Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Su Nan's collapse ignited a long-suppressed panic among the other inns.

Like a wild beast driven to the brink of desperation, Mr. Ma desperately sought a way to survive.

When Wu Xie and Li Cu took out the worms they had cut out of Ye Xiao's stomach and explained that those who had been injured were people who had gone down into the underground palace for the third time and encountered spore parasites, Boss Ma could no longer contain himself and roared, "Nonsense! Why are only we like this? You! Wu Xie! Li Cu! Ling Yue! You are all fine!"

The three people who went down into the underground palace for the third time and were still unharmed were all in cahoots!

Mr. Ma became wary and suspicious of Ling Yue, and he tried to order Old Mai to take action against the three of them.

Unfortunately, Old Mai was intimidated by Ling Yue outside and didn't dare to utter a sound.

At this moment, Boss Ma, clutching his collar, roared in agony, "Kill me! Old Mike, kill me!"

Mr. Ma, who was driven mad by a gem, was also in so much pain that he would rather die.

Wu Xie couldn't help but want to scratch his own flesh frantically, but Li Cu and Wang Meng quickly held him down. Zeng Ye had already fainted from the pain. Director Wang's symptoms were milder, but seeing the others like this, he was also extremely anxious and distressed.

The situation got out of control for a moment.

Wu Xie struggled to get someone to find ropes to tie them all up.

Ling Yue pursed his lips, found a rope and tied Wu Xie up first to make sure he wouldn't hurt himself again, before tying up the others.

Lulu, who had worked as a nurse, said she had to remove the worms from the bodies of the people, but she had no experience and was so scared that she trembled uncontrollably.

Faced with Grandpa Zeng lying unconscious on the long table as a test subject, Lulu hesitated to take action.

Ling Yue stood beside her, patted her shoulder, and calmly said when she looked over, "Don't be afraid, I'm here watching."

Lulu swallowed hard, sniffed, and mustered her courage to press down on the worms crawling all over Grandpa Zeng's neck. While crying, she shakily made a cut there with a knife.

I stuck the chopsticks in and stirred it around, successfully catching the insect.

But Lulu was too scared and had no strength in her hands. The insect was struggling fiercely and kept trying to burrow into Grandpa Zeng's head. Lulu's hand trembled and she was about to drop the chopsticks.

Just then, Ling Yue grabbed her hand and together they wrapped the worm around the chopsticks. With a forceful pull, the worm was pulled out.

The slender worm was even wriggling and struggling on the chopsticks.

The scene was so disgusting that even Ling Yue, who already felt a chill run down his spine from looking at these soft-bodied insects, couldn't help but look away with difficulty, his stomach churning.

Lulu finally couldn't hold back anymore and collapsed to the side, sobbing.

It seems he no longer has the strength to perform the worm removal surgery on the next person.

Boss Ma glanced at Lulu, then turned his longing gaze to Ling Yue: "Ling Yue, come here! Come and get the bug out of me!"

Ling Yue shook her head at Boss Ma with difficulty. Before Boss Ma could question her, she used a little force to break the insect off the chopsticks: "I'm not confident that I can control the force well when picking it up."

Seeing the worm still struggling even after being broken in two, Director Wang and Lao Mai, who had also placed their hopes for survival on Ling Yue, couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts. They couldn't help but imagine that if Ling Yue were to remove the worm from their own/their boss's body, and he used a little force during the process, breaking the worm in two, wouldn't the worm burrow even more frantically into the person's body?

Looking at Ling Yue's disgusted expression as she watched the insects, Wu Xie was momentarily lost in thought, finding it strangely endearing that Ling Yue was afraid of insects.

Feeling the insects wriggling inside his body, Wu Xie's muscles twitched in pain. Gritting his teeth, he said to Li Cu, "Li Cu, come here! Now I can only trust you!"

After saying that, while everyone was filled with fear and trepidation, he staggered and lay down on the long table.

