Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 173 The Dap Firefly in Ice Form, the God of Poverty

Those above naturally saw this scene as well.

Yang Xueli couldn't resist and nimbly swung down the rope.

"If nothing unexpected happens, this should be a current leader of the Samsara Sect."

"There is a nine-story demon tower buried in the glacier. For the people of the Samsara Sect, this must be an invaluable holy land. Their sect leaders were likely buried here after their deaths. This is probably just one of them."

After careful examination and a moment's thought, Hu Bayi came to a conclusion.

"Yes, those people kneeling and worshipping around us must be believers in the doctrine of reincarnation."

"This must be a special ice cellar tomb! According to the scroll, there must be burial goods of the tomb owner under the ice. Maybe we can find some clues about the Nine-Story Demon Tower!"

Yang Xueli's eyes lit up, and she said with delight.

"More than just clues, if all goes well, we can even deduce the exact location of the Nine-Story Demon Tower based on this tomb!"

Hu Ming, who was standing to the side, also affirmed this.

Seeing this, the group exchanged glances and made no further hesitation.

He instructed Chu Yi and Fatty to set up camp on the spot and be on guard against the unknown dangers inside the glacier.

Lei Xianming and his group prepared dinner.

By this time, it was already getting dark. After a simple dinner, Hu Ming, Hu Bayi, and Yang Xueli went back into the ice cellar tomb and started digging again!
Despite Hu Bayi and Fatty's insistence, a tallow candle was lit in the southeast corner of the ice cellar.

They spread a layer of ginger juice on the ice on the ground.

After all, the ice here has been frozen for who knows how many years in this environment, and it is incredibly hard.

Without ginger juice to melt the ice, simply digging out the body would be extremely difficult.

In the short time it took for the group to smoke a cigarette, the ginger juice had almost completely soaked in.

Hu Ming and his group then used ice chisels and pneumatic drills to start digging.

With the help of ginger juice, it didn't take long to dig out a square ice sheet.

The ancient corpse beneath the ice was enormous, far exceeding the size of a normal human.

Upon closer inspection, the ancient corpse was covered with a thick, hard callus.

Seeing this, Hu Ming simply used the dragon-patterned cloud knife to cut an opening in the shell.

Suddenly, under the artificial light, a ravaged golden hue appeared inside.

It's as if this is a corpse made of gold.

"Tsk, this is a golden mummy from the snow-capped mountains!"

Although he had expected it, Hu Ming still couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene.

To be honest, this thing is quite exquisite. As long as you don't mind the stench, you can bring it home and treat it as a rare work of art.

"A golden mummy from the snow-capped mountains? What is that?"

"But Mingzi, this corpse looks almost like gold, it must be very valuable, right?"

The fat man was taken aback and asked out of curiosity.

"Before? Of course it was valuable. As long as you could find a buyer overseas, it would be easy to sell it for a million."

“But don’t even think about selling it in China. We don’t collect such filthy things here.” Hu Ming shook his head, his right fingers tracing over the corpse and the hard shell, carefully sensing it.

"Then forget it... No matter how unethical we brothers are, we can't sell our country's good stuff to foreigners."

"We can handle whatever we want domestically, but we can't let those bastards benefit from it."

Upon hearing this, the light in the fat man's eyes dimmed, and he said listlessly.

Despite his greed, Fatty is surprisingly decisive when it comes to matters of principle.

"Mingzi, there seems to be something else down there. It should be the burial goods of this golden rice dumpling..."

At this moment, Hu Bayi, shining a searchlight at the ice, spoke up.

Below, there were many things that were vaguely visible, but the ice layer was quite thick, so they couldn't be seen clearly for a while.

As he spoke, Hu Bayi applied another layer of ginger juice, held the ice pick in both hands, and waited for the right moment to insert it.

“The things down there… don’t rush, Lao Hu, you take Yang Xueli and Fatty up first.”

“My intuition tells me there’s something dangerous down there. The space here is cramped, and if something goes wrong, we won’t be able to move around freely.”

However, Hu Ming frowned slightly and stopped Hu Bayi's actions.

If Hu Ming remembered correctly, there should only be one blue, high-temperature fire pillar here. As long as you look closely, there shouldn't be any danger.

But now, Hu Ming's intuition is frantically alarming him.

It seemed as if there was some extremely terrifying danger hidden inside this ice layer.

Danger? The three men's expressions turned serious.

They had witnessed Hu Ming's irrational intuition far too many times.

"Don't worry, once you go up there, it will clear some space for me, and I'll have room to fight if there's any danger."

Seeing the worried expressions on the three people's faces, Hu Ming felt a warmth in his heart and gently offered some words of advice.

After the three of them climbed up one by one, Hu Ming, holding an ice pick, took a deep breath and thrust it into the ice layer that had been almost melted by the ginger juice.

"Everyone, step back! Get out of the cave!"

The moment the iron rod pierced the ice, a huge blue flame suddenly erupted from the ice beneath the golden mummy on the snow mountain, shooting straight into the sky from the ice cisterns.

Hu Ming knew that this was a fire mechanism left in the ice cellar tomb. The temperature was extremely high, and it could burn a living person to ashes in a short time.

In the Demon Kingdom, and in the Samsara Sect's view, blue flames are special; they are boundless karmic fire.

It is a legendary, terrifying flame that can burn even the soul to ashes.

Those above reacted quickly to avoid the cave entrance, and Hu Ming also moved instantly, clinging to the ice wall to avoid being affected by the flames.

only……

Even at this moment, Hu Ming's intuition was still frantically alarming him; in fact, the sense of danger hadn't diminished at all, but had become even stronger!
Hu Ming drew his dragon-patterned cloud-swirling blade from behind his back and looked warily at the dark blue pillar of fire.

Inside, there were eerie blue specks of light, like ancient ice, flickering within the pillar of fire!
"Damn it, it's the Dap Firefly in its ice form!"

With his excellent eyesight, Hu Ming squinted and discerned the true nature of the dark blue light.

There were five Dap Fireflies inside the pillar of fire, three of which drifted toward Hu Ming's direction.

The other two, however, flew towards the cave entrance, propelled by pillars of blue fire!
(End of this chapter)