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

Jiang Hua looked at several vines extending from the depths and was about to take out the Hongmeng War World Spear, but those vines did not rush towards Jiang Hua, but towards the corpses of those hungry wolves.

Jiang Hua let down his guard, stood up and watched the vines entangle the corpses.

"It looks like it's really the tree spirit that was slowly absorbed, but I've never seen one that glows red. Never mind, let's just go back and get the antidote."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the forest exit.

But a mysterious black shadow appeared behind Jiang Hua, standing among the trees with a slight smile on his face.

"Hehe, you still have some strength. I can see that I have a way to get out of here."

After saying that, he turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared into the woods.

Jiang Hua quickly returned to the village with the wolf's teeth and claws.

As soon as Jiang Hua walked to the door, Duoduo ran over and came to Jiang Hua's side. Jiang Hua squatted down and touched Duoduo's head.

"Alright, alright, wait a moment. I'll go find the village chief and apply some medicine to Xiaoli."

After saying that, Jiang Hua walked towards the village chief's house.

The village chief had been waiting for a long time and stood at the door for a long time. When he saw Jiang Hua coming, he instantly felt relieved.

"How's it going? Did you get it?"

Jiang Hua took out four claws and four teeth from his pocket and handed them to the village chief.

"I brought it, what should I do next?"

The village chief took the claws and teeth handed to him by Jiang Hua and smiled.

"Hahaha, good boy, you are quite capable. You can even get teeth."

Jiang Hua waved and looked at the village chief.

"We'll talk about what happened in between later. Can you start making the antidote now?"

The village chief came to his senses and nodded.

"Okay, okay, I'll start making the antidote now, you go inside first."

Jiang Hua nodded and walked into the room.

The village chief looked at the teeth and claws in his hand and walked into another room. He put the teeth, claws and some herbs on the table, crushed them in a container, and boiled some water.

At this time Jiang Hua walked to Mo Li, held Mo Li tightly, looked at Mo Li's blackened arm, sighed indifferently, sighing at his own incompetence.

"It's all my fault. I caused you so much pain."

Duoduo, who was outside the village, stood up and walked towards home, as if she had noticed something.

After half an hour of waiting, the village chief came over with a small plate of ointment, patted Jiang Hua on the shoulder and motioned Jiang Hua to move aside.

Jiang Hua naturally understood, so he stood up and let the village chief apply medicine.

After applying the medicine on his entire arm, the village chief picked up the cloth he had with him and wrapped it around his arm. After he was done, the village chief stood up and wiped the sweat beads from his forehead.

"Okay, it's done, but be careful not to touch water or fire for now, or your whole arm might be wasted."

Jiang Hua stood there and nodded, looking at Mo Li.

"Got it. When will he wake up?"

The village chief thought for a while.

"About half an hour, it depends mainly on her physical condition."

When Jiang Hua heard the village chief talking about physical condition, the worry in his heart slowly settled down.

"By the way, Village Chief, I have something I want to ask you. Can you please tell me?"

The village chief stroked his beard and looked at Jiang Hua in confusion.

"Oh? What do you want to ask?"

Jiang Hua pointed outside.

"Take a step to speak."

The village chief nodded, and walked out the door with Jiang Hua.

"What do you want to ask?"

Jiang Hua looked up at the sky.

"It's about something deep in the woods." The village chief was stroking his beard for a second, then he smiled and said.

"Hehe... No one has asked this question for a long time. There are powerful creatures in the deep forest. We are not strong enough to suppress them for the time being."

Jiang Hua thought for a while and then asked, "What are those red trees?" The village chief did not hide it.

"Some of them have absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, and combined with the corpses of the wild beasts and wolves inside. It will be more dangerous as you go inside. There are some dark red trees in the middle of the inner circle, each covered with human faces."

After listening to this, Jiang Hua became interested and thought to himself.

"It seems that the Hongmeng Dao Body should be in there."

The old village chief seemed to have guessed what Jiang Hua was going to do next, and he turned a blind eye to Jiang Hua.

"You...are you planning to go in? There is a barrier at the innermost part, which is a bit difficult to break through. Besides, those tree spirits are not easy to deal with. You should be careful."

Jiang Hua touched his chin.

"Village Chief, how did you know that?"

The village chief smiled.

“Hahaha… This is a long story.”

"You might as well talk and listen."

Jiang Hua thought that since the village chief knew so much, he must have been there before, so he wanted to ask him for advice.

The village chief lowered his head and sighed.

"It doesn't matter. So many years have passed."

"That happened about fifty years ago. At that time, there weren't so many people in this village. We young people didn't know what was good for us and violated the curfew. We broke into the forest and went deep into the forest to look for something unknown."

When Jiang Hua heard the village chief say that there was something inside, his eyes lit up instantly.

"what?"

The village chief looked at Jiang Hua, stroked his beard, and continued speaking.

"Don't be impatient. There weren't that many red tree spirits in there at the time. We quickly reached the center. The tree spirits began to move, and of course there were also many hungry wolves. We took the opportunity when the hungry wolves and tree spirits were attacking each other and walked in."

Jiang Hua touched his chin.

"It seems that there is a reason why the hungry wolf doesn't dare to get too close to the tree spirit. It seems that it was suppressed by the tree spirit decades ago."

The village chief was a little surprised when he heard him say this.

"Oh? You saw it too?"

Jiang Hua put his hand down and nodded.

"Yes, when we were working on the teeth and claws just now, we were deep inside, near the tree spirits. They kept circling around and didn't dare to go inside."

The village chief smiled when he heard Jiang Hua say that the hungry wolves didn't dare to go inside.

"Hahaha... That's natural. They dared to fight the tree spirits before because there weren't too many of them at that time. They only occupied a small area. But now it's different. The tree spirits occupy half of the forest."

Jiang Hua was a little shocked.

"It's growing so fast. It has grown so fast in 50 years."

The village chief shook his head.

"Alas... they grow fast, but the ones with higher attack power are still in the innermost part, which are the ones we encountered back then. They have now turned dark red and have many vines."

Jiang Hua looked at the village chief in surprise.

"How did you get out when you went in?"

The village chief lowered his head, sighed, and looked at the stars in the sky.

"There were seven of us who went in, but in the end I was the only one who came out. I was the youngest at the time, and all six of them died in there trying to get me out."

After saying this, the village chief lowered his head silently again.

After hearing this, Jiang Hua lowered his head silently, not knowing what to say.

"Ah... I'm sorry for bringing back sad memories for you."

The village chief waved his hand and looked at Jiang Hua.

"Forget it, it's better to say it out loud than to keep it in your heart." (End of this chapter)