Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

What's behind the screen
This is clearly a corpse covered in white sediment!!!
The corpse had been dead for an unknown period of time. Its surface was oily and smooth, and upon closer inspection, it was covered with a layer of adipocere, indicating that it had completely waxed.

Beneath the white sediment, the corpse's face was contorted, suggesting it had suffered immense pain before death.

This thing is a dead thing! It will never turn into a zombie no matter what.

The shadowy figures behind the screen
It's only the size of a palm, and it's still acting cute and adorable!
Wu Xie, expressionless, grabbed the thing and considered whether to eat it later.
As for the corpse
Wu Xie would swear on his life's integrity that even with his unorthodox constitution, this thing would absolutely not rise from the dead!
Hu Ming swam over and looked him up and down.

Upon closer inspection, this thing looks remarkably like a ghostly figure.

If Hu Ming hadn't confirmed that the Shadow Man was dead at his hands, he would have really thought this was the Shadow Man's corpse.

Moving the gaze downwards, one sees a corpse that has been dead for an unknown period of time, its right wrist severed.

Judging from the marks on the wound, it was cut after the person died.

My gaze shifted down to the severed area of ​​the wrist.

Unlike the waxy coating on the body, the area where the wrist was severed was covered in black and red mold.

This is rust! Here on my wrist, it was cast with pig iron.

The patterns on the pig iron were exactly the same as those on the iron blocks we had encountered before; anyone with a discerning eye could tell that they were from the same style.

At Hu Ming's prompting, the group focused their attention on the discovery, looking on in astonishment.

Without a doubt, this strange iron block originated from the bottom of this lake.

Gestures are not enough to convey complex information, leaving the group confused and unable to communicate as usual.

They could only follow Hu Ming, who suddenly turned around and continued forward.

Hu Ming's direction led to a large door at the deepest part of the back hall.

According to common architectural knowledge, in a courtyard, the back door of the back hall should lead to the open space in the backyard.

However, this building is full of incongruities and completely inconsistent with the traditional Chinese architectural style.

After opening the dilapidated back door, instead of the expected backyard, there was a staircase leading underground!
At this moment, the undercurrents in the lake became increasingly rapid.

Visible to the naked eye.

The lake water spirals out of shape, flowing into the darkness.

The moment Hu Ming opened the gate, the lake water flowed even faster.

Hu Ming gestured for someone behind him to "follow," and then swam into the secret passage using the current. There's an old saying in the tomb raiding business.

Building villas deep in the mountains means either overseas Chinese or tomb raiders.

This place is located deep in the mountains and forests, in a remote area.

In the Yao village, this strange ancient building with a late Qing Dynasty architectural style is the most unique and luxurious ancient building in the entire village.

It looks exactly like a fake building used by tomb raiders to conceal their identities.

Although, in reality, the nature of Zhang Family Ancient Building isn't much different, is it?
In particular, the wide, dark passageway was lined with iron terracotta warriors made of cast iron!
Each iron terracotta warrior is so lifelike that, if it weren't for the rust on its body, it would look just like a real person.

The passageway was constructed entirely of bricks and mortars, with two-tiered iron racks on both sides. The only goods on the racks were iron terracotta warriors.

Based on a rough estimate, the number of bodies is around six or seven hundred.

Upon first seeing this thing, most people would probably think that the Zhang family actually wholesales iron terracotta warriors!
Hu Ming knew perfectly well that these iron terracotta warriors contained Midraksha! An unimaginably large number of Midraksha were imprisoned on a mountaintop in this mountainous region using special methods.

Deeper underground within this ancient building, there are also many Mydras.

Because of certain special means, those midra should not be able to come out from here.

But those humanoid creatures that Hu Ming and his group encountered before... were clearly Mydras!
It's a failed attempt, a byproduct, of the Zhang family's research into immortality!
It's worth mentioning that all the iron terracotta warriors had the same expression throughout the journey.

Even more bizarrely, the right hand of all the iron terracotta warriors was severed from their wrists!
Like the wax corpse in the back room before, the wounds were very irregular, clearly indicating that it had been violently dismembered.

Swimming to the end of the passage, there was no underground courtyard; there was only a stone wall.

A circular vertical shaft suddenly appeared on the brick floor below the stone wall.

Regardless of the bizarre architectural style, digging a vertical well for water in the basement of a house is a foolish act.

Upon closer inspection, it is not actually a well; there are protruding steps next to the wellhead for easy climbing.

This is clearly a secret passage leading to a deeper area!
For a moment, the expressions of the people following Hu Ming became somewhat strange.

In this situation, no matter how you look at it, it seems like this so-called Zhang Family Ancient Building was built to cover up tomb raiding activities!
In particular, the plaque in the front hall is enough to tell that the head of the Zhang family was a military officer at the time!
Was tomb raiding by warlords a rare occurrence in those days?
As for the ancient tombs hidden deep beside the unfathomable underground water veins.
Damn it, even lunatics build tombs underwater, so why can't people build tombs near underground water sources?
Heaven knows just how wildly imaginative those ancient people were.

They would even believe it if one day someone said that Zu Chongzhi's tomb was hidden in a crater on the far side of the moon!
As for how they got to the moon...
What if the ancients possessed advanced technologies that are difficult for modern people to comprehend?
After a brief exchange of gestures, the group had made up their minds.

Having come all this way and gone to such lengths to get this far, it would be extremely disheartening for anyone to turn back now.

After a brief rest, the group checked their weapons and then scrambled into the shaft one by one, taking advantage of the water flow to descend deeper and deeper.