Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 184 Corpse
Kaka…

Just as the group was about to take a break, a strange phenomenon suddenly caught their attention.

In a corner of this space, there was a hole blocked by stones, which suddenly emitted a strange sound.

The sound was like something pushing stones inside.

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming and the others quickly stood up, picked up their weapons, and looked over warily.

The stone kept shaking and was finally pushed out. What was inside was not a snake, rat, insect, or ant, but a green vine.

At the top of the vine, a red flower the size of a large bowl bloomed instantly.

Hu Ming's heart skipped a beat; he suddenly remembered.

Looking back at Ah Xiang, who was still fast asleep, Hu Ming hesitated for a moment, then decided not to wake her. With a thought, he activated his "Golden Eyes".

In an instant, Hu Ming's vision changed. It was no longer green vines and fiery red flowers, but the corpse of a man covered in blood. At that moment, the big red flower also changed.

It suddenly bore fruit!
This thing grows at an unusually fast rate; in the blink of an eye, it has already completed the process of flowering and fruiting.

At the top of the green vines, the fiery red flowers had already withered and fallen.

It was hanging with a fruit that looked like a longan.

Hu Ming stepped forward and smashed the fruit with an entrenching tool. Inside, it was filled with a dark red liquid that looked like human blood. Further inside was a small piece of flesh, which, upon closer inspection, was clearly human flesh.

"This is the giant corpse of the Black Tortoise, the blood bait for the Fruit of Life!"

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming and Hu Bayi's expressions turned serious, and they sighed in unison.

"The Black Tortoise Corpse? The Fruit of Life? Blood Bait?"

What are all these things?

Yang Xueli was stunned; she had never heard of any of these things before.

Looking at Hu Bayi and Hu Ming's expressions, the doubts in his heart almost reached their peak.

"In the art of feng shui, some extraordinary things will happen in places with special circumstances."

"Kunlun is the origin of all dragon veins in the world, and this place is the peak of the ancestral dragon. The abundance of vital energy here is simply astonishing."

"However, excessive vitality is not necessarily a good thing. Corpses buried in certain special locations may become immortal and undergo some strange changes."

"This situation is also known as the Xuanwu Giant Corpse. The living fruit that keeps growing blood bait is one of the possible scenarios."

"In the doctrine of Samsara, burying a body in this special place where vital energy gathers will make it immortal, thus proving their doctrine of eternal life."

Hu Ming pondered for a moment.

Hu Ming's gaze fell on the low passageway revealed behind the stone platform next to him, and he felt a little tempted.

"Mingzi, didn't you and Lao Hu say before that the feng shui in XJ is unique and completely different from that in the Central Plains?"

"Could it be... that this isn't a place where vital energy gathers, but rather a demon's lair or a ghost's den?"

The fat man swallowed hard, gripped his steel gun tightly, and looked warily at the hole, fearing that some demon or monster might suddenly emerge from it.

"No, I won't!"

"The feng shui theories of the Central Plains and the esoteric feng shui of Xinjiang are quite different in concept, but they are both objective summaries and classifications of mountains, rivers, dragon towers and palaces."

"It's just that later generations have different understandings of this objective law. The vital energy gathers here, and even if it's esoteric feng shui, it wouldn't be described as a demon's lair or a ghost's lair." Hu Ming shook his head. As he spoke, Hu Ming had already arrived at the low passage and kicked away the stone platform blocking the way.

When the searchlight shone inside, it revealed a curved, sloping area.

After glancing at the sleeping Ah Xiang, the four of them reached a tacit agreement not to wake her.

Anyway, Ah Xiang's role... overlaps with Hu Ming's.

Moreover, this is a place of sacrifice, and the movement of the vines is the best evidence of that.

After the vine tip reached inside, it only produced flowers and fruit.

Not long after, it shrank back on its own.

It's safe here.

After putting on gas masks, the group bent over and crawled into the passage one by one.

This passage wasn't long; after circling around a small part of it, we arrived at a larger domed cave space.

The exit of the passage is a suspended, semi-natural platform, where sunlight never shines and it is pitch black.

A flare was fired, and the bright white light immediately illuminated what was inside.

As far as the eye can see, the area below the platform is covered with dense clusters of blood-red flowers, their vines spreading like ivy across the surrounding cliff face.

Further inside, through the gaps in the vines, one could vaguely see a tall, human-shaped shadow.

All the vines grew from the corpse.

In other words, these vines and these blood-soaked red flowers are actually part of that corpse.

"Sigh~"

Upon seeing this, Yang Xueli subconsciously gasped.

Such a bizarre and terrifying sight is truly quite thrilling.

"The corpse..."

The fat man was taken aback for a moment, then overjoyed.

"There's a corpse here, so there must be some funerary objects nearby!"

As he spoke, the fat man twisted a cold flame stick and threw it below the platform, illuminating the area below.

Below, there is a square boulder made of neatly stacked iceberg crystal stones.

The boulder is covered with a dense array of symbols and patterns.

Below, a mahogany coffin lay pressed down, and in the opening facing it, there was a large hole. The corpse inside must be the same male corpse we saw earlier, entangled in vines.
"That must contain some records about the Demon Kingdom and the Muchen Pearl!"

"Hu Ming, Lao Hu, I need to go down and take a look!"

Upon seeing this, Yang Xueli was overjoyed, took out a climbing rope from her bag, and prepared to go down.

"Wait, there's more down there!"

Hu Bayi grabbed Yang Xueli's arm, narrowed his eyes, and looked down.

(End of this chapter)