Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 40 Conflict
Hu Ming and Hu Bayi also walked to Professor Chen and the others, searching for something of value among the pile of corpses.

However, these were just burial pits; there were too many corpses, so the two searched carefully.

Then, Hu Ming finally found a ruby ​​pendant among the corpses. Upon seeing this, Hu Ming murmured, "It seems there aren't just slaves here, but other people too. Perhaps the construction workers, or other serious criminals?"

Hu Ming put it directly into his spatial storage and then continued his search.

When Hu Ming found the fourth treasure, Sa Dipeng asked, "Brother Hu Ming, do you think this place was built by aliens?" He took out his camera and started taking pictures everywhere.

He was about to go up the nine-story demon tower to take some pictures when he ran into Hu Ming at the bottom of the tower. He smiled and said, "I was just asking casually, don't scold me."

"It's hard to say, Xiao Sa," Hu Ming said, his voice suddenly becoming unusually gentle because he had been too focused on finding something to pay much attention to Xiao Sa.

When Sadi Peng heard Hu Ming say this, he assumed that Hu Ming was a kindred spirit, and his eyes lit up. In fact, the reason he was doing archaeology was to study extraterrestrials.

Searching for ancient tombs buried on Earth by extraterrestrials.

Seeing his sudden joy, Hu Ming couldn't help but marvel at his wild imagination!
Click.

Chu Jian suddenly tripped and fell, landing right on a skeleton, which broke into several pieces.

The fireflies on the Nine-Story Demon Tower were startled. One by one, they slightly opened their wings, and a ghostly blue flame rose up. A burning power was transmitted directly to the hearts of everyone present.

Everyone held their breath, but thankfully, the firefly retracted its wings, and everything returned to calm.

"Xiao Chu, be careful."

"Are you alright?" Seeing Chu Jian's somewhat clumsy movements, the two professors were both a little helpless.

You can't even walk steadily, and you call yourself a mountaineer.

Just then, the fat man suddenly appeared out of nowhere, carrying a yellowed leather bag.

"Mingzi, look at this." Seeing the fat man shaking his briefcase, Hu Ming immediately recognized it as the notebook belonging to Yang Xueli's so-called "father." Sure enough, this fat guy always had good luck. However, Hu Ming wasn't interested in the notebook. He already knew most of what he needed to know, so he didn't need it.

Just then, Hu Ming was about to ask Hu Bayi about the treasures he had found when he discovered that the bastard had gone to find Yang Xueli sometime earlier.

To find her notebook, Yang Xueli risked her life to climb the steps at the foot of the Demon Tower. Fireflies were less than half a meter away from her; she could clearly feel their blazing, ghostly blue flames. She wondered to herself: Where is my notebook?
Yang Xueli was now in a panic. There were no steps, so she turned around and, looking down, saw the fat man's handbag in the burial pit. Her face lit up with joy, and she quickly went down.

Seeing Yang Xueli leave, Hu Bayi, who was beside her, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Yang Xueli would disturb the fireflies. This woman is incredibly careless.

Hu Bayi and Yang Xueli had just come down a step when they brushed past Sa Dipeng.

"Little Sa, hurry up and leave." Seeing that Sa Dipeng wouldn't listen to him, Hu Bayi frowned. These people all seem to be looking for death.

He looked down and saw the fat man smugly opening his pocket in front of Hu Ming. He sighed; these two brothers were truly risking their lives for money. However, they each had their share of the money. At that moment, Shirley Yang came down and stood beside the fat man. Seeing the leather bag in the fat man's hand, she realized that it contained what her father and the others had left behind.

"Mr. Wang, give me the bag." The fat man already disliked Yang Xueli; did he really want to give her the bag?
"You'll have to pay more, fifty thousand US dollars." Holy crap, the fat guy just threw out money, and Hu Ming almost couldn't help but laugh.

"No way, give me the package." Yang Xueli said with a stern face, knowing that the fat man was the kind of person who wouldn't take advantage of her kindness and would ask her for money at the drop of a hat.

"No extra money, no bag." The fat man tucked the bag under his arm and glared at Yang Xueli with displeasure.

Others came over when they saw the argument. Hu Ming was about to persuade the fat man to give the bag to Yang Xueli when...

"Fatty, we don't need that bag, you can just give it to her..."

Before Hu Ming could finish speaking, Yang Xueli suddenly pulled out a gun and pointed it at the fat man.

Hu Ming was furious when he saw this and was about to make a move when Hu Bayi stepped forward and said, "Miss Yang Xueli, put the gun away and Fatty, give her the bag."

"I..." Just as the fat man was about to say something, Hu Ming suddenly said, "Fatty, give her the bag!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man looked at Hu Ming, only to find that Hu Ming's face was expressionless, but a cold glint flashed in his eyes. The fat man was immediately frightened, as he knew that Hu Ming was in a state of rage.

The fat man decisively threw the bag to Yang Xueli, and just as Yang Xueli caught the bag...

Hu Ming suddenly said calmly, "You should be glad that Old Hu came. Otherwise, just because you pointed a gun at my brother, I would have twisted your head off. Do you believe I can do that?"

Hu Ming was only about two meters away from Yang Xueli. He was confident that he could make her deflect the gun before she fired, and then it wouldn't be difficult for him to kill her with his twenty years of experience in level eight boxing.

Just then, Professor Hao was about to interject, "Hu Mingtong..."

But he noticed that Hu Ming was looking at him, and there was a hint of bloodlust in his eyes.

Professor Chen immediately pulled Professor Hao behind him. At this moment, Hu Bayi said expressionlessly, "Let's talk about it outside. Let's leave it at that for now!"

Hu Ming nodded calmly upon hearing this, knowing that Hu Bayi meant he should settle the score after he left.

Hu Bayi now truly regrets taking on this mission. He has already decided that after he gets out, he will leave with Hu Ming and Fatty, since there's no contract involved anyway.

Although Hu Bayi had feelings for Yang Xueli, it was just feelings. Fatty and Hu Ming were his brothers who had gone through life and death together, yet Yang Xueli actually pointed a gun at him.

Professor Chen didn't know what to say. No matter how wrong the fat man was, he couldn't point a gun at him. Besides, he had just heard Hu Ming trying to persuade the fat man to give her the bag!

The two tall soldiers felt even worse about Yang Xueli, as pointing a gun at a comrade was a taboo in the army.

(End of this chapter)