Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 718: Mute girl?

“Yes, I am already in this village.”

"So quiet? I don't know the specific situation. I'm checking everywhere. As for Hu Ming, he's a very particular person. He's looking for a place to relieve himself."

"Okay, don't worry. It's only natural to get paid for work. Hu Ming and I are partners. I can't think of anything we can't do. Okay, let's do this. We will definitely find the entrance. Contact us later."

After hanging up the phone with Wu Erbai, the blind man walked in the village. When he got here, he had already heard some sounds, and he followed the source of the sounds to the central area of ​​the village.

"Hey!"

"ha!"

A group of men were sitting cross-legged in a circle with their upper bodies naked. In the center, an old woman dressed as a witch was doing some strange movements.

The blind man couldn't see clearly through the crowd, but he could roughly guess that it was some kind of sacrificial dance.

After thinking about it, the blind man chose the same method as Hu Ming. He leaped up and down a few times and easily jumped onto the roof, looking down from above.

Now the blind man could see clearly.

In the middle of the crowd was a simple bamboo stretcher, on which lay a...

"No, it's a dead person, a corpse!"

Adjusting his sunglasses, the blind man discovered something was wrong.

At this time, the sacrificial ceremony was at its climax, and the witch was carving a mysterious pattern on the back of the corpse.

Finally, when everything seemed ready, the witch took a knife from the man standing beside her.
Boom!
Suddenly, at this moment, a thunderbolt exploded in the clear sky.

In an instant, the cloudless sky turned gloomy. Dark clouds gathered visibly, a flash of lightning tore through the sky, and raindrops as big as beans poured down.

The blind man frowned.

All this...seems a little too coincidental.

Continuing to watch, the sudden rainstorm did not affect the sacrifice. On the contrary, it seemed that the thunder was some kind of mysterious signal. A hint of joy appeared on the witch's face, and she slashed at the corpse with the knife in her hand.

"Tsk, what a weird village, the villagers are weird, the customs are weird, and the sacrifices are even weirder. They actually look for thunder to dissect the corpse?"

"Hu Ming, you mean it? I haven't seen you for just a few minutes. Where did you kidnap this girl from?"

When the blind man turned around, he found that Hu Ming was restraining a young woman with a ponytail and wearing a white T-shirt and denim shorts with one hand. The woman screamed strangely and looked at Hu Ming with a very weird look.

“It’s a long story, and a bit nonsense.”

Hu Ming held his forehead and sighed.

How to explain? Saying that he met the woman secretly taking photos in the men's restroom?
Who would believe it if I told them?
A white T-shirt, denim shorts, a neat ponytail and simple light makeup make this woman's face look even more delicate, a mixture of maturity and youth, highlighting a unique charm.

"Forget it, these are just small matters. Now everything proves that we have found the right place. The only problem now is that the villagers in this village are too xenophobic."

"Besides, due to the customs of this country, guns are rampant, and the people at the entrance of the village have become wary of us. Under this premise, it is obviously not easy to quietly find the place we are looking for."

Because of the woman of unknown origin, the blind man could only express his meaning in an obscure way. Thunder, sacrifice, and dissection, all of which were obviously not coincidental. This mysterious sacrificial activity must have been carried out in pursuit of thunder and under such special weather conditions.

As she spoke, the witch had already taken something out of the corpse, washed it in the water, and held it high.

It was a piece of metal reed, engraved with strange patterns. Because they were too far away, Hu Ming and the blind man could not see it clearly.

At the same time, seeing the metal reed in the witch's hand, the villagers gathered in a circle and raised their hands and cheered, as if they were comforted by the corpse.

"Be careful! No one in this place is a good person. This village refuses to communicate with the outside world. If you walk around like this, you might get caught and used as a baby-making machine!"

"Coincidentally, you and the people in this village are a perfect match. You are all mute."

Hu Ming pressed down the head of the mute girl who was carelessly holding a DV and filming in the rain, avoiding several glances that happened to look at him.

".You are the baby-making machine! And, it's a perfect match for you!"

The mute girl rolled her eyes, and under the cover of Hu Ming's windbreaker, she continued filming the DV with one hand, and put her other hand on Hu Ming's nose and made gestures.

"Tsk, this girl has personality, and she's mute? Where did she come from? What a coincidence, what's her name?"

The blind man understood the sign language and was suddenly happy. He temporarily put aside his thoughts about the village and asked curiously.

"Prisoner! The prisoner I caught peeping at me while I was using the toilet!"

In the face of the mute girl's indignant gaze, Hu Ming said calmly: "And...tell me, how did you ask a mute her name? Since when can sign language express a person's name?"

"Anyway, just call her the mute girl."

Hu Ming also forgot the girl's name.

After all, I'm used to calling her a dumb girl.
It is worth mentioning that the character of the mute girl actually does not have many roles in the book. She is just a tool.
After all, it is well known that every female character created by Uncle San is just a tool, and it is the kind of tool that rarely has a good ending.

God knows why Uncle San is like this.

Could it be that women can only affect the speed at which Uncle San draws his sword?
So. Get up and fencing?
For a successful TV series, suspense, friendship, adventure, emotion and other elements are essential, and the actors also need to be supported, which also requires some compromise.

Therefore, in the TV series, the role of the tool-mute girl has undoubtedly increased.

But even so, Hu Ming still didn't remember the girl's name.

"I have a name. My name is..."

The mute girl always felt that she and Hu Ming were incompatible and wanted to refute Hu Ming, but after making gestures for a long time, she gave up dejectedly.

As Hu Ming said, it is almost impossible to express one's name clearly using sign language alone.

"She means that she has no objection, just call her the mute girl. That's it!"

As they were talking, the ceremony had completely ended. Miraculously, the dark clouds in the sky suddenly dissipated, and the sky cleared up with the sun shining brightly.

It was as if the heavy rain just now was just an illusion.

Wiping the rain off his face, Hu Ming rudely pressed the mute girl's head down, and greeted the witch who noticed the commotion with a kind smile on his face.