Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World
Chapter 13 You paid me.
Ling Yue stabbed the monster hard in the lower back with the bamboo staff, then decisively abandoned the staff.
Compared to her bold and righteous bamboo staff, Ling Yue's delicate, effeminate, and bloodthirsty hands, which twist tendons and bones, made her enemies tremble with fear.
Wearing the ice silk gloves that were impervious to water, fire, and poison emboldened her even more.
As she grabbed the monster's calf with her right hand, her left hand moved like a snake climbing a pole. When the two sharp claws attacked, her hands moved like green vines entwining a tree or willow branches brushing water, displaying her graceful beauty to the fullest.
But in the midst of the entanglement and swaying, the monster's claws were folded and its arm severed. Its slender fingers climbed up and down, twisting and turning as if parting flowers and brushing willows, until they reached the monster's neck.
right here!
Ling Yue's heart stirred, and he did a head-down, feet-up handstand, gripping the monster's vulnerable neck tightly with his ten fingers.
As the body thrashed about, a tearing sound that sent chills down one's spine was heard.
A blue-faced, fanged head was revealed between Ling Yue's tightly clasped arms.
Holding the severed head, Ling Yue knelt a few steps away, using the force to carefully examine the monster that had slowly revealed its form after its head was ripped off.
Once he was certain that it wouldn't be like some monsters in eerie stories, still able to move even without a head, Ling Yue finally dropped the head he was holding.
After catching his breath, Ling Yue prepared to go forward and check.
Unexpectedly, the monster's corpse suddenly turned into a pile of snow-white sand, scattering across the ground with a soft rustling sound.
The monster's once robust body was reduced to nothing more than a pile of tattered bronze armor in an instant.
Looking back, sure enough, the head she had just thrown on the ground was now just a ghostly face with blue fangs lying there quietly.
"What's going on?" Ling Yue muttered to himself.
How could there possibly be moving sand in the world?
With deep doubt in his heart, Ling Yue took off his gloves and put them back into the cloth bag hanging at his waist. He picked up his bamboo cane, shortened it, and put it back in his waistband.
As Ling Yue passed the ghost mask, he picked it up, threaded it onto the drawstring of the cloth bag, and hung it on his waist along with the bag.
Ling Yue also grabbed a small handful of white sand and stuffed it into his coat pocket.
If you have the chance, ask Wuxie.
He seemed to be quite adept at these strange and unusual things.
Just as Ling Yue was thinking about how to find his way back, the surroundings shook violently.
Ling Yue's heart skipped a beat, realizing something was wrong! Something must have happened at Qingliang Palace!
What if Li Cu died because of her temporary departure? Wouldn't she become a despicable person who broke her promise? Absolutely not!
Ling Yue sprinted towards the direction with the loudest noise. In his haste, he used his lightness skill to run, his feet barely touching the ground.
When she encountered any stone walls that were oblivious to her presence and blocked her path at this crucial moment, without exception, Ling Yue used her inner strength to smash them to pieces with a single punch.
He was unstoppable, and even his usually indifferent eyes were now bloodshot.
Nothing can stop her from upholding her bottom line!
Meanwhile, as Ling Yue left alone, Wu Xie and Su Nan went to check the surrounding passageways.
Along the way, the two inevitably tested each other, exchanging witty remarks, yet both pretended not to understand.
While they were dawdling, a sudden earthquake shook the ground. The two quickly ran out of the tunnel and found that Old Mai and his men had opened the treasure chest in the middle of the underground palace and were eagerly grabbing all the treasure.
After a while, Li Cu noticed that many red beads had appeared on the barnacle wall.
When Old Mai and the others saw it, they thought it was a ruby and immediately scrambled to grab it.
The joy of making a fortune drove them wild, but then the underground palace began to shake, clearly having triggered some kind of mechanism, and the door they had come through was also closed.
The old scale expert, skilled in manipulation, instructed everyone to put the treasure back, and the shaking finally stopped.
