Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 289
This little thing was clearly a three-year-old child when it was alive; it was a human being.

Even if a bizarre resurrection occurs after death, the blood should not be white.

What's more, there's hair mixed in with the blood?

This is even more weird.

Especially that hair, it looks so much like the hair of a forbidden woman!
"Perhaps one of Wang Zanghai's experiments?"

"Damn it, what kind of crazy stuff has this guy come up with?"

Hu Ming shook his head and sighed helplessly in a low voice.

Wang Zanghai is truly an unfathomable person.

In fact, Hu Ming really wanted to do as the fat man suggested, to press down on the little thing's corpse and see if he could find one or two preservation beads.

But seeing the white blood and black hair on the ground, Hu Ming instantly lost that idea.

There's no other reason than that it was simply too disgusting...

Moreover, the underwater tomb contains far more treasures than just these.

There's no need to disgust yourself over a mere antiseptic bead.

After dealing with the troublesome little thing, Hu Ming began to carefully examine every inch of the ear chamber.

His years of intuition wouldn't lie; there must be some hidden mechanism or secret passage leading to the depths of the underwater tomb.

This tomb is divided into three layers.

The first two floors are the two floors that Wu Xie explored in the original novel.

Most importantly, at the very top, lies the front hall, which contains the secret of how to reach the Heavenly Palace atop Changbai Mountain.

But what Hu Ming wanted to go to was the deeply hidden third level, the very bottom level.

If Wang Zanghai really did bury himself here, then the third level must be where his tomb and underworld are located.

The problem now is to find and open the road to get there.

Yin Nanfeng couldn't help with this.

After all, in the world of government agencies, in this day and age, if Hu Ming dares to claim second place, no one dares to claim first.

This is not arrogance, but confidence, and it is also a fact.

At this moment, aside from maintaining some vigilance, Yin Nanfeng focused all his attention on the Black Star pistol in his hand, examining it closely.

Don't let her gender fool you; her love for firearms is no less than that of any man.

QQ~
bang bang~
Hu Ming closed his eyes, gently tapped the white plaster-coated wall, and carefully listened to and sensed the condition inside the wall.

Judging from the sound, the wall beneath the highly water-resistant white clay should be made of white marble.

Upon reaching this conclusion, Hu Ming couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

That's outrageously extravagant!
Before long, Hu Ming had examined all the walls around him, but found nothing unusual.

After a moment's hesitation, Hu Ming looked down at the ground.

If the secret passage isn't in the wall, it's most likely somewhere on the ground.

After all, Hu Ming was going to the deeper third level, not to go up to it.

"Uncle Ming, come quick! Something seems wrong!"

"If I remember correctly, the door to this side room should be in that direction, right?"

"But now, the door is gone!"

Suddenly, Yin Nanfeng's solemn voice came. Hu Ming turned his head to look.

Sure enough, the white jade door through which the two of them had entered had quietly disappeared.

Instead, there is a seamless white marble wall.

If someone with a slightly weaker constitution saw this, they would probably faint on the spot.

Even with Yin Nanfeng's boldness, there was a slight tremor in his voice.

This was, after all, her first time encountering such a bizarre situation, and it was quite remarkable that she was able to remain so calm.

"Don't worry, this underwater tomb contains a large mechanism powered by the currents of the seabed."

"The room we're in now... how should I describe it? It's kind of like an elevator."

"Unbeknownst to them, the position of the side chambers had already changed under the power of the hydraulic mechanism."

Hu Ming was not surprised and explained softly.

At the same time, Hu Ming noticed another unusual thing happening in the side chamber, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Beside the corpse of that little white-furred creature, the white blood seemed to be drawn to something...

To be precise, it was as if the hair strands in the white blood were attracted by something, causing the blood to flow towards the southeast corner of the ear ventricle.

In that direction, the hair ribbons stirred the still-uncoagulated blood, causing it to gather together.

"Could this little thing really be a guide, leading us to our destination?"

Recalling his previous guesses, Hu Ming couldn't help but mutter to himself.

From the very beginning, this little creature hid inside the Yuan blue-and-white porcelain jar and rolled here from the other side chamber.

If there wasn't some hidden secret involved, Hu Ming would never believe it, even if you beat him to death.

Reaching the southeast corner, Hu Ming drew his dragon-patterned cloud-swirling blade, gripped it in a reverse grip, and plunged it fiercely into the edge where the blood was pooling.

"It's about thirty centimeters thick, and then there's a hollow space underneath?"

By sensing the subtle differences in texture, Hu Ming had already deduced the secret hidden beneath the floor.

He gripped the knife with both hands, circling the blade around the spot where the blood had pooled.

It is indeed so!
Looking at the dark passage hidden beneath the floor, Hu Ming couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

The searchlight shone in.

This is a downward spiral channel.

I used an air quality detector to check the air quality inside.

After finding that there were no problems, Hu Ming called out to Yin Nanfeng, and without further hesitation, jumped in first.

Time waits for no one.

Hu Ming remembered that when Wu Xie left the underwater tomb, he blasted open the top dome, letting seawater rush in and creating a path out.

It's important to know that the biggest danger for these underwater tombs is water ingress.

If seawater floods in, not only will the uppermost front hall be destroyed, but the entire tomb chamber will be completely ruined!
If anyone is still inside, then there is only one thing left: death.

But Wu Xie's actions were exactly what Wu Sansheng needed.

The purpose was to completely destroy this underwater tomb and erase any clues to immortality that might exist here.

Hu Ming didn't have much free time.

(End of this chapter)