Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

No matter how strong a person's ability to survive in the wild is, trying to cross an entire swamp is a very dangerous behavior.

Even though Chi Yu could actually use Qinggong to walk easily on the water, facing teammates in the team who were mainly used to slow down his pace, Chi Yu could only choose to blend in silently.

Chi Yu held the trekking pole in his hand, and after seeing that most of the troops had stepped into the quagmire, he stretched out his pole and, under the gaze of the man with black glasses, fiddled with the peat layer on the edge of the shallows.

"What are you looking for?"

"Let me show you something."

Chi Yu explored inside again, and soon picked out a piece of human skin that had been eaten to the point of being almost transparent.

"Yesterday I found that something was wrong with this swamp, so I took the body of an unlucky guy and did an experiment. Look, this is the result of the experiment."

Looking at the creature still stirring in the human skin, the man with black glasses took a deep breath and said, "How come this thing is here too?"

Chi Yu said "Oh?" and said, "Have you encountered this before?"

"Yeah, I've seen it before in Vietnam. I had a companion who was completely eaten up by this thing." The man with black glasses responded and asked Chi Yu to throw the human skin away.

"After seeing this, I feel that your judgment is correct. If you didn't smear some blood on me, I would really feel uneasy."

Chi Yu smiled faintly at his reaction and threw the thin skin onto the shore as he said. "I thought there was nothing in this world that could cause such a big reaction in you, but the result surprised me a little."

"I am also a human being. Although I have more experience, I still find it annoying when I see something I don't like."

Black Glasses also took a walking stick and cautiously walked into the swamp, and began to follow the main force. "Just like what I experienced in Vietnam, I never want to encounter it again in my life."

"What kind of experience was it? Tell me about it."

"Well... I was still bright at that time." The man with black glasses was in a trance for a moment, but he quickly came back to his senses and chuckled at Chi Yu. "But I'm not ready to recall what happened back then. Why don't we talk about it later?"

Seeing that the other party really didn't want to discuss the matter in depth, Chi Yu nodded and changed the topic, relying on small talk to pass the long hiking time.

Walking in the swamp is very difficult, because once you start the journey, you will regret it and want to give up and return to the original starting point.

Otherwise, no matter how tired you are on the road, you have to keep going and never stay too long.

Otherwise, what awaits you in the end is to be completely swallowed up by this swamp.

Fortunately, the terrain of the swamp where they were located was quite special. In the very center there was a small mound of earth that was not big but large enough for everyone to rest on. This was why Cheng Bingqiang dared to choose to cross the swamp.

"In the earliest records, this place was still a small hill. As time passed and the water level rose, only this little hilltop remained. Perhaps in a few hundred years, this last hilltop will also be swallowed up by the swamp."

At this point, Cheng Bingqiang sighed and announced, "Everyone, please take a break here for a while. We will continue our journey in an hour and try to cross the swamp and reach the other side before dark."

Everyone responded listlessly and began to replenish their energy.

Black Glasses drank the energy drink Chi Yu gave him and smacked his lips. "Boss Chi, so what exactly is this drink made of? I can only smell a strong aroma of grains, but I can't tell what the specific ingredients are."

It's right that you can't smell it. The raw material of things produced by the system is only rice. Even Chi Yu himself doesn't know what principle this thing is produced on.

So Chi Yu also silently took a sip of the energy drink: "Trade secret."

The one-hour rest time was soon over, and the group moved forward again at the urging of Cheng Bingqiang.

However, this time was different from the first half of the journey, which was uneventful. After walking for only a few minutes, they heard someone screaming.

For a moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the place where the sound came from.

And that person happened to be the unlucky guy who had lost his precious foot skin during the attack of the blood-sucking carpet.

"Lao Ma, what's wrong with you?" Someone in the small team that the unlucky guy belonged to asked vigilantly.

The old horse who was asked struggled and trembled as he answered: "I feel like something is gnawing at my feet. I feel really bad now..."

As Lao Ma finished his words, his body fell to the ground with a bang, causing quite a splash of water.

The companion closest to him was stunned and reached out to help him, but was stopped by his companion on the other side: "Don't go over! Old Ma is already beyond saving."

Old Ma's floating body seemed to be wiped, and the exposed flesh and blood began to disappear bit by bit.

Looking more closely, he discovered that the thing that was ruthlessly devouring the other's flesh and blood was exactly the agitating thing in the human skin that Chi Yu had shown to Black Glasses before.

At the same time, the white area representing the swamp gradually turned deep red.

This means that following the attack of the blood-sucking carpet, a new round of [Enemy Attack] has been generated on the map.

"Oh no, it's this guy's blood that attracted that thing here!"

Cheng Bingqiang's face turned ugly, he cursed inwardly, waved his hands at everyone and said, "If you get touched by this thing, your life will be drained by it, run!"