Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 239 Reencounter with the Ghost Soldiers
With a nimble flip, Hu Ming appeared behind the blood corpse, drew the young man's treasured sword, and returned it to him.

Under the rather weary gaze of the young man, Hu Ming bent his right knee and pressed it against the spine of the blood corpse.

At the same time, he wrapped his arms around the blood corpse's neck, forming a cross lock, and held the blood corpse's neck tightly.

As Hu Ming slowly exerted his strength, the blood corpse's hands were forcibly pulled off the dragon-patterned cloud-swirling blade.

"That's the ultimate technique of the Mountain Moving School, Kui Xing Kicking the Dipper!!"

Seeing that the ferocious blood corpse had been subdued by Hu Ming and Xiao Ge, Wu Sansheng finally felt relieved and marveled.

"My cousin-in-law is the granddaughter of the last Mountain Moving Taoist, as you know. It's not surprising that I know a little bit about Mountain Moving, is it?"

Hu Ming was telling lies with a straight face.

At the same time, the muscles throughout the body move slowly and rhythmically, starting to exert force with a special technique.

In the Kui Xing Kicks the Dipper, the posture is secondary; the main focus is on the study of human power generation techniques by the Mountain Moving lineage.

Crunch crunch
As Hu Ming continued to exert his strength, an unpleasant, strange sound of bones grinding against each other came from the blood corpse's spine.

To reiterate, "Kui Xing Kicking the Dipper" doesn't just refer to kicking techniques, but rather the method of dislocating the large vertebra of a rice dumpling!
"Wait, something's wrong...something's really wrong! There's movement over there!"

Just as Hu Ming was slowly exerting his strength and about to pull off the blood corpse's cervical vertebra, suddenly, Hu Ming frowned deeply and stared intently at a wall in the tomb chamber.

Behind that wall, the faint sound of digging could be heard!
"There? That's a stone wall. What's wrong with it? There should be compacted burial soil behind it, right?"

Everyone was taken aback and followed Hu Ming's gaze.

"Shh, be quiet, let me hear you!"

Ignoring the blood corpse that was on its last legs, Hu Ming calmed himself down, closed his eyes, and listened intently as his ears trembled slightly.

Click, click, tap...

The sounds of digging, horses' hooves... and even the clanging of metal.
Apart from the digging sound, the other sounds were intertwined, and Hu Ming felt that they were quite familiar.

It seems to be...

"Damn it! It really was those guys! I should have known better; they came here for what they wanted!"

Hu Ming's expression changed, he cursed under his breath, and disregarding the blood corpse, he drew his treasured sword, grabbed the young man, and retreated.

The moment the two left the spot, the stone wall next to them was suddenly and violently destroyed.

The broken bricks mixed with dirt exploded in an instant.

“…..￥#.….”

Strange, ancient language echoed in the tomb.

When the smoke cleared, everyone looked rather grim.

These uninvited guests were none other than the ghostly soldiers they had encountered in the mass grave!
……

The ghostly soldiers circled the blood corpse, communicating with each other in an ancient language, leaving everyone listening completely bewildered.

The young man who knew the language looked rather strange.

"Hey buddy, what are those guys whispering about? Can you translate for me?"

Wu Xie scratched his head and asked, annoyed.

"...The Queen Mother of the West, they have come to see King Mu of Zhou."

The young man glanced at Wu Sansheng and his nephew, Panzi, pondered for a moment, and then whispered in Hu Ming's ear.

The sound was so faint that even though it was right next to his ear, Hu Ming might not have been able to hear it clearly if his hearing hadn't been exceptionally sharp.

"Holy crap? It's been over two thousand years, almost three thousand years, and they're still thinking about rekindling their past romance?"

"That woman still remembers her old lover?! What's so special about her? The most devoted woman in the history of China?"

Hu Ming was completely dumbfounded. He had considered many possible reasons why the ghostly soldiers had come, but he never imagined that they were acting on the orders of the Queen Mother of the West to find King Mu of Zhou.
In particular, King Mu of Zhou's daughter has already mutated into a blood corpse. However, the Queen Mother of the West is the woman with the deepest research into immortality; perhaps she still has a way to deal with this mutation caused by incomplete metamorphosis?
"It is indeed hard to believe, but Hu Ming, we might be in trouble now."

"...It's all your fault."

The young man nodded slightly, his expression somewhat unsettled, clearly not expecting this turn of events.

However, the young man had a faint sense of foreboding.

If the Queen Mother of the West did not forget King Mu of Zhou, then more than two thousand years later, she still sent ghostly soldiers to search for King Mu's traces across the land of China.

So, they almost killed the blood corpse that King Mu of Zhou had transformed into, wouldn't that mean...?

"Gah?"

Hu Ming and the young man froze, staring blankly at the blood corpse and the ghost soldiers.

Just now, the ghost soldiers actually bowed slightly to the two of them in unison?
Even the gaze of King Mu of Zhou's mutated blood corpse towards the two softened somewhat.
what's the situation?
They almost killed King Mu of Zhou! What the hell is this bowing?!
"%...@$..."

Seemingly understanding Hu Ming and the young man's confusion, the Blood Corpse and the Yin Soldier Captain exchanged a glance and slowly explained...

a long time.

"I see..…"

The young man understood and nodded thoughtfully.

Then, the captain of the ghost soldiers bowed to the group again, and led the blood corpse and his ghost soldiers away slowly from the blasted cave.

The sound of horses' hooves faded into the distance until it could no longer be heard...

"Well, they say that when King Mu of Zhou buried himself, the location of the tomb was kept extremely secret for safety reasons."

"From ancient times to the present, the Queen Mother of the West has been searching for King Mu of Zhou. Only now, following the scent of our precious blood, have they finally found him..."

Hu Ming listened silently to the deliveryman's explanation, feeling that what happened today was really challenging the values ​​of a normal person.

"You know a lot of things. You must know about the Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou, right?"

Finally, the young man asked a pointed question.

"She knows a little. She can't leave [that place], and can only rely on her ghostly soldiers who don't understand feng shui to find a needle in a haystack..."

"Brother, I'm somewhat glad we didn't act too quickly."

Hu Ming lit a cigarette for himself, feeling somewhat melancholy.

The young man glanced at Hu Ming indifferently: "It's you, not me!"

Upon hearing this, Hu Ming's lips twitched slightly. What the young man said was indeed correct.

However, these are not the main points for the time being, since there is no need to contact the Queen Mother of the West for the time being.

Moreover, King Mu of Zhou, who had lost his dynasty, was indeed not a problem.

The important thing is, how do I fool these three people?
Looking at Wu Sansheng, Wu Xie, and Panzi, who were all bewildered, curious, and eager to learn, Hu Ming and Xiao Ge exchanged a glance and felt a genuine headache coming on.

Especially Wu Sansheng, he was a cunning old fox, and knew quite a bit about it.

It should be noted that twenty years ago, in order to suppress the side effects of the Corpse Beetle Pill, Wu Sansheng's beloved girl stayed in the Snake Swamp Ghost City for twenty years without fail.

It's not that easy to fool people.

"That's your business."

The young man wiped the blood off the knife and said softly.

Hu Ming's headache worsened immediately...

(End of this chapter)