Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 765 The Difference Between Humans and Apes!
This place is too deep underground. When they came down, Wu Xie was sick and dragged down, and it took the group several days to reach the location of the stone coffin.

Now, returning to the ground is also a tedious and lengthy process.

Wu Xie and Fatty even found humor in their predicament, wondering if they would eventually have to traverse the Earth's crust and reach the upper mantle if they continued to delve deeper.

For ordinary people, this long journey is enough to wear down a team.

After all, manpower is limited, and the supplies that can be carried are even more limited. During the long journey, food and water are the biggest problems.

When Hu Ming and his group came down, they were traveling light, carrying only enough supplies for two or three days. Logically speaking, they should have starved and died of thirst long ago. Fortunately, Hu Ming was a cheat code.

In his personal space, Hu Ming always kept a large amount of food and drinking water on hand, just in case.

On their way back, they even went so far as to take a bath with the three punches of a sizable farmer. It has to be said, those who have cheat codes are just too extravagant!
When the group emerged from the underground bronze tower and saw the sunlight again, six days had passed.

Squinting at the blinding sun on the horizon, everyone, including Hu Ming and Xiao Ge, couldn't help but feel a sense of disorientation, as if they were in another world.

It's been almost half a month since I last saw the sun.

"It feels so good to be alive..."

Wu Xie sighed, instinctively reaching into Fatty's pocket for a cigarette to light.

"If you don't want to die, then completely remove the cigarette. The coffin liquid in the stone coffin in Leicheng, as well as the thunder, have only cleared away the various filth accumulated in your lungs and stabilized your lungs, but the root cause of the disease has not been removed."

Hu Ming glanced at Wu Xie, casually snatched the cigarette from Wu Xie's hand, and lit it for himself with a satisfied smile.

As for the harm of secondhand smoke…

The fat man and the blind man huddled together, smiling, and lit cigarettes to show off in front of Wu Xie.

This scene had already happened many times before when we came up here.

Despite Wu Xie's repeated assurances that his lungs were fine and that he had been given a new lease on life, the truth could not be hidden from Hu Ming's extraordinary hearing.

Wu Xie's lungs were not simply corroded by foul air; simple pulmonary fibrosis would also be a fatal lesion.

Moreover, even if Hu Ming didn't realize all of this, the original novel had already shown that Wu Xie's condition was only stabilized, and the lesions still existed.

After all, the coffin liquid, in conjunction with Thunder City, was not meant to cure patients; rather, it was meant to help ordinary people "understand" the information contained within the thunder.

Treating the lesion is, after all, just a side effect.

"never mind..…"

Wu Xie chuckled bitterly, glanced at the group of people puffing away on their cigarettes, and reluctantly gave up the idea of ​​having a good time.

Fatty had already made it clear that he would stay in Hangzhou to be with Wu Xie from now on. It seems that under Fatty's "surveillance," it will be unlikely that he will be able to sneak a smoke in the future.

Previously, Wu Xie thought he had seen through the matter of life and death and felt that even if he died, he would have no regrets. However, after teetering on the edge of life and death this time, Wu Xie has become more and more eager for life and more and more afraid of death.

People who constantly teeter on the edge of life and death do not disregard life and death; on the contrary, they cherish life even more.

As they were talking, the sky suddenly changed!
The sky was a clear, cloudless blue, when suddenly a muffled clap of thunder sounded!
The group's expressions changed, and they looked at the sky with surprise and uncertainty. The Lei Cheng group had all developed a certain apprehension about thunder.

"What kind of gesture is this, trying to curry favor?" Hu Mingquan chuckled, seemingly lost in thought.

"What kind of goodwill gesture?"

The group looked at Hu Ming with suspicion.

"The literal meaning... As I've said before, I can more or less understand some of the hidden messages in the thunder. It's from that special small group of people. The thunder just now was someone's good intention; she was saying—"

"We have temporarily contained the toxic miasma that permeates this area using a magnetic field, and we can now return safely."

Hu Ming replied with a smile.

The thunder contains all the secrets of this world; it sounds magical, but it's actually just like the natural stone walls that leave a lasting impression in certain areas.

When lightning strikes, the enormous voltage causes subtle changes in the magnetic field. By some natural law, this coincidentally creates a natural camera or recorder, capturing everything that happens in this area.

Under suitable conditions, when changes in the magnetic field meet a certain triggering mechanism, the information recorded in the thunder will be reproduced in the thunder.

However, there are always some special people in this world who, under certain conditions, are born with the ability to connect with and analyze the information recorded in natural magnetic fields using their own biomagnetic fields.

Lei Tian, ​​deep within Thunder City, possessed this special constitution, while Hu Ming…
It's probably a benefit that came with its transformation after emerging from the coffin of the Kunlun Divine Tree, right?
Of course, Hu Ming knew that this explanation was completely unscientific... but, well, this world isn't really a scientific world, is it?
A scenario that is absolutely impossible according to common sense and the rules of physics can actually exist in this world...

"Is that so? Could it be that the immortal in Thunder City is actually a good person?"

Wu Xie and Fatty exchanged a glance and sighed softly.

Along the way, Hu Ming had already told them everything.

"A good person? Don't be ridiculous. All of this is only based on the premise of equal communication."

"If it weren't for Hu Ming, me, and the mute's threat of force, let alone getting that person's help, we probably wouldn't even have been able to get close to that magical coffin liquid alive."

The blind man shook his head.

"After all, they are among the human race's long-lived beings, beings who have lived for tens of thousands of years... Putting aside the changes in their physical bodies, in terms of their mental state, these beings are probably no longer like humans. To them, the short-lived humans are probably not even worthy of being compared to them."

"Just as humans would never regard apes as equals, what difference is there between humans and apes, who have lived long enough and witnessed the history of human development, and who are long-lived beings?"

The young man spoke at length, which was unusual for him.

Wu Xie remained silent.

Although it's cruel, the young man and the blind man are right. Different life forms and mental states mean that similar physical characteristics cannot possibly classify long-lived beings and short-lived beings as the same species.

For ordinary humans, immortal beings represent a higher form of life.

Although, as Hu Ming stated, these immortals who have lived for tens of thousands of years each have significant problems and are not perfectly immortal, compared to ordinary humans whose lifespan is less than a hundred years...
The gap is even greater than that between humans and apes!
"Let's go. Now that our hosts have paved the way back for us, let's stop dawdling and hurry up. There are still many people waiting for our safe return!"

Hu Ming interrupted Wu Xie's thoughts, and with a smile, strode back the way he came.

If we're talking about immortal beings, Hu Ming and Xiao Ge are practically perfect in their evolution! They have immortality without any side effects!