Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Chi Yu quietly listened to Wu Sanxing pulling Jie Yuchen over there, carefully analyzing his danger. It sounded quite reasonable, but it didn't sound like him.

Xie Yuchen's thoughts were probably similar to Chi Yu's. Facing Wu Sanxing's words, he was well versed in the art of dealing with them perfunctorily. Not only did he not give him any face, his rebuttal was also quite offensive.

So Chi Yu watched as what was originally a serious conversation gradually turned into——

Wu Sanxing said: "Chi Yu is very scheming and doesn't seem like a good person."

Xie Yuchen replied: "I think you are the same."

Wu Sanxing was so angry that he turned around twice: "After all, our Wu family and Jie family are related, so we know each other well. But Chi Yu is a person who suddenly appeared. His past, his identity, and his purpose are completely unknown. You don't understand him at all!"

Xie Yuchen raised his eyes and sneered: "I don't understand you either."

"You've seen how cold he is to other people, but this person is so caring towards you. Anyone can tell that he has ulterior motives towards you! Xie Yuchen, you're such a smart person, it's impossible that you can't figure it out, right?"

Wu Sanxing seemed quite distressed when he said this, but Xie Yuchen remained indifferent:

"Really? I didn't see that."

Wu Sansheng: "..."

Looking at the series of ellipsis appearing above Wu Sanxing's head, Chi Yu laughed in a good mood.

Pan Zi, who was standing by, looked over and said, "Little Military Advisor, what have you thought of? You look so happy."

I'm thinking about what gift I should give to your uncle later.

Chi Yu suppressed the smile on his lips and looked back calmly, "I found the structure of this cave very interesting."

"Although this place looks like a natural formation, it actually involves human intervention. The structure here is more like an extended altar than a part of the mausoleum."

"Altar? Then...what is the sacrifice?" asked the old sheep with a bitter face.

If he answered now with "The sacrifice is you", he would definitely scare the man to scream.

Chi Yu blinked, thought about it, and gave up this option.

"The bloody corpse in the hall just now was the sacrifice."

As Chi Yu spoke, the scene in the hall flashed back to his mind: "The cave is full of inscriptions. In addition to some prayers to the gods and seeking ways to revive, there are also some prayers for 'blocking and reducing bad things'. The coffin where the blood corpse is is the main target of the inscriptions."

“The architecture of the cave visually reflects an upward effect, but in fact, the energy finally sinks and flows into the cave.”

"So, if we keep following these roads, we and Master San and the others will eventually reach the destination where these energies converge?" Pan Zi asked.

"Correct."

"Then doesn't it mean that we can just walk around and find a way out?" The old sheep said "Oh" and clapped his hands happily.

No one with any sense would say such a thing.

Chi Yu glanced at Lao Yang and said, "Tsk, as for you, I suggest you eat more walnuts when you go back."

As they were talking, everyone followed Chi Yu around a cave entrance.

There are actually many roads connected here, but if you want to take advantage of this and walk around randomly, you will only be wandering around here for the rest of your life. You must find the direction of energy flow based on the trend of the earth veins in order to find the right path.

As a veteran who had been in the underworld for many years, Wu Sanxing still had some ability to find his way. At this time, he and Xie Yuchen had already arrived at the most important area shown on the map of this strange area.

However, Chi Yu and his group were not slow at all.

Although they spent some time settling the wounded and started behind Wu Sansheng and the others, Chi Yu chose a route with a slide and did not have the trouble of finding his way, so his actual speed was basically the same as the other two.

So when Chi Yu led these people to the final destination, before they had completely walked out of the passage, they heard faint sounds of quarreling coming from not far away.

Ha, these two haven't finished arguing yet? So this was just a halftime break?

Chi Yu slowed down his pace and prepared to listen to the live version again, but Pan Zi failed to do as he wished.

With just one excited shout, the sounds from the other end of the cave suddenly quieted down.

"Third Master, I finally found you!"

Pan Zi walked quickly towards the exit and saw Wu Sanxing and Jie Yuchen standing on the platform in the center of the cave. He did not hesitate and followed them.

He looked at Wu Sansheng with a face full of joy, and asked Wu Sansheng if he needed to re-treat his previous wound.

Seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, Chi Yu sighed in disappointment and walked to Xie Yuchen: "I brought your people."

Xie Yuchen said "hmm", thanked Chi Yu softly, and handed him the silk book in his hand: "This is the silk book I found here just now. It records some stories behind this tomb."

Chi Yu took the silk book and quickly glanced at its contents: "It's just as I thought."

"You know it all?"

"Well, you and Wu Sanxing left too early and were not able to read all the inscriptions. It's normal that you missed some content."

Chi Yu handed the item back to Xie Yuchen and smiled, "But with this scroll of silk book, I guess I didn't miss anything."

"Do you think everything here is true?" Xie Yuchen asked.

He hid those real doubts behind his words, and Xie Yuchen was sure that Chi Yu, like him, understood each other's metaphors tacitly.

So Chi Yu turned his gaze towards the sitting figure.

"That depends on how much you are willing to believe." Chi Yu replied, "For example, this Yuhua Pond, the person who designed all of this was indeed successful."

"What we are seeing now is just the transformation left by the other party. The people inside have long left here and gone to the outside world."

As he spoke, Chi Yu sent out a gust of palm wind towards the person who was sitting cross-legged.

It was clearly just a casual shot, but the ancient corpse that originally looked like it had been weathered was instantly turned into powder, leaving only the clothes piled up in the original place, which became the traces proving that it had once existed.

Xie Yuchen looked at the pile of destroyed shells, squinted his eyes, and said nothing.

"After a successful precedent, the art of immortality becomes easily obtainable, and there will always be people who cannot resist the temptation and try to imitate it. However, with just a transformation, will that person really gain immortality?"

"Military Advisor Chi's question is exactly what I'm confused about."

Wu Sansheng came over. His wound had been properly treated by Pan Zi. He was looking at Chi Yu with a smile and said to him:

"The situation in the hall was critical before, but luckily I was lucky enough to trigger the mechanism, so I had the chance to see you alive."

"Since you, Military Advisor Chi, have also read this silk book, you should understand that there was a jade box containing another silk book in the coffin at that time."

"As long as we get the jade box, we can naturally decipher the mystery based on the contents recorded in the Warring States silk book."