Chapter 1334 — The Threat from an Earth Rank Expert — After Walking On a While, Three Forked Paths Appeared Ahead! All Three Tunnel Mouths Were Exactly Alike! Anyone Without a Map Would Surely Have Been Dizzy and Turned Around by Now!
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"But... some little marks I set at the tomb entrance have not been disturbed..." Old Hei frowned, sounding doubtful. "Of course, if one's lightness skill is high enough, one could get into the tomb without destroying those marks. The thing is, apart from me, no one knew beforehand what those marks were for..."
Wei Zhao scoffed at this. Never mind an Earth Rank expert — even Wei Zhao himself could have entered the tomb ahead of them without disturbing those marks! Old Hei thought far too little of anyone above Mystic Rank.
"Only we few know about this ancient tomb. Who could have gotten in first?" James asked, frowning as well.
The two exchanged a glance, then suddenly turned their eyes toward Wei Zhao.
Seeing that they actually suspected him, Wei Zhao was caught somewhere between laughter and tears. Whether the real husband-and-wife master thieves had ever come here, he did not know, but he himself was the impostor — this was the only time he had borrowed their name.
"Hmph! If I had done it, why would I bother leading you out? Are you brain-dead?" Wei Zhao sneered.
The two were long accustomed to Wei Zhao's manner of speech. But he was right — if he had been the culprit, he truly had no reason to lead them all out.
And yet... could it really have been the dead Old Keng's doing? Now that the man was dead, there was no way to verify anything.
"That's true enough! This time we owe it to the Male Thief. I'd say this whole business was eight or nine parts the work of that dead bastard Old Keng," Old Hei snorted.
"I'm going on to the underground palace. Are you heading back, or coming with me?" Wei Zhao had no time for idle talk with them. What he had come for this time was word of the Fire Spirit Fruit; nothing else much mattered to him now.
"I think we'd best go back first, talk it over, and work out a plan before anything else," Lord Hao suggested. "Things have gone so badly today, and two men are dead — one of them without anyone even knowing how. If we don't get to the bottom of this, the whole business feels uncanny!"
"Oh. Then go back." Wei Zhao spoke flatly. To him, the greatest danger in this ancient tomb was that possible Earth Rank expert; everyone else was little more than passing cloud.
"Male Thief, I think Lord Hao has a point..." Old Hei said after a moment's pondering. Without Mr. Qiu's protection he now stood at a disadvantage, and he clearly meant to go back and find a few more skilled hands to guard him.
"That's true as well. Today is not an auspicious day. Better to go back and think it over at length..." James was none too eager to go on either. The perils just past still had him shaken, and now that the correct path had been found, there was no harm in going back to rest and returning another day! RO