Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 316 Giant Baby in the Ice

The location of the treasure cave has been confirmed; it is right below Hu Ming and the others' feet.

The next step was to start digging with a shovel.

The essence of tomb raiding remains the same: after finding the dragon vein and locating the acupoint, the next step is to explore and pinpoint the location of the burial site.

This has been the established process for many years; the only differences lie in the era and the tools used.

Hua the monk and the fat man were extremely quick and agile.

There was a lot of soft mud on the snow-covered mountain, and soon dozens of exploration holes appeared on the snow.

However, in all locations, the shovel could only penetrate about five or six meters before it simply wouldn't go any further.

Every time I dug it out, there was nothing on the shovel.

"Alright, stop wasting your energy. If nothing unexpected happens, beneath this mixture of snow and soil lies an ice layer formed by millennia-old snow under the pressure of gravity."

"Gravity ice is completely different from river ice containing a lot of impurities and air bubbles. It is formed by layers of snow that have been accumulated and compressed over thousands of years, and has fewer impurities."

"The temperature of the ice layer under the snow may even reach around minus fifty degrees Celsius. In this environment, the hardness of the ice is almost comparable to that of pig iron."

Hu Ming stepped forward and pinched the ice shards off the shovel, stopping everyone from their futile efforts.

"Does that mean the burial mounds below are frozen in ice?"

The fat man quickly grasped the key point.

In this respect, the fat man was exceptionally perceptive.

"That's easy. We just need to fire a shot to clear away the snow layer here. Once the ice layer is exposed, the situation below will be clear at a glance, saving us the trouble of locating the burial site."

"Using explosives to clear accumulated snow is not a new thing, but the problem is that it requires professional explosives personnel to control the amount."

"Otherwise, if we fire a large shot, the snow layer will be cleared, but it will definitely trigger an avalanche, and we will all be buried alive."

Wu Xie thought for a moment and then offered his suggestion.

"Unfortunately, we do have professional demolition experts here."

"Lang Feng, before entering this line of work, was a miner who drilled no fewer than ten thousand blast holes!"

Hua the monk smiled and pushed Lang Feng, who had barely spoken a word along the way, forward.

Are you sure you can do that?

"Of course, using the most appropriate blasting force to clear snow from the snow-capped mountains is nothing special, not a big problem."

After surveying his surroundings, Lang Feng nodded confidently.

There was no useless person in this team. Everyone talked and discussed, and in a short time they found a solution to the problem.

Without further ado, everyone got to work.

Everyone took cover under the huge black bare rock next to them to avoid being buried alive by the sliding snow, leaving only Lang Feng to work in place.

It is worth mentioning that.

When Shunzi saw Lang Feng take out explosives from his bag from afar, he was immediately shocked.

He rushed forward to stop him.

"What are you doing? Boss, are you crazy? Over the years, Shunzi has brought a lot of people into Changbai Mountain and has seen all sorts of weirdos."

The number of poachers and illegal immigrants is countless.

But after going through all the hardships of climbing the mountain, he had never seen anyone come here just to blast the mountain for fun!
"Quiet down, we won't do anything irrational. Nobody here wants to die."

However, before Shunzi could rush over and get in the way, Hu Ming had already grabbed Shunzi with lightning speed.

“But that’s explosives, boss. Even the slightest noise on a snowy mountain can cause an avalanche, let alone explosives.” However, before Shunzi could finish speaking, Lang Feng had already arranged everything and pressed the detonator.

It must be said that Lang Feng truly deserves his reputation as a veteran miner with twenty years of experience in blasting.

The explosives he specially prepared had extremely low power.

Of all those present, only Hu Ming heard a barely perceptible muffled sound from a great distance.

The next moment, the snow layer cracked open like a mirror.

Then large swaths of snow slid down the slope like waterfalls.

Before long, a large, murky, uneven layer of white ice and snow was revealed beneath the snow slope.

This is the surface of a fourth-century ancient glacier.

Once the snow and mud residue on the glacier's surface are cleared away, what lies beneath becomes immediately clear.

Hu Ming took out a searchlight and shone it down.

The searchlight beam shone through the translucent ice, revealing the faint, dark blue shadow of a large fetus directly below.

Judging from its shape, it is a huge, curled-up baby with a large head, covered in long spikes, which is a bit creepy to look at.

This thing is about five stories high in size, and its head is huge, taking up most of the space.

"Legend has it that the Changbai Mountain area was once a vast ocean hundreds of thousands of years ago, and it was only through the eruption of the main volcano that it rose from the sea. Could such a large object be the carcass of a giant marine creature from that time?"

Wu Xie frowned and made a bold guess.

"Impossible. The mountains were already there when the ancient glaciers formed, and any bodies would have been fossils long ago."

The fat man shook his head repeatedly in rebuttal, saying that it simply didn't make sense.

"Could this shadow be the legendary Kunlun Embryo!?"

Chen Pi rubbed his eyes, squatted down, stared intently at the shadow for a long time, and exclaimed in a low voice with surprise and uncertainty.

Damn it, is this old man blind or not?
Hu Ming's lips twitched as he watched Chen Pi Asi's actions.

Based on Chen Pi's various actions along the way, he genuinely wondered if the guy had gone blind.

Or was it that the Miao chieftain with the Qilin tattoo only severed his nose with a single blow, without actually harming his eyes?
However, now is not the time to delve into these trivial past events.

"Believe me, this is definitely not a Kunlun fetus!"

"In Feng Shui, the Kunlun fetus is a spiritual being born of the earth, a fetal position determined by the gods, and a precious burial site ordained by heaven. It is formed from the essence of heaven and earth and is the most wondrous thing in the world. How could it possibly grow into that ghostly appearance?"

"There is a huge cave shaped like a fetus, inside which is a spirit palace built according to the natural terrain."

“Those thorn-like things are the supports that hold up the glacial dome at the top of the Spirit Palace.”

Hu Ming put away one of the instruments he was working on.

Then he pulled out a gun and fired a shot into the air.

Everyone else was startled, but seeing that there was no avalanche, Hu Ming closed his eyes again.

Everyone fell silent upon seeing this, after all, they had all heard of Hu Ming's new second master's skills!
Even though the snow can absorb sound, Hu Ming can still use his ability to locate sounds in this vast sea of ​​snow.

Gunshots are powerful enough to penetrate thick ice and bring out information about what lies buried deep beneath.

At this moment, Hu Ming had already formed a detailed three-dimensional structural diagram of the spiritual palace beneath the ice layer in his mind.

Including the most secret passages...

(End of this chapter)