Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 610 Mirror Palace

"Perhaps what you're saying is true, Wu Xie simply likes that child..."

"but!"

"I've suddenly lost interest in you all, but my dear Professor Hu, that kid is really interesting! I've suddenly become very interested in him!"

Su Nan's intuition told her that she must have discovered some deeply hidden secret. She licked her dry lips slightly and whispered meaningfully.

"...That's great!"

Hu Ming's eyes flickered at the opportune moment, and he spoke casually in a tone that seemed indifferent yet contained a deep-seated seriousness.

As luck would have it, the seriousness beneath the nonchalance was caught by Su Nan, who had been staring intently into Hu Ming's eyes.

Upon seeing this, Su Nan smiled.

Su Nan smiled confidently!
In the hands of an experienced hunter, even the most cunning fox will eventually show its tail, won't it?
Even a formidable enemy like Hu Ming eventually revealed a fatal weakness by accident!
That child, Li Chu, is very important!
Perhaps, that child could be an excellent breakthrough!
Su Nan's smile grew even brighter.

However, she failed to notice the playful glint in Hu Ming's eyes, despite his seemingly unpleasant expression—a hint of mockery!
The bait has been successfully thrown out; now it's up to the parties involved to decide what to do next.

"What are you talking about, you seem to be having a great time?"

Just as the atmosphere between the two suddenly became somewhat strange, Wu Xie walked over with Li Cu, who had his head down.

Su Nan's smile remained unchanged as she ignored Wu Xie and openly turned her gaze to Li Cu.

"Kid, Wu Xie and Hu Ming are both cunning old foxes who will eat people without spitting out the bones. If you follow them, you won't even know when you'll be sold out."

"You might even be happily counting the money for them!"

"If you ever encounter any danger in the future, why not come to me? I mean, I really like young people, and I'm sure I can help you."

While Su Nan was speaking to Li Cu, she subtly glanced at Wu Xie, making a final confirmation.

"Miss Su, trying to steal my boyfriend right in front of me? Isn't that a bit too much?"

"You're mercenaries, are you really willing to drag this kid down into this mess, making him live a life of constant uncertainty?"

Wu Xie saw Hu Ming's subtle gesture, but his expression remained unchanged, revealing just the right amount of unease and suspicion.

"So, it's safe to go tomb raiding with you guys?"

"At the very least, I can provide this child with the life he wants. Of course, that's on the condition that he gives me the information I need!"

Wu Xie's performance was the final word; Su Nan had made up her mind completely.

It's about time to send this important news home.

"No, I know Hu Ming and Wu Xie definitely have ill intentions towards me, but it seems that I am very important to them, and they won't let me be in any danger easily."

"As for you... I don't know you, I'm not familiar with you, and to me, you are more dangerous than they are!"

After Wu Xie comforted and talked to him, Li Cu's emotions stabilized significantly. He raised his head and looked at Su Nan with suspicion in his still reddened eyes.

Li Chu, well done!
Hu Ming and Wu Xie secretly gave Li Cu a thumbs up for what he said!
That's absolutely brilliant!
Didn't you see that the last trace of doubt deep in Su Nan's eyes had vanished?
"I'm liking you more and more, Li Chu. Believe me, we have a long future ahead of us, and we're sure to have a great time together!"

Wu Xie put his arm around Li Cu's shoulder sincerely and sighed, "How's it going, Eleven? How's the scouting going?"

After meeting with Mr. Ma during the National Day holiday, Su Nan was clearly in a much better mood.

"We walked through a few corridors and found that this place seemed to be exactly the same as the place we had been before."

Eleven was oblivious to the intricacies of the relationship between Hu Ming and the others, and didn't realize anything was amiss, simply attributing it to the unpredictable emotions of women.

After all, she is a woman too, and sometimes she can be inexplicably happy.

"Exactly the same? Hu Ming, have we taken the wrong road?"

"Are we going back the way we came? Even a professional like you can make mistakes?"

Su Nan raised a beautiful hand and looked at Hu Ming provocatively.

"That little girl with dreadlocks probably didn't realize that the spatial structure, layout, and even the mechanisms here are all mirror images of the places we passed through before!"

Hu Ming gently brushed the stone wall and whispered.

Su Nan was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"Let's say we went to the East Palace before, then we're now in the West Palace. The structures of the two are relatively similar!"

Wu Xie then explained.

"In other words, this is actually a Mirror Palace. You've heard of Mirror Palace, right? It's very popular in Guangxi Province."

"Simply put, the above-ground structure and the underground structure are completely mirror images of each other!"

Speaking of Mirror Palace, Hu Ming inevitably thought of his fourth grandfather, who died at his hands, and his daughter who was sleeping in the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West.

Wu Xie, on the other hand, thought of Wu Sansheng.
"Of course, I can tell from the composition of the rock strata here that we are now at the same horizontal level as before..."

“I know that we walked down a long passage before. It was a special structure that used psychological suggestion and other means to make us mistakenly believe that we were going down.”

"In reality, that passageway simply circles around the horizontal plane."

Finally, Hu Ming added.

"Professor Hu, I don't quite understand what you're saying. All I want to know is how we can find the mirror palace you mentioned?"

Mr. Ma said that these things were not his area of ​​expertise at all, and he was confused by what he heard. He just wanted to go deep into the underground palace and find what he was looking for, nothing more.

"He means that as long as we find the connection point between the two mirrored palaces, we can easily enter them..."

Su Nan understood and casually explained.

"Bingo! You got it right! And we've already reached the connection point!"

Hu Ming snapped his fingers, walked to the left stone wall, clenched his right fist, and slammed it into the stone wall that was entangled by dense tree roots!
Click click click.
The ancient mechanism began to operate in an instant.

The tree roots were torn apart inch by inch, and the stone wall behind them split open, allowing two people to walk side by side!