Tomb Raider Forbidden Area 51 Zone 0030 Abnormal Zhou Baihe

  I see, so it was this little guy who triggered the mechanism. No wonder we didn't have any warning beforehand. The solid ground we were standing on instantly turned into quicksand. That's what happened.

  My eyes were fixed on the small, thin monkey's palm, where a spherical object was embedded. From its appearance, the color of this sphere was somewhat like the crystal ball described in fairy tales. It was then that I understood that the central point controlling the quicksand array was also the balance point of mechanics. As long as one picked up the sphere, it would destroy the balance point and trigger the quicksand array.

  "It's true, I just wanted to see what was behind the bronze door, I never expected that picking up the crystal ball would trigger a sandstorm." Little Skinny Monkey stared at Qi Xie, his serious expression almost made him swear an oath.

  He glanced at him with a slanted gaze, his face still icy cold, and said in a light voice: "Where are you going?"

  I was in the sand, so far away from them, yet I could hear the murderous tone in Qi Xie's voice.

  Qi Xie has been neutral from the start, showing no great interest in his teammates and rarely engaging in conversation. He's a strange person, and everyone is intimidated by him. Now, it's normal for him to have conflicts with Xiao Shou Hou, but when I heard Qi Xie's tone, it sounded like he wanted to kill someone.

  Just as I was thinking, the thin monkey said with a sheepish grin, "I just came to see if there were any treasures. After all this fuss, not even a single copper coin has been found. I thought I'd come and try my luck."

  I knew it, this guy just wanted to get rich by himself, that's why he secretly did such a thing.

  "Really?" Qi Xie's face was calm and cold, slightly furrowing his brow, with a somewhat doubtful tone.

  The thin monkey's face turned black with anger, and he immediately shouted: "Whether you believe it or not, I don't need to explain anything to you. Besides, didn't we all come in on our own?"

  Poor Black Uncle and I, in the quicksand, the sand was submerged up to our noses. If we continued to listen to them arguing, I reckon we wouldn't have been able to breathe anymore. If I could speak, I would have scolded them long ago.

  At this time, Qi Xie hastily said: "Take off your outer garments."

  The thin monkey heard this and his eyes widened in an instant, asking nervously: "Take off your clothes? What are you going to do?"

  Qī Xié frowned and looked impatient, saying in a low voice, "Don't waste words, just take it off when I tell you to."

  Seeing the four of them taking off their clothes one by one, in this cold winter, it's freezing to the bone, and still in a tomb, I closed my eyes, feeling very suffocated, being forced to watch others undressing.

  The seven demons tied those outer garments together, roughly speaking, I understand, it means using clothes to pull us out.

  At this time, the thin monkey grabbed a large rope tied to the clothes and aimed at it. I thought to myself, don't throw it too far this time, or we'll really be dead. Hearing the sound of the clothes gently falling onto the sand, I suddenly let out a sigh of relief, but my joy was short-lived.

  The pants aren't long enough, they're still short by about an inch.

  At this time, Qi Xie saw that the good-looking eyebrows were tightly twisted, and finally, he took off the last piece of clothing on his body, stepped into the sand with one foot, picked up the clothes that Xiao Shou Hou had thrown away earlier, tied a dead knot with quick movements, and threw it over. His action suddenly scared me.

  All of a sudden, Qi Xie's body slowly sank into the sand, and Zhou Bai He hastily shouted: "Don't move, try to breathe as little as possible."

  My heart skipped a beat as we were still in the sand and hadn't managed to pull one person out yet, but another had already fallen in.

  However, the clothes that Qi Xie threw away happened to fall into my hands. My heart skipped a beat and I almost cried out loud.

  My flashlight slipped out of my hand and fell onto the sand, taking advantage of the sand not sinking yet, I didn't care about anything else, tightly grasping that clothing, struggling violently.

  Zhou Baihe and Guang Touqiqi held the hands of Xiao Shouhu, only to see that Xiao Shouhu handed his hand over to Qi Xie with a slanted body. Qi Xie grabbed Xiao Shouhu's outstretched hand, and with her other hand tightly grasped her clothes. It was then that Zhou Baihe shouted at us: "Hold your clothes tight!"

  When I heard this, I loosened my grip on the flashlight and took advantage of the time it took for the flashlight to fall to tightly grab onto that piece of clothing. At this point, I could still see things, but I hadn't seen Hei Shu, had he fallen in? Suddenly, my other hand was tightly grasped by someone, and at that moment, I felt a surge of joy, knowing that Hei Shu had grabbed hold of my hand.

  I grasped the clothes with one hand and tightly held onto Hei Shu with the other, as the sand slowly flowed away, while people on the other side tried to pull us out of the sand.

  The first to be pulled out was Qi Xie, and by the time I and Hei Shu were completely pulled out of the sand, I felt that my physical strength had been exhausted too much. At this time, we all sat on the ground panting, and I and Hei Shu returned from the Ghost Gate, sitting on the ground in a daze.

  I feel like I'm no longer myself, exhausted to the point of physical collapse, and I just don't want to move anymore.

  Until the thin monkey brought me water to drink, after more than half an hour, I gradually caught my breath and said, "How are you all here?"

  Now, almost all those who can be mixed together have gathered together.

  Zhou Baihe set out half a month earlier than us, I had thought that we would meet Zhou Baihe and the others, but now there are many fewer people. Could it be that something unexpected happened to Shou Bo?

