Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 643 The withered bones of both forces!
Regarding the fact that Hu Ming went out and brought Aning back with him...

Luo Que and the others naturally wouldn't say much.

And Zhang Rishan, this 100-year-old monster...

He looked at Hu Ming meaningfully and smiled...

Until the next morning, Zhang Yueshan kept giving Hu Ming a meaningful smile.

"The Chen family's place is in front..."

"On the surface, the Chen family is mining the petrified jade here for health. In reality, you should understand what I mean, right?"

Arriving near the Chen family, Zhang Rishan whispered.

"We are all intelligent people, do we need to keep it a secret and keep it boring? What do they do for a living? Do we need to guess any more?"

Hu Ming said without comment.

"Whether it's tomb robbing or mining petrified jade, the Chen family has not been comfortable living here these years. Life is very hard. As long as it's a job that can make money, they are willing to do it!"

"Murder, arson, robbery, smuggling, and even selling unique products, as long as there is a lot of profit, they will not miss any of them!"

Aning, who was beside Hu Ming, smiled faintly and talked about the information she had investigated in Miandian in recent days.

"There is another point worth noting. Do you remember the bronze door I dug out yesterday?"

"According to reliable intelligence, Chen. seems to have known that there are certain secrets buried under this land. After leaving Changsha City, he directly settled here."

Talking about the Chen family leaving Changsha City, Aning looked at Hu Ming with a smile on her face.

Those unclear accounts back then were probably one of the reasons that forced the Chen family to leave their hometown.

"These are all secondary. If that hadn't happened, even if Chen Pi had died of natural causes, the successor of the Chen family would have moved the clan land here."

"Decades ago, the Buddha once commissioned Chenpi to build a special tomb! Yes, the entrance is that bronze door. The secrets underground here are closely related to the Buddha."

"Back then, Chen Pi and Master Fo reached an agreement not to touch the underground secrets, but the rest of the Chen family..."

Having said that, Zhang Yueshan sighed with a hint of regret.

"They are greedy, inexperienced, lack the ability, have high aspirations, and a fragile life. They don't have the luck, but they still covet things they shouldn't covet."

"Nothing else, just a way to die."

"Even if we didn't come here today, do you believe that Chen Jinshui, that reckless man, would have buried the entire Chen family just to dig out the things underground here?"

Hu Ming made a summary for Zhang Rishan, which was insightful and concise, and pointed out the biggest problem of the Chen family.

"Yes, that's what happened. After Chen Pi left, the Chen family no longer had anyone who could carry the responsibilities alone. Chen Jinshui was a little lacking. He had ambitions but lacked the mind and means to match them."

Zhang Rishan was silent. Hu Ming was right. This was a typical case of being unworthy of the position.

If you don't have the ability or qualifications but insist on making money, it will only lead to your death.

In the eyes of people like Hu Ming and Zhang Rishan, Chen Jinshui's self-righteous scheming is really a child's trick, which is laughable.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yueshan, as the president of the Jiumen Association, tacitly approved Hu Ming's next plan.

Rather than letting a rat's shit spoil the whole pot of soup sooner or later, why not just kill the rat early?
As they were talking, Hu Ming and the others had already walked out of the dense forest. In front of them, the ground was full of potholes and dilapidated signs.

Looking closely, the traces of these potholes are still very fresh, probably having occurred in the past one or two days.

"After the Chen family dug out the bronze door, they immediately sent people to open it and explore. Strangely, an earthquake was triggered for unknown reasons."

"All these holes in front of us are ground collapse caused by earthquakes. What's even more strange is that inside these holes, there are some..."

Aning pointed at the hole in front of them and said softly.

Before he finished speaking, Hu Ming had already jumped into the nearest pit in front of him, which was nearly three meters deep.

"The body..."

Aning looked at Hu Ming's actions and sighed.

Hu Ming squatted in front of the corpse at the bottom of the pit and turned the face-down corpse over.

This is a corpse that has been eaten away by underground microorganisms, leaving only a skeleton...

What’s strange is that the corpse’s original nostrils, mouth, ears, eyes and other seven orifices were all tightly plugged with soil that was different from the loess here.

"Carry them all up!"

Hu Ming took advantage of the edge of the pit and jumped up after a few jumps, whispering instructions.

After Luo Que and others laid out all the corpses in the nearby pits, Hu Ming checked them one by one.

"All of them were buried in this place after their seven orifices were blocked with mud and they suffocated to death."

"And these tools. Judging from the time they have decayed, Zhang Yueshan, do you think your master is using this place as bait, or are the people of the Chen family not abiding by the rules?"

Hu Ming glanced at Zhang Rishan and asked softly.

"Both. These people are clearly not from the same faction."

Zhang Yueshan narrowed his eyes and said softly.

"What a coincidence! I thought so too!"

Hu Ming nodded and said, "Let's go. What we want is inside that bronze door. Don't waste time."

"The problem is, this is the Chen family's territory. We are entering without permission. As the president of the Nine Gates Association, I can't take the lead in tearing up the non-aggression agreement, right?"

"We'd better go say hello to the Chen family."

Zhang Rishan stopped Hu Ming and said in embarrassment.

Sometimes, the so-called agreement is actually just bullshit, and the main purpose of its existence is to tear it up when needed.

But Zhang Rishan's position was too sensitive, and even if it was just for show, he had to lead by example.
"Go ahead. I'll bring people to the bronze gate to wait for you."

"Luo Que, take a few people with Zhang Rishan. Just in case, I mean just in case, our President Zhang and the Chen family have a falling out, help them!"

"However, I estimate that there is a high probability that Chen Jinshui will ask us to help him explore the treasures inside!"

Hu Ming said that he didn't like those boring conversations with pretentiousness, so he would just wait for them at the door.