Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 323 Corpse Embryo!

"Hey, Second Master, since this tombstone is just for show, and there's only a magnet underneath that affects our sense of direction, then let's not bother with the treasures in the underground palace."

"Then where is the passage leading to the main tomb that you mentioned before?"

"There's not much to gain here. Why don't we head straight to the main tomb and raid the lair of the Wan Nu Emperor?"

Seeing Chen Pi's increasingly gloomy expression, Monk Hua inwardly groaned and quickly stepped forward to smooth things over.

"Hmm, it's right below here, even below the magnet!"

Hu Ming pointed to the bluestone brick path with dents pressed into it by the stone slabs.

"Below?"

Everyone was stunned.

Inside the Spirit Palace, the placement of everything and every structure is meticulously planned, and not a single detail can be wrong.

But the secret passage was dug in the place that should have been the entrance to the underground palace?
"Tsk, that barking is really something!"

"Alright, brothers, I've pointed out where the secret passage is, what are we waiting for? Let's dig! Emperor Wan Nu's treasures are all waiting for Fatty!"

The fat man rolled up his sleeves, picked up his entrenching tool, and prepared to get to work.

"These bluestone bricks fit together perfectly. Although they weren't sealed with mortar, it's not easy to dig them open."

Monk Hua looked at the arrangement of the blue bricks and sighed.

"That's not necessarily true. We have professionals here. Hey buddy, where the hell are you?"

Wu Xie shook his head. In this situation, Xiao Ge's two-finger acupressure technique would come in handy.

Once we can create an opening, the rest of the work will be much simpler.

But when Wu Xie turned around, he was shocked to find that Xiao Ge was gone!
"He's missing. Don't you know what kind of person he is? He's a professional at disappearing."

Hu Ming smiled and said with a smirk.

Now, within a certain range around Hu Ming, no one's movements can escape his notice.

He heard the noise the young man made when he disappeared perfectly clearly.

"Okay, let me do it."

Shaking his head, Hu Ming stopped thinking about it.

As for leading these people through the young man's secret passage?
No, that doesn't exist. The guy already told him that the passage leads directly to the underground palace.

And they took Chenpi and his group to the underground palace?
Doesn't exist!
Crouching down, Hu Ming extended two fingers of his right hand with lightning speed, inserting them into the cracks in the blue bricks.

These gaps are extremely narrow; in other words, they are simply not big enough to accommodate a human finger.

But
Hu Ming's two fingers pierced right through the side of the blue brick!
With a pinch of two fingers and a pull, the entire blue brick was lifted up.

"What the hell?"

Hua Heshang and the others were dumbfounded, their mouths agape.

These are solid blue bricks!
"See that? Isn't our uncle amazing?"

Seeing this, the fat man looked at them smugly.

"Impressive, as expected of Young Master Er!"

Hua Heshang and the others nodded repeatedly.

This kind of skill is not something an ordinary person can learn.

"Alright, you fatso, the one who's awesome is Master Ming. What does it have to do with you? What's there to be proud of?"

"Master Ming has already created an opening, come and dig!"

Panzi spat dismissively and beckoned to the fat man.

These two are truly incompatible by birth charts; they can't help but bicker whenever they're together.

In about half the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, they had already dug out seven layers of blue bricks.

At the bottom of the pit, a huge, black, patterned tortoise shell was revealed. Wu Xie picked up an entrenching tool and tentatively reached it towards the stone statue.

clang!
The next instant, a tremendous suction force came, and the entrenching tool stuck firmly to the stone statue, beyond Wu Xie's control.

"Sure enough, it was this thing that caused the trouble!"

No further evidence was needed, everyone sighed knowingly.

"Monk, Ye Cheng, bring this thing up here and burn it!"

Chen Pi, wearing sunglasses and with his blind eyes fixed on the tortoise-shell stone statue, snorted coldly.

This is like a vengeful act of destroying the magnet with high temperatures.

"If you don't want to cause any unnecessary trouble, I suggest you don't do this."

After Chen Pi's assistant nimbly carried up the entire lodestone carved into a tortoise shape, Hu Ming calmly stopped him.

"What's the meaning?"

"As you probably already know, the reason these methods were left here is probably to lure tomb raiders like you and me here, so we can catch them all in one fell swoop."

"you mean?"

"This magnetic turtle is hollow; there's something inside. Remember when I said that countless little creatures slumber in the shadows of this spirit palace?"

Hu Ming tapped the magnetic turtle and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the things inside are meant to wake up those sleeping little creatures."

"Hiss~ Uncle Ming, you mean Wang Zanghai even considered human nature?"

"If any tomb raiders come here and discover the magnetic turtle, they will surely be enraged and destroy it, releasing what's inside, thus awakening the slumbering creatures here to wipe out the raiders in one fell swoop?"

Wu Xie gasped, realizing what was happening.

Indeed, after going through so much trouble to get here, only to find out they'd been tricked—this isn't a burial tomb, there's no underground palace. Any tomb raider would be furious!
And right in front of them was a ready-made prop for venting anger.
The others also realized what was happening, their hearts skipped a beat, and they started rubbing their teeth.

In an instant, everyone instinctively took a few steps back, moving away from this ticking time bomb.

However, in order to facilitate the excavation of the underground passage below, the group had no choice but to carefully move this thing aside.

I was afraid of accidentally bumping or hitting it.

After completing the preparations, everyone picked up their entrenching tools and prepared to jump down to continue digging.

Although the ground beneath the magnetic turtle was a layer of compacted, frozen soil, it didn't look like there was a secret passage underneath.

But everything that had happened before was exactly as Hu Ming had predicted.

They had no choice but to believe it.

This is also the only opportunity to visit the main tomb of the Three Saints Mountain at this time.

"Wait! There's movement down below!"

Suddenly, Hu Ming's ears twitched slightly, and he quickly stopped everyone from moving.

Just now, Hu Ming clearly heard a knocking sound coming from beneath the permafrost layer.

Hu Ming knew there was something down there; it was a mortuary where a small corpse fetus was kept.

But since entering the Spirit Palace, the little thing has been sleeping quietly without making a sound, so there's no reason for it to suddenly wake up now.

Just as Hu Ming was frowning and trying to figure out what was wrong that had awakened that thing...

boom!!!
Suddenly, as if ravaged by a large amount of explosives, the permafrost layer underground suddenly shattered, and large areas of soil were scattered everywhere.

"Roar—!!!"

A dark blue shadow darted out from within, its scarlet, ferocious eyes filled with savage killing intent.

However, this size
"Holy crap! This thing has actually been raised to a supernatural state! It's practically become a spirit!"

Upon seeing the creature's shape, Hu Ming's lips twitched and he cursed inwardly.

(End of this chapter)