Tomb Raiders

Chapter 36 5 People Reunited (Inverted V)

Unexpectedly, Shen Liaobai's stab missed, and he staggered a few steps and almost hit the opposite wall. Fortunately, the back of his clothes was pulled and he had to use some strength to straighten his body.

"I gave you the dagger to defend yourself, not to stab me." Chu Yuyang's cold voice appeared behind him.

Shen Liaobai just held the dagger like that, turned slightly to look at him, a little unbelievable.

Chu Yuyang let go of Shen Liaobai's collar, put one hand behind his back, his face was always indifferent, his amber eyes met Shen Liaobai's dazed eyes, and he sighed helplessly With a sound, he took off the dagger in his hand, and then nestled his cold palm in his palm.

Shen Liaobai couldn't tell what he was feeling at the moment, it was as if the big rock in his heart had finally fallen, the previous panic had disappeared, and as soon as he relaxed, thinking about the situation just now, even his hands trembled slightly, which could not be called excited Still scared.

"Where is the injury?" Chu Qianyang asked.

The temperature of Chu Yuyang was clearly transmitted from his fingers, which made Shen Liaobai understand that all this was not an illusion. He took two steps forward, raised his head slightly, and Chu Yuyang's sculpted facial features were right in front of his eyes, slanting into his temples The eyebrows made his face look serious, probably because the light in the cave was a little dim, so his usually indifferent eyes brought a touch of softness, slightly dispelling the oppressive feeling brought about by his sternness.

Chu Yuyang also took two steps forward, he was half a head taller than Shen Liaobai, his lips brushed Shen Liaobai's forehead as if there was nothing, and the other hand pulled Shen Liaobai, pulling him into his arms With a belt inside, forming a half-hug pose.Shen Liaobai didn't dodge either, and even subconsciously raised his hand, grabbing the corner of Chu Yuyang's clothes.

"If you two want to be intimate, you can wait until you go down the mountain, find a place with beautiful scenery, and express your heartfelt heart. Don't flirt with each other here, maybe you will be disturbed by something strange in a while." Qin Zhaonan's frivolous tone appeared inappropriately.

Shen Liaobai is a thin-skinned person. He blushed a few steps back and opened his mouth to explain, but found that there was no words to explain this behavior that even he himself could not understand. ,

"Everything is normal just now, it's just that you appeared." Chu Yuyang glanced at Qin Zhaonan with sharp eyes, and then said to Shen Liaobai: "Let's go, go and meet Hanzhang Wenhao first."

It was the first time that Qin Zhaonan, who was ridiculed as a strange thing, saw Chu Yuyang's deflated appearance. If he was not afraid of disturbing the vines in the cave, he really wanted to laugh out loud.

"These," Shen Liaobai pointed to the vines in the cave, and asked, "What are they?"

Chu Yuyang shook his head and said: "I don't know, I have never seen such weird vines, these vines can even extend from the inside of the winding hive to the ground, so I don't know how long they are, whether they grow together or alone individual."

"However, their attack power is astonishing. We suffered some losses when we were on top, so we should try our best to avoid confronting them head-on." Qin Zhaonan added.

"Why does this wall glow?" Shen Liaobai pointed to the wall beside him.

Chu Yuyang stopped in his tracks and said, "Look closer."

Hearing the words, Shen Liaobai leaned close to the wall, and saw many leaves the size of half a palm growing on the wall, and the veins extending around the leaves were shining with dots of light, because the color of the leaves themselves was relatively dark, and Shen Liaobai was tired of running before. , so I have never seen the leaves under the starlight.

"This is the Cave Grass," Qin Zhaonan said first: "It is said that it grows in a fairyland and can see ghosts. I came to Lingnan before and entered a nobleman's tomb. I saw one that was several times larger than this one. If you break off its leaves, you can see ghosts." Use it as a torch."

It was the first time for Shen Liaobai to hear that there were such things in the world, and he was amazed, "Then let's fold some, can it replace Penghuo?"

Chu Yuyang took two steps back and happened to be between Shen Liaobai and Qin Zhaonan, "Have you seen any plants that can grow in hard rocks?"

When he said this, Shen Liaobai also found it strange that these cave grasses came out of the walls, and the uneven walls in this cave are made of large chunks of rock, and it is not known how they were formed. Such intricate cave passages.

Chu Yuyang pointed to the vines in the cave and said: "After the ordinary cave grass is folded, the light will not last for a long time. The duration depends on the size. The cave grass in the cave may take root in the cracks in the wall. The roots in the tree live by the vines, even if you break them off, it probably won't last long, and it will disturb the vines."

Shen Liaobai waved his hands and said, "I won't fold it then, who knows if the hole grass will suddenly grow bigger and wrap around my palm when I fold it."

Qin Zhaonan smiled and said: "I didn't expect Mrs. Shen to be quite good at joking."

Shen Liaobai was quite uncomfortable by the meaningful smile on Qin Zhaonan's face, and smiled politely at Qin Zhaonan to cover up the embarrassment that he had nothing to say.

The gathering point of Chu Yuyang and the others was at a crossroad, marked on the cave wall. Wenhao and Hanzhang had checked other areas first and waited here. Laifu and Zhaocai stopped on their shoulders. Seeing Shen Liaobai, Zhaocai immediately flew low, landed on Shen Liaobai's shoulder, and rubbed his cheek affectionately.All of them arrived, except for Ayun.

"Where is Ah Yun?" Shen Liaobai asked suspiciously.

