Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 550 and Chapter 493, we should go down now.

"Strictly speaking, this mountain is actually a 'prison,' a prison used to imprison countless Midras!"

The number of midra here far exceeds your imagination!
"Do you see this desolate path beneath our feet? Beyond this area, every inch of land on the mountaintop is inhabited by the Mituo."

As the moisture evaporated under the sunlight, the stone wall became murky again, and the dense shadows slowly disappeared from the three people's sight.

"Mitral. Damn it, how can there be so many of these damned things?"

"Uncle Ming, you said it before, right? These things were originally human, failed attempts by the Zhang family to research immortality, but this number..."

Numbly following Hu Ming around the stone wall, Wu Xie felt a chill run down his spine. Yangjiao Mountain was no small mountain; in such a vast area, who knew how many of these monsters there were?
"In ancient feudal China, did you really think human life was very valuable?"

"For those in power and influence, human lives are just a number. Given the Zhang family's situation, this number is only to be expected."

"But Uncle, why are these monsters able to be trapped on the mountaintop?"

"You said these things secrete a strange substance that allows them to easily move through rock strata, so how could they possibly get trapped?"

Xiaohua, on the other hand, was much calmer.

Even modern people, driven by the ambition of immortality, can still do many unbelievable things.

Not to mention the Zhang family, who practically controlled everything in ancient times.

"Because the isolation zone around the mountain beneath our feet has been treated with special methods, and it is now filled with a substance that terrifies Mithra."

"And the entire mountain was covered with a layer of this substance using a special method."

"That's exactly why. The summit of Yangjiao Mountain is full of these things, numbering in the tens of thousands. Anyone who crosses this blockade will die."

"Fortunately, the passage I found is right here."

As he spoke, Hu Ming suddenly stopped, stepped aside, and showed the two of them what was in front of him.

Ahead lay a dilapidated camp.

Several skeletons were scattered in the camp, dressed in military clothing characteristic of that era, and military supplies were scattered on the ground.

Hu Ming even saw several old-fashioned firearms half-buried in the mud.

This was originally a camp for the first archaeological team to come here.

However, no one knows what happened back then, and all those who stayed behind have died.

There were no obvious traces on the skeletons, making it difficult to determine the cause of their deaths.

Also, these people might be the ones who were extremely lucky to escape back then and then dealt with ruthlessly.

Continuing forward, we arrived at a relatively intact tent deep within the camp.

"We've arrived. The passage we're looking for is right here."

Hu Ming stopped, lit a cigarette, and took a deep drag.

Over time, apart from the intact metal frame, the canvas of the tent has long since rotted into pieces, revealing a perfectly round, bottomless hole in the center.

Looking down from above, the huge, straight hole seemed bottomless. After throwing in a few cold fireworks, it took a long time for them to land.

Its depth is evident. "This is the tunnel dug by the archaeological team back then... oh no, the passage they excavated?"

Xiao Hua clicked her tongue in amazement as she peered closely from the edge of the cave. She only remembered halfway through her sentence that the group of Nine Gates members from back then already held semi-official status, so she changed her words.

After all, what the officials were doing wasn't called tomb raiding; it was called legitimate and legal archaeological excavation!
"No, this was done by the Zhang family, and it's part of the Millennium Plan."

"This was specially excavated to facilitate the transportation of building materials."

Hu Ming shook his head and said calmly.

The same is true.

Zhangjia Ancient Building is an incredible structure deeply embedded in the mountain.

Although Guangxi Province is rich in underground caves and water veins, it is somewhat troublesome to transport building materials using these natural underground channels.

To facilitate future construction, the Zhang family found a good angle, broke through the rock layers, and exposed easily soluble limestone.

Then the Zhang family cast a huge, heavy bronze ball and installed a mechanism at the entrance of the cave.

When rainwater is collected and washed into this cave by the mechanism, the limestone becomes brittle and is crushed by the heavy copper ball.

Over the course of a thousand years, the bronze ball sank continuously, eventually breaking through the dome and opening a passage to a predetermined location within the mountain.

It can only be said that this is a method that only the Zhang family can use.

There are many such cave entrances around this hill, but this one is the closest to Hu Ming and his group.

As Hu Ming recounted the story, Wu Xie and Xiao Hua were utterly shocked.

Having grown up listening to the story of water dripping through stone, they could hardly imagine that such a remote place would actually be used to carve out mountains.

This is absolutely incredible!
At the same time, the two of them cast puzzled glances at Hu Ming.

They couldn't understand how Hu Ming knew such a secret.

However, Hu Ming made no attempt to explain.

"Alright, stop dawdling. It's getting late, and nobody knows what's going on with the young man and the fat guy. We should probably head down now."

After stubbing out his cigarette, Hu Ming kept taking out some professional tools from his backpack, urging the two who were standing there dumbfounded.

"oh oh."

The two realized what was happening and quickly responded, while simultaneously taking out various professional tools from their backpacks and getting to work.

At the entrance of the cave, there are tools left behind by the first archaeological team that came here in 76.

But the problem is, after so many years, with constant mountain rain erosion, those things have long since rotted away.

With the slightest touch, it crumbled into a pile of rusty slag, rendering it completely unusable.

The three of them worked for about twenty minutes and wedged three climbing ropes at the entrance of the cave.

Three ropes, hundreds of meters long, were hammered into the cave.

The three men had changed into their down jackets, checked their lights, weapons, food, and other necessary equipment one last time, exchanged a glance, fastened their safety locks, and landed one after another.