Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Following the guidance of Xie Yuchen's light, Chi Yu's gaze also shifted to the image on the mural.

Since the people who recorded these historical stories belonged to the Solar Civilization, Chi Yu could not tell what bold attempts the Queen Mother of the West made after obtaining the springs.

However, judging from the information provided by the images he had seen, the efficacy of the spring water was actually easy to guess.

Although longevity does not mean immortality, and immortality does not mean immortality, from the very beginning, the Solar Civilization offered sacrifices to the well in the dense forest. When the well water lost its effectiveness, they followed the illusory guidance and came to Lop Nur to settle down. They had never held funerals before.

The death caused by migration was too heavy for them, so it was specially recorded on the murals. Those who died were buried along the ancient river channel, and now there is almost nothing left.

For those who finally succeeded in settling in Lop Nur, their time seemed to stop again in the picture, and the spring water washed away their fatigue and aging - this may be why they worship it so crazily.

So for the Queen Mother of the West, these two things have slightly different ways of taking effect and duration, but their actual effects are actually the same.

Chi Yu thought with a faint expression.

The Corpse-Eating Pill will continue to have an impact on the human body after being swallowed, and the human body, which is fragile and easily changed, cannot resist this process.

The side effects of the Corpse-Eating Pill itself will cause the person who takes it to gradually turn into another creature. That is the end of their life, or a new beginning.

Emperor Yongli was the one who appeared in front of Chi Yu and swallowed the corpse-eating pill to seek immortality. He found a way to avoid risks and believed in it firmly.

Unfortunately, his transformation failed, and this failure after risk avoidance led the transformation of life onto another strange path - becoming a blood corpse.

But looking back at the spring water offered by the Solar Civilization, Chi Yu tentatively calls it the "Fountain of Youth" based on its efficacy.

The Fountain of Youth owned by the Sun Civilization seems to have no risk. Just a small handful can make people return to youth.

The only disappointment is that it lasts too short a time, so people need to use the spring water continuously for a certain period of time.

And after the initial failure of the Fountain of Youth, one also has to bear the fear and anxiety that the miraculous effects of the spring water may be lost at any time.

Is it the uncontrollable changes in the body that are frightening, or is it the anxiety of seemingly having something but potentially losing it at any time that is more torturous?

This seems to be a philosophical question, but for Chi Yu, it is useless thinking.

Chi Yu didn't care what those people had endured or how they chose to respond. He just looked at the scenes, then nodded slightly to express his affirmation at Xie Yuchen's inference.

"You're right. It's really easy to work with smart people. At least I don't have to repeat the obvious information."

Xie Yuchen smiled and said, "It sounds like you have some complaints against those guys who are not considered 'smart people'."

"Because they always make me talk too much and like to waste my time."

As Chi Yu spoke, he walked to one of the stone tables. He looked at the corpse-eating pills neatly arranged in front of him, picked up one under Xie Yuchen's puzzled gaze, and then flipped his hand, and the black elixir of life instantly disappeared in his hand.

Xie Yuchen stood there quietly. He waited for a while. The secret room was very quiet and there was no special movement.

"I thought these corpse-eating pills were specially placed like this, and there must be some mechanisms on them." He said as he watched Chi Yu's actions, "At least because of this situation, I learned not to touch things in the tomb casually."

"I know this better than you do," Chi Yu said. "I know how to avoid triggering the mechanism, so it doesn't count as random movement."

Xie Yuchen shrugged, "Okay, then, what is your purpose in taking it? Don't tell me you are also interested in this kind of 'immortality'."

Chi Yu glanced at Li Yuchen and said, "Of course not. I keep it for other purposes."

"What's the purpose?" Xie Yuchen asked.

Of course, I collect it.

Chi Yu thought as he looked at the corpse-eating pill lying quietly in the system backpack.

Immortality is just something that mortals in this world want to pursue, but he does not belong to this world.

As an explorer of another world, Chi Yu knew very well that in this real world created by the Creator, there would not be another person like him.

Therefore, Xie Yuchen would not understand what he was thinking, and Chi Yu was always able to withdraw from the hustle and bustle of the world and look at everything calmly.

What's more, since he came to this world, the system has locked his physical fitness.

Although Chi Yu still has physiological metabolism like a normal person, his time will not continue to move forward, but will remain at this fixed age stage.

Coupled with the condition that the lifespan granted by the system is linked to the level, and the fact that even if the body dies, it can be resurrected quickly, in a sense, Chi Yu can be said to have achieved an alternative kind of immortality.

Xie Yuchen was still looking at him, waiting for an answer.

So Chi Yu gave an answer as he wished: "I won't tell you."

Hearing this, Xie Yuchen laughed and said, "What kind of answer is that?"

"We're not close enough for me to do whatever you want."

Chi Yu said, leaving the stone table and looking at Xie Yuchen: "There is nothing else in this place except the Corpse-Eating Pills. We should leave."

Xie Yuchen looked around the secret room, his eyes lingering on the spring water on the mural for a moment, and then he left with Chi Yu.

On the way, Xie Yuchen thought about those contents and said to Chi Yu: "If the effect of those springs is really to make people return to youth, then I don't think the civilization here will become a ruin, at least, it should not be like what we see now."

Chi Yu said, "Hmm?", "So what do you think?"

"Legends are just legends. In the process of word of mouth, some exaggerated parts will naturally appear. However, as a mural recording the history of an ethnic group, some authenticity needs to be retained."

Xie Yuchen spoke slowly, and he was now slowly recounting the conclusions he had drawn after thinking: "From the very beginning, the Sun Civilization lived in the forest and kept repeating the same life. They did not yearn for change."

"The migration was caused by the loss of efficacy of the spring water. Their pursuit of divine power can be seen from the fact that after arriving in Lop Nur, they chose to stay where they were and develop instead of expanding outward."

"Those foreign trade activities were carried out spontaneously by those outsiders, and the transactions were also actively promoted by the Queen Mother of the West. This group of people gives me the impression of being completely conservative and inflexible."

"Such a race would not choose to leave their long-standing gathering place when they are in a stable environment."

Xie Yuchen said, "So something must have happened here later, forcing these people to choose to leave again."

As he spoke, the two of them had left the original area and arrived at the next space - a huge underground cave.

The dark rocks are natural decorations here, and the most eye-catching one is a shallow sunken pit.

In this empty cave, Chi Yu stopped and turned his head to look at Xie Yuchen: "Just as you thought, it is exactly like that."