Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

"In this legend, the birth of the Monkey King is closely related to the Queen Mother of the West."

Bao Yi organized his words: "Legend has it that when the Queen Mother of the West was on an eastern tour, she rested for a while on the top of the Flower and Fruit Mountain in Aolai, Dongsheng Shenzhou. A drop of moon red stained the stone where she sat, and after a long time, a stone egg was born, and Sun Wukong was born from it."

Chi Yu sat there, blinking as he listened to Baoyi's narration, thinking that he had indeed never heard of this version.

"and then?"

"The story that followed was just like what we saw in Journey to the West. The Monkey King caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, stole the peaches from the Queen Mother, and made things difficult for the seven fairies under her seat."

"But the only difference is that after protecting Tang Monk on his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and achieving enlightenment, Sun Wukong learned about his relationship with the Queen Mother of the West, so he went to the Dalan Lake to protect the Yaochi Palace for the Queen Mother of the West to show his filial piety."

The Dalan Lakes are the two lakes they saw when they arrived at Baigong Mountain before. They are named so because the Koruk Lake and Tuosu Lake, one fresh water area and the other salt water area, are connected.

After Baoyi finished telling his story, Zhou Zixu just finished his canned food, so he added: "The origin of this story is actually very simple. In fact, it is because when you look at Baigong Mountain from the side, it looks like a monkey sitting there looking towards the lake."

"It is said that the Dalan Lake is the oldest Yaochi Lake, where the Queen Mother of the West once built a palace, but in fact no one has ever found any relevant remains."

At this point, Zhou Zixu smiled and asked Chi Yu: "Do you think the place we are in now is the Yaochi Palace that is rumored?"

Chi Yu said "hmm" as usual: "It's very likely."

"Then haven't we discovered history?" Zhou Zixu seemed a little excited. "The Yaochi Palace that so many experts couldn't find before has now been found by us. When I go back and tell my father about it, he will definitely be impressed!"

Zhou Zixu became more and more excited as he spoke. He quickly took out a camera from his bag and ran to the mural to take pictures.

Chi Yu followed him and reviewed the contents of the mural in light of the story he had just heard.

The women with snake heads and human bodies are the "Seven Fairies", the monkey who stole the fruit is the "Monkey King", and the majestic-looking woman is the "Queen Mother of the West".

According to legend, the fairy peach of the Queen Mother of the West can make people immortal. Although the Monkey King was not really born of the Queen Mother of the West as the local legend said, from another perspective, he ate the fruit and was shaped by the Queen Mother of the West, making him another creature with special powers.

Chi Yu looked at the mural. After breaking out of the stone, the monkey, which had lost its fur, grew scales on its body. It was not afraid of ordinary weapons at all, but when facing the object in the hands of the Queen Mother of the West, it bowed its head to show submission.

The object was extremely long, coiled around the Queen Mother of the West's arm. Chi Yu looked at it more carefully and found that it was not a weapon at all, but a giant snake with its head held high.

But why would a monkey that is not afraid of even knives and guns be afraid of a snake? What is so special about this snake?

Unfortunately, Chi Yu was unable to find the answer to this question even after he had finished reading all the contents on the mural. Instead, he watched a lot of experimental processes.

In the Queen Mother of the West's later experiments, since the fruits had all been eaten by the original monkeys, she could only find the cores to feed to other monkeys. Because of this variable, many of the later experimental subjects did not survive the skinning step.

After a while, the experimental process was changed, and a step of smearing something on the skinned monkeys was added. This step seemed to significantly improve the survival rate of the experimental subjects.

Then, perhaps because the Queen Mother of the West thought that this technology was mature, she began to use humans as experimental materials. Many people were skinned and then turned into scaly monsters.

Everything ended with the last mural, which recorded that in the end, the Queen Mother of the West gathered these monsters together and led them to an oasis.

So this palace was where the Queen Mother of the West conducted experiments, and they left after the experiments were over.

However, it only mentioned above that the Queen Mother of the West took away the monsters, and did not mention the whereabouts of the tree and the snake. These things may have been left behind by the Queen Mother of the West.

Perhaps when the exploration team goes deeper, they will be able to see weathered remains.

Chi Yu thought he had solved the secret of Baigong Mountain, but he did not receive the notification that the task was completed.

He thought about it and noticed Zhou Zixu who was still taking pictures in front of him. He thought that maybe he had to let this fool figure it out, so he pulled Zhou Zixu aside and briefly explained his ideas.

[Core goals have been achieved]

Zhou Zixu listened attentively, his eyes sparkling as he looked at Chi Yu: "Brother, you are really amazing. You can actually see so many things from this."

"It was the rumors you just told me that gave me an idea."

Otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to believe that the stories here were true, and how could he have guessed that this was related to the Queen Mother of the West.

Recalling those bizarre images, Chi Yu couldn't help but touch the back of his ears, thinking that fortunately these scales on his body appeared out of thin air, so he didn't have to go through the process of being skinned, and didn't feel any pain at all.

"But I'm still curious why the monkey is afraid of the snake in the Queen Mother's hand." Zhou Zixu stretched out his hand and pointed at the dome. "And the murals above and here both mention trees. I also want to see them."

"Okay." Chi Yu nodded and agreed to Zhou Zixu's suggestion to continue exploring.

Although he could just submit the mission settlement and run away as long as he packed Zhou Zixu back to the ground, Chi Yu did not intend to do so.

The rewards for exploring the strange territory are first determined by whether the player has achieved the core goal, and then calculated based on the player's survival time in the strange territory and the number of battles.

Chi Yu saw a product he liked in a store a few days ago. It was a huge expense and he expected to complete several commissions to get enough crystal fragments.

Therefore, as long as he can ensure his own safety, the longer he explores in the unfamiliar area, the better. The richer the rewards he gets, the sooner he can bring things home.

What's more, Chi Yu himself also has a lot of things he wants to figure out, and he doesn't want to go home with only a half-understanding.

The two hit it off immediately and returned to the temporary camp. The man with black glasses had been there for quite a while and was now sitting by the fire, smoking a cigarette, looking very comfortable.

"Master Zhou, Boss Chi, are you two back?"

Zhou Zixu was annoyed just looking at him, and chuckled twice: "Brother Chi and I just figured out the secret here, but I don't know what role Hei Ye plays in it?"

Black Glasses didn't feel ashamed at all, but was very surprised: "Then can we return tomorrow?"