Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

This thunder was louder than the first one they heard at the entrance of the tomb, like huge waves sweeping in.

The upper steps seemed to be touched by something. The bluestone steps that had been tightly fitted suddenly collapsed downwards, and bright red mist rose.

Pan Zi and his men retreated in embarrassment, while those who were infatuated had regained their senses under the shock of thunder.

Lao Yang and the others looked pale and had some wounds on their bodies, with the bruises on their faces being particularly obvious.

Pan Zize was unaware of the quarrel between Chi Yu and the others. He rushed back to Wu Sansheng and said to him anxiously, "Master San, the top suddenly collapsed for some reason. The situation here is not good. Let's leave first!"

Behind him, the stacked stone steps were no longer visible, and through the rising mist, he could see the rock wall across the street that was engraved with inscriptions.

The timing of the thunder just now was too coincidental. Even though Xie Yuchen was quite good at interpreting lip reading, he was still helpless under the cover of the gas mask.

But the current situation is obviously not suitable for saying anything more.

Wu Sansheng nodded to Pan Zi, and they turned around and ran downstairs together.

In this chaotic scene, only Xie Yuchen's eyes were always fixed on Wu Sanxing.

"What do you think he said just now?" he asked Chi Yu.

Xie Yuchen said this lightly. It was more like he was asking himself rather than asking about Chi Yu's thoughts. When Xie Yuchen asked this question, he already had an answer in his heart.

So Chi Yu just listened quietly and said nothing.

This platform did not completely disappear. These noises were more like someone accidentally triggering some mechanism, leading to terrible consequences. Chi Yu also knew that this was the fact.

The tunnel they came from was blocked by a fallen gate, and their retreat was completely blocked, leaving everyone wandering around in the room below like headless flies.

Chi Yu turned his gaze to the higher point of Dengxiantai.

On top of the ninety-nine steps, there was originally a huge coffin.

Even though the steps in front of him had completely collapsed and the ink-like poisonous gas continued to surge upwards, destroying the place where the coffin was originally placed beyond recognition, the coffin seemed to be an independent existence outside of this chaotic world. It was not affected at all and still stood there quietly.

There was a suspended coffin above him and a sealed tunnel behind him. Looking at the strange atmosphere in front of him, Lao Yang burst into tears:

"Third Master, is this the big oil bucket you mentioned? We almost lost our lives, and now we have nothing to show for it! Moreover, the top has collapsed so badly, but this coffin is still hanging in the air. It's obviously a very dangerous place!"

"It's not hanging in the air." Xie Yuchen said, taking out a signal gun from his bag, raised his hand and fired two shots diagonally upwards.

The flare exploded high up, emitting a pale light, and also illuminating the cold iron chains that bound the entire coffin.

Both ends of them are embedded in the rock wall, densely packed like a spider's web, holding up the coffin in the very center of the cave.

"The ground descends, and the coffin rises, suggesting that the owner of the coffin will enter the gate of heaven."

Before the flare light above the cave burned out completely, Xie Yuchen fired two more shots without hesitation. His decisive attitude seemed to have changed the target of the shooting to something else.

Chi Yu looked at the intricate patterns carved on the coffin and said, "It has cloud-thunder cicada patterns on it. It's cracked, so it won't be valuable in the future."

"Oh my little military advisor, it's already this late, why don't you worry about how much this thing is worth and return to your previous state of treating money like dirt?"

He didn't say this for money, you know nothing.

Chi Yu curled his lips.

However, Lao Yang could not hear Chi Yu's inner complaints at all, and almost knelt down to him: "Little Military Advisor, you are so powerful, a gate mechanism will definitely not be a problem for you. Why don't you come and open this door, and then we can go back and take the bronze tripod out. This trip won't be too much of a loss."

Feng Size disagreed with this. He looked at the obviously frightened old sheep and sneered, "The burial objects in the coffin are really valuable. We have spent so much effort all the way here, aren't they just for these things?"

Tang the locksmith looked up at the coffin hanging in the air, greedy desire in his eyes, "Old Feng is right, we were attacked before because we were not prepared. Now we are wearing gas masks, and these poisonous gases can't do anything to us."

"Let's first find a way to get this coffin down and open it up. If we can find a few good treasures, it will be worth the trip!"

