The first thing that came to Ye Lan's mind was the mutually destructive trap Zheng Fangxing had mentioned. That really had been quite dangerous, so it was perfectly normal to be frightened into changing course...
Wouldn't running into the public security authorities force them inside and change their course?
Ye Lan: "..."
But he gave Ye Xunzhi a strange look. Why was she so calm?
She had seemed to be chatting so happily with Beard just now. Could his little sister still not know that all three of them had been sentenced to death?
He asked exactly what he was thinking. Feigning casualness, Ye Lan said, "Speaking of which, little sis, do you know what sentences they received?"
Ye Xunzhi froze. The light in her eyes gradually dimmed, and she clenched her fists as though struggling to hold something back.
"I know Beard, Zhang Zuo, the young man, Hu San, and the fatty, Li Dapang-their tomb-robbing trio was sentenced to death. I know all of it. This was the state's arrangement."
So she was a little sad after all. Although they had only recently met, they had been through life and death together.
She was still a child, after all.
Ye Lan gently hugged Ye Xunzhi. "Don't be sad, little sis. Cry if you want to. This is all fate. They'll surely be fine fellows in their next lives."
A question mark slowly rose over the head of Ye Xunzhi, who was being hugged.
Why would I be sad? Has my second brother misunderstood something?
Ye Lan: Are you seriously not even a little sad???
Sure, they were sentenced to death this month, but next month, a trio of rising stars in archaeology will appear at an archaeological dig.
*They'll be the handsome, clean-shaven older man, Zhang You, the freshly