, and smiled at Lin Yan: "Sister, I'm fine, where is this, why are you here?"

Lin Yan was dazzled by the boy's smile. She was stunned for a moment and started to explain: "We originally wanted to respond to the call and set out for Nanjing, but we met a group of Japanese soldiers on the way. We had no choice but to flee into this mountain, thinking of seeking refuge. We were unlucky and stepped on a trap and fell here."

"We have been searching for three days and still haven't found a way out. So how did you get in, little brother? Did you step on a trap as well?"

Cheng Ji shook his head and started to make up a story: "I accidentally left my mother's relics on this mountain. In order to avoid being scolded by my father, my brother and I had to run back to look for them. As a result, my eyes went dark and we ended up here. I don't know how my brother is doing now."

Li Weizhou shouted, "So your family doesn't even know you're here?"

Cheng Ji frowned slightly, then looked at the three people with innocent eyes: "Yes, if my father finds out, he will beat me badly."

"Then what's the use of you? You are useless and you're wasting our food. Lin Yan, look at the trash you rescued." Li Weizhou looked at Lin Yan with a sneer, his eyes full of mockery.

The young man with glasses frowned and scolded: "Weizhou, watch your words."

"Humph." Li Weizhou was scolded by the young man. Although he was not convinced, he still shut up. Lin Yan apologized to Cheng Ji with an apologetic look on her face: "Don't argue with him. He was just a little anxious and didn't know how to get out, so he acted like this."

"By the way, my name is Lin Yan, the brother with glasses is Wu Shuqi, and the brother who was a bit fierce just now is Li Weizhou. Little brother, what's your name? How should we call you?"

Cheng Ji smiled and greeted politely: "Hello, brother and sister, my name is Cheng Ji."

Perhaps it was because one should not hit someone who smiles at him, Li Weizhou rarely said anything unpleasant, and responded reluctantly.

Cheng Ji stood up and stretched his stiff body, then began to look around the entire tomb.

Although he has found these students, Cheng Ji still can't let go of his anxiety and worries.

His cunning ways and Fenghou Qimen seemed to have been cut off from him in this tomb and there was no response at all.

Without the feeling of being in control of a strategic plan as usual, he couldn't feel at ease. It was even difficult for him to find Zhang Qiling's location.

There is no other way but to look for clues to escape from this tomb.

The floor of this tomb chamber is bumpy and full of traces of time. There are not even any murals on the walls of the tomb. There is only a white marble pillar in the middle of the square, and some bronze artifacts are scattered around it. At a glance, they should be old objects from the Warring States Period.

Cheng Ji's knowledge of the things in the tomb was limited to some basic knowledge that Xiao Qi had passed on to him before. He had only been to the tomb twice in total, so he only had a vague understanding of it.

After all, the first time he went into the tomb, he just demolished it violently and didn't care about the mechanisms at all.

The second time, he even brought a human-shaped cheating artifact, so he didn't need to dismantle these things at all.

While thinking, Cheng Ji looked around the walls of the tomb carefully. It seemed that there was no place that looked like a door. If the door was not on the four walls, where would it be?

Cheng Ji's expression became more and more solemn.

Li Weizhou, who was standing by, looked around with Cheng Ji but couldn't figure out what was going on. He then mocked him, "You're just playing tricks. After watching for so long, can you tell us what you've figured out?"

Cheng Ji still ignored the screams of the people around him, then squatted down to observe the bronze artifacts scattered under his feet, frowning and thinking about something.

Li Weizhou was a little annoyed when he saw that the boy whom he regarded as a pretty boy ignored him. "Hey, I'm asking you a question. You eat our food and drink our drinks, and all you have is a zither and an iron stick on your back. Are you going to perform a song for us in here so that we can give you a meal?"

Before he could finish his words, the long iron object wrapped in cloth in the boy's hand was pressed against his throat. The boy said coldly: "Can't you shut up?"

Li Weizhou was from a wealthy family in the area, and he had never been treated like this since he was a child. Seeing this, he continued to shout fearlessly: "Kill me if you dare, you little white-faced man, but he has a bad temper!"

Cheng Ji pulled off the white cloth wrapped around the Xuanyuan Sword and chuckled, "If you're not afraid of death, why not give it a try?"

The light of the Xuan-Yuan Sword that was previously covered by the white cloth suddenly burst out. It was not known whether Li Weizhou was stunned by the sudden momentum of the young man or frightened by the sword against his neck. Even after a long time, he did not dare to utter a sound.

Cheng Ji patted Li Weizhou's face with the scabbard of the sword: "Be good and listen to me, understand?" The boy's voice was still clear and pleasant, but the words he said made the person's back feel cold.

