Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Hearing this, the man with black glasses said "Oh?" He found an empty space in the tent to sit down and wiped the rain off his face.

"You are not someone who would change your plans at will, so did you hear any interesting news from that brat?"

"Well, got an interesting extra goal."

To be precise, it should be a [Side Quest].

Chi Yu said as he walked to the side, picked up two dry towels, threw one to Black Glasses, then sat down on the cushion and began to wipe the wet corners of his clothes.

"That kid came to talk to me before, and I just wanted to see what kind of tricks he could play, but the result I got in the end surprised me a little."

Faced with Chi Yu's arrival, the peacock boy did not show too much joy.

He looked at the guards who were easily dealt with by Chi Yu, sneered, kicked each of them hard a few times, then used his bound hands to move a chair for himself and sat down opposite Chi Yu.

"Military Advisor Chi, I heard those people call you that, am I calling you right?"

Chi Yu nodded coldly, waiting for the boy's next words.

"I saw you guys clashed with that old beast during the day. I know you two are not in the same group, and you are more powerful than that beast Cheng Bingqiang. So why don't you just get rid of those guys who are in the way and take me directly to find the Peacock Kingdom?"

The young man's voice was full of temptation: "If you take them with you to Peacock Country, you will definitely have another fight, but now it is raining heavily outside, you can take advantage of this opportunity to easily get rid of all of them. Even if you make a noise, they won't be able to hear it because of the sound of the rain."

"When these people are gone, we will go look for treasure together. Everything we find will be yours. You don't have to worry about someone suddenly showing up and taking a piece of the spoils from you."

Chi Yu was indifferent to his words. He looked at the boy's eyes which were slightly green, and looked into his eyes. "I didn't come here to listen to your nonsense. You have two minutes."

The young man curled his lips and said, "Well, at least my feeling is right. You are indeed different from those guys. In this case, I will not regret my choice."

"The old beast will probably send people to cause trouble for you and your companion, but I think his skills are quite impressive. If you are in a hurry to leave for this reason, there is absolutely no need."

Chi Yu stretched out his hand and gestured to him: "One minute."

"Cheng Bingqiang deceived all of you. He had no intention of sharing the treasure with you."

"Tell me something else I don't know."

Now it was the boy's turn to get anxious. He made a "tsk" sound and said to Chi Yu, "Let me make it clear first. Although what I'm going to say next may sound a bit far-fetched, it's all true."

"I have my own criteria for judging." Chi Yu raised his chin to him, "I'll give you five more minutes. You speak and I'll listen."

So the young man took a deep breath, his face a little tense. He was sitting on a chair, holding his knees with both hands, and slowly said: "Cheng Bingqiang, that old beast, in order to explore the remains of the Peacock Kingdom, found our village, and after getting the secret he wanted, he brutally killed my blood relatives."

"Originally, I might have been killed by him, but my mother protected me and told that guy the secret that the clan had always kept, in exchange for a chance for me to live."

"You also heard during the day that the route we took will eventually lead us to a canyon. The canyon will only open up a real passage when the descendants of Lan Lana arrive. Otherwise, you will end up at a dead end."

"I don't know if you still remember that when Cheng Bingqiang was making up a story for you, he mentioned that the Peacock Country disappeared overnight. That's because this country is actually alive."

"He has his own consciousness and can think. As long as he senses that someone with royal blood has returned there, he will open the door and welcome the return of his child."

“You may think that the road to recognizing people sounds strange, but it is actually true.”

The young man looked very serious when he said this. He looked at Chi Yu and was relieved when he saw that the other person's face did not show the distrust he had imagined. He continued to explain.

"However, the vitality of the Peacock Nation also requires human sacrifices to be maintained. A few hundred years ago, there was an unknown disaster there, and almost all the people living there died, leaving only our bloodline belonging to Lan Lana outside."

"At that time, our ancestors felt the call of the Peacock Kingdom, so they went to the place where the sound originated. They were gone for about a month, and when they came back, they brought a lot of tools made of gold, and some skins that looked very thin and were made of something unknown, which is what you call feather clothes."

"After those people came back, they compiled their experiences and inspirations from the journey into a notebook, and also stored many things in the clan's ancestral hall."

"The source of the gold was mentioned in the notes. It also said that there are actually no mineral veins in the land of Peacock Country. The so-called gold is actually what He regurgitated after eating the flesh and blood of the sacrifices."

Hearing this, Chi Yu subconsciously looked at his hand that had taken the golden statue, and then fell into deep thought.

The young man didn't notice Chi Yu's distraction and continued to talk: "Cheng Bingqiang is greedy by nature. He learned that the gold in the beginning had been brought back by my ancestors and almost used up. But he felt that he couldn't waste so much time, so he came up with a vicious plan."

"That is to trick some people who don't know the inside story into following him to the Peacock Kingdom, and then sacrifice those people to the Peacock Kingdom to make him produce gold again."

"For him, exchanging a small golden statue for gold that is almost half the size of a person is a very good deal."

"Are you willing to let his plan succeed?" Chi Yu tilted his head and asked the young man.

"How is that possible? Of course I want him to die, but I'm just a kid. How can I be stronger than that old beast?"

The boy clenched his fists, not knowing what he recalled, his face showing a variety of expressions, "I'm waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to take revenge."

"Your singing can confuse people. I think you always have a chance to get rid of him."

"No way." The boy shook his head at Chi Yu.

"I can only temporarily confuse those people through singing and disrupt their memories. If there are other uncontrollable people present, as long as they are hurt, they will wake up instantly. Cheng Bingqiang also knows this, so he is not afraid of what I will do to him."

Chi Yu nodded thoughtfully.

The boy sighed bitterly, "I knew that after finding the entrance, I would be of no use to that old beast, so I also hid some things from him that were not recorded in my notes."

"I choose to tell you everything now because I don't want to put up with him anymore. Every day when I face that old beast, I can hear the cries of my family members before they die. I can remember all their miserable situations clearly."

"So I would like to ask you to kill Cheng Bingqiang and his men here."

The young man paused, then continued, "As for the others, whether you want to keep their lives to exchange for gold, or kill them all together, I don't care, as long as they are all dead."

He took out a small bone from his messy hair and shook it in front of Chi Yu: "If you agree, this is my reward for you."

Chi Yu's gaze lingered on the bone fragment for a moment: "Why did you choose me? You should know that Cheng Bingqiang is my client. Even if we had conflicts before, it does not mean that I will accept your proposal."

"——What's more, I can just take this bone fragment from you. You are so weak that you can't even resist Cheng Bingqiang, let alone protect anything from me."

"..."

The young man choked up. He looked at Chi Yu's expression, which didn't seem like he was joking. He pursed his lips and whispered, "Then consider it as my loss. At least before that, I want to believe it once."