"When I was on the ground earlier, I asked Hanzhang to send Ayun back to the cabin on the mountainside, and let her wait there." Chu Qianyang replied.

"Well, it's fine if she doesn't come to such a dangerous place." Shen Liaobai said.

Qin Zhaonan grinned and said, "Yes, yes, Ah Yun is safe now, Mrs. Shen should not miss her any more."

There was something in his words, before Shen Liaobai had time to figure out the meaning, he asked Hao again: "We found a slightly clean cave ahead, we can take a rest there."

Shen Liaobai then followed Wenhao and Hanzhang to the cave they mentioned, which was a little far from the meeting point, and there were some identification marks on the walls of the winding corridor.The cave was pitch black, and everyone had to take out the torches they brought for lighting. Several people chose a dry place to put the torches together, like a small green fire burning around.

Shen Liaobai didn't understand what Wen Hao meant by cleanliness until he saw the surrounding environment clearly. There were no vines growing inside this cave, and there was not even a cave grass spreading all over the small caves inside the hive. Nothing was abandoned in the entire space. It is very empty, except for some honey condensed on the ground, which shows that this place was once the territory of Xuanfeng.

"This may be the residence of the queen bee," Hanzhang said, "but it may be because there is no food for the vines to use, so they withdrew from here."

Everyone obviously accepted his explanation, sat down in front of the bonfire, and took out dry food to replenish their strength. This time the dry food was pickled bacon from the old man Wu, and then cut it into slices and wrapped it up. It was better than the food in the tomb last time. for a long time.Shen Liaobai didn't know how long he had been in this cave. After asking, he found out that he was dragged into the cave at around noon. After five hours, he was not sucked by the weird vines. It's lucky.

Chu Yuyang took out a coat from Hanzhang's package and handed it to Shen Liaobai, "Put it on."

Shen Liaobai's coat was scratched and scratched several times, especially the part of the waist that was in contact with the vine liquid was torn apart by Shen Liaobai, and the entire waist to abdomen could be seen at a glance.

All the people present were big men, Shen Liaobai didn't hesitate, just took off his outer clothes, and was about to change into clean clothes, but was held down by Chu Yuyang.

"Let me see your tattoo." Chu Qianyang said.

So Shen Liaobai also took off his inner coat, exposing his entire back.There were faint traces of red marks on the fair skin, but they have faded now. Chu Yuyang's fingertips pressed on the covered tattoo, and the temperature of the skin returned to normal.

"In public, can't you restrain yourself?" Qin Zhaonan raised the corners of his eyes and looked at Shen Liaobai with interest. After being glanced at by Chu Yuyang, he spread his fan to block his eyes, pretending that what happened just now It didn't happen.

Shen Liaobai twisted his neck and looked at the tattoo on the shoulder bone, it turned into a piece of light-colored skin, "I've wanted to ask for a long time, what did you paint on my tattoo, why can't I see it?" ?”

Afraid that he would be frozen, Chu Yuyang took the coat and motioned him to put it on, saying: "It's just a layer of grease, usually used when changing the face, you can see the difference if you look carefully."

Shen Liaobai put on his clothes, tightened his coat awkwardly under Qin Zhaonan's gaze, and said, "I think this tattoo is getting more and more sensitive. At the beginning, I didn't know what caused its reaction, until I saw the secretion on the vine. The juice that came out made my body numb when it dripped, and I lost all feeling in my waist for a while."

"It seems that your body has become more sensitive under the influence of tattoos." Chu Yuyang said: "Probably because you are often in danger recently, this tattoo has been stimulated, and once it grows, it cannot be stopped. "

"But such frequent effects are too exhausting." Shen Liaobai sighed, and said, "It would be great if we could find Yingqing, I think he should know better than me."

"Or find someone who will tattoo you," Chu Yuyang patted his cheek and said, "Let's rest for a while, we have to hurry up again soon."

Chu Yuyang's words seemed to have a particularly comforting effect, Shen Liaobai smiled, closed his eyes to rest according to Chu Yuyang, Wen Hao and Hanzhang kept watch first, and then took turns to Qin Zhaonan and Chu Yuyang after two hours.

Hearing Chu Yuyang's even breathing, Hanzhang moved to Wenhao's side little by little, put on a smiling face and asked in a low voice, "Why are you ignoring me, Wenhao?"

Wen Hao glanced at him angrily, and said in a low voice, "You have been following Dalang for a long time, how could you say such rash words."

Hanzhang remembered what he had said earlier before Wenhao got angry, and suddenly realized: "I saw Mrs. Shen looked worried, and I just said a few words to comfort him, and there was no other meaning."

Wen Hao's anger had mostly dissipated at this time, and he said: "Master Shen is not a three-year-old child who needs to be coaxed, let alone have you forgotten that Da Lang hates people who jump to conclusions?"

Hanzhang hurriedly said with a smiling face: "I swear there will be no next time."

Wen Hao glanced at the sleeping Qin Zhaonan and said, "No matter what, Mr. Qin is a guest invited by Da Lang. In front of him, we are servants. Sometimes we should be careful when speaking."

"Yes, yes," Hanzhang said with a smile, "I would like to follow the instruction of Your Excellency Wenhao."

After laughing a few words like this, Wen Hao suddenly frowned and said, "Did you hear anything?"

Hanzhang put away his smile, listened carefully, and said, "No, wake up Dalang."

The author has something to say: become...more...sensitive 0.0