Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 891 The Cry from the Bottom of the Lake!

Beneath the dark lake water, three figures held their breath and submerged.

Hu Ming gestured to the two people beside him, indicating that he wanted to go downstream to see the specific situation.

Hu Bayi and Fatty nodded in response, giving him a thumbs-up to show their support.

Hu Ming descended alone, spreading his arms to reach the bottom of the lake.

The lakebed was covered with lush aquatic plants.

He looked to his left and right and could see some badly damaged stone statues.

"Where exactly is the treasure hidden below?"

Hu Ming had some doubts in his mind, and he began searching nervously.

"Waaaaah—"

A strange, eerie sound of a woman crying came from one direction behind us.

Hu Ming was startled. This was the bottom of the lake; how could there be crying coming from here?

But this incredible thing is actually happening right in front of him.

The mournful cry seemed to be deliberately enticing him, constantly echoing in Hu Ming's ears.

"Damn it, I'm going to go and see what kind of demons and monsters are causing trouble!"

Hu Ming cursed inwardly, then immediately stretched out his arms forcefully, his whole body like a nimble fish, heading towards the direction from which the crying sound came.

He arrived at the area where the crying echoed, and there he saw a dark cave entrance in front of him.

In the pitch-black passage, he struggled desperately, but the pair of fair, jade-like arms that held him seemed as strong as steel, and he could not break free even a fraction of the way.

A violent feeling of suffocation washed over him, and Hu Ming coughed painfully as icy seawater rushed into his mouth and nose.

"Damn it, am I going to die here in such a muddled way today?"

Hu Ming thought this with resentment, but the suffocating feeling from lack of oxygen caused him to faint and his vision went black.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but when Hu Ming groggily woke up again, he found himself in a damp cave.

"Tick tock-"

Water droplets condensed on the damp rock wall dripped down and hit his face.

Hu Ming blinked hard, and then forced himself to sit up.

Where is this place?

He looked around and saw white snail shells scattered on the ground in the misty cave.

"This snail shell is way too big! Could it be some kind of undiscovered giant snail?"

Hu Ming stood up, walked to a huge snail shell, glanced at it, and couldn't help but comment.

This white snail shell is more than half the height of a person and looks like it could completely fit an adult inside.

"Something strange!"

Hu Ming rubbed his temples with his right hand and continued to look around.

The cave was shrouded in mist and had many interconnected passages, with no exit in sight.

"I wonder how Fatty and Old Hu are doing now?"

Hu Ming became somewhat worried: "I hope the attack that happened to me won't also happen to those two."

He felt a pang of self-reproach: "Damn it, if I had known things would turn out this way, I should have swum back and discussed it with them first."

Of course, no matter how much resentment one feels right now, it's all useless.

Hu Ming understood this principle perfectly, so he slapped his face hard and cheered himself up.

"The most important thing now is to figure out what kind of environment we are in right now, and whether we can contact the outside world." Hu Ming looked at his waist and took out the wet walkie-talkie.

He banged on the walkie-talkie and then turned it on.

"Waaaaah—"

But then a chilling scene unfolded: the walkie-talkie, once opened, emitted a terrifying sound of a woman crying.

"Snapped!"

Hu Ming lost his grip, and the walkie-talkie fell to the ground at his feet.

"what the hell?"

He stared at the walkie-talkie at his feet with a look of surprise and uncertainty, only to hear the chilling crying still ringing out.

What kind of hellish place is this?

Hu Ming picked up the troublesome walkie-talkie and turned it off.

"We shouldn't stay here any longer; let's figure out a way to leave first."

Once he made up his mind, he immediately took action.

He quickly rushed into the cave in front of him.

However, the other end of this cave was not an exit.

Instead, this place is a lush green shallow beach where strange fish with long legs can be seen crawling back and forth among the abundant seaweed.

"A fish with legs?"

Hu Ming was stunned when he saw this.

He hesitated and continued walking forward, when he accidentally discovered ancient murals on the cave walls.

What are these murals?

He leaned closer and carefully examined the contents.

In the mural, there is a vast blue seabed, from which countless snail shells emerge graceful women who swim on the seabed, their hands supporting golden light.

"What does this mean?"

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming immediately frowned.

He touched the tip of his nose and guessed with a puzzled expression.

"Could it be that the mural means there is a group of snail women at the bottom of this lake, who are the guardians of the golden treasure?"

Just as he was thinking this, he heard the sound of women sobbing from the fog ahead.

"What the hell? What kind of monsters and demons?"

Hu Ming's face changed in fright, and he quickly looked up as if facing a formidable enemy.

Upon hearing this eerie cry, the strange fish beneath his feet scattered in terror and fled into the lush seaweed thicket.

"I should hide too!"

Hu Ming was making these plans, but before he could take any action, he saw graceful figures leaping up from the cave entrance in the distance.

"What, what is this?"

Hu Ming frowned slightly as he looked over and saw these snail-like women, who seemed to have stepped out of a mural, arriving silently like ghosts.

"Waaaaah—"

These snail women covered their red lips with their delicate hands and chuckled softly, but this laughter was precisely the kind of sound that makes one's scalp tingle and one weep.

"So that's where the crying from the bottom of the lake came from?"

Hu Ming thought to himself, "I understand!"