Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 93 Exposed
The fat man, on high alert, cried out, "Old Hu, this is bad, there are zombies!"

Hu Bayi was speechless upon hearing this and said, "What kind of zongzi is this? Its face is almost fossilized."

"Judging by its appearance, it must be at least a thousand years old." Yang Xueli, who was standing next to the fat man, turned to look at him when she heard him mention zongzi.

Most people don't know what zongzi is; it's a code word in the tomb raiding industry.

She had always suspected the three brothers were tomb raiders, and now, the fat man's words about leaving exposed them.

Hu Ming was speechless for a moment.

"So this is a tomb. I thought we'd found a way out, but it turns out we've entered another dead end!" the fat man said, instantly annoyed.

What happened next left Hu Ming even more speechless.

Hu Bayi said directly, "Come on, light the candles."

The fat man quickly squatted down, opened his backpack, and took out candles and a lighter.

Yang Xueli's attention was immediately drawn to the actions of the two.

She went straight up to the two men and said, "Old Hu, you guys are tomb raiders, aren't you!"

Hu Ming, standing not far away, couldn't help but cover his face and eyes with his hands; he simply couldn't bear to look.
With Fatty mentioning "zongzi" and Hu Bayi lighting another candle, Yang Xueli was now certain.

If it were someone else, it might not be certain, but who is Yang Xueli? She is the granddaughter of the successors of both the Mountain Moving Taoist and the Tomb Raiders schools.

How could you not know what lighting candles is all about?
Upon hearing Yang Xueli's words, the two people who had squatted down to light the candles immediately stopped and began to panic.

Hu Bayi hurriedly tried to extinguish the candle.

The fat man stopped him, saying, "What are you saying? Are you overworked?"

Yang Xueli remained unmoved by his words, calmly looking at the two people who had squatted down.

She thought to herself: "Lighting candles, locating the burial site, isn't this just like the tomb raiders? Keep making things up, I'll just watch and won't laugh at you."

Hu Bayi hurriedly began to explain: "We are absolutely from impeccable revolutionary backgrounds, including Fatty. He's a model worker and a March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter every year at his workplace..."

The fat man deliberately hit Hu Bayi: "What March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter? My mother is a March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter, and I'm a member of the Youth Commando Team. We're all thanks to the people's good upbringing, right!"

Hu Ming lowered his hand from his face and said speechlessly to the two people on the ground, "I'm telling you, you two are really something. Do you think people are idiots? Didn't you see how others are looking at you like you're fools?"

Upon hearing this, Fatty Hu Bayi felt extremely embarrassed, but when he looked up at Yang Xueli, he became even more awkward.

Hu Ming looked at Yang Xueli and said, "The three of us are fake tomb raiders, we are indeed tomb raiders, and lighting candles is a rule of tomb raiders, but not many people know it. And it seems you heard it quite clearly! How did you know?"

Yang Xueli was stumped by the question. How did she know? She knew it from Partridge Whistle, the maternal grandfather of the leader of the Mountain Moving Taoists and the successor of the Tomb Raiders.

Before Yang Xueli could speak, the fat man retorted, "Mingzi, how are we fake tomb raiders? You said before that Lao Hu's sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui secret technique is the legacy of tomb raiders. We also have tomb raiding talismans, so how can we not be real tomb raiders?"

Hu Ming: "..."

Can you please stop thinking like this...? Hu Ming said directly, "Don't we all know that the Tomb Raider Talisman that Big Gold Tooth gave us is fake? The Tomb Raiders have seals, the Tomb Raiders have talismans, the Mountain Movers have techniques, the Ridge Unloaders have armor, and even the Mountain Guardians have a golden waist token bestowed by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. We don't even have a real Tomb Raider Talisman. Aren't we fake Tomb Raider Captains?"

The fat man said, "So what if it's fake? We can just make it real, right? Anyway, no one will know..."

Hu Bayi glanced at Yang Xueli and said awkwardly, "Alright, Fatty, stop worrying about the Tomb Raider Talisman."

Hu Ming ignored the two of them and looked directly at Yang Xueli, waiting for her answer.

Yang Xueli glanced at Hu Bayi and said, "A fixed plate hangs for a thousand gold pieces, the sea divination sounds, the hook claw kicks the pole, the tomb raider pours water into the top of the Yuanliang, the moon beckons the Ziyuan and the color package cannot be covered."

Upon hearing this, the fat man was instantly stunned and quickly came closer, asking curiously, "Wait, what's going on? What are you saying?"

Hu Ming said irritably, "I've already gotten straight to the point, why are you still using tomb raiding jargon? Is that really necessary?"

The fat man didn't understand, but Hu Bayi did.

However, not knowing Yang Xueli's identity, he didn't dare to speak and just quietly watched Hu Ming perform.

"I can understand it because someone in my family has learned the skills of tomb raiders," Yang Xueli said, not hiding anything, but not telling the whole story either.

Yang Xueli didn't tell them everything, and Hu Ming didn't press her further. Anyway, she would tell them sooner or later, so there was no rush.

"Alright, let's look for any clues first!" Hu Bayi said directly.

Hu Ming glanced at Hu Bayi, who had changed the subject, then shook his head helplessly. He then looked around and said...

"There's a stone box here, I wonder if it has any mechanisms," Hu Bayi said as he walked over to the stone box and examined it closely.

Yang Xueli said, "I remember the Zaglama Mountain mentioned in the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions. Legend has it that two ancient saints are buried in the mountain."

Hu Bayi nodded, able to tell that Yang Xueli had indeed studied a lot of books for this trip.

"Could it be these two?" the fat man said, turning around to look at the two skeletons behind him.

"But this tomb is too simple, it doesn't match the status of the sage," Hu Bayi said with some doubt.

"Judging from this mural, this is not the tomb of the sage. The child next to him should be the sage's son or disciple," Yang Xueli explained, pointing to the mural on the stone box.

Then she turned to look at the two skeletons and said, “He should be called a prophet, and the old man beside him should be his servant.”

“Look, the dozen or so pictures carved on this stone box, when put together, resemble an ancient prophecy. The composition is simple, and the symbolic features are very obvious. I think I can understand some of them,” Yang Xueli continued to analyze.

Looking at the stone box, Hu Bayi quickly asked, "Can you tell if there's a passage inside?"

"No!"

“However, I don’t think the prophet’s words are very accurate. It says that after he died, no one else came in until six people broke in and opened the stone box.” Yang Xueli looked at the carving and analyzed the information on it.

Hu Ming didn't believe that the carving was some kind of prophetic prophecy.

(End of this chapter)