Wu Shuqi quickly pulled Li Weizhou back and said apologetically, "Little brother, Weizhou is just a man of few words. We have been trapped here for three days, so it is inevitable that we will be a little anxious. Please don't be angry with him because we took care of you when you were unconscious."

When talking to polite people, Cheng Ji always knows how to be polite: "It is Cheng Ji who is rude, please do not blame me, brother and sister."

After saying that, Cheng Ji lowered his eyes and continued to observe the place where he was interrupted just now, and suddenly made a new discovery.

The placement of these bronze artifacts on the ground seems random, but they have some specific meanings.

The so-called Eight Trigrams, Tai Chi gives birth to two opposites, two opposites give birth to four symbols, and four symbols give birth to Eight Trigrams.

When the Sun gives birth to a yang, it represents the sky, and is called the Qian hexagram; when the Moon gives birth to a yin, it represents the earth, and is called the Kun hexagram; when the Shaoyin gives birth to a yin, it represents thunder, and is called the Zhen hexagram; when the Shaoyang gives birth to a yang, it represents wind, and is called the Xun hexagram; when the Shaoyang gives birth to a yin, it represents water, and is called the Kan hexagram; when the Shaoyin gives birth to a yang, it represents fire, and is called the Xinpu hexagram; when the Moon gives birth to a yang, it represents a mountain, and is called the Gen hexagram; when the Sun gives birth to a yin, it represents a marsh, and is called the Dui hexagram.

The bronze artifacts placed on the ground correspond to the Fuxi Bagua formation, but there is only one bronze artifact in the Bagua formation that is not in the diagram. It is scattered aside, and the place where the bronze artifact is missing happens to be the Qian Gua!

Cheng Ji walked over quickly, carefully picked up the bronze statue that was casually placed aside, and gently placed it in the position of Qian Gua.

The moment the bronze statue was returned to its place, the earth shook and the old tomb chamber was instantly filled with dust and smoke.

Several people quickly held onto the stone wall to steady themselves.

Without the threat of the sword at his neck, Li Weizhou couldn't help but curse: "Are you a jinx? Can you please stop messing with the things in here? Do you want to kill us? Cough cough cough cough cough--" Halfway through his words, he was choked by the dust and smoke and couldn't stop coughing.

The smoke and dust cleared, revealing a hole in the center of the tomb.

Li Weizhou and the other two hurried forward. The entrance of the cave was just big enough for one person to go down, but the pitch-black entrance represented unpredictable dangers. They looked at each other, and no one dared to be the first to explore the way.

"I'll do it. Sister Lin Yan, please shine the flashlight down. Don't make any noise. I'll go down and take a look. If there is any danger, don't worry about me. Immediately move the bronze statue that I just moved, and the hole will be closed. Just ensure your own safety." Cheng Ji walked out from behind the few people and ordered calmly.

Lin Yan disagreed and held the boy back: "No, I don't agree. It's too dangerous. You are still a child. If we have to go down, we adults should go down first."

Cheng Ji brushed Lin Yan's hand off and said with a smile, "I'll be fine. You all have no experience in this area. It's too dangerous to go there blindly. It's the best decision for me to go. Sister Lin Yan, don't worry."

Although Lin Yan knew that what the boy said made sense, she still couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Then you should be careful. Take the flashlight. It's so dark down there. What if you encounter something unexpected while I'm here to light the flashlight for you?"

The boy shook his head: "No, I can see it."

After hearing what the boy said, Li Weizhou's first reaction was that the boy was bragging, but when the words came to his lips, his lips moved a little but he still didn't dare to say it out loud.

The young man comforted Lin Yan and stared at the cave entrance with a frown. The dark cave entrance that others saw seemed as bright as day to him. If he guessed correctly, there was a real passage leading to the tomb chamber below!

The boy supported himself on the ground and jumped down. The hole was not very deep, only about two meters away from the ground. When he landed, he rolled on the ground to release the excess force, then stood up and looked around.

As he expected, this was the real tomb passage. On the nearby tomb walls, there were murals with the characteristics of the Warring States Period. The content was roughly the same as what Tie Miansheng and his friends had heard in the Qixing Palace of King Lu in later generations.

This is the tomb of King Lu Shang's eldest son. King Lu Shang sought immortality and conducted an experiment on his five blood relatives, and his eldest son was one of them. Even the eldest son could not escape King Lu Shang's obsessed dream of immortality.

In order to prevent anyone from making evil plans to the tomb after his death, King Lu Shang specially invited a famous formation master of the time to set up a formation in the tomb, attempting to use other people's souls to guard the tomb, to ensure that he could be perfectly reborn in his eldest son thousands of years later.

Even Cheng Ji couldn't help but marvel at this meticulous plan.

But why would this Lu State tomb appear within the territory of Qi State?

Cheng Ji thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason.