Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 413 The Queen Mother of the West!
The scene here is like hell, with numerous stone pillars hanging down from above, forming a bizarre and enormous stone waterfall.

The slope is very gentle enough to hike up, and it's ridiculously large, practically a small mountain.

On one of the widest and largest stone waterfalls, there are simple stone steps.

On both sides are bronze lamps that have burned for five thousand years, and at the top of the stone steps is a man-made platform.

This is a place similar to a sacrificial ceremony.

When the light shines on it, a simple stone throne stands at the center of the altar.

On the throne, a dark figure sat quietly.

At that moment, everyone could see the huge shadow overhead.

At the junction of the stone waterfall and the top of the cavity, embedded in the rock of the cave ceiling above, is a huge, indescribable object.

This thing is enormous, and the part protruding from the top of the hole is spherical.

Its diameter is completely impossible to estimate; it almost completely obscures the entire field of vision.

The texture is a strange rock, but its color is completely different from the surrounding rocks and the cave ceiling.

Strangely, the surface of this stone was covered with thousands upon thousands of holes the size of tar buckets, making it look incredibly ugly, like a hollowed-out lotus root.

Everyone looked up at the light, and the air suddenly became quiet.

Everyone was stunned, and the atmosphere froze.

"What is this thing?" the fat man muttered under his breath.

"Heavens! This is a celestial stone! That's right, this is the key to the Queen Mother of the West's immortality."

"It was my last hope, my lifeline!"

Chen Wenjin murmured softly.

Tian Shi is the ancient Chinese term for meteorites.

It is vivid and lifelike, a stone from the sky.

This huge meteorite is the so-called magical meteorite jade.

It is not made of jade, but its luster and texture are unusually similar to jade, so it has been called meteorite jade since ancient times.

The Queen Mother of the West also developed a new path to immortality based on this.

By this time, everyone had come to their senses and shifted their gaze from the meteorite to their surroundings.

Upon closer inspection, the figure sitting on the throne of the sacrificial altar was a female corpse.

The female corpse was dressed in an unusually elaborate manner, with a golden crown on her head and a gold-threaded robe adorned with jade pieces.

The female corpse sat upright as if in meditation, lifelike. Her face was bluish; upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a layer of bluish-gray gel-like substance clinging tightly to her skin.

This is an ancient and primitive technique for preserving corpses.

Behind the female corpse, two ghostly soldiers, their bodies encased in armor made of black meteorite jade, stood silently guard.

"That's not right, Hu Ming. Look at the clothes on her body and this throne. This female corpse should be the most powerful woman in the Western Queen Mother's Kingdom. It should be the Western Queen Mother herself."

"But you said before that the Queen Mother of the West is still alive, and also, the cold female voice we just heard..."

After observing carefully for a while, the fat man frowned and asked in confusion.

It's impossible that the female corpse sitting on the throne in front of us suddenly came back to life, right?
"The Queen Mother of the West? Strictly speaking, this really is that old woman's former body!" Feeling the gaze behind him, Hu Ming's lips curled into a strange smile.

"The body that once stood there?"

Everyone was stunned and didn't understand.

“A long, long time ago, the Queen Mother of the West used another method of immortality, and this was her former body.”

"However, she later developed a new method of immortality based on the huge meteorite in front of her, abandoned her old body, and transformed into a new one."

"Here's the evidence!"

As he spoke, Hu Ming casually lifted the skirt of the female corpse in front of him.

"Holy crap, what is that thing? A snake demon?"

Upon seeing what was beneath the skirt, Fatty, Wu Xie, A Ning, and the others all had their pupils shrink and couldn't help but gasp in surprise.

Beneath the hem of the skirt were not a pair of normal legs, but a crimson, coiled snake tail!
"Human-snake symbiosis is the earliest and most primitive method of achieving immortality, just like the King of Ten Thousand Slaves we saw in the Heavenly Palace on the Cloud Top."

"Oh, sorry, I forgot, what you see is the mutilated corpse of the King of Ten Thousand Slaves, which I have chopped down."

Hu Ming explained calmly.

This method of achieving immortality has many drawbacks, but the Queen Mother of the West accidentally found this miraculous meteorite that fell from the sky and successively developed a new method of achieving immortality.

Although using the Corpse Beetle Pill can grant near-eternal life without altering one's physical structure, and one's temperament will not be affected by the symbiotic snake within the body.

However, the corpse beetle pill has a fatal flaw!
To maintain eternal life and a human appearance, one must never leave the meteorite!
Of course, Hu Ming had no interest in explaining this to everyone.

"As for where the Queen Mother of the West is now..."

"Seriously, you've been staring at the back of my head for ages. What are you trying to do?"

"We all know each other, why play mysterious? Isn't that boring?"

"If you really want to scare me, you might as well crawl out of the TV screen!"

Ignoring the eager looks from the crowd, Hu Ming spoke softly without turning his head.

"Even though it's just a mangled body I discarded, and the lower half is a snake's body, you still did this. Hu Ming, your character is indeed very wicked."

"I am, after all, an empress. In your terms, I am at least a lady, right? Hmm, a lady!"

"Also, don't call me an old woman. Do I look that old? Call me Her Majesty the Empress!"

A cold voice rang out from behind the group, tinged with a hint of dissatisfaction.

This is the same voice I heard before.

Everyone immediately turned around.

In a hollowed-out area of ​​the meteorite jade right before their eyes, a pale-faced woman sat quietly.

From clothing and appearance to face and figure, except for her excessively pale skin, the woman looking at Hu Ming with displeasure was exactly the same as the female corpse on the throne!
"Long time no see, Hu Ming, Zhang Jiaqiling!"

"Hu Ming, thank you so much for your help with King Mu of Zhou. For thousands of years, I have been trapped here and could do almost nothing. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would never have met him again."

Seeing everyone turn to look at her, the Queen Mother of the West smiled slightly and greeted Hu Ming and Zhang Qiling familiarly.

(End of this chapter)