Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 745 It's clearly a matter involving three people!
The most deadly thing about the Roaring Spring is not the enormous water flow that no living being can resist; even if you are swept to the bottom by the current, you still have a chance to survive.

Due to the unique geographical environment, the bottom of the roaring spring here is full of cavities of all sizes. By a series of coincidences, a large amount of air is compressed into these cavities.

If planned properly, the air accumulated in the approximately two hundred cavities beneath the Roaring Spring should allow them to survive for about another month.

But the fatal thing is
The air inside these cavities is all poisonous!

They were all the kind of highly corrosive, solidified clouds that Hu Ming and his companions encountered on their journey!
This is a high-concentration miasma mass that is generated and accumulated in the dense forests on the earth's surface under a series of changes.

There are gaps connecting the underground and the surface, gaps that are impassable for people, but through which gas and water can flow freely.

In other words, beneath the roaring spring, there is nothing but water and deadly poisonous gas!
Chichichi~~
Hu Ming and his two companions struggled to break free from the immense resistance of the 10,000-ton water flow, constantly identifying the cavities along the way.

"That's it!"

Intuition pointed Hu Ming to the right path, and he gestured to the two of them.

In the distance ahead, an underground cave, about two people wide, came into view.

Like fish swimming nimbly, the three of them dodged the many obstacles in the water and successfully swam in one by one with the current.

After swimming forward for about ten minutes, sloping upwards, the three of them finally surfaced and arrived at a relatively spacious underground space.

Upon arriving here, the three did not relax; instead, their expressions became even more serious. After shining the light down and quickly determining their direction, they took a step forward and rushed towards a low, inconspicuous cave to their right.

Chi chi chi~
Like the whisper of death, the protective suits on the three people began to corrode the moment they came into contact with the air.

Even though these three protective suits were high-quality items that Hu Ming specially obtained from foreign research teams, they were still somewhat inadequate in the face of the extremely high concentration of corrosive miasma accumulated over thousands of years.

Judging from the rate at which the protective suit is corroded, it would be completely corroded in about twenty minutes.

At that point, the three people, whose flesh and blood were exposed to an environment more terrifying than hell, were doomed!
The three remained calm and composed in the face of this terrifying crisis, their steps quickening rapidly, each step covering nearly two meters.

About ten minutes after the three figures disappeared into the low passage, the middle-aged man also arrived.

In the darkness, something seemed to be faintly lit on the middle-aged man's body, with a dim, almost invisible, bronze-colored light flickering within!
Despite the miasma that could corrode any flesh and blood, the middle-aged man remained calm and strode forward.

"Run! This isn't a battlefield yet. If we fight here, even without our beloved First Emperor personally intervening, as long as he keeps us occupied, we're doomed!"

In the long passage, Hu Ming's ear twitched slightly, and his pace quickened by another three points!
"That prehistoric old turtle?"

"How could that be! Your plan wasn't... I understand now, that old bastard has been waiting for us here, just to be on the safe side!"

"You changed your mind about what you just said up there? You changed the order of your attacks? All to lure him down and take him out first?"

Both the blind man and the young man were intelligent; they quickly pieced together some seemingly unrelated clues and suddenly realized the truth.

“That’s right, I did change my mind. After all, after obtaining that thing from Yang Daguang’s ancestral temple, which revealed that men are transformed from eels, combined with my previous discoveries in Gutongjing, I vaguely guessed the purpose of that First Emperor.”

“It was no coincidence that I ran into the First Emperor when I went to pick up my brother. He wasn’t there to witness the end of Fuxi. He was there to lure my brother and me into his scheme. He must have had other purposes as well…” “The information that the person in Thunder City gave me through the sound of thunder was the last straw that made me change my plans.”

"Although there are still many questions I don't understand, and although I don't know what the purpose of that person in Thunder City is... it doesn't matter. When they all kneel down and sing 'Conquer,' all the questions will be answered!"

Beneath the mask, Hu Ming revealed a rare, chilling grin.

Hu Ming couldn't remember exactly how many years it had been, but it had been many years. Experiencing the known plot, his passion had almost been worn away.

but.…

The appearance of someone like "First Emperor" gave him a great surprise, rekindling the long-dormant flame in his heart and igniting his naturally restless soul!
It's not shameful that Hu Ming didn't immediately realize the intentions of this million-year-old monster, because when it comes to scheming and planning, information asymmetry is almost always the key to victory.

Fortunately, the confident, even arrogant, "First Emperor" personally handed over the most crucial item to Hu Ming, allowing Hu Ming to inadvertently discover some secrets and find the fatal trump card, thus gaining the means to fight against this immortal old monster.

The First Emperor was far too arrogant! He never imagined that Hu Ming had already grasped so many secrets about him!
Given this, the call to counterattack has already been sounded, especially with that sudden act of goodwill from deep within Thunder City.
Having already achieved at least a 70% success rate, Hu Ming simply cut the plan in half, bringing forward the plan to kill "First Emperor" to the present!
"Before you took me back, 'Fuxi' told me something: things reach their extremes and then reverse. After the ancient bronze was destroyed, some dangerous things were bound to remain. He told me to keep that thing safe after the world within the sect ended, and also to be wary of the existence of 'immortals'."

"But... that thing is gone; someone took it."

The usually quiet delivery guy suddenly spoke up, immediately offering a year's worth of phone credit.

"That's right, that thing is most likely the real purpose of 'His Majesty the First Emperor' that time. If I'm not mistaken, he has been waiting for that thing for five thousand years since the ancient bronze descended upon Earth!"

"Hey buddy, maybe this guy just happened to discover our presence and that's why he came up with this crude plan on the spur of the moment?"

Hu Ming was taken aback, as if he understood something.

"Most likely, he underestimated you and me."

The young man nodded silently, his eyes filled with a chilling coldness that could freeze a person to death.

"So what kind of riddles are you two bastards playing, Gan! Who is Fuxi? What did he take away? And what is that prehistoric old turtle after all for?"

"This was clearly a matter involving three people. I, Blackie, risked my life for you for free, so why don't I know anything about it?"

The blind man felt really frustrated.

During their discussion, the three of them rushed out of the narrow passage and found themselves in an open area.

Looking up, they saw a sheer cliff, and the long-awaited sunlight shone down from the top of the precipice. The three of them squinted instinctively to adjust to the sunlight.

Throughout this process, the three of them dared not pause for even the slightest moment…

Because every inch of space in this rift valley is filled with deadly corrosive miasma.

In fact, the concentration was even more terrifying than before, as evidenced by the sudden increase in the hissing sound coming from the protective suit!