Grandpa Zeng, whose insects had already been removed, was hurriedly moved aside by Sister Guozidan and the others to check on his condition.

Concerned about his health, Director Wang rushed over to check on him and found that after the worms were removed, Grandpa Zeng, who had been in great pain, was noticeably calmer, and even his persistent high fever showed signs of decreasing.

It seems that as long as the insects are removed, they can survive!

Suddenly entrusted with this critical task, Li Cu panicked, "Me? I can't do it, Wu Xie! I can't do it!"

Wu Xie ripped open her clothes, panting as she stared at him. "This is your fate, you can't escape it! Don't be afraid, believe me, I'm here!"

Ling Yue's eyes flickered as he glanced at Li Cu.

Is Li Cu's fate inescapable? Could there be another reason why Wu Xie chose Li Cu?

When Li Cu looked over with pleading eyes, Ling Yue gave him an affirmative nod, and then silently stood beside him.

With Ling Yue backing him up, Li Cu was a little less panicked.

But with a human life hanging in the balance, the boy couldn't help but feel flustered and could only force himself to calm down.

With Wu Xie's difficult verbal guidance, Li Cu quickly pressed the insect down on Wu Xie's side and, following Wu Xie's instructions, made a small opening below.

When the chopsticks caught the worm, Li Cu took a few short, rapid breaths, trying to steady her hand, wrapped the worm around the chopsticks a few times, and then slowly pulled it out.

But halfway through, no matter how hard he pulled, he couldn't budge it anymore. Li Cu panicked and shouted, "Wu Xie, I can't pull it anymore! Wu Xie! Ling Yue!"

Wu Xie closed his eyes and groped to help him. At the same time, Ling Yue's hand covered Li Cu's hand.

The cool touch made Wu Xie turn around and look at her. Meeting Ling Yue's worried gaze, Wu Xie didn't know why she smiled, she just smiled and curled her lips.

With the combined efforts of the three, the worms were successfully removed from Wu Xie's body.

With Wu Xie personally demonstrating the procedure, the remaining Boss Ma, Su Nan, and Director Wang were also successfully expelled from the insects by Li Cu, with Ling Yue assisting from the side.

After saving several lives, Ling Yue noticed that Li Cu had changed a lot.

That change didn't stem from his appearance, but from his inner self.

Perhaps this is what Wu Xie wanted to see.

After the worms were removed from their bodies, the individuals recovered quickly.

That evening, Director Wang and Guozi came to find Ling Yue.

"Ling Yue, thank you so much this time, and also before. If it weren't for you, Grandpa Zeng might not be here anymore, and we wouldn't be standing here safely." Director Wang thanked him sincerely.

The fruit nodded repeatedly.

Ling Yue shook his head: "As long as you're not bad people, as long as you want to live, and it was just something I did casually, don't take it to heart."

Director Wang sighed, worrying about the future of the crew: "Ling Yue, tell me, if only I had listened to you back then and hadn't followed them."

Ling Yue remained noncommittal: "Regret is useless now, but why did you insist on following them in the first place? Old Mai and the others didn't seem like kind people."

Speaking of this, Director Wang was also in a difficult position: "You don't know, it's really hard for unknown directors like us to get investment. Not only do we have to beg and plead, but even if we do get investment, we don't dare to raise our voices to the investors. Our documentary's investor, Mr. Li, called me three times a day to urge me to pay the final payment as soon as I had assembled the team. He kept emphasizing that he would only release the final payment if I produced valuable footage. We also need to eat, so we can't do anything about it!"

Guozi sighed, "Yes, the road we were supposed to take was blocked due to temporary repairs. Director Wang originally said we would just film some local customs and legends nearby, but President Li seemed to have eyes in the sky and immediately called to urge Director Wang. Even that weird little path in the poplar forest was suggested by President Li."

Ling Yue's heart skipped a beat, and he nodded, "I see. It seems that everyone is having a hard time."

