Tomb Raider: Beginning Wu Xie was badly tricked

Wu Xie slowly walked to the edge of the cliff a few meters away from the huge bronze pillar and stood still. He didn't know where they were in the bronze tree.

Anyway, he couldn't see the end downwards, as if it went straight into the depths of the earth, as if it grew out of the ground.

He couldn't see the edge upwards either, as if it went straight into the sky.

Suddenly, he felt that the bronze tree was standing tall and unattainable.

This huge bronze pillar had many branches, and it felt like a tree. If it didn't have these branches, it would be more appropriate to describe it as a chimney.

Wu Xie looked at the bronze grooves on it, thinking about its specialness, and didn't speak for a while.

Just then!

Master Liang wanted to touch the bronze tree with his hand, but was slapped away by Lao Yang next to him.

"You don't even know what this thing is, you just touch it casually, you're looking for death!"

"What's wrong, my friend? This bronze artifact is like a giant pillar, it looks extraordinary."

"I just want to feel its history and power, is there any problem?"

Master Liang was a little puzzled, just touching it, is it necessary to do this?

It's not a scourge, is this reaction too much?

For Master Liang's desire to touch the bronze tree with his bare hands, Lao Yang behaved very abnormally and was a little nervous.

He was afraid that others would find out that the bronze tree was special, so he was inevitably a little nervous.

Little did he know that he would be more suspicious.

Lao Yang also knew that his behavior just now was a bit overreacted, and subconsciously turned back to look at Wu Xie and the others.

I found that Wu Xie didn't seem to notice him, and I was relieved for no reason.

This attracted the attention of Fatty: "Why can't you touch it? Do you know this thing? Is there anything special about it?"

Lao Yang's face stagnated, and he also knew that he had acted too much just now, which aroused others' suspicion.

"No...no, how could I know this thing? After all, it has been here for so long, it's better not to touch it casually."

"Who knows if it will have any toxins! Or something else, it's better to be careful."

"I'm doing this for everyone's good!" Lao Yang's eyes were a little erratic.

"Really? Are you so kind?"

Lao Yang's explanation was far-fetched, and Fatty looked at him with a suspicious look.

"Believe it or not, don't blame me for not reminding you if something happens."

Lao Yang deliberately turned his face aside to prevent Fatty from seeing the expression on his face.

When Fatty wanted to say something else, he was interrupted by Master Liang's action.

Master Liang suddenly seemed to see something, pointed to the bottom of the bronze tree with his hand, and looked terrified and pale: "Bu Yanqi?"

Wu Xie and the others looked in the direction pointed by Master Liang and found that the branches under the bronze tree were densely packed with mummies.

There were hundreds of them. Perhaps because of the long time, the bodies had been dried up by the wind, just like the bacon hung on the wall by the Sichuan folks.

They were so dense that in this dark environment, if you didn't pay attention, you would think they were leaves!

I don't know where the wind came from, but the mummies were swaying, and it felt like leaves were swaying in the wind...

The atmosphere suddenly became a little weird.

This reminded Wu Xie of the murals he had seen in a tomb before.

The murals described that the Buyanqi were destroyed by a mysterious force and all died.

It seems that the mysterious force mentioned in the murals should be some special power of the bronze tree.

Or another unknown force appeared.

These hundreds of Buyanqi bodies were hung on the branches of the bronze tree. Wu Xie thought about the grooves on the bronze tree and instantly understood what was going on.

The blood of the Buyanqi seemed to have been completely drained and sucked away by the bronze, resulting in them becoming shriveled corpses.

The golden armor they wore had lost its luster and turned into a dull black due to the passage of time, or perhaps due to the blood staining.

Who could have thought that the elite of the elite, who were so decisive in killing thousands of years ago, would end up like this.

What did they go through back then to become the annihilated army they are in now?

Wu Xie was a little curious and a little emotional!

Fatty also saw the armored Bu Yanqi, and couldn't help but take a deep breath:

"Damn it, these people are exposed to the wind and sun... I don't know if they can be dried for the time being, but they have been dried into human jerky. They can't be called zongzi anymore, right?"

"Why do I feel like drying bacon? Thousand-year-old bacon must be very chewy!"

"I don't know what these Bu Yanqi suffered back then. They were all killed and hung here to dry like bacon."

"Hey! You said Xiao Tiannai, it's a bit wrong. They shouldn't be simply hung here directly, right? Who would waste time hanging them up one by one?"

Wu Xie knew that although Fatty seemed careless, he was always very careful and smart.

I didn't expect him to think of the key point of the matter so quickly.

"Blood sacrifice!" Before Wu Xie could answer, Zhang Qiling looked in the direction of the Bu Yanqi and suddenly said two words, pointing directly to the key point of the matter.

"Yeah! What the little brother said is right. They should have been hung up on purpose after being killed."

"The purpose is to let the bronze tree suck their blood, and then perform some kind of sacrifice. It seems that it was thrown down from above."

When Wu Xie and the others were discussing those Bu Yanqi, they did not notice that Lao Yang's expression seemed to be wrong.

Lao Yang is now a little self-doubting. After three years, he came to the Qinling Mountains again. He felt that many things here seemed to be different.

Many things appeared that he had not encountered three years ago. I don't know if he was lucky at the time and happened not to encounter them, or if things have changed.

All these are unknown. It feels like things are beyond his control.

In fact, what Lao Yang doesn't know is that no matter whether it was three years ago or three years later, things have never been under his control.

"Let's not talk about what those Bu Yanqi are about. Just say that this huge thing, how much manpower and material resources and how much time will it take?"

"Especially in ancient times when alchemy technology was backward, by the way, what period of this item is it! So awesome?"

The fat man looked at the bronze pillar that required at least several people to hug it completely, and his face was full of astonishment.

Let alone ancient times, even in modern society, it would probably take several years to make such a large thing with an unknown length.

It is hard to imagine how much time, manpower, and material resources were used in ancient times to complete such a large project.

"I say, Fatty, have you changed your name to Jiuzhen? Aren't you not interested in anything except the funerary objects? Why are you a little abnormal today?" Wu Xie teased Fatty casually.

"I'm just asking out of curiosity! For me, getting the funerary objects is the truth."

"Right! This is your character, Fatty." Simple and happy, always knowing what you want.