Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Monotonous colors always easily create visual illusions. The dividing line between thin and thick becomes blurred in this illusion. Xie Yuchen narrowed his eyes and took out a pair of goggles from his bag.

"This weather is terrible." He complained to Chi Yu softly, "It's like snow blindness."

Hearing this, Chi Yu glanced at Li Yuchen, and after finding that the man had already put on the goggles, he treated the other party's complaint as nonsense and waved it away from his ear.

This pale city has been able to survive for thousands of years in the wind and frost, so it must have its own unique power.

For example, when they were on a high place outside, they could easily see through all the terrain, but when they actually entered, they suddenly realized that although the roads here seemed to be interconnected, they were actually not.

The small stone ditch that they saw from a distance turned into a huge stone wall in front of them. The towering rock wall turned into four large characters "This Road is Blocked" and hit Xie Yuchen directly, but was defended and shattered in Chi Yu's calm words.

"Go this way."

Chi Yu shifted his gaze away from the Moyu map, walked to another fork in the road, and waved to Xie Yuchen who was lost in thought there.

The clever visual trap will lead those travelers who easily step into it to a path of no return. For those ordinary explorers, there is only one way to save their lives, and that is to turn back as soon as possible.

Xie Yuchen obviously would not choose to look back, and he was not unprepared. This was also the reason why Chi Yu appeared here with him - Xie Yuchen had placed his life in Chi Yu's hands.

Chi Yu once controlled the lives of many people. Every plan and every action of his represented a turmoil, and in those carefully planned plans, many people were destroyed.

In a sense, Xie Yuchen's life might be more important than those people, but in Chi Yu's eyes, it is actually no different from those ordinary people. Or maybe, in fact, it is lighter.

Therefore, Xie Yuchen’s choice will not affect Chi Yu’s planning for this operation.

Those plans that have been determined will be implemented unswervingly by Chi Yu, and everyone involved in this plan should be placed in their original position, including himself, without exception.

They walked along the rugged road, with only wind-eroded rocks around them. Chi Yu and Xie Yuchen walked for a while, and all they saw was a vast expanse of white, with nothing but white mud and salt crusts.

Xie Yuchen exhaled, took out his portable water bag and took a sip, then asked Chi Yu, "How long have we been walking?"

"One and a half hours." Chi Yu replied. He noticed that Xie Yuchen had been drinking water frequently since ten minutes ago, but even so, his lips were still a little dry.

There is no doubt that Lop Nur is very cold in winter. Apart from that, drought is also the basic tone of its environment. However, this cannot explain the rationality of Xie Yuchen's condition.

——Xie Yuchen had already drunk up the water in a small water bag, and apart from the extra energy drinks that Chi Yu carried in his backpack, each of them was only allocated three small and one medium-sized water bag.

Chi Yu turned his eyes away from Xie Yuchen and his gaze wandered around.

On the system interface, messy runes covered most of the area, making it impossible for Chi Yu to determine at the first glance which part had affected Xie Yuchen.

He said that it was troublesome to bring people with him, and they were almost at their destination, but his client suddenly ran into problems.

Chi Yu sighed.

Xie Yuchen therefore cast his gaze towards him: "What's wrong?"

"The environment here also has some impact on you. You are losing water quickly." Chi Yu said.

Before this, he thought Xie Yuchen was simply thirsty due to the environment and needed to drink more water.

Xie Yuchen's eyes quickly scanned this desolate city, where there was obviously no one else except him and Chi Yu. "You are the only one who is good at this, so do you have any solution?"

It’s a pity that he wasn’t very clear about it either. If Xie Yuchen asked him now, he would be asking the wrong person.

Chi Yu thought about it and gave him a regretful expression: "I'm still thinking about this part."

Xie Yuchen raised his eyebrows: "That's really rare."

Chi Yu shrugged.

He did not continue chatting with Jie Yuchen, but instead began to observe the runes displayed on the system interface.

Not much time has passed since he gained the support of Logos. The other party generously gave him a lot of knowledge. Some of it was engraved into his body as instinct, but more of it was hidden deep in Chi Yu's mind, waiting to be extracted and studied.

So when it comes to spells and magic, Chi Yu is just a newbie, just like now.

——This city is so ancient that the remaining runes have been mixed together, making it more difficult for him to distinguish them. He needs time to completely analyze the secret patterns engraved in this pale city.

The anomaly started ten minutes ago. They were moving quite fast. During this period, there were five energy magnetic fields in the area they passed through, and three of them are still in effect.

The parts that affect the human body are...

Chi Yu looked at the messy prayers and slowly peeled off the part he needed to find.

- "Cursed are those who come unwelcome, the dust will take away all their moisture until they die, and thirst will forever haunt the soul of the dead."

Chi Yu slowly recited the part of the prayer that he had stripped off. He looked at Xie Yuchen and said, "You, an unwelcome visitor."

Hearing this, Xie Yuchen smiled and said, "So it seems that you are the one who is welcomed?"

Of course not, this place rejects everyone equally, Chi Yu thought indifferently.

But the collection he had obtained from the Peacock Kingdom gave him a higher magic resistance, and coupled with Logos' banshee bloodline, he is now ridiculously strong, so much so that these debuffs cannot be added to him at all.

However, this explanation was obviously incomprehensible to the NPC who didn't know what a player was, so Chi Yu just shook his head gently at Xie Yuchen: "I just have the power to resist the curse."

And the source of this "curse" still fills this pale road at this moment - it is the invisible thing that accompanies the explorers in the desert at all times, and it is the never-ending wind.

Humans always lose their vigilance against things that are always present in the environment. They will subconsciously downplay their existence and lose their lives as a result.

It was obviously too late to destroy the existence that caused harm to Jie Yuchen. Although the ten-minute journey was not long, Chi Yu still preferred the option of moving forward rather than going back.

So he took off his gloves, revealing his pale and slender hands.

The cold fingertips touched Xie Yuchen's brow, and the chill that was hard to ignore seemed to penetrate into his body with this action of Chi Yu.

Under this vivid touch, Chi Yu said: "I say this, the disease should be far away, and you will be fine."