Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

[Sealed Amber: The essence of the offerings in the Altar of Earth, which will cause continuous damage to the surrounding environment. Can be destroyed.]

The system is like an encyclopedia for detailed data on combat and foreign objects. As long as it has the data, it will list the relevant information on the display interface for players to remind them.

This type of amber is mostly used as a sacrifice in certain large-scale ceremonies. Before being taken out, the creatures being offered would live a life of good food and drink because of the offerings in the Ditan Temple - except that they could not move.

So Chi Yu looked at the progress bar on the ground that was almost full, and without hesitation, he ended its life, which could be seen at a glance.

Since they were not in the formally explored area now, Chi Yu could not tell whether the same thing would exist in the unfamiliar areas they would visit in the future.

Or rather - it's not certain how many such altars exist.

After all, in terms of providing information, apart from the existence of that stupid AI customer service, the system is quite reliable.

There cannot be just one altar of this type that absorbs the essence of the earth veins.

The person who came here and set up the energy gathering formation could not have just been plotting to seize the energy of this remote area. He must have had a deeper purpose for his actions.

Chi Yu's eyes swept across the various large-scale ceremonies listed by the system, and he retracted his cane thoughtfully.

So what is the purpose...

Chi Yu thought about it and returned to the car with Jie Yuchen.

The route the vehicle was traveling on was not flat, and even though the driver Xie Yuchen was an experienced driver, he could not avoid the bumps.

While paying attention to the scenery outside the window and the instructions on the Moyu map, Chi Yu reminded the driver to change lanes in time.

——This kind of desert terrain map changes every year, especially the small and inconspicuous road signs. Not to mention a year, maybe it is still there this month, but when you go back to look for it next month, it will no longer be there.

Otherwise, Chi Yu could just draw the planned route and let the driver drive it himself, saving him a lot of time and effort.

Chi Yu thought with some regret, but the flying yellow sand outside the car window automatically made his brain think of the earliest memory related to the desert.

His good memory sometimes causes him some trouble, like now.

In Chi Yu's mind, the original conversation between Zhou Zixu and Black Glasses was replayed one by one.

In that scene, the noisy voices of the two people became particularly obvious in this quiet space, causing Chi Yu to rub his forehead subconsciously.

Excessive noise will affect Chi Yu's reading and analysis of the surrounding environment, causing Chi Yu a headache.

So most of the time, he likes to stay alone in a relatively quiet place to handle his work.

But this led to a new problem - the overloaded brain would also make him uncomfortable. As a result, Chi Yu developed the habit of subconsciously emptying his mind every once in a while to avoid the negative impact that would follow.

Although Chi Yu has not had such a problem due to excessive thinking for many years, just like a machine that has been written into a fixed program, as long as a similar situation appears around him, this habit will be automatically triggered. It is a completely unconscious reaction of the human body's self-protection.

It is also very simple to cut off this associative memory, just input some new memories. If you want to describe it in popular words, it is to find something else to do.

So Chi Yu raised his eyes, glanced at Xie Yuchen, who seemed to be hesitant to talk, and chatted with him briefly.

For some reason, Xie Yuchen didn't seem to be in a good mood to chat. After resolving his own doubts, he fell into silence.

Chi Yu could tell that Xie Yuchen seemed to be thinking about something serious. The young man was frowning, adding a touch of sadness to his pretty face.

But he didn't say anything, and Chi Yu didn't bother to pay attention to him, for fear that he would be caught by this man and be used as an advisor again just because he said a few more words.

So Chi Yu turned his head, closed his eyes, and quietly pretended to be a corpse in the ten minutes before arriving at the second survey point.

-

Ten minutes flew by.

As the vehicle stopped, a hand approached Chi Yu, hesitated, and then retracted.

Xie Yuchen made a silencing gesture to the driver and whispered to him, "Go do what you should do."

His voice was very light, almost a breath squeezed out of his throat, but his aura while sitting upright in the back seat clearly revealed one meaning:

The Xie family doesn't keep idle people. If things go wrong, don't bother him. Find a way to solve it yourself.

The driver was already accustomed to such behavior. He nodded slightly and left the small space quietly, not even daring to close the open door tightly.

Chi Yu:……?

During the time that Chi Yumei said he was resting his eyes, in order to kill time, he had already looked at the system interface along the way, and also made a more detailed plan for the next itinerary, waiting to implement it when he arrived at the destination.

As a result, Xie Yuchen, contrary to his usual behavior, did not call him to work.

And judging from Xie Yuchen’s behavior just now, it seems that this person is still prepared to let him continue to “sleep”?

Is this right?

Anyway, Chi Yu felt that something was wrong.

So after the driver got out of the car, he chose to open his eyes and look at Jie Yuchen calmly.

Xie Yuchen was watching Chi Yu quietly. Due to his previous judgments, he did not expect Chi Yu to wake up suddenly, and was caught off guard and bumped into the clear and bright azure color.

"..."

Xie Yuchen was stunned for a moment, and his eyelashes trembled rapidly a few times.

He looked at Chi Yu, with a gentle smile on his face: "Are you awake? Why don't you rest for a while?"

Chi Yu hummed, and straightened up his body that had been curled up in the back seat. His soft hair slid down from his forehead as he did this, and was then pushed back behind his ears by him.

"I thought you knew very well that it would be best for us not to waste any time now, so that we can have more free time to deal with the things that need to be dealt with later."

"I know."

Xie Yuchen said that his expression did not change at all, he still maintained the original posture, sitting there and looking at Chi Yu.

"I just think sometimes you need to give your family guys a chance to shine."

There was an obvious smile in his words: "Although for Military Advisor Chi, these things are easy to handle."

"——But if you are always there to protect them, then my guys won't be able to play the role they should be."