Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 138 The Collection Site of Female Corpses

Seeing the female corpse float past them unharmed, the fat man paused, muttering to himself, "Hey? That female corpse is a bit rude!"

"You just passed by without even saying hello, brother!"

"Stop joking! Be careful, she might actually come back to life and give you a heads-up!" Hu Bayi said, then immediately turned to Hu Ming and asked, "Mingzi, should we pull her out and take a look? Check the situation?"

Hu Ming frowned, then shook his head and said, "This shouldn't be the one we saw before. There's no need to pull it up. We just need to follow the current, and we'll eventually find its last known location!"

Hu Bayi nodded repeatedly, finding it reasonable, and stopped pursuing the female corpse, walking several hundred meters further ahead.

The surrounding walls began to converge. The moss on the ground around them gradually thinned out, and the river flowed out from the front like a small waterfall.

Even before they got close, they could already hear the rushing sound of water flowing down.

"It seems like we've reached the end!"

Hu Ming walked in and shone a searchlight at the end of the river. He saw that the river, which had been divided into many small streams, flowed down from the end of the tomb passage.

Some of the female corpses were trapped here because the branching river was too narrow.

"Damn, there are so many!" The fat man was utterly stunned by the sight before him, because there were more than just the two female corpses they had seen before.

There were hundreds, even thousands, of white-clad female corpses floating on the water. These corpses had all gathered here because they were unable to float away with the current.

At this moment, they were occasionally emitting a pale blue fluorescence.

This scene can be described as extremely bizarre.

It looked absolutely chilling! Hu Bayi was also startled by the scene, and after a moment of stunned silence, he slowly exclaimed, "Holy crap, what... what is this? A female corpse holding a grand meeting?"

Yang Xueli, seeing such a horrifying scene for the first time, couldn't help but express her concern.

"With so many female corpses, won't they turn into zombies?!"

There were so many female corpses on the water that they couldn't count them all. If they really turned into zombies, they probably wouldn't be able to handle them.

Upon hearing this, Hu Bayi waved his hand, telling Yang Xueli not to worry. "This kind of corpse won't turn into a zombie."

Hu Ming nodded and said, "Yes, they won't turn into zombies. They're just funerary offerings, useless. Let's go!"

The fat man was preoccupied with the funerary objects in the tomb and had no desire to get entangled with the corpses any further.

"Alright, let's get out of here first! Grab your gear and don't fall behind."

Hu Ming and Hu Bayi both nodded in response. Yang Xueli, holding a searchlight, seemed somewhat distracted by the scenes in the river and her voice was low.

Just then, as the fat man got up, he accidentally knocked a stone from the bank into the river.

With a "plop," the stone fell into the river, splashing water everywhere.

Hu Bayi was startled and immediately turned to Fatty, saying, "What are you doing, Fatty?!"

"Don't you want to live anymore?"

The fat man, unimpressed, retorted to Hu Bayi, "What's the big deal?"

"These are all dead people; even if you make a huge commotion, they won't hear you!"

Hu Ming sighed helplessly and said, "Fatty, you're really wrong! She can't hear things, but she can hear other things!"

"Other things? What else is here..."

Before the fat man could finish speaking, something lifted a female corpse out of the river.

"Damn! There really is one!"

"Come on!"

The sound grew louder, and they saw the thing approaching them, accompanied by a cloud of red mist on the water's surface. "Quick! Put on your gas masks!" Hu Ming immediately shouted to everyone.

They hadn't gone far when the monster in the water revealed its true form: a large worm wearing a mask on its head and a bronze garment on its body.

"Fuck!"

"Where the hell did this monster come from?!" the fat man said as he backed away.

Meanwhile, a subtle change was taking place on the women in white; a lump the size of a soccer ball was growing on the side of them that was submerged in water.

Soon, the female corpse began to move because of the red poison gas spewed from the giant insect's mouth.

"Oh no! It's a zombie! The female corpse has turned into a zombie!" the fat man exclaimed in panic.
Hu Ming also saw the female corpse in the water slowly move, and a large number of white Gu worms began to appear.

It seems hiding won't work this time! But we can find an easier way.

Then he took out two cans of gasoline from his spatial storage and threw them to Hu Bayi and Fatty.

"Fatty! Old Hu! This is gasoline!"

"quick!"

Soon, the three men poured the gasoline down the river and immediately set it on fire, which instantly ignited a raging inferno.

The white Gu worms that hatched from the female corpse were immediately cooked by the fire.

For a moment, the river was filled with countless tiny white worms, while the large worm, covered in armor and as tall as a person, still rushed up.

However, because of its enormous size and limited mobility, it moves very slowly.

"Fatty, get the climbing rope ready!"

"Let's go down!"

Hu Ming had no intention of fighting this enormous monster.

"Mingzi, shouldn't we just leave this thing alone?"

"Need not!"

"This thing is tough and thick-skinned, no need to bother with it."

"Let's get down here as soon as possible!"

Hu Bayi glanced at the large worm on the shore. It was moving very slowly, and it had gotten covered in gasoline when it came ashore.

Some parts of his body had already been set on fire.

It seemed that they posed little threat to Hu Ming and his group, so Hu Bayi didn't pay them much attention.

Soon, together with Fatty, they secured the climbing rope firmly to a stable position on the water. There were still some remnants of the boardwalk on the rock face.

Using these boardwalks and climbing ropes, they can easily swing down to the bottom.

Hu Ming was the first to go down, but the plank roads were much sturdier than he had imagined. Although they still swayed a bit when he stood on them, they were at least not rotten and could support a person's weight.

When Hu Ming landed on the last section of the plank road, he found that there were no more plank roads left.

At this moment, he is still more than three meters away from the pool below.

Hu Ming glanced at the pool below; it was deep enough for him to jump in unharmed. Without hesitation, he leaped in.

A wave was stirred up in the pool. Hu Bayi, Fatty, and Yang Xueli, seeing that he was alright, also jumped in. The water that flowed out seemed to have been settled and filtered, and was very clear.

(End of this chapter)