At this point, the shaking wasn't too severe, and Ling Yue was busy fighting the invisible monster, so he didn't notice it for a moment.
By the time Ling Yue noticed the shaking, the ground inside the Qingliang Palace had already collapsed. Lao Cheng, who had been checking the entrance but hadn't had time to jump to the middle, slipped and fell into the trap.
When Lao Cheng fell, he grabbed Li Cu, who was caught off guard and fell down as well.
Fortunately, Wu Xie pounced on him in time, using his small hoe to hook onto the edge of the ground that hadn't collapsed, while he and Li Cu hung in mid-air.
Ling Yue burst out of a passageway covered in dust from shattered stones and immediately saw his employer about to fall to his death.
The excessively stimulating scene aroused her.
Ling Yue took off his coat, wrapped it around his hand, and leaped into the air. At the same time, he activated the bracelet on his left hand, and a small arrow shot towards the stone wall above his head.
The arrow has an ingenious inverted mechanism that allows it to grip the rock tightly and withstand the heavy weight transmitted from the silk thread.
Pulling on the silk thread through several layers of thick outer fabric, Ling Yue pushed off with his feet and flew like a shooting star to Li Cu, wrapping his arms around his waist and bringing him back to the central platform.
Ling Yue pulled back the silk thread, and seeing that Li Cu was no longer in danger of falling to her death, he finally relaxed completely.
Before Li Cu could figure out what was happening, he felt a blur before his eyes, and then, with a thud, he fell down.
In a flash, Wu Xie grabbed him.
Then, in a flash, he appeared right there.
After clearing her head, Li Cu looked at the disheveled man in front of her. She could only see a trace of his previous aloof and detached temperament in his upright, bamboo-like figure and his now calm and indifferent eyes.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Cu finally asked, "Sister Ling, what happened when you got back?"
Did they go to mine for stones?
On the other side, Su Nan pulled Wu Xie up from below.
Seeing Ling Yue's disheveled appearance, Wu Xie's eyes flashed, and then he walked over and slapped Li Cu on the shoulder.
Meeting his bewildered face as he turned to look at him, Wu Xie gave a half-smile: "You've got a chat? You just left me there like that?"
Li Cu was stunned, and finally remembered that Wu Xie had also hung on the edge of the cliff to save him.
He was rescued by Ling Yue so suddenly that his mind went blank and he couldn't remember for a moment.
But I do feel quite guilty.
Li Cu touched his nose, chuckled awkwardly, and tried to change the subject: "It's just that Sister Ling suddenly flew out and startled me!"
Seeing this, Su Nan said speechlessly, "Hey you three, is this the time for catching up? Shouldn't we be thinking about how to get out of here?"
Ye Xiao, standing nearby, used a flashlight to check the situation below and saw that Lao Cheng had been pierced by the spiked mechanism below.
Witnessing Lao Cheng's death, several ordinary people in the film crew were all traumatized.
Upon hearing Su Nan's words, Director Wang immediately turned his attention to Ling Yue: "Ling Yue, Sister Ling, that move you just made, could it have carried us away? Was that some kind of lightness skill? You must be a hidden master! Please, take us out of here!"
"Yeah! You just flew up from below with Li Cu! You can definitely take us out! Please, I don't want to die!" The photographer, Cai Tou, was almost in tears. He immediately pushed past the others and tried to grab Ling Yue.
Ling Yue sidestepped his lunging hand to block it, and raised his hand to shake the silk-wrapped bracelet on his left wrist: "Didn't you see? I leaned on this just now. It has special steel wire inside."
Suddenly, Eleven spoke up: "Then let's use this steel wire to build an aerial zipline and slide right out!"
Ling Yue shook his head, unwrapped the coat covering her left hand, and showed it to everyone.
The workwear jacket, known for its sturdiness, was no longer recognizable as intact, its layers torn into shreds.
