Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Once they left the inn and were outside, when no one was around, Ling Yue told Wu Xie about the unusual behavior of the mother and son.

Wu Xie wasn't surprised. He nodded, put his hands on his hips, and looked around.

Finally, he fixed his gaze on the camel shed not far away: "I'm planning to go take a look. What about you?"

Ling Yue gave him a look that said, "What do you think?" and took the lead in walking in that direction.

Wu Xie smiled and jogged a few steps to catch up.

He himself didn't realize that he was laughing more and more.

Sure enough, the two found a cellar in the camel shed, which contained a lot of equipment of varying ages, and even a dried-up corpse that had been there for an unknown period of time.

Wu Xie searched carefully and found a passport; he was one of the people who came with Huang Yan.

It seems that Huang Yan and his group encountered Su Rige and her son when they came last time.

but……

"Why are there marks on his abdomen that indicate he's been cut open?" Wu Xie wondered.

Ling Yue wasn't familiar with the procedures of a coroner, but he was quite familiar with how to kill someone. He went over to take a look and indeed found some intentional cut marks along the edge of the ribs of the corpse.

"Or do they like to eat offal?" Ling Yue thought for a moment and replied.

Wu Xie glanced at her and said, "Why don't you think they did it to better preserve the body? After all, removing the internal organs is the first step in preventing the body from rotting."

Ling Yue looked at him like he was a pervert: "You're quite knowledgeable."

Wu Xie chuckled innocently, "You seem to know quite a bit too, don't you?"

Who would immediately think of eating offal?

Ling Yue responded with a cold smirk: "It's as if the first thing any good person does is deal with the corpse to prevent it from rotting."

The two exchanged a few words briefly before continuing to look through other things.

Having confirmed there were no other clues, Wu Xie took the lead and climbed upwards.

As soon as Wu Xie lifted the wooden planks of the cellar and saw what Li Cu was doing outside, he turned around and put the lid back down, telling Ling Yue, who was waiting for him down the stairs, to wait a moment: "I suddenly remembered that I have something to tell you. This environment is quite suitable for a private talk."

Seeing his serious face, Ling Yue believed him and stepped aside to wait for him to come down.

Before Wu Xie could even think of what to say to appease Ling Yue, the wooden plank above his head was pounded loudly: "Wu Xie, I saw you in there! You dare to peep at me while I pee? Come out if you dare!"

Ling Yue slowly crossed his arms and looked at Wu Xie.

Wu Xie gave an awkward laugh and pushed the wooden board away in an annoyed tone. "What are you banging on! Who's peeping at you? It's not like nobody's hiding anything!"

Li Cu grumbled, "Yours definitely isn't as big as mine!"

Wu Xie was so embarrassed he felt like his scalp was about to explode. He quickly told the little brat to get out of the way, jumped up, and waited for Ling Yue to come out.

Just as I was feeling smug because Wu Xie didn't refute me, I thought I had hit the nail on the head regarding his inferiority complex, when I saw Ling Yue come out.

Seeing Wu Xie's seemingly amused gaze and then Ling Yue's probing look as he swept his gaze over a certain part of Wu Xie's body, Li Cu jumped up and down on the spot: "Wu Xie, are you crazy?! You deliberately framed me to make me say such things! Ahhh!!! I'm going to fight you to the death!"

Faced with Li Cu's counterattack and relentless nagging, Wu Xie turned and ran outside, teasingly saying with a smile as she ran, "I put the wooden boards back on, you were the one who insisted on lifting them, so why are you blaming me?"

Watching the two chase each other towards the lake, Ling Yue shook his head and muttered, "How childish!"

With water and food, everyone felt like they had been brought back to life.

However, soon, some people in the team started to have some strange reactions.

In the lobby downstairs, Ye Xiao, one of Su Nan's men, seemed extremely thirsty. He drank a lot of water but it still wasn't enough, so he went to the water tank, filled it up, and drank it all in one go.

The others also seemed excessively thirsty.

Ling Yue assumed it was caused by excessive water shortage.

