Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Chi Yu followed Xie Yuchen's words and recalled the scene at that time. He thought about it and shook his head honestly at Xie Yuchen: "Sometimes I am curious about what kind of person I am in your heart."

He said, "You think too highly of me."

Xie Yuchen doesn't think so.

Chi Yu would lie to people and hide some information he wanted to hide. How much information others could get from Chi Yu often depended on his mood.

However, in the occasional tests that Xie Yuchen made on him, Chi Yu never chose to lie to him.

Whether it was at the beginning or just now.

But this time, those previous straightforward answers turned into a trick to cleverly avoid the answer.

——Obviously, this question was so simple that Chi Yu only needed to answer "yes" or "no", but he still chose to do so.

So does this involve something that he cannot know?

However, Chi Yu would definitely not tell him this question, so Xie Yuchen kept this doubt in his heart and nodded gently following Chi Yu's words, "I understand."

Chi Yu looked at him and tilted her head: "...No, I don't think you seem to understand."

"Then are you willing to tell me exactly what you think? If you say it yourself, I will definitely understand it, and there will be no need for me to let my imagination run wild here." Xie Yuchen said.

"Then you should just guess, young man. It's good to use your brain more."

Hearing this, Xie Yuchen smiled helplessly.

He did not continue talking about this topic, but raised the silk book in his hand towards Chi Yu, silently asking who should own the thing.

Chi Yu seemed to have no interest in this. He glanced at it casually and then looked away.

Xie Yuchen knew that this was a tacit acknowledgement that the things belonged to him, so he didn't care. He folded the things again and put them into a small box of appropriate size.

It was during this process that Chi Yu reached the other side of the shallow pit.

So when Xie Yuchen put the silk book away intact, and looked up to find him, and saw Chi Yu standing at the edge of the shallow pit, looking down at something, he actually didn't have many other thoughts about it.

"Should I say - at least this time, you didn't touch anything randomly?" Xie Yuchen walked up to Chi Yu and asked.

"I also said that it was not random touching." Chi Yu said seriously, "If you slander me like this again, I will consider whether I should warn you first next time I encounter danger."

Xie Yuchen laughed softly, then stood with Chi Yu to see what he was looking at before.

On the surface of the edge of the shallow pit, there is a not very obvious pattern engraved.

Those pictures are all engraved in relief, and the materials used for carving are all dark and uneven natural rocks, so if you don't look carefully, it is easy to be overlooked from a distance.

However, Chi Yu has always had sufficient control over these details, so he never lets Xie Yuchen miss this information, and this is exactly why Xie Yuchen is willing to believe him.

Xie Yuchen looked at the content above.

"I thought that what we saw before was all there was to it," he said. "The rest of the content would require the two of us to slowly guess based on the clues in this cave... It's tedious and might not work."

"It sounds like you've been in this situation many times."

"After all, not everyone is willing to be like me and pay attention to these things in the tomb," said Xie Yuchen.

"Whether it's the guys at home or the invited lamas on the road, they only care about how many good things they can find in the next fight. In addition, thanks to the predecessors who patronized the fight in the past, many records have been destroyed long ago."

At this point, Xie Yuchen smiled and asked Chi Yu: "It's a pity, isn't it?"

I don't know about other things, but he could tell that you were quite leisurely while robbing tombs, and even took the time to see which things had been destroyed by humans.

but……

Chi Yu thought about it and said, "It's a pity indeed."

Fortunately, the images on the rocks they were looking at had not been lost to tomb robbers.

Although it looks a lot rougher than the previous exquisite murals, at least people can understand the content.

What was recorded above was exactly what Chi Yu and Jie Yuchen thought.

The reason that caused the tribe to migrate again was that the spring had once again lost its magical power, and it was even more torturous than the last time.

——The water in the Fountain of Youth is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The priest was very sure that the sacred stone used to fix the divine power had not been moved under the supervision of everyone. It was firmly sunk in the center of the pool, occupying the entire underground spring and transforming the spring water flowing through it into the fountain of youth.

They once again performed frequent sacrifices, but with the same result as last time, they failed to retain the Fountain of Youth.

There was only one handful of spring water left in the pool, but it was useless.

The priests asked the heaven for guidance and received revelation that they could seek help from the Queen Mother of the West, so they invited the Queen Mother of the West.

But to their disappointment, Queen Mother of the West checked the surrounding situation and came to the conclusion that "the divine power had been transferred and was heading east", and believed that she could not help them to recover something that had completely left.

So the priest decided to give chase again, leading the tribe further east.

The engraving ends here, but only temporarily.

There was a gap in the middle, but soon, a picture that was obviously made by another craftsman appeared in front of Xie Yuchen.

It was recorded above that after they left, Queen Mother of the West returned to this abandoned underground city, and used her superb Feng Shui abilities to set up a plan and take away the last bit of essence hidden in the earth veins here.

——That was the last handful of the fountain of youth from the Tomb of the Sun.

From then on, the springs here dried up completely, and the Solar Civilization became history in the Western Regions.

"It seems that the Queen Mother of the West set up a qi gathering formation here and successfully got what she wanted." Xie Yuchen said.

"So in the eyes of the Queen Mother of the West, the formation of the Fountain of Youth should be deeply related to 'qi', or in other words, from a modern perspective, it is the composition of a special energy magnetic field."

Chi Yu said, "Hmm," and said, "So the magnetic field dissipated, and the Fountain of Youth disappeared."

"In the image, Queen Mother of the West used seven different items as props when she laid out the layout, and the things now placed by the pool seem to have the same purpose."

Xie Yuchen said, "It seems that someone wants to emulate the Queen Mother of the West and revive the Fountain of Youth here again."

He turned his gaze away from the image on the rock wall and looked at the sacrificial props scattered in various directions:

"Chi Yu, before we were outside Lop Nur, you told me that someone had set up a Feng Shui bureau there, and the inscriptions in the Temple of Earth were praying for the transfer of 'qi' and 'yun'."

"Yes."

"So, do you think that the people who set up those altars and the people who set up the Qi Gathering Array here are from two different groups?"

Hearing this, Chi Yu smiled: "Of course not."

While Chi Yu was looking at Xie Yuchen, he also swept across the map of Moyu that suddenly lit up red.

The [Enemy Attack] warning from the system made his tone of voice lighter: "We destroyed so many of his arrangements along the way. I'm sure he must have been furious after hearing the news."

“So now, here he is.”