Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

"Little Military Advisor, can you open this door?"

Pan Zi kept groping on the rock wall, and had no intention of paying attention to the current situation of the other people present.

——Wu Sanxing fell into a tunnel in front of him with an unknown end, and Pan Zi just wanted to get back to him as quickly as possible.

Chi Yu slowly put the knife back into the box and closed the wooden box. As Pan Zi was anxiously waiting, he walked to the wall and looked at it for a while before slowly answering Pan Zi:

"It can't be opened. This passage is for escape, and the entrance mechanism will automatically lock after activation. If you want to find them, you need to find another way."

Hearing Chi Yu's calm tone, Pan Zi calmed down a little.

He glanced at the people who were exhausted by the attacks of the Golden Cicada and the Blood Corpse, and then at Chi Yu who still looked extremely relaxed after killing the Blood Corpse. He couldn't help but sighed: "Little Military Advisor, since you would say so, then there must be a solution, right?"

"Although Master Huaer and Master San are together now, logically speaking, there is nothing to worry about when two such powerful people are together, but I am afraid of them..."

Pan Zi swallowed his unfinished words and sighed, "I don't know what the Third Master's current situation is like."

Chi Yu hummed: "I left marks on them, it's not difficult to find them. But..."

The remaining members of the accompanying team are not in good condition.

Tang, the lock picker who had been the first to be hit, had been eaten by insects, leaving only a tattered mask and clothing fabric. The other unlucky guys were not much better off, with some of them missing some pieces of flesh.

Coupled with the subsequent invasion of blood corpses, although some people are still alive, they will be close to death if they do not use antidotes in time.

Thinking of this, Chi Yu smiled and asked Pan Zi: "Do you think that you still have enough energy to continue the next action in your current situation?"

Chi Yu's smile was very light, and coupled with his handsome face, it could be said to be extremely pleasing to the eyes, but for some reason, it made people feel a deep chill from it.

Sensing the indifference in Chi Yu's words, Pan Zi fell silent.

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Xie Yuchen and Wu Sanxing fell into the tunnel together.

After the gate mechanism fell again, Xie Yuchen could not see anything. All he could see was darkness. The stone door blocked all the sounds of the battle in the cave. Only his own breathing could be clearly heard.

There are still four of Xie's men left outside, but Xie Yuchen knows that this is not a problem he needs to worry about now - because Chi Yu is there, and Chi Yu will handle everything.

So Xie Yuchen turned on the searchlight, pointed it at the figure of the man who was groping and preparing to leave quietly, and asked faintly: "Third Master, where are you going?"

Wu Sansheng took off his gas mask, his sweaty hair sticking to the side of his face. He looked at Xie Yuchen who was asking the question and asked, "Didn't you notice? This gate mechanism is one-way. We can't open it from the inside. Either we find another way out, or we will be trapped here to death."

Xie Yuchen didn't say anything. He turned around and looked at the stone door that had been sealed again, his eyes deep and cold.

Following Wu Sansheng into this place was his choice in accordance with his heart, and also because of what Chi Yu had said to him at the beginning.

"——He seemed to have a goal that he had to achieve, and he schemed against many people for this purpose. It was because he included me in this plan that I was able to notice this."

Chi Yu analyzed the situation for Xie Yuchen slowly: "This situation should have been set up a long time ago, but if you can't even figure out what he is going to do, it means that he no longer trusts the people in the Nine Gates."

"He needed a new helper, so he found me, but he didn't know what kind of person I was, so the purpose of this operation was obviously to evaluate whether I - or maybe someone else, it doesn't matter - could be used by him through this process."

"If he wanted to observe me, then when he got to that environment, he would definitely choose to suddenly disappear at a certain time so that he could observe and guide all of us in secret."

"Boss Jie, if you want to take this opportunity to catch his weakness, remember to keep a close eye on him."

When saying this, Chi Yu chuckled, "Because the cunning old fox will sneak away when the young hunter is not paying attention."

Never mind, he's already caught it.

Xie Yuchen said silently.

He turned around and walked towards Wu Sansheng: "In that case, let's go, Master San, Pan Zi and Chi Yu will find a way to reunite with us."

The shadows of the two were stretched out by the searchlight. Wu Sansheng looked at Xie Yuchen, who was rarely calm and at peace with him, and raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Do you really believe that they can find us?"

"Pan Zi's loyalty to you is obvious to everyone. He will never abandon you."

Xie Yuchen also took off his mask, stuffed it back into his backpack, and breathed a sigh of relief: "And Chi Yu's ability is unquestionable. If he says that he can't find us, I would doubt whether this is true."

Hearing this, Wu Sansheng smiled and said, "It seems that you trust him very much."

"No, I just trust my own judgment."

As Xie Yuchen spoke, his mind involuntarily began to recall those fragments about Chi Yu.

Chi Yu was one of the countless passers-by in his life.

Like all business partners, they met briefly, had some contact, and then had difficulty contacting each other after the business negotiations ended.

——If Xie Yuchen hadn’t answered the call at that time.

But fate is so elusive. In Xie Yuchen's life which has not yet been completely formed, everything in the future is disordered but there are traces to follow.

So, on a dark night, Xie Yuchen finally finished all his work for the day and prepared to leave the study.

As he walked around the desk covered with proposals and passed by the sandalwood stand where the telephone was placed, at the right moment, Xie Yuchen heard the sound of a ringing phone.

The ringtone sounded the same as usual and there was nothing special about it.

For the young boss Xie, it was just another reminder to take a break and return to work.

So he stopped and chose to pick up the phone.

Obviously, this is just a common behavior in Xie Yuchen's life, but -

——Perhaps from that moment on, the fate of the individual named "Xie Yuchen" has been quietly changed.

"Who?"

"Hello, Boss Xie, I'm Chi Yu. If you don't remember me, we discussed business in the teahouse last Tuesday afternoon."

The voice on the other end of the phone was neither hurried nor slow. The cold and recognizable voice allowed Xie Yuchen to quickly and accurately recall the other person's face from the information he provided.

"I remember you." Xie Yuchen said.

"Since you remember me, it means that we already have a certain basis of trust in each other."

Chi Yu said, without waiting for Xie Yuchen to ask anything, and quickly revealed his purpose, "I have news about Xie Lianhuan."

Solve, connect, and loop.

Xie Yuchen savored these three words carefully.

These three words sound familiar yet unfamiliar, and when combined together, they ultimately point to the beginning of Xie Yuchen's life of suffering.

It was also a name that Xie Yuchen did not expect to hear from a stranger he was not even familiar with.

It was hard to describe what kind of mood he was in. Xie Yuchen smiled silently on the phone: "News about a dead person?"

"If it was just news of a dead person, I wouldn't have come to bother you at this time, Mr. Jie."

The hidden meaning in the other party's words was as if someone had suddenly given him a heavy blow. After a brief buzzing sound, Xie Yuchen felt as if he was being pulled away from this world in an instant.

In this silence, only Chi Yu's voice could be heard clearly -

"But how can you be sure that Jie Lianhuan is really dead?"