Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 732 Wu Xie: It's over, my reputation...

The fat man didn't say the last two words, but Hu Ming and the young man both understood what he meant.

This is an inescapable reality.

"Perhaps... it's time to plan ahead. Loneliness, numbness, and a heart with nowhere to rest or depend on can truly destroy a person's personality."

After a long silence, Hu Ming looked up at the sky and murmured to himself.

Today's conversation is destined to be anything but pleasant for anyone.

Even the big-hearted fat man rarely smiled in the latter half of the day.

Until late at night.

Because he had something on his mind, Wu Xie took his medicine early and went to sleep.

Wu Xie slept until about three in the morning, when he groggily woke up. However, upon opening his eyes…

"Ahahaha!!! Holy crap!!! Why the hell!!!"

The heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout almost the entire village.

Almost instantly, everyone was jolted awake from their dreams by the scream, their eyes widening in confusion as they searched for the direction from which it came.

"That's Wu Xie's voice. What's he up to?"

Hu Ming, Xiao Ge, Fatty, and the Blind Man, all dressed in pajamas, met up in the courtyard and looked blankly at Wu Xie's room.

"Who knew Wu Xie was scared like this? It's really rare. We'll find out once we go and see."

"It's so late at night, surely we can't really be seeing a ghost, can we?"

Ruffled his messy hair, Hu Ming and the other two exchanged a glance, and then decisively strode towards Wu Xie's room.

Upon entering, Hu Ming and the others immediately widened their eyes.

"...Awesome, Wu Xie! I admire no one but you in my life!"

"I was just joking before, and you actually went for it? Do you have to be so extreme?"

After a brief silence, the blind man sincerely gave Wu Xie, who was huddled up in a ball wrapped in a blanket, a thumbs up.

Beside Wu Xie, a lifelike, slightly dark-skinned, beautiful leather puppet lay quietly. From their angle, the puppet was turned to face Wu Xie, seemingly gazing at him affectionately.

"Other people's romantic prospects are models, flight attendants, and nurses, but my innocent girl's romantic luck is always stuck with old women, rice dumplings, and beautiful terracotta figures... I truly admire you, Fatty!"

The fat man gasped, feeling ashamed of his own inferiority; the student had surpassed the teacher.

"Sorry to bother you, goodbye!"

Hu Ming was more direct. He gave Wu Xie an apologetic smile, pulled the group out of the room, and was about to close the door.

"Ah! No! Uncle Ming, no!!"

Wu Xie was almost in tears. He knew these bastards just wanted to see him make a fool of himself, but to be fair, even though he had experienced a lot and seen a lot of ghosts and spirits, he was still terrified by the scene.

In the dead of night, you groggily open your eyes and see a humanoid puppet, its skin torn apart, appearing in your bed, staring intently at you.
Damn, anyone would be scared to death in that situation!
Wu Xie could only be thankful that he hadn't drunk too much water before bed, otherwise he would definitely have wet himself right now, which would have been too embarrassing.

Although they had already jumped around once inside the underground palace in front of Xiao Ge and Fatty. Although their eyesight was impaired at that time and they couldn't see, they could still smell it.

……

“Xiao Xie, I know you’re under a lot of pressure, and my actions have made you very unhappy. You don’t have a girlfriend to vent to, and you’ve been corrupted by that bastard Fatty, going to get foot massages every day. Your second uncle is also a single man, so it’s understandable.”

"But how could you... how could you do this? This thing isn't even a person; it's hollow inside, just a layer of skin held together by metal. Even if you're incredibly horny, you wouldn't go to this extent, would you? You could buy a doll for a little money—it's better than this!"

Wu Erbai looked at Wu Xie with a complicated expression, feeling disappointed and disappointed.

But Wu Xie knew his second uncle too well! He clearly saw a barely perceptible smile deep in Wu Erbai's eyes.

"Bullshit!!!"

"Second Uncle, you know more than I do. You clearly know that Qi Yu, that dead man, set up many feng shui formations in the South Sea King's underground palace that I don't know the purpose of. This thing was clearly brought up intentionally by me. It must have been tampered with, right?"
"I don't believe this thing has no hidden secrets or mysteries... but you can't joke like this, late at night. Are you trying to scare me to death, the only son of the Wu family?"

Wu Xie took a sip of water, his face pale, to calm himself. Remembering the painful lessons he learned in his childhood, he suppressed the urge to curse Wu Erbai as a bastard.

Wu Xie still remembers it clearly: when he was young and didn't know any better, he accidentally creased one of Wu Erbai's favorite books, and Wu Erbai gave him a good beating...

Wu Xie both respected and feared his second uncle.

"I don't understand what you're talking about. I only went down there twice before you, cleaned up the South Sea King's Palace, found some clues you didn't know about, and eliminated some dangers..."

"Since you like this human skin puppet so much, even sleeping with it... you can do whatever you want with it, I won't take it from you."

Wu Erbai pretended to be stupid and acted dumb.

"?"

Wu Xie: When I type a question mark, it's not that I have a problem, it's that you have a problem!
"hehe!"

Wu Xie glanced with slight apprehension at the human skin puppet that had mysteriously followed him all the way through the underground palace, and smiled expressionlessly at Wu Erbai.

If Wu Erbai didn't know the secret behind this, Wu Xie would immediately perform a handstand pull!
As for what happened after they came out of the underground palace, Wu Erbai reassured him that he would later send him a detailed written report detailing all the developments of the matter…

Wu Xie said, "Just listen to these words; you'd be a fool to actually believe them."

Although there are still many things Wu Xie doesn't know yet, there is one thing: his rich experience of being schemed against over the past ten years has given him an almost precognitive intuition...

This isn't over yet!
Wu Erbai and Wu Sansheng have already set up a trap for him in the near future!
On second thought, Wu Xie felt a pang of sadness and almost cried. He wished he didn't have this intuition!
What makes Wu Xie even more saddened is that he seems to have gotten used to it.

"..."

The mute girl, who rushed over upon hearing the news, rubbed her sleepy eyes. She hadn't quite understood their conversation, but she did understand one thing.

Wu Xie slept with this terracotta figure, which appeared to be made of human skin, all night.

Subconsciously, the mute girl leaned closer to Hu Ming, sending him a slightly disdainful look, as if she were looking at a pervert.

"..."

Wu Xie was really about to cry.

The dignified Third Master of the Wu family has truly lost all his reputation tonight.

The humiliating screams, plus the inexplicable beautiful human skin puppet. Damn it, doesn't Wu Xie have any dignity?