Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 154 Heading to the Kunlun Glacier
Hu Ming didn't want to say anything more about what Lei Xianming had said.

Anyway, if someone wants to die, you can't stop them. In fact, Hu Ming was even thinking about whether to use dirty tricks to kill this guy.

However, this trip is indeed necessary, since the passage to Evil Luo Sea City is located at the very bottom of the Nine-Story Demon Tower beneath the Kunlun Glacier.

So, things really are quite coincidental in this world. Just when Hu Bayi and the others were struggling to find any clues, Lei Xianming came knocking on their door with the ancient scriptures of the Samsara Sect, which were clues to the Demon Kingdom's mausoleum.

Or perhaps this is the great author's peculiar taste...?
Hu Bayi and his companions knew that the nine-story demon tower in the Kunlun Glacier was connected to the Demon Kingdom.

Therefore, when Lei Xianming brought it up, the group exchanged glances and reached an agreement: the news about the Corpse-Suppressing Mirror came from Panjiayuan.

Lei Xianming didn't know the fat man at all. After asking around and not being able to find him, he happened to run into Chen Yulou, a fortune teller.

People in Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Southeast Asia firmly believe in this.

Therefore, after being thoroughly fooled by Chen Yulou, Lei Mingxian finally turned to Fatty Hu Ming and the others.

Chen Yulou made it clear to Lei Xianming that the corpse-suppressing mirror was something Hu Ming and his group had taken from the tomb of the Prince of Xian.

Lei Xianming then came to his door specifically by name.

Of course, adhering to the principle of mutual flattery in business, Chen Yulou praised Hu Ming and the others to the skies.

Before leaving, to show his sincerity in cooperating, Lei Xianming gave the group two valuable pieces of sea-borne stone as a deposit.

After leaving Lei Xianming's courtyard house, Hu Ming said goodbye to Hu Bayi and the others, as he wanted to go find Chen Yulou.

Hu Ming knew that, if things went as they did in the original story, Hu Bayi would probably go to Baiyun Mountain and encounter Zhang Sanlianzi's descendants.

That's quite an extraordinary person. Feng shui and the I Ching have always been inseparable, and all feng shui masters are also rare masters of the I Ching.

Hu Ming remembered that Hu Bayi's trip seemed to have been guided by this expert's casual divination, which revealed that the path to survival for the Ghost Eye Curse lay in the West, coinciding with their target, the Demon Kingdom.

This was the final straw that broke Hu Bayi's back as he headed to the Kunlun Glacier.

After all, the Kunlun Glacier held too many tragic memories for Huba.

Unless absolutely necessary, Hu Bayi has no desire to set foot on that land again.

Just after Hu Bayi set off, the group was busy preparing supplies for their journey to the Kunlun Glacier.

Suddenly, some strange changes occurred in Hu Ming.

The reward for raiding the King Xian's tomb has arrived, and there's only one—three Great Rejuvenation Pills.
Hu Ming had taken one pill in the past few days, which greatly increased his strength and also cleansed his marrow once again, making him a true pretty boy.

As a result, he was often teased by Hu Bayi and Fatty. There was nothing he could do about it, since Hu Ming's skin was whiter and more delicate than Yang Xueli's, which made Yang Xueli jealous.

After everyone had finished getting everything ready, Hu Ming drew more than a dozen paper talismans for each of them.

After Hu Ming finished, he no longer hesitated.

They immediately began to ramp up preparations for the supplies to enter Xinjiang.

There are no historical records about the Demon Kingdom; information about it is only found in the "Poems of King Wu Xun, the Precious Pearl of Subduing Enemies" spoken by the local divinely ordained singers. Therefore, after everything was ready, the group decided to first enter Xinjiang and find Huba, a lama friend they had met during their service on the Kunlun Glacier, on the banks of the Latsolam River.

The lama named Ak was a divinely ordained poet.

In western Xinjiang, the Tianshou poets are a very special group.

Poets who are well-versed in the ancient stories of the Western Frontier are all born with this knowledge; it is not a matter of passing down knowledge from father to son or from master to apprentice. Rather, it is because some people suddenly have millions of words of ancient stories in their minds after recovering from a serious illness.

It's quite amazing; no one can say for sure where these ancient tales and poems that suddenly appear in these people's minds come from. Perhaps it's a sudden awakening of "pre-existing wisdom," or perhaps...

A gift from the gods! Therefore, since Hu Ming came into this world, he has long since abandoned the materialistic ideas of his previous life.

In conclusion, in this world where tomb raiding has become a part of reality, science truly cannot explain everything.

There are always some things in this world that make even the most scientifically minded people question the strange existence of life.

Of course, in order to successfully find the location of the Demon Kingdom, the ancient scriptures and materials in Lei Xianming's possession are indispensable.

"Mr. Hu Ming, look, we're about to set off. That ancient mirror used by the Legalists to suppress corpses..."

"It's not that I'm cowardly, but the locals treat the glacial crystal corpse with such mystique, claiming that everyone who has ever come close to it has died. Without that artifact to suppress the corpse, I'm still uneasy!"

In Lei Xianming's courtyard house, several people gathered together. Before setting off, Lei Xianming still asked with some reluctance.

Beside him, besides his woman Han Shuna, were his goddaughter A Xiang, his henchman Dongzi, and a bodyguard of Chinese descent from Jianpu Village named Peter Huang…

Well, Hu Ming meant no offense, but in his mind, this name really did sound like a dog's name...

"Don't worry, we don't have the Legalist Corpse-Suppressing Mirror anymore, but we still have a set of the Thirty-Six Corpse-Suppressing Needles used by our early tomb raiding captains. It's also a divine artifact for suppressing corpses. It will guarantee that you can safely carry that crystal corpse back to Hong Kong."

This set of the Thirty-Six Star-Shaped Corpse-Suppressing Needles was sent urgently from Yang Xueli's home in the United States; it is an authentic item left behind by Partridge Whistle.

Hu Ming looked at Lei Xianming with a standard, polite smile on his face.

You think you can carry the crystal corpse home? You should know that none of the extras who accompany Hu Bayi on his tomb raiding expeditions have ever survived.

Simply put, Hu Bayi's fate is too strong. If someone's birth chart is not strong, and they insist on joining him in the dangerous work of tomb raiding, they will only face certain death.

"However, I would like to offer you a word of advice: our destination is the Xinjiang Plateau, where the average altitude is over four thousand meters."

"We will be staying on the Xinjiang Plateau for quite some time this time. Those who are not physically fit could very well die from altitude sickness."

"Leaving aside your henchmen and bodyguards, you actually brought your family along, including your woman and goddaughter. Are you afraid they won't die soon enough?"

Hu Ming's main focus was on A Xiang, the timid goddaughter next to Lei Xianming.

Ah Xiang looks to be under twenty years old. She was adopted by Lei Xianming when she was a child.

Due to certain human factors, Ah Xiang's eyes are quite unique, allowing her to see things that ordinary people cannot see. She has always been regarded as the apple of Lei Xianming's eye and his right-hand woman.

(End of this chapter)