Tomb raiding: A mere 20 is nothing!

"What?!"

"Little Flower, you too?!"

Xie Yuchen leaned against the wall with his hands in his pockets, listening to Wu Xie's incredulous tone, and suddenly realized that the matter was far more complicated than he had thought.

"Also?" He raised an eyebrow, looking at Wu Xie. "Who else?"

Meeting Xie Yuchen's gaze, Wu Xie opened his mouth as if to speak, but swallowed the words back.

This is something I really can't bring myself to talk about.

It's like asking him to publicly admit that he watched videos that are inappropriate for children.

The key point is that not only are they the main characters, but the object of their affections is the same girl, who has just come of age.

Although Wu Xie has lost his naivety over the past decade, he still retains some conscience.

Xie Yuchen noticed that Wu Xie looked troubled, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Some things don't need to be said; they're already obvious.

"And you, Wu Xie, you could see that from your interactions with her, right?"

Although the sentence was a question, Xie Yuchen spoke with great certainty.

He suddenly chuckled cryptically, then said with a start, "No wonder you wanted me to keep her here. If that's the case, then it's indeed very troublesome."

"No," Wu Xie said gravely, "it's not just that."

Before Xie Yuchen could ask a question, Wu Xie turned his gaze to Zhang Qilan, who was deep in thought on the sofa, and said, "And Xiao Ge."

A single sentence is like a pebble thrown into a lake.

Xie Yuchen straightened up, his eyes wide with surprise. If this were a trap, it would be understandable that he and Wu Xie had fallen for it. He really hadn't expected that Zhang Qilin would be involved as well.

In fact, although he didn't contact Zhang Qilan as frequently as Wu Xie, he still knew what kind of person Zhang Qilan was.

He is powerful, calm, and aloof, as if nothing in this world can evoke strong emotions in him.

Will such a person one day develop worldly desires? Will they also be troubled by emotions like ordinary people?

This question was destined to be ignored. Even though the two had talked so much, the other person remained quietly seated on the sofa the entire time, showing no intention of participating in the conversation.

Wu Xie, who was standing to the side, couldn't hold back any longer: "Brother, now even Xiao Hua is involved. Things seem to be more complicated than we thought."

"You've had the most contact with Shen Mingchao, what do you think is going on?"

"Is someone using Shen Mingchao to cast a spell on us? Or is there an unknown enemy at work?"

Wu Xie's thoughts were once again wandering freely.

Upon hearing Wu Xie's words, the silent youth finally made a move. He first glanced at the two of them indifferently, and then said, "She did not harm me inside the Bronze Gate."

"This only shows that she herself has no intention of harming anyone." Xie Yuchen had a brief encounter with Shen Mingchao, and the other party certainly did not seem like a scheming schemer.

Wu Xie lit a cigarette and replied, "What if someone takes advantage of her?"

That's what they care about most.

Seeing the two of them looking so serious, Zhang Qilin felt he needed to explain a few more things.

He looked at Wu Xie and suddenly said something completely out of the ordinary: "Wu Xie, you were seriously injured when you went down into the tomb."

After emerging from the bronze gate, he smelled a strong stench of blood on Wu Xie.

However, Zhang Qilin's question completely baffled Wu Xie. He didn't know why the young man suddenly said that, but he still nodded reflexively.

Getting down from the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds isn't so easy. Besides, injuries are commonplace for people in their line of work.

Zhang Qilin then turned his gaze to Xie Yuchen, "You're injured too."

"Yes, we had a fierce gunfight with the monkeys in the mouths of the human-faced birds on our way here, and many people were injured."

After the brief explanation, Xie Yuchen was even more confused: "Brother, why are you suddenly concerned about whether we're injured?"

Zhang Qilin said confidently to the two of them, "Your injuries should be healed."

After hearing Zhang Qilan's words, Wu Xie was the first to shake his head, "Brother, don't joke around. How could it be that fast? Take my hand, for example. It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone, and it's only been a few days."

