Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Hearing this, Chi Yu looked at the man with black glasses: "What is that?"

"Why, Boss Chi, do you want to know?" Black Glasses smiled and hooked his shoulder, teasing, "How about you call me brother and I'll tell you?"

"Then shut up, I don't want to listen."

The man with black glasses said “Oh?” and said, “You really don’t want to listen?”

"Do not listen."

Anyway, no matter what this Buddha statue is, it has little to do with his side quest, it can only satisfy curiosity.

But if the condition for satisfying curiosity is to call Black Glasses "Brother", then forget it.

Chi Yu pulled down the arm that was hooked on the man's shoulder and approached the golden statue in the hall.

The fourth bone fragment is located on one of the hands of the Vajra statue.

Chi Yu walked up to the Buddha statue, looked up at the huge statue of Mingwang that took up half of the hall and was made entirely of gold. He was about to jump into its hand to take the bone fragment when he heard the voice of Black Glasses behind him explaining to him.

"This is a traditional statue of the Peacock King in Tantric Buddhism. The person on it is Mahamayuryaprajna, the Great Peacock Mantra King, Peacock Tara Bodhisattva, Peacock Tara... In short, there are many names. Anyway, we don't believe in religion, so you can pick any name you want."

"If you want to understand why there is such a statue of Mingwang here, you can actually think about it from two aspects. One is to interpret it directly through the stories of Tantra."

"If you look at it this way, then there is indeed a deep connection between the Peacock King and the peacock. But more often than not, the peacock appears as the King's mount. Considering the attitude of the Peacock Kingdom that the peacock is regarded as a sacred bird, this is a rather contradictory point."

As he spoke, the man with black glasses smiled again: "But judging from the size of this Buddha statue, it was definitely not brought in from outside. I remember that the Peacock Kingdom had a lot of gold reserves at that time. It should have been built here directly using local materials."

Chi Yu nodded, thinking that what Black Glasses said made some sense, but...

"What about the other interpretation?"

"Another interpretation of this..." Black Glasses said, and suddenly stretched out his tone, "I seem to have a little memory of it all of a sudden, and I need some help to recall it."

I think you deserve to be punished.

Chi Yu turned around and glared at the man with black glasses, but found that the other party seemed to have fully expected his reaction. Seeing Chi Yu turned around, he smiled and made a money gesture to him: "If you want me to do something, you have to let me get some benefits. Boss Chi, you can't take advantage of me for free."

"Okay, you say."

Black Glasses got Chi Yu's approval and immediately smiled even more proudly. He said to him leisurely: "Another way to interpret it should be the content of Journey to the West that you are very familiar with."

Chi Yu suddenly remembered a passage from Tathagata:

"It is said that at the beginning of the chaos, all creatures were alive, and the phoenix was the leader of the flying birds. The phoenix gave birth to the peacock and the roc, but the peacock was a cannibal and once swallowed me. I cut open her back and came to Lingshan, intending to kill her, but the immortals and Buddhas said that harming her would be like harming the mother of my true body, so I left her in Lingshan and named her 'Buddha Mother Peacock Great Bright King Bodhisattva'."

"In this interpretation, the peacock is the Mingwang himself. Not only can it eat humans but it can also transform into humans. It is also the offspring of the phoenix and possesses the divine power that can make the peacock people worship it. Therefore, a Buddha statue was erected here to worship the peacock."

"And this inference is more consistent with the descriptions recorded in the jade tablet."

The record on the jade card? Chi Yu looked at the black glasses and recalled the contents that he had accidentally glanced at when he got the jade card.

The words engraved on it were very unfamiliar to Chi Yu. He had definitely never come across that kind of writing before.

but……

"Can you read those words?"

"Yes, the words carved on the jade tablet before were in Sanskrit. Didn't you recognize it?"

It’s really embarrassing not to know Sanskrit.

Chi Yu blinked expressionlessly, thinking that it seemed that the man with black glasses knew what this place was like since the moment he got the gold and jade tags. It turned out that the nonsense he just said was just to tease him.

Seeing Chi Yu silent, Black Glasses came up to him as if to win back the advantage, and said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, Boss Chi. It doesn't matter if you don't understand Sanskrit. I'm still here, right? Whether it's translation or teaching, I'm good at it. As long as the money is in place, everything is easy to talk about."

Hearing this, the veins on Chi Yu's forehead twitched, and he stretched out his hand to push away the smiling face that was approaching, "I will learn it myself when I go back, I don't need you."

Seeing Chi Yu, who seemed to want to punch him in the next second, Black Glasses knew that he had to stop and could not continue to tease him, so he obediently let him push him away, shrugged his shoulders, and spread his hands to him:

"Okay, but the situation up there is unclear. Are you sure you want to go straight up and look for those bone fragments? If something goes wrong, I won't be able to help you down there."

Chi Yu exhaled.

There was actually no need to worry about Black Glasses' question. After all, Chi Yu had already determined in the system interface whether the golden statue was dangerous.

But no matter what the result was, Chi Yu would not be stupid enough to tell Black Glasses about this matter directly, so he shook his head at him and said nothing. He tapped the ground lightly with his toes and immediately flew into the air to the outstretched arm of the Mingwang statue and easily took away the bone fragment from the fruit he did not recognize in its palm.

Just as Chi Yu expected, the benefit brought to him by this broken bone fragment was [increase of 3% spell resistance].

Because depending on the worldview, it can also be understood as improving the ability to resist mental damage such as hallucinations.

Now there are only two fragments left, and we can collect it completely.

Chi Yu played with the bone fragment in his hand for a while, and landed lightly on the ground in the blink of an eye. He returned to Black Glasses and said, "Let's go and find the next one."

"Is that all?" asked the man with black glasses.

"What else?" Chi Yu asked back.

There were no mechanisms as imagined, nor were there any strange monsters suddenly popping out. Everything was so normal that it made Black Glasses quite uncomfortable.

But this seems to be Chi Yu's normal behavior when he goes to the tomb.

So Black Glasses silently gave him a thumbs up and said, "OK, you are awesome."

Chi Yu ignored the inexplicable behavior of Black Glasses and opened the Moyu map to check the progress of the mission.

The remaining two bone fragments are very close to each other, and from the map, they seem to be in the same space.

“So the last place is ahead?”

"Yes, once we get the things, we can leave directly."

Chi Yu said this, and turned around and left the hall with Black Glasses.

As the two left, the candlelight still illuminated the entire hall. The warm orange light hit the golden statue, giving it a layer of soft light.

But not long after, this seemingly warm scene ended with a loud bang.

The statue of the Peacock King, which had stood silently in this space for a long time, suddenly shattered.