Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 137 Female Corpse
"what is that?"

"What?"

Yang Xueli looked in the direction Hu Bayi pointed and saw a white-clad female corpse floating in the dark river.

"It looks like a female corpse."

"Holy crap! When did this thing get behind us?" The fat man couldn't help but shudder at the sight, realizing that no one had noticed it while they were in the river.

The thought that the body had drifted with them all the way here made the fat man realize that the body behind him was even colder than it had been in the water.

"Where are the black...black donkey hooves?!"

"Did you bring it?"

"I knew Old Hu's drowning earlier wasn't simple!"

"Maybe this is what's causing the trouble!"

Seeing such a dead body in an ancient tomb, it's hard for Fatty not to associate her with a zombie.

The female corpse drifted towards them along the river. Just as Hu Ming was about to go forward to check, the white figure of the female corpse bobbed up and down in the river twice before suddenly disappearing from everyone's sight.

"No...it's gone!"

Hu Bayi was taken aback. "Mingzi, what happened? How did you suddenly disappear?"

The four people looked at each other and found that everyone's expressions were very different. What was in front of them was not a hallucination; it was really gone.

"Could it be a female ghost?" the fat man said.

Hu Bayi was still uneasy. Thinking about his strange drowning earlier, he couldn't help but say, "Should I go down and check again?"

Hu Ming shook his head and said, "The water is indeed strangely cold! Let's not go in!"

"If I'm not mistaken, she'll probably come looking for me again!" Hu Ming said, his eyes fixed on the river below.

Hu Bayi nodded upon hearing this. Even if there really was a female ghost, Hu Ming didn't want to waste time on her. They were already about a third of the way from where they were.

Hu Ming pointed to the map in his hand, looked up and said, "We are very close to the current king's tomb."

"Only a third of it?"

At this moment, the fat man felt that they had walked for a long time, but he didn't expect that they had only covered a third of the distance.

For some reason, the aquatic plants in the river ahead have grown exceptionally large and have even reached the bank, spreading everywhere along the road ahead.

Hu Ming had never seen this kind of aquatic plant before. They could only walk across it by stepping on it, and before they could even take a few steps...

A black insect flew past Hu Ming's eyes.

"Everyone, be careful!"

However, these flying black insects did not attack them directly; they were just quite numerous.

"Mingzi, these insects, they're parasitic on these aquatic plants, right?" "Hmm, probably!"

These aquatic plants have been in this place where they never see sunlight for nearly a thousand years, and they must have mutated to adapt to this environment.

These insects and the aquatic plants have a symbiotic relationship; they live in the aquatic plants.

At this moment, Hu Bayi looked at the flying insects that were now everywhere around him and said that they looked like smaller dragonflies, and the insects were all black.

"But this color... could it be poisonous?!"

Despite the harassment from the black flying insects, they stopped in front of the river and looked at the area where the river had washed away the embankment.

Hu Ming said, "It seems this place has been destroyed by the river. It must have been when the water was more turbulent. No wonder the seaweed grew on the shore."

Just then, the searchlight in Hu Ming's hand suddenly flickered and then went out completely, plunging the surroundings into darkness and silence.

"Out of power? The Fatty's battery seems to be in your bag!" Hu Bayi immediately reminded him!
Because they had just encountered that strange female corpse, Hu Bayi and the others were all feeling uneasy.

In such a dark environment, people will unconsciously associate with terrifying things.

Fortunately, Hu Ming acted quickly enough, and a few minutes later the searchlights came back on.

"There... there seems to be a stone platform!"

Yang Xueli pointed ahead and said, Hu Mingzhao looked over and sure enough, there was an altar not far from them.

Upon seeing this, Hu Bayi immediately went over and cleaned up the things on the stone platform, hoping to find if there were any mechanisms on it.

Hu Bayi didn't notice anything amiss, but Yang Xueli did see many strange symbols on the wall of the altar.

"Old Hu, Hu Ming, there seems to be something drawn on this!" Yang Xueli said as she pushed aside the plants on the wall.

Hu Ming glanced at them and saw that they were just faint murals, so he said dismissively, "Those are just some murals for worshipping the mountain god, nothing to see!"

Then, handing Hu Bayi a cigarette, Hu Ming continued, "The water is indeed a bit cold. Let's rest for a while and catch our breath before we set off again!"

Hu Bayi took the cigarette but hadn't lit it yet. Looking at the mural that Yang Xueli had found, he asked Hu Ming with a puzzled expression, "Mingzi! Don't you think something's wrong here? I always feel like this temple was built before the tomb of the Prince of Xian."

Hu Ming nodded and took a drag of his cigarette.

“That’s right! Judging from the traces here, this mountain god temple existed before the tomb of King Xian!”

Then, he pointed to the ancient characters on the wall.

Seeing this, Hu Ming continued, "Look at the words on this, and that black-faced mountain god. It seems that this place existed more than a hundred years earlier than the current king's tomb!"
"Holy crap, look! Isn't that the female corpse we encountered before?" the fat man exclaimed in surprise, pointing to a white-clad female corpse in the river.

"That's really true!"

"Why does this thing keep appearing and disappearing?! That's fucking terrifying!"

As the fat man spoke, the female corpse had already floated past them on its own along the current. The fat man was still holding the black donkey hoof in his left hand and a handful of glutinous rice in his right hand, remaining vigilant.

(End of this chapter)