Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 109

It was pitch black all around, so Hu Ming took out his handy flashlight and shone it around.

Then they saw the fat man rubbing his buttocks and crying out in pain, while Hu Bayi had also fallen to the side, dizzy and disoriented, still not having recovered his senses.

Compared to Hu Ming's effortless composure, both of them looked utterly disheveled.

"Are you two alright?" Hu Ming asked hurriedly, while the fat man rubbed his butt and cried out.

"My butt is all bruised and battered," Hu Bayi groaned, clearly having taken a serious fall.

"Alright, no broken bones or legs, what's the big deal if my butt gets bruised? I'm a grown man, I can just bear it." Hu Ming stretched and relaxed his body.

Despite being in a maze, he wasn't afraid at all; on the contrary, he was a little excited.

As long as you complete the system's tasks and explore here, you will receive rewards.

This was something Hu Ming had been looking forward to for a long time, but first they needed to get out of here.

Hu Ming held a flashlight and shone it around.

This is clearly a large natural cave, with countless passages connecting it to various places, truly deserving of the name "Mysterious Cave".

As Hu Ming was pondering his next move, Big Gold Tooth's voice suddenly came from inside the cave.

"Help, help!"

"Oh no, Big Gold Tooth must have run into something bad. Let's go check it out."

Worried that something might have happened to Big Gold Tooth, Hu Bayi and Fatty ignored their sore buttocks and hurriedly went to look for the source of the sound.

But Big Gold Tooth's voice seemed to be moving around, sometimes near, sometimes far.

There are caves everywhere down here, leading in all directions. We can hear his voice, but we can't find him anywhere.

The name "Mysterious Cave" is truly well-deserved.

After wandering around for a while, Hu Ming and the others realized that they seemed to be lost.

"Could we be stuck in a maze?" the fat man said anxiously.

Hu Ming's expression also turned serious.

Their current situation is very bad. Although he is physically strong, he is completely powerless in the face of the current situation.

The place was terrifyingly dark; even the light from a flashlight could only illuminate a small distance, leaving most of the area shrouded in darkness.

Big Gold Tooth's voice still drifted in and out, breaking the silence of the maze.

But for some reason, Hu Ming always felt that Big Gold Tooth's voice had a strange quality to it.

It didn't sound like a human scream; it sounded more like a ghost's cry.

But it also gave him a very familiar feeling, as if Big Gold Tooth was shouting "Help!" in his ear.

A chilling sensation ran down from my ears, penetrating my entire body as if it were bewitching me.

At first, Hu Ming was completely unaware and subconsciously wanted to save Da Jin Ya. It wasn't until he had walked a distance that he came to his senses.

Something was wrong. Realizing this, Hu Ming subconsciously slowed his pace.

Looking back at Fatty and Hu Bayi, the two of them clearly sensed something; Fatty's body was trembling slightly.

It was a suffocating feeling. Suddenly, there was complete silence, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Then, suddenly, Big Gold Tooth's mournful scream rang out, making your heart pound and your soul seem to be called away by the sound.

The next moment, an endless silence returned, as if one were in a void, with nothing at all.

Without sound or movement, the world is nothingness.

"What kind of place is this? Why do I feel so panicked for no reason?"

The fat man cursed, clearly genuinely scared and nervous, trying to dispel his anxiety with words.

Unexpectedly, no sooner had the fat man finished speaking than Hu Ming noticed that the stone in front of him suddenly moved.

The flashlight shone on the stone, revealing a hideous and terrifying human figure, huge and pale, with an eerie aura.

The fat man's mouth opened wide, and he was about to shout.

"Lie..."

Fortunately, Hu Bayi, who was standing nearby, reacted quickly and pressed his mouth shut.

The fat man was terrified, as if his courage had been shattered, and struggled desperately.

"If you don't want to die, don't shout," Hu Ming said in a low voice.

Upon hearing this, the fat man finally came to his senses and stopped struggling.

But those eyes remained as still as those of a dead fish, staring at the figure in front of him, his body frozen in place.

The man's face stared intently at the three of them. Hu Ming's flashlight flickered slightly, its beam illuminating another area.

Only then did they realize that the cave walls ahead were covered with human faces like these.

The faces were densely packed, slightly distorted, all expressionless, with a half-smile, a hint of grotesqueness in their indifference, and they didn't look like normal human faces at all.

The lights were dim. Those bodyless faces seemed to come alive, staring blankly at Hu Ming and the others, as if they were about to pounce on them.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew in, and a series of eerie, whistling sounds echoed from inside the cave.

Hu Ming felt a chill rise up his body, as if some evil spirit in the darkness had entangled him.

The fat man's body trembled uncontrollably. Hu Bayi froze, turned his head with difficulty, and naturally found nothing behind him.

But he always felt that there was a pair of eyes watching them in the darkness.

It wasn't the face in front of me; it felt as if the face in front of me was just a little devil released from the underworld.

Those eyes staring at them from the darkness were the true King of Hell, ready to take them to the underworld at any moment.

This atmosphere is driving me crazy, and I still don't know what the problem is.

Hu Ming knew very well that this feeling was not without reason.

They were trapped here, as if surrounded by ghosts.

No matter where you go, it seems you are walking into the underworld and embarking on the road to the Yellow Springs.

However, is it really okay to just stay here and not move? Countless thoughts flashed through Hu Ming's mind.

He suddenly pulled out his cell phone and quickly lit a candle.

The candlelight flickered.

A strange phenomenon occurred: as the candle was lit, the ghosts in the darkness seemed to recede like a tide.

The feeling of being touched by a ghost disappeared, but the pair of eyes staring at them in the darkness still seemed to remain.

But she seemed to be wary of something and dared not approach. The fat man finally came to his senses.

His body was covered in beads of sweat. It was actually very cold and damp inside, and the temperature was definitely not high; in fact, it was a bit cold.

Hu Bayi looked around; the dim candlelight added a few rays of light to the black hole.

He couldn't help but make a self-deprecating remark.

"I was so reckless that I forgot to light the candles."

The rule in the tomb raiding business is that after entering the tomb, you must first choose a spot and light a candle.

This candle has two uses: one is to test whether there is enough oxygen in the cave.

Of course, this is the modern way of saying it. The ancient way of saying it was "humans light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps."

If the candle goes out, it means that there are still ghosts in the tomb who have not yet left and do not want to be robbed.

In this situation, the tomb raiders would not be able to take anything from the tomb, but would have to retreat the way they came.

Otherwise, bad things will happen.

The more experienced the tomb raider, the more legitimate the tomb raider, the more they will abide by this rule.

They all knew what they could touch and what they couldn't.

But those petty thieves who don't know any better certainly don't care about these things.

They implemented a "three-all" policy: loot everything from the tombs they saw, take everything from the tombs they entered, and destroy everything they couldn't take.

As a genuine tomb raider, Hu Bayi naturally knew the rules.

However, instead of opening the coffin and entering the tomb, they fell into a labyrinthine cave.

Hu Bayi naturally wouldn't think in that direction.

Not to mention, they fell at noon.

The rule for tomb raiders is that they can only raid tombs at night.

You must enter the tomb after dark and return before the rooster crows at dawn.

"When the rooster crows, the lamp is blown out; one should not touch the gold." This is a rule that must be followed.

Since they weren't going down to rob a tomb, they certainly wouldn't have thought of lighting candles; a flashlight would have been much more convenient.

Unexpectedly, the candles that Hu Ming lit had this effect.

The original eerie atmosphere seemed to have receded considerably without anyone noticing.

(End of this chapter)