  Thinking of that thin and gaunt figure, my heart aches. With just one sentence from him, I was living a happy life in the Zhou's household. If it weren't for him, who knows where I would be now?

  "Fortunately, if we weren't all here, you little brat would have gone to drink tea with King Yama." Xiao Shou Hou said excitedly, apparently having forgotten that the mechanism was his own doing.

  That little monkey's mouth is really too much, he's simply lacking a conscience.

  "Give me that ball, damn it! You almost got me killed!" I yelled at Little Skinny Monkey.

  "What's wrong with you, kid? This looks like it's worth a few million, and now that it's in your hands, you've broken it. Can you afford to pay for it?" The thin monkey shook his head and took a few steps back, saying he wouldn't give it no matter what.

  Looking at Xiao Shou, it's obvious that I didn't bother to argue with him anymore. Turning my head around, I looked at Qi Xie and asked: "Qi Xie, when we arrived, there was only one wall left burning, but we didn't see you guys. Where did you all go?"

  Actually, what I want to say is that it's so unbrotherly, if we're going to escape, we should escape together.

  Qī xié just glanced at me with an inexplicable gaze, moved his lips slightly, but didn't say a word. He turned around and walked to the other side instead.

  I bumped into a brick wall and hung my head in shame, never having such a low sense of presence as I do now.

  "You'll get used to it, that's just how he is." Little Skinny Monkey said with a grin, punching me in the arm.

  Is habit good? Ba Shou Sheng also said this, both Xiao Shou Hou and Ba Shou Sheng said this, what does it mean after all? It seems that they both have a kind of reverence for Qi Xie, but at the same time, they seem to be somewhat repelled by him.

  This feeling is hard to put into words, I always feel that they will call Qi Xie over, it's the feeling that they need a good player on their side, Qi Xie is really a great choice, but what are they all afraid of? Is it the person behind Qi Xie?

  Finally, Baldy explained: "We were clearly waiting for you in front, but it's been a long time and we haven't seen anyone come. In the end, we all thought that you had been eaten by zombies! We were all ready with our tools to go back and rescue you when he said that you were in the quicksand array."

  Hei Shu and I changed color after listening, then Hei Shu shook his head and said: "Impossible, we didn't see any of you, there was only a wall of fire over there."

  "You've entered the formation." Qi Xie found a place to sit down, took out a piece of cloth and gently wiped the dagger, then said expressionlessly.

  Baldy excitedly danced and shouted: "We just used solid fuel to light the fire, how could it possibly be a wall of flame?"

  At that time, I suddenly remembered that the color of the fire was blue, and it stood upright in the corridor. The situation at that time was very urgent, who cared about what kind of fire it was, as long as it could resist the zombies. But now thinking about it, it's particularly strange, where would there be a fire standing upright like that?

  "We don't have the ability to set off a firewall, it's probably you who has been possessed by the tomb owner." Baldy chuckled and smiled, I took a look at Baldy, he was not tall, but his movements were quite skilled.

  Then, the bald man said: "Generally, the owner of this kind of tomb, building such a large mausoleum, is exhausting his mind, setting up many mechanisms, and using almost all means to prevent grave robbery. Feng shui, Bagua, and even the big white snake just now are probably guarding the tomb, also known as the guardian of the tomb."

  "Is that the tomb guardian? I reckon that White Lady is about to become a spirit too?" I took a deep breath, and that big white thing, who would have thought it was the tomb owner's arrangement to guard the mausoleum.

  I still remember that big white dog, its ferocious and menacing appearance, even now, it makes me feel extremely frightened.

  Using an animal to guard a tomb requires great patience in training the snake. What kind of ability is required to train such an obedient snake?

  Training snakes is a skillful activity, I once saw it on TV. In the Western Kingdom, there was a legend about a secret method of training snakes that was considered to be a kind of witchcraft. Many snake trainers have lived with snakes since childhood and not only are they not bitten by venomous snakes but also can command them. They are skilled at both training snakes and treating snake bites. After all, it's just an act on TV, hard to say what's true or false.

  Witchcraft, in a few ethnic groups is the most skilled in an ancient secret method, such as Xiangxi corpse driving, it sounds unbelievable. And, snake training, is also a kind of witchcraft.

  "I was just casually saying that, who knows if it's true or not." The bald man spread his hands and smiled helplessly.

  "Little Jiu, your grandfather didn't want you to take this path. If I hadn't promised Qiu Bo, I would have definitely broken your legs." Zhou Baihe kicked my buttocks with a loud thud and scolded me.

  It hurts so much that my eyes are about to pop out, this guy is a ruthless character who can explode at any time, and every time I see Zhou Baihe, I think of the knife being inserted directly into the corner of the table.

  "Boss Zhou, since we've all come this far, let's not waste that bit of money. If I were to go back alone, it would be a bigger waste of money. Let's just head back together." I immediately put on a smiling face. They say you don't hit someone with a smiling face, but I didn't believe it - Zhou Baihe was determined to strike, daring to hit me who was smiling so brightly.

  But I was wrong, Zhou Baihe is not a person who plays by the rules, and in the next second, I was slapped in the face, my body fell to the ground, and I was dizzy from the slap.

  "What's the big idea, hitting me? I scrambled to my feet, fists flying, ready to fight back, when I heard Zhou Baihe's self-reproaching voice, saying tolerantly: 'You shouldn't have come here. Your grandfather did it all for you so that you could live a good life, but who knew you'd be so stubborn and insist on running over here?'"