Tomb Raiders: She Comes from the Ancient Martial Arts World

Wu Xie, wanting to elicit information, repeated the poem Ling Yue had just mentioned: "Soaring over ten thousand miles, meandering through a thousand cities, from Tao Yuanming's 'Ode to Jing Ke.' It means majestic and awe-inspiring, surpassing a thousand miles, and is used to praise Jing Ke."

Li Cu nodded with "Oh, oh," but couldn't help but purse her lips: "But Jing Ke wasn't all that great either."

Anyway, when he was in history class, he heard his teacher bragging about those unofficial stories about Jing Ke. It was said that just because he praised a maid's hands, Prince Dan cut off the maid's hands and gave them to him.

According to normal human thinking, shouldn't the maid be given to Jing Ke?

As a result, Jing Ke was also quite eccentric; he was deeply moved by this and immediately agreed to die for Prince Dan.

Li Cu said that both of these people had terrible thought processes, but it was a pity for that innocent maid.

Wu Xie ignored him and continued, "This line of poetry is very obscure, and very few parents use it to name their daughters. It's too ominous."

Ling Yue's eyes momentarily lost focus, as if she had briefly fallen into a memory. When she spoke again, her tone was much gentler, clearly indicating that this memory was very special to her.

"The name originally came from the phrase 'Upholding a firm belief that surpasses bamboo and cypress, relying on faith to overcome waves.' The person who named me intended for me to have a firm belief that far surpasses bamboo and cypress, so that I can overcome all difficulties and move forward. However, I personally prefer the phrase from earlier."

Because of this, the prince always said that she was too stubborn and should relax more often, travel around to see mountains and rivers, listen to music and watch plays, enjoy life more, and cultivate her mind.

However, she could never bear to leave the prince and the princess for too long; she had long been used to following behind them.

She didn't know what had happened, or why she had arrived in another world in the blink of an eye after leaving the enemy's palace.

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie nodded thoughtfully, seemingly wanting to continue chatting.

Unfortunately, Ling Yue had lost interest in chatting with people and simply closed his eyes to rest, clearly expressing that he didn't want to talk to anyone anymore.

Wu Xie glanced at her several times through the rearview mirror and tried to bring up several topics that she might be interested in.

Unfortunately, once they made up their minds, they didn't give him any face at all.

It seems that as a token of gratitude for giving her a ride, all I can say is those few words.

This person is quite interesting.

Li Cu had something on her mind. She originally wanted to listen to Wu Xie talk to someone and secretly find out what was going on, but she didn't expect Wu Xie to be so good at it. After just a few words, he made the person unwilling to talk anymore.

Li Cu gave Wu Xie a disdainful look, then slyly stared at Ling Yue in the rearview mirror with his hands in his pockets, his eyes darting around, clearly up to no good.

The convoy sped forward and soon emerged from the sandstorm, restoring visibility that had been obscured.

It was at this moment that everyone saw a group of buildings standing at the end of the yellow sand in the distance.

Ling Yue has exceptional eyesight. While the others in the car were still craning their necks to try and make out the exact appearance of the building complex, she had already figured out that it was a section of what looked like an ancient city wall.

"Hey! Marila, look! Isn't that the ancient city of Tongjing?"

In the back seat, Wang Meng, sitting on the other side, vigorously shook the sleepy-eyed Ma Rila, who had squeezed from the window to the middle because of Ling Yue getting on the bus.

He wanted to peek through the window, but when he saw Ling Yue, he chickened out and didn't dare to get close. He could only mumble "uh-huh" to fool Wang Meng.

Obviously, the people in the other cars also saw it: the most expensive car in the convoy roared to life, broke away from the middle of the convoy, quickly overtook Ling Yue's car, and rushed towards "Gutongjing".

Ling Yue watched as another car eagerly overtook and sped ahead. The name Gutongjing sounded very much like an ancient city.

So this was a group treasure hunt?

The convoy stopped one after another on the flat ground in front of the ancient city wall ruins. Neither Boss Ma nor Su Nan paid much attention to Ling Yue's reappearance.

