Chapter Twelve: Fleeing (Three)

  Xia Yanfei, who heard the voice, relaxed completely, sheathed her dagger and spoke with a relieved tone: "What's wrong with you running here? Don't talk nonsense first, give me some water and anti-inflammatory powder."

  The other party seemed to have just discovered her current disheveled state, and her voice suddenly rose by half an octave: "What did you do?! Are you not afraid that Old Master will get angry?!"

  Upon hearing this, Xia Yanfei raised an eyebrow: "Rare, don't say that you're hiding from your dad and secretly coming down to fight. Hey, I'm telling you, Xia Zeshao, wasn't your dad just holding a belt and yelling at you the other day, saying that if you dare to come down, he'll break your legs? What is this high-achieving student of the archaeology department doing?"

  This remark, laced with sarcasm and ridicule, was hurled at the other person. An ordinary person would have been furious by now, but Xiaoyan's fluent Beijing dialect only added fuel to the fire. However, the newcomer didn't get angry either. With a smile on his face, he rummaged through his bag for what she wanted: "Alright, Sister Yan, should I call you Brother Yan instead? I'm just experiencing life, okay? Don't tell my old man, or I'll lose a few years off my life!"

  The man, called Xia Zezhao, even handed her a roll of bandages after passing over water and medicine powder. Xia Yunfei drank half a bottle of water in one breath before starting to re-dress his wound. Seeing Ao Yuan's upper body standing upright in a state of alertness, he could only sigh and open his mouth to comfort this moody snake: "My brother Xia Zezhao, after I returned to the country, I lived in his house until later when I had money and moved out to live on my own."

  The man with a baby face was shocked at the moment: "I'm going to be damned, A Yuan, are you crazy? Talking to this snake?"

  "How dare you!"

  A low male voice seemed to have said the two words with a loud tone, Xiaoyan let out a sigh and pretended that she had heard nothing and seen nothing, continuing to apply medicine and bandage herself.

  Xia Zezhao's face stiffened for half a day with an expression as if he had been struck by lightning, and asked in a voice that was about to cry: "A Yu, did I hallucinate or what? This... this... this snake told me... told me to be presumptuous?"

  Xia Yanyi, who had bandaged herself up again, let out a sigh: "Just think of it as a snake rice dumpling, no, that's exactly what it is. The specialty of this place."

  "What a specialty?!" "Xia Yu Fei, how dare you be so disrespectful to me?!"

  The two of them were like a duet, shouting in unison, causing Xiaoyan to instinctively cover her forehead with one hand. She knew that letting these two collide would end up like this: "Shut up, both of you! Otherwise, I'll throw each of you down with one hand!"

  The aura of Xia Yu Fei instantly shut up the usually talkative Er Huo and Shen Jun, who were both being controlled by her since they were young - although the latter was unable to resist due to his current state. After finishing the remaining water, she casually threw the plastic bottle into the abyss, causing Xia Ze Zhao to involuntarily shrink his neck: "This... Ah Yu, I heard that there's an abandoned Hou Ren Dou here, so I came to take a look, but who would have thought that this is actually a Dou Zhong Dou? Out of curiosity, I... what's wrong with you?"

  "He and Lan Ruoxue came down with Fang Ying together, but ended up being played by that kid Fang Chenyu." Xia Yunfei explained the current situation in one sentence, and Xia Zezhao was smart enough not to ask more questions, because when mentioning Fang Chenyu, her eyes seemed to emit a fierce light that was almost terrifying, giving off a feeling that if she opened her mouth, she would be devoured.

  After taking over a wild war knife from Xia Zezhao, Xia Yifei spoke again: "When you came over, did you see Lan Ruoxue or Fang Ying?"

  "I saw it or didn't see it," Xia Zezhao tried to recall, "but in order to prevent myself from not being able to return, I only walked one path, and didn't dare to go to other places like the ear chamber."

