Chapter 1323 — Before Departure
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"Brother Yutian, Lingshan, you must have drawn up a detailed plan for the tomb raid by now, haven't you? Just hand it over for me to look at," Wei Zhao said, dispensing with pleasantries and coming straight to the point.
With Chen Yuxuan, Wei Zhao had no need for ceremony; and with Qiu Lingshan, he had even less.
"It's already done, here it is," Chen Yuxuan said with a nod, handing the plan to Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao said no more, but sat down on the sofa and began leafing through it. As for the arrangements for the raid itself, he gave them only a cursory glance; they were all armchair theorizing, of no practical use. It was the dossier on the husband-and-wife master thieves that he read in detail, including their habits, their ways, and so on. These would be the key to success or failure.
"The husband-and-wife master thieves rarely come into contact with others? Even the other tomb robbers don't know their true faces?" Wei Zhao asked after finishing the material. "In other words, we don't need to put on too deliberate an act?"
"Exactly. The husband-and-wife master thieves are extremely cautious and cunning tomb robbers. Had it not been for a lucky coincidence, catching them making a smuggling contact at the border, I would never have been able to shoot them dead," Chen Yuxuan said with a nod. "And as it turns out, this spares us no small amount of trouble. They're something of an oddity in the tomb-raiding world: highly skilled, treacherous and sly, loved and hated alike by their peers. Sometimes people hate them because they demand exorbitant cuts and want a hand in every grave; but sometimes they simply can't do without them, because their experience is extraordinarily rich."
Wei Zhao nodded. "So now Lingshan and I play the husband-and-wife master thieves, and you are our foundation?"
"That's right," Chen Yuxuan nodded. "Among the three of us, your strength is the greatest, and among the husband-and-wife master thieves, the man is the stronger one as well."
"What's your strength now? Still early Yellow rank?" Wei Zhao glanced at Chen Yuxuan and asked.
"Yes. To my shame, still early Yellow rank." At this Chen Yuxuan felt rather embarrassed. That he had never advanced was plainly due to his own aptitude.
"Hm... then tonight I'll raise you to the peak of the late Yellow rank, the same as Lingshan, so you'll at least have the means to protect yourself," Wei Zhao said evenly.
"What?" Chen Yuxuan was struck dumb for a moment. Raised to the peak of the late Yellow rank? Had he heard that right? Wei Zhao was going to raise his strength? And from the tone in which Wei Zhao said it, it might have been the most commonplace thing in the world!
"You know how Lingshan's strength was raised. Enough idle talk, let's begin now." Looking at Chen Yuxuan's astonished expression, Wei Zhao smiled with a trace of impatience.
Wei Zhao had always harbored a plan: to raise, one by one, every person around him to the peak of the late Yellow rank, and once he himself reached the Earth rank, to raise them to the peak of the late Mystic rank... and later still, even to the peak of the late Earth rank, and even the peak of the late Heaven rank!