She had seen people who went on missions in the desert, and for many years afterward, they developed the habit of drinking the entire water bag in one go. On one occasion, they even suffered from severe abdominal pain due to drinking too much water.

I learned from the doctor that drinking too much water in a short period of time can also cause poisoning.

Therefore, when he noticed that Wu Xie couldn't resist serving him tea again, Ling Yue, upholding the spirit of cooperation and mutual assistance, pressed down his raised arm and whispered a reminder: "You've been drinking too much water."

Wu Xie was taken aback, and seemed to realize what was happening. He then began to observe the others present.

He seemed to have discovered something, and his expression turned thoughtful.

Boss Ma was in a hurry to get to the real Gutongjing. After being trapped and rescued during his last descent into the underground palace, Su Nan and his group discovered the seven-finger pattern on Li Cu's back when they came up.

Under intense interrogation from Su Nan and Boss Ma, Wu Xie had no choice but to admit that he had discovered the real map of Gutongjing.

Now that they have the map and there's no shortage of water and food, Mr. Ma can't wait any longer.

However, Su Nan was not in a hurry. "Now that all the supplies have been lost, I need time to prepare."

Ling Yue noticed that when she said this, she unconsciously glanced at Garu and his mother out of the corner of her eye.

Connecting Su Nan's attention to Wu Xie along the way, Wu Xie's strange attitude towards Su Nan, and the unusual behavior of Garu and his mother, Ling Yue lowered his head and drank his milk tea.

Once you think about it this way, it makes sense.

After all, Ling Yue had found the appearance of this farm strange from the very beginning.

There are no people or arable land for hundreds of miles around, only a lake. Why would this mother and son choose to open a farm here with so many rooms that it can easily accommodate so many guests?

They say her husband died early, leaving her and her child to live here as orphans and widows. But neither of them seems to be in dire need of food or clothing, judging from their physical health or mental state.

Not to mention the camels in the camel shed, each one is well-fed and strong.

Therefore, Garu and his mother are spies placed near Gutongjing by a special force, and this farm is their base. Wuxie seems to know something about this.

Yet they deliberately pretended to know nothing about it when they came here.

Ling Yue looked up at Li Cu.

Although Wu Xie did not reveal his plans to Ling Yue, the two only reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate.

But Ling Yue could roughly guess that Wu Xie seemed to be deliberately revealing the seven-finger diagram on Li Cu's back and even swaggering through the desert with Li Cu, all in order to bring Li Cu into the sight of a certain force.

Is there something else unusual about Li Cu that Wu Xie could use as leverage? Or is Li Cu simply a target to draw attention away from Wu Xie's other actions?

The fool Garu seemed to enjoy playing dumb and fooling everyone. He foolishly pestered Li Cu, and before Li Cu could even explain to Ling Yue that he wasn't a lewd person who kept talking about such things, Garu dragged him out to play together.

Wu Xie and Wang Meng were happy to watch the show, while Ling Yue pretended not to see Li Cu's pleading look.

Garu's acting was so awful that Ling Yue felt it was worth sacrificing Li Cu for a period of peace and quiet rather than letting him continue polluting the lobby.

Wu Xie was the only one who knew how much Ling Yue disliked Garu. Seeing this, he deliberately whispered to Li Cu from behind, "Li Cu, just enjoy playing with him and don't rush back, okay!"

Li Cu was so angry that he wanted to shake off Ga Lu and run back, but Ga Lu was determined to take him out to play. After some pulling and tugging, the two left the hall.

Ling Yue glanced at it, then moved closer to Wu Xie and whispered in his ear, "The map?"

A light breath brushed against his ear, and Wu Xie lowered his head slightly, fiddling with the teacup in front of him, and nodded almost imperceptibly.

Garu must be trying to find an opportunity to see the picture behind Li Cu, which is why he kept pretending to be stupid and pestering him.

Seeing that Wu Xie wasn't worried, Ling Yue understood.

It was part of his plan to have Garu discover the Seven Fingers diagram.

After frantically drinking water, Ye Xiao, who was sitting on the other side of the long table, began to feel pain all over his body.

