Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 647 This is truly an unexpected surprise!

Watching helplessly as the unfortunate fellow visibly decomposed into a dried-up corpse, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking the matter was finally over…

Suddenly, Hu Ming's expression changed!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A faint, almost imperceptible rhythmic sound emanated from the desiccated body of the mummy. Hu Ming, relying on his extraordinary hearing, managed to catch a faint tremor of rhythm!
The sound was exactly like the rhythm of a heartbeat.

but…

But how could a desiccated body, already a dried-up corpse, possibly have a heartbeat?
In an instant, a multitude of thoughts flashed through Hu Ming's mind, and his infallible intuition suddenly sounded an alarm.

"retreat!!!"

Without time to think, Hu Ming suddenly roared and retreated rapidly!

Zhang Dafoye kept the situation here a closely guarded secret back then, and even Zhang Yueshan knew nothing about it. This was the first time he had ever seen the creature that Hu Ming called the man-eating vine.

Hu Ming's behavior filled Zhang Yueshan with an ominous premonition.

Zhang Rishan is a sensible man; wasting time asking probing questions at this point would be the act of a fool.

A clever person like him, before his mind could even process it, had already moved, quickly following Hu Ming's steps into the passage they had come from.

Along the way, Zhang Yueshan caught a glimpse of a scene out of the corner of his eye that horrified him.

The mummified corpse, which had completely lost its life, was now swollen at an alarming rate in its abdomen!
In the blink of an eye, she transformed into someone who looked like a woman ten months pregnant!
boom!!
To the astonishment of Chen Jinshui and the others, suddenly, the large pregnant woman exploded out of thin air!!!
Dry, broken bones and flesh flew everywhere, and countless tiny, needle-like objects, densely packed like a curtain covering the sky, spewed out, enveloping an area of ​​several dozen meters around the house!
Hu Ming saw it clearly: at the instant the mummified corpse's belly exploded, a huge, round, fruit-like object flashed by, burst open, and released a shower of fine needles like a curtain of rain!
"Does it parasitize organisms using methods similar to spores, draining a person dry in a short time, and then using the nutrients it absorbs to nourish the fruit it produces for reproduction?"

Hu Ming's precious sword flashed repeatedly, flying towards the exhausted tree root "a fine needle".

He held a tiny needle between his gloved fingers and examined it closely.

Those were clearly the shapes of wooden spikes, products of the man-eating vines before him. Hu Ming's instincts told him that these wooden spikes were not simple!
Unlike Hu Ming, who sensed the danger and Zhang Yueshan, who retreated quickly, Chen Jinshui and the others were caught off guard by the barrage of wooden spikes, and were thoroughly drenched by the rain.

Under the terrifying force, the unfortunate few closest to the mummified corpse were transformed into hedgehogs, their bodies covered in dense wooden spikes, and they were clearly losing their life force.

Everyone present, except Chen Jinshui, perished in the sudden explosion!
Hu Ming and Zhang Yueshan saw through Chen Jinshui's family clearly.

In that instant, the man's expression changed, and he grabbed one of his men and used him as a shield to withstand the attack of countless wooden spikes.

"grass"

With a gloomy face, Chen Jinshui looked at the miserable scene before him and could no longer hold back, bursting into a tirade of curses.

The losses this time were considerable; before even seeing the item, all of his men had been wiped out.

The sight of these vines before him, which inevitably evoked despair, made Chen Jinshui feel utterly powerless.

A mere accidental injury to one of his men led to a series of horrific consequences. Not to mention…

Chen Jinshui's heart skipped a beat, his expression changed drastically, and finally a bitter smile appeared on his face as he watched Hu Ming and Zhang Rishan, who were unharmed, slowly walk over.

Everyone's not stupid; Chen Jinshui's intentions and ambitions couldn't be more obvious, right?
He clearly had ulterior motives; he wanted everything here, and he also wanted Hu Ming and Zhang Yueshan's lives!
Oh no!
Looking at the corpses strewn all around him, Chen Jinshui's heart sank to the bottom.

His expression shifted rapidly. Chen Jinshui opened his mouth, about to say something to admit defeat and save his life, when…

Hu Ming suddenly gave Chen Jinshui a strange smile.

"ha?"

Before Chen Jinshui could react, Hu Ming and Zhang Yueshan stopped abruptly and turned to leave without hesitation!
boom!
In the distance, the sound of the bronze door closing rang out, leaving Chen Jinshui, completely bewildered, alone there.

"What the hell...."

Before he could even finish saying the last word, "ghost," Chen Jinshui suddenly understood what Hu Ming and Zhang Rishan meant.

Beside him lay his men, who had died from the wooden spikes. Like the first unlucky victim, they had been drained of their life force in a short time, their bellies swollen high!
These thorns are actually the seeds of climbing vines!
It seemed that a series of commotions had awakened the dense, man-eating vines, causing blood-red flowers to bloom and emit a pungent, bloody smell.

Countless vines, like a swarm of snakes, snaked and crawled, their goal...

The only living thing here was Chen Jinshui, his face deathly pale and filled with despair!!!
"Hu Ming, Zhang Rishan, I hate them, I hate them so much!!"
"If there is an afterlife, I, Chen Jinshui, will surely kill you all!"

"If there is no afterlife, even if I, Chen Jinshui, become a vengeful ghost, I will not let you go!!!"

In his final moments, Chen Jinshui realized that this entire operation was clearly a trap set for him by Hu Ming and Zhang Yueshan!
In fact, Chen Jinshui was overthinking it…

The situation with those man-eating vines inside was an unexpected and troublesome one for Hu Ming. All I can say is... Jin Shui was incredibly unlucky!
Outside the bronze door, Hu Ming and Zhang Yueshan leaned against the door, smoking.

"Would you believe me if I said I was wrong? To be honest, his death was truly an accident. Who knew your Buddha would plant such a vicious thing here..."

Hearing the screams from inside the door, Hu Ming exhaled a smoke ring and grinned.

Honestly, this is a real accident!!
"An accident? Perhaps... In any case, things seem to be getting complicated..."

"Let's put the Chen family's matter aside for now. Hu Ming, do you have any ideas about those man-eating vines? Or do you know what those things are afraid of?"

"Just like how Tianxin Rock was divided between the Nine-Headed Serpent Cypress and the Heavenly Heart Rock? Without crossing the man-eating vines, we simply cannot obtain what the Buddha left behind!"

Zhang Rishan sighed, rubbed his temples with a headache, and looked at Hu Ming expectantly.