Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 345 Memory Recorder

Below the platform is a huge fissure in the mountain, resembling an underground canyon.

The crack was extremely wide, and the other side of the crack was about two hundred meters away.

A flare was fired, and the situation below came into view.

About twenty meters below the platform, countless bronze chains, each as thick as a bowl, stretched across both sides, connecting the bottomless chasm.

At the edge of the platform, the young man had already secured a climbing rope.

Its length was just right, hanging down on the nearest bronze chain.

The two swung down one after the other and stood on the bronze chains.

Clearly, the next part of the journey would require the two of them to swing down through a dense network of bronze chains like monkeys.

This is no easy task.

"I can't remember what these bronze chains were for, but they were definitely not set up by the Dongxia people."

As he fell, the young man still had the energy to explain to Hu Ming.

He may have been here many times before, and theoretically, there should be no secrets inside for him.

However, due to his inherited amnesia, the young man had already forgotten everything.

The reason we were able to get here so quickly was thanks to the markers we left behind.

"Ah."

"...I went upstairs to pick you up just now, and I heard your conversation with Wu Sansheng up there."

Suddenly, the silent young man spoke up again.

“You know what I know, my hearing is so good now that very little noise can escape my notice. Of course I know what you were doing in the tomb passage down there.”

Hu Ming nodded.

"Your body... I mean, Hu Ming, have you really found a way to fix your body's problems?"

The young man stared intently at Hu Ming.

"That's great... I'm quite envious of you."

Seeing Hu Ming nod affirmatively, the young man said softly.

Although the tone was calm, Hu Ming could hear the deep envy and sincere blessings in it.

Those who haven't experienced it can never understand how much distress this mental illness caused the young man.

This was perhaps the most intense emotional fluctuation Hu Ming had ever witnessed in Xiao Ge since they met.

"Hey buddy, how about we make a deal?"

Suddenly, Hu Ming spoke up.

"Promise?"

"Yes, it's an agreement! As you've already guessed, I'm not immortal, but I'll live as long as immortality. Only after I leave the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West will I be able to truly live forever and have plenty of time."

"In the future, if you realize that you are about to lose your memory, come to me and I will record and keep everything you have experienced before."

"Then, I will find you, who has lost your memory, and tell you everything you have experienced before."

"In short, let me be your memory recorder?"

Hu Ming looked at the young man with a sincere smile on his face.

To be honest, Hu Ming genuinely feels sorry for Xiao Mei and doesn't have any romantic feelings for him! Believe me, it's just concern for a good friend!
The young man shuddered, stopping his descent. He hung himself on the bronze chain with one hand, looking at Hu Ming in disbelief. "Never mind, Hu Ming, I appreciate your kindness, but it will be very troublesome. Whether it's recording it or retelling it to me, it will be a lot of trouble and waste a lot of your time."

After a long while, the young man closed his eyes and whispered.

"Do you think time will still have any meaning for me after I succeed? It will be completely useless. As long as I don't do anything stupid, I can have as much time as I want."

"What's not worth it to give something that's practically worthless to help a good friend with their troubles?"

Hu Ming also hung himself next to the young man and said earnestly.

"Friends...are we?"

Upon hearing this, the young man murmured to himself.

"Twenty-three years ago, deep in the Kunlun Glacier, when we first met, when you helped me kill that lightning-struck mountain, weren't we already friends?"

"Besides, we're both those ageless monsters, so we must have a lot in common, right? Hmm. Although you're over 130 years old, much older than me."

Hu Ming said with certainty.

"Thank you, Hu Ming."

After a long silence, the young man exhaled a long breath and said in a deep voice.

This guy has hardly ever accepted anyone's kindness.

This period of time is very long, and he has forgotten the exact time, but in the young man's memory, the last time someone showed him the most sincere kindness was when he was a child.

That's Zhang Haike.

The only childhood friend he still remembered from his past life was Zhang Haike and his branch of the Zhang family, who now lived in Hong Kong Province, and he hadn't seen them for a long time.

As they went deeper, they found some dried-up corpses on these bronze chains.

This is the nest of the human-faced bird, and those corpses are food that the human-faced bird once stored up.

A thin strand of black hair extended from the back of the corpse's neck and hung on the bronze chain.

After entering the area of ​​the corpse-hanging chains, it took Hu Ming and the young man about ten minutes to reach the bottom of the crevice.

From Hu Mingye's perspective, the ground at the bottom of the crack was covered with uneven black volcanic rocks and bones that had fallen from the bronze chains.

On top of that, a thick layer of withered bones and excrement covered it.
That's disgusting!
Hu Ming curled his lip in disdain.

This godforsaken place has been used as a nest by the human-faced bird, which eats, drinks, and relieves itself here. Over thousands of years, the harshness of the environment here is unimaginable.

Not far from the two, on the cliff face, stood an incredibly magnificent two-sided bronze gate.

It was a massive gate, about thirty meters high but sixty meters long, cast entirely from a single piece of bronze.

It's hard to imagine what kind of advanced smelting technology was needed to forge such a massive door.

However, before that, Hu Ming still needs to accomplish his goal: to obtain the main ingredient of the elixir of immortality.

"Hey bro, before we go in, could I open the bronze gatekeeper's coffin first?"

"If we go down into the tomb and don't open the coffin, it just doesn't feel right!"

Shifting his gaze from the bronze door, Hu Ming looked at the small pyramid-like stone platform in the middle of the rift valley.

A narrow stone staircase was built on the stone platform, with a small lamp servant on each side of each step.

On the stone platform, there was a huge white stone coffin. Nine hundred-legged dragons were wrapped around the bottom of the coffin in the shape of blooming lotus flowers. Around it, there were four black human figures facing the four directions, kneeling.

This is the coffin of the last incarnation of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves, also known as the Nine Dragons Carrying the Corpse Coffin!
(End of this chapter)