Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 194

Hu Ming: ...

As expected of Fatty! Hu Ming silently gave Fatty a thumbs up.

"Ah Xiang? What's wrong? Are you alright?" Too lazy to pay attention to the fat man, Hu Ming looked at Ah Xiang.

Ever since Hu Ming used his bloodline power to erase the bull's head, the girl's emotions have been somewhat off.

She kept her head down and remained silent, but she must have seen something.

“Brother Hu Ming, I...I just...just saw it…” Ah Xiang raised her head and said tremblingly.

There were dark red bloodstains at the corners of both eyes and nostrils.

"Ah Xiang!?" Yang Xueli exclaimed in surprise and quickly came over to hug Ah Xiang to comfort her.

Lei Xianming once said that Ah Xiang's eyes and nostrils would bleed whenever she saw anything excessively dirty.

"Just now, when that bull's head disappeared, I saw what seemed to be a huge shadow behind us."

"Like a dragon, the shadow slowly devoured the bull's head."

Ah Xiang's spirits had calmed down, and she spoke slowly.

"A dragon-like shadow?" Everyone was taken aback and looked at Hu Ming.

They also knew that Hu Ming had eyes with the same abilities as Ah Xiang, and Hu Bayi and the others knew that Hu Ming had a dragon-shaped tattoo on his body, so it was possible that he was the one who caused the trouble.

"Yes, that's right, I saw it too."

Hu Ming took a drag of his cigarette with a "melancholy" look, exhaled the smoke to cover his eyes, and said in a low voice.

It's not just that we saw it; that thing was originally created by Hu Ming, but Hu Ming didn't explain it.

The long journey back and forth, coupled with the strange events that had just occurred, had taken its toll.

Ah Xiang's body and mind have reached their limits.

At this point, the group lost all interest in exploring the ancient city at night and could only set up camp on the spot to rest for the night and make plans again the next morning.

However, none of them wanted to spend the night in that cave.

With utmost vigilance, the group took turns keeping watch, spending their first night in this eerie demon city.

To be honest, apart from Hu Ming and Fatty, the others didn't sleep well that night.

Hu Ming was fearless and had nothing to fear.

And the fat guy...

It's just that they're carefree.

Damn it, Hu Ming even suspected that if this guy were thrown into the legendary mass grave, as long as nothing evil woke up and disturbed him, he would be able to sleep soundly until dawn.

Early the next morning.

Despite feeling somewhat uncomfortable, everyone still obediently ate some yak meat from two thousand years ago for breakfast.

Hu Bayi and Yang Xueli woke up early and sat in a corner. Hu Bayi accompanied Yang Xueli as they carefully examined the "Bible" map they had found earlier.

"Here, you two have some. We still have a tough battle to fight today, so store up some energy." Hu Ming picked up a pot of freshly cooked beef, sat down next to Hu Bayi, and gazed at the wind-eroded lake across the mountains.

Presumably, after a night of settling, the blood-red color in the lake has mostly dissipated.
……

Having eaten and drunk their fill, the group headed towards the center of the ancient city early in the morning, ready to strike at the heart of the enemy. No matter how enchanting the city might be, they couldn't just stop there.

This ancient city is filled with caves leading down into the earth, visible to the naked eye.

In the center of the city, the largest cave entrance was found.

After a brief exchange, the group gradually descended underground along the passage.

The cave passage is illuminated by "inextinguishable" lights on both sides, and branch paths appear from time to time, along with cave dwellings built on the side.

The rooms were all empty. The further down you went, the smaller the number of cave dwellings became, but the larger and more luxurious they were.

At the far end of the underground passage are two large, slightly ajar stone doors. On either side of the passage is a doorway, each doorway inlaid with a blue and a white crystal bead.

Both its appearance and color are similar to those that everyone saw in the Nine-Story Demon Tower.

"These are the 'Ice Palace' and the 'Fire Palace,' places used for sacrificial rites."

“Strange, the map shows that there should be an ‘altar’ behind this stone gate.”

"But this stone gate looks completely integrated with the mountain wall. It's not some kind of altar space behind it, but rather a large rock embedded in the cliff face?"

Yang Xueli looked at the sacrificial artifacts in the spaces on both sides, constantly comparing them with the descriptions on the map. Everything was just as the map described.

But this stone gate is the only one...

According to the biblical map of the Grape Man, this should be a stone gate with open sides.

"Perhaps it's because she didn't want people who later stumbled upon this place to know about the sacrificial space that should have existed behind this stone gate?"

"Or perhaps, she herself deeply resented this sacrificial space behind it, and subjectively and instinctively wanted to erase it from her memory even in her final moments?"

Hu Ming gently stroked the "stone gate" in front of him, his smile somewhat strange.

He could sense that behind him was a solid cliff face, not some hidden space.

so.

In the final days of the Demon Kingdom, had the religiously controlled regime truly encountered serious problems?
It wasn't just the unqualified demon mothers and ordinary people who questioned the snake god; even the last demon mother seemed to harbor resentment?
The sacrificial rituals, which lasted for many years, persecuted countless innocent girls, but ultimately yielded no results.

Generation after generation died without ever seeing the gifts from the serpent god, which explains why some people began to doubt the ancient beliefs.

"She? Hates? Memories? Erased?"

Hu Bayi and the others were stunned and stared blankly at Hu Ming.

"Don't look at me like that. My family's ancestral secret manual does indeed record some things about the Demon Kingdom."

"However, the era is too long ago, and the Demon Kingdom is located in a remote area. The records are only fragmentary. After arriving here, I roughly understood some of the incredible things that happened here back then, through a combination of guesswork and deduction."

Hu Ming, after many days, has once again started spouting nonsense in a serious manner.

That said, being a history major is incredibly useful!
Otherwise, Hu Ming would really have a hard time explaining some of the things he knew...

(End of this chapter)