Qilin Jue [Tomb Raiders Notes]

"Boss, boss..." The guy behind Hua Qi tremblingly said, "Where is this place, I think, let's go back and meet Lao Si and the others."

"What are you afraid of!" Hua Qi said with a sullen face, looking at the frozen black worms.Suddenly he was taken aback, as if thinking of something, he quickly took off the backpack, found a photo from inside, and then looked carefully at the photo with a flashlight, as if he was looking for something, when his sight fell on a certain point, he opened his eyes wide Stunned, his expression became astonished, he looked up at the frozen black insect swarm, and looked at the photo with some uncertainty.

"Boss, what's the matter?" the man asked cautiously.

Hua Qi frowned tightly, and when he was about to say something, he saw another guy holding a climbing pick and knocking down the icy surface where the bugs were frozen on the edge.

"Don't move!" Hua Qi roared, but it was still too late.

The guy trembled and turned around in panic, "Boss, what, why..."

"Crack-"

A sound of breaking ice interrupted the man's words.

On the ice surface that was cracked, a small ice crevice opened, followed by a crackling sound, the crack in the ice crevice expanded slowly and rapidly, and continued to spread deeper.

Zhang Qiling and the black glasses, who had been paying attention to all the movements, lowered their expressions, and instinctively took a step back to defend themselves.

Cold sweat broke out on Hua Qi's forehead, staring at the ice that was constantly breaking.The two guys were frightened and did not dare to act rashly.

But the sound of the ice breaking suddenly stopped.

Everyone stared at it defensively for a moment, but nothing happened.

Hua Qi hesitated and gradually relaxed, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly there was a "click" in his ear.Hua Qi's expression changed, he looked up, and took a deep breath.

Under the ice layer, the body of a black beetle exposed its tentacles due to the shattering of the ice layer.And that tentacle moved slightly when a guy approached it inadvertently, and then all the tentacles moved, and then the four hook legs began to twist.Like being resurrected, it struggled under the thin ice layer, twisting its limbs to get out.

The ice layer broke open with a crack, and it stretched out its legs and slowly crawled out.

The guy standing closest was taken aback and backed away in a hurry.Hua Qi stretched out his hand to signal to retreat, and said in a deep voice, "Don't get close! Get out of here quickly."

Zhang Qiling and the black glasses looked at each other, the black glasses nodded slightly, and then the two moved to one side.

"Boss, what the hell is going on here?" a guy asked in shock.

"Let's talk after leaving here, and meet up with the fourth child first." Hua Qi stared at the beetle that broke out of the ice, and stepped back step by step.

The black beetle crawled out of the ice completely. It slowly turned around and looked at everyone with the two black, empty eyes on the top of its head. It remained motionless and stared at everyone.

Hua Qi didn't dare to slack off, seeing that the bug was no longer moving, he looked back at the way he had come.The two guys behind followed him and walked backwards, holding the flashlight in their hands but did not dare to move it, they could only stiffly maintain the original posture and backed up step by step.

But at this moment, the two antennae of the beetle moved suddenly, the black carapace on the back lifted up, and the small white wing fan below it quickly shook a few times, making a slight but clear buzzing sound, like cicadas chirping.

Hearing this sound, Hua Qi and the two guys stopped immediately, not daring to move any more.

Zhang Qiling, who had been looking into the depths of the cave and thinking about something, was taken aback imperceptibly when he heard the voice, and looked up.

However, after the first buzzing sound, the beetle suddenly shook its wings violently, and the cicada-like cry echoed non-stop, which was extremely clear in the silent darkness.

Then, from nowhere, this kind of sound also sounded, one after another, it seemed to come from different directions, densely packed.

"Crack-"

The ice suddenly and sharply cracked.

The ice layer behind the beetle was rapidly cracking and collapsing. The countless beetles under the ice layer began to struggle, and the thin ice layer gradually fell apart under their impact.

"Look there!" The man suddenly shone the flashlight to one side.

On the stone wall on the right, a large group of beetles, who did not know how to appear, were crawling all over at some point, and there were more and more of them, constantly commotioning.

A beetle suddenly jumped out of the swarm, landed on the innermost guy, and then screamed.

The guy was stunned for a moment, then slapped it with a pale face, trying to get it off.But the bug's four hooked legs firmly hooked on the man's clothes, lifted the shell and shook its wings, and the man patted it several times without success.Immediately, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the bug violently, and almost pulled it off. As soon as the bug left his body, he quickly threw it out and hit the rock wall.

However, the ever-increasing swarm began to approach gradually.

Hua Qi was startled, then looked at the photo in his hand, was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth suddenly and said, "So it's the mystery here."

"Boss, there are more and more!" The man shouted in panic.

Insects that broke out of their cocoons like waves came crawling forward.

Countless black beetles, like rising dark waves, churned out of the ice layer, forming a black mass.They kept making tiny buzzing sounds that filled the eardrums, but the black eyes that were originally empty now glowed strangely with a faint cold light.

The ear-piercing chirping of the swarm pierced the eardrums sharply, piercing the brain like needles, making people feel severe headaches.Then the voice spread to the chest, suppressing the heart, a little suffocating.

"This is Gu-smelling turtles, it will be over when they all wake up! Cover your ears!" Hua Qi raised his hand to cover his ears, and turned around quickly, "Leave quickly!"