As he spoke, Wu Xie stretched out his hand, intending to demonstrate for the young man, but found that his injured arm was flexible and did not hurt at all.

Wu Xie was shocked to see his arm completely intact. He quickly checked his whole body.

There wasn't even a scab, let alone a bruise.

Seeing Wu Xie's movements, Xie Yuchen also moved his body and didn't feel any pain.

He instantly understood what Zhang Qiyu meant.

"So, in other words, contact with Shen Mingchao, besides causing one's blood to surge and thoughts to become chaotic, can also accelerate the body's recovery speed?" Xie Yuchen offered his speculation.

Wu Xie was utterly shocked, and it took him a long time to find his voice: "Even if that's true, why does it only affect the three of us?"

Wu Xie had carefully observed along the way that when Shen Mingchao interacted with others, everyone else behaved normally.

This situation, as the young man previously stated, does indeed have a specific target.

Zhang Qilan didn't know the answer to this question. To be honest, he hadn't expected Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen to be involved. So, as always, he remained silent.

Xie Yuchen loosened his tie and shared his thoughts, "Since the current situation isn't harmful to us, let's wait until we get back to Beijing, have a full medical check-up, and then discuss the next steps."

After finishing his sentence, he went on to recount what had happened at the front desk to the two of them.

"My phone is broken, I can't contact my family, and I don't have my ID card. Ha, what a coincidence!"

Wu Xie squinted through the swirling smoke, feeling that Shen Mingchao was shrouded in an aura of mystery. He said to Xie Yuchen, "Xiao Hua, why don't you have someone investigate him?"

The conversation between the three came to an end at this point.

The three remained silent for only a moment before the shower room door, not far away, was suddenly pushed open.

The fat man rushed out in a hurry, pointing at the three of them with a resentful look on his face.

"I have to say, you three are really unfair. You deliberately chose to tell secrets while I was taking a shower, didn't you? I had to take a shower while my ears were practically pressed against the door frame."

"The key point is, I didn't even hear a few of those words clearly."

The fat man walked over, put his arm around Wu Xie's neck, and said relentlessly, "No, no, Tianzhen, you have to explain this to me clearly. What exactly happened between you two and the Ming Dynasty girl? Why are you all acting like you're facing a major crisis?"

Wu Xie finally experienced what it felt like to be shaken from side to side by the fat man.

He quickly stubbed out his cigarette, steadied himself, and said in a conciliatory tone, "Alright, alright, I'll tell you everything. But you have to promise to believe what I say."

"What kind of talk is that?" The fat man glared at Wu Xie. "We've traveled all over the country for so many years, when have I ever not believed what you said?"

Wu Xie clicked his tongue, thinking to himself, "Fatty, you might not actually believe this."

As expected, Wu Xie was right. After he pulled the fat man aside and explained the whole story, the fat man looked incredulous.

The fat man's eyes swept over Wu Xie from head to toe, and he sneered with a wicked smile, "Stop joking, Tianzhen, are you going crazy?"

"I told you you have a dirty mind, you were lusting after an eighteen-year-old girl, and you even made yourself look innocent, dragging Brother Xiao and Boss Jie into it. Isn't that outrageous?"

"Naive, if you really want it, just say so. We're all men, what's the big deal..."

The fat man kept talking nonsense, and the more he talked, the darker Wu Xie's face became.

Finally, Wu Xie couldn't take it anymore and growled in a low voice, "Even if I'm crazy, I wouldn't be this perverted. And would I make jokes about Xiao Ge and Xiao Hua like that?"

Wu Xie waved his hand impatiently: "If you don't believe me, go ask them."

"..." The fat man knew that Wu Xie was not fooling him when he saw Wu Xie's posture.

He turned to look at the sofa and the two silent "wooden stakes" by the door, and without needing to verify, he was already mostly convinced.

Even if Wu Xie were truly a pervert, he would never make such a reckless joke.

hiss……

The fat man's expression was one of grave alarm; his brow was furrowed so deeply it could crush an ant.

Damn it, I have this feeling that things are about to turn into complete chaos.