Chapter 3357 — Wei Zhao's Rampage
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"I could walk this too. Don't think that just because you go strutting about playing the mystic, I'll admire you!" Yu Xiaoke gave a cold sniff. "That's impossible. I know you've sensed something, but you're only putting on an act, showing off. The man I like is far more capable than you—in a genuinely dangerous ancient tomb he can still make sound judgments. You're no match for him."
Wei Zhao was left momentarily speechless. Of all times, what was Yu Xiaoke thinking about? "Yu Xiaoke, what is it you're actually trying to say?"
"Nothing much. Come with me—I can walk it too!" With that, Yu Xiaoke stepped into one of the passage mouths ahead.
"Xiaoke, don't be rash!" Yu Dake cried in alarm, but his words came a step too late. The instant Yu Xiaoke stepped into that passage, volleys of sharp arrows came flying at her!
Wei Zhao was beside himself with fury. Of all times—so you fancy a male tomb raider, but must you risk your own life just to belittle him, Wei Zhao?
Thank heavens Wei Zhao's current strength was what it was—a mid Heaven-rank expert, his movements exceedingly swift. With a single reach he hauled Yu Xiaoke bodily back out of the passage mouth. Yet to keep her from being struck by the arrows, he dared not dodge this way or that, and one arrow still punched clean through his arm.
Though the headlights no longer shone here, a night-luminous pearl stood at the entrance of every mechanism, casting a faint glow. Wei Zhao examined his wound—thankfully, the blood was a normal color; the arrows were most likely not poisoned.
"Yu Xiaoke! Have you quite finished with this madness?" Wei Zhao had indulged her before because he liked her and was moved by her devotion to the orphanage. But now he had never imagined Yu Xiaoke would act so recklessly on a whim.
Yu Xiaoke was frightened witless as well. She had assumed every one of these passages was safe, that it made no difference which way Wei Zhao went, and that his circling about at each passage mouth was mere pretense. Now at last she understood what a fool she had been!
"I…" Yu Xiaoke's heart was still pounding. If not for Wei Zhao, she would truly have been shot dead by those arrows! Looking at the arrows scattered across the ground near the passage mouth, a cold dread came over her.
"You 'I' nothing!" Wei Zhao was genuinely angry. He was normally a very level-headed man, but too many unreasonable things had happened in a single day. Even if the Palan clan had not wished to trade with him, surely they need not have thrown him into a dungeon of mechanisms? And then to show the face of an enemy and try to cut him down! So Wei Zhao's temper had frayed a little: "Yu Xiaoke, how many times have I told you? With those paltry skills of yours, you still dare come out and make a spectacle of yourself? You said that in the ancient tomb, for a bit of gold and silver, you nearly got yourself crushed to death. I saved you once—but that was for the sake of the orphanage children, so I let it go. Now tell me, what exactly did you do today?" (To be continued)