Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 94 Escaping the Ancient City of Jingjue
Just then, Professor Chen, who had fainted, suddenly went mad.

"Monster! Roar, they're dead, dead, all dead, hahahahahahaha!" Professor Chen shouted and jumped around in a frenzy.

"Ah! There's a ghost! A monster! I'm not afraid of you monsters!" Professor Chen screamed.

"professor!"

"professor!"

Yang Xueli felt terrible looking at the insane Professor Chen and secretly blamed herself.

Ye Yixin, who had just fainted and was woken up by Professor Chen, felt even more distressed upon seeing this.

Seeing Professor Chen run to Fatty's side, Old Hu quickly shouted, "Fatty, stop Professor Chen!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man immediately protected the insane Professor Chen.
"Monster, monster, I'm not afraid of you! I'm a scientist, hahahahaha!..."

The professor, who was being held by the fat man, struggled desperately.

Seeing Hu Ming suddenly become flustered, he simply stepped forward, opened the stone box, and found a second black stone box inside.

Hu Ming then opened it and took out the prophet's parchment book, which this time truly contained prophecies.

"Come here!"

"This is a drawing by the ancient sage. It mainly tells about the secrets of the Ghost Cave tribe. This Zaglama Mountain is known as a sacred mountain because it has a Ghost Cave. Everyone wants to know what is inside the cave."

"So they invited a high priest to make a jade eyeball, hoping to see through it and understand this bottomless pit. But it didn't work. Instead, it attracted a large number of strange snakes and killed countless people and livestock," Hu Ming explained as he looked at the parchment book.

"Why do we have to watch this when we're just bored?" the fat man complained.

Hu Bayi thought for a moment and said, "Is it the jade eye we saw in the temple?"

Hu Ming nodded.

"Finally, the two saints favored by the true gods, along with the warriors of their tribe, wiped out the serpent beasts. From then on, the ancient saints regarded the cave as a place of calamity, but the Jade Eye had already opened the door to disaster," Hu Ming explained.

"Mingzi, are you going to tell us the story from the beginning?" the fat man asked anxiously.

Hu Ming glanced at the fat man and said speechlessly, "Nonsense, I didn't write this."

Hu Bayi said, "Fatty, don't interrupt!"

"After this, the tribe had a prophet, who was this child with the ability to foresee the future."

Hu Ming looked at the remains of the prophet beside him.

It is said that through the ritual, he can speak of major events that will occur thousands of years in the future, but only within the vicinity of Mount Zagrama.

Before Hu Ming could finish speaking, Professor Chen suddenly shouted, "You want to see, but don't!"

Then he rushed over to snatch the parchment book, but Hu Ming, seeing Professor Chen rushing towards him, delivered a ruthless chop to Professor Chen's neck, and Professor Chen instantly collapsed to the ground unconscious.

Are you kidding me? This frail little thing, does she think she'd dare snatch something from me?
"professor!"

"professor!"

Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang rushed forward to check! Ye Yixin also hurriedly walked over.

"Don't worry, he's fine. I just knocked him unconscious!" Hu Ming said to Ye Yixin, then continued to flip through the parchment book in his hand.

"Later it is said that the prophet foretold that eight hundred years after his death, a new tribe would come to Mount Laglama, which would be the predecessor of the Jingjue Kingdom."

"The later Queen of Jingjue grew a pair of eyes that could see through ghost caves. She mastered the ritual of summoning the black snake evil spirit with the jade eye sacrificial vessel, and thus conquered more than a dozen neighboring countries."

"And the atrocities committed by these heretics angered the true God, who then handed over the mountain and the surrounding area to the devil. The desert swallowed all the cities, and all the people and livestock of this country, as well as the black serpent evil spirits in the ghost cave, will be buried deep underground."

Upon hearing Hu Ming's explanation, Hu Bayi looked at Yang Xueli in surprise and said, "This is consistent with the legend of Jingjue Kingdom that you told us before."

Yang Xueli nodded and said, "That's right!"

Before the fat man could even hear how to get out, he hurriedly asked, "What happens next?"

Hu Ming turned another page and said, "The following passage says that the sage prophesied that six survivors would come here because of a landslide, one of whom was a descendant of the prophet's tribe."

After Hu Ming finished speaking, he looked at Yang Xueli.

Hu Ming knew in his heart that Yang Xueli was a descendant of the prophet, but there were still things he hadn't mentioned, such as the demon and the dragon descendant mentioned in this booklet...

Hu Ming guessed that the "descendant of the dragon" referred to himself, but he really didn't know who the "demon" was—Professor Chen, Xiao Ye, or...?

Hu Bayi thought for a moment, then looked at Yang Xueli and said, "Of the five of us, you're the most likely candidate!"

