Tomb raider: You're going to extract my alien bloodline?

Chapter 64 Battle with the Queen Mother of the West

The passage inside the meteorite was narrower than expected. The stone walls were warm to the touch and had a strange elasticity, as if they were not stone but some kind of semi-solidified life form. Pale green light shone from inside the stone walls, illuminating the way ahead.

The passage was not entirely straight and frequently branched off. Qin Yuan did not hesitate and followed the path indicated by the system, using both his hands and feet to quickly climb upwards.

The higher you go, the lower the temperature becomes, but the green light becomes increasingly dazzling, almost dyeing the entire passage a strange emerald color.

He climbed for an unknown amount of time until his hands were empty. He flipped over and leaped out of the passage, landing in a relatively spacious room.

This place was clearly carved and decorated by hand, forming an irregular circle. The walls and dome were inlaid with luminous pearls, and in the center of the room stood a stone pillar about half a person's height, its surface covered with intricate inscriptions. At the top of the pillar was a recess, in which lay a crystal about the size of a fist, its entire surface shimmering with an interwoven halo of dark green and pale gold.

Inside the crystal, countless tiny points of light seemed to flow according to some mysterious law, emitting energy fluctuations that were of the same origin as the ultimate host behind the bronze door and the energy core of Qinling.

The third core module – the Life Blueprint Database!

Qin Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and his gaze quickly swept across the surroundings. This room was less like a tomb and more like an antique laboratory. In addition to the central stone pillar, there were stone platforms and shelves along the walls, on which were scattered some broken pottery jars, jade artifacts, and some metal or bone artifacts whose purpose was completely unidentifiable, resembling tools or instruments.

The air was filled with a musty smell, a mixture of herbs and dust.

After carefully checking, Qin Yuan found no obvious traps or mechanisms in the surroundings, and the stone pillar itself did not show any abnormal energy reaction. Not daring to be careless, Qin Yuan cautiously approached the stone pillar.

One step, two steps... only two or three meters away from the stone pillar. The crystal was so close, its flowing halo almost within reach.

Just as he reached out, about to touch the core module.

"hiss--!!!"

A hiss came from his pocket—it was the pheasant neck that Qin Jiu had tamed! It had been so quiet, like a dead thing, that Qin Yuan had almost forgotten it was there. But now it hissed warningly, its head emerging from his pocket and retreating—a posture of attack.

Qin Yuan felt a chill run down his spine, and almost reflexively, he leaned his body back sharply!

A dark shadow, carrying a foul stench, swept past him, almost touching the tip of his nose! With a sharp crack, it lashed the ground where he had just stood, sending stone chips flying! It was a thick, powerful snake tail covered in dark green scales!

Qin Yuan flipped backward and landed, stabilizing himself. He looked up and his pupils suddenly contracted.

A strange figure slowly emerged from the shadows on one side of the room.

The thing's upper body resembled a woman's, her skin pale and bloodless, even gleaming with a cold, jade-like light. Her features still faintly revealed their former beauty, but now only an inhuman stiffness and emptiness remained. She wore an ancient robe, tattered yet still revealing its magnificent patterns, and a crown inlaid with jewels adorned her head.

However, from the waist down, connected to her was a massive serpent tail, several meters long and as thick as a bucket, covered in interwoven dark blue and dark green scales! The serpent tail coiled on the ground, supporting her upper body as she stood. It was this tail that had attacked Qin Yuan just now.

Human head and snake body!

Her eyes were pure vertical pupils, golden with a hint of murky dark red, and they were fixed intently on Qin Yuan. Her mouth was slightly open, revealing fine, sharp teeth, and she made a hoarse sound in her throat, but she didn't utter a single meaningful word.

"The Queen Mother of the West?" Qin Yuan narrowed his eyes, his pupils behind his sunglasses shrinking uncontrollably into cold, vertical slits. Yes, who else could be here, living in this form, besides the Queen Mother of the West who took the core of the database and conducted thousands of years of insane experiments?

The Queen Mother of the West did not answer. She seemed enraged by Qin Yuan's intrusion. A fierce glint flashed in her vertical pupils, and she leaned forward abruptly, raising her hands. Her fingernails, black and sharp, lashed out at Qin Yuan's face. At the same time, her thick snake tail, like a steel whip, swept across Qin Yuan's lower body from another tricky angle.

Qin Yuan dared not take the attack head-on. He pushed off with his feet and dodged to the side and back. At the same time, he formed his right hand into a claw, and his black fingernails met the incoming claw with a whooshing sound!

"Clang!"

A crisp, metallic clang rang out! Qin Yuan felt an immense force surge from the claw's tip, causing his arm to go slightly numb. He stumbled back two steps to dissipate the impact. The Queen Mother of the West's claws were as hard as iron!

The snake's tail swept across, and Qin Yuan ducked to avoid it. The tail grazed his back, and the force of the wind made his skin sting. He took the opportunity to kick the middle of the Queen Mother of the West's snake body, using the momentum to create distance again, but the scales covering the snake's body were slippery and tough, so the kick had little effect.

With a roar, the Queen Mother of the West pounced again. Her speed was extremely fast and her strength was astonishing. With the flexible coiling and whipping of her snake tail, she actually forced Qin Yuan into a somewhat disheveled state in this not-so-large space.

"Damn it..." Qin Yuan was also enraged. He hadn't fully recovered from the blood loss he had suffered, and he didn't want to exchange injuries for injuries again. Fighting the enemy with blood would result in a thousand injuries to the enemy and eight hundred injuries to himself, which was not worth it at all.

But he knew that the Queen Mother of the West had maintained this half-dead state for thousands of years by some unknown method, and her strength was not to be underestimated. If he continued to hold back like this, he probably wouldn't be able to deal with her in a short time.

Once again, he was struck on the side by a fierce tail whip from the Queen Mother of the West. Although the force was absorbed, the huge impact still made him groan and his body flew backward, about to crash into the hard stone wall.

Just as they were about to collide, a fierce glint flashed in Qin Yuan's eyes. He forcefully twisted his body in mid-air and slammed his feet against the wall!

"Bang!" Tiny cracks appeared on the stone wall from being stepped on.

In the instant he used the rebound to his advantage, he no longer controlled the power belonging to his bloodline!

"roar--!!"

A low, inhuman roar erupted from the depths of his throat, his vertical pupils became fully visible, and his already black fingernails grew even longer, their edges even gleaming with a metallic sheen.

The muscles in his chest and back bulged and writhed unnaturally, and a jet-black biological armor spread outwards. Several sharp, black bone spikes pierced through his clothing, protruding menacingly! At the same time, a violent cracking sound came from his tailbone, and a tail covered with dark joints, its tip sharp as a spear, lashed out and slammed heavily into the ground.

The Queen Mother of the West's attack came again, her sharp claws aimed straight for Qin Yuan's throat. Qin Yuan neither dodged nor evaded, his left arm, covered in bone armor, blocked the attack with a clang, deflecting the claws. His right hand, with its five fingers like daggers, stabbed fiercely into the Queen Mother of the West's chest.

The Queen Mother of the West's vertical pupils contracted, seemingly not expecting Qin Yuan's change to be so sudden. Her snake tail hurriedly returned to defend, coiling towards Qin Yuan's waist in an attempt to stop him.

But Qin Yuan's tail moved! It shot out like lightning, wrapping around the sweeping snake tail. At the same time, Qin Yuan's right claw continued its momentum, and with a soft thud, it pierced deep into the heart of the Queen Mother of the West in her astonished gaze!

Thick, pungent blood gushed out instantly!