Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 217 Ah Xiang Wakes Up
The group had already achieved their goal and had no intention of staying in this strange place any longer.

The group of six followed the newly discovered secret passage.

With Hu Ming's intuition leading the way, the journey was uneventful and without danger.

“Mingzi, I find this very strange. This road looks exactly like a secretly constructed escape route.”

"The rulers and priests of the Demon Kingdom would never build such a passage."

"But this place is extremely secluded. What kind of person could have built such a passage?"

Halfway there, Hu Bayi finally couldn't resist asking out of curiosity.

By this time, the group had been walking along the passage for two or three hours, and they arrived at the underground river and continued to move forward along the riverbank.

"Perhaps it was the priests of the Demon Kingdom who broke free from the shackles of religion and sought to rescue the innocent girl who was imprisoned."

"Perhaps the Samsara Sect is trying to find a passage to Evil Luo Sea City based on ancient records."

"Or perhaps they were tomb raiders who later obtained the relevant secret manuals."

"In short, there are many possibilities. Too much time has passed. That passage we just passed looks like it's over a thousand years old."

"Without corresponding records, it's impossible to figure out the situation. In short, the predecessors planted the trees, and the successors enjoy the shade..."

Hu Ming shrugged.

The truth of history has long been buried in the river of time.

All that their descendants could know was the faint traces recorded in words and pictures.

Hu Ming was not interested in this.

For him, the system's rewards for this line of work should be quite generous.

For Hu Bayi and his companions, this trip resolved the deadly curse of the Ghost Eye.

For a first-year junior high student, this line of work was very lucrative, enough to make his family live comfortably.

For Ah Xiang, this line of work, through a series of unexpected events, resulted in Lei Xiaming's death, and she was finally freed from her role as a mere tool.

In short, everyone is happy, and everyone got what they wanted, that's enough.

……

Walking down the river took most of the day.

As the group continued along the river, they turned into a natural cave with the help of Hu Ming's extraordinary hearing. After emerging from a secluded hollow, the view suddenly opened up.

The stars are twinkling outside; it's midnight.

The altitude here is not high; at first glance, it is the heart of a familiar yet unfamiliar valley.

"...Hidden Bone Valley..."

"Why do I feel that the situation here is extremely similar to that of Zanggugou, which we visited before?"

Chu Yi stared wide-eyed at the surrounding scenery.

The ground was covered with white bones, the bushes were dense, and will-o'-the-wisps flickered everywhere.

Less than a hundred meters in front of them, several bloodied and mangled animals lay quietly.

Upon closer inspection, the ground was dented.

Looking up at the sky, it was clear that these animals, like those that mysteriously committed suicide in the Bone-Hidden Gully, had all jumped down from above. "The location here is further west than the Bone-Hidden Gully we encountered before, and the two places face each other from afar, resembling two dragons playing with a pearl."

"They are probably two burial ditches dug to sacrifice the buried demon kingdom."

After roughly estimating the location, Hu Ming already had the answer in his mind.

"The Demon Kingdom's demise was rather hasty. Did they have nothing better to do than build a burial pit in the ruins of the Demon Kingdom's ancient capital?"

"Isn't this just being a busybody?"

The fat man looked around at the scenery with a blank expression.

For a moment, he didn't even care about his rumbling stomach.

"It was most likely done by someone from the Samsara Sect."

Hu Bayi shook his head, amusedly patting the fat man's rumbling belly.

The group wandered around the Kunlun Mountains for more than a week, and their food supplies were long gone.

It's really not easy for the fat guy to have endured this long.

In other words, the passage they found leads directly to the outside world without any twists or turns.

Otherwise, if the food runs out, they will most likely starve to death in the Kunlun Mountains. Of course, this is assuming that Hu Ming does not take out the food from his space.

Hu Ming, Hu Bayi, and Chu Yi didn't care about anything else. The three of them exchanged glances and stared intently at the animal carcasses that had fallen to their deaths in front of them.

Upon closer inspection, these animals had likely died within the last day or two, yet they still appeared remarkably fresh despite the low temperatures on the Kunlun Glacier from the plane.

The three of them, with perfect coordination, turned their knives towards a Tibetan macaque...

After eating and drinking their fill, and agreeing on the rotation of those on night watch, everyone crawled into their sleeping bags and slept soundly until dawn.

They slept soundly until noon the next day before everyone finally shook off their intense fatigue.

Just then, Ah Xiang woke up.

However, his face was somewhat pale.

The resentment of the mutilated ghost mother did indeed cause some aftereffects on the girl.

It's not a big problem, though. You can rest and recuperate for a while after you get back.

but…

Hu Ming glanced at the concerned look in his future sister-in-law Yang Xueli's eyes and subtly curled his lip.

He knew that Yang Xueli had genuine feelings for this girl...

Sisterly love!
Anyone with a brain would know that once she got back, Yang Xueli would most likely keep Ah Xiang with her.

"Sister Shirley... But it's so strange, my neck hurts so much, not just the side of my neck that Brother Hu Ming knocked me unconscious, but the other side too..."

Ah Xiang stared with bewildered eyes; the girl had no recollection of what happened afterward.

The pain, almost identical on both sides of her neck, bothered her.

Upon closer inspection, there were almost identical bluish-black bruises on both sides of Ah Xiang's neck...

Hu Bayi and the others all turned their strange gazes toward Hu Ming.

(End of this chapter)