Tomb Raider: Evolution of the Red Dragon, Starting from the Ancient City of Jingjue

Chapter 126: Horrible Eyeballs, a Curse That Lasted for Thousands of Years
With doubts, Jiang Hua and others also walked in.

The inside was in great disrepair, with spider webs everywhere.

There is a statue in the middle of the mountain temple.

This statue is very strange. It has six arms and a wine gourd in the left hand.

On the right is a toad.

The old patriarch had a serious expression on his face. He led his tribesmen to kneel on the ground and bow three times to the statue of the mountain god.

Then he said in a deep voice: "Next is our Zhalong Village's sacrificial ceremony."

"Respectfully welcome to the ancestral gate!"

The old patriarch kowtowed three times respectfully again.

Then he placed his skull-shaped crutch in the hand of the mountain god statue.

Click!

There was a soft sound.

It seemed like some mechanism had been activated.

The mountain temple began to shake.

Then, an underground passage appeared in the middle of the mountain temple.

Jiang Hua was a little surprised.

"Could it be that the ancestral land of Zhalong Village is in the basement of this mountain temple?"

The old patriarch gave them a cold look.

"Take them down."

Zhalong gave a sinister smile.

"Fatty, and you three outsiders, follow me now."

Everyone's eyes flickered and they looked at each other.

Jiang Hua shook his head slightly.

It means that it is not the right time yet and everyone should not take any action yet.

Jiang Hua and others and Zhalong walked into the underground passage.

This underground passage is surrounded by murals depicting a war scene.

Shirley Yang whispered: "This should be that King Xian defeated the local forces, then established the ancient Dian Kingdom, and used these captives as slaves to build his own mausoleum."

The underground passage is not far away.

The group walked away for a minute or two.

Then I came to the bottom.

This is an empty underground palace.

Zhalong picked up the torch and lit the bronze lamps around him.

For a moment, the underground palace was as bright as day.

Everyone could clearly see the scene inside.

In the middle of the underground palace, there is an altar.

This altar is very strange.

Around it, there are statues of strange beasts.

These statues are like guardian angels.

Guarding this altar.

Don't know why.

"Get up there!" Zhalong shouted.

Hearing his tone, the fat man became a little angry.

It was Jiang Hua who held him back.

That's why it didn't happen immediately.

Four people walked up to the altar.

Finally I saw the whole picture of the altar.

Jiang Hua's pupils shrank and he was extremely shocked.

There were many relief carvings on the altar, which recorded some mysterious ancient sacrificial rituals that Jiang Hua had never seen before.

And in the very center of the altar, there was actually a hole with a giant golden mask inside. In the middle of the golden mask, there was a huge eyeball, staring at Jiang Hua and others.

Jiang Hua suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

He had a creepy feeling inside.

This feeling is even more severe than when I encountered the Spider King in the Dragon Ridge Cave.

"What the hell is this?"

“This thing is definitely alive.”

“And it’s definitely not small in size.”

Doubts arose in Jiang Hua's mind.

What do these people from Zhalong Village want to do?

Do you want to feed them to this thing?

Roar!
A roar came from the center of the altar.

Jiang Hua saw that there was a huge mouth hidden under the golden mask.

When this huge mouth opened, pink flesh membrane was revealed, like the mouthparts of some insect.

These flesh membranes were stacked one upon another, and there were densely packed and creepy fangs in the throat, and green mucus was flowing, which made Jiang Hua's scalp tingle.

What the hell is this?
A big bug?

Or a giant monster?
The people from Zhalong Village also gradually came to the altar.

Everyone saw the monster under the hole in the center of the altar. Their faces turned pale and their bodies were shaking constantly. It was obvious that they were very afraid of this monster.

The old chief of Zhalong Village knelt on the ground with a terrified look in his eyes, muttering an unknown sacrificial text, holding up the skull-shaped cane in both hands, as if he was performing some ritual.

Everyone was waiting quietly.

About half an hour passed.

The old patriarch finally stopped.

Then he pointed at Jiang Hua and the other three and said in a deep voice, "Throw them down to feed the guardian spirit."

Hearing this, the fat man was completely furious.

"Damn, you old bastard, I already knew you were no good, but you actually wanted to feed a monster with humans?"

"Do you still have any humanity?"

"And that Ada, we saved your sister out of kindness, but you turned your kindness into hatred. Are you still human?"

Ada's face turned pale and blue, and he said painfully: "I asked you to leave a long time ago, but why did you come back here?"

"If you don't come back, nothing will happen. The patriarch won't use you as a sacrifice..." The fat man spat fiercely.

"I bother!"

"Stop pretending to be sympathetic."

"You still want to act in front of Fatty?"

Jiang Hua looked at the old patriarch coldly.

"I have a question in my mind. Why do you have to risk your lives to come to the Worm Valley, and then use people as sacrifices to feed a monster?"

