Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 19: The Final Exit from the Tomb

Hu Bayi and his friends were searching around when Fatty called them to a stop.

"Old Hu, Mingzi, Yingzi, come quickly and take a look. There's another iron gate here."

Hearing the noise, Hu Ming and his group walked towards the fat man. Upon seeing them, the fat man pointed to the Japanese writing on the door and said, "Old Hu, look, it says 'Standing People Prohibited'. What does that mean? Does it mean that only people lying down can get in?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Ming couldn't help but facepalm, while Hu Bayi, seeing the fat man's reaction, retorted irritably, "You fatso, what nonsense about 'forbidden entry'? It looks like it says 'no entry'!"

However, the next moment, Hu Bayi was surprised.

He asked the fat man, "You fatso, where are those two brats?"

When Hu Bayi asked him this, Fatty remembered that the two kids had run inside when he arrived. Fatty didn't hide anything and immediately told him what had happened.

At this moment, after hearing the fat man's words, Lao Hu and Hu Ming exchanged a glance, and then Hu Ming said, "If I'm not mistaken, there should be the corpses of two little ancestors in here!"

Hu Bayi nodded upon hearing this, then stepped forward and knocked on the iron gate a few times, feeling that the iron gate was very heavy.

"Mechanical door?" Hu Bayi was familiar with mechanical doors; he had studied them back when he was in the military fortress.

Upon seeing this, Hu Bayi immediately started fiddling with it.

Then, Hu Bayi instructed Yingzi to quickly take out the gas masks they had collected and put them on everyone, in case they contained biological weapons.

After some fiddling, the iron gate finally opened.

"hiss!"

"hiss…"

They were all horrified; there were coffins right in front of them.

The fat man exclaimed, "Good heavens, they're all coffins!"

Hu Bayi thought that even if this place was used to store ancient coffins and corpses, there shouldn't be many. Unexpectedly, these coffins were piled up and filled the place.

However, one thing that particularly angered Hu Bayi was that almost all the coffins here had been opened, and the remains were scattered all over the ground.

The fat man felt a pang of pain upon seeing it. He then immediately examined many coffins and found them all to be empty.

He cursed indignantly, "Old Hu, that damn devil, wherever he goes, he implements the 'Three Alls Policy'?"

The three lights are: killing light, burning light, and strong light.

Originally, the fat man thought he could leave something behind, but now it seems like he can forget about it.

Hu Ming wasn't surprised, after all, wasn't this the Japanese's usual style?

However, as he passed an open coffin, he noticed something in one corner. He brushed away the bones and dust, took it out, and opened it to find a painting. Surprisingly, the signature and seal on it were those of Yan Liben.

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming quickly put it away, took out one or two porcelain pieces from the system space and put them into his bag, and stuffed the painting into the system space.

At this moment, Hu Bayi and his companions arrived at the largest coffin and called Hu Ming over.

Hearing the sound, Hu Ming walked over. Because his back was to the group, they hadn't noticed what he was doing.

After Hu Ming arrived, he said, "What are we waiting for? Let's open the coffin. Almost all the coffins here have been carefully prepared, so there shouldn't be any big zombies."

Hu Bayi nodded upon hearing this, and together with the fat man, they moved the coffin lid open.

As the coffin lid was removed, Yingzi, out of curiosity, glanced into the crack. What she saw made her face turn deathly pale, and she screamed in terror.

The sudden shout nearly made the fat man's legs go weak. Hu Bayi, who was leaning against the outside, quickly asked, "Yingzi, what are you shouting about!"

Hu Ming covered his ears and looked at Yingzi, asking, "What happened?"

Yingzi closed her eyes tightly and pointed inside the coffin.

Seeing Yingzi's condition, the fat man followed the direction and arrived at Yingzi's location, where he just happened to see the gap.

"Hiss!" The fat man gasped, cold sweat pouring down his forehead. He saw that the two little ones' pale eyes were staring right into his eyes.

His body was covered in bluish-purple patches, somewhat similar to the patches on the fat man's neck.

At this moment, Hu Ming also noticed, but he calmly lit a cigarette.

He glanced at the fat man and said, "These are the corpses of those two little devils."

Upon hearing this, the fat man reached out to touch them, but Hu Bayi grabbed his arm.

Hu Bayi said irritably, "You fatso, where are your gloves? You're touching things without gloves on, you'd better die soon!" The fat man scratched the back of his head sheepishly and said, "I took them off when I was touching the gun, I'll put them back on now."

After saying that, he took out his gloves from his pocket and put them on.

