Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 250 The Second Blood Corpse

A lifetime of illustrious reputation...

These are probably what Wu Sansheng was thinking at this moment.
Of course, there's probably also the urge to slap Hu Ming to death.

After grumbling for a bit, Wu Sansheng stopped dwelling on the matter.

All eyes were fixed on the top of the silver-rimmed pavilion.
As I've already said, this thing only appeared in the Tang Dynasty, so it's really out of place to find it in a Warring States period tomb.

Wu Xie, Fatty, and Panzi knew their stuff; they marveled at it.

For a moment, they forgot the pain they had just suffered at the hands of the Blue-Eyed Fox.

Everyone turned their gaze to the white-clad female corpse beside them.

It was as if they were afraid that later generations wouldn't discover it.

With her lips slightly parted, a key inlaid with emerald beads was revealed to everyone.

"The key... the treasure box... could that be the key to the treasure box?"

Wu Xie's eyes lit up, and he couldn't resist going over to take out the key.

"You little brat, do you want to die?!"

This startled Wu Sansheng, who quickly grabbed Wu Xie's hand.

He knew that the female corpse would never rise from the dead, and there was nothing strange about it whatsoever.

The reason is simple: the woman's body had been hollowed out and fitted with an ingenious mechanism.

If he had gone so recklessly, Wu Xie would probably be gone.

"I once heard a story about Hu Ming, around 95."

"In Panjiayuan in Beijing, there was a fat man who was said to be a retired tomb raider. After drinking some wine, he was showing off a jade bottle."

"They say it was poured out by him from the Gu Mo prince in the desolate desert after he narrowly escaped death."

"And this person..."

After pulling Wu Xie back, Wu Sansheng looked meaningfully at Hu Ming.

"...Stop talking, that fatso really is my friend."

Hu Ming's face darkened.

Anyone with a brain knows that the fat guy Wu Sansheng was talking about was the same fat guy he knew.

After finding the jade bottle in the tomb of Prince Gumo, Hu Ming took the contents of it.

Seeing that the fat man was eyeing the jade bottle, I simply gave it to him.

But Hu Ming never expected that the fat guy would one day use this thing as something to brag about.

Is this some kind of bragging?
Fortunately, the fat guy had some brains and didn't blurt out anything he didn't mean.

Otherwise, the national team would have intervened long ago.

Damn, they're robbing tombs right under the noses of the archaeological team! They've got some nerve!
“I know what you mean. I really did take that jade bottle out of Prince Gu Mo’s coffin with my own hands.”

Hu Ming sighed in resignation, stepped forward onto the jade platform, and put on his gloves.

"The bottle isn't the point; the point is what's inside it."

"Interestingly, according to the murals, the contents of the bottle were obtained by the Queen of Jingjue from the Snake Swamp Ghost City, which she traveled a great distance from."

As he spoke, Hu Ming looked at Wu Sansheng.

"Snake Swamp Ghost City!"
Sure enough, Wu Sansheng's expression immediately changed.

Even the young man narrowed his eyes, seemingly lost in thought.

What's inside the bottle?

Ignoring his nephew's strange look, Wu Sansheng couldn't help but ask again.

"you guess?"

Hu Ming grinned. "Alright, I'm not teasing you anymore. That thing is extraordinary, but you'll have a chance to see it later."

Glancing over the holes of various sizes on the surrounding cliff face, Hu Ming said in a profound and enigmatic manner.

As he spoke, Hu Ming's hands touched the white-clad woman's lower abdomen and lips respectively.

With his keen sense of touch, unsurprisingly, he was able to detect the presence of a mechanical device in the female corpse's lower abdomen and throat.

"Even Wang Zanghai couldn't escape those outdated, tired tricks, could he?"

Muttering to himself, Hu Ming was too lazy to do any meticulous work.

He inserted two fingers of his right hand into the woman's mouth, clamped the key, and pulled hard, ripping it off the gold thread binding it.

Suddenly, a silent "click-click" sound rang out.

That's the sound of the expansion machine running.

The next instant, the stiff flesh of the woman's abdomen and throat broke open from the inside out.

Just like back then, Hu Ming decisively dodged away from the front of the female corpse.

The countless tiny needles that flew through the air were in vain.

"All done, call it a day!"

Hu Ming casually tossed the key to Wu Xie, who was clutching the Eightfold Treasure Box with obvious delight.

He knew what was inside, and he was also fully aware of the most important intelligence records.

This thing is useless to him.

Moreover, the most important reward of this trip has already been obtained by the young man.

The rest are minor details, and it's about time to conclude this operation.

"Yeah, thanks, Uncle Ming!"

Wu Xie looked at Hu Ming with gratitude.

Hu Ming shook his head, unconcerned, and ran his right hand across the jade platform with two fingers.

It was pressed discreetly in a certain spot.

The next moment, the altar suddenly sank.

Click click click~~
At the same time, the sound of large-scale machinery starting up could be heard.

A large crack had appeared in the trunk of the tree next to them, a tree trunk that would take ten people to encircle.

Inside the tree hollow, a massive bronze coffin, bound and secured with iron chains as thick as an arm, was revealed.

This thing is the real coffin in this tomb!
The legendary coffin that was used by King Mu of Zhou, King Shang of Lu, and Tie Miansheng, three people taking turns using the same coffin.

Wu Xie's eyes immediately lit up, and he forgot all about opening the eight-layered treasure box in his hand: "Oh wow? So the real coffin was hidden here?"

"It turns out this is a series of traps. Only by triggering the mechanism inside the female corpse and taking out the key will the real coffin be revealed. How insidious!"

Panzi was also amazed.

Great, they've found a perfect "justification," now they don't even need to fool them!
The fat man on the side didn't care about any of this, but looked at Hu Ming with a complicated expression.

Under the watchful eyes of Wu Sansheng, Xiao Ge, and Fatty, Hu Ming revealed a subtle smile.

The crowd couldn't help but gather around.

For tomb raiders, coffins are always the most attractive thing.

"Roar! Roar!!!"

Just then, a shrill scream rang out.

Everyone was shocked to see a blood-soaked figure appear in a hole about the height of a person in the cliff face.

It's a blood corpse!
In this ancient tomb, besides King Mu of Zhou, there was a second blood-soaked corpse!!!
This is also a blood corpse that doesn't exist in the original storyline at all!
(End of this chapter)