Old Mai and Su Nan looked at him with concern. Ye Xiao couldn't explain what was wrong either, he just pinched his arm, curled up, and whispered in pain.

Wang Meng found it strange: "Boss, why did he cry out in pain after drinking water?"

Wu Xie subconsciously picked up the teacup, but then thought of Ling Yue and forced it down. "It's probably because of long-term dehydration. I also feel a little pain after drinking water. Don't you feel any pain?"

Wang Meng looked bewildered: "I don't feel any pain."

Wu Xie was taken aback, then turned to Ling Yue and asked, "What about you?"

Ling Yue felt it for a moment and shook his head: "It did hurt for a while at first, but I didn't feel it for long."

Seeing this, Wuxie got up again and went to ask Marila, who was sitting on a wooden stump in the corner, leaning against a pillar, shaking his head and sipping wine from time to time: "Marila, does your body hurt after drinking water?"

Marila chuckled: "I don't drink water, I drink alcohol. How could drinking alcohol hurt? It's very enjoyable!"

Wu Xie returned to his seat, looking down at the water in his teacup, seemingly lost in thought.

Although they hadn't known each other for long, Ling Yue knew Wu Xie well; his mind was never still, as if something was constantly urging him on, filling him with a sense of urgency.

It seems like even a little relaxation can trigger a strong sense of guilt.

Occasionally, Ling Yue would wonder what kind of story had happened to him.

But only occasionally.

A moment later, Wu Xie said to Ling Yue, "I'm going out to check on Li Cu."

Ling Yue hummed in response, not giving it much thought, and didn't even look up. Wang Meng, on the other hand, glanced at her boss curiously a few more times, sensing something was off about him.

Leaving aside how Wu Xie used both soft and hard tactics to win over Li Cu after finding her by the lake, Ling Yue also went back to his room to rest after Wu Xie left.

I didn't go downstairs until lunchtime, and I had tied my hair back into a high ponytail for easier movement.

In addition, she asked Surige to wash and hang the clothes she had changed out of in the backyard.

—Anyway, this mother and son have ulterior motives and are suspected to be Wu Xie's enemies. We should use them while we can, lest Wu Xie kill them with a single blow when she's about to make a move, and then we won't be able to use them anymore.

Even if he doesn't kill him, Boss Ma will still pay him a sufficient service fee.

Of course, the main reason was that Ling Yue didn't like the Mongolian clothing he was wearing.

Even though Guozi and the others praised how good it looked, Ling Yue still felt very uncomfortable wearing it.

Mr. Ma said he would rest here for two days. The weather in the desert is dry, and he should be able to change back into his own clothes tomorrow morning.

Ling Yue wasn't sure if this was the level of people trained by that unknown force, or if Garu and Surig were just low-level peripheral members, and that the mother and son were putting on a very forced act.

During the meal, Su Rige kept going around the table, pouring tea for everyone and smiling as she urged them to drink, as if afraid that others wouldn't notice that something was wrong with her.

When she circled around to Ling Yue's side again and saw that her bowl was still full of tea, Su Rige's smile faltered, and a scrutinizing look flashed in her eyes. She quickly advised Ling Yue, "Miss, are you not used to our milk tea here? Well, many people from China are not used to it. How about I go and change it for you with plain water? Otherwise, you'll choke if you eat dry food!"

Ling Yue casually said "No need," but when Su Rige, overly enthusiastic and ignoring her refusal, offered her another bowl of water, she remained unmoved and only ate the dry flatbread.

No matter how much she pleaded, Ling Yue showed no intention of touching the water.

Knowing that continuing the conversation would seem too strange, Su Rige could only turn to the next customer with a reluctant expression.

Looking at her arrogant and composed demeanor, Wu Xie couldn't help but laugh for some reason.

Sitting on his other side, Li Cu pursed his lips, took a big gulp of milk tea, but felt something stuck in his throat. He coughed it up but couldn't tell what it was.

Li Cu subconsciously asked Wu Xie, who simply reminded him to avoid touching anything here if possible.

The suspenseful atmosphere is created to be full of mystery.

Ling Yue was too lazy to even mutter about the old man anymore.