Such agreement made Director Wang and Guozi, whose hearts were already filled with worries and complaints, unable to hold back any longer. They talked incessantly about the investor, Mr. Li, and complained about all sorts of things, showing the true state of being a working person.

After listening to their complaints and realizing that he could no longer get any more information about investor Mr. Li from them, Ling Yue dismissed them with a few words.

Before leaving, Director Wang hesitated for a moment and tentatively asked, "Ling Yue, do you think if we had guns, could we...?"

Ling Yue recalled the day Su Rige died, and how Director Wang paid excessive attention to the guns in Wu Xie and Su Nan's hands, and roughly guessed what he wanted to do.

The two of them had cleared up her doubts.

Ling Yue shook his head and said a few more words, which was unusual for him: "Director Wang, you are all ordinary people. It is not advantageous for a child to carry a knife; it could backfire. Guan Gen is not a bad person. Boss Ma can't control his men right now. Su Nan, their target is not you."

I won't say anything more.

Ultimately, whether they live or die depends entirely on their own choices.

Director Wang still wanted to get a gun; having a gun for self-defense was better than having nothing at all.

But Guozi remembered that Ling Yue had given her similar advice before, and suddenly understood something. She quickly pulled Director Wang back to the room.

After returning to her room, with Zeng Ye, Dan Jie, and Fu Mei overhearing her, Guozi recounted what Ling Yue had said when she went to ask for medicine: "Anyway, I've discovered that these people all have their own ideas. Ling Yue told us not to provoke them, and with what he said tonight, doesn't that mean that as long as we don't get involved, it's none of our business?"

Grandpa Zeng had been saved by Ling Yue several times and had a very good impression of Ling Yue. When he heard that it was Ling Yue who said it, he immediately nodded in agreement.

Dan Jie and Fu Mei shared the same idea.

Only Director Wang felt uneasy.

Guozi asked, "Director Wang, you always feel at ease only when you have a gun in your hands, so whose gun are you planning to take?"

Director Wang frowned and remained silent.

Guozi knows him very well: "It must be Teacher Guan, right? But by doing this, aren't you weakening Teacher Guan and Ling Yue's strength? If things really fall apart, do you think it's better for Teacher Guan and his group to have guns, or for Su Nan and his group to have guns?"

Isn't this nonsense?

Of course, it's better for Wu Xie and his group to have guns than for Su Nan and his group to have guns!

Upon hearing Guozi's words, Director Wang abandoned his original idea: "What you said makes sense. Teacher Guan and Ling Yue seem to be doing quite well so far, not to mention they also have Ma Rila."

In the conflict between Wu Xie and Su Nan's groups, the former has the advantage, which is more beneficial to them, these ordinary people.

On the other side, Lulu was also advising Boss Ma: "Old Ma, let's stop making trouble and go back to living a good life!"

Mr. Ma still looked somewhat haggard. Hearing this, he smiled bitterly and asked her, "Lulu, among these people, who do you believe?"

Lulu replied without hesitation, "Ling Yue! Ling Yue is very capable, and she will always step in to save people whenever she can!"

Boss Ma shook his head: "Lulu, you're still too naive. Haven't you noticed that, apart from Wu Xie and the others, the people Ling Yue saved were all ordinary people with clean hands?"

Is Old Ma some kind of clean, ordinary person? Of course not!

Mr. Ma only realized this after the insects were removed today.

Ling Yue had never hidden this fact. Even if she didn't pay much attention to the crew or Lulu, she was genuinely willing to help when there was danger.

But what about Su Nan's subordinates? What about Su Rige?

Lulu's eyes darted around, unsure of what to say for a moment, and she could only stammer, "Can't we give you money, even a lot of money?"

Mr. Ma smiled, cupped her face in his hands, and sighed softly, "Some people will not be swayed by money."

It's laughable that he previously thought he could get Ling Yue to do things for him by paying money, but he turned out to be blind and deaf for a moment.