Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 610: Mirror Palace

"Maybe what you said is true, Wu Xie just simply likes that child..."

"but!"

"I'm suddenly not interested in you guys anymore, Professor Hu. That kid is very interesting! I'm suddenly very interested in him!"

A woman's sixth sense told Su Nan that she must have discovered some deeply hidden secret. She licked her dry lips with the tip of her tongue and whispered meaningfully.

“…That’s great!”

Hu Ming's eyes flickered at the right moment, and he spoke casually in a tone that seemed indifferent but concealed a deep solemnity.

Coincidentally, the solemnity in his indifference was caught by Su Nan, who had been staring at Hu Ming's eyes.

Seeing this, Su Nan smiled.

Su Nan smiled confidently!
In the hands of an experienced hunter, no matter how cunning a fox is, it will eventually reveal its tail, right?
Even Hu Ming, this formidable enemy, eventually revealed his fatal weakness inadvertently!
That child, Li Cu, is very important!
Perhaps, that child will be an excellent breakthrough!
The smile on Su Nan's face became brighter

But she noticed the playfulness in Hu Ming's eyes, which looked unhappy, and she...taunted him!
The bait has been successfully thrown out, and what happens next depends on the methods used by the parties on stage.

"What are you talking about? You look so happy?"

Just when the atmosphere between the two of them suddenly became a little weird, Wu Xie walked over with Li Cu who was lowering his head.

The smile on Su Nan's face did not diminish. He ignored Wu Xie and turned his gaze towards Li Cu.

"Kid, Wu Xie and Hu Ming are both old foxes who eat people without leaving any bones. If you follow them, you won't know when you will be sold out."

"You might even happily count money for them!"

"If you encounter any danger in the future, why not come to me? I mean, I like young people very much. I can definitely help you."

When Su Nan was talking to Li Cu, he kept a subtle eye on Wu Xie, making a final confirmation.

"Ms. Su, are you trying to steal my girlfriend right in front of me? Isn't that a bit too much?"

"You are mercenaries, are you really willing to drag this kid down into this precarious situation?"

Wu Xie saw Hu Ming's obscure gesture, but his expression remained unchanged, revealing just the right amount of uneasiness and suspicion.

"Then is it safe to follow you into the graveyard?"

"At least, I can provide this child with the life he wants. Of course, the prerequisite is that he must give me the information I want!"

Wu Xie's performance was the final word, and Su Nan had made up his mind completely.

It's about time to pass this important news back home.

"You? No, I know Hu Ming and Wu Xie definitely have bad intentions towards me, but it seems that I am very important to them, and they won't let me be in danger easily."

"As for you, I don't know you, I'm not familiar with you. To me, you are more dangerous than them!"

After Wu Xie's comfort and heart-to-heart talk, Li Cu's emotions obviously stabilized. He raised his head and looked at Su Nan suspiciously with red eyes.

Well done, Li Cu!
Hu Ming and Wu Xie secretly praised Li Cu's words!
This is so wonderfully said!
Didn't you see that the last bit of doubt in Su Nan's eyes had disappeared?
"I like you more and more, Li Cu. Believe me, there are still many days to come, and we will definitely get along happily!"

Wu Xie sincerely hugged Li Cu's shoulders and sighed, "How's it going, Eleven? How's the exploration going?"

After meeting with Boss Ma on November 11, Su Nan was obviously in a good mood.

"We walked a few corridors forward and found that this place seemed to be exactly the same as where we were before."

Eleven didn't understand the twists and turns between Hu Ming and the others. He didn't notice anything at all and just thought it was the unpredictable mood of a woman.

After all, she is also a woman, and sometimes she is inexplicably happy.

"Exactly the same? Hu Ming, did we take the wrong road?"

"Are we going back the same way now? Even a professional like you can make mistakes sometimes?"

Su Nan raised her eyebrows and looked at Hu Ming provocatively.

".Then this girl with dreadlocks must not have noticed that the spatial structure and layout here, and even the mechanisms, are all mirror-symmetrical with the places she passed before!"

Hu Ming brushed the stone wall gently and spoke softly.

Su Nan was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"Assuming that the place we went to before was the East Palace, then the place we are staying in now is the West Palace. The structures of the two are relatively the same!"

Wu Xie then explained.

"In other words, this is actually a Mirror Palace. Have you heard of Mirror Palace? It's very popular in Guangxi Province."

"To put it simply, the structure above ground and the structure below ground are completely mirror-reversed!"

Speaking of Jing'er Palace, Hu Mingyou inevitably thought of his fourth grandfather who died at his hands, and his daughter who was sleeping in the Kingdom of Queen Mother of the West.

Wu Xie then thought of Wu Sanxing.
"Of course, from the composition of the rock formations here, I can tell that our current position is at the same level as before..."

"I know that we walked a long downward passage before. It is a special structure. Through psychological suggestion and other means, we are deceived into thinking that we are going down further."

"In reality, that passage is just circling the horizontal plane."

Finally, Hu Ming continued to add.

"Professor Hu, I don't quite understand what you said. I just want to know how we can find the mirror palace you mentioned?"

Boss Ma said that these were not his specialty at all and he was confused when listening to them. He just wanted to go deeper into the underground palace and find what he wanted, nothing more.

"What he meant was that as long as we find the connection point between the two mirror palaces, we can easily enter them..."

Su Nan understood and explained casually.

"Bingo! That's right. We have reached this connection point!"

Hu Ming snapped his fingers, walked to the left stone wall, clenched his right fist, and punched the stone wall entangled by dense tree roots!
Click click click.
The thousand-year-old mechanism began to operate in an instant.

The tree roots were torn off bit by bit, and the stone wall behind it cracked into a passage for two people to walk side by side!