Now everyone's attention is focused on the ancient city wall ruins. The crew members rush towards the city wall with a lot of noise. Director Wang shouts loudly and excitedly, "Cai Tou, the cinematographer, carry the camera over!"

The group of hired desperados also dispersed, some to scout the surrounding area, others to unload cargo, preparing to set up camp there.

Wu Xie was also called over by Boss Ma and Su Nan. Li Cu was given a camera by him and told to do his job as an assistant.

Wang Meng received a hint from her boss and originally wanted to take the opportunity to chat with Ling Yue. However, no sooner had Wu Xie left than Li Cu invited Ling Yue to go for a walk in the neighborhood with her.

Ling Yue, who was already planning to familiarize himself with the surroundings, responded dismissively.

Li Cu led the group all the way to a sand dune before frowning and asking Ling Yue, "Sister Ling, do you know that the poplar forest that trapped us before was full of corpses?"

Before asking someone for help, it's best to give them a heads-up first—a lesson Li Cu learned from Wu Xie.

Ling Yue exclaimed in surprise, "So there were corpses inside?" No wonder he always felt that those trees were a bit strange.

However, "If there are corpses inside, why are there no signs of damage to the trees from top to bottom?"

Ling Yue, who had almost no experience with burial sites, was puzzled. She found no signs of human damage on either the trunk or the top of the tree.

Seeing that she was interested in the topic, Li Cu was secretly pleased and naturally told her everything he knew, repeating every word Wu Xie had said: "That's a unique tree burial custom among the locals. Poplar trees are very resilient and have excellent regenerative abilities. After the funeral procession has properly prepared the body, the mourners will cut along the rough bark of the tree, hollow out the heartwood, and stuff the body inside..."

He also talked about the Five Elements, Eight Trigrams, and Feng Shui trends contained in the tree burial complex. Regardless of whether he understood them or not, he just said everything he remembered.

Ling Yue suddenly realized that there was so much to learn in the field of tomb feng shui.

Seeing that the warm-up talk was almost over, Li Cu hesitantly asked, "Sister Ling, I've seen you travel such a long way, and you even survived a night alone in the desert. Are you... one of those legendary masters?"

Ling Yue connected this to what Wu Xie had said earlier, and roughly understood what the other party wanted to say.

After thinking for a moment, Ling Yue nodded: "I wouldn't call myself a master, I just have some basic martial arts skills."

A tough guy who can walk freely in a sandstorm, or is he just a novice in martial arts?

Li Cu said that he understands the humility of a master!

He suddenly became excited and buried his head in his pocket. "Sister Ling, I can tell you're a good person the moment I see you! You don't know, that Guan Gen is a kidnapper! I'm just unlucky, I don't know how he took a liking to me and kidnapped me to the desert!"

Having finally found the bank card, Li Cu excitedly held it up to Ling Yue and said, "Sister Ling, you're so amazing! I'll hire you as my bodyguard. Can you take me back now? There's 12 yuan in here, I'll give it all to you!"

Looking at that card that supposedly had 12 yuan in it, Ling Yue, who had less than 20 yuan in his pocket, couldn't help but be tempted.

But seeing Wu Xie staring at them from afar, Ling Yue shook his head and refused, "He needs you."

Although I don't know much about Wu Xie and have only spoken to her a handful of times, I have shown her kindness by guiding her and reminding her to be safe, and by stopping my car to give her a ride during a sandstorm.

Ling Yue has her own set of principles for living and doing things, and she never owes anyone a favor.

Although I don't know what Wu Xie and the others want to do here, whether it was yesterday when I overheard Wu Xie intentionally teaching Li Cu, or today when I gleaned from Li Cu's complaints that the two of them had a deliberate and artificial encounter led by Wu Xie, and accompanied each other all the way.

Ling Yue keenly realized that Wu Xie's situation with Li Cu was not the bad luck or coincidence that Li Cu claimed.

There must be some deeper meaning behind it.

Ling Yue would need Wu Xie to draw a map to guide him later, so no matter how tempted he was, he couldn't interrupt Wu Xie halfway and ruin the other party's plans while already owing him two favors.