Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Where should I start this story?

Did it fall from a star in a distant galaxy? Did it come from a battle over a dragon vein? Or did it come from a family hidden in the torrent of history?

The glass-colored heart beats slowly, playing the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of this land.

Plop, plop.

The sky over the Himalayas is always bright, either clear or full of stars, so when a star falls from the sky, the trajectory of everything is so clear.

It split into countless pieces in the air and scattered on dragon veins all over the world: Changbai Mountain, Qinling Mountains, Tamudu, Himalayas...

Since then, disputes have continued. The arrival of meteorites from outer space brought unspeakable changes. That group of people shaped the meteorites into the shapes they needed and gradually monopolized this secret.

During this process, Phoenix was also attracted by a meteorite that fell in the Himalayas.

He watched the crowd gather here, chiseling away the rocks, shaping the meteorite fragments in the mountain into the shape of a "door", and exchanging them with those humans, taking away the remaining fragments.

Before leaving, the Phoenix left his blood and an offspring for the people who would protect this place.

The Kangba people guard the "gate", and their descendants protect the Kangba people, so the Kangba people engraved the phoenix totem in their lives and they have not forgotten it.

The descendants guarded the Kangba people, watched them live and die, and spent a long time together. One day, this creature that only existed in mythology suddenly felt that its life was about to come to an end.

So it began to sleep, trying to delay its own death.

The long-term synchronization with the mountains has earned the recognition of this place, and the snow-capped mountains are willing to obey its orders.

But its unconscious dream caused chaos in the earth veins. An avalanche buried the entire village, and the poisonous gas erupting from the mountain killed the Kangba people who were seeking shelter.

Eventually, this secret place in the snowy mountains became a truly unvisited place.

Kangba Luo disappeared.

As for whether his descendants care about what he has caused?

No one knows.

The glass heart continued to beat, as if twiddling the hands of an invisible clock.

A young man appeared in the snow and wind. He was wearing a navy blue robe and walking in the snow.

The young man crossed the mountains and lakes in silence. He entered the gate surrounded by the crowd and returned alone a few days later.

Before leaving, he stood in the snow and looked back.

So Chi Yu looked into those indifferent eyes in his dream.

Just a glance, but it seemed to have spanned endless years.

……

Chi Yu woke up from his dream.

He sat up from the bed, his soft horn feathers naturally gathered in his hair. He looked at the unfamiliar environment around him and blinked.

I don't know where Zhang Qiling brought him to, Chi Yu thought.

In the middle of his dream, he felt Zhang Qiling's approaching breath and woke up briefly.

Perhaps it was the influence of the Heart of the Peng Bird. Chi Yu felt that the other person exuded an alluring scent all over his body. Fortunately, he couldn't control himself and was bitten by the person.

Originally, Chi Yu wanted to have him get out of here quickly to prevent himself from doing something irreparable while unconscious. However, judging from his current situation, Zhang Qiling obviously did not choose to leave him alone.

Chi Yu opened the Moyu map and checked his current location. He found that not only did they not leave the snow-capped mountains, but they were staying not far away from the previous area. He immediately made a rough judgment.

The fire in the room was burning brightly, and even Chi Yu's usually cold fingertips were warmed up.

Chi Yu raised his hand and shook it lightly.

His torn gloves had long been taken off, and his pale skin was now exposed to the air.

But that's not the point. He always felt that the touch left on his palm was not right, as if someone had been holding him before he woke up.

He also remembered that someone had held his hand tightly, but let go in the end. The promises made in the past could not be fulfilled. All that was left were the words of apology, which turned into cold text and were written on a letter and sent to him.

Chi Yu lowered his eyes and glanced at the clothes that had been replaced on his body.

The cotton shirt was plain, without any fancy patterns, but the cuffs were a little short, and the elbows were a little tight, and it didn't fit him well. Chi Yu sniffed it lightly, but didn't smell anything special, but he thought of Zhang Qiling.

A white shadow was lingering beside Chi Yu's bed. When he finally had the heart to look over, he crawled back to his fixed position and said in a small voice with some resentment: "You slept for many days."

Chi Yu said "hmm" nonchalantly: "How many days?"

"If we count from the time we left the cave, six days, about right?" the white snake said. "That Kirin guy has been taking care of you these past few days, but he doesn't understand me, doesn't feed me, and doesn't let me drink blood. He even tries to catch me back when I run away. He's almost driving me crazy!"

Chi Yu raised his eyebrows, scratched his index finger with the tip of his thumb, leaving a clear blood mark, and stretched it in front of the white snake: "Do you just listen to him?"

The white snake hesitated for a moment and swung its tail: "If you hadn't forbidden me to bite him, I would have let him know that I am not a snake that is easy to bully. But he is half your relative after all, so I am embarrassed to do too much..."

Chi Yu snorted and laughed, without making any comment.

Zhang Qiling pushed the door open with a strong smell of medicine on his body. He looked at Chi Yu sitting on the bed and interacting with the snake, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned sideways to shut Fengxue out of the door.

"you're awake."

It still smells good.

Chi Yu put his tongue against his canine teeth, rubbed them for a while, and nodded to Zhang Qiling: "Where is this place?"

"Most of the ruins of Kangba Village are buried under snow, but this room can still be used." Zhang Qiling said, handing the still steaming bowl to Chi Yu.

Although his guess was confirmed, Chi Yu did not feel any joyful emotion. He looked at the black medicine in the bowl, was silent for a moment, did not take it, buried his hands in the quilt, pretending to be a disabled person.

The white snake also crawled into the sleeve and disappeared instantly.

Facing the injured who were obviously unwilling to cooperate, Zhang Qiling showed no emotion. He handed the bowl forward a little more: "The medicine for replenishing qi and blood will be good for your recovery."

"I recover quickly, so I don't need to worry about this."

"Drinking the medicine will help you recover faster."

"Do not."

Chi Yu was determined, and his tail, which shared the same stance as his, also flapped on the bed.

……Tail?

Their eyes followed the sound to the dark, scaly tail, and they fell silent for a moment.

Zhang Qiling had taken care of Chi Yu for several days and had already seen his alienated state. Although he was a little surprised that his resistance was so blatant, he quickly regained his composure.

However, this seemed a little hard to accept for Chi Yu.

Whether it was the scales or the snake pupils at the beginning, even the horns and feathers that came later were only small-scale alienations.

Those inhuman characteristics will quickly fade away as the degree of erosion decreases, minimizing the impact on him.

but now……

Chi Yu looked at the message "The current erosion rate is too high, and the alienation cannot be eliminated for the time being" displayed on the system interface, and then looked at the tail that was obviously extending from his body, his eyes deep.

It’s bad, and it turned into a little snake man.