Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 755 Battle Against the General Blocking the Way!

In the instant of descent, as the cold light shone upwards, the bronze bell carried... a huge black shadow?
As the bronze bell fell, the shadowy interior seemed to disintegrate, with chunks of varying sizes falling rapidly.

"Ready? The watchdog should be waking up soon..."

Hu Ming's figure followed closely behind the bronze bell as it fell, dissipating most of the force of his descent by hitting the cliff face and ropes.

He landed gracefully, brandishing his precious sword in a flourish. Hu Ming casually lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and stared intently at the water surface that was splashing up in large sprays.

Gulu!
Wu Xie subconsciously focused his attention on the cigarette in Hu Ming's mouth. Since he had been coughing up blood more and more frequently recently, even though Wu Xie thought he had become indifferent to life and death, he no longer dared to smoke.

Upon smelling the familiar tobacco scent, I couldn't resist any longer.

As if to provoke Wu Xie, the fat man and the blind man raised their eyebrows, chuckled wickedly, and took out cigarettes from their pockets and lit them.

"...Fuck you!"

Wu Xie's face darkened, and he couldn't help but curse under his breath.

Out of sight, out of mind; Wu Xie tried his best to focus his attention on the water.

The bronze bell sank completely the moment it hit the water, revealing the contents of its interior.

It was an unidentified object made of dried mud wrapped into a ball shape.

Perhaps due to its special composition, the dried mud shell quickly melted and dispersed after being immersed in water, and it completely dissolved in just a few breaths.

It's inside the mud.
"A horse carcass?"

Squinting to take a closer look, the blind man exclaimed in astonishment.

The bronze bell was covered with all sorts of random talismans. At first, he thought it was some kind of ominous object, like a giant rice dumpling that was thousands of years old.

The horse carcass was indeed unexpected, and judging from the current commotion, it was most likely completely dead. Although the special treatment clearly eliminated the risk of it resurrecting, however…

Why go to such great lengths to seal a horse carcass inside a bronze bell in this godforsaken place?
Even though the horse carcass was frighteningly large, almost one and a half times the size of an ordinary horse.

"...This is a warhorse, an ancient warhorse of extremely fine lineage. In other words, the warhorse is already here, so the thing in the water is most likely the general..."

"However, something seems amiss. Why is there still no movement from that thing underground?"

Hu Ming offered a casual explanation, his brows furrowing.

Hu Ming had already pushed his extraordinary hearing to its limit, focusing all his attention on the pool, but he couldn't hear the slightest sound.

Visibly, the unidentified white substance in the mud had dissolved into the water, according to my deepest memory…

Suddenly, at that moment, Hu Ming seemed to vaguely hear a muffled sound.

Looking up at the ceiling, it wasn't long before the nested structures within the surrounding cliff walls began to resonate in unison!
Boom!!!
A huge sound wave came from the surrounding cliffs, and at the same time, Hu Ming's intuition suddenly gave him a warning.

It's thunder; there's thunder outside.

"Damn it, this isn't what we agreed on!" Hu Ming's lips twitched as he stared intently at the pool of water.

Sure enough, the thunder seemed to have flipped a switch, and the violent roar completely awakened what was at the bottom of the pool!
The steaming water began to churn violently, and a huge whirlpool appeared out of nowhere, capturing all the corpses of the children, including the horse carcass.

In the blink of an eye, the whirlpool swept everything in the water away, and then a roar came from the deep, dark bottom of the pool.

The vortex suddenly stopped, then reversed in an instant, and the child's body was gushed out.

However, compared to the previous ones, all the children's corpses were completely empty, as if their internal structures had been drained dry by a mysterious entity!
At the center of the child's corpse, a giant golden-armored rock slowly rose to the surface.

The golden-armored giant was a genuine eight-foot-tall man, almost twice the height of an average person. He was robust and covered in gleaming golden armor, which was engraved with many complex Taoist incantations.

The ribbon-like things connecting the backs of all the child corpses were tied to the navel of the giant rock at the entrance, like umbilical cords.

Clearly, the child's corpse was drained by the golden-armored boulder along these connections, becoming the nourishment for its resurrection.

On the protective mirror of the golden-armored boulder, four large characters are engraved: "General Who Blocks the Way!"
As the name suggests, this is a guardian corpse blocking the way!
With a swift stroke of his broadsword, General Lu severed the link between the child's navel and the corpse, opened his jet-black eyes, and roared in fury!
Sighing.
The water stirred again, and the horse carcass, which the blind man had determined had no chance of rising from the dead, suddenly leaped up, and General Lu mounted his horse!
"Never mind!"

Seeing the strange looks from the group, the blind man wisely covered his mouth and shook his head repeatedly.

The general blocking the way, along with his horse, was over three meters tall—an absolute behemoth. Even with half his body submerged in water, he was still enough to make the group look up at him.

boom!
The water exploded, and the general spurred his warhorse to the ground, his broadsword swinging directly at the men on the stone beam before him!
"blind!"

Hu Ming let out a low roar, his legs suddenly exerted force, he jumped up, all his muscles twisted into a rope, and with a sudden burst of strength, he gripped the knife with both hands and slashed upwards!
It's just a matter of going head-to-head; Hu Mingzhen has never been afraid of anyone.

After all, they had been friends for decades. With just a simple call, the blind man understood Hu Ming's meaning, grabbed Wu Xie by the back of the neck, and leaped backward with Wu Xie.

The fat man jumped out as soon as the situation changed, temporarily leaving the battlefield.

The fat man was indeed reckless, but looking at the rather shabby entrenching tool in his hand and the giant sword in the hands of the golden-armored boulder, he wisely chose to back down.

The fat man felt he needed a perfect opportunity.

At the same time, the young man also moved. A thoughtful look flashed in his eyes. He grabbed the stone beam with one hand, flipped over, and used the momentum to dart to the side.

laugh!!
A piercing metallic scraping sound rang out; the treasured sword was practically indestructible. Although the greatsword in the golden-armored giant's hand was also made of extraordinary material, it was still somewhat inadequate in front of this treasured sword.

With the added force of the warhorse's charge, the golden boulder and Hu Ming collided in mid-air.

Bright sparks flew the instant the two blades touched.

"Ho!"

Hu Ming grinned maliciously, his arm muscles bulged, and with a low roar, he unleashed a second burst of force in mid-air, forcefully embedding the treasured sword in his hand into the giant sword of the golden-armored boulder.

In mid-air, Hu Ming twisted his waist, turning his body at an incredible angle, releasing one hand while gripping the back of the broadsword tightly. Suddenly, he drew the precious sword from his right hand, drawing out a blinding cold light.

Large clumps of jet-black blood gushed out, and the golden-armored giant stone arm holding a knife fell to the ground.