Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 144 Tai Sui
Hu Ming saw that there were six mermaids hanging on the wall in front of him, but they were just ordinary ever-burning lamps.

Then, he turned around and walked towards the rear hall of the tomb.

The rear hall was also strange; its structure was completely different from the front tomb chamber, and even the building materials were odd.

The surrounding area was all white stone, and there wasn't a single piece of brick or wood.

The walls are covered with murals, and although thousands of years have passed, the colors are still faintly discernible.

The figures depicted on the murals are all wrathful Vajras, life-size, with several of them looking down at them as if they were also watching them.

At this moment, Hu Bayi realized that no matter what angle he stood at, when he looked up, he felt that the King Kong on the wall could also see him.

Moreover, the eyes of those Vajra figures are inlaid with something like crystal, making them look incredibly realistic and gleaming with a cold light.

As Hu Bayi watched and stared at it for a long time, he began to have a very bad feeling.

At that moment, he felt a chill run down his spine.

However, the fat man didn't care much. In the blink of an eye, he had already pried out two eyeballs and put them in his bag.

In a corner of the rear hall, they also discovered a strange little tomb chamber, which was very simple and empty.

However, there was a box in the middle of the small tomb chamber, and Hu Ming had a strange feeling after entering the small tomb chamber.

He could sense the presence of plants nearby.

But after entering this place, his senses suddenly became stronger, but when he looked around, there wasn't a single plant in sight.

They're just walls...

"By the way, you guys were saying that the head in the box might be the head of the King of Xian?" the fat man said, already stepping forward and opening the box in the middle of the tomb.

At this moment, it was too late for Hu Bayi to speak up and stop it. But to everyone's surprise, Fatty had actually guessed correctly this time. The square box contained a human head!
However, there was something strange about the head.

The areas where facial features used to be on the head have melted away, leaving the face completely obscured and the features so blurred they've become distorted.

"Hiss! Good heavens, is this the head of the King of Xian? The more I look at it, the more it looks like the head of an octopus!" The fat man was also startled by the strange head in the box.

Soon, the box lid was closed again after the fat man left. Seeing this, Hu Ming wanted to take the head back and put it on the corpse so that it would be a complete body.

but……

Unexpectedly, the fat man's recklessness in opening the box triggered a mechanism in the tomb.

Suddenly, a lot of liquid seeped out from the surrounding walls. At the same time, the walls slowly softened because of the liquid.

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming immediately realized what was happening, but he cursed under his breath, "Damn it! How could I forget that this place was supposed to be a shell of a Tai Sui!"
Now, the fat man has triggered the mechanism, and Tai Cui is about to come back to life. No wonder he sensed the aura of a plant as soon as he entered, thanks to his bloodline power.

It turns out this Tai Sui (a type of rare fungus) isn't quite dead yet! At the same time, the box containing the head of the King of Xian in the center of the tomb is slowly moving downwards as the surrounding walls soften...

In an instant, the entire tomb chamber was covered with this yellow liquid.

The yellow liquid had already stuck to the soles of Hu Ming's shoes where they were standing. As more and more of the liquid accumulated, he began to smell a very strange odor.

Seeing the box slowly moving downwards, Yang Xueli couldn't help but shout, "The box! The box!"

At that moment, Hu Ming swiftly used a grappling hook attached to a grappling hook to grab the box in the center of the tomb, and the head of the King of Xian was in his hands.

"Withdraw!" Hu Ming said.
Soon, the group quickly left the tomb. Fatty and Hu Bayi, before they could even figure out what had happened, followed Hu Ming out.

As soon as they came out, they looked back and saw that the walls of the narrow tomb chamber behind them had become soft due to the seepage of liquid.

The entire tomb chamber seemed to come alive, as if something inside was struggling to escape. Then, countless human hands grew from the walls, waving in the air as if trying to grab something.

Fortunately, Hu Ming and the others arrived in time. At this moment, the fat man couldn't help but take another look. He was so surprised that he couldn't speak and stammered.

"Mingzi! What's going on? What's happening?"

Hu Ming glanced at the tomb chamber behind him. He saw that the chamber, having come to life, was secreting more fluid. The surrounding white walls were also about to awaken.

"Are there rice dumplings inside this wall?" Hu Bayi asked, his brows furrowing slightly.

Upon hearing the word "zongzi," the fat man's expression immediately changed...

"Akiko, what's going on with the wall?"

"It's a long story. This thing must be a Tai Sui, thousands of years old, it's never died! If I'm not mistaken, the King of Xian wanted to fuse his head with this Tai Sui!"

"There are some things we need to discuss outside first! This isn't the time to talk about this..."

As he spoke, Hu Ming quickly ran towards the front hall. He remembered that the walls there were not white, so it was not part of the Tai Sui.

The fat man was still thinking about the jade stones and funerary objects in the back hall, and couldn't resist the urge to take them with him.

At this moment, seeing the fat man dawdling, Hu Bayi couldn't help but shout angrily, "Stop taking it, Fatty! Is your life more important or the funerary object? If you don't leave, that thing will catch up with us!"

The fat man thought for a moment, not thinking that this so-called Tai Sui was anything special, and said unhurriedly, "What's there to be afraid of? It's not a giant zombie. If you push me too far, I'll burn it all to the ground!"

Hu Ming glared at the fat man, then stopped and said anxiously, "You fatso, this thing is nothing like a rice dumpling. It's incompatible with water and fire, and it can grow indefinitely. Your tricks won't work here at all! I won't stop you if you want to die!"

"Is it really that strange?" The fat man had just finished speaking.

Hu Ming then snatched the shovel from his hand and threw it into the tomb.

By this time, the tomb chambers had grown together, turning into a moving mass of flesh. When the entrenching tool was thrown, it was immediately pulled into it.

The fat man only heard a few scraping sounds of metal against metal, and then he saw the entrenching tool bend and shredded, becoming one with the Tai Sui.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that monster?!"

Seeing it with his own eyes, the fat man finally felt scared. He didn't care about the funerary objects he hadn't taken from the back hall yet. He grabbed his backpack and quickly ran towards the tomb chamber in the front hall.

(End of this chapter)