Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 161

The walls were covered with holes of all sizes.

The smaller ones are only big enough for small animals like muskrats to crawl on, while the larger ones are big enough for a Tibetan macaque (a bear with a face like a horse) to move around freely!
"Mingzi, Lao Hu, take a look, what kind of skin is this?"

Hu Ming and Hu Bayi were observing the terrain when the fat man next to them suddenly shouted.

The fat man pulled out a large piece of skin covered in black hair from under his feet.

Hu Ming took it and glanced at it, then said calmly, "This is human skin."

"Human skin? That shouldn't be possible. How could there be such exaggerated black hair on human skin?" Hu Bayi asked, stunned and puzzled.

It wasn't that he didn't trust Hu Ming, but this skin didn't look like human skin at all; it should have looked like the fur of a large, hairy animal.

"These furs are no ordinary things... they're definitely not good stuff!"

As he spoke, Hu Ming shook the black fur skin, and a skull that was only half intact fell out.

However, this thing has an astonishingly thick bone layer, and it doesn't look like a human skull at all.

It even feels somewhat soft to the touch, unlike hard bones at all.

The searchlight shone on it, and upon closer inspection, the skull was covered with dense writing.

"This is Portuguese!"

"I think it's probably something left behind by some unlucky guy who came here to explore before."

Hu Ming squinted at it and said with certainty.

In terms of writing... Hu Ming really doesn't have any talent, and he knows this very well. Back in his previous life, when he was in college, he studied hard every day, but he still couldn't even pass the CET-4 (College English Test Band 4).
In this life, he relied on a good memory and rote memorization to learn English quite well, much better than in his previous life. However, Hu Ming had no intention of learning other languages, and besides, not many people in China were learning foreign languages ​​these days.

It has to be admitted that talent is a really interesting thing.

Hu Ming is exceptionally talented in fighting, but when it comes to language... (emmm, it's a long story).
Although he didn't know Portuguese, he had seen some of it in his previous life, so he could still tell that the characters were Portuguese.

"What explorers? Damn it, they're just a bunch of foreign thieves!"

"Their country is dirt poor, so they come to our country to steal the gold and silver treasures left by our ancestors. Those bastards, this ancient city ruins must have been emptied by these people!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man said with particular displeasure.

In the fat man's opinion, if it weren't for these foreign thieves blocking the royal city ruins, all the gold and silver treasures here would have been his.

Aside from Hu Ming, Hu Bayi, and Yang Xueli, the rest of the people, even Big Gold Tooth, would fight back fiercely if anyone dared to rob him of money!
"No, I estimate that when these Portuguese arrived, the ancient city ruins were already empty."

Hu Ming knew the fat man well enough to know what he was thinking. He shook his head with a smile and said, "I heard from the lama that there used to be people living around here. Most of the good things in the ancient city were probably taken away by the local residents long ago."

"After all, several hundred years have passed. What good things could they possibly have left for these foreign thieves? When they came, they probably found nothing but an empty city, just like we did."

Hu Ming squinted at the vertical shaft above him. Judging from the decorations at the end, it must be the royal palace. This poor grape, it must have accidentally fallen down and become food for Baru, the Sin Eater.

I just don't know who left those words on his skull.

However, none of that matters anymore. What matters is that Hu Ming knows that there are several layers of paper pasted on the top of his head, and inside that lies an important map!
This map was indispensable for their trip.

He tossed the black fur in his hand, sensing the alarm coming from his intuition.

A sinister smile crept across Hu Ming's lips. He had decided to use this thing to trick someone.

Hu Ming first closed his eyes, allowing his spiritual energy to gather in them, and then opened them.

If someone looked closely at Hu Ming's eyes, they would find that his black pupils had transformed into a pair of golden dragon eyes.

Hu Ming, however, found that his field of vision had suddenly changed.

A thin layer of black mist had appeared in the surrounding environment, and within it, the shapes of people and animals were constantly coalescing and dissipating.

Without exception, these illusory figures all wore expressions of horror, fear, despair, and other negative emotions.

Looking down again, the black fur in his hand was covered with an extremely dense black aura.

Hu Ming raised an eyebrow at this, and then Hu Bayi chimed in, "Alright, Mingzi, let's go back first. Let's show this to Shirley; she might know some Portuguese."

Hu Ming nodded in agreement, after all, Yang Xueli's academic background was not simple.

Then he used the strange human skin to re-wrap the skull, and the three of them left one after the other.

The bright moon hangs high in the night sky; it is midnight.

Before leaving, they also moved the golden Buddha statue back to its original place. This time, even Fatty didn't clamor to take the golden Buddha statue with him. He just glanced at it with regret and then left with the Hu brothers, Hu Bayi and Hu Ming.

Indeed, this golden Buddha statue is quite large, at least half a person's height, and incredibly heavy.

The journey ahead is long, and carrying such a heavy vehicle is not a good idea.

This suggests that Dongzi, that scoundrel, probably intended to keep or hide the golden Buddha statue after obtaining it.

"This kind of scoundrel deserves to die. It's true what they say: birds die for food, and people die for money."

Hu Bayi glanced at Dongzi's mangled body, shook his head expressionlessly, and stopped paying attention. He didn't even have the slightest thought of collecting the body. This was his own doing, and he had no one else to blame but himself.

With the Lunar New Year approaching, there are many things to do at home.

Tomorrow I have to go fishing with my father again, and I also have to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner the day after tomorrow. There's a lot to do.

Therefore, the update time will be later.

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(End of this chapter)