“That’s right. Since the Queen of Jingjue appeared to you in a dream, you must be connected to this place. It’s probably you.” The fat man nodded in agreement.

"Shirley, did your ancestors live here?" Hu Bayi asked Yang Shirley.

"No matter who it is, it must be one of the six of us. The most important thing is to get out of here first!" Yang Xueli didn't want to talk about these things now and started to change the subject.

Hu Ming knew Yang Xueli's identity, so he didn't ask any questions and continued to flip through the next page, saying, "The prophet will point out a way to escape for his descendants, but never drop the parchment on the ground."

"When it falls to the ground, it will be the start of a sandstorm. At that time, the yellow sand will once again bury the ancient city of Jingjue and Mount Zaglama, and the sacred mountain will be buried again until the end of time."

After saying that, he flipped through several pages, but there was nothing left; it was all blank. "Then this parchment book is a time bomb!" The fat man didn't understand anything, but he understood the danger.

"Is there no more content after this?" Hu Bayi asked Hu Ming.

"That's all. The last clue is that it will point out an escape route for future generations, and secondly, it's important not to drop the parchment on the ground," Hu Ming said, shaking his head.

"Let's see if there are any instructions on the remains!"

After Yang Xueli finished speaking, she went to examine the remains of the prophet.

Hu Bayi also turned on his flashlight and carefully examined the prophet's remains, hoping to find a clue from them.

"Mingzi, why don't you put the parchment book away first? If you lose it, we're doomed!" The fat man looked at the parchment book in Hu Ming's hand as if it were a time bomb.

"Ha, I almost forgot!" Hu Ming laughed, then threw the sheepskin booklet on the ground.

You see, to get out, you have to smash the parchment on the ground. The original work was completed by Professor Chen, but now that Professor Chen has been knocked unconscious, you have to finish it yourself and scare the three of them.

"Damn it, Mingzi, what are you doing?!" The fat man was so scared he almost vomited.

Hu Bayi and Yang Xueli, who were examining the prophet's remains, turned around and felt a chill run down their spines.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ye, who was taking care of Professor Chen, almost fainted again.

Hu Ming smiled slightly: "Trust me, otherwise, how would we get out of here with these surrounding stone walls!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The mountain immediately began to tremble.

The stones above everyone's heads began to fall down.

The stones on the cliff began to fall off, and suddenly three holes appeared in front of everyone.

"This prophet is playing tricks on us! He said we couldn't drop the parchment, but now that it's fallen on the ground, a passage has appeared, and suddenly there are three passages! He's forcing us to choose one of three!"

The fat man dodged the falling rocks from time to time, and suddenly felt utterly hopeless.

"There should only be one right path, and we only have one chance. If we choose the wrong path again, we're really doomed!" Yang Xueli said anxiously.

"What should we do?!" Ye Yixin panicked. Her face, which was already pale, turned even paler.

Compared to the others, the composed Hu Ming finally showed a relieved smile after seeing the direction the prophet was pointing.

"Quickly, take Professor Chen with you and come with me!" Hu Ming shouted, then carried Ye Yixin on his back and ran into the cave the prophet had pointed out.

Seeing that Hu Ming had already led Xiao Ye inside, the three of them had no choice but to follow with Professor Chen.

The four of them walked for a short while in the stone path, and within minutes they came out of the cave and into the outside.

Outside, yellow sand was flying everywhere; a sandstorm was approaching, and the four of them could only run forward as fast as they could.

Hu Ming hadn't walked far when he saw Anliman and his camel fleeing.

He quickly drew his gun and began firing into the sky!
"Da da, da da!..."

Anliman, who was running away quickly with his camels, heard the gunshot and immediately saw Hu Ming and the others.

"Whoa!" The camel was quickly brought to a stop.

Seeing Anliman stop, Hu Ming shouted, "Hurry up, get on the camels!"

The group ran all the way to the camels. The fat man quickly put Professor Chen on a camel and tied him with a rope to prevent him from falling off. Then they all got on the camels, while Xiao Ye rode the same camel as Hu Ming.

"drive!"

"drive!"

Escape quickly.

After running for about ten minutes, even the camel couldn't run anymore.

"Come down and dig a hole!" Hu Ming shouted.

Then he drew his machete and used all his strength to quickly cut a chasm.

"Everyone get down!"

There's no way to run now; we can only sleep in this endless black sand, just like in the original story.

After Yang Xueli pulled Professor Chen off the camel, she carefully covered him with a blanket to prevent him from inhaling too much sand.

Then, along with Professor Chen and Fatty Hu Bayi, they lay down in the ditch she had dug herself.

Anliman quickly lay down beside the camel; anyone who didn't know better would have thought he was pretending to be dead...

Hu Ming looked up at the approaching sandstorm and quickly hugged Xiao Ye and lay down.

(End of this chapter)