Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Perhaps it was because Zhang Qiling's gaze stayed on Chi Yu for too long. Although Chi Yu showed no dissatisfaction on the surface, he still sat there upright, but his tail behind him was swinging intermittently.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like there is some emotion in it, the kind that can't be hidden.

Zhang Qiling looked at the opponent's horn feathers which had disappeared at some point, and then looked at the tail which had a very strong presence.

“Those feathers disappeared.”

"Well, because this part has returned to normal." Chi Yu said, "I said that my recovery speed is very fast, so those tonics are of little use to me, and it would be a waste to give them to me."

"Back to normal?"

Chi Yu nodded and pointed to the new feathers in his hair.

The pitch-black crow feathers were unusually smooth, blending into the equally black long hair. Rather than appearing out of place, they looked completely natural, making people feel that it was the way it should be.

"The loss of control is only temporary. As long as we find the corresponding method, we can quickly control it, like this." As Chi Yu finished speaking, the feathers quickly disappeared again.

It sounds like he had anticipated his abnormal behavior and was no longer surprised by it.

Zhang Qiling paused: "Have you always been like this?"

Chi Yu was slightly puzzled by the direction of this question. He thought about it and chose an answer that could not be wrong: "The situation this time is quite special."

Although the recovery to normalcy is slower than before, everything else is pretty much the same as before.

After all, it was the first time that he let the blood erosion degree run so high. Only then did he realize that 80% was a dividing line, which was different from the usual random rise and fall pattern.

"Is the same reason true for the tail?"

"Ah, the tail..."

Chi Yu's gaze lingered on the tail together with Zhang Qiling's. The dark blue limb swayed obediently under their joint gaze, with the tip of the tail slightly curled.

"This is partly due to the influence of the Teng Snake's bloodline, which has been with me since the first day I came into this world." Chi Yu said, "But normally it only has scales, and this is the first time it has grown a tail, so it is said to be a special case."

"Teng Snake..." Zhang Qiling murmured, seeming to be lost in thought.

Chi Yu looked at him thinking and blinked.

Speaking of which, Zhang Qiling has been struggling with whether he belongs to the Zhang family bloodline since before. Now is a good opportunity to distance himself from them.

Thinking of this, Chi Yu said decisively: "I don't deny that there is an overly subtle connection between us, but I think that Teng Snake and Qilin can't be considered one family."

Even though Zuo Le's aunt is a Qilin, that doesn't mean he can accept a few Qilin relatives suddenly appearing around him.

Otherwise, if the bloodline problem is solved in the future and he has more relatives, what will he do if everyone he meets with special bloodline comes up to claim relationship with him?

Wouldn't that annoy him to death?

Chi Yu thought deeply that he must nip this tendency in the bud right at the beginning.

"..."

Zhang Qiling was silent for a moment because of Chi Yu's words. He looked at Chi Yu's serious face and changed the subject: "So you have come across many such examples before."

In fact, there weren’t many. Including the big bird, it was only the second time, and the ones killed happened to be family members.

Chi Yu didn't understand why Zhang Qiling suddenly brought up this matter, so he said "Huh?" and waited for his next words.

"The blood of these creatures is highly infectious to humans. They will change the original structure of the human body. When it is fatal, the body will be transformed." Zhang Qiling said, "You have been exposed to these for a long time, but your body has not collapsed. You can be considered lucky, but this luck is not absolute."

He looked at Chi Yu, his tone was light, but serious enough: "Don't take risks again in the future."

...It sounds serious, but he seems to have never seen a debuff like "Infect" in his status bar, Chi Yu thought.

The blood enchantment of leader monsters such as the Roc is not worth mentioning to him, but the blood that comes from it has a special reminder of the degree of blood erosion in the system.

However, Zhang Qiling doesn't have a system, so it's understandable that the other party would confuse the two.

and……

"So you thought I was going to die."

Chi Yu came to the conclusion.

Zhang Qiling is not the kind of person who would exaggerate things, but one thing is certain, anything that he takes so seriously must be threatening enough.

If in Zhang Qiling's cognition, body alienation means fatality, then judging from the state Chi Yu was in at that time, the other party should have clearly known that he was beyond saving.

If that’s the case, why did Zhang Qiling take him away?

They were originally a team temporarily tied together because of the same goal, and they can go their separate ways once the goal is achieved.

But the other party's behavior seemed to be completely thoughtless. He could have just left.

From digging out the collapsed cave, to seeing his abnormality, and then to leading him out of the cave.

Giving up, an option that seemed easier in any link, was firmly ruled out by Zhang Qiling. Instead, he chose an option that Chi Yu thought was unnecessary and thankless.

Chi Yu looked at Zhang Qiling carefully.

He thought, he really couldn't understand the choices made by these people.

Zhang Qiling's eyelashes trembled quickly and his lips moved slightly, but in the end he said nothing.

The fire in the house was burning brightly, but he seemed to be back in the cold wind of that day.

The snow was almost swallowing him up to his knees, and the person behind him was breathing cold air, and he couldn't feel any warmth at all.

But he still brought people to Kangba Village, where they waited for the final judgment in this small house built of white stones.

Everything was just like before. He had knelt quietly beside his mother's bed, holding her hand, listening to her breathing and heartbeat, feeling the momentary vitality gradually fade away.

He grabbed Chi Yu's hand, and all he saw was paleness, and all he felt was coldness.

But as time goes by, a voice in my heart becomes more and more obvious.

Do something.

The voice said, do something.

Only in this way, when he wakes up, you won't feel that time is too rushed.

So Zhang Qiling stood up and walked out of the house.

When he returned in the wind and snow, what he saw was a pair of deep blue eyes.

Just like when we first met.

The cool touch brought back my wandering thoughts.

Zhang Qiling lowered his head and found that Chi Yu's tail had become restless again at some point and was now entangled with him, with the tip of the tail flapping there intermittently.

Chi Yu obviously also noticed this situation, but showed great adaptability to it. He had no intention of taking any action. He still sat there with his face supported, looking at him leisurely.

"oops."

Seeing Zhang Qiling looking at him, Chi Yu let out a halfhearted sigh.

"The tail is not sensible, just let it go." He said, "Anyway, it won't live for many days."