Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 141 Crossing the Bridge
After waiting for a while, Hu Ming suddenly remembered that he still had a gas mask in his spatial storage.

Then he casually pulled out a gas mask. Yang Xueli was stunned when she saw this. She didn't know where Hu Ming had taken out a gas mask, but since Hu Bayi and Fatty didn't ask, she didn't ask any more questions.

"Alright, you can go in now. Remember to wear your gas masks! Don't take them off!"

"Damn it, Mingzi, you brought gas masks and you still made us wait?" the fat man said, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Cough cough, I was just worried that there was too much poison gas inside and the gas mask wouldn't be effective..." Hu Ming wouldn't say that he had forgotten about this.

"Really?" the fat man asked, somewhat incredulous.

"Alright, Fatty, it's all your fault. How did you lose our gas masks after we came in?" Hu Bayi glared at Fatty, annoyed.

"Uh..." The fat man was speechless for a moment, after all, it was indeed because he had accidentally lost the bag containing the gas mask while crossing the river.

Moreover, given the current situation, they dare not go back to retrieve it.

After putting on gas masks, the group entered through the Heavenly Gate. Standing on the stone gate and looking down, they saw a vast array of bronze figures and chariots neatly arranged below, their sheer number astonishing.

"Wow! This Prince Xian is something else!"

"This specification is truly rare!" the fat man exclaimed in surprise after taking a look.
Looking down, Hu Ming saw that the bronze figures were exquisitely crafted, with dignified expressions, truly giving the impression of guarding the tomb.

Soon, they slowly descended from Tianmen using climbing ropes, passing through the terracotta warriors.

"Old Hu, is it just my imagination? It seems like the further we go in, the narrower the path gets!"

The fat man noticed something was wrong after walking for a short while.

Hu Bayi nodded and said, "It's not an illusion; it's just that the space here is narrow because grottoes have been built on both sides to store burial objects!"

"Funerary items! Where are they?" The fat man's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing this.

Hu Ming, standing to the side, casually pointed and said, "They're all in the grottoes on both sides, but there's nothing much to see. Most of the burial objects here aren't worth much!"

"Heh heh, if you want good stuff, you'll have to look inside the coffin of the King of Xian!"

"Really? Is it fake?" At this moment, the fat man was still peering into the caves, and finally Hu Bayi pulled the fat man over and asked.

Hey! You still won't give up?

"Just listen to Mingzi! He's always right!"

"And look at you, so naive and unsophisticated! What's so great about that junk? We're here to raid tombs, not to collect garbage!"

The fat man thought it made sense, so he stopped insisting on those few grottoes where the burial goods were placed.

After passing through the narrow tomb passage, there is a bridge at the end.

The bridge is small, short and narrow, and the water under it looks murky and yellowish, clearly stagnant.

The fat man looked at it curiously and asked, "What's this for?"

Hu Ming looked around and replied, "It should be the Bridge of Three Lifetimes. Legend has it that after death, people ascend to become immortals by crossing this bridge; it symbolizes leaving behind the mortal world and then being reborn as carefree immortals!"

"Nonsense! Crossing this bridge makes you a god?"

"If all of us go, wouldn't we all be immortals?" the fat man said, naturally not believing it.

Hu Bayi laughed and said, "What are you thinking! They're saying you cross the bridge after you die. Why don't you die first?"

"Get out!"

The fat man glared at Hu Bayi, then said, "What do you mean by 'dead or not'? You really want me to die here? What bad luck!"

"But Mingzi, have you been here before?" "No!" Hu Ming was taken aback, then replied.
"Then how do you know so much?"

Hu Ming smiled and said, "I'm only somewhat knowledgeable about feng shui. Besides, it's not a great skill; even I, Old Hu, know these things!"

"Oh..." the fat man looked at Hu Bayi with some suspicion.

Seeing the fat man's strange look, Hu Bayi said irritably, "Mingzi and I both learned feng shui from our old man. Do you think we're all like you, knowing nothing?"

Seeing this, Yang Xueli smiled, then pointed to a white wall in front of the Three Lives Bridge and asked, "Since Lao Hu knows, what's the significance of that wall in front?"

Hu Bayi glanced at it, frowned slightly, and replied, "There's no particular explanation for that. However, judging from the scale of this place, the coffin of the Prince of Xian should be located after crossing the bridge."

"However, all the animals on this bridge are in pairs, with both male and female."

"So there might have been two people placed in the coffin."

“This is a joint burial tomb!” Hu Bayi told them what he knew.

"It's just past the bridge?" Yang Xueli asked, somewhat surprised and incredulous.

Hu Ming, standing to the side, raised an eyebrow and looked at Yang Xueli, saying, "Otherwise what?"

Soon, after crossing the Three Lives Bridge, the view ahead became more open, and Yang Xueli felt an inexplicable excitement.

This place shows that the caves here are naturally formed, but there are also traces of human development later on.

However, these are all just modifications made to the natural caves.

The surrounding walls were all white, even the top of the hole was the same.

There was a door in the white wall, but it was sealed off.

At this moment, Hu Ming stepped forward and took a look. The door was made of wood and had a total of thirteen copper nails on it.

Fortunately, it was a wooden door, and by now it was almost completely rotten. The fat man easily pried it open with a black folding tool.

The door opened, and a cloud of dust drifted in, causing everyone to step back.

At this moment, with the Muchen Pearl in her mind, Yang Xueli lifted her leg to walk inside.

"Hey! Where are you going!" Seeing this, Hu Bayi, who had been keeping an eye on Yang Xueli, quickly pulled her back and said.

"Shirley, why are you walking in like that?"

"Are you out of your mind?" Hu Bayi said, then winked at Hu Ming and said, "Mingzi, go check and see if there are any traps or mechanisms!"

"Hmm," Hu Ming nodded and threw a stone into the tomb from the entrance to test it.

As soon as the stone entered the tomb, several "whoosh" sounds suddenly came from inside, followed by the clanging of arrows falling to the ground.

"Damn! There really is a mechanism!" The fat man was dumbfounded when he saw it.

If you're not careful, you'll definitely be shot into a giant hedgehog by those crossbowmen.

Looking through the tomb door, there was clearly nothing inside; the fat man couldn't even see where the arrow had come from.

Hearing the voices inside, Hu Ming calmly said to the people behind him, "Old Hu, there's a mechanism box at both the nine o'clock and twelve o'clock positions!"

Hu Bayi and the others nodded. After Hu Ming made a note of it, he tried it a few more times and only went inside after confirming that there were only these two crossbow traps.

(End of this chapter)