Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Ling Yue was certain that there wasn't this sand here just now.

In the blink of an eye, where did these special white sand grains come from?

While thinking, Ling Yue pulled a heavy cloth bag out of the inside pocket of his coat.

The bag was crudely sewn, with crooked stitches, but it had been sewn back and forth many times. You could tell that the person who made the bag had tried very hard to make it more practical and less prone to damage.

The bag is made of a very sturdy fabric, similar to thick curtain cloth. It is rectangular in shape and contains a heavy object with a sharp-edged square printed on the bottom.

The bag wasn't very big; after putting in a palm-sized square object, there was still a third of its length left. With the drawstring tied around the opening, it wasn't too cumbersome to hang around the waist.

However, Ling Yue didn't want anyone to notice it, and he wasn't comfortable putting it in his backpack, so he kept it in the inside pocket of his coat.

Now that he needed to get something, it wouldn't be convenient to keep it inside his clothes, so Ling Yue untied the drawstring, took out a pair of thin, white gloves, and then tied the bag to his belt.

When finally winding up the rope, I wrapped it around the belt buckle a few more times.

This shows how much she valued the contents of the bag.

The gloves Ling Yue took out were full-finger gloves for the left hand. When worn, they resembled lace gloves, only with a more delicate and softer surface and more refined and elegant anti-slip texture.

The right hand is a half-glove that exposes the fingers. The material, pattern, and color are all the same, and it feels completely unrestricted when worn, like a second skin.

After putting on gloves, Ling Yue reached out his left hand and picked up a grain of white sand to examine it.

There doesn't seem to be anything strange about it.

It's just that its color is different from ordinary sand.

Ling Yue frowned, raised his flashlight, and continued to peer inside along the base of the wall.

Sure enough, around the corner, Ling Yue discovered another small patch of white sand.

This time, the white sand showed obvious drag marks, appearing as loose, long strips, as if something had passed through here and unintentionally left this bit of sand behind.

Ling Yue glanced back at the people in the palace. Old Cheng had opened the wooden box in the middle, revealing a box full of gold and silver treasures. Everyone was dazzled by the treasure and started making a ruckus.

Even Li Cu, who wasn't interested in the treasure, was watching from a distance.

Only Wu Xie and Su Nan were absent.

Ling Yue hesitated for a moment, then looked at Li Cu over there, who didn't seem to be in any danger.

She was just checking the situation along the passageway. Judging from the passageways she had passed before, this one shouldn't be very long, and she would be back soon.

After figuring it out, Ling Yue lifted his foot and continued walking forward, trying to find the source of the white sand.

Just as Ling Yue discovered Bai Sha's trail once again, a slight mechanical sound came from behind him. Ling Yue, with his right hand resting on his bamboo cane behind his waist, turned around warily to investigate.

But she discovered that the path she had taken in was blocked by a wall that had suddenly appeared.

Is it an organization?

Ling Yue looked back and saw that the wall was the same as the surrounding walls, but a passageway had appeared where there used to be a wall.

It seems the wall blocking the road came from here.

Ling Yue was highly skilled and daring, so she didn't panic when faced with this situation. Instead, she continued her investigation until she reached the end of the road and found it to be a dead end. Only then did she turn back and enter the extra path.

In every passageway, Ling Yue was carefully searching for clues related to the Yuezhi civilization.

After navigating through countless suddenly appearing passageways, Ling Yue found himself in an unfamiliar room.

The room looks somewhat like a living room, with a jade bed carved into the shape of auspicious clouds and ruyi (a traditional Chinese symbol of good fortune), a stone table, and several stone stools.

Having grown accustomed to the layout of the palace and having spent most of his time living with the prince and princess in the palace, Ling Yue could only say: "It truly lives up to its reputation as the royal palace of a remote, small country."

That's how simple and approachable they are.

As a living room, it usually contains some secret rooms or hidden compartments.

Based on his past experience in stealing secrets and treasures, Ling Yue found a seemingly ordinary but actually indestructible mechanism under the stone table.

After pressing down, the bed shifted sideways, revealing a downward step underneath.

Without hesitation, Ling Yue jumped down, and the moment his toes touched the ground, he could see what was in the secret chamber below. Almost like a spring, Ling Yue touched the ground with his toes and leaped back up as if fleeing.