After saying that, Tang looked at Chi Yu and asked, "Military Advisor Chi, is that right?"

Chi Yu ignored the inquiries from irrelevant people. He opened the system interface and looked at the information fed back by the surveillance post.

In the coffin, the sleeping corpse was holding an exquisite jade box in his hand - the thing stored inside was exactly the core target that Chi Yu needed to find in this mission.

[Chu Silk Book: A silk book that records the myths, legends and customs of the Chu region. Its deeper mysteries are still waiting for people to explore. Perhaps you can get a map from it, or a secret technique for longevity.]

Very good, now we know where the Chu Silk Book is, but it is a bit troublesome to actually get the thing.

Chi Yu looked at the system interface, silently thinking about what to do next.

"...Military Advisor Chi?"

While Chi Yu was thinking, the locksmith Tang called him again tentatively, earning a cold glance from Chi Yu.

But Tang the Locksmith did not show any dissatisfaction on his face. Instead, he was delighted that Chi Yu was finally willing to pay attention to him. He quickly asked Chi Yu: "Military Advisor Chi, we are going to open the coffin up there. Do you think it is okay?"

"Open the coffin?"

Chi Yu turned his eyes away from the cicada pupae that covered the screen and chuckled: "There is no mechanism on the coffin, so you can certainly choose to open it. But it's hard to say what's inside."

Hearing this, several people looked at each other, then looked at Chi Yu.

Feng Si spoke very cautiously. He looked at Chi Yu and asked tentatively, "Military Advisor Chi, we have traveled all over the country and encountered dangers more than once or twice."

"Even if you say so, we will not back down easily. But it would be better if you could tell us what you have discovered in advance so that we can be prepared."

Chi Yu said "Oh?" and looked at the others present, "Do you all think so?"

"Yes, Military Advisor Chi." The unlucky guy No. 3, whose presence has always been low, nodded and said.

"That old sheep usually runs hard for you, but you can't just ignore us brothers because you're scared of him, right? We still want to find some treasures here and bring them back."

Baby? The real baby?

However, it is difficult to persuade the damned ghost with kind words. What the future will be like is his own choice. The life and death of these people has nothing to do with him, and he is too lazy to waste words with them.

Thinking of this, Chi Yu smiled, nodded, and happily kicked the ball to Wu Sansheng: "Master San, you have heard everyone's thoughts, what do you think?"

Seeing that the problem was kicked to him by Chi Yu in the blink of an eye, Wu Sansheng cursed in his heart, thinking that he was still busy dealing with that brat Jie Yuchen, so he didn't have time to care about you guys, so he didn't respond to Chi Yu's words.

The atmosphere was deadlocked for a moment.

Locksmith Tang waited for a while, but didn't get any response from anyone, and suddenly became impatient.

He looked at Chi Yu's indifferent attitude, and then glanced at the tense atmosphere between Wu Sanxing and Jie Yuchen. He knew that it would be useless for him to stand here until dawn, so he said hello to the others and walked towards the coffin with his weapons.

After the mechanism stopped working, the middle and upper steps of the Ascension Platform completely disappeared.

Tang and the others stood at the top of the remaining steps, looked at the flat surface, then looked up at the huge coffin that was more than ten meters away from them, and made an irritated sound.

They are like a donkey with a carrot dangling in front of its eyes, driven forward by something that it can never get into its mouth.

But soon, everyone stopped thinking about how to get to the top.

The broken lines on the coffin gradually expanded as it hung, and in the cracks, tiny, conical nuggets of gold kept falling down, hitting them like raindrops.

Although the gold nugget was small, its edges were sharp enough. With the force of falling from a high altitude, it easily left several bloody marks on their bodies.

Tang the locksmith cried out in pain and pulled out a piece of gold that had pierced his hand. Feeling the movement on his hand, he took a closer look - how could these things be the gold nuggets he imagined? They were clearly golden cicadas!

The insects that awakened from their slumber didn't care about the fear rising in Kaisuo Tang's heart. They only knew that the fresh flesh and blood of humans were the best supplements for them after they woke up.

Then these tiny creatures flapped their wings and rushed forward like a tide.

Almost instantly, Tang the Locksmith's figure was completely engulfed in a dense sea of ​​insects.