Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

When talking about this matter, the boy got a little angry.

But he thought of the hideous wound that Chi Yu had hidden under the black cloth, and he couldn't get angry anymore. He could only reply listlessly, "When I woke up, I found that you were gone. I wanted to pack up and come back to look for you, but I suddenly had an indescribable feeling in my heart, as if someone was constantly calling me to come over, so I ran over to check the situation."

Could it be that the peacock in the royal tomb was calling him?

But what's the point of finding such a little guy?

Chi Yu blinked and looked the peacock boy up and down.

The boy is still very small. After a night's rest, he looks a lot better, but still doesn't have much strength. If he stands with the peacock, he can probably only be a snack for it.

However, this possibility is not impossible.

Chi Yu thought as he recalled some details in the royal tomb.

In a general tomb, the most important part is the place for placing the corpse, but in this royal tomb, this part seems to be completely missing.

Chi Yu and Hei Yanjing saw many funerary objects and murals, but they didn't see even a single coffin along the way.

Based on past experience, the place that might be the main tomb chamber is a hall filled with various golden statues.

Judging from the peacock's habit of cannibalism, it is hard to say whether the bodies of the royal family members ended up in the peacock's mouth after their death.

"When did you feel the calling?" Chi Yu asked the boy.

The boy pondered for a moment: "About two hours ago? It took me a long time to get there, but about halfway through, the feeling began to fade, and now I can't feel it at all."

That's because the thing that called you over is now dead.

Chi Yu calculated the time. Two hours ago, it was about the time when he and Black Glasses took away the last piece of bone.

Peacock did indeed revive at that point in time.

but……

"Do you know where the so-called gold-producing area is?"

The boy shook his head. "The place my mother told Cheng Bingqiang was fake. There was nothing there. But I didn't know where the real place was. She only told me that it was a very dangerous place. So for my safety, she told me not to look for it."

He thought Chi Yu was still thinking about his promise and those gold products, and a trace of guilt flashed across his face: "I'm sorry, I lied to you about this, but I dealt with Cheng Bingqiang and the others by myself, and I also led the way for you later, so it was not in vain that I received your care some time ago."

Chi Yu looked at the boy's expression and realized that he really had no idea about this. He couldn't help but sigh at his wonderful luck.

"You don't need to apologize." Seeing the boy's puzzled look, Chi Yu explained to him, "The place is deep in this rift valley. You have helped us find it."

"Just down here? That place is the king's tomb?"

"Correct."

The boy looked at the completely collapsed entrance of the rift, then looked at Chi Yu: "So what on earth did you do down there? It's only been a few hours, how come it's become like this?"

"Nothing special. According to our previous deal, I took the remaining bone fragments from it, but..."

Chi Yu said, glancing at the peacock boy again: "Black Glasses and I killed a peacock downstairs. From the information we have obtained so far, that bird should have a deep connection with you."

"Ah?" The boy showed a confused expression.

Listening to the strange conversation between the two, the man with black glasses, who had been silent beside them, sighed, quickly packed up the things at hand, and came over.

"We found some jade tubes with relevant information in them. It says on the jade tubes that your ancestor once got three drops of blood from a wounded peacock, and thus got some of the divine power."

"So they worshipped the peacock as a sacred bird, made it a national totem, and called themselves the descendants of the peacock - this is the origin of your bloodline."

The boy was even more confused: "Is this also possible?"

"Where are we going now?"

The man with black glasses looked at the boy's bewildered expression and smiled. "Peacocks have the habit of eating people, so the people of Peacock Country have been holding human sacrifices for them. The peacock also knows sustainable development. After accepting the sacrifice, it chose to stay with your ancestors and spit out gold as a reward for the sacrifice."

"It didn't choose to leave, it must have been seriously injured."

Chi Yu took over the conversation and continued with Black Glasses' words, "It should have a natural enemy, because when we came in earlier, the dilapidated buildings we passed by were not collapsed naturally. After I saw the peacock, I can confirm that many of the marks on the buildings were caused by it. The other object is also a creature as large as the peacock."

"They fought and killed each other, and both were injured and unable to do anything to each other. In the end, the peacock's enemies left here, and the peacock chose to eat everyone here to recover from his injuries."

"But even so, its injuries did not improve. Instead, it became weaker and weaker. So it had no choice but to enter the royal tomb and call for your ancestors who were far away in Xishuangbanna."

"But it obviously didn't realize that the mechanisms in the royal mausoleum were fatal to ordinary humans, so it didn't wait for enough food and had to fall into a deep sleep."

Chi Yu thought for a moment, and added: "The royal mausoleum is equivalent to its kingdom of God. The bone fragment you gave me was placed in it. The energy can sustain its life, but that's all."

He and Black Glasses took away all the bone fragments in the royal tomb, which was equivalent to cutting off the peacock's life supply, making it unable to maintain its own life, so the other party was so angry after waking up.

"The reason why you felt the peacock's call is because you are the last bloodline related to the peacock. Your blood should be able to provide some energy recovery for the peacock. This is also the reason why the peacock summoned you as soon as it woke up."

"It wants to eat me, so it called me over?" the boy pointed at himself.

Chi Yu nodded: "Yes."

The boy's behavior was like a takeaway being delivered to his door, which was quite thoughtful.

"You should have a special way of communicating with each other through voice, just like when you opened the wall outside the canyon before."

This should have been set up like that by the Peacock People with the help of the power of the peacock, but even if the peacock's ability played an indispensable role in it, it could not completely control the terrain here.

Otherwise, Chi Yu and Black Glasses would not have been able to fight each other so easily in the underground royal tomb.

Finally, one more thing -

"When you were outside controlling those people, the medium you used was actually the golden statue given by Cheng Bingqiang, right?"