Chapter 1335 — Yu Xiaoke's Doubt
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With the Thieving Couple's temperament, they were perfectly capable of doing something so unreasonable. So Old Hei hesitated, and decided that if Wei Zhao raised the matter, he would hand over another portion of the profits. After all, Wei Zhao's role was pivotal.
"Everyone rest a while. In a bit, all of you come to my tent, and we'll work out the plan from here!" Old Hei said to those present. "And Lord Hao, do favor us with more of your ideas and guidance..."
"Hmph! Some people, I fear, no longer consider an old thing like me worth anything at all!" Watching Wei Zhao's departing back, Lord Hao gave a cold, thoroughly displeased snort. "Old Hei, a man who won't follow arrangements — don't bring him along anymore."
"Lord Hao... the Thieving Couple are simply made that way, but they do have skill, and we can't do without them on this job..." Old Hei said, somewhat put out, though inwardly he was rather resentful of Lord Hao. Had he known, he would never have told the old bastard. Leaning on his years to lord it over others — no use at all when it counted, and now nothing but trouble!
But it is easy to invite a god in and hard to send one away. Since Lord Hao had come, there was no sending him off. Old Hei could only explain, thoroughly dejected.
"A blind cat stumbling over a dead rat, nothing more," Lord Hao snorted.
Wei Zhao returned to the tent with Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan. Chen Yuxuan immediately set about checking for listening devices, but Wei Zhao waved a hand. "Save your strength. Old Hei isn't fool enough to use that sort of irritating trick a second time. For now, he doesn't dare offend us."
And there was one more thing Wei Zhao did not say: his jade pendant had given no warning signal at all. Which meant that the tent was, for the moment, safe — that nothing here was amiss.
"True enough. Old Hei and the rest still need you to explore the tomb. But Wei Zhao, how did you know that path would lead out?" Chen Yuxuan nodded, and then, thinking of what Wei Zhao had done today, was still rather astonished. He had known before that Wei Zhao's investigative skills were formidable, but in this ancient tomb there had been no clue whatsoever to follow, and yet Wei Zhao had walked straight out, accurate and unerring, without taking a single wrong turn.
"Intuition, I suppose. Do you believe that?" Wei Zhao smiled. It was hard to explain the business with his jade pendant, so he merely shrugged and gave an answer that was neither here nor there.
Chen Yuxuan was taken aback. Then he nodded. "I believe it. Why wouldn't I?"
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled. "All right, enough of that. Let's talk about the tomb. You two had better prepare yourselves — among this gang of tomb robbers, there should be a real expert."
"An expert? You mean the one who killed Mr. Qiu?" Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan were no fools; they seized on the crux at once. "That Mr. Qiu — was he truly an expert at the peak of early Yellow Rank?"
"That's right. Old Hei wasn't lying." Wei Zhao nodded. "Anyone able to kill Mr. Qiu with a single fatal blow, and without a sound, is very likely an Earth Rank expert — at the very least, the peak of late Profound Rank. I'm not sure I could manage it myself, killing Mr. Qiu without a whisper..."