Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 778 They're yours now!

Ding ding ding~~~
The phone hanging on the air conditioning vent of the black Passat kept ringing.

Outside the car, a pretentious man dressed in a black leather jacket, wearing black sunglasses, and with medium-length hair swiftly took down four thugs who had come looking for trouble.

He clapped his hands, got back into his car a second before the call ended, and picked up the phone.

"Hello, is your location accurate? I will arrive in three minutes, please don't go away!"

Even though it was just a voice call and not a video call, Hei Xiazi habitually put on a fawning smile.

…The customer is king, after all.

"Actually, three minutes have passed since you accepted the order, so there's no need for you to come over. I've arrived at your location using Didi's location tracking, please wait a moment."

A soft laugh came from the microphone, followed immediately by the roar of a sports car engine in Hei Xiazi's ears.

laugh--

Amidst the pungent smell of burning rubber, a silver-gray RS7 braked suddenly and swerved, coming to a steady stop next to Hei Xiazi's Passat, its front end less than twenty centimeters from the unconscious thug on the ground.

It was just a hair's breadth away; this hoodlum would most likely have met a tragic end.

"...Are you bored and messing with me for no reason?"

"I'm not some rich bastard like you. I'm already struggling to make ends meet. Don't you know how hard it is to make money with Didi these days? And you're here to make fun of me?"

The blind man recognized the voice all too well. He rolled his eyes behind his sunglasses, opened the car door, got out, knocked on the window of the RS7, and complained irritably.

"You're poor? Sorry, that's a really bad joke, but since we're friends after all, I'll still politely laugh it off... Get in the car!"

The car window rolled down, and Hu Ming, in the driver's seat, pushed up his sunglasses, which were the same style as the blind man's, politely opened his mouth wide, and pretended to laugh out loud.

"Ha, I've recently heard that our Second Master Hu Mingming of the Hong family has been living a very comfortable life lately."

"Just asking, how does it feel to switch between several stunning women? Isn't it exciting?"

The blind man opened the passenger door and looked at Hu Ming with a mocking expression.

"I'm not sure if it's stimulating or not, but my kidneys are a bit strained, so hold on tight!"

Reversing and turning around, the RS7 sped away from the alley and headed towards the suburbs under the blind man's guidance.

"Speaking of which, did you run into some trouble this time?"

Hu Ming glanced at the roadside camera out of the corner of his eye, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes behind his sunglasses.

From the moment they saw the blind man in the alley, all the surveillance cameras along the way focused on the two of them, which is quite interesting.

Clearly, someone had hacked the cameras and was monitoring Hu Ming—no, to be precise, monitoring the blind man's every move.

To achieve this level of skill, the other party is clearly not some nobody; at the very least, there must be a highly skilled hacker.

"It's not that I'm looking for trouble, it's that trouble is coming to me. You should know a thing or two: the longer you live, the more troublesome friends you'll make."

The blind man naturally noticed this as well, but said it casually.

"Around 1944, Japanese soldiers discovered an ancient ruin in Jianpu Village, where they found some pagodas with strange powers."

"My friend, for money, accepted a job from a Japanese man and led a team to explore that ancient ruin. Unfortunately, the ruin was obviously strange, and my friend lost contact with me." "Before he set off, he filled in my phone number as the emergency contact. Plus, I, Blackie, am somewhat famous. So, you know, that Japanese man contacted me."

"In fact, just to be on the safe side and avoid another mishap, I also contacted Zhang the Mute. I thought that no matter how dangerous the situation was, the three of us old guys working together could definitely solve it. Unfortunately, Zhang the Mute is in Motuo and we can't contact him at all."

The blind man pondered for a moment, cleared his mind, and gave a brief overview of the current situation.

"Three old guys. Good grief, do you think this is a senior citizens' tour group?"

Hu Ming touched his perfect eighteen-year-old face, full of collagen, fair and delicate, youthful, and with a slightly androgynous and alluring look, and couldn't help but complain.

To be fair, the young man and the blind man are both quite good-looking, each with their own charm. All three maintain youthful appearances, and if they debuted as a group, they could easily become the most popular young male idol group among female fans, right?
But the term "old guy" is truly undeniable.

The youngest, Hu Ming, is over fifty years old, and the oldest, Xiao Ge, is over one hundred and thirty.

In the suburbs, a man and a woman were sitting in the back seat of a gleaming, understatedly luxurious white minivan.

The young woman was holding a laptop in her arms. The image on the laptop was frozen on the scene of Hu Ming rolling down the car window and greeting the blind man.

Two circular cursors focused on the two people's faces, and two dialog boxes popped up next to them, displaying simple personal information.

Unfortunately, Hu Ming and the blind man's personal information was classified as top secret. Despite the young woman's extraordinary hacking skills, she could not learn more. Apart from their names, genders, and heights, everything else in the information was unknown.

The blind man's name section lists him as possibly surnamed Qi.
It looks... kind of awkward.

Fortunately, the man and woman didn't care. If their target's information could be tracked down so easily, it would mean that the target was nothing special, and that would disappoint them.

"This one's just a thug, while the other one... Hu Ming? I've heard that name before. He's quite famous in Beijing, apparently a very renowned explorer, historian, and archaeologist?"

The middle-aged man, dressed in a suit and tie, with his hair neatly slicked back and his beard trimmed, spoke calmly.

“My dad sent me a message before he left, saying that if anything happened to him, he should look for this person. He must have his reasons.”

A stylish young woman in a black floral dress pointed at the blind man and whispered.

"Regarding this Hu Ming... all I know is that he seems to be one of Hei Xiazi's two closest friends, and his identity is very mysterious. He is probably not a simple person."

The young woman pointed at Hu Ming's perfect face, which could not be hidden even under his sunglasses, and frowned as she looked at him.

She had only heard about Hei Xiazi's friend from her father, but as far as she could remember, whenever she curiously pressed her father for more specific information, he would always remain silent with a look of deep unease.

As soon as they finished speaking, the car door was pulled open from the outside. The two were startled and turned to look. Two people wearing sunglasses appeared outside the car door with smiles on their faces, just like the people on the computer screen.

"Ha, so it's you. You don't look very old, but your hacking skills are amazing. They're yours now, blind man."

Hu Ming leaned closer to the computer screen, whistled happily, walked to the side, casually lit a cigarette, and gave the stage to the blind man.

"Hey! No problem, just remember to keep watch for me."

The blind man chuckled wickedly, and amidst the young woman's gasps, he leaped inside and slammed the car door shut.

In an instant, the van began to shake violently, and painful groans could be heard from time to time.

"That's really rough..."

Hu Ming grinned!