"If you don't bring it food, will it come out and eat you?"

The old patriarch's expression did not change at all.

His eyes were extremely cold.

"Haha, young man, what do you know? You don't even know the suffering of my Zhalong Village?"

"More than two thousand years ago, our tribe had already lived here, and people lived and worked in peace and contentment. But one day, the devil came."

"They occupied our homeland, and then took us all as slaves, built a tomb for him, and even planted a vicious curse."

"Zhalong Village has been carrying this curse for two thousand years."

"Every once in a while, you have to eat something, otherwise everyone in the village will gradually rot and die."

"In order for the tribe to continue, we must come here every seven years to sacrifice a living person in exchange for that special antidote."

At this point, the old patriarch's eyes showed a trace of pain.

He took a deep breath and continued, "In our Zhalong Village, except for every clan leader, the oldest person in the clan will be sacrificed to this monster and eaten."

"If you want to blame someone, then you can only blame your bad luck. I don't think you have done anything wrong."

The old patriarch smiled and said, "If I guess correctly, you all came here for the treasures in the Worm Valley."

"The Worm Valley is the wealth left to us by our ancestors. Since you covet the things inside, you must bear the corresponding consequences."

After listening to the old patriarch's words.

Jiang Hua was a little shocked.

A vicious curse?
And it can also continue through bloodline?
Do we have to sacrifice a living person every seven years?
It’s creepy to think about it.

Jiang Hua said in a deep voice: "Then why don't you try to find a way to resolve the curse on you?"

"Haha, you think we haven't tried it?"

The old patriarch shook his head and said, "For more than two thousand years, we have consulted countless famous doctors, but nothing worked."

Jiang Hua's eyes flickered, "Then how did you get this antidote?"

The old patriarch smiled and said, "As long as we give people to this monster to eat, it will spit out a kind of mucus, and this mucus is the antidote that our Zhalong Village needs."

Hearing this, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Eat this monster's slime?
It’s scary to think about it.

Jiang Hua felt heavy in his heart.

The people of Zhalong Village are also trying to survive.

A curse that has lasted for more than two thousand years.

Very similar to the Haunted Cave Curse.

Shirley Yang felt somewhat empathetic and looked at the people in Zhalong Village with eyes full of sympathy.

These people are even more miserable than the Zagrama people...

Jiang Hua took a deep breath and said, "Old Patriarch, if you believe me, don't sacrifice any more people. I will do my best to help you find a way to solve the curse."

After the old patriarch listened.

I couldn't help laughing.

"Young man, I thank you on behalf of the people of Zhalong Village for having this idea, but we in Zhalong Village will never gamble the lives of all our people on an illusory possibility."

"So, if you really sympathize with our Zhalong Village, you'd better just go and let this monster eat you."

Jiang Hua shook his head, "Then there's nothing to talk about."

Boom!

Jiang Hua's hands suddenly opened, and the rope tied to his hands broke into several pieces.

At the same time, the ropes in the hands of Shirley Yang, Lao Hu and the fat man all broke.

They were all freed.

Everyone looked at the four of them.

I was a little surprised for a moment.

The fat man grinned and said, "Hehe, I didn't expect that I, Fatty, am okay?" The old patriarch was the first to react.

He yelled, "Catch them!"

All of a sudden, everyone in Zhalong Village rushed forward...

next moment.

Jiang Hua and the other three all used their martial arts skills.

These people from Zhalong Village are no match at all.

They knocked them to the ground one by one.

The old patriarch showed a hint of astonishment in his eyes.

Then it sank instantly.

"Shoot them to death."

The people of Zhalong Village who were holding hunting rifles around raised their rifles and aimed at the four outsiders.

Jiang Hua's eyes turned cold.

The body is like a ghost.

He flashed behind these people and knocked them all down, and they lay on the ground wailing.

As a third-grade peak warrior, it was extremely easy for him to deal with ordinary people, and it was totally effortless.

Suddenly, a sharp arrow shot over.

Jiang Hua turned slightly and dodged the arrow. He saw Ada not far away, holding a bow and arrow, aiming at him.

Jiang Hua shook his head, and his figure flashed again. He immediately came to Ada's side and took the bow and arrow from his hand.

Ada also fell to the ground, sweating profusely, his whole body trembling, but he still didn't say a word.

"Haha, he's a man..."

Jiang Hua smiled and didn't continue to attack him.

After a while, the people of Zhalong Village had lost their ability to resist, and only an old patriarch was left, standing there trembling.

As for the Fourth Grandpa who was used as a sacrifice before, the people of Zhalong Village did not bring him in, but instead had people guarding outside the Insect Valley.

The old patriarch's eyes were solemn. He said in a deep voice: "Young man, I didn't expect that I underestimated you. You are all warriors!"

Jiang Hua's eyes narrowed as he looked at the old patriarch's fearless expression. Could it be that he had some other trump card?
(End of this chapter)