The two guys didn't care about other things, they followed Hua Qi and ran back, heading straight.The flashlight doesn't seem to be working at all, just running on instinct in the dark cave.The three seemed to have forgotten that there were two other people, and just ran away.

Hua Qi was terrified at the moment, but also faintly excited as if he had discovered something, holding the photo tightly in his hand, and ran back at an extremely fast speed.

After running for a long time, when Hua Qi thought he was going the wrong way, he suddenly saw a light coming from ahead.That's where they landed before.

Hua Qi quickened his pace and ran over, before he saw anyone, he hurriedly shouted: "Fourth brother! We don't need to look for it, here is..."

However, before he finished speaking, a blade of light flashed across his eyes like a shooting star, Hua Qi suddenly fell silent, and his body stopped abruptly like instinct.The two guys who followed were knocked unconscious by a man in black who suddenly appeared and raised his hand when they rushed up.

The faint white blade pressed against Hua Qi's neck, and a cold voice came: "What is it?"

Hua Qi was taken aback, and his face suddenly changed.He glanced at the fallen man, only then did he realize that the other two hadn't followed.

Thought turned but unable to figure it out, Hua Qi secretly gritted his teeth, barely suppressed the sudden panic in his heart, and looked over calmly.

There was a faint skylight above the snow pit, and there were seven or eight people lying on the ground, all of whom seemed to have passed out, and the equipment was scattered in a mess, suggesting that a fierce battle had taken place here.

In the shadow of the backlight, a young man in a high-necked windbreaker stood there with an indifferent expression. He held a short knife in his hand, and the blade was pressed against Hua Qi's neck.

There are five or six people standing behind the young man, the one at the front is also a young man, and the people behind are all dressed in black, two of them are suppressing a man kneeling on the ground, the man sees Hua Qi, his eyes He stared hard, then looked left and right, signaling to Hua Qi.

Hua Qi glanced calmly at his companion who was suppressed and kneeling on the ground, then turned his head, looked at the young man holding a short knife, with a gloomy expression, and said coldly: "Who sent you here?"

"That's a wrong question," Xie Yuchen sneered, "I thought anyone who had the guts to mess with Xie's territory knew he was looking for trouble."

Hua Qi was taken aback for a moment, then frowned, and looked at Xie Yuchen secretly with some doubts.

"Xiaohua, these people seem to be the only ones left," Wu Xie took a step forward, and whispered to Xie Yuchen, "Will my brother really be here?"

Xie Yuchen closed his eyelids slightly, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Maybe, there is no definite news, so we can only investigate step by step."

Wu Xie looked at the crowd again, making sure that there was no familiar indifferent figure, her expression became disappointed, and she put her cold hands into the pockets of her clothes.

……

The dark red blood dripped on the ice and snow, instantly soaking through the thin ice surface and spreading.

The dense swarm of insects was suddenly quiet, and then quickly retreated into the darkness on both sides like a tide, revealing the path leading to the depths.

The black glasses followed behind Zhang Qiling, frowning tightly as he watched his bleeding hand.After walking in silence for a while, he asked, "What are you looking for?"

Zhang Qiling walked unhurriedly into the deeper darkness.The swarm fled as he approached.

After walking out of the range of the insect swarm, Zhang Qiling stopped, as if looking for something, looked left and right, and finally stopped at a certain place on the rock wall in front of him.

"That's it." Zhang Qiling turned back to the black glasses and said, pointing the light of the flashlight there.

The black glasses looked along the light, and then walked over.

A layer of ice crystals formed on the surface of the rough rock wall, reflecting tiny rays of light in the light of the flashlight.

And on the rock wall illuminated by the light, several interlaced notches are very eye-catching. These marks form a strange symbol, which can be seen to be deliberately scratched.

"This is..." The black glasses looked at this symbol, tilted their heads in confusion, thought for a while, then looked back at Zhang Qiling, and asked hesitantly, "You left it?"

Zhang Qiling walked to the rock wall, was silent for a moment, and said: "I don't remember when I came here, but it feels very familiar."

"This is your usual style." Black Glasses sighed, and said again: "Before this incident, didn't you come to Tibet?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head slightly, "I have been here, but I have forgotten many things."

"Then why did you decide to go back to Changbai Mountain?" Black Glasses asked puzzled.

Zhang Qiling closed his eyelids halfway, and said lightly: "It's just because of the situation."

"I went to you directly after I got your news, and I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Although I don't know how the news leaked, but the Zhang family changed at that time, and the family members in various places began to be chaotic on a small scale, and then there was that I think there is a great connection between the mysterious organization’s intervention and Qi Yu’s appearance at the Beijing auction.” Speaking of the black glasses looking at Zhang Qiling with a slightly complicated expression, “If it’s only because of the Zhang family’s relationship, you should I won't be so decisive, the reason why I chose to live in seclusion is because there is something I don't want to face, or... someone?"

Zhang Qiling looked at the mark left on the rock wall at an unknown time, and remained silent.

The black glasses said helplessly: "If I don't look for you, you really decide to stay with the Zhang family and put everything aside for the rest of your life, right?"

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After transitioning so many chapters... finally getting to the point... T^T