  "Let's head back," said Xia Yifei, who had already obtained a rough outline of the tomb structure from Ao Yuan's divine sense probe. "Going in the direction I came from is almost a dead end, you're familiar with it, so go ahead and lead the way?"

  In this matter, Xia Zezhao still knew what was important and what wasn't. He had also seen Xia Yifei's injury just now and knew that if they dragged on any longer, her body would definitely not be able to take it. He nodded and turned on the flashlight, slowly making his way forward along the path he had come from.

  On the way, Xia Yu Fei briefly and quietly explained to Ao Yuan about her relationship with Xia Ze Xiang. Xia Ze Xiang's position in the Xia family is actually quite awkward. His father, Chen Lin Ze, was a son-in-law who married into the family, and if you calculate carefully, he should even call Xia Yu Fei "aunt". At that time, his parents' love story could be said to have shocked heaven and earth, but in the end, although the old master of the Xia family agreed to their marriage, Xia Ze Xiang was somehow not included in the direct line of descent. Therefore, he did not follow the naming convention based on generation, and his name was simply a combination of one character from each of his parents' names.

  However, Xia Zezhao's father actually didn't know that the Xia family was involved in such a large-scale business at the time. He didn't even know that the Xia family was such a big family until he met Old Master Xia. It wasn't until after marrying and having Xia Zezhao that he vaguely learned some of the truth. Chen Linze is a university professor, and what he can't stand most are these kinds of things. However, he couldn't just divorce her over this matter. Fortunately, few women in the Xia family were involved in such activities, with most helping out at home or in antique shops, so from a young age, he repeatedly warned Xia Zezhao not to come into contact with these things.

  Xia Yifei moved out to live on her own mainly because she didn't want to provoke Chen Lin's temper, and also for the convenience of doing things herself. After all, it was too much trouble to come up with excuses to deceive Chen Lin every now and then.

  But Xia Zezhao was naturally interested in tomb raiding, however his old man repeatedly warned him and Xia Zezhao still didn't know how to read the situation, three times five times going to provoke Chen Linze's reverse scales, forcing the originally weak-scholar Chen Linze to evolve into a man who would wield a belt to chase after his son around the entire house, until he got accepted into a prestigious university's archaeology department and had a legitimate reason to go grave raiding did he finally calm down a bit.

  However, Chen Linze did not know that Xia Zezhao did not know how many times he had sneaked into the school's name to fight under Xia Yifei's team, but Xia Yifei still had to protect this person who did not know what was important. The ones that could bring him down were all ordinary fights with no danger, the kind where you just touch something and come up.

  I didn't expect this kid to have become so bold, even daring to wander around in the mountains by himself.

  Xia Yu Fei finally reacted after venting her frustrations: "Wait, what's going on? I clearly explained his family situation to you. Can't you tone down your hostility towards him? He's probably already broken out in a cold sweat."

  Xia Zezhao walked ahead with tears streaming down his face, thinking: "A Yan, you finally remembered me. You're still going to protect me after all. I'm so touched."

  Ao Yuanlian didn't even respond, only humming a sound. It wasn't until Xia Yu Fei's face started to turn black that he reluctantly spoke up: "It smells."

  The reason is clearly made up, Xiaoyan was about to retort with something like "Can't you just stop talking nonsense?" when she was interrupted by the sound of Xia Zezhao telling her that they had arrived at the tomb. She could only look at Ao Yuan in confusion as he lazily wrapped himself around her arm before quickly walking over to Xia Zezhao's side.

  Actually, Ao Yuan didn't know why he disliked this ordinary person who was so familiar with Xia Yu Fei either. However, the Lord God said that he didn't need any reason to dislike an ordinary person, it's just that he didn't like him.

  Ao Yuan leaned on Xia Yu Fei's arm, bored, smelling the medicinal powder and bloody smell that couldn't cover up the faint Chinese medicine smell on the girl's body, and unexpectedly fell asleep unknowingly.

  He really hasn't had a good sleep for too long.