Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

As Black Glasses was walking on the way back, he realized for the first time that just moving forward could make him so hesitant.

He sighed, turned to look at Chi Yu, clasped his hands together, and bowed to him: "Boss Chi, I was wrong, please be kind and don't torture me, let's go faster?"

After leaving the range of the bronze door, the snakes surrounded them again.

For some reason, Chi Yu did not let all the snakes retreat, but maintained a distance of several meters just like when they came, watching them move forward.

This meant that even though Black Glasses was walking in front, he had to take Chi Yu's pace into consideration and not walk too fast.

Otherwise, what awaits him is a close encounter with the snakes.

"I'm holding someone in my arms, so I can't walk fast."

Chi Yu followed the man with black glasses slowly, keeping a few steps away. When he saw the man with black glasses stop, he started to urge him: "Don't stop, keep going."

"Boss Chi, if you're tired of carrying someone, why don't you tell me and let me do it? You're walking like a spring outing, stopping and starting all the time. If you don't know, you'd think the scenery here is beautiful."

The man with black glasses complained and reached out to grab Zhou Zixu, but Chi Yu dodged him.

"I'll take Zhou Zixu with me. With you leading the way to attract attention, the snakes won't take him as their primary target. But if you take the lead, I can't guarantee the safety of both of you."

Chi Yu looked at him and slowly said the next sentence: "So, please sacrifice yourself, Mr. Hei."

Black Glasses has lived long enough to know what is true and what is false when some words are spoken. He doesn't believe the nonsense that Chi Yu is talking about.

But Chi Yu was unwilling to give in, and Black Glasses was helpless with him. He could only sigh and continue to enjoy this long and painful journey.

After listening to the sighs of the man with black glasses, Chi Yu felt a little better.

After they left the snake cave and returned to the zombie hall, Chi Yu looked back at the group of snakes in the dark.

They all lowered their heads and prostrated themselves on the ground, looking as devout as if they were worshipping the white snake on the original relief.

Priest... Messenger of the Scourge...

There are many records about the profession of "Disaster Messenger" in the game, but due to the cultural characteristics of each place, this profession also has many different titles.

For example, the "Oracle of Doom" in the Land of Heroes, the "Night Watchmen" in the Ursus Empire, and the "Priests" in some tribes.

However, this information does not match Chi Yu's experience at all. Perhaps we can only wait until we leave this underground palace and go outside to collect some relevant information about this world before we can draw a conclusion.

Thinking of this, Chi Yu retracted his gaze and continued to move forward.

Black Glasses had already left the snake cave and put some distance between himself and Chi Yu.

Originally Chi Yu thought that the two of them would probably maintain this distance all the way, but he found that the man with black glasses stopped not far ahead.

Looking more closely, I found that he was holding a gun and confronting a strange man who was hunched over.

The strange man's face was covered with crisscrossing scratches. The scratches were very fresh, and some of them were even bleeding, making his face look blurry.

However, what is more concerning than his bloody face is the monster's bulging back.

His back made the clothes bulge out, and the obvious mark of the spine could be seen where the clothes were tightly attached.

He had bent his waist so deeply that he seemed unable to stand up straight again. He could only support his knees with his hands and look up at the black glasses with difficulty.

Chi Yu looked at this strange man and found that his hands were also very strange. They were completely covered with hard scales and the nails were abnormally sharp.

Moreover, the clothes this man was wearing were exactly the standard uniforms of the bodyguards brought by Zhou Zixu.

[Mutant: A mutated monster, the human part of it has been greatly polluted, but it still thinks of itself as a bodyguard. ]

So will this unlucky mutant be ranked first or third?

Due to the other party's mutation, the icon representing him also underwent new changes, making Chi Yu unable to recognize who this person was for a while.

So Chi Yu approached the two people who were confronting each other while making guesses in his mind.

When the strange man saw Chi Yu approaching, he was not angry but happy. His face lit up as he looked at Chi Yu, and his eyes revealed deep desire.

"It's you, you're here..."

The man with black glasses tilted his head, his arm holding the gun motionless: "Boss Chi, take Master Zhou and leave here first."

"No, you can't just leave like this!" The weirdo became anxious upon hearing that, and took two steps forward, trying to get closer to Chi Yu.

As he moved, the gun in black glasses was almost against the weirdo's head: "Don't move."

"If you don't mind waking up all the zombies here, then go ahead and shoot."

The weirdo grinned at the man with black glasses, revealing his sharp teeth, and then looked at Chi Yu with eager eyes: "You were chosen by God, you saw Him, right?"

"No."

“No?!” The weirdo’s voice became a little sharp. “I saw you guys go in. You have the scent of Him on you. It’s impossible that you didn’t see Him. Are you lying to me?”

He wanted to get angry, but he suddenly calmed down after thinking about something. "It's okay, it's okay. You are the one chosen by Him and you can go freely here. Since you don't want to see Him, let me go instead."

"Where you want to go has nothing to do with me, so please do as you please." Chi Yu said with a cold face, making way for this weirdo to go to the snake cave, not wanting to continue to tangle with him.

But the other party didn't think so. After being coldly rejected by Chi Yu, he seemed a little anxious.

"I can't go down, I can't go down, I will be eaten by those snakes..." He kept muttering to himself, looking at Chi Yu pleadingly: "Only you can do it, God chose you, only you have His answer. Please, take me to see God."

Chi Yu wanted to refuse again, but he saw the man with black glasses making a gesture to him from behind. He paused for a moment and changed his words, "It's not impossible for you to go see God if you want."

The weirdo was also very understanding and immediately asked: "What do you want me to do? As long as I can do it, anything is fine."

"Since you are so eager to see God, you must know something. As long as you tell us everything you know, I will agree to take you in."

"All of it?" The weirdo repeated Chi Yu's request, feeling somewhat embarrassed: "Everything I know comes from my previous dreams. They are all fragmentary, and I can't explain them clearly."

Dreamed about it? Then it seems that the unlucky guy is Bao San, also known as Zhao Zheng.

Chi Yu nodded slowly at Zhao Zheng.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you tell us everything you know."