Even so, Ling Yue still had a cut on his left palm from pulling on the wire. It wasn't deep, but it certainly wasn't shallow either: "If the wire is too thin, it will become very sharp. I dare to use it to build a zipline, but would you dare to use it?"
Shiyi frowned, about to say something, but Su Nan glanced at him.
Wu Xie looked at the wound on her palm where blood was still seeping out, and reached out to feel around her body.
Finally, he pulled out a handkerchief that he had somehow taken from Xiaohua.
Wu Xie placed it in Ling Yue's still-open palm, looked away from her, and turned to the crowd, saying, "Haven't you considered that now that the mechanism is activated, there's no way out of those passageways? What's the point of forcing them to lead you into those passageways?"
Old Mai retorted defiantly, "Then what do you suggest we do?!"
Wu Xie glanced at him, then turned to look around, her expression one of calm confidence.
This confidence gave his weathered and haggard face an inexplicable allure: "Look, over there, at that mural."
Li Cu, who had just discovered this, said urgently, "It definitely wasn't there before; it only appeared after the mechanism was triggered!"
Wu Xie turned around and gave him an approving look.
Li Cu looked a little embarrassed.
Without hesitation, Wu Xie volunteered to go and take a look.
Su Nan worked in tandem, moving in the opposite direction as Wu Xie moved toward one side of the seesaw, trying to keep the seesaw platform balanced.
With hope of getting out, Director Wang and his group stopped bothering Ling Yue.
Ling Yue silently watched Wu Xie walk to the end, and as the seesaw sank, a hole was indeed revealed.
Ling Yue stood in the middle of the circular platform, where Director Wang and others were also located.
When the cave entrance appeared, everyone's attention was drawn to it, but Ling Yue suddenly noticed that Cai Tou's breathing became rapid and his heartbeat became dense and loud.
This is a phenomenon that occurs when a person is emotionally excited or agitated.
What does he want to do?
Ling Yue glanced to the side and noticed that Cai Tou had tensed all his muscles, as if he was about to charge forward.
Without even thinking, Ling Yue grabbed Cai Tou's shoulder and pressed him down hard. Cai Tou, who was about to rush out, suddenly realized that he couldn't move.
His strange actions at this moment also attracted the attention of others.
Everyone wasn't stupid; they could tell what he was planning just by looking at him.
Isn't this trying to kill everyone?
Ever since being taught a lesson by Ling Yue, Old Mai, who had been holding back his anger, immediately flew into a rage and punched Cai Tou in the nose: "You fucking want to kill us? You want to abandon us and run away? Fine! I'll send you to your death right now!"
After saying that, he was about to push the vegetable head off the platform.
If someone fell in, they would be impaled through the trap and die instantly. Cai Tou was so frightened that he trembled and clung to Lao Mai's hand that was clutching his collar, sobbing, "I was wrong, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, I was just too scared, sob sob sob..."
Old Mike, however, wouldn't have it: "Fuck you, you think you're the only one afraid of dying? I'm not afraid of dying! You want to hurt me? You'd better have the guts!"
Although I was furious about Cai Tou's behavior, he was still one of my own. Besides, how could an ordinary person accept someone taking a life so easily?
Director Wang, Zeng Ye, Xu Lei, and the others quickly tried to persuade him, while Su Nan also scolded Lao Mai, telling him not to cause trouble at this time.
Li Cu was still shaken and whispered her thanks to Ling Yue: "Sister Ling, thank you so much. If you hadn't held Cai Tou down, he would probably have been in danger too."
Remembering that she still owed a thank you, Li Cu smiled sheepishly: "And thank you for earlier, Sister Ling. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would already be lying down there."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, overwhelmed with fear.
Ling Yue, however, disregarded the rare moment of sentimentality that the young man was displaying, and stated the matter directly: "You paid."
Li Cu, halfway through her heart-wrenching and touching moment, was speechless.
Li Cu: You really can't get sentimental at all!
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