Seeing this, Hu Bayi didn't say anything more. However, after seeing the two corpses, he lit a cigarette and said to the fat man, "Don't forget what Mingzi just said about the mercury-filled corpses. These two brats have deadly poison in them!"

Upon hearing what Hu Bayi said, the fat man immediately understood.

When he got up and looked at it properly again, he was horrified and felt he couldn't accept it.

These two little creatures had small holes in several places, including on their heads, backs, and soles of their feet...

"hiss!"

Seeing that the fat man understood, Hu Bayi looked at the shocked Yingzi and continued, "Mingzi, let's take him away!"

Hu Ming hummed softly upon hearing this, then found some tattered silk cloth and wrapped the two corpses up. Hu Bayi and Hu Ming each carried one on their backs.

After Hu Ming finished carrying the load, Hu Bayi said to the group, "We've had enough for this trip. Let's go back the way we came."

Hu Ming nodded upon hearing this, and Fatty and Yingzi had no objections either.

And so the group headed back the way they came towards the tomb.

The group arrived at the large hole smashed by the giant rice dumpling. Just as Fatty was about to crawl inside, someone slapped him against the opposite cave wall.

"Roar…"

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming said, "It's a zongzi (rice dumpling)."

Upon hearing this, Hu Bayi left and dragged the fat man back. The giant zongzi smashed the tomb wall and entered the cave to look at Hu Ming and the others.

Hu Ming, however, remained calm and asked the fat man, "Fatty, are you alright?"

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked like he was about to cry and said, "I'm fine, but all the porcelain in my bag is broken."

Hu Bayi, seeing the giant rice dumpling approaching them, angrily said, "Even now you're still thinking about porcelain? We're about to lose our lives."

Seeing this, Hu Ming said to Hu Bayi and the others, "Smash the gasoline bottle I gave you."

After Hu Ming finished speaking, he took out five or six gas bottles from his bag and smashed them on the big zongzi. Upon hearing this, the fat man and the others also took out the gas bottles that Hu Ming had given them and smashed them on the zongzi as well.

Seeing the giant zombie getting closer and closer, Hu Ming had no choice but to say, "Fatty, Lao Hu, Yingzi, let's go. The giant zombie has ropes binding its feet, so it can't run fast."

Hu Bayi and the others nodded upon hearing this and ran towards the fortress. Seeing this, Hu Ming shot at the giant zombie, causing it to burst into flames, and the ropes binding the corpse were also burned away by the fire.

Seeing that the giant rice dumpling was no longer bound by the rope binding its feet, Hu Ming noticed that it was moving extremely fast.

Seeing this, Hu Ming had no choice but to take out more than a dozen grenades from his spatial storage and blow up the tunnel, and the group retreated back to the fortress.

Seeing that the tunnel had been blown up, Hu Bayi asked Hu Ming, "Mingzi, now that the tunnel is gone, how are we going to get out?"

Hu Ming said, "Don't worry, there's another passage. I'll take you there in a bit. You guys rest for a bit while I get some things."

After Hu Ming finished speaking, he went to the armory and took about twenty hand grenades, putting them into the system space.

When he returned, he found the fat man holding a bag of shards, his eyes glazed over.

Seeing this, Hu Ming didn't bother to comfort him. Instead, he said directly to Hu Bayi and the others, "Come with me, I'll take you to another passage."

Hu Bayi nodded upon hearing this, then kicked the fat man and said, "You fatso, get up! Look at you, you pathetic sight. You still have one good porcelain piece, right? Hurry up and let's go." After saying this, Hu Bayi walked towards Hu Ming.

The fat man muttered a few words and then followed Hu Ming and the others.

The group arrived at the Bat Battlefield again, and Hu Ming led them directly to the passage with the circular opening he had discovered.

Hu Bayi took his flashlight and looked around. He found that it was indeed a passage, so he said to Fatty, "Fatty, hurry up and come over from the tool shed over there using that A-frame ladder."

Upon hearing this, the fat man reluctantly went over to get it and brought it back.

Hu Bayi shot down the protective netting at the entrance of the cave. Seeing this, Hu Ming used a ladder to climb up first, and Hu Bayi and the others followed behind him. It took them more than twenty minutes to climb out. Moreover, the entrance was covered with wire mesh and wooden planks. It took them a lot of effort to finally get out.

They came out right next to the Japanese soldiers' shed.

Seeing this, Hu Ming said, "Fatty, I have two grenades here. You and Yingzi go and throw one grenade into each of the holes we dug today and the side hole where Yingzi fell." Fatty nodded and took Yingzi with him.

I made a mistake at first, sorry. I thought Tang Bohu was from the Tang Dynasty. I feel like my Chinese and history teachers would definitely scold me if they found out.
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