Chapter 1326 — Yu Xiaoke Is Exhausted: Earlier, after seeing it, the male half of the Couple Bandits likewise declared that this ancient tomb was no simple matter, and that was why the dark, scrawny man had called in outside help.
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"Oh." Wei Zhao did no more than nod.
"If you two get hungry, you can buy something to eat over there." With that, the short, thin man pointed at the two trucks not far off.
"No need. We brought our own!" Wei Zhao said flatly, then went back to the car, while Chen Yuxuan drove off to look for a place to camp.
"What the hell, what a dumbass!" Beside the short, thin man, a burly fellow clutching a submachine gun watched the car's receding shape, spat a thick wad of phlegm on the ground, and cursed: "Thinks he's really somebody, doesn't he? Rolling in money like that, and he still brings his own food every time — why doesn't a tomb trap do him in?"
"He's not one of us. We've never seen eye to eye. He's probably afraid we'd poison his food." Old Hei shook his head and said nothing more, going straight back to his tent.
"Wei Zhao, you're really something!" Only after the car had driven far off did Qiu Lingshan offer her praise. "I was scared stiff just now, terrified Old Hei would see through us. His eyes are like swords — as if they can cut straight into a man's thoughts! And you, you just climbed out and traded insults with him!"
"So I cursed him. So what." Wei Zhao said flatly. "What do we do now? Pitch a tent like they did?"
"Yes. According to the information, the Couple Bandits don't get along with any of the other tomb robbers. There's no one they're close to, so we don't need to call on anyone else. We just wait quietly here," Qiu Lingshan said.
Wei Zhao nodded, got out and set to pitching the tent with Chen Yuxuan, then took some food from the car and went inside.
In the distance, Old Hei kept the binoculars trained on Wei Zhao's little group. Only when he saw them put up their tent and go in, as anyone would, with nothing else out of the ordinary, did he let out a breath of relief.
Though Old Hei found nothing wrong with the Couple Bandits today, everything seeming perfectly normal, somehow he could not shake the feeling that the man of the pair gave off a sense of danger, different from before.
Old Hei shook his head. Perhaps he was being too sensitive.
Inside the tent, Chen Yuxuan and Qiu Lingshan gnawed bread and drank mineral water, while Wei Zhao ate a few casual bites and then began to cultivate. The jade pendant's space held boundless energy to draw upon, so it made no difference whether he ate at all; that mouthful of bread had been nothing but habit.
"Tonight we'll keep watch in turns — one of us on guard while the others sleep," Qiu Lingshan planned between bites. "I'm uneasy. I'm afraid these people will spot something and turn on us."
"There's nothing for them to spot just yet. But it's no trouble — you two sleep. I'll keep watch," Wei Zhao said, unconcerned. "Cultivating is about the same as sleeping for me. I can sense everything that happens outside."
Qiu Lingshan's mouth fell open in astonishment, and she said no more. She knew well enough how uncanny Wei Zhao was. She had seen it too many times to find it strange now.
Yu Xiaoke was about to drop dead from exhaustion. Money — it truly was not so easy to earn. Picking up a bit of extra cash to help out the orphanage was a damned hard business!
The orphanage had recently received a large donation from Songshan City No. 1 High School, over two million in all, but they could not simply sit there eating through it. If there was money to be made, Yu Xiaoke was not about to let the chance slip! Right now Songshan City's crackdown on theft was still in full swing, and she had no business at all. She could only look elsewhere.
Before this, she had posted a commission on the Thief Sect's website. A few days ago, a tomb-robbing outfit called Red Pagoda had taken up her commission and asked her to come help rob a tomb. And so Yu Xiaoke had come.