Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 132 High Priest

Hu Ming said, "Let's walk a little further, find a cave, and rest there!"

"There are many poisonous insects in the mountains at night, so it's not easy to travel at night." Hu Ming said. Hu Bayi nodded, and Yang Xueli also said she had no objection. As for Fatty, he couldn't wait to rest, stop and eat something to replenish his strength.

He almost broke his arm while paddling a bamboo raft before.

As night fell, the group found a suitable spot to shelter from the wind and rain.
A few people lit a campfire and gathered around it to begin their study.

"Hu Ming, Old Hu, I wonder if the Muchen Pearl is in the tomb of King Xian!" Yang Xueli said with a worried expression.

"Hey, I don't know if the Muchen Pearl is here or not, but this artifact is definitely here! It's good that there's an artifact! We can look for the Muchen Pearl slowly."

Hearing the fat man's words, Yang Xueli rolled her eyes at him helplessly and said, "You haven't changed your ways!"

After hearing what Yang Xueli said, the fat man objected.

"Hey!"

"Commander Yang, I'm saying that what you said is not right."

"You're looking for your Muchen Pearl, I'm taking my funerary object; we're essentially the same, don't you understand?"

"you……"

Just as the fat man was about to say something, Hu Ming stopped him immediately, listening to the sounds coming from afar.

"Listen!"

At this moment, Old Hu, who was already somewhat drowsy and about to fall asleep, immediately turned over and looked at Hu Ming after hearing what Hu Ming said.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Hu Bayi never took Hu Ming's intuition seriously, and he also felt a strong sense of crisis.

"There's something going on, listen to it," Hu Ming said, pointing in a direction.

"Tick-tock!...Tick-tock!..."

Soon, Hu Bayi heard a sound, a ticking sound.

"There really is a sound!" Hu Bayi suddenly became extremely clear-headed and alert, and began to observe his surroundings.

In the darkness, the ticking sound was especially eerie!
"Old Hu, grab your weapons, come with me outside and take a look!"

"it is good!"

"Yang Xueli and Fatty, stand here." After saying that, Hu Ming led Hu Bayi out...

They didn't know how far they had walked, but Hu Ming and Hu Bayi had found the direction from which the sound came, and there stood a giant tree.

"And that drip-drip-drip sound came from the trunk of this tree."

Under the flashlight, Hu Ming looked at the faint red reflection coming through the tree hole and at the surrounding layout. Hu Ming seemed to understand something.

……

Perhaps this place is the symbiotic tomb of the high priest of the Dian Kingdom!
However, the tree hole was surrounded by vines of various plants. Hu Ming cut away the surrounding things, and a tree hole the size of a bowl was fully exposed.

"Old Hu, come here!" Seeing this, the two men enlarged the tree hole even further.

"Mingzi, there's a coffin!"

"Um!"

Soon, the two dragged the transparent red coffin out of the coffin. Inside the coffin, red liquid could even be seen sloshing around.

"Come!"

"Open it!" Without another word, the two of them directly chose to open the coffin.

Inside the coffin, the thick, red, blood-like liquid, and the high priest, completely naked and indistinguishable from a living person, were immersed in it.

Beneath the corpse was the carcass of a white python, and next to it was a mask.

At this moment, Hu Ming put on his gloves...

"Is this the high priest's mask?"

"Could it be a symbiosis technique?" Hu Ming frowned, somewhat surprised by the thing...

"Mingzi, what's wrong?"

"fine!"

Just then, as Hu Ming and Hu Bayi continued their research and exploration, they heard Yang Xueli and Fatty's voices from behind.

Upon seeing this, Hu Ming put the mask away.

"What are you two doing here?"

"We thought something had happened to you two since you hadn't come back for so long!" At that moment, Fatty and Yang Xueli also came looking for them.

At this moment, the fat man pointed in surprise at the crystal coffin on the ground that Hu Ming and Hu Bayi had already opened, and frowned.

"Damn it, what's in here?" At this moment, the high priest, who was soaking in the coffin, was well preserved, especially after Hu Ming took away his mask, every wrinkle on his face was so clear.

He looked as if he were asleep. Hu Ming threw away his gloves and said.

"This is the High Priest's symbiotic coffin!"

"We used some special methods to preserve the body very well, so it hasn't decomposed at all," Hu Ming said, poking at the red liquid with a twig...

Yang Xueli found the things inside disgusting and subconsciously took a few steps back, unaware that the vines behind her were quietly approaching her.

"what!"

By the time she realized what was happening, her ankles were already entangled in vines. At that moment, the vines on the tree immediately dragged Yang Xueli upwards.

"Be careful!"

Fortunately, Hu Ming reacted quickly and grabbed Yang Xueli's hand, preventing her from being dragged away.

Since they had come out on short notice and didn't have any weapons on them, the fat man picked up a stone from the ground and hit it a few times at the vine that was wrapped around Yang Xueli's ankle, but it had no effect.

Seeing this, Hu Bayi and Hu Ming immediately grabbed the vines, preparing to violently tear them off. Unexpectedly, as soon as they grasped the vines, they felt a warm sensation on their hands.

Not only did the vines wrapped around Yang Xueli's feet loosen, but the high priest lying in the crystal coffin seemed to have been drained of his life force in an instant, transforming from a vibrant person into a dark, thin, and dried-up corpse.

Hu Ming, however, could sense everything that the giant tree could sense. At that moment, he felt as if he had become one with the giant tree, and he could even feel the heartbeat of the white python beneath the high priest.

"Symbiosis?" The symbiosis technique was activated involuntarily.

Hu Ming immediately released the vines; it all happened in an instant.

It turns out that everything here was already connected. After all this commotion, a whole night had passed, and the sky was already turning white, with the sun about to rise.

They didn't plan to linger, so they went back to pack up and continued on their way according to the map of human skin.

The four of them talked as they searched for the ruins of the ancient sacred path.

Since Hu Ming touched that mask, he discovered that he could not only form a symbiotic relationship with that huge ancient tree, but also with all the plants and animals around him—a somewhat strange ability.

However, with this ability, he quickly found the entrance to the Insect Valley and got closer and closer to the tomb of King Xian.

Standing outside the entrance to the Insect Valley, Hu Bayi hesitated for a moment, "Is this it?"

Hu Bayi was somewhat suspicious because this place looked like an ordinary valley entrance, surrounded by some messy plants, with nothing unusual about it.

However, the only eye-catching feature is the two huge rocks standing at the mouth of the valley.

As they got closer, they finally discovered the problem: on the two stones were drawn eyeball symbols, the same as the eyeball marks on their backs.

"hiss!"

At this moment, the two huge rocks looked like a pair of eerie eyes, staring at them.

"Damn it! Isn't that the eyeball from the ancient city of Jingjue?!"

"Hurry, let's go inside!"

As the fat man spoke, he was about to walk inside, but Hu Bayi stopped him.

"and many more!"

(End of this chapter)