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

"Click."

As Jiang Hua approached the stone tablet, a clear sound rang out. Jiang Hua's gaze followed the crack on the stone tablet down to the bottom.

Suddenly, a bottomless black hole appeared before his eyes. There were no green trees around it to provide any cover, and it looked sinister, like a giant mouth.

It was devouring everything around it, and everything here was eerie, a kind of eeriness that gave Jiang Hua a chill down his spine.

Jiang Hua stared at the black hole, and for some reason, a sense of danger suddenly rose in his heart. He didn't understand why he suddenly had such a feeling.

Moreover, he had a vague feeling that if the Ghost King's tomb really existed in this place, then he was now in danger.

"What's wrong?" Qin Feng asked, puzzled, looking at Jiang Hua's somewhat dazed face.

"There's danger here," Jiang Hua said softly, glancing at Qin Feng.

"Danger? How could there be danger here? Is this an ancient tomb? Or a ghost tomb? No, if it were a ghost tomb, how come I didn't sense any danger? Is there no danger here?"

Upon hearing Jiang Hua's words, Qin Feng looked at Jiang Hua with a puzzled expression and asked a question.

“No, if there’s no danger, how could this ghost tomb be called the Ghost King’s Burial Complex?” Jiang Hua shook his head immediately upon hearing Qin Feng’s question, rejecting his guess.

"Could this be a fake ghost tomb? Or a maze?" Qin Feng suddenly realized, but then he began to doubt his guess.

"It shouldn't be. This is an ancient tomb, but we don't know why it was sealed inside another ancient tomb," Jiang Hua said, shaking his head as he looked at the tomb.

"Should we still go in?" Qin Feng asked hesitantly, looking at the stone tablet.

“Let’s go in. I think there must be some treasures inside this ancient tomb, and who knows, there might be some kind of opportunity.” Jiang Hua’s eyes gleamed.

"Alright then, let's go in." Qin Feng nodded without further hesitation, then took Jiang Hua's arm and walked directly into the ancient tomb.

"Wait a minute." Just as the two were halfway there, an old voice suddenly rang in their ears.

"Who?" Upon hearing the voice, Jiang Hua's expression changed instantly, and he stopped abruptly, turning his head sharply in the direction from which the voice came.

"It's you." Qin Feng was startled when he heard the voice. His face changed instantly, and his body trembled. He almost fell over. Then he remembered that he was still holding Jiang Hua's hand and quickly helped her up.

"How did you know I was here?" Jiang Hua frowned and looked in the direction the voice came from, his expression turning serious as he asked.

"I sensed a familiar aura about you just now, so I followed you here."

The aged voice rang out again, and then an aged figure appeared in front of Jiang Hua and Qin Feng. He was dressed in blue robes and wore a bamboo hat, and he looked very strange.

"You are..." Jiang Hua felt a strong sense of danger when he saw the figure. He felt that the figure was not simple.

He didn't know why, but his first impression of this figure was one of extreme danger, as if a venomous snake was watching them. This sense of danger made him break out in a cold sweat, and the feeling this figure gave him made him uneasy.

"Hello, my name is Qin Feng." Qin Feng looked at the old man in blue robes in front of him and greeted him respectfully.

"Hello." The figure in blue smiled faintly at Qin Feng.

"May I ask who you are?" Jiang Hua stood to the side, looking at the man in blue before him, frowning slightly as he asked. He found this man in blue very strange. Although he didn't recognize him, his intuition told him that this man in blue was definitely not ordinary. "Hehe, young friend, don't worry about my identity." The man in blue shook his head slightly.

"This..." Upon hearing the words of the man in blue, Jiang Hua looked at him in confusion. He really didn't know who this man in blue was.

"Is this your companion?" the figure in blue asked, looking at Qin Feng.

“Yes! His name is Qin Feng, and he’s my brother,” Jiang Hua nodded.

"Alright, then you can go in! Don't go too far. I don't want you to wander off to any other places. This is the tomb of a ghost king. There are many evil spirits here, and they are very powerful. I'm worried you might run into trouble."

Upon hearing Jiang Hua's words, the figure in blue nodded slightly and addressed Qin Feng.

"Thank you for the reminder, senior." Upon hearing the words of the figure in blue, Qin Feng immediately cupped his hands in greeting.

"No need to be polite, young friends. Be careful, this place is not simple." The figure in blue waved slightly at the two of them, then his body flickered and he disappeared from their sight in an instant.

"Who is he?" Jiang Hua frowned and asked in confusion, looking in the direction where the figure in blue had disappeared.

"I don't know. I feel like I've never seen him before, but I sense a very special aura about him, as if it has existed for a long time."

"And it's a feeling I can't describe." Qin Feng frowned and thought for a moment, then slowly said. He felt that this figure seemed to carry a very peculiar aura, a very mysterious one, but it gave people a strong sense of oppression.

"He has a mysterious aura about him. His age, cultivation level, and even temperament are all things I have never seen before. But I always feel like I have seen him somewhere before, but I just can't remember where."

As Qin Feng finished speaking, his expression became serious. A blurry image seemed to flash through his mind, but he couldn't quite grasp it.

"You remembered? Where?" Jiang Hua asked immediately upon hearing Qin Feng's words.

"I don't know either. This person seems a bit mysterious, but I'm sure I've never seen him before. And this aura is also very unfamiliar. It seems to be a very profound aura that I can't sense at all. It's not something I can feel right now."

Qin Feng shook his head in distress, then sighed.

"It seems this figure is no ordinary person. However, since he dares to appear here, he shouldn't harm me. This is a burial ground, and I don't think anyone can find this tomb unless he comes looking for us himself."

After listening to Qin Feng's words, Jiang Hua pondered for a moment and then spoke. At this moment, he had figured out something: there were a total of four tombs in this burial complex.

They only need to find three tombs to enter this ancient tomb. Now that they have found three tombs, they only need to find the fourth one to complete the remaining two.

The fact that this figure in blue was able to appear here indicates that he is quite familiar with the burial complex, and perhaps he even knows the location of these three tombs.

Moreover, judging from his appearance, he didn't seem to have any intention of harming them, so Jiang Hua felt a little relieved.

“I felt that too,” Qin Feng nodded and said.

“In that case, let’s go in! There must be something strange here. We must unravel it quickly and leave this Ghost King’s Tomb as soon as possible,” Jiang Hua said, looking at the two of them.

"Alright!" The two nodded upon hearing this, and then followed Jiang Hua into the tomb. (End of this chapter)