Tomb Raider: As a cannon fodder, I started to play badly

Wuxie followed carefully, paying attention to the movements around him, holding the Vajra Umbrella in one hand and pulling Bai Ran's sleeve unconsciously with the other hand. Bai Ran noticed the pull of the sleeve behind him, a smile flashed in his eyes, and then he turned his body to protect Wuxie more comprehensively, and then focused his attention on the surroundings.

In the darkness, people's thoughts will unconsciously deepen their inner fears.

Wu Xie swallowed hard, unable to bear the long silence, and whispered to Bai Ran: "Xiao Ran, what happened to that dog? Why does it smell like a corpse?"

Bai Ran listened, smiled, raised his flashlight and said, "What's going on? It's nothing more than eating human flesh, which allowed him to avoid certain things, and then he committed murder for money."

"Human flesh!" Wu Xie was shocked. In the education he had received, he could not talk about human flesh lightly. He swallowed his saliva and froze in his place unconsciously. Thinking of how everyone looked indifferent when Bai Ran finished speaking, he felt even more frightened.

He remembered again the strangeness of the dog and the boatman, as well as the conversation between the oil bottle and Bai Ran. He had a vague guess. He moved back unconsciously, clenched his hands and took two steps to look at the culprit in front of him that scared him even more - the Vajra Umbrella given by Bai Ran.

Bai Ran sensed something strange about the person behind him and stopped. He still held the flashlight with a calm expression. He said nothing and did nothing.

"Then... why did the dog attack you?" Wu Xie still planned to ask the question. He was gambling, and the capital was Bai Ran's help along the way and his uncle's instructions to him.

"Wuxie, let me ask you, do you really want to know the answer?" Bai Ran said faintly.

"Do you want to say something?" Wuxie had a feeling that the person in front of him might not necessarily hurt him, so he let down his guard slightly.

Bai Ran sighed and slashed the knife in his right hand to his left wrist. Blood flowed down and formed a line in the air. Bai Ran just watched the blood flow down. Wu Xie was stunned and looked at him quietly, not knowing how to react for a moment.

Bai Ran's face turned pale. He sighed deeply and put the knife back into the scabbard on his waist. He stepped on the large pool of blood under him, raised his wrist which was still bleeding, and drew a big circle around the two people. Bai Ran chanted a spell that no one could understand, and then Wuxie overturned his values ​​of more than 20 years. He looked at the blood on the ground, forming a red barrier.

Bai Ran sat on the ground and motioned Wuxie to sit down. Wuxie sat down blankly and said in a daze: "What, what is going on?"

Bai Ran smiled with a pale face and said to Wuxie: "Wuxie, do you know the Nine Gates? In fact, there is a hidden Tenth Gate, the Wang Family. In this world, there are some things you have never understood, such as immortality..."

Bai Ran briefly introduced the background story to Wuxie, but still did not tell Wuxie about his next mission, the scheme he had conspired with Xie Lianhuan and Wu Sanxing for so many years.

Wu Xie finally realized why the Nine Gates were not as glorious as described in the notes left by Wu Lao Gou. He was silent, looking down at the land.

It was not until Wuxie noticed the blood spreading on the ground that he finally came to his senses. Seeing that Bai Ran's face was getting paler, he immediately took out some bandages and hemostatics from his bag and bandaged Bai Ran, who was leaning against the wall after speaking.

Bai Ran opened his eyes slightly, and smiled when he saw Wuxie's actions.

"What about you..." Wuxie asked with some difficulty, his voice hoarse. He had already realized why Bai Ran had gone to such great lengths to bleed so much.

"Me? I died a long time ago. It was Master Zhang who woke me up from the tomb and introduced me to the people in the Nine Gates." Bai Ran raised his eyelids and looked at the blood curtain above his head. He remembered some things and felt a little nostalgic.

"Then why..."

"Why is there no me in your grandfather's notes? Because I told him that I don't want to be recorded. People like me are destined to be forgotten." Bai Ran smiled. Wu Xie had just finished bandaging the wound, and then he stretched out his hands, picked up the flashlight from the ground, and stood up.

"So Uncle San and the others need me to do something, right?" Wu Xie still squatted there and spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Will you do it?" Bai Ran asked back.

"Of course! I want to know what they have planned without telling me. What's more, how can it be called a game without the protagonist?" Wuxie said firmly with his sparkling eyes.

Bai Ran curled his lips, turned around and touched Wu Xie's head with his right hand. "Don't worry, I'll be with you."

Wu Xie raised his head and looked into Bai Ran's eyes. For a moment, he felt as if he was being held in the palm of his hand by this person, about to drown in this gaze. He immediately came to his senses and his earlobes blushed. But Bai Ran, who had already turned around, didn't notice.

There are no fools in the world, only gamblers who are willing to join the game.