"Lin Xue... is this the mysterious old man you mentioned?"
"When did I ever say he was a mysterious old man?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes. "I only said there was an old man. What's mysterious is what he has in his hands."
"Even if he's just an NPC guarding a mysterious item, he should have something special about him... this image..."
Before us stood an old man with dark skin, a filthy shirt on his upper body, gray pants on his lower body, and trouser legs rolled up to his knees. He held a huge bowl and noisily slurped noodles as though he had never eaten in his life, occasionally reaching down to scratch his hairy calves. He seemed completely immersed in his world of noodles, utterly unaware of our arrival.
"Don't underestimate this old man," Lin Xue said in a low voice. "Gu Zhengfeng used to be China's most famous Grave Robber. He's robbed more tombs than you've visited supermarkets, and he almost never came back empty-handed. Unfortunately, during his last tomb robbery, he touched something he shouldn't have and was hunted down by someone he absolutely couldn't afford to provoke. In the end, he had no choice but to hide here and narrowly escape disaster."
"Is that so..." I studied the scruffy old man battling his noodles again, unable to imagine that he was such an impressive figure—a professional grave digger. Actually, by that standard, Old Man Gu and Qian Qian's father were practically colleagues. Qian Qian's father was also a professional grave digger, except Uncle Xu did it legally...
Lin Feng leaned closer with an air of mystery. "More than that, supposedly on the second day after he hid in Exile Town, the enemy who had been hunting him down choked to death on a Four