Tomb Raider: What the hell is this strange commission?

Zhou Zixu turned around to look at the bodyguards, "My brother Chi said that there might be danger to your life later. If you are not willing to take the risk with me, I won't say anything if you leave now. It's all voluntary."

These bodyguards were all paid for by the Zhou family and had sold their lives to the family long ago. Naturally, they would not choose to escape in the face of danger.

"What about you?" Chi Yu looked at the man with black glasses.

The man with black glasses did not answer his question, but laughed softly: "You are really kind enough."

No objection means consent.

Chi Yu sneered and said, "This is my disclaimer." Then he raised his hand and activated the mechanism.

The wall of the mechanism made a loud roar, and the entire cave seemed to be shaking, with rubble constantly falling from the top of the cave.

Thinking that the time was about up, Chi Yu turned around and found that Zhou Zixu was still staring at the mechanism he had touched.

When the other party saw him looking at him, he was a little puzzled: "Brother, are you unable to open this mechanism or what? Why are you looking at me?"

Chi Yu: "...The door is in the wall behind you."

"Oh, oh." Zhou Zixu turned back in confusion and began to stare at the wall engraved with characters.

The wall that had been tightly fitted cracked, and the entire stone wall separated from the mountain and slowly lowered, revealing stone steps that continued to extend downwards.

After the vibration stopped, Zhou Zixu took the mining lamp handed to him by the bodyguard and shone it downward. The grayish-white bluestone had been deposited here for who knows how many centuries, and it glowed with a faint cold light under the light.

Looking at the bottomless passage, Zhou Zixu felt a little scared and swallowed his saliva: "Is this it?"

Chi Yu hummed and walked to the front of the team: "I'll go down first, you stay back."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to the man with black glasses who had been standing by and seemed to be doing nothing. "Since you have received Mr. Zhou's money, it's time to take some practical action, right?" He paused and added a title, "Mr. Hei."

Chi Yu kept staring at Black Glasses, so he had no choice but to pretend to be helpless and walked forward slowly, "Okay, it's only natural to get paid for the job."

As the passage was not wide, Chi Yu asked the two of them to walk side by side while he walked ahead alone to explore the way.

Zhou Zixu was a little worried about this: "Brother, I don't look down on you, but isn't it too dangerous for you to go ahead alone? Otherwise, let Black Glasses go with you. Although my bodyguard may not be as good as you, it should be no problem for him to protect me."

Chi Yu found Zhou Zixu's suggestion a little funny, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, but he still shook his head and refused, "No need." Then he turned and walked inside.

Walking on the bluestone paved passage again, Chi Yu's feelings this time were completely different from the last time.

'Choose Tactical Tendency: Survival Expert.'

【Start visiting】

[There are 5 days left until the end of the visit plan]

【119:59:59】

With the central cave as the initial camp, a huge map of the strange territory slowly appeared in front of Chi Yu.

Countless gray plots overlapped to form multiple layers, and the white routes connecting them were intertwined and extended all the way to the edge of the interface. Chi Yu even needed to zoom out the map to see the whole picture.

The two automatically unlocked white plots are in the middle level and are not of much help to Chi Yu's upcoming exploration activities.

Through the system details, Chi Yu has learned that the environment they are in now is not dangerous, so he is not nervous and begins to think about how to lead Zhou Zixu and others to investigate the secrets of Baigong Mountain.

Although the system made Chi Yu seem to know everything about mechanisms, enemies and terrain, it did not provide any extra benefits in other aspects.

The map details will tell Chi Yu what is hidden in this plot of land that can cause him harm, but it will not tell Chi Yu what has happened here.

If Chi Yu wants to know the past stories of this huge underground palace, he, like everyone else, needs to go and discover it with his own eyes.

The exploration team walked for nearly two hours, and all they faced were natural rocks without any signs of carving. Zhou Zixu went from being alert and curious at the beginning to gradually becoming numb.

After walking for nearly three hours in total, the road suddenly became clear and we arrived at a cave platform with obvious traces of human intervention.

The most obvious one is that there is a stone pillar on each side that is so big that three people can hold it together, and there are unclear inscriptions carved on it.

Zhou Zixu had been silent all the way, and finally when he arrived at the destination, he couldn't help but complain: "This tunnel is too well built. I'm afraid if I continue to walk forward, I will be able to walk directly to another city."

Chi Yu looked back at him and said, "This passage has curves and undulating terrain. We are not moving forward all the time."

Seeing that Zhou Zixu obviously didn't understand, he gave him another explanation, "We have been circling underground in Baigong Mountain. If you go straight up, you can probably get back to where we came in."

Zhou Zixu suddenly realized what was going on and asked in amazement, "Is this how the road is? Why did the road builders make it so complicated?"

"I don't know, you can ask the person involved." Chi Yu replied casually, his eyes sweeping across the platform, finally stopping on a broken floor tile.

There is an entrance to the next plot.

Chi Yu took a closer look and found that underneath the broken tile, there were still bluestone bricks, but it could be seen that its age was different from the other tiles around it.

Chi Yu frowned slightly, and looked carefully at the passage they had come through, and found that the conditions of the two were inconsistent.

Although the bluestone in the passage has been weathered, it looks obviously newer compared to the pressed floor tile.

"What good things have you seen again?" The man with black glasses put his arm around Chi Yu's shoulders, holding a lit cigarette in his mouth, and looked at the ground with him.

“These two floor tiles do not seem to be from the same period.”

Chi Yu didn't want to breathe his secondhand smoke, so he moved his shoulders, took off his black glasses, and moved a little further away from him before continuing, "The one that's being pressed down below looks older. It looks like an entrance. I guess someone went in, saw what was inside, and after coming out, they built a new platform on top, trying to seal it up."

The man with black glasses smiled as he watched Chi Yu express his opinion. He took another puff of his cigarette and said nothing.

"You think what I said is wrong." Chi Yu looked at him, "Why?"

"If it's just for sealing, then there's no need to spend so much effort to build a passage." The man with black glasses gestured to Chi Yu to look around, "Look at those pillars."

Chi Yu walked towards one of the stone pillars. He couldn't make out the characters engraved on it, but behind the stone pillar, there seemed to be pipes arranged in order of size, buried deep underground.

The openings of these pipes were all facing the sky, and were covered with patches of rust. Chi Yu twisted them and found that they were most likely blood rust.

Chi Yu suddenly realized something, "So this platform is actually an altar for sacrifice."

Those who came later discovered this place one day, and perhaps saw something frightening in it, and finally decided to seal the entrance, but for some reason, they still chose to hold living sacrifices and continue to worship the things inside.

But now they are preparing to open the entrance that was blocked that year, and then go deep into the ground to search for the secret that everyone fears.

Realizing this, Chi Yu's heart suddenly began to beat violently. He looked at the man with black glasses, who was also looking at him. "How about it, have you figured it out?"

"Yeah, I figured it out." Chi Yu smiled.

The smoke filled the air, blurring the face of the man with black glasses.

But Chi Yu knew that he must be laughing.