Ling Yue: "!!!"

Once she got up there, she immediately went to press that mechanism again, trying to shut off the passage.

However, the creatures below reacted quickly. While the bed was still slowly moving back, dozens of long-haired, black, winged snakes darted out and lunged at Ling Yue's face.

They can actually fly!!!

Ling Yue was truly astonished. He pulled out his bamboo staff with a backhand motion, and at the same time, he flipped his left hand, using his internal force to vibrate the hollowed-out silk bracelet on his wrist.

With a whoosh, the silk bracelet launched a small yet sturdy arrowhead connected to a snow-white silk thread, carrying an unstoppable force that precisely pierced the vital spot of a snake in mid-air.

The arrow continued its trajectory, threading itself like a snake through a bead on a silken thread, before finally embedding itself into the opposite stone wall with a clang.

Ling Yue used his left hand to grab the silk thread, sometimes wrapping it around, sometimes shaking it, sometimes loosening it, sometimes pulling it, while using his right hand to flick the long-haired black snakes with his bamboo staff, quickly killing all the snakes.

To ensure that this unknown snake, which she had never seen before, might have some other special characteristics, Ling Yue did not approach it rashly after retracting the silk thread. Instead, she swung her bamboo cane, extending it from her forearm length to her arm length.

Then use the bamboo stick to poke at the snake lying on the ground.

Just in case, Ling Yue crushed each of the snake heads he had examined before finally touching the long hairs on the snake's body through his gloves.

She was genuinely curious; snakes are supposed to be covered in scales, so how could they have hair?

It doesn't feel very nice to the touch; it looks like fur, but it feels like cartilage. The same goes for their cloak-like wings.

She had previously mistakenly thought these snakes could fly, but in reality, they have amazing jumping ability and can launch themselves high and far, as if they were flying.

There were quite a few of these strange snakes in the basement; it was practically a snake den. Ling Yue definitely wouldn't dare go down any further.

Finding no clues on the snake carcass, Ling Yue stood up, put away his bamboo staff, and prepared to leave the stone chamber.

However, upon turning around, Ling Yue felt the hairs on the back of his head stand on end.

With his body moving faster than his brain, Ling Yue bent his knees and leaned back, his back almost touching the ground, dodging an unseen attack. Without looking back, Ling Yue rushed out of the stone chamber.

Although the thing was invisible, its footsteps were heavy and dragging. It immediately chased after Ling Yue after he ran out of the stone chamber.

But when they reached the door, a dark green bamboo staff suddenly came flying horizontally with a terrifying whooshing sound.

The door was only so wide, and the thing that chased after them didn't expect Ling Yue, who had escaped, to launch a counterattack. They were immediately hit squarely.

Once outside the stone chamber, there is a narrow passageway, only wide enough for two people to walk side by side, and about two meters high.

With a different opponent, such a cramped space would naturally be unfavorable for Ling Yue to display his skills.

But now, with an unseen and mysterious opponent, this space can actually help Ling Yue shrink the opponent's hiding place.

The unseen monster was sent flying backward by Ling Yue's blow, which was imbued with his inner force. It flew over the stone table, bed, and other objects, and smashed the blue stone wall.

Ling Yue could see clearly that the moment the stone wall shattered, a blurry figure of a blue, armored stone statue was revealed.

But as the other person got up and moved again, their figure disappeared once more.

This made Ling Yue immediately understand.

It seems that what can make something invisible is not the monster, but rather the monster's body and the blue stone wall creating some kind of optical illusion.

Before Ling Yue could make any further plans, the sound of something cutting through the air came again. Ling Yue was also holding his breath, so he flung the bamboo staff away, turning it into a one-meter-long bamboo stick, and charged straight at it without any attempt to dodge.

She wielded a bamboo stick with incredible skill, each strike hitting the monster producing a dull thud, and even the tunnel walls she grazed shattered instantly.

The monster pounced, and she rolled and it smashed right in the head!

Having learned its lesson, the monster dared not be so arrogant again, and charged horizontally across the stone wall.

Ling Yue listened to the friction sounds it made as it moved, then nimbly turned to the side and tentatively reached out to grab at the air.

Sure enough, they grabbed something twisted that looked like a calf.

Once you've gotten your hands on her, you can't get away with it anymore!