Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

In order to get Chi Yu away from this dangerous area as soon as possible, Black Glasses regretfully gave up on interfering with Chi Yu.

Without the distraction of Black Glasses' annoying little movements, Chi Yu stopped secretly competing with him and focused on moving forward.

Soon, the two passed through the snake cave and stopped in front of the door at the end.

It was a huge gate made of bronze, about ten meters high, with intricate patterns carved on it. Just by looking at it, one could feel the ancient and distant atmosphere.

Originally, the snakes were driven away from the two people under Chi Yu's continuous pressure, but they still followed them unwillingly.

However, after Chi Yu stepped into the territory belonging to this door, he tried to avoid the bronze door. He did not follow them here at all, but just stayed behind the two of them and looked at them from afar.

Chi Yu glanced at the situation of the snake group behind him, said nothing, and suddenly let go of the hand holding the black glasses.

Black Glasses seemed to have been prepared for this. He stood up without any embarrassment, stretched his muscles, and sighed, "We're finally here."

Chi Yu was too lazy to pay attention to his ambiguous sigh. He opened the map of Mo Yu, took a look at the map details, and after confirming that the door was not dangerous, he walked forward and reached out to brush away the dust on the patterns.

A lot of dust fell from the door. The man with black glasses walking behind him was not paying attention and was choked and coughed a few times. He quickly covered his mouth and nose.

"Boss Chi, please at least warn me before you do this. This will have an impact on my health, okay?"

"Then I'm really sorry."

Chi Yu said perfunctorily, his eyes still focused on the bronze door.

As the dust was swept away by Chi Yu, the patterns carved on the door gradually became clearer, and the giant tree relief that they had seen on the bluestone platform before appeared in front of the two again.

However, this time the giant tree pattern has undergone obvious changes.

Chi Yu's previous guess was overturned again, because in the relief on the door, the giant tree was still growing straight upwards.

The roots of the giant tree were rooted in the vague shadows below. Chi Yu couldn't see clearly what it was and could only temporarily assume that the pattern above was originally carved like this.

The spread out branches and leaves are lush and dense, but the tree does not bear any fruit. Instead, there are dense groups of snakes entwined in the treetops.

The most obvious one is at the top of the branch, where a white snake raises its head high, while the other gray-black snakes lower their heads towards it.

Under the tree, people and monkeys covered in scales all bowed down to it. From the looks of it, these creatures seemed to be performing a strange worship.

Maybe this white snake is the "object" in the hands of the Queen Mother of the West, but...

Chi Yu looked at the arrogant white snake on the relief and was speechless for a moment.

Could this thing be the one he killed back then?

You know what, it's really possible.

"Boss Chi, what have you thought of?"

Chi Yu glanced at the man with black glasses who came closer to him again, and thought that the other party had never returned to the bluestone platform, so he didn't know what exactly happened on the platform.

Then he pointed at the white snake standing on the top of the tree canopy and said, "This snake should be the same species as the one I killed on the bluestone platform."

The man with black glasses looked up along his hand and became interested in the white snake. He smiled and asked Chi Yu, "Since you pointed it out, it must mean that there is something strange about this snake that deserves your attention."

Chi Yu hummed, recalling the scene at that time, and explained: "The snake I encountered at that time was in the body of a dead bodyguard. It could control the bodyguard's every word and action, and had no reaction to my manipulation."

But these are not what Chi Yu cares about most.

"According to the records on the murals, Queen Mother of the West had long since left this palace, but she left behind a white snake and layers of mechanisms that could control the experimental subjects." Chi Yu frowned slightly, "And at that time, the snake also mentioned that it wanted to keep you here to worship the 'god'."

Judging from the records on the relief, the white snake had no respect for this giant tree.

But before it died, it kept muttering that Chi Yu was "disrespectful to the gods", which meant that the person it cared about was someone else.

The things that appear in the picture must have special meanings. So far, there is only one thing that is still unclear...

Chi Yu turned his gaze back to the shadow where the giant tree was rooted.

Under his gaze, the originally blurry relief seemed to come alive again, and something that was difficult to describe in words kept surging in it.

The man with black glasses also moved his gaze to the shadow along with Chi Yu. "So, you think this is the 'god' that the snake mentioned, and these mechanisms and snakes were left behind to protect this god?"

"Even if the creature below isn't the so-called god, judging by the activity of those tree roots, it must be a living creature."

Chi Yu paused for a moment, then continued with a complaint, "I really don't know how it managed to survive for so long. It has such a terrifying vitality."

"This is indeed a curious question, but isn't our primary goal right now to rescue Young Master Zhou?"

Hearing this, Black Glasses shrugged at Chi Yu, spread his hands and smiled: "Unless you tell me that he is where this creature is, otherwise, whether it survives or not doesn't seem to be something we need to care about."

Realizing that something seemed wrong with his condition, Chi Yu shook his head, ignored the whispers in his ears, and withdrew his gaze from the relief, "You're right, business is more important."

If he doesn't hurry up, what if Zhou Zixu can't hold on and sends it? Wouldn't his trip be in vain?

Thinking of this, Chi Yu rubbed his forehead and opened the details of the mechanism.

[Underground Palace Mechanism: A mechanism that needs to be pressed in a specific order. If you accidentally press the wrong one, it may turn into a hornet's nest.]

This time the sequence of cracking the mechanism was a bit complicated. Chi Yu took two steps back so that he could look up and take in the entire mechanism. Then, he matched the system interface with it and quickly went over the operations in his mind.

After confirming that everything was correct, Chi Yu stepped forward again and pressed the mechanism above without any hesitation.

Black Glasses watched Chi Yu's movements silently from behind. When the last mechanism was pushed into the groove by Chi Yu, he asked, "This mechanism is very complicated and cannot be cracked in a short time. How did you get the answer in such a short time?"

Chi Yu had a terrible headache right now and didn't want to argue with the man with black glasses, so he glanced at him indifferently.

"Eager to save people or gifted, choose one."