Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 237 The Tragic Life of King Mu of Zhou
"Third Uncle, what kind of riddle are they playing?"

Wu Xie was puzzled, so he leaned closer to Wu Sansheng and asked in a low voice.

"See the guy's two fingers on his right hand? That's because he's practiced a skill called 'two-finger hole probing' since he was a child."

"But Hu Ming... I don't understand him. I heard he's the rightful successor of the Heavenly Official of Tomb Raiders, so he should know how to use two fingers to probe caves, but his hands..."

"It's here! Look closely!"

Wu Sansheng pointed to the young man's right hand hanging by his side and explained.

The young man's right hand had two exceptionally long fingers, far exceeding the length of his other fingers.

This is the hallmark of two-finger burrowing.

"Sure enough, there was a security layer inside the brick wall, with an unknown liquid flowing inside. It was probably a strong acid used by alchemists in the Warring States period."

"Apart from that, there are no other traps, so..."

With his fingers and keen senses, Hu Ming had already figured out the situation.

He used his right index and middle fingers to feel along the cracks in the brickwork to find the right spot.

puff!
Then, with a sudden burst of force, he forced his two fingers into the crack between the bricks.

Wu Xie even noticed that the tiny gaps between the bricks were not large enough to completely accommodate Hu Ming's fingers.

Those two fingers, which looked like those of an ordinary person, were mostly embedded deep in the hard stone bricks!

Holy crap!!!

Upon seeing this, Wu Xie and Pan Zi were immediately shocked.

Holy crap, are those even human fingers? Can a mere flesh and blood body really do this?
"So you're still too green. The Heavenly Official of the Tomb Raiders' two-finger probing technique is enough to cut through gold and jade, and is indestructible."

"These are just simple stone bricks; they can't stop us at all."

Wu Sansheng gave a light snort and said.

Hu Ming used two fingers to pull the entire brick out of the wall.

God knows how much superhuman strength was required to accomplish all this.

From beginning to end, the young man just stared intently at Hu Ming's two fingers, which were no different from those of an ordinary person.

He casually tossed the pulled-out brick aside and shone the searchlight on it.

Behind the wall, there was a layer of dark red wax.

"It really is alum acid; this strong acid is strong enough to dissolve a person."

As he spoke, the young man took out a needle and a tube from his bag.

At the same time, he ordered Panzi to dig a deep pit.

"Alright, we can start digging now."

After a long while, once the strong acid inside had been drained, the young man said calmly.

Soon, a gap was made in the stone wall large enough for a person to pass through.

Hu Ming casually twisted a cold firework and threw it inside, observing the environment.

Inside, the ground is covered with whole stone slabs, engraved with ancient characters, arranged in a pattern similar to the Bagua (Eight Trigrams).

The tomb was surrounded by eight extinguished lamps, and in the center of the tomb was a four-legged square cauldron.

The top of the cauldron is engraved with the sun, moon and stars, and on the south side of the tomb chamber, there is a stone coffin. Behind the stone coffin is a passageway that seems to lead downwards, and it is unknown where it leads.

The group filed in one by one.

Eight eternal lamps were lit, and their bright light immediately illuminated the environment of the tomb.

"Third Master, Master Ming, there are so many treasures here!" Panzi's cheering voice suddenly rang out. Looking in the direction of the voice, Panzi had somehow already climbed into the cauldron.

Upon closer inspection, there was a headless, mummified corpse inside the cauldron, its clothes long since rotted away.

The mummified corpse was covered with some small jade objects, which Panzi quickly removed.

I have to say, Panziya is really carefree.

This is a sacrificial burial site, and that tripod is clearly a sacrificial tripod.

And the mummified corpse was the offering.

Now that Panzi has run inside, in a sense, he is offering himself as a sacrifice to the master here.

"Come out quickly!"

The first time, the young man's expression changed. His voice became stern, his face pale, and he stared intently at the stone coffin to the south.

"Giggle."

Just as everyone was puzzled, a strange sound suddenly rang out from the tomb.

Upon closer inspection, it was clear that the sound wasn't coming from inside the stone coffin, but rather from deep within the young man's throat.

This is the language of the dead!
Seeing this, Hu Ming raised an eyebrow and watched with great interest as the young man and the master in the coffin communicated.

Clearly, Panzi's bold actions had disturbed and angered the master inside the coffin, and the young man was communicating with him and trying to appease him.

Speaking of which, the person in the coffin was also an unlucky fellow.

That was the body of King Mu of Zhou.

Originally, the person had taken the Jade Pill and buried himself in a jade terracotta warrior, quietly waiting for the transformation, hoping to gain immortality over a long period of time.

However, King Mu of Zhou never expected that his tomb would be robbed during the Warring States period.

Not only were the jade figurines stripped off, but the tomb itself was also taken over by them.

King Mu of Zhou, due to his incomplete transformation, was mutated into a blood corpse under the side effects of the Meteorite Pill.

This is not over yet.

Furthermore, King Lu Shang and the Iron-Faced Man ruthlessly suppressed King Mu of Zhou in the sacrificial chamber, treating the former emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty like a mere watchdog…

Throughout history, there has probably been no more tragic emperor than King Mu of Zhou.
The strange "clucking" sound from deep in the young man's throat became increasingly urgent.

Panzi felt a chill run down his spine and quickly jumped out of the cauldron.

The next moment!
A chilling, eerie sound suddenly emanated from the stone coffin.

The sound was somewhat similar to the man's deep throat, but more rapid and intense.

Upon hearing that voice, the young man's face suddenly turned extremely ugly.

next moment.

With a loud "thump," the young man actually knelt down directly in front of the stone coffin and kowtowed heavily to it!
Upon seeing this, Hu Ming frowned deeply.

The dragon-patterned cloud-shaped blade on his back had silently appeared in Hu Ming's hand.

Hu Ming had no idea what kind of grudges and affections existed between King Mu of Zhou, King Shang of Lu, Tie Miansheng, and the Zhang family.

However, there is one thing he simply cannot do: kneel down to someone.

Even if the other person was an emperor during their lifetime.

Rather than that, Hu Ming would rather use his precious sword to cut off his head!
A dragon will always be a dragon; its pride will never allow it to kneel before others, even